The only question asked was whether Robinson would beat Currie and come second.

In 1928, Melville Marks Robinson of Canada was asked to organise the first British Empire Games.

Jackson asked for number 42, in memory of Jackie Robinson.

It marked the first time in 44 career fights that Fullmer had been knocked out, and when someone asked Robinson after the fight how far the left hook had travelled, Robinson replied: " I can't say.

He could have asked President Mary Robinson to dissolve the Dáil and call new elections, though Robinson has since stated she would have refused such a request, thereby forcing Reynolds to resign.

In 1970, Yuri Matiyasevich proved ( using results of Julia Robinson ) Matiyasevich's theorem, which implies that Hilbert's tenth problem has no effective solution ; this problem asked whether there is an effective procedure to decide whether a Diophantine equation over the integers has a solution in the integers.

In the late 1940s, CBS chairman William S. Paley, a fan of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe radio serial, asked his programming chief, Hubell Robinson, to develop a hardboiled Western series, a show about a " Philip Marlowe of the Old West.

According to Robinson, the practice of recipients being asked to sell their gifts " is of long standing ".

* StickDar Robinson asked to play the part of the albino killer so the audience would be more shocked by the villain's death.

Under strain from the financial crisis, Robinson asked Liverpool for a change of post.

In 1947, Veeck gave a speech in an Ohio town and afterward was asked a question regarding Jackie Robinson's chances of making it as a major leaguer, to which Veeck responded he did not believe Robinson would fare well.

Doby had played the position before with the Eagles but was without a proper glove for first base and met much resistance when attempts were made to borrow one from teammates, including first baseman Eddie Robinson, for whom Boudreau had asked Doby to replace that day.

Boudrea recounts an incident where Robinson refused the glove to Doby, but when asked by Indians traveling secretary Spud Goldstein, Robinson obliged.

Robinson asked the Mirror's Royal Editor James Whitaker to investigate, and after conversations with various sources including Diana's sister Lady Sarah McCorquodale, confirmed Diana was suffering from an eating disorder, named as anorexia in a scoop article on 19 November.

On 11 January 2010 Robinson confirmed that he had asked both the House of Commons and the Northern Ireland Assembly to carry out an inquiry into his conduct.

Impressed with the script, Home asked Davies to write the second episode, and when Tony Robinson decided to take a break from producing Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, a slot opened up in the Children's BBC schedules for late 1991 and Home decided to use Dark Season to fill it, commissioning Davies to write the remaining episodes of the serial.

Those shows featured the top performers of the era and introduced new acts, such as Dionne Warwick, The Shirelles, Chuck Jackson, The Zombies, Little Anthony & The Imperials, the Ronettes, the Shangri-Las, Gene Pitney, Ben E. King, the Tymes, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Bobby Vinton ( who was the leader of the house band when he asked for a chance to perform as a singer ), The Lovin ' Spoonful, Cream, and The Who, among many others.

After much consideration, head coach John Robinson asked Lott to play defense because he was a better tackler than Allen.

* On July 11, former FBI Tampa bureau chief Al Robinson was quoted in the St. Petersburg Times as saying that Castor " asked for more information but was not told anything.

When the manager suggested that it might be better if Robinson leave, he smiled and asked, " Have you got a ten dollar bill?

Robinson informed Hank that he was forming a group called the Sugar Hill Gang and asked if Hank would like to join.

* USS Jack C. Robinson ( DE-671 ), a United States Navy destroyer escort converted during construction into the high-speed transport USS Jack C. Robinson ( APD-72 )

* USS Jack C. Robinson ( DE-671 ), a destroyer escort converted during construction into the high-speed transport USS Jack C. Robinson ( APD-72 )

Now it did not occur to him even to wonder whether it was wise for Robinson to dive again: Rob was his boy, the kid he had rescued from the streets, the object of his pride.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

As he left the bus with his money bag, Robinson added, the largest youth accosted him, a quarrel ensued, and the youth knocked him down.

Selkirk's story aroused great interest at home, and Daniel Defoe's fictional character Robinson Crusoe was almost certainly based in part on him.

" He was not supposed to perform, but as he listened to the music of local musician Jesse Robinson who sang a song written for this occasion, Robinson sensed that he wanted to perform and handed him a microphone.

" Robinson writes, " The scenes that awaited him in London were astonishing.

According to David Robinson, unlike in more conventional slapstick comedies, the comic moments in Chaplin's films centred on the Tramp's attitude to the things happening to him: the humour did not come from the Tramp bumping into a tree but from his lifting of his hat to the tree in apology.

Greenberg befriended Robinson and encouraged him ; they became good friends and Robinson credited Greenberg with being a good influence helping him through his rookie year.

As a result, Robinson joined a neighborhood gang, but his friend Carl Anderson persuaded him to abandon it.

Complications of heart disease and diabetes weakened Robinson and made him almost blind by middle age.

The New York Public School system has named a middle school after Robinson, and Dorsey High School plays at a Los Angeles football stadium named after him.

Robinson also has an asteroid named after him, 4319 Jackierobinson.

Ignoring Sir Thomas Robinson, Pitt made frequent and vehement attacks on Newcastle himself, though still continued to serve as Paymaster under him.

The trade is now considered among the most lopsided deals in baseball history, especially as Robinson was only 30 years old and appeared to have many productive years ahead of him.

Dalton's early life was highly influenced by a prominent Eaglesfield Quaker named Elihu Robinson, a competent meteorologist and instrument maker, who got him interested in problems of mathematics and meteorology.

Robinson tries to write a colourful journal but he is incapable of doing so, instead Mercredi writes fictitious stories for him.

When a frantic mother ( Ruth Robinson ) brings him her son ( Dickie Moore ), who has been bitten by a rabid dog, Pasteur is persuaded to try out his untested treatment on the child.

Although he viewed himself as an entertainer first and foremost, his consummate artistry won him the admiration of such twentieth century dance legends as Gene Kelly, George Balanchine, the Nicholas Brothers, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Margot Fonteyn, Bob Fosse, Gregory Hines, Rudolf Nureyev, Michael Jackson and Bill Robinson.

" Wallis urged him to reconsider, and it occurred to Robinson that he could turn this into the story of " an idealistic young doctor challenged by the realities of a cruel and horrifying world.