Cycling Quiz Help needed to write please

[Seamus]

At the last Bike Right, I rather recklessly said that I would set the next quiz and as it'll be needed in 10 days time I suppose I'd better get on with it. Unfortunately my specialist knowledge seems to be biased towards fracky cycle movies and I feel there maybe be complaints if I don't redress the balance somewhat. So, have you got any decent/interesting/difficult cycling questions (and answers) please?

Here's what I have so far......
1. What is the correct title of the music which accompanies the cycling schene in the film, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," ?

2. Which brand of bicycle is ridden in the film, "ET, the Extra Terrestrial," ?

3. Which professional cyclist was known as, "the Badger," ?

4.Which professional cyclist was known as, "the Cannibal," ?

5. What was the name of the plastic bicycle which car manufacturer Volvo foolishly involved itself with?

6. By how many seconds did Greg Lemond beat Lauren Fignon in the 1986 Tour de France?

7. What is the title to Jrome K. Jeromes cycling sequel to his much better known, "Three Men in a Boat," ?

8. What was Jerome K. Jerome's middle name?

9. What was the title of the 1958 film starring Heinz Erhardt based upon cycling story ?

10. In, "The Wizard of Oz," Miss Gulch is sucked into a whirlwind whilst riding her bicycle. Who does she become in Oz?

 

[Jeremy Parker]

"Seamus" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
>
> At the last Bike Right, I rather recklessly said that I would set
the
> next quiz and as it'll be needed in 10 days time I suppose I'd
better
> get on with it. Unfortunately my specialis knowledge seems to be
biased
> towards fracky cycle movies and I feel there maybe be complaints if
I
> don't redress the balance somewhat. So, have you got any decent
cycling
> history questions (and answers) please?
>

1. Where is the oldest bike path [i.e. bike facility, not velodrome]
in the world, and when was it built?

2. Who was Dr. Hans-Joachim Schacht?

3. Where did the CTC steal their "winged wheel" logo from?

4. Who were the Clarionettes?

5. Was the celefriere a bicycle?

6. What prize did Paul Mcready win?

and a couple of non history questions:

7. When riding down a hill, you use your brakes differently from
when you make an emergency stop. In what way?

8. When riding in traffic cyclists distinguish between wide roadway
lanes, and narrow lanes. What do you do differently for each, and
why?

9. Where is the shortest bike lane in Britain?

Outlook Express doesn't seem to do ROT13, so I will put the answers
in another message.

 

[Jeremy Parker]

1. Oldest bike path: On Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, opened
June 1895

2. Schacht was Adolf ******'s man in charge of bike path matters

3. The CTC stole its logo from the American equivalent, the League of
American Wheelmen (now the League of American Bicyclists). The CTC
uses a mirror image version, though.

4. The Clarionettes were, maybe still are, the women's branches of
the big movement for socialist bike clubs that existed between the
wars.

5. The celefriere probably wasn't a bicycle at all, although the
French claim it was the ancestor of the hobby-horse, which in turn
was the ancestor of the bicycle. In actual fact it was probably just
a light two wheeled horse drawn carriage

6. Paul McReady designed and built the Gossamer Condor, which won
the Kramer prize for the first man powered flight of over a mile

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7. On a hill you use both brakes about evenly, for best heat
dissipation etc. In a fast stop all the braking effort comes from
the front brake, with the back brake having no function except to
detect whether you are about to go over the handlebars

8. A wide lane is a lane wide enough for a car and bike to share, so
courtesy demands you use the secondary riding position. A narrow
lane is not wide enough, so self preservation demands you use the
primary postion

9. Shortest bike lane. I don't know, but we have a candidate in
London, Arnold Circus, London E1. The lane is so short that a normal
bike won't fit in it, but overhangs each end. The lane is certainly
less than 1.5m long

Jeremy Parker

 

[Richard Bates]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:37:20 +1000, Seamus
<[email protected]> wrote:

11. Do helmets save lives?

12. Do bicycle wheels stand on the bottom spokes or hang from the top?

13. If you are 5 miles from home and sustain two punctures (one per
wheel), what is the probability that you only have one spare inner
tube with you?

