Allow me to begin with an apology for the vagueness of the first question of this week’s challenge. The life and accomplishments of the individual in question are so singular and so impressive that even giving you a single additional fact would have made it too easy for all of you Google jockeys to answer [...]
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The Thursday Challenge: The Ol’ College Try Edition
Posted in General, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on January 5, 2012 | 4 Comments »
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in General, League of Ireland, Ligue 1, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on January 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »
There was only on entrant this week- Andrew M.- but he did well, missing only one of eight questions. Click through to see what Andrew discovered when he a) should have been working, b) was ignoring his girlfried, or c) should have helping the less fortunate.
The Thursday Challenge: Goals Galore!! Edition
Posted in General, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on December 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This week’s challenge is mostly about scoring goals- lots of them, and over a long period of time. Sprinkled in among them are a few questions about odd tournaments and cups- it’s a perfect combination. Or it isn’t. I honestly don’t know. Whatever the case, the questions themselves are pretty interesting and that’s all that [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in English Premier League, General, Homerism, La Liga, Ligue 1, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Serie A, The Championship, The Football League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on December 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, one of the best parts of putting together the Thursday Challenge every week is seeing the commenters come up with answers (and correct ones at that!) that I never anticipated. This week was no exception. Not only did Andrew M. and Dennis W. both answer all [...]
The Thursday Challenge: Straight-Up Trivia Edition
Posted in English Premier League, La Liga, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on December 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
You’ll be happy to know that this week’s challenge has a little something for everyone: some questions require just some common sense and a bit of digging on the web, while others will require you to have a bit of knowledge about football culture so that you’ll at least know where to begin. There’s [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in English Premier League, Homerism, Ross County, Scottish Football League, The Championship, Trivia, UEFA, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on December 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I am pleased to report that for the first time in many weeks we had a commenter “clear the board” with correct answers to all of last week’s questions. I was thinking about sending Andrew M. some sort of Ross County swag to celebrate his accomplishment, but it turns out he already has a Ross [...]
The Thursday Challenge: All Ross County, All The Time
Posted in General, Homerism, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on December 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I can’t believe I haven’t done this already…unless I have. I don’t have time to check. I know there are a few questions “similar” to others that I’ve asked, but whatever the case, here are no less than eight Ross County F.C. specific trivia questions. Some are very easy- you’ll need nothing more than your [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in Blue Square Premier, English Premier League, FA Cup, The Football League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on December 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I can honestly say that I didn’t think last week’s challenge was going to be as difficult as it turned out to be. Sure, a lot of the questions dealt with the lower leagues in England, but three of them involved players or managers in the Premier League, one involved an American player, and one [...]
The Thursday Challenge: Mostly Non-League Edition
Posted in General, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week I decided to investigate the rich, varied, and seemingly never-ending world of Non-League football in England. By the time I’d finished putting together the questions I was convinced that the only thing you need to form a football club is a ball and a big enough backyard in which to play. If nothing [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in Bundesliga, English Premier League, FA Cup, General, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, The Football League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on December 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Intrigued by the story of Leyton Maxwell- he was the answer to question #5- I did a little digging this week to find out more about him and his sole appearance for Liverpool. First off, there aren’t a lot of pictures of Maxwell in a Liverpool kit on the web- hence the postage stamp to [...]
