Short football quiz

OriginalGriff

Nah ... you want a Mans Game: Brockian Ultra-Cricket[^]

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Lost User

football? which sort? - association football - Rugby Football - Rugby League Football - Rugby Sevens Football - Touch Rugby Football - American Football? ... This is one reason why some programs don't work the way you expect. 1 inch =/= 1cm, oops, space ship crashed again...

musefan

Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:

What is the maximum number of football boots allowed on the playing surface (pitch) at the moment of kick-off?

46

Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:

For a "standard" pitch (105 by 68 metres) what is the longest possible legal pass?

125m

R Giskard Reventlov

There is only one sort - the rest have to have other words to qualify the bastardized version being played.

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Lost User

You missed out Boring football. :laugh:

musefan

What conversion did you use? Google gave me: 0.06754641639540194531 Which is nearly 3 meters off!

Duncan Edwards Jones

1/2

OriginalGriff

Hence the "approximately" - you forgot to allow for the ballistic curve distance.

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musefan

Go on... The only reason I answered is because I was expecting something to be "non-obvious" and I was interested in knowing what it was. I certainly wouldn't count the additional officials as being "on the pitch", so surely it's only 22 players and 1 referee? And not sure how the pass distance can be wrong, surely that is just corner to corner?

musefan

Interesting about the curve... though a pass would surely be the distance from point A to point B, rather than the distance travelled?

5imone

Too easy, the answer is obviously 42

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Duncan Edwards Jones

Corner to corner yes - not a straight line though :-) (This question was from a real pub quiz and very nearly caused a fight)

musefan

I did consider that, but how would it be possible to know? Depends how high you can kick the ball... or is there technically a maximum "legal height" for a ball? Though that would be pretty difficult to enforce. Hence you can only really give a point-to-point answer. I guess you could kick it to one corner and then a strong gust of wind could send it right back to the original corner doubling the length... but then maybe the wind suddenly changes direction and sends it back yet again.

musefan

I think you are getting confused with the maximum number of pairs of lucky pants a single player is allowed to wear.

OriginalGriff

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musefan

Why do people always try to sneak up behind me with their torpedoes...

OriginalGriff

Full stop. Z minus 10,000m - stand by photon torpedoes!

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OriginalGriff

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V 0

Football isn't played with boots, but with shoes, right? so 0 I reckon. 2) Is that with an African swallow or a European swallow?

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Lost User

R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:

There is only one sort - the rest have to have other words to qualify the bastardized version being played.

Not quite there's 3 forms of popular footy: League, Union and AFL. Rumours are there is some soccer too (aka/proper name association football), not than anyone notices; for sure it's not ever called football/footy here unless preceded with the word "pooftah." (summary: hard to watch any game where the style and cleanliness of clothing and avoidance of sweat seems far more important than the comp.)

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