14 How does this probability vary if you have also forgotten your
pump?
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[Seamus]

If I don't get any good ones I'll not tell you the answers..........(like anyone cares)

 

[ScumOfTheRoad]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:47:30 +1000, Seamus wrote:

>
> If I don't get any good ones I'll not tell you the
> answers..........(like anyone cares)

How old is the Tour de France?

How many times has the Tour de France been run?

 

[Jeremy Collins]

ScumOfTheRoad wrote:

> How many times has the Tour de France been run?

Ah, trick question. Zero, right?


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jc

Remove the -not from email

 

[ScumOfTheRoad]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:03:25 +0000, Jeremy Collins wrote:

> ScumOfTheRoad wrote:
>
>> How many times has the Tour de France been run?
>
> Ah, trick question. Zero, right?
No, really more about realising it wasn't run during the two World Wars.

 

[Richard Bates]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:54:30 +0100, "Jeremy Parker"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>8. A wide lane is a lane wide enough for a car and bike to share, so
>courtesy demands you use the secondary riding position. A narrow
>lane is not wide enough, so self preservation demands you use the
>primary postion

I think many people will disagree with your answer. There are times
when primary position is justified on a wide lane.

For example: On a blind bend, when a pinch-point is approaching, when
approaching any type of junction.

£0.02

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[Mike Causer]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:37:20 +1000, Seamus wrote:

> 7. What is the title to Jrome K. Jeromes cycling sequel to his much
> better known, "Three Men in a Boat," ?

You do know there are two correct answers to this?


Here are some more questions -- from a website that claims to be
pro-cycling....

Will my bum hurt?

How fit do I have to be to start cycling?

Does anybody do cycle training courses for (wobbly) adults?

Are cycle helmets mandatory?

Mend a puncture? Me? Tell me how...

Will I get hot and sweaty if I cycle to work?

I've got three kids and shopping to buy, I can't cycle, can I?

My kids want to cycle to school, but is it safe?



Mike

 

[Martin Bulmer]

In news:[email protected],
Mike Causer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I've got three kids and shopping to buy, I can't cycle, can I?

Spread the load; buy the kids on another day.

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Martin Bulmer

 

[Sue White]

Seamus <[email protected]> whizzed past me
shouting
>
>At the last Bike Right, I rather recklessly said that I would set the
>next quiz and as it'll be needed in 10 days time I suppose I'd better
>get on with it.

Put a couple of local questions in.

Have you got any well bad cycle farcilities in your area?
If it's a pencil-and-paper quiz you could include a diagram of your
favourite cycleway/road junction and ask people to guess how a cyclist
is supposed to get from A to B. (Get the official answer from the
council beforehand, natch.)

And a couple of legal questions, like "Is it legal to pass a red traffic
light if you get off and wheel your cycle?"

Or try a photo of a bike accessory, either an unusual one or from a
funny angle, for people to identify or guess the purpose of.

The sillier the answers the better the fun.

--
Sue ];)

What goes down must come up again - Confucius' Law of Mountain Biking

 

[davek]

Martin Bulmer wrote:
> Spread the load; buy the kids on another day.

rofl

d.

 

[Dave Larrington]

Seamus wrote:

(stuff)

How about some musical ones, such as "Which popular beat combo / musician
recorded the following (answers rot13'd for laffs):

1. Bike (Cvax Syblq)
2. Busted Bicycle (Yrb Xbggxr)
3. The Acoustic Motorbike (Yhxn Oybbz)
4. Lilac Harry Quinn (Unys Zna Unys Ovfphvg)
5. I Wish I Was The Saddle Of A Schoolgirl's Bike (Fnzfba)

For example.

