Trivial Pursuit

[Yellow Bungle]

No - something unusual, and a bit sinister really.

[American FLEET FAN No1]

Seeing Adidas is a German company started before WW2, and it is something sinister, Hair from Jewish Prisoners?

[Yellow Bungle]

On the right track with prisoners, but not quite that sinister.

 

adidas didn't start making balls until well after the war.

[cantos]

Adidas have used prisoners in china to make footballs up until recent times.

I also thought hair,but would guess at their prisoner number being recorded.

[Yellow Bungle]

Prisoner number is correct.

 

The original balls were made in Spanish jails during the Franco period. The number was put in for "quality control purposes". I wouldn't have like it if one of my balls split!

[cantos]

Where did Sir Donald Bradman play his last first class innings in England.

[David Holden]

The Oval

[cantos]

No that was his final test innings.

 

The tour continued after that match.

[cantos]

Is the question google proof?

[David Holden]

I don't know, I haven't had time to try.

 

In any event, I ask Jeeves <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[David Holden]

Scarborough

 

HGD Leveson-Gower's XI v Australia

[coupwotcoup]

Quote:

Yellow Bungle said:
All right, let's try to Google-proof it.

The question is, what unusual item would you have found inside early adidas footballs if you had taken the trouble to cut one open?

Dunno, but I reckon the Russian version had another and another and ...ad nauseum...!!

[cantos]

Correct Mr Holden.

 

Bradman did play two more games on that tour, but they were in Scotland.

[David Holden]

In "A Clockwork Orange" what was Alex's prison number?

[Yellow Bungle]

6-5-5-3-2-1. However, in the film there is a continuity error, Alex's number in prison is stated as "6-double 5-3-2-1". The prison chaplain first refers to him as "6-7-5-3-2-1" and then as "6-double 5-3-2-1" in the same scene in the prison library.

[cantos]

Geek <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[David Holden]

655321 is the correct answer.

[Yellow Bungle]

Not a geek, just good at googling.

 

Okay, my question is, who invented the adidas "trefoil"?

 

Yes, I have been reading up on adidas.

[Sharming Paula]

Adolf Dassler??

[cantos]

The brother of Bobby?