Short football quiz
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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?
Corner to corner yes - not a straight line though :-) (This question was from a real pub quiz and very nearly caused a fight)
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Corner to corner yes - not a straight line though :-) (This question was from a real pub quiz and very nearly caused a fight)
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.
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Too easy, the answer is obviously 42
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Interesting about the curve... though a pass would surely be the distance from point A to point B, rather than the distance travelled?
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Full stop. Z minus 10,000m - stand by photon torpedoes!
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- What is the maximum number of football boots allowed on the playing surface (pitch) at the moment of kick-off? 2) For a "standard" pitch (105 by 68 metres) what is the longest possible legal pass?
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There is only one sort - the rest have to have other words to qualify the bastardized version being played.
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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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Richard MacCutchan wrote:
You missed out Boring football. :laugh:
no I did include soccer, it's real name is "association football " (so apt: a boring sounding name for a truly boring game.)
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- What is the maximum number of football boots allowed on the playing surface (pitch) at the moment of kick-off? 2) For a "standard" pitch (105 by 68 metres) what is the longest possible legal pass?
1. There are 22 players and 3 referees, so max 50 football shoes. 2. Pythagor tells me 125.096m, even if such a pass is very probably not legal because the player getting it has a high change to be offside.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote:
You missed out Boring football. :laugh:
no I did include soccer, it's real name is "association football " (so apt: a boring sounding name for a truly boring game.)
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- What is the maximum number of football boots allowed on the playing surface (pitch) at the moment of kick-off? 2) For a "standard" pitch (105 by 68 metres) what is the longest possible legal pass?
- 45 - 22 players + the ref. but the player who takes the kick-off realistically has to have one foot in the air at the time of kick-off. 2) It's hard to say as the ball will travel horizontally and vertically and may well bend a bit on the way. Generally speaking, though, it's the distance between Paul McGrath and whoever is on the other end of the pass: a distance that can only be calculated by using either a complex missile tracking system or Paul McGrath's brain.
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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.)
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
You have been seduced by the dark side! There is but one game of football - the beautiful game that is, indeed, more important than life or death (Bill Shankly). The rest are all unwatched and unloved games that no one cares about. :)
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