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Football Quiz League Season 2 | Ranajeet
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Football General Quiz| Ranajeet Soman
28 questions on infinite rebound
2 written rounds of 3 questions each
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Written Round 1
The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman
3 questions on social causes in football
+5 for each correct answer
+5 bonus for getting all 3 right

1.
Serie A footballers used red paint on their face one
matchday to highlight which issue which affects up
to 30% of women in some form?

2.
This kit of FC Bahia references what issue that has
affected the region of late?

3.
Many footballer managers in the UK wear this badge
of an organization called Men United which raises
money and awareness for which issue affecting
men?

Exchange Sheets??

Serie A footballers used red paint on their face one
matchday to highlight which issue which affects up
to 30% of women in some form.

Domestic violence

This kit of FC Bahia references which disaster that
has affected the region of late?

Oil spills in the ocean

Many footballer managers in the UK wear this badge
of an organization called Men United which raises
money and awareness for which issue affecting
men?

Prostate cancer

Infinite Rebound 1
14 questions
Clockwise IR
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Q1.
Easton Cowboys are a club based out of Bristol
started in the 1980s who are involved in playing
matches to raise awareness and have played games
in the gang areas in LA as well as the Gaza strip.
They had a famous recruit on the tour to Mexico in
2001 where the person kept goal for some games
and travelled with them.
Identify the person who fits right in with the social
commentary angle.

Banksy

Q2.
Jose Andrade, the original Uruguayan superstar,
travelled to Paris for the 1924 Olympics and stayed
on for the high life after Uruguay’s success.
At one of the parties he met someone who shared
his racial nickname.
He carried on a doomed affair with the person
before alcoholism drove him to poverty and back to
Uruguay.
The other person had also started out on the other
side of the Atlantic but did not return until much
later.
Whom did he have an affair with?

Josephine Baker

Q3.
Fans in Germany have been protesting against a
certain scheduling practice, which is quite popular
for the NFL, because they aren’t able to travel for
away games.
Major clubs such as Eintracht Frankfurt and Werder
Bremen have adopted a character as the face of
their protest. The character is well known for being
strongly averse to the key factor they are protesting.
Which character have they appropriated for their
protests?

Garfield

Q4.
Two Argentine clubs started out in the 1900s with
references to an event a couple of decades ago in
another country. Both paid tribute to the fact that
football was predominantly a working class game.
One was Argentinos Juniors which was named
_______ Martyrs as a sign of respect to the people
killed in the city in that event.
Chacarita, the other club, chose a certain date to
launch the club which has achieved international
renown since.
Give both references.

Chicago, 1st of May
Both references to the Haymarket Riots

Q5.
Leeds United play the fiercely contested West
Yorkshire derby against Bradford City.
In the late 80s / early 90s, Leeds United fans came
up with a chant to rile up the Bradford City
supporters, many of whom come from various
diaspora.
The chant simply went “_______ is a Leeds fan”, using
the name of a person, which they knew would
incense a certain section of Bradford City supporters.
Whose name did they use?

Salman Rushdie

Q6.
Saadi Gaddafi was the captain of Al Ittihad, Libya’s
most successful club.
Everyone in his team and the opposition team,
except him, had a certain kit restriction placed on
them whenever he played despite no such rule by
the Libyan FA.
This also translated to the commentators following
suit in their job by only doing something for him.
What ‘privilege’ was afforded only to Saadi Gaddafi?

Only he could have his name on the back of the
jersey
Commentators took only his name while
commentating

Q7.
At the opening match of the 1950 World Cup there
were 200,000 people crammed into the Maracana.
The authorities had also decided to go overboard
with the opening ceremony.
Due to something immensely risky done during the
ceremony, some sections of the crowd were pelted
with concrete rubble.
What did the government approve of doing inside a
crowded stadium before the opening match?

21 gun salute

Q8.
Germany were playing football matches even during
WW2. Sepp Herberger, their manager, to whom little
else mattered in life other than football was not
happy about his players leaving for the front.
He did some research and found out that to get
someone back from the front, the chances were
higher if he made something up about his players in
his application as such soldiers were sent away more
than others.
What did he make up about the players he wanted,
which would have resulted in certain jailtime and
possible execution for hindering the war effort?

