F1 Quiz Chain

[Gary]

It's getting increasingly difficult to find anything wiki-proof, when obviously even pictures can be traced, but name one driver who made his F1 debut at 38?

Stephen South. Appeared in the US GP West meeting in a works McLaren when he was 38 years and just over one month old.

[xpensive]

Fantastic Gary! I didn't even think about him!

My candidate was George Follmer in SA 1973, but he was actually 39, now that I look it up.

Your go!

[xpensive]

Hang on a second...Stephen South was born 1952, which makes him 28, not 38, for the 1980 Long Beach GP!

[dumrick]

What the hell, x?

The way you questioned, there have already been lots of right answers, the answer you wanted turned out to be a wrong one and, instead of moving on with the quiz we're still dwelling on the same subject over and over?

No wonder this thread stops so often now...

[xpensive]

What the hell are you babbling about, what right answer, like Conny Andersson?

You couldn't figure it out, but that's no reason to be a prick, who's holding ths quiz up anyway?

[andrew]

Lest we not fight. Here's another one out of the obscure!

According to F1 and musical myth, which F1 driver performed a saxophone solo on a popular 1070 song?

(As I said, it is surrounded in myth so it may be a load of bull).

Alternatively, which F1 driver was also a session drummer for a 1970's "super" group how are now very cheesy indeed?

[dumrick]

What the hell are you babbling about, what right answer, like Conny Andersson?

You couldn't figure it out, but that's no reason to be a prick, who's holding ths quiz up anyway?

You should quit what you're taking, man.

Was Juan Manuel Fangio wrong? Was Jo Schlesser wrong? Do you remember the wording of the question before you started adding more detail to it? It's mining your memory, my friend...

[xpensive]

It would make it easier to judge if people would care to detail their answers, but what the hell, why don't you just turn this quiz into a blurry picture contest, I couldn't care less.

[dumrick]

Alternatively, which F1 driver was also a session drummer for a 1970's "super" group how are now very cheesy indeed?

Are you thinking about Slim Borgudd and ABBA?

[andrew]

^^ Correct. Your go. =D>

[dumrick]

It would make it easier to judge if people would care to detail their answers, but what the hell, why don't you just turn this quiz into a blurry picture contest, I couldn't care less.

X, maybe you should take more care in detailing your questions. The fact was that one right answer to your question was perhaps the greatest F1 driver ever, that was not difficult.

You could have acknowdelged the right answer and made another question specifying the 70's thing, but you chose to dismiss the answer because that wasn't the one you were thinking about. Maybe you're reading too much Phillip K. Dick, but precognition isn't (yet?) a faculty we possess.

[xpensive]

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Alternatively, which F1 driver was also a session drummer for a 1970's "super" group how are now very cheesy indeed?

I guess this is an ok way to add detail to the question?

[dumrick]

I guess this is an ok way to add detail to the question?

No that's a way to ask two alternative questions.

Which driver scored his only World Championship point with a patched up cylinder block, after a crack was found in it?

[andrew]

Anymore detail would have given away the answer!

I guess I could have written "Slim Borgudd was a session drumer for ABBA" but that would have been too much detail.

Or "Which Swedish F1 driver was a session drummer?" - to easy to google with or without ABBA or any reference to a famous 70s group.

Or "Slim Borgudd was a session drumer for whom?" - again too easily worked out.

The vaguness worked for my questions. I didn't actually find any questions lacking in detail. The "name one who made their F1 debut at 38?" was straight forward enough. Can't be that many to narrow down. Could have easily asked "which driver made their debut at 21?". Now that's vague!

Now lets all get along and have a bit of light hearted fun on this thread.

[xpensive]

The point is that Andrew added the alternative question, which was a giveaway, only after the initial Q was posted.

This way you feel a little cheated when you are spending time to search for the answer to the original question and don't notice that the goalposts have been moved until it's too late.