Posted April 14, 200718 yr Ive been asked to run a sports/Football quiz for a drinks company , local then maybe nationwide. They have asked me to run it in 3 big bars in Dublin and its a challenge if anything else . Now, im looking for as many questions and answers as i can get , Football...Champions League, Premiership, F.A. Cup , players questions , who was the first etc etc ? in fact anything related to the game past and present would be great. Other sports , anything really . So if anybody can help to throw their knowledge my way , id appreciate it . I only have 2 weeks to get it organised . Yes i could easily browse the Net , but i found in the past it can be hit and miss regarding answers. Thanks,
April 14, 200718 yr Just an idea, but when people post suggestions for questions, I think it would be good if you posted them like this: Q: Who is the first team USA player to get sent off in FIFA World Cup history? [spoil]A: Eric Wynalda(in Italy 1990 in the group stage match against Czechoslovakia)[/spoil] --- I mean, it might be fun if people used the 'spoil' feature to hide the answer, so people can test their skills here too.
April 14, 200718 yr Which is the only First Division/ Premiership Club to have been relegated via the play-offs?
April 14, 200718 yr Which current Premiership club never got promoted, in fact should have been relegated and only stayed in the old First Division because they lied, cheated, and spread a few backhanders around to do so? Probably too easy but for anyone who doesn't know it was the Arse.
April 14, 200718 yr Q: Which three footballers were the only winners of the European Player of the Year award to come from Soviet Union? [spoil]A: Lev Yashin(1963), Oleg Blokhin(1975) and Igor Belanov(1986)[/spoil]
April 14, 200718 yr In the Champions League which team had a perfectly good goal against them disallowed which would have knocked them out in the quarter finals, then didn't score any goals, including penalties in the semi final then didn't win the final in normal or extra time yet still 'won' the trophy?
April 14, 200718 yr This one is easy, but I'll post it anyway: Q: What is the only stadium to have served twice as the venue for a FIFA World Cup final? [spoil]A: Estadio Azteca(Azteca Stadium) in Mexico(1970 and 1986).[/spoil]
April 14, 200718 yr Author This is excellent , exactly what im looking for , thanks lads , keep em coming.
April 14, 200718 yr A couple of Chelsea firsts that might help: 1. First team to take part in European match transmitted to England and shown live on closed-circuit TV Fairs Cup semi-final play off awat to Barcelona in May 1966, relayed via six large screens and watched by nearly 10,000 fans at Stamford Bridge. 2. First club to erect wire fences behind the goal. That was in October 1972
April 14, 200718 yr Good one this. How many titles did Chelsea win in 1955? Answer: 4 Football League Champions Football Combination Champions (Reserves) Metropolitan League ("A" team) South-East Counties Champions (Juniors) And unless I'm very much mistaken, that year we were the first English team to qualify for the European Cup, as was, but the Football League in their wisdom wouldn't let us take part, being of the opinion that such things were beneath their dignity and best left to those funny foreign chaps.
April 14, 200718 yr what is brought to every FA cup final and never gets used? Answer - the losers ribbons!
April 14, 200718 yr here are 2 more why do some clubs have triangular corner flags and others have square corner flags? only FA cup winners are permitted to have triangular flags. Why are Blackburn Rovers the only club with their badge on their corner flags? They won the FA cup three years in a row in the 1800s and the FA could not afford to give them the cup to keep so they allowed them to have their badge on their corner flags.
April 14, 200718 yr Q: What is Est?dio Jornalista M?rio Filho better known as? [spoil]A: The Maracan? stadium.[/spoil]
April 14, 200718 yr nice trick question but it only works if read out so it cannot be printed on paper for the teams to see. Which member of the Royal Family has played in an FA cup final? Joe Royle.
April 14, 200718 yr Q: Who is famous for winning the marathon at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, despite stopping for a glass of wine along the way? [spoil]Spiros Louis. [/spoil] Q: Why is his name important to top footballers in 2007? [spoil]Athens Olympic Stadium is named after Spiros Louis and the stadium is the venue for 2007 UEFA Champions League final.[/spoil]
April 14, 200718 yr Author 3 players who came on as sub in an F.A. Cup final and scored 2 goals . Answer......Ian Rush [ v Everton in 89] Ian Wright [ v Unired in 90] Stuart McCaul [ v Liverpool 89]
April 14, 200718 yr Q: Which club won five out of the first seven English FA Cups? [spoil]Wanderers Football Club(1872, 1873, 1876, 1877 and 1878)[/spoil]
April 14, 200718 yr A few non-Chelsea questions Heaviest defeat in the FA Cup? Reading 0, Preston North End 18. FA Cup 1st Round, 27/1/1894 ______________________________________________________ Heaviest defeat in the Football League? Halifax 0, Stockport County 13. Division 3 North; 6/1/1934 Newport County 0, Newcastle United 12. Division 2; 5/10/1946 ______________________________________________________ Why was the World Club Championship not contested in 1978? Because Liverpool declined to play. There was no World Club Championship in 1975 either because Independiente and Bayern Munich couldn't agree on dates to play. ______________________________________________________ First ?1,000,000 transfer? Johann Cruyff, Ajax to Barcelona September 1973 ______________________________________________________ Coventry's 1984 FA Cup victory over T*tt*nh*m was their first major trophy in 104 years of existence. What other trophy did they win that year? The FA Youth Cup
April 14, 200718 yr Q: What is the record for most consecutive league titles in European top flight football and which two clubs share that record? [spoil]A: Skonto Riga won the Latvian league and Rosenborg B.K. won the Norwegian league 13 times in a row between the years 1992 and 2004.[/spoil]
April 14, 200718 yr Q: Who were known as 'Gre-No-Li' and why? [spoil]A: Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm. The denomination was colloquially used after these players composed a formidable trio of strikers while playing for the Swedish national team and AC Milan in the 1950s.[/spoil]
April 14, 200718 yr Author ______________________________________________________ . ______________________________________________________ First ?1,000,000 transfer? Johann Cruyff, Ajax to Barcelona September 1973 ______________________________________________________ Brilliant question
April 14, 200718 yr Q: Which two teams played in the first UEFA Europan Championship final? [spoil]A: Soviet Union and Yugoslavia(1960, Soviet Union won 2-1)[/spoil]
April 15, 200718 yr First ?1,000,000 transfer? Q: The first English ?1mil player? [spoil]Trevor Francis[/spoil]
April 15, 200718 yr Which player was sold for ?99,999 at his own request? Jimmy Greaves, December 1961 from Milan, because he didn't want to be known as the first ?100,000 player. _______________________________________________ List of British transfer records up to 2002 here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_fo ... fer_record
April 15, 200718 yr I think Trevor Francis' pricetag was actually 1? under a million because Cloughie didn't want Francis' mind get messed up with the notion of breaking the record transfer fee. Although the full price was over ?1mil after the taxes were added to it.
