100 yards by 65 yards?
that’s current size. think 150+yrs ago
12 parsecs?
simmer down Wookie
30 firkins x 250 bushels?
answer - interesting read
“The maximum length of ground shall be 200 yards, the maximum breadth shall be 100 yards.”
Thus, the dimensions of the football pitch – decided in 1863 at the founding meeting of The Football Association – were set out in the first printed version of the complete Laws of the Game. In metric measurements, this means 183m by 91m.
Mud, plastic and grass: the evolution of the football pitch | Inside UEFA | UEFA.com
That’s pretty much modern Australian Rules dimensions.
Ok, a rude one.
What is the connection between a castle in the East Midlands of England and female genitalia?
Is it to do with some sort of carving or gargoyle? I have no idea where though. Belvoir possibly?
Hint - It has to do with rhyming slang.
Your first answer wasn’t bad.
No one knows the answer. Do I win a prize?
I think I know the answer, but it’s a crap question.
Is it Belvoir Castle (pronounced “beaver”) and that hideous American slang “beaver” for female bits?
Correct, but it’s not a crap question. It’s very erudite and fascinating.
Belvoir Castle, like many stately homes, has a fox hunt.
Therefore the rhyming slang ‘Belvoir Hunt’.
I heard on QI that the cockernee rhyming slang for that word came from ‘Berk’ as in Berkshire Hunt?
I’ll throw in another one.
The London Underground and the Paris Metro have just one station with the same name…
Elephant and castle?
I would have thought Victoria
Nope to both. Not a trick question. Both have same spelling.