Quizzers FPL Community Quiz 12

By Prasanth, Pradyoth and Raouf

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?

Answer is

Chelsea and Liverpool :D

List of teams which Messi has faced and is yet to score against.

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?

Answer is

Gary Neville’s goalgasm

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.

Answer is

Alessandro Del Piero

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.

Answer is

Matt Le Tissier Le God

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?

Geordies

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 _____ .

Answer is

Tottenham “Hotspur”

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.

Robbie Williams

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.

Signal Iduna, stadium sponsors of Borussia Dortmund.

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?

Garrincha

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 )

• Denmark hadn't qualified but were granted an entry to the 92 Euros because of this and they went on to win the tournament.

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?

Harald Schumacher

• 12. In 2006, Marko Marin won the Silver Medal in the Fritz-Walter trophy for young German players. Who won Gold and Bronze??

Gold- Lars BenderBronze- Sven Bender

13. These are the present day Xs. Who was the original X?

X- El Flaco. The original El Flaco was Cesar Luis Menotti.

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.

Jakub “Kuba” Błaszczykowski

15. Which group is missing?

• Yid Army• Zulus• Red Army • Bushwackers

Green Street Hooligans

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?

• Barton tweeting Gary Lineker. This was his tweet to Lineker when he tried to defend ShearerSo people started putting funny tweets saying #linekerrevelations

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?

• 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.

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?

El Matador and El Toro

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.

Preben Elkjaer

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?

Digao couldn’t properly say Ricardo which was his brother’s name. He

called him Kaka instead.

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?

• 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.

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?

• Archie Gemmill • About his famous goal for Scotland against

Netherlands which was shown in Trainspotting.

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?

The Blizzard

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?

Lizarazu

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?

Estudiantes

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.

Pavel Nedved

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?

Ronaldinho.

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?

Cha Bum Kun and South Korea

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.

• Xavi• Humphrey Bogart

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?

• Ivan Klasnic• Scored for Croatia against Turkey in ET, only

for it to be cancelled out by Semi Senturk.