FQL Quiz

By Mithran N.S and Nidhun Thankachan

Rules

• There are 40 Questions to be answered in 1 hour

• Each question carries one point, unless otherwise specified. For questions with more than one answer, points will be spilt equally

• The QMs are all powerful Sith lords who have the final say in all matters pertaining to the quiz! :D

1.Whats happening here?

Ans. Paul Gascoigne’s famous ‘Dentist’s Chair’ celebration at Euro 96 when he scored in the

second match against Scotland

It referred to an incident before the Euro 1996, where England team players were photographed on

a drunken night with Gascoigne, Teddy Sheringham and Steve McManaman shown drinking

in a dentist's chair, as well as, rather controversially, causing thousands of pounds worth of damage to a Cathay Pacific first class flight cabin. After the goal, Gascoigne lay on the ground as if he were sitting in the dentist's chair, and teammates sprayed water from bottles into his open mouth.

2. ID the player in the pic and why was he in the news recently?

Ans. Server Djeparov, who was named 2011 AFC Asian Player of the year

3.He is sometimes credited with the revolution in

European football that saw Hungary thrash England 6–3 at Wembley in 1953, ushering in a new football era. After the

match, Sándor Barcs, then president of the Hungarian Football Federation, said to the press,

“X taught us everything we know about football." Gusztáv Sebes, the Hungarian footballer

and coach, said of X, "We played football as X taught us. When our football history is told, his

name should be written in gold letters“

The Austrian ‘Wunderteam’ based their style of play on the Scottish school of football that focused

on quick passing introduced by X

Who is X?

Ans. Jimmy Hogan

4. Connect (not at all exhaustive). Names not required

Ans. Connect: Lesser known footballers who are siblings of more famous

players

Digao, Kaka’s brotherRodney Sneijder, brother of Wesley

SneijderChedric Seedorf, brother of Clarence Seedorf and Jonathan Dos Santos,

brother of Giovanni Dos Santos

5. Name this ancient game, an early precursor to football

Ans. Pik-A-Tok, an ancient Mayan game

6. Id the two players. They along with a 3rd player share a very unique record. Give me

all of them for 2 points

Ans. Connect: 3 generations of players in the same family to have

won the Copa America

Pablo Forlan, Juan Carlos Corazo and of course, Diego Forlan

7. ID the gentleman and give me his claim to fame

Ans. Francesco Varallo, the only footballer alive to have played in

the first World Cup in 1930

8. This song, named ‘X’s dream’ rose to as much as No.5 in the charts that year. X is the nickname of Y, a legendary footballer after

whom the song is named. Give X and Y

Ans. ‘Ossie’, Osvaldo Ardiles

9. ID the team. Also gimme their famous current manager for an additional point

Ans. The Catalunya National team, currently coached by the legendary

Johann Cryuff

10. ID the legend

Ans. Zbigniew Boniek

11. Who was the first player to win the FIFA World Player of the Year award while playing in a non-

European league?

Ans. Mia Hamm!! :D

12. Boasting a personal best of 10.7 seconds for 100m and regularly coming in under 11, X had

dreams of becoming the 100m Olympic champion in his youth before opting to pursue a

career in football

-“I learned from him to get forward in attack,” said West Germany legend Franz Beckenbauer

of X

-When X was asked who he considered his successor, he identified Paolo Maldini, “whose

only fault is that he chose AC Milan”

Name X

Ans. Giacinto Facchetti

13. Regarding the origin of the move, there exists a controversy among the different claims of invention from the countries of Chile, Italy, Brazil and Peru. Attributions of invention have

been given to people such as Brazilian Petronilho de Brito, Basque-

Chilean Ramón Unzaga, Italian Carlo Parola, and the Afro-Peruvian people of Callao. The

controversy is particularly great among the Peruvian and Chilean positions, both which

consider their respective terms (chalaca and chilena) as the legitimate ways to

name this move

What am I talking about?

Ans. The Bicycle kick

14. Connect the 3 legends with a unique record (see next slide also)

Ans. Alcides Ghiggia, Jairzinho and Just Fontaine, only players to score in every

match of a single World Cup

15. ID the ‘legend’. Also ID the club side he is representing here

Ans. Ian Botham and Scunthrope United

16. ID the 2 managers (they are really famous, so to obfuscate the question a bit, their younger versions are shown here, taken during their playing days).

They share a rather unique record with a 3rd, equally famous manager. Gimme all 3 names and the

record for 2 points

Ans. Ottmar Hitzfeld, Ernst Happel and Jose Mourinho. Only managers to win the UCL with two different

club sides

17.An iconic photograph from the annals of World Cup history. ID the player and the occasion

Ans. Uwe Seeler, after loosing the 1966 WC final to England. This photo was named the ‘Photo of the Century’ by German football

magazine ‘Kicker’

18. ID the cartoon character. Why in God’s name am I asking this in a

football quiz?

