Had to think through the movie on Q4 so a little slow, Q6 I vaguely followed Malmo football for awhile after I spent a summer there. Q7 I had to think through, Finding Nemo saved my on Q9. I think when I take the DTC b4 I go to bed it's easier to just go slow & take my time w/o seeing everybody else's scores. Come morning, I'll be eclipsed down to the LB cheap seats....😊 night-night!
"Most people aren't." Football is like a religion in most countries of the world. The world cup is watched by well over 3.5 Billion people. That's not "most people aren't"
Oh come on....did you never play tag? Hide 'n seek? Duck-Duck/Goose-Goose? Double-dutch jump rope? Those are sports! Just no World Cup/Super Bowl/British Open $$$....I think a professional hop scotch club is in order....
I had never heard of him. I don’t follow any sports whatsoever and I guarantee I’ve never heard of a majority of the famous athletes from the last couple of decades. And as an American I’m much less likely to encounter the names of footballers. In fact I can probably count on one hand the number of footballers I’ve ever heard of in my life.
Outside of the USA everyone probably knows him; I would be surprised if even half of Americans have heard of him, as soccer still is nowhere near as popular as the other big sports.
I am an American and don't watch soccer at all, but I know him and know he is Swedish. Some people have what Ken Jennings calls "sticky memories" and can remember people just based on one memorable incident.
I know four players--Zlatan, Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Kylian Mbappe--just because they are stars and get mentioned a lot. Every other one I can think of is tied to some discrete event: I know Zidane because of his headbutt, Luis Suarez because he is a biter, Landon Donovan because he got mentioned a million times during the US's World Cup appearance, and Tony Close & Miroslav Klose because I saw the footage of them bludgeoning Brazil on Brazil's home soil, and only realized halfway through that those were two different guys scoring all the goals. Oh, and I was in Europe during a World Cup match, and the English were *really* angry at Wayne Rooney, so I guess he was their star and underperformed? But they were super mad at him either way. And that's everyone I know.
Love it, I was thinking Tony Kroos and Miraslav Klose don't look anything like eachother but now I realise it's because of the sound of their surnames. I heard that in Brazil "7:1" is now a synonym for failure/bad experience, as in "YYZ is my personal 7:1".
8/10 for me today. Can't complain about the song, which I had no idea on, but I still reckon the famous image of the Loch Ness Monster looks a lot more like a brachiosaur (even though the plesiosaur is the aquatic option)
I've learned a lot of stuff from reading all James Clavell's, Leon Uris's (Trinity still makes me cry) & Dorothy Dunnett novels over the years. They are all historical fictions, meticulously researched in a true historical setting. Dunnett is a bit of a heavy read.
R&B 1960s....Temptations, Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Four Tops, Martha & the Vandells....maybe this genre isn't/wasn't popular for you (all are black female/male groups), but it was pretty big in the USA. 'My Girl' is a top-shelf classic.
Read James Clavell's 'Shogun' or watch Kurasawa movies & you'll understand about everything basic on feudal Japan. (seppuku=ritual suicide, daimyo=feudal lord, ronin=samurai, bushido=samurai code). Yukio Mishima's 4-novel series starting with Spring Snow is also good.
Curses that once again someone allowed a sports question onto a general knowledge quiz. I can talk about plesiosaurs for hours (Loch Ness is only 10,000 years old!), I could sing My Girl by the time I was six, but I never thought that Sweden probably plays soccer too. :)
Hey, if you include the film, that's two Macaulay Culkin questions. Nice little theme!
most people aren't
Anyway it's not football's fault--all sports are dumb. :D
I know four players--Zlatan, Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Kylian Mbappe--just because they are stars and get mentioned a lot. Every other one I can think of is tied to some discrete event: I know Zidane because of his headbutt, Luis Suarez because he is a biter, Landon Donovan because he got mentioned a million times during the US's World Cup appearance, and Tony Close & Miroslav Klose because I saw the footage of them bludgeoning Brazil on Brazil's home soil, and only realized halfway through that those were two different guys scoring all the goals. Oh, and I was in Europe during a World Cup match, and the English were *really* angry at Wayne Rooney, so I guess he was their star and underperformed? But they were super mad at him either way. And that's everyone I know.
Zlatan's one is neat, if you didn't know him you wouldn't have guessed Sweden based solely on his name.
I like Guinness and I like Manchester United. I'm reading Shogun. I watched Home Alone (again) last week.
Hey, if you include the film, that's two Macaulay Culkin questions. Nice little theme!