Anyone know some more

[AmadeusDC]

So I was at a bar quiz night recently and the following question came up: Who is the "only" none British athlete to have been awarded a knighthood? He specifically said not from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Anyhow, the answer he gave was Pele. 1, I never remember this but I don't doubt it and 2, there must be a fuck load more people than that surely. I reckoned the Aussie cricketer Don Bradman (spell??) definitely had one and as far as I know he wasn't "British." There must be more too surely if you count the coomonwealth. Anyone know? -AmadeusDC-

[Demons till I die]

Sir Garfield Sobers ...wasnt he west indian

[Edmund Blackwater]

Sir Viv Richards.

Did Mohammed Ali get one?

Zola Budd?

[BangorFeen]

So I was at a bar quiz night recently and the following question came up: Who is the "only" none British athlete to have been awarded a knighthood? He specifically said not from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Anyhow, the answer he gave was Pele. 1, I never remember this but I don't doubt it and 2, there must be a fuck load more people than that surely. I reckoned the Aussie cricketer Don Bradman (spell??) definitely had one and as far as I know he wasn't "British." There must be more too surely if you count the coomonwealth. Anyone know? -AmadeusDC-
Sir Tony O'Reilly ;)

[Edmund Blackwater]

I was at a quiz recently where yer man told us that you weighed less on the moon than you do on earth because the calcium in your bones degenerates a little during space flight. I asked him where the degenrated calcium goes. He says it disappears. I asked him about the law of conservation of matter.
We got the point.

didn't get the point for the creator of the internet, though.
I said Al Gore. He said some guy from the eighties.
I'm right.

I hate these flutes who write questions that they've taken from a quiz book.

[Forsberg]

Well Sobers and Bradman are from Comonwealth nations so there's nothing unusual about that. There are plenty of them afaik .

Don't know of any outside of the Commonwealth though

[Lamps]

Gore was stiched up on that one, he used the word 'created' the internet if memory serves(almost as bad, but it was taken out of context), when seeking to pat himself on the back for some bill or other that he was involved in.

Another player I always liked was Iain Ferguson of rangers fame

[Edmund Blackwater]

According to wiki, Pele was the only non-commonwealthian to receive one for sport

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_honorary_Bri tish_Knights#Sports