The Cycling Quiz Game

[Netserk]

It might have been before either of us were born.

I think Berlin was the year before you were born.

 

[RedheadDane]

I think Berlin was the year before you were born.

Yes. But the answer to my question might also be before you were born (old guy).

 

[Netserk]

Yes. But the answer to my question might also be before you were born (old guy).

I'm not old like you.

 

[RedheadDane]

I'm not old like you.

But you recall 1987, something which I don't, having not been born at the time.

Reminder; the question is when the Tour de France started outside France the first time.

 

[Netserk]

I recall having read about it, yes. No searching allowed.

1987: Berlin
1992: San Sebastian
1996: Somewhere in the Netherlands
1998: Dublin
2002: Luxembourg
2004: Liège
2007: London
2009: Monaco
2012: Liège
2014: Harrogate
2015: Utrecht(?)
2017: Düsseldorf
2019: Bruxelles
2022: Copenhagen
2023: Bilbao
2024: Firenze

I cannot remember any older ones.

 

[RedheadDane]

Neither is correct.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I'm pretty sure the prologue in 1996 was held in Den Bosch (which is somewhere in the Netherlands).

I'm gonna say Luxembourg 1968.

 

[RedheadDane]

Nope, it was even earlier.
Also, the 1968 Tour started in Vittel, which is not in Luxembourg, though they did go Luxembourg on the 2nd stage.

 

[Valv.Piti]

1970 Belgium
1971 Belgium
1972 Belgium
1973 Belgium
1974 Belgium
1975 Belgium

Surely they went to Belgium because of Eddy in this era.
Also is what I just did allowed? If not, my answer is 1973 Belgium!

 

[RedheadDane]

1970 Belgium
1971 Belgium
1972 Belgium
1973 Belgium
1974 Belgium
1975 Belgium

All those are later than 1968. I need a year that was earlier.

Okay, I'll reveal this much:
It was before the Berlin Wall was build.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Amsterdam 1954?

 

[RedheadDane]

Amsterdam 1954?

BINGO BONGO SAMMALONGO! (Obvious winning jingle...)

Your turn.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Team Visma-Lease a Bike's Carlijn Achtereekte won silver in the 5000m at the 2015 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships, but which other athlete, who also moonlights as a cyclist, took the gold in that event?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Irene Schouten

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Incorrect (sadly for Carlton Kirby's 3000 pre-planned puns around mispronouncing "Schouten" as "Shouting" that drove me insane during the Winter Olympics)

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Has to be Martina Sablikova, surely?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

We have a winner!

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Of the current WT stage races, three have had their highest-ever climb in a foreign country. Which three races and which three climbs are these?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Tour de Pologne - Passo Pordoi (Italy)
Volta a Catalunya - Port d'Envalira (Andorra)
Tour de Suisse - Rettenbachferner (Austria)

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Tour de Pologne - Passo Pordoi (Italy)
Volta a Catalunya - Port d'Envalira (Andorra)
Tour de Suisse - Rettenbachferner (Austria)

Five out of six, only the Tour de Suisse climb is incorrect.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

You had me wondering there, if they'd ever gone up Iseran or Stelvio, but I remembered one year they went up past the usual parking on the Rettenbachferner to the Tiefenbachferner, is it that?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

You had me wondering there, if they'd ever gone up Iseran or Stelvio, but I remembered one year they went up past the usual parking on the Rettenbachferner to the Tiefenbachferner, is it that?

It is.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Back when Pauline Ferrand-Prévot first broke out in road cycling, there was a picture of her with the Rabobank team at the Emakumeen Bira, with six riders all in different jerseys - five riders wearing three different classification jerseys, the World Champion's rainbow jersey and the Dutch national champion's jersey. This left just one rider - still active today and a later owner of some of those jerseys - competing in the standard team jersey. Who was she?

 

[RedheadDane]

Is it a trick question? is it Pauline herself, and she only became World Champion later?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Annemiek van Vleuten?