Quiz

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Name that man

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Random trivia
6. Which Greek demi-god gives his name to teams in Spain, the Netherlands and Greece?

7. Which football club takes its name from a Princess of Denmark?

8. Oxford and Dublin have done it but London, Belfast, Cardiff, and Edinburgh haven't. What have they done?

9. What have Real Madrid done five times, AC Milan done four times, Sunderland three times, Newcastle United twice, Falkirk once but Liverpool, Manchester United and Chelsea have never done?

10. Sergei Kiriakov is the all-time top scorer for which nation?

11. When did Stanley Matthews play in Scotland colours?

12. Who is the only person to have played for Spurs, Chelsea and Arsenal?

13. What did Charlton do in 1970, Sunderland do in 1979 and Chester in 2014?

14. Which is the only English city to have staged top-flight football in every league season since 1888?

15. What unwanted honour does Karl-Heinz Rummenigge hold?

16. Which two English league teams are not named after places?

17. Which team has lost the FA Cup Final the most times without winning the trophy?

18. Who were Gre-No-Li?

19. Who comes next in this sequence: Dunga, Kahn, Zidane, van Bronckhorst?

20. Three British regiments have won major British footballing trophies. Name them.

21. Ronaldo and Cristiano Ronaldo held it once, Cruyff once also, Suarez once but Maradona twice. What is it? And, for an extra point, who is the current holder?

22. Four men have scored a goal and an own goal in a World Cup. A point for each.

Grounds

23. Who used to play at the Olive Grove?

24. Who used to play at Fellows Park?

25. Who used to play at Muirton Park?

26. Which international team plays their home games at Estadio Algarve?

27. What is the Signal Iduna Park better known as?

Quotes
28. Who was Bill Shankly talking about when he said ''He belongs to the company of the supremely great like Beethoven, Shakespeare and Rembrandt'?

29. Who said 'I don't believe in God. In Spain all 22 players cross themselves. If it works the game is always going to be a tie'

30. Who said 'It was like seducing the most beautiful woman in the world. And then failing on the moment for which you did it all'? And what was he talking about?

31. Who was right when he said: 'The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what’s the point in playing well. I feel tempted to tell about the time they dared to ask Borges what is poetry for, to which he answered: ‘What is a sunrise for? What are caresses for? What is the smell of coffee for?'”

32. Who said ''Ninety-five percent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget'? And who was he talking about?

Nicknames

33. Who are 'The Little Donkeys'?

34. Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany, Ferencvaros in Hungary, Benfica in Portugal, Besiktas in Turkey. Who in England?

35. Which former England striker was nicknamed 'Atilla'?

36. Who is 'The Eastern Wind'?

37. What nickname links Ruben Sosa and Alberto Aquilani?

38. Which three footballers were known as 'The Three Degrees' in the 1980s. A point for each

39. Which England captain was nicknamed 'Crazy Horse'?

What name links...

40 A Colombian forward, arguably the greatest Futsal player in the world, and one of the finest midfielders of the 1980s.

41. A Japanese football team and arguably the finest Brazilian defensive midfielder of all time.

42. A Spanish Ballon d'Or winner with a recent European Golden Shoe winner?

43. One of England's finest ever uncapped players and one of England's most capped players?

44. A current Belgian international and a current France U19 star?

Achievers

45. Who is Sweden's all time top goalscorer?

46. In 2004, each UEFA nation had to nominate their 'Golden Player' as part of UEFA's jubilee. Who was Germany's Golden Player?

47. Frank Lampard is Chelsea's record goalscorer. Who held the record before him?

48. Nine men have won the First Division or Premier League as a player and a manager. A point for each.

49. Five teams have won the Turkish league title. One point for each.

50. Willie Angus, Donald Simpson Bell and Bernard Vann are three men to have all achieved which off-field honour?

[Des]

Are they all the same bloke?

[Bigal]

12 William Gallas?

[cymrococh]

1. Stanley Leisure's dad

2. Knox's dad

3. Murph's son

5. Nuno Gomes

12. Clive Allen

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gallas is right. allen was on arsenal's books, but never played.

[Tosh]

14 - Birmingham ?

16 Port vale and Arsenal - although I think both used to have place afilliations (Woolwich Arsenal)

37 isn't "sicknote" or "bottler" but Little Prince

39 is our Emlyn

45 Zlatan or Henrik Larsson

Edited June 19, 2015 by Tosh

[cymrococh]

6. Hercules

14. Liverpool?

[Nathan Explosion]

Popping this in here so that the source at least gets a credit:

 

http://www.leftbackinthechangingroom.com/2014/12/left-back-in-changing-room-bumper.html

[Cobs]

Is No.37 "massive fanny" ?

[EC_Red]

4. Vikash Dhorasoo?

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Popping this in here so that the source at least gets a credit:

 

http://www.leftbackinthechangingroom.com/2014/12/left-back-in-changing-room-bumper.html

 

cheers

 

6. Hercules

14. Liverpool?

 

yes

 

4. Vikash Dhorasoo?

 

yes

 

 

16 Port vale and Arsenal - although I think both used to have place afilliations (Woolwich Arsenal)

37 isn't "sicknote" or "bottler" but Little Prince

39 is our Emlyn

 

 

all correct.

[cymrococh]

19. Messi, captains of losing World Cup finalists.

Edited June 19, 2015 by cymrococh

[baz2107]

 

 

 

13. What did Charlton do in 1970, Sunderland do in 1979 and Chester in 2014?

 

Scored in the fa cup final

[Hassony]

15. What unwanted honour does Karl-Heinz Rummenigge hold?

 

captained two losing teams in the world cup final

49. Five teams have won the Turkish league title. One point for each.

 

Besiktas

Galtasray

Fenerbahce

Tanzaspor

Buraspor

[Tosh]

27 is Dortmunds ground. Wesfallenstadion?

[PhilM]

1. Preben Elkjaer

5. Nuno Gomes

18. Gren, Nordahl, and Lidholm(?), the AC Milan strikers from the 60s?

45 is Zlatan

[Tosh]

30

 

Edited June 19, 2015 by Tosh

[PhilM]

34 - Crystal Palace. All clubs nicknamed The Eagles?

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44. A current Belgian international and a current France U19 star?

 

 

Fulham have a Moussa Dembele. Could it be him?

[Stevie H]

41 is cerezo.

 

43 wright? alan and billy?

[PhilM]

42 - Luis Suarez?

47 was Bobby Tambling wasn't it?

9 - Broken the world transfer record.

[Jim D]

17. Leicester City

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tearing it up here.

 

 

49. Five teams have won the Turkish league title. One point for each.

 

Besiktas

Galtasray

Fenerbahce

Tanzaspor

Buraspor

yeah. presume you mean trabszonspor.

 

 

 

18. Gren, Nordahl, and Lidholm(?), the AC Milan strikers from the 60s?

 

 

liedholm, but yeah, nice one. i'd never have got that.

 

 

43 wright? alan and billy?

 

no.

[John am Rhein]

28 Di Stefano?

35 Mark Hateley

38 Brendon Batson, Cyrille Regis, Laurie Cunningham

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not di stefano. other two are right.