Phoenix 44 - Flocking on Heavens Door

The famous fruit-chat quiz!
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The top Sumo wrestler ?
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David Beckham - it's how his name comes out in Romanji, and "sama" is a suffix denoting great respect.
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very good weylandsan
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Cheers. I did a Japanese GCSE a few years ago for work. And while I dropped out before the end, it's nice to see I can remember some of it! ;)

In keeping with the theme of English footballers in Japan, what's Gary Lineker's Golf handicap?
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Ah.

No idea, but he's friends with Willie Thorne, if that's any use.

Er... 10
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Lower. He's a retired professional sportsman remeber, so he's going to be pretty good at the game for retired professional sportsman. ;)
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an' old willie forne, 'is 'air's orl gorne and 'is mates all take the rise


scratch?
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3.
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incidentally the wikipedia page for scratch has a very rare example of wit from that site with a wholly irrelevant picture of a furry animal
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Not that good. It's because of all the time he spends commentating. ;)
Close though.
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six seems like a good number
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Post by Weyland »

Nope.

So far we've got 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9 left.
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i'll pick 9 then before PL/HE/CR cheats and guesses them all
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Nope. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, and 8 left.
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4? :)
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