Football Quiz Prelims held in hansr

1. PRELIMS

2. Rules
1. Team size <=2
2. Written prelim of 20 odd questions followed by
final round.
3. Star marked questions will be used in case of ties.
4. Please name your category, your names and a
contact number on your answer sheets.
5. And remember, kids,…

4. 1*
The club started wearing white jerseys at the time
of its inception. It is believed that during a carnival
a piece of red ribbon from a cart was taken by
some members of the club. Later they wanted to
add some colour to the white jersey so they added
this red ribbon diagonally across the jersey. The
official flag of this club follows the same as that of
this T-shirt. The most common flag used is the
horizontal tri-band white-red-white. Which club?

5. 2
A tale says there was a shop called
Mother Noblett`s X Shop very near
Y, In the shop she used to sell Z
mints on match days, and a girl
would throw free Z Sweets into the
crowd. X/Y/Z?

6. 3
One of the main points on the agenda of the
FIFA executive body’s monthly meeting in
March, ahead of goal line technology, was the
banning of Xs. "We want a debate over the X
and whether it could be dangerous," a FIFA
spokesman said. "There may be a safety issue.”
"They've all gone soft," "I don't know how they
do it and focus on the game, it's weird. That's
the way the game's gone”-Roy Keane on the
subject. X?

7. 4

8. 5
Sam Weller Widdowson was an English
sportsman of the Victorian era. He played
cricket for Nottinghamshire and association
football for Nottingham Forest and also
played once for the England national football
team, against Scotland in 1880. Widdowson is
also credited with inventing football
__________ in 1874. Initially the concept was
ridiculed but it soon caught on with other
players, and ___________ are now required
by the Laws of the Game.

9. 6*
Someone had this to say about X: “We will not miss
X. His technique is average, he lacks the speed and
skill to take the ball past opponents, and ninety
percent of his distribution either goes backwards or
sideways. He wasn't a header of the ball and he
rarely passed the ball more than three metres.
Younger players will arrive who will cause X to be
forgotten.” His opinion, however, differed from that
of Zidane’s who had to say this about the whole
situation: “Why put another layer of gold paint on
the Bentley when you are losing the entire engine?”
Put Fundae.

10. 7

11. 8
X played football and was first chosen to play
under-14 football at age 12. He was chosen to
play for Warwickshire. His football career was
marked by a number of injuries, causing him to
remark later in life, "Perhaps I was doomed when
it came to football". In mid-1984, X had a trial
with Rangers, the club he supported as a boy. He
seriously injured his knee, smashing the cartilage
during training. X continued to train and play on
the injured knee, tearing a cruciate
ligament during a squash game. He never fully
recovered from the double injury. How is X more
commonly known?

12. 9
Connect:
• Bernd Schuster
• Luis Enrique
• Robert Prosinecki
• Gheorghe Hagi

13. 10

14. 11
In the 1962 semi-final against hosts Chile, X scored twice
time in a 4-2 victory, but the occasion was to be marked
by controversy. X was sent from the field late on, along
with Chile forward Honorino Landa. "Okay, I was sent off,"
he said afterwards. "All afternoon I am kicked. There is a
limit to the time when a man must be a man. When I was
kicked I struck back. I had been roughly treated and spat
on. My legs were bruised and bleeding. Finally I put my
foot up. Unhappily, it landed in the stomach of [Eladio]
Rojas. Afterwards we met as good friends because we
know the heat of a great game clouds minds. "Tancredo
Neves, Prime Minister of X’s country, sent FIFA a
telegraph appealing for leniency. Incredibly, FIFA agreed
and X was allowed to play the final. X?

15. 12
X: "At no time did I see Y because I was focused
only on the ball. Actually, when I think back
about it, it was not good at all. Of course the
referee should have shown a red card for the
foul. That is obvious." The incident left X fearing
for his safety."I had the feeling that there were
people who wanted to harm me," he said. "I've
been public enemy number one on many
occasions. Honestly, people treated me like a war
criminal. It was an unpleasant sensation."

16. 13*
Founded in 1997 at Navy Pier, on the anniversary of the
Great Fire, X immediately tapped into the diverse ethnic
makeup of the city. The team brought in Polish players Piotr
Nowak, Jerzy Podbrozny, and Roman Kosecki; the Mexican
Jorge Campos; and the Czech Lubos Kubik. While all showed
their talent while playing for X that first year, American
players (Zach Thornton, Chris Armas, C.J. Brown) proved
most integral to the X’s continued success. Under the club's
first head coach, Bob Bradley – and against all expectation –
the team completed the double in its first competitive year,
beating D.C. United in the 1998 MLS Cup Final, and
defeating the Columbus Crew to win the 1998 U.S. Open
Cup a week later.

17. 14

18. 15
Dzudovic, a player for Spartak Nalchik,
told the Daily Star: "I will speak for X if he
appeals."I don't think it was fair [the
punishment]. He just was not thinking in
that moment and after that he realised
what he had done. He realised
immediately what he had done and he
apologised to me. I had a slight swelling
after the game but I didn't have a bruise."
Give X.

19. 16
X was originally chosen as hosts by FIFA in June
1974. However the X authorities declared in
November 1982 that they could not afford to host
the World Cup under the terms that FIFA
demanded because of economic concerns. Y was
selected as the replacement hosts, beating the
bids of Canada, and the United States. Give X and
Y.

20. 17
Thierry Henry paid tribute to X's contribution to
Barcelona's win after the game, saying, "People
always talk about Ronaldinho, Eto'o, Giuly and
everything, but I didn't see them today, I saw X. He
came on, he changed the game, that is what killed
the game. Sometimes you talk about Ronaldinho
and Eto'o and people like that; you need to talk
about the proper footballer who made the
difference, and that was X tonight." Indeed his
ability to give Barcelona the cutting edge required
to overcome Arsenal was noted by the international
press. X?

21. 18
Connect:
Bobby Moore,
Marc Vivian Foe
Henrik Larsson
Franco Baresi

22. 19*
Rafael Moreno Aranzadi (May 23,
1892 – March 1, 1922), aka Little Duck,
was a Spanish football striker who
played for Athletic Bilbao during the
1910s and 1920s. He won four Spanish
Cups with Bilbao and a silver medal
representing Spain in the 1920
Olympic games. How has he been
immortalised in Spain?

23. 20
In Danny Boyle’s cult classic
Trainspotting, after getting rather
intimate with a woman he’d met in a
night club, Ewan McGregor’s
character exclaims,”I haven’t felt this
good since ____ ____ scored against
Holland in the 1978 World Cup.”

24. 21