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Gloster
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Sorry, that is not the answer.
EbbwJunction1
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"Something closely connected to the 1952 Grand National caused much hilarity and some embarrassment. What?"
Did the jockey split his trousers?
Did the jockey split his trousers?
Gloster
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No, that is not the answer. (I don’t think P J Proby was ever a jockey.)
LSWR Cavalier
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A donkey got onto the course? And won?
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Some sort of a protest outside the ground?
One of the commentators made a comment which whilst it was funny at the time, caused a problem later?
One of the commentators made a comment which whilst it was funny at the time, caused a problem later?
Gloster
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Getting closer.
LSWR Cavalier
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A horse relieved her/himself, while galloping along?
EbbwJunction1
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The winning jockey or trainer made a comment?
Gloster
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Sorry, neither are correct.
It was related to the commentary, but not really the BBC’s fault (although they probably got blamed, as usual).
LSWR Cavalier
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A spoonerism? Or someone forgot to switch off the mike before swearing?
Gloster
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LSWR Cavalier
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Must have been a Dimbleby? Or Prince Philip?
Gloster
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Sorry, no.
I will give it another couple of hours before declaring race over.
The question about the 100/1 winners is still open, but I will give a peculiar mathematical clue. If you divide the number of jumps needed to complete the National by the number one greater than the required answer, you get the answer.
I can’t go much further with the 1952 question other than to say that extreme ineptitude was widely heard.
Gloster
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The first answer is wrong, but the second is correct. There were 100/1 winners in 1928, 1929, 1947, 1967 and 2009.
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Did the commentator get over excited because they were the owner of the winner?
Gloster
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No. Sorry.
The answer is that in 1952 Mirabel Topham, the owner of Aintree, got into dispute with the BBC. She arranged for friends to give the commentary which the BBC, probably reluctantly and possibly under pressure from above, broadcast to the nation. The commentary was quite extraordinarily inept, with the commentators being confused, garbled and wrong. Most famously they gave out that Teal fell at the first fence, when it got through and won. It used to be broadcast occasionally, at least in part, and was a joy to listen to.
It was in 1956 that Devon Loch, the Queen Mother’s horse, spreadeagled itself just short of the winning post when well ahead of the field and failed to finish. The jockey was a chap called Dick Francis. I wonder what happened to him?
The tic-tac man tells me that Steve M70 has three correct and should set the next question.
Some questions about Monopoly:
1 - why were the four stations in the game chosen?
2 - which two of the coloured properties (ie excluding water works and electric company) are mis-named?
3 - which is the only property south of the Thames?
4 - what three elements of the original US board persist on the UK version?
5 - there’s apparently (in normal times) a “Monopoly pub crawl”. Which property needs a substitute because it has no pubs in real life, being less than 70 feet long?
1 - why were the four stations in the game chosen?
2 - which two of the coloured properties (ie excluding water works and electric company) are mis-named?
3 - which is the only property south of the Thames?
4 - what three elements of the original US board persist on the UK version?
5 - there’s apparently (in normal times) a “Monopoly pub crawl”. Which property needs a substitute because it has no pubs in real life, being less than 70 feet long?
LSWR Cavalier
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3 Old Kent Road?
Correct
Two of those are the right squares, but I need something more specific
LSWR Cavalier
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1 points of the compass? Or one for each of the Big Four?
Pass Go?
Three of the corner squares - the other is a Parking Lot?
PS - I've updated my earlier answer due to forum amalgamation rules
5 is correct
Re 2 - whilst Angel Islington isn’t a thoroughfare (similarly Mayfair), it is though correctly named for what it was at the time. The two I’m looking for are thoroughfares, but they’re mis-named
No. But it is to do with the big four
(My bolding) -- in fact, the four stations are all LNER: Kings Cross, Liverpool Street, Fenchurch Street, and Marylebone. (I've always felt that one for each of the Big Four, would have been far more appropriate !) My understanding is that Waddingtons Games, who in the 1930s launched the (originally US-devised) game in Britain: were based in Leeds, and had in more than one way, links and associations with the LNER; that company therefore, particularly "on their radar".
@SteveM70: (you posted as I was composing this one) -- to do with the Big Four: viz. as above, one particular one thereof.
AlterEgo
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They were all LNER termini?