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ManGame Trivia Quiz
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 22-06-2025 23:13
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In honor of Roman's retirement and because I have been working on combining my wins file with Aquarius' I thought I would see who knows their mangame history best.
Once 2024 Worlds and NCs are complete I will post the new file. Anyway, having it now would make this too easy. The winner will get the exciting privilege of having the file named after them.
PM me your answers except for the tie breaker. For that post your answer in a reply, tie breaker values are first come first served, so don't repeat a value of someone who posted above you.
All of these questions can be answered with resources on the site now (although a few would be very time consuming). Or just make some guesses. Also I tried to include enough clues that you don't need to have been in the mangame as long as Roman to get these.
Questions to PM to me:
Q1 National Champions Winners (2008 to 2023)
Main (3 points): What GT winner has the most total (RR+TT) national championships?
Bonus (1 point for each, max 2 points): Name other riders with 14 or more national championship wins (RR+TT, there are 6 of them)
Q2: 10 Year Later
Main (1 point for each correct answer): 19 riders had a win in both 2014 and 2024 (counting only point scoring races, not NC, Worlds, etc.). 5 of them have won GTs (not necessarily in 2014 or 2024). Name those 5 riders.
Bonus (1 point for each answer): The top 2 riders for total wins across those two years had 14 wins (they could all be in one of the two years or a combination), name these two American riders.
Q3: World Champions (2008 to 2023)
Main (1 point for each answer): Name the 3 riders who have won the elite world championship road race twice.
Bonus (1 point): What rider has the most elite world titles (RR+TT)?
Q4: Sam Bewley
Main (1 point for each answer in the correct order): List Bewley's first 3 monument wins in chronological order (note it can be the same race so if you think his first 3 wins were all LBL, your answer would be LBL, LBL, LBL)
Bonus (1 point): In what year was Bewley's last monument win?
Q5: Avenir (2008 to 2024)
Main (2 points for each answer): Only two riders have won Avenir without winning a stage during the race, name them.
Bonus (1 point): What contestant is the most likely to win this quiz - the right answer will be the individual who is named most often as an answer to this question, regardless if they enter or not.
PM answers to 1 through 5 to me.
Tie Breaker - post the answer to this question in a reply below and don't repeat an answer already given.
Adding them together, through 2023, how many national titles (RR+TT) have been won by Andy Schleck, Silvio Herklotz, Angel Madrazo, Merhawi Kudus and Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier?
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 23-06-2025 04:44
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Deadline on this? I have a very long day tomorrow but want to give it a shot!
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 23-06-2025 07:53
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Sounds great  Will try to submit something.
Just some clarification questions:
- Does "GT" include ToA, or do you just mean the three "classic" GTs?
- What does "Win" include? Classics, Stages and GCs? Or some jerseys as well?
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 23-06-2025 13:48
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I know one of the Avenir answers, but that's it 
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| SotD |
Posted on 23-06-2025 15:20
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Great idea!
Will be fun to dig through the memory to see how many I can come up with qualified guesses for.
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| knockout |
Posted on 23-06-2025 16:57
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My guess for question 6: 6
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| SotD |
Posted on 23-06-2025 18:43
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Ahh I had no clue what to do with that question so answered in the PM. I think I am up to high, as I have guessed 10 
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| jph27 |
Posted on 23-06-2025 20:46
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You took my guess, so I'll go with 7 |
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 23-06-2025 23:14
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Wanted to take 6 as well, so it's going to be 5 for me.
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| Heine |
Posted on 24-06-2025 07:43
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4 from me then
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Posted on 10-07-2025 06:49
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 25-06-2025 00:20
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A couple of clarifications:
Yes, ToA is considered a GT.
Wins include KOM and Points but only for 2021 and later. Really only impacts question 2.
Deadline - right now I am thinking Friday at midnight site time. But if someone really wants in and needs an extension let me know.
