Sunday 12 November 2017

2017/2018 - the nominations


To kick off the season The Pack Horse Bowling Club included the following in an otherwise very good set of questions:

How did Ospreys and Wales rugby union player Scott Baldwin pick up an injury recently, prompting his coach to say it was one of the stupidest things he'd ever heard?
He was bitten on the hand by a lion whilst patting it on the head like an overgrown pussycat on a visit to a game reserve


Grays and Dita are well known manufacturers of what sporting equipment?
Hockey sticks

Two more nominations from round 2 of the cup:
Reba McEntire was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in which year. (Accept 2010–2012)
2011

Author Sarah Perry's second novel is, according to the Guardian Review, a gothic Victorian tale in which a village in SE England is "terrorised by a winged leviathan". What is the title of the novel?
The Essex Serpent