Ans. ‘Kun’ as in ‘Kun Aguero’

19. What often-used sporting term is derived from the match shown below? (see next slide also)

Ans. This is the Royal Shrovetide football match held in Ashbourne,

Derbyshire each year, which gave rise to the term derby to refer to a clash

between 2 local rivals in football

20. What was started by this man in 1930 in Montevideo ,when he observed that

youngsters were practicing on basketball courts because of shortage of actual

pitches?

Ans. Futsal

21. What does this stamp released by the Government of India in 1989 commemorate?

Ans. Mohun Bagan winning the IFA shield in 1911, thus becoming the first

Indian team to defeat a European team

22. This guy  was an English sportsman of the Victorian era. He played cricket for Nottinghamshire and football for Nottingham Forest and also played

once for the England national football team, against Scotland in 1880.  He invented something very

essential to football. What?

 Ans. Sam Weller Widdowson is credited with inventing football shin pads in 1874 when he cut down a pair of cricket pads

and strapped them outside his stockings. 

23. This man is from a small town called Pelotas in Uruguay,won a shirt design competion in the early 1950s.The design won among 301 entries  and the team that used the design is still identified by it.

What did he design?

Ans. This man is Aldyr Garcia Schlee, and he designed the Brazilian national football team’s jersey.

24. This Irishman proposed a certain idea in the late 1800 after seeing the game of

football getting a little violent. The idea was first met with great opposition but was later

accepted,infact the very next year. What was the idea that has been there ever since?

Ans. William Mccrum who proposed the idea of the penalty kick in 1890. It was in his role as member of the Irish Football Association that

McCrum proposed the idea of the penalty kick in order to stop the prevalent practice at the time of

defenders professionally fouling an attacking player in order to stop a goal. The idea was submitted to

the June 1890 meeting of the International Football Association Boardby the Irish FA’s general secretary and IFAB representative Jack Reid but was initially

opposed.Public opinion may have changed after an FA

Cup quarter final between Stoke City and Notts County on 14 February 1891 where an indirect free kick after a deliberate handball on the goal line did

not result in a goal

25.ID the legendary Indian footballer depicted in this monument to him

Gostho Pal, ex-India and Mohun Bagan defender. He was nicknamed

‘The Great Wall of China’

26. X and Y are legends at their clubs. It is interesting that the clubs are fierce rivals and they are brothers. When X took Y to a

trial in his club, he was rejected by the club and left for home disappointed. Then later Y

went for the trail of his club’s youth team and the rest as they say is history.

The president of the club where Y played, once said that,” selling Y is like selling the

flag of the city itself.”

ID X and Y

Ans. The Baresi brothers

27.This manager was once, in charge for over 215 games at a top English club, winning close to a 100 games during including an FA Cup final. During his time at the club, fans grew to despise him after he let one of the star players of

the squad leave on a free transfer to perhaps the club’s biggest rival. However, he is better known for something even more ignominious. ID him and what did he ‘do’?

Ans. Tom Docherty, former manager of Man United

He slept with the club physio’s wife and was sacked for the same

28.What is happening here?

Ans. The bizarre situation arose in a Bundesliga match in December, when

Monchengladbach were awarded a free-kick in the second

half while 3-0 up against Cologne at the RheinEnergieStadion. Forward Reus, 22, and

striker Hanke, 28, decided schnick-

schnack-schnuck (A German variant of rock paper scissors )was the best way to settle a

disagreement over who would take it

29.  In the dressing room he was "abrasive, awkward and argumentative" but on the pitch he

was "determined, hard-working and persistent" and his long legs made him "a most difficult player to

compete against". Dave Jones said of X "He covers every blade of grass out there, but that's only because his first touch is so crap". And he is a “well” known football pundit who made some

ridiculously interesting comments like “Maldini is neither a legend nor a world class player!”

“Paul Ince was better than Roy Keane”“Steven Gerrard was never world class.”

ID X

Ans. Carlton Palmer

30. ID the movie from its edited poster

31.

1.The ball must not be stained, as X has proclaimed;2.Love football over all things;

3. Declare your unconditional love of football;4. Defend the colours of_______;

5. Preach the words of "__________" all over the world;6. Pray in the temples where he preached, and to his sacred mantles;

7. Do not proclaim the name of _____ in the name of a single club;8. Follow the teachings of the _______ Church;

9. Let _____ be your second name, and that of your children;10."No ser cabeza de termo y que no se te escape la tortuga." (Meaning "don't be a hothead and don't let the turtle escape you")

What’s all this?

Ans. The ‘10 Commandments’ of The Church of Maradona!!

32. ID him and gimme his claim to fame

Ans. Paulinho Alacantara, the first Asian to play for a European Club,

when he played for Barcelona at age 15 in 1912

He was a Filipino and remains the youngest ever to debut for Barcelona