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World Domination?
Just find a world that's into that kind of thing, then chain to the
floor and walk up and down on it in high heels. (Mr. Sunshine)

 

[David E. Belcher]

Seamus <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> At the last Bike Right, I rather recklessly said that I would set the
> next quiz and as it'll be needed in 10 days time I suppose I'd better
> get on with it. Unfortunately my specialis knowledge seems to be biased
> towards fracky cycle movies and I feel there maybe be complaints if I
> don't redress the balance somewhat. So, have you got any decent cycling
> history questions (and answers) please?
>
> Here's what I have so far......
> 1. What is the correct title of the music which accompanies the cycling
> schene in the film, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," ?
>
> 2. Which brand of bicycle is ridden in the film, "ET, the Extra
> Terrestrial," ?
>
> 3. Which professional cyclist was know as, "the Badger," ?
>
> 4.Which professional cyclist was known as, "the Cannibal," ?
>
> 5. What was the name of the plastic bicycle which car manufacturer
> Volvo foolishly involved itself with?
>
> 6. By how many seconds did Greg Lemond beat Lauren Fignon in the 1986
> Tour de France?
>

Quick correction - the Fignon/Lemond duel was 1989, not 1986.

I'll contribute a few questions too;

- Who allegedly stopped off for an ice-cream during a Tour de France
mountain stage?
- Which Tour runner-up was nicknamed 'Napoleon'?
- Which French pro wrote an autobiography entitled 'Glory Without the
Yellow Jersey'?
- Who was the only Tour winner to have also held the world
championship cyclo-cross title?
- Speedwell and Teledyne were pioneers in what field of bike
manufacture?
- Who was the only non-Commonwealth professional rider to take
overall victory in the Milk Race?
- Which 1960s British 'kitchen sink' film was partly set in the
Raleigh factory at Nottingham?

Look forward to seeing the answers appear (but will fill in any
outstanding if people are still stumped)!

David E. Belcher

 

[Jeremy Parker]

>
> 9. Shortest bike lane. I don't know, but we have a candidate in
> London, Arnold Circus, London E1. The lane is so short that a
normal
> bike won't fit in it, but overhangs each end. The lane is
certainly
> less than 1.5m long
>
> Jeremy Parker

Damn. I was wrong. London loses. I've just looked at the latest
"Cycle facility of the month"
http://www.17beechroad.freeserve.co.uk/WarringtonCycleCampaign/facility-of-the-month/index.htm

Jeremy Parker

 

[Dave Kahn]

"Jeremy Parker" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...

> 6. What prize did Paul Mcready win?

ITYM Paul MacReady, who has won a number of prizes in addition to the
one you probably have in mind, including the 1956 World Gliding
Championship. He's an iconic figure in gliding, also being the first
person accurately to calculate the most efficient speed to fly between
thermals for any given rate of sink and expected rate of next climb
given the polar curve of the glider. Not content with simply
developing speed-to-fly theory, a major achievement in itself, he
invented a bezel which is still fitted to the variometer of almost
every cross-country glider. Known as the MacReady ring it gives the
pilot a continuous indication of the correct speed to fly, or MacReady
speed as it is known.

--
Dave...

 

[Ian Smith]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Jeremy Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 7. When riding down a hill, you use your brakes differently from
> when you make an emergency stop. In what way?

You're less likely to be simultaneously defecating than in an
emergency situation?

You're less likely to need to swear at a motorist afterwards?

regards, Ian SMith
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[Ian Smith]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Jeremy Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 8. A wide lane is a lane wide enough for a car and bike to share, so
> courtesy demands you use the secondary riding position.

Nothing ever demands you relinquish the primary position (except maybe
an instruction by a police officer in uniform, I suppose). Any time
you relinquish primary position is as a favour to other road users,
when you're certain it doesn't jeopardise your safety (or if it
improves your safety, as when faced with an oncoming bus on your side
of teh road, for example).

regards, Ian SMith
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[Mike Causer]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 05:53:53 -0700, Dave Kahn wrote:

> "Jeremy Parker" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>
>> 6. What prize did Paul Mcready win?
>
> ITYM Paul MacReady, who has won a number of prizes in addition to the
> one you probably have in mind, including the 1956 World Gliding
> Championship.

And he has won three of the "one" the OP had in mind ;-)

Interesting to see that there are another three prizes on offer at
the moment.



Mike