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Friday, June 11, 2010

Question 678: The Namesake

He is a doctor of medicine, a rare achievement for a professional footballer. Even rarer is the fact that he earned the degree while concurrently playing professional football. There are persistent rumours that he turned out for the University College Dublin. He is also noted for being an intellectual (he holds a doctorate degree in philosophy), a heavy drinker and smoker, and for his height (193 cm, 6 ft 4 in). Who?


Answer: Socrates(lived up to his namesake)

3 comments:

  1. Modify question. Answer there.

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  2. pan pan pan
    goof up in the question
    name revealed in the question itself

    Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira

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  3. SOCRATES, the Brazilian Footballer

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