Can You Identify These Peculiar Past-Times From Their Abstract Descriptions?
Can You Identify These Peculiar Past-Times From Their Abstract Descriptions?
If aliens ever came to earth a lot of human pastimes would seem pretty bizarre. Take this quiz to see how many strange activities you can identify from their abstract descriptions!
If aliens ever came to earth a lot of human pastimes would seem pretty bizarre. Take this quiz to see how many strange activities you can identify from their abstract descriptions!
Dressed in strange clothing, men and women dance around a fertility symbol, intertwining ribbon as they go. Traditionally this dance ended in human sacrifice, but in the modern day celebrations baskets of flowers and treats are exchanged.
This pastime involves a group of men and women chasing a ball of fermented dairy product (which can reach up to 70mph) down a steep hill. The victor must then do a shirtless victory sprint, trophy in hand, back up the hill.
Participants race at high speed carrying containers full of lit, flammable liquid in a crowded area.
An individual dressed in a foliage-covered frame walks the streets, surrounded by a group of "bogies", collecting more foliage until the person is entirely concealed.
Participants race 380m carrying a 50kg volunteer. If the volunteer is under 50kg, weight is added in the form of baked bean cans. The winner receives a barrel of Ale, whoever carried the heaviest volunteer wins 1lb of sausage meat and losers receive pot noodles and a can of dog food.
Men dressed as women and women dressed as men dance in white breeches with bells on hopping, skipping and smacking sticks together.
Participants wait for large locomotives to roll past, making note of particular rolling stock, carriage types and classes of locomotive. Often seen in an anorak with some binoculars.
At 10.30am crowds of hundreds of people begin tossing a silver ball to one another. The last ones left standing at midday are crowned the winners.
Philatelists gather large numbers of small, dyed bits of paper.
Gentlemen get together dressed in their best to partake in activities such as jousting; replacing horses with Boris bikes, lances with umbrellas and shields with their briefcases.