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Earl of Essex

I recently had a question on an IT box asking which day the Earl of Essex was executed on. The three answers were Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Palm Sunday I think. Does anyone happen to know. It...

Sonyme

Cow corner

With 6 o'clock on the boundary behind the bowler and 12 o'clock behind the receiving batsman where is cow corne?, and why is it so called when there are no corners on a cricket field?

Filbert

Rugby World Cup

I'm not a great rugby follower, although I do look out for the Tigers results as it seems to be the only sport we're good at. I looked at the tables for the world cup but I'm not sure how the points...

tubeway

What is the longest run without a 0-0 draw

Mainly due to a very leaky defence - Gillingham have now gone 82 games since a 0-0 draw. Is this a record? If not then how many more games away are we?

toetoe

football

can anyone tell if they know of any asian football players to ave made it in the top flight leagues eg premiership or the lower lower leagues

YvonneM

Daily Telegraph

Tried to buy a Telegraph this morning at our local Tesco store but they have been taken off the shelf. Could see a pile of them but the girl said she couldn''t sell them Does anyone know why?

neil_mcleod

Offside puzzler

Please can someone help answer this question to resolve an argument! Q: Can a player be flagged offside when the ball is played backwards? E.g. Imagine two players are thru on the goalkeeper, no...

julianbiggs

England cricket shirts

Every England player has some numbers underneath the three lions on his shirt. Some numbers are high some are low. What do the numbers relate to ??

lucyshandbag

betting odds, again????

if i put ?5.00 on a bet with 7/2 odds, how much would i win? the same again for odds 20/1????

lucyshandbag

betting odds????

if i put a bet of ?5.00 on something and the odds are 1/6, how much will i win if i win?????

whiffey

Why did Nelson Mandela say....

This is the first statue of a black person in London ? (It won't be the last, not by a long chalk) Why did he not say Freedom Fighter instead ? Why did he have to introduce skin colour ?

eihpos

Betfair account query

I use a Betfair a/c and fully understand the principle of backing and laying (usually on horse racing). I understand in a football match you can back or lay either team to win lose or draw, however if...

gordon21up

accies beating rangers

have hamilton academicals ever beaten rangers in any competition?

Salas

New Thames Barrier

The news today says that London is possibly going to get another flood barrier costing a whopping ?20 billion (which will end up as ?30 billion, I'm sure) The North was hit very hard this year with...

jbache

yellow cards

which tean had the most yellow cards 2006/07 in the premiership

pidgon

Schmeichel's

Are the Schmeichel's (Peter and Kasper) the first and only father and son to play in the Premiership?

brian j john

unique record

who holds the unique record of playng in three different divisions of the football league in three consecutive games and how

styley

Premier League question.

Hypothetically speaking, say Liverpool and Man ******* were to finish top of the league at the end of the season on the exact same points and in both their games against each other they were 2-2 draws...

staceyr

How do we set dates?

How do we know when things happened say in 95bc...im sure they didnt date things "bc" because they didnt foresee the year of christ..or year 0! We have carbon dating for...

cityblue

betting odds

please please please help how does this whole conversion from fractions to decimals things work ?? Can you give me some examples too.

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