Edited by Ulrich Ulriksen on 26-06-2025 01:34
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| Heine |
Posted on 25-06-2025 05:58
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Then I know I didn't get everything right with ToA being a GT 
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 28-06-2025 20:14
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5 Intrepid adventurers (SotD, Knockout, Heine, Fab, JPH) took on the quiz and all demonstrated pretty superior knowledge including pointing out a number of inconsistencies in my questions.
Q1; Pluchkin has the most NC titles with 21, everyone got that, a relative gimme to start. My first error was saying there was 6 others with 14+, actually it was 7. JPH impressively got 5 of them: Major (BAH), Chhettri (NEP), Esmaeili (QAT), Arissol (SEY) and Rachid (LIB). He added De Maar and missed Zouzou (MAD) and Petrovski (MCD), nobody got Petrovski. De Maar had just 13, 1 short, which also tripped up Knockout and he didn't have a spare correct one costing him a point. Heine got only 1 point here with a bunch of wrong answers, also including De Maar.
Q2: This one I made a mess of, my pivot failed to exclude worlds and U23 although that was what I said in the question and meant. There are two other clarifications that I don't feel bad about. The wins file does not include TTTs so those don't count and I think most suspected that. And the TOA is clearly a Grand Tour, unsurprising that a bunch of legacy PT managers would want to discount the people's race.
Because of the U23 mess up I was counting PHL but should not have been, so there were only 4 correct answers. Chapeau to a couple of folks for raising that, but the question did clearly say only point scoring races were included so PHL is not an answer, sorry if I drove a few of you crazy with that.
The correct answer is Herklotz, Phinney, Dombrowski and . . . . Bennett. Everyone got the first 3, only Knockout got the last one.
Bonus was also slightly wrong as excluding Worlds Phinney only had 13 wins across the two seasons, but everyone got it anyway. The other is Jorgenson with 14 this year (TTTs not counted), only SotD missed him.
Q3: Probably the easiest one as the answer is in the World's discussion thread. 2 time RR winners are Herklotz, Wisniowski and Valverde, Phinney has the most total titles (7, all ITT). Perhaps Heine has his time away as an excuse. He is the only one who dropped points here missing Wisniowski.
Q4; I did make the assumption that MSR always comes before PR and RVV. So the correct answer is PR (2013), PR (14), MSR (15). In 2015 Bewley would go on to win both PR and RVV as well. Only SotD dropped points here. Last monument win was PR for Bewley in 2021 while on Heine's team. SotD again dropping points as he went for 2022.
Q5: Another relatively easy one as the answer is in SotD's Avenir thread (Except this year). Hayter this year and Kirsch in 2014 are the Avenir winners without a stage win. SotD I think went on memory, and impressively narrowed it down to Kennaugh and Kirsch, but unfortunately chose Kennaugh, losing a point. Everyone else got it.
The bonus shows we know each other. Everyone guessed either SotD or Knockout, but SotD got 3 to Knockout's 2 making him the right answer. Fab and Heine lose a point.
That point cost Fab a 3-way tie for the lead, leaving JPH and Knockout tied going into the tie breaker.
I meant the tie breaker to have a little more speculation but I realize now it was a little too easy to find the right answer. Which meant it largely comes down to who posted first.
That illustrious list of GT winners does not have many NCs. PHL (21, 23-RR) and Schleck (09-IT, 15-RR) 2 each, one each for Madrazo (13-RR) and Kudus (23-RR) and Herklotz, amazingly. with none. I think his management team tends not to focus on that competition.
So the right answer is 6 and Knockout grabbed that a few hours before JPH making him the winner. Congratulations to him.
I hope to release the Knockout Wins File, which will consolidate all of this stuff, in the next week or so although I might end up waiting for 2024 NCs and WCs.
Full Scoring, let me know if I messed anything up.
