Here is the 2014 MN Peloton Christmas Quiz. It is heavily based on World Tour teams and riders, though not exclusively, but the vast majority should be familiar enough names to anyone who follows pro cycling.
There will be prizes from my stash of cycling tat bounty collected this year.
Cycling Trivia
- In which year was the first Vuelta held? (1)
- The Giro also had a foreign start 40 years ago in 1974 where was it and who was the head of state at the time? (2)
- Which of the grand tours did not have a home rider as the first winner, who was it and which country was he from? (3)
- Who is the only man to be Lantern Rouge at the Tour de France 3 times ? (1)
- Who was the last rider to win the Tour de France and the World Championships in the same year and what was the year? (2)
- Which two riders added the new discipline of boxing to this year’s Vuelta? (2)
- In 1925 the threat of a strike prevented what proposal being implemented by the organiser? (1)
- In 1937 why did Sylvère Maes of Belgium withdraw all his national team ? (1)
- Which alcoholic beverage was invented specifically for cyclists? (1)
10. Who won this year’s tour de Rwanda? (1)
11. Which World Tour cyclist makes his own shoes? (1)
12. What New York venue gave its name to a track cycle event? (1)
Getting their money’s worth? What do these sponsors do? (1 point each )
13. Quickstep
14. Lampre
15. Orica
16. Quhbeka
17. Androni Giocattoli
and new for 2015
18. Bora
19. Alpecin
Music Round, identify these cycling related songs (one point each for the title and artist)
20. Here she comes in a suit and tie
Shepherd's bush and a leopard's pie
She marching to the funky beat of
James Brown and his dancing feet
21. Punctured bicycle
on a hillside desolate
will Nature make a man of me yet?
22. It flies out of a dream, it's antiseptically clean
You gotta know what I mean
23. Le peloton est regroupe
Camarades et amitie
24. You say black I say white
You say bark I say bite
You say shark I say hey man
Jaws was never my scene
And I don't like Star Wars
Sort them out! (1 point each)
25. Motivate rams
26. Inwardly bigger sis
27. Oft a monk fixates
28. An ant drains
29. Bicycling elk porn
30. Computer area
31. Inner orgasms
32. Sort a carbuncle
33. Rocket carrying fat
34. I blazon vice inn
35. Observational leap portends
36. John clad parrot
37. Engraver gave mat
38. Hi, I skim catwalk wok
39. Revolutionaries cage grandma
40. Print unflavored pear
41. Taxed lowest
42. Navy planned pop
43. Some nirvana
44. Notary mint
45. No vet jigs
. It's bloody hard!, and I'm working 'twix Christmas and NY!