Trivial Pursuit! Answer 8!

Arsenal is known as "the gunners"

West Ham United is known as "the hammers" and

Newcastle United is known as "the magpies".

A magpie is a long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call. Magpies as birds  flock in groups like crows and other birds do. They are believed to bring bad luck. The magpie is said to have a symbolic meaning and predict omens. So according to how many magpies are seen the following will be one’s fate:

One for sadness, two for mirth;
Three for marriage, four for birth;
Five for laughing, six for crying:
Seven for sickness, eight for dying;
Nine for silver, ten for gold;
Eleven a secret that will never be told.

 Variations of the above are the following:

One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl
Four for a boy
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret never to be told

Eight for a wish,
Nine for a kiss,
Ten for a time
of joyous bliss

The winners of the eighth question are:

1. Chris Costakis ( 1 )

2. Marianthi Kavelidou ( 5 )

An odd couple

Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little bird

That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,

And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

Emily Dickinson

Click here  for the analysis of the poem

and for a translation in Greek click here .

Trivial Pursuit! Question 8!

8. Which English football / soccer teams are known as  a) the gunners b) the hammers  c) the magpies?

Trivial Pursuit! Answer 7!

The only English king known as the Great was Alfred the Great  (849 – 26 October 899) King of Wessex from 871 to 899.

The winner of the seventh question is:

1. Marianthi Kavelidou (4)