Friday 26 November 2010

Question for 25th Nov 2010

A celebrated poem appeared in Punch on Saturday, 9 September ____. The first verse, quoted most frequently, reads:

Well done, Cornstalks! Whipt us
Fair and square,
Was it luck that tript us?
Was it scare?
_____ Land's 'Demon', or our own
Want of 'devil', coolness, nerve, backbone?

The poem is talking about something which has been subsequently immortalized. Something all of us know about. What?

3 comments:

Ankur said...

I am guessing its the Ashes

Angelus said...

The Russians getting a man in space before the US?

The Answer said...

It is the test match where Australia beat England and started the Ashes. Congrats Ankur!!