2. 1.
• X, Rubin Kazan, Inter Milan, Y, Zerez, Al Sadd,
Cadiz, Gramanet, Murcia, Udinese.
X and Y make the list an exhaustive one. The
list is not in any particular order.
• What list? And which teams are X and Y?
4. Chelsea and Liverpool :D
List of teams which Messi has faced
and is yet to score against.
5. 2.Someone tweeted an explanation for
something he did thus:
• “Do you not get excited when you see a 6 ft,
with long blonde hair and legs out about to hit
the target!!”
• Who explaining what?
8. 3. Id X.
• X has sort of specialized, over the years, in
scoring from a particular area which the
media entitled “Gol alla X” or “The X Zone”.
This involved coming through the left flank
and curling it into the far top corner.
11. 4. Id X and the nickname.
• Confused by his surname, Platini and Houllier
tried to recruit him for France. Actually, he
had no French ancestry at all. Also, X had a
nickname Y. X said that though he was okay
with that, the club got many letters from
religious groups asking X to come out in public
and state that he was not Y.
14. 5.
• There are several theories regarding the origin of this
term. Two of them are:
• The Northumberland miners preferred the lamp
invented by George Stephenson to that invented by Sir
Humphrey Davy - eventually, the miners themselves
became called X.
• In 1826, George Stephenson gave evidence to a
Parliamentary Commission on Railways at which his
blunt speech and dialect drew contemptuous sneers.
From that date Londoners began to call the Keelmen
who carried coal from the _____ to the Thames. X?
17. 6. X and the club. The blanks are NOT
the same.
• Sir Henry Percy was also named Harry X. The
nickname X was due to his impulsive nature.
His family owned large amounts of land in
_______ which prompted the local club to be
named after him. He was famed for
his fighting cocks which were fitted with
_____ .
20. 7. Who is X?
• Port Vale F.C is a club that plays in Football
League Two. X, a popular singer, is a huge fan
who owns shares in the club as well. X sang
the theme song for FIFA 2000 titled “It’s Only
Us” on the condition that Port Vale F.C was
also included in the game though FIFA 2000
did not have Football League Two. Still, the
team was included in the Rest Of The World
section.
23. 8. Which group?
• X, a business group, features in this quiz due to a
sponsorship of theirs. The CEO of the company is
Reinhold Schulte. The company is one of the
biggest Insurance firms in Germany. The Group's
two originating groups have been closely
associated from the very start with small and
medium businesses in the crafts, trades and
commerce. X traces its origins to an initiative by
independent craftspeople and businesspeople
who formed a health and death benefits fund in
Hamburg in 1906.
26. 9.
• The wrens are birds in the mainly New
World family Troglodytidae. There are
approximately 80 species of true wrens in
approximately 20 genera. The genus
eponymous of the family is Troglodytes. By
what name are wrens known in South America
which is why they feature in this quiz?
29. 10.
• The Yugoslav Wars were a series of wars, fought
throughout the former Yugoslavia from 1991 to
1995, between the republics who sought
sovereignty on one side and the government in
Belgrade on the other side that wanted to either
prevent their independence or keep large chunks
of their territory under its control. However,these
wars indirectly led to unexpected joy in a Nordic
country located (predominantly) between the
North and Baltic seas. How? (yup,it IS a football
question )
30.
31. • Denmark hadn't qualified but were granted an
entry to the 92 Euros because of this and they
went on to win the tournament.
32. 11.
• There was this 80s survey in France conducted
by L'equipe to find out who was the most
hated German in France. Hitler was 2nd in the
poll. Who was 1st?
38. 13. These are the present day Xs. Who
was the original X?
39.
40. X- El Flaco. The original El Flaco was
Cesar Luis Menotti.
41. 14. Who be X?
In September 1996, when X was 11, X witnessed
the stabbing of his mother by his father who
was later jailed for 15 years. "This will stay
with me for my entire life. I'd give anything for
my mother to be still alive," said X later. X
subsequently gave up football but was
motivated by his uncle, who himself once
captained the national team. X wears a
diminutive form of his first name on his club
jersey.
47. 16.
• X tweeted at Y : @Y do u wanna go there
publicly "Mr Squeaky Clean" ? Think u should
have a look in that vast closet of skeltons
before u respond.
• What resulted?
48.