Spoiler | 1M | 1B | 2M | 2B | 3M | 3B | 4M | 4B | 5M | 5B | Total | | Knockout | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 21 | | JPH | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 21 | | Fab | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 20 | | Heine | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 18 | | SotD | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16 |
| Q1 | Main | Bonus | | SotD | Correct | Zouzou, Major | | Knockout | Correct | Esmaeli | | JPH | Correct | Chhetri, Esmaeli, Major, Rachid, Arisson | | Fab | Correct | Chhetri, Major, Rachid, Arissol | | Heine | Correct | Emaeli | | Q2 | | | | SotD | Phinney, Dombro, Herklotz | Phinney | | Knockout | Correct | Correct | | JPH | Herklotz, Dombro, Phinney | Correct | | Fab | Herklotz, Dombro, Phinney | Correct | | Heine | Herklotz, Dombro, Phinney | Correct | | Q3 | | | | SotD | All | Correct | | Knockout | All | Correct | | JPH | All | Correct | | Fab | All | Correct | | Heine | Valverde, Herklotz | Correct | | Q4 | | | | SotD | 1 PR | | | Knockout | Correct | Correct | | JPH | Correct | Correct | | Fab | Correct | Correct | | Heine | Correct | Correct | | Q5 | | | | SotD | Hayter | SotD | | Knockout | Correct | SotD | | JPH | Correct | SotD | | Fab | Correct | Knockout | | Heine | Correct | Knockout |
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| Heine |
Posted on 28-06-2025 20:29
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Whoho! Someone did worse than me! Take that Sotd!
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| knockout |
Posted on 28-06-2025 21:02
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Thanks for hosting this. Was a cool idea to bath in nostalgia for a moment
I was scared that SotD being off for the tiebreaker question might turn some away from picking him for the winner question.
Cant belive De Maar hasnt won more NCs. He felt like the most obvious answer by far
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| SotD |
Posted on 28-06-2025 21:47
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Surprised Campero isn’t on the list. He took double for quite some years. I know I could look up a couple of answers, but I felt that would be boring :-)
Could probably have gotten Bennett too had I know TOA was a GT, but that answer came after I sent my answers.
A bit surprised to be the worst here, but kudos to the others! I’m not sorry about my result, so the others were simply better :-)
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| SotD |
Posted on 28-06-2025 21:50
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And Bewley DID win his last monument in 2022 and not 2021 ;-)
https://pcmdaily....st_1406525
It may have been in the 2021 season, but it was in 2022 the race was posted :-)
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 28-06-2025 22:54
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An argument but not a good one. I do think you probably get credit for least research while still doing pretty well. 10 for Campero.
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| SotD |
Posted on 29-06-2025 05:57
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It wasn’t meant as an argument for getting a point. It was just a joke :-)
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 29-06-2025 21:17
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First of all, congrats to knockout on the win! I was almost sure you or SotD would do it - just weird that I didn't get any points for predicting the right winner
Thanks to Ulrich for doing this, always interesting to dive into ManGame's history being a relative newbie. Not sure you can still say that after 6 seasons, but compared to some other guys, yeah, I'm still a greenhorn 
So-so result for me in the end. 3rd among 5 participants is OK, but to miss out on the win by 2 points (1 more wouldn't have been enough) still stings a bit. Although, with some different rulings I might even have made it.
For example, I'd definitely have considered Madrazo's TTT stage win with Newton Foundation, making him another 2014-2024 winner (it wasn't stated that only individual wins would be considered).
Also, I really didn't think ToA would be considered a GT (I don't), and then saw Ulrich's reply too late. So definitely didn't have Bennett on the radar.
But given that ToA was considered a GT for this quiz, if TTT wins counted as well then Eastman would've been another candidate, as he won even two TTTs with Oxxo this year. Otherwise a couple of narrow misses, so obviously he isn't on Ulrich's list.
And the tie breaker question isn't completely clear for me, either. It's true that Schleck won the 2015 RR in Luxembourg - but the title was actually awarded to Feiereisen. So does Andy have 1 or 2 titles after all?
But more interesting for me: Why did a different rider than the winner get to wear the NC jersey? It seems like this was done on several occasions (in the same year, Pluchkin won the ITT but didn't get the title) - can any of the more experienced managers clarify these circumstances?
Obviously don't want to get any additional points, as it's Ulrich who makes the rules for his quiz, but still interesting to see how rules can be interpreted differently (ToA wasn't an interpretation question in the end, just saw it too late)
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