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Peter Charles McCarthy Robinson (9 November 1951 – 6 October 2004) was an Anglo-Irish comedian, radio and television presenter and travel writer. He was noted for his best-selling travel books McCarthy's Bar (2000) [1] and The Road to McCarthy (2002), in which he explored western Ireland and the Irish diaspora around the world.
The tournament began in 2012 as the ASEAN Quizzing Championships, an annual quiz competition held among quizzers from ASEAN, primarily those living in Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. In 2015 the competition expanded to include participants from India and a number of off-site chapters and became the Asian Quizzing Championships (AQC).
Garside's first effort from Cape Town, South Africa, in early 1996 was abandoned in Namibia, [5] and his second attempt, begun on 7 December 1996, started from London's Piccadilly Circus [5] [8] but was abandoned at the Russia-Kazakhstan border around June 1997; Garside initially covered up the break in running with fabricated diary entries (), for which he later apologised saying that he had ...
Jesper Olsen, or Jesper Kenn Olsen, is a multiple national record holder ultra distance runner from Denmark, and was the second person verified to have run around the world (16,000 miles: 2004-2005), as well as the first verified to have run around the world in a north-south rather than east-west direction (25,000 miles: 2008-2010, 2011-2012, due to 6-month illness and injury).
The WRA agreed Cook is the first to run from Africa's southernmost to northernmost point [16] but claims WRA member Jesper Olsen is the first to run the full length in 2010, running from Taba, Egypt to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa as part of a world run. [2] [17] According to The Independent Nicholas Bourne, whose 1998 run starting in ...
Banner publicising the championship in Bangalore, one of a number of cities simultaneously holding the July 2005 event. The World Quizzing Championships is an individual quiz contest organised by the International Quizzing Association (the umbrella organisation of various quizzing activities from more than 25 countries around the world).
If you've lived in the West for a while, you've probably covered a lot of ground. Test your travel savvy on California, the Baja peninsula, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.
The marathon starts with a run in Tasmania, before Farmer flies to Perth and runs around the entire continent in a clockwise direction, finishing in Uluru in central Australia. He trained by running 40 km (25 mi) every single day, with a gym session most afternoons. [14] The launch was attended by prime minister Anthony Albanese. [2]