I must admit, I thought this event had ceased to exist, but I was pleasantly surprised to find this on the BBC website. There are 1576 steps and the winners were German Thomas Dold, 24 (10 mins 7 secs) and Australian Suzy Walsham, 35 (13 mins 27 secs) who both retained their titles on Tuesday. And I thought that it was just we British who were daft!!
Here are today's questions: -
- Which Prime Minister, who was born today in 1788, helped form the first modern police force and repealed the Corn Laws?
- On which island was Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (right) born today in 1985?
- Which charity event, usually occurring every two years, first took place today in 1988?
Interestingly, other footballers born today were: Carlos Tevez (1984); Giovanni van Bronckhorst (1975); Gheorghe Hagi (1965); Sven-Goran Eriksson (1948) and Cesare Maldini (1932) together with a fair number of American Footballers and Baseball players (Roger Staubach [1942] and Hank Aaron [1934] to name the two most prominent!). Must be something 'special' about February 5th!! Extra points if you can name the nationalities of the five footballers!
Yesterday's Answers: 1. Skiing; 2. Frank Sinatra; 3. Ukraine
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