Off Topic Warm Up Quiz

[littleDinosaurLuke]

As you get ready for tonight's CL game, try these (degree of difficulty = easy)

1. Name the three PL players with 100 goals and 100 assists?
Ryan Giggs, Frank Lampard,

2. Name the only goalscorer for England during Sam Allardyce's tenure?
Adam Lallana

3.Name Britain's first £2M footballer?

4. First player in the CL era (1992/93 onwards) to score a CL hat-trick for an English club?

5. Who's nickname was the "Divine Ponytail"?
Roberto Baggio

6. Name the three "one cap wonders" for England to play for Liverpool since 2012?

7. Name the highest PL goalscorers whose surnames begins with J and E?

8. Name three Swedes who have played in the PL whose surnames begin with B?
Blomqvist,

9. Gunnar Nielsen is the only PL player to have been born in which country?
Faroe Islands

10. Why did India withdraw from the 1950 World Cup?
FIFA refused to allow them to play barefoot


I'm too lazy to post answers until later

 

[PleaseNotPoll]

Wasn't 10 something ridiculous, like they refused to wear boots?

 

[littleDinosaurLuke]

Wasn't 10 something ridiculous, like they refused to wear boots?

Yep, they weren't allowed to play barefoot.

 

[remembercolinlee]

1.Giggs, Scholes, Henry
2. Townsend?
3. Gazza?

 

[remembercolinlee]

4. Cantona

 

[PleaseNotPoll]

Was 5 Roberto Baggio? I assume it wasn't Seaman.

 

[littleDinosaurLuke]

4. Cantona

I wish

 

[littleDinosaurLuke]

1.Giggs, Scholes, Henry
2. Townsend?
3. Gazza?

Giggs

 

[remembercolinlee]

1.sheringham?

 

[SpursDisciple]

1 Lampard

 

[SpursDisciple]

2 - Davies

 

[SpursDisciple]

1 Scholes or Gerrard

 

[littleDinosaurLuke]

2 - Davies

Sharron or Windsor?

 

[Dier Hard]

8. Blomqvist (sp?) is one I think.

 

[PleaseNotPoll]

Gunnar Nielsen sounds Nordic, so he was probably born in somewhere totally unconnected like Tasmania.
Plenty of players from all of the countries that you'd expect his name to be linked with, so it can't be them.

 

[littleDinosaurLuke]

Gunnar Nielsen sounds Nordic, so he was probably born in somewhere totally unconnected like Tasmania.
Plenty of players from all of the countries that you'd expect his name to be linked with, so it can't be them.

Nordic, yes

 

[PleaseNotPoll]

Nordic, yes

Can't be the obvious ones, so it's either Greenland or the Faroes, I'd have thought.

 

[littleDinosaurLuke]

Can't be the obvious ones, so it's either Greenland or the Faroes, I'd have thought.

Faroe Islands

 

[PleaseNotPoll]

Faroe Islands

I thought that you might be pulling a funny one, as our Dutch ref tonight is from Curacao, which is a cocktail ingredient.

 

[littleDinosaurLuke]

I thought that you might be pulling a funny one, as our Dutch ref tonight is from Curacao, which is a cocktail ingredient.

Dick Advocaat's an egg based alcoholic drink