1. FQL Quiz
By Mithran N.S and Nidhun
Thankachan

2. 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

3. 1.Whats happening here?

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. 6. Id the two players. They,along with a 3rd player share a
very unique record. Give me all of them for 2 points

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

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

12. 10. ID the legend

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

14. 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

15. 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?

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

18. 15. ID the „legend‟. Also ID the club side he is
representing here

19. 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

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

21. 18. ID the cartoon character. Why in
God‟s name am I asking this in a
football quiz?

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

24. 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?

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

26. 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?

27. 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?

28. 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?

29. 25.ID the legendary Indian footballer
immortalized in this statue

30. 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

31. 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‟?

32. 28.What is happening here?

33. 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

34. 30. ID the movie from its edited poster

35. 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?

36. 32. ID him and gimme his claim to fame