Bank holiday competition comments
August 29th, 2005Please use this thread for any discussion of the competition… the comments section on the competition post itself should be for entries only. Many thanks.
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Is there a prize for finishing last?
Good job Book Value. It’s a very interesting (and difficult) competition.
Do you a link to some Japanese polls? I really don’t know nothing about the Japanese situation.
Shoul I expect tory contributors to post misleading barcharts concerning the first question?!
Phil, I can only suppose you can do the King William’s College Xmas Quiz too…
2 - I suppose no one could fault them for claiming that question (1) is a two horse race. Only “yes” can beat “no” here!
Japan results last time.
Some quite old polls.
3 - I think I average about 10/100 on it.
Writing the questions is the easy part
4.”I suppose no one could fault them for claiming that question (1) is a two horse race. Only “yes” can beat “no” here!”
but the numbers included in the barchart are crucial. Something like “in a similar amendment in 1865, “no” defeated “yes” by a big margin” could be misleading
Here’s the latest poll from New Zealand:
http://www.tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/607237
Although the base figures look good for National, they have no chance if NZ First fail to get into Parliament. Labour support may be down but the Greens are holding well and Clark’s coalition looks fairly secure while National have very few options.
7. After the tax cut pledge the National were able to reduce the margin. Now we should wait if they’re able to keep the momentum or they’ll fall again.
I’m cricket obsessed at the moment, so may I suggest another question - how many Prime Ministers or ex-PMs will attend the Oval Test?
9. “I’m cricket obsessed at the moment”
there’s a major cricket championship or something of that sort?
You could try to guess what a parliamentary cricket team will look like.
Andrea, just for you: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_27-1-2005_pg2_8
11. “Andrea, just for you”
I promise not to show it anyone
“But local interest is improving all the time and we have five Italians playing for the Under-19 side, which is promising.”
5 young hopefuls! Now we will conquer the cricket’s world! You Brits, better watch out next year.
In answer to Nick’s question on his entry - yes, I am counting the Progressives as a party in NZ, even though they are effectively a one-man operation (Jim Anderton). Anyone who thought otherwise can upgrade their answer to question 8 by 1.
“Towards the end of the 19th century, several cricket/football clubs were founded in northern Italy, but cricket never took off.” (From the Daily Times).
Isn´t one of the big football teams aoffically a football and cricket club. There is quite a lot of cricket played in Italy. I trained for a while with a club in Rome and 80% of the players were Italians. There are many players around the world who are very good and qualified to play for Italy because there parents or grandparents came from Italy. I hadn´t heard the Doria Pamphili story before…
14 - “Isn´t one of the big football teams aoffically a football and cricket club. ”
A.C. Milan was founded as the “Milan Cricket and Football Club”. I didn’t realise that “A.C. Milan” is the official name in Italian too (as opposed to Milano) in honour of the English origins of the club.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.C._Milan
Likewise it is “Athletic Bilbao” not Atletico.
14. “. There is quite a lot of cricket played in Italy”
I think it depends from what you mean for “quite a lot”.
I could say it’s not one of the most popular sports here. But then again we seem obsessed, sadly, only by football.
14. yes, it’s called Milan in Italy too. Now it’s owned by Berlusconi.
http://www.sirgeorgeyoung.org.uk/newslgpic.cfm?newspic1id=1858
Here’s a picture of the Parliamenatry team.
And here’s their committee
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm/cmparty/050411/memi204.htm
Andrea
A lot compared to - say - France.
Here’s a link o the Federazione. Seems quite impressive to me. I agree that you only get Calcio in the Italian press.
Book Value
The club I had in mind was Genoa
17. The usual se*ist tories don’t have women in their team
The Libdem MPs seem not to like cricket very much.
18. yes, Peter, Genoa is officially a “cricket and football club”: http://www.genoacfc.it/
Andrea, one of the most respected Ennglish cricketers ever, captain and later chairman of the national team (though now aged about 70), was born and brought up in Milan. I think you could make up a pretty good team based on Australo-Italians. Ten years ago who in Italy thought about rugby? Yet now Italy don’t always come last in the Six Nations. It’s much more difficult getting Brits interested in basketball: “It’s a girls’ game” — you wonder if they’ve ever seen it played.
21. Since Italy takes part to the Six Nations, rugby has got more press than before.
Football is covered all year by newspapers, while the other sports are full covered pnly if there’s a major events (unless you buy a sport newspapers which obviously has a better coverage of all sports).
Cycling, basketball and volleyball are pretty popular too. Sking has lost his appeal during the last years (when our biggest champions retired).
Why basketball is seen as a sport for girls in UK? Here I think volleyball has this reputation more than basketball.
I think basketball is reckoned a girls’ game by people who confuse it with netball. This is a highly skilful game but a ‘non-contact’ sport: even touching another player tends to be a foul, so it has always been a suitable game for young ladies.
23 - You hsve obviously not met some of the young ladies I know - Rugby Union more like their game - LOL
23 - Basketball is also officially non-contact, but anyone who’s played it will know that that’s a misnomer!
23. I’ve never heard about netball. Maybe now I’ll discover that it’s played in Italy too (Peter, could you reassure me that in Italy netball is not popular?)
26 - Sadly, while it may be played by some folk in Italy, the International Netball Federation does not recognise it officially as this website reveals:
http://www.netball.org/
Nostalgic PB contributors may wish to click on the helpful map of IFNA members which recalls the golden age of Empire (or at least how it should have been had George III not made a pig’s ear of it).
15 - excuse my ignorance, but what does the “AC” actually stand for? Incredibly I’ve never known, although I was always the only kid at school to say “MEE-lan”, not “Mi-LAN”.
28 - Associazione Calcio, i.e. Football Club*.
* though maybe “Society” would be a closer equivalent - I know very little Italian.
The BBC website has an article on Japan:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4195924.stm
The PM looks quite a lot like Michael Heseltine.
29. It could traslated with “association” too (the meaning is always more or less the same).
It seems you’re very informed about Italian football teams.
31 - I must admit I got it from Wikipedia. A friend of mine from university is a big Italian football fan though, so I picked up quite a lot with him.
31.”It could traslated with “association” too ” Ops, it should be “It could be translated”
32. If you’re a Liverpool fan, Berlusconi will probably expel you if you come here (Re the Champions League final)
33 - as an Aston Villa fan, I was not expecting the opportunity to take on any Italian teams, whether Berlusconi’s or anyone else’s: until the arrival of Milan Baros who is certain to win us the league.
34. Good luck with your Aston Villa.
I don’t follow British football very much (actually I couldn’t stand Italian football anymore too ), but I remember that there was a British football club’s name I liked: Crystal Palace.
34 - is he going to learn to have the occasional look up when the ball’s at his feet?
If anyone’s interested, the New Zealand election is getting very interesting. Latest poll details are here:
http://www.tvnz.co.nz/view/page/576182/608004
The key, as I’ve said before, is not so much how National and Labour do relative to each other but how the two smaller parties fare. If the Greens get into Parliament, Clark can afford a deficit to National as the Greens will add 8 or 9 seats to her bloc. National’s best hope is for both NZ First AND the Greens to miss the 5% threshhold. Still over a fortnight to go.
Very useful blog. Thank you.
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