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Title: Mastermind - What would be your specialist subject?
Post by: mugnapper on August 29, 2022, 05:30:39 pm
Mine would be British Punk Rock/New Wave 1976 -1979.

What would your Non Rovers related specialist subject be?
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 29, 2022, 05:32:16 pm
John Le Carre's Karla Trioligy.
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Post by: Bentley Bullet on August 29, 2022, 05:33:03 pm
British music early 1970's.
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Post by: Donnywolf on August 29, 2022, 05:37:07 pm
Opening Round "The recycled ageist jokes of SS and BB"

In later Rounds it would be " Correct uses of the word OF"

Round Three " When to use the word HAVE"
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Post by: danumdon on August 29, 2022, 06:21:14 pm
Fly fishing by J R Hartley.....
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Post by: scawsby steve on August 29, 2022, 06:45:45 pm
Reminding people that you don't need an apostrophe before an "s" to make a word plural, just an "s".

Also, the difference between "there", "their", and "they're"; and "were", "where", and "we're".
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Post by: drfchound on August 29, 2022, 06:49:12 pm
Reminding people that you don't need an apostrophe before an "s" to make a word plural, just an "s".

Also, the difference between "there", "their", and "they're"; and "were", "where", and "we're".

Don’t forget “is” and “his” too SS
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Post by: Bentley Bullet on August 29, 2022, 06:57:42 pm
My subject would be questions that have an answer of "pass".
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Post by: Panda on August 29, 2022, 07:01:33 pm
Mine would be European football clubs, no matter how obscure. From KI Klaksvik in the Faroes to Barcelona.

Other than that, the Italia 90 World Cup would be a shoe in.
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Post by: tommy toes on August 29, 2022, 08:02:40 pm
Clement Atlee.
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Post by: ravenrover on August 29, 2022, 08:54:03 pm
I once managed 17 out of 19 in a blokes specialist subject, he beat me to the answer on one so I gave him that and one I  couldn't remember the answer. SS would probably guess the subject matter
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Post by: scawsby steve on August 29, 2022, 09:48:28 pm
I once managed 17 out of 19 in a blokes specialist subject, he beat me to the answer on one so I gave him that and one I  couldn't remember the answer. SS would probably guess the subject matter

I'd have been no good, Raven, thinking he was born in Pennsylvania instead of Minnesota LOL.
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Post by: Filo on August 29, 2022, 10:25:27 pm
Mine would be British Punk Rock/New Wave 1976 -1979.

What would your Non Rovers related specialist subject be?

I served my apprenticeship working alongside a Punk Rocker, when we were in the workshop I had to endure, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Angelic Upstarts, Dead Kennedys (American I Know), Sham69 ect.
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Post by: SydneyRover on August 29, 2022, 10:54:08 pm
peddantry,
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Post by: phil old leake on August 30, 2022, 03:56:29 am
Don’t want to be too pedantic about this thread but mine would be Pedantry
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Post by: mugnapper on August 30, 2022, 08:34:41 am
Mine would be British Punk Rock/New Wave 1976 -1979.

What would your Non Rovers related specialist subject be?

I served my apprenticeship working alongside a Punk Rocker, when we were in the workshop I had to endure, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Angelic Upstarts, Dead Kennedys (American I Know), Sham69 ect.

Trust me Filo, you’d have to ‘endure’ (I guess you meant ‘enjoy’ and it autocorrected lol) much more obscure stuff than that.
I’m not a fan of US Punk, Ramones excepted.
Although I did spend a night in that phone box on Sheffield station after seeing the Dead Kennedy’s at the Leadmill.
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Post by: mugnapper on August 30, 2022, 08:42:28 am
On a ‘Celebrity’ edition of Mastermind, they had Tony Parsons (NME Punk journalist) answering questions on UK Punk.
I got every question right, bar one on the New York Dolls, who were Yanks, but managed by Malcolm McLaren for a while.
Tony seemed bamboozled by every question as if he’d never heard of punk rock, despite being on the front line of it.
If I didn’t know better, I’d suggest he was out of his tree on drink and drugs as Punk exploded, the whole time.
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Post by: tommy toes on August 30, 2022, 09:28:40 am
Mine would be British Punk Rock/New Wave 1976 -1979.

What would your Non Rovers related specialist subject be?

I served my apprenticeship working alongside a Punk Rocker, when we were in the workshop I had to endure, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Angelic Upstarts, Dead Kennedys (American I Know), Sham69 ect.

Glad you endured all the Punk racket Filo but having to have ECT as well is taking it a bit far.

One chap's specialist subject was Jethro Tull, a band I've been obsessed with since I was 17.  (Seeing them again on Sunday)
I got all bar one of his Qs right
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Post by: mugnapper on August 30, 2022, 10:23:19 am
peddantry,
Someone always bites. Including me lol
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Post by: The Red Baron on August 30, 2022, 01:14:07 pm
1. Doncaster Rovers 1968-1997.
2. The Ashes from 1970-71 to 1985.
3. Mark E. Smith and The Fall
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Post by: Highland Rover on August 30, 2022, 01:18:56 pm
 
  1. Maxwell Q Klinger ( MASH 4077 )
  2. The life and career of George Armstrong Custer
  3 , Graham Parker and the Rumour
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Post by: Glyn_Wigley on August 30, 2022, 06:52:17 pm
The Damned, Doctor Who, or the Flashman novels by George McDonald Fraser.
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Post by: i_ateallthepies on August 30, 2022, 07:10:51 pm
Robert Harris' Cicero Trilogy.
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Post by: BillyStubbsTears on August 30, 2022, 08:34:11 pm
Robert Harris' Cicero Trilogy.

Good call. That would be my second choice. That's a brilliant series of books. Educational but wrapped in a proper page-turning thriller.