49. • Barton tweeting Gary Lineker. This was his
tweet to Lineker when he tried to defend
Shearer
So people started putting funny tweets saying
#linekerrevelations
50. 17. A reasonably talented player, he captained a club to their only
league title in modern times. However, he is more famously known
as one of the two names in a very famous quote. What quote?
51.
52. • Blackburn Rovers Chairman Jack
Walker reportedly said to Dalglish: "Why do
you want to sign Zidane when we have Tim
Sherwood?“ when Kenny asked him to sign
Zidane.
53. 18.
• What contrasting nicknames, originating from
another sport, were given to Mark Hughes
because of his imposing physicality and Gary
Linekar because of his poaching skills when
they played together at Barcelona?
56. 19.
• X was a notorious chain
smoker, but never
seemed short of breath
when he chased down
balls in the final third,
which was a defining
feature of his game. As
powerful as he was
skilful, he scored 4 goals
in the 1986 FIFA WC and
was voted the Third best
player at the World Cup.
59. 20.
• The guy given in the
picture could not
pronounce a name
correctly. What he said
instead led to a famous
nickname. Which
nickname? Who is he?
60.
61. Digao couldn’t properly say Ricardo
which was his brother’s name. He
called him Kaka instead.
62. 21.
• Laurent Robert scored a spectacular freekick
for Newcastle United against Liverpool in the
2004-2005 season in a match which Newcastle
United won 2-1. Other than on Greatest Free
Kicks in the Premier League Compilations,
where have we seen this goal?
63.
64. • It's actually the goal that Santiago Munez
scores in the end of Goal! against Liverpool.
Him running up and Robert's shot is shown
• Which is why Munez, though right footed,
takes that free kick left footed.
65. 22.
• Someone's quote about having a famous
moment he was a part of , reused in popular
culture.
"I got absolutely slaughtered by the lads... to
be fair I was a bit embarrassed by it."
• Who and what?
66.
67. • Archie Gemmill
• About his famous goal for Scotland against
Netherlands which was shown in
Trainspotting.
68. 23.
• Mr. Sidney Duncan of Sunderland started a
newspaper in 1983 and named it 'The
_________'. It only ran to 12 issues, during
which time Duncan, who pretty much wrote
the whole thing himself, doubled the cover
price in an attempt to cut circulation because
he found the effort of handling all the money
he was making so tiresome.
How do we know this name today?
71. 24.
• During his second spell with Bayern Munich in
2005 and 2006, he wore the shirt number 69.
Clarifying that it wasn't a lewd gesture, he said
this was because he was born in 1969, his
height is 1.69 m and he weighed 69 kg. Who?
74. 25.
• They were the first team outside the big 5 to ever win
the Argentine domestic championship in 1967. They
were also one of the first teams ever to be accused of
playing 'anti-football' because of their physical violence
and due to its frequent resort to timewasting tactics.
The Times called them one of the most despicable
teams ever to emerge from South America.
They have won 4 more domestic titles and have won
the Copa Libertadores 4 times.
Which team famously coached by Oswaldo Zubeldia
and Carlos Bilardo, among others?
77. 26.
• X was nicknamed "La Furia _____", a slight
wordplay on the on the phrase Furia Cieca,
meaning "Blind Fury". It was also a reference
to his nationality. Identify X who is also on the
Board of Directors of a club which he served
with much distinction.
80. 27.
• In his homeland, he is known by a name which
would suggest that he's the South American
equivalent of a cowboy. The name we all know
him by is actually a diminutive of his actual
name, and is a term of endearment. Who?
83. 28.
• He is widely considered the greatest player from
his nation. He coached a club side in his country
for 3 years from 91-94 and then was appointed as
the national team coach in 1997. He led them to
the 98 WC, but was fired mid-WC, after a
disastrous defeat in their second game.He
blamed their FA for the bad performance and
alleged that the country's national league was
fixed. He was banned subsequently for 5 years
and left the country.
• Who and which country?
86. 29
• Andres Montes , the eccentric Spanish
commentator who famously coined the term
tiki-taka, gave X the nickname Y, because,
according to him, in Spain’s case, X was the
one who played it again and again and again.
89. 30
X was the first person to play in a major
tournament after a transplant which he had in
2007 for his kidneys. He also scored a goal
which thought would win it for his side but
heartbreak was to follow when it was followed
by an immediate equaliser and his side lost on
penalties. Who was X?
90.
91. • Ivan Klasnic
• Scored for Croatia against Turkey in ET, only
for it to be cancelled out by Semi Senturk.