Made up honours for players
Mentioned players were decorated in the application
although they weren’t

Q9.
Players from minority sections like Algerian-French,
Albanian-Swiss, black players in most European
national sides and even Lionel Messi for Argentina
have been subjected to this.
Players are scrutinized for subjective observations
like lack of accuracy or enthusiasm.
Spanish players, in a side which has entrenched
regionalism, were spared this.
What is being talked about?

Singing the national anthem
Spain’s anthem doesn’t have words

Q10.
Panyee FC is an amateur football team set up in a
Thai village after the kids there were inspired by the
1986 World Cup.
The club faced a fundamental limitation due to the
lack of something in their village. They overcame this
by putting together a playing area themselves and
deciding to forsake shoes.
The club is an inspirational story in Thailand as they
went on to dominate many regional championships
in this century.
What is special about the village team?

It is based in a village built on stilts in the water
They don’t have any land to practice on

Q11.
Kim Yong-ha was a football coach who was sent to
coach the national team of a spiritual ally in 1970.
The regime of the country he coached had defunded the
football program and focused on beating Americans at
their own games.
He organized a tour of his own country and was also
asked to take the team to tour another country on the
way.
The players described the experience in the other
country as extremely stressful as they feared for their
lives during the tour.
Which country did he coach? Which other country did
the team tour?

Cuba, Vietnam
He was from North Korea

Q12.
Santos wanted to keep Neymar with them in 2012
but could not compete with European club salaries.
They went ahead with offering him a huge paycheck
to get him to stay another season.
What decision to “cut costs and balance the books”
according to president Luis Ribeiro did they take to
remain solvent?
The decision was widely reviled and brought into
focus the façade of equality that football wore but
didn’t actually apply.

Shut down the women’s team

Q13.
In a discussion about the ruling of handball, the
International Football Association Board said the
touch is considered illegal if it is below the shoulder
and the hand is in an unnatural position.
To define ‘unnatural position’, instead of using a
more formal way of measurement as in cricket, what
informal wording was used to describe the threshold
of permissible position of the arms from the body in
their official statement, particularly apt considering
the rule discussed?

Four o’ clock & eight o’ clock

Q14.
Hardline Islamist clerics across the Middle East were
not too happy in the early 20th century about the
advent of football.
To stop the youth from participating, they compared
the act of kicking a football with a seminal event in
Islamic history from 680 CE where they said it was
similar to an act of disrespect.
This is largely an exaggeration and the comparison
did not gain traction.
What event were they referencing?

Imam Hussain’s death
They claimed the Yazidis kicked his body after death

Written Round 2
Music and Football
3 musical references in football
+5 for each correct answer
+5 bonus for getting all correct

1.
This is the logo of Memphis 901 FC which plays in
the USL. Explain the musical reference in the logo.

2.
This is a Seattle Sounders kit which pays tribute to
someone with a reference to a famous song?

3.
The Neville brothers who played for Manchester
United had a father named Neville Neville.
United fans caught onto this fact and made a chant
referencing this and the fact that there were two
Nevilles playing for them.
Which 1974 song with an aptly repetitive name did
they use as a tune for their chant?

Exchange Sheets

This is the logo of Memphis 901 FC which plays in
the USL. Explain the musical reference in the logo.

Crown referencing Elvis
The King, who was from Memphis

This is a Seattle Sounders kit which pays tribute to
which famous son of the soil, with a reference to a
famous song?

Jimi Hendrix
From Purple Haze

The Neville brothers who played for Manchester
United had a father named Neville Neville.
United fans caught onto this fact and made a chant
referencing this and the fact that there were two
Nevilles playing for them.
Which 1974 song with an aptly repetitive name did
they use as a tune for their chant?

Rebel Rebel by David Bowie

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Q15.
In blind football, coaches have an additional
responsibility other than the usual coaching.
There are almost always two coaches, one for
midfield and one for attack. They are provided a
freedom that normal football managers are not.
What responsibility do the coaches have during the
game?
Why is there no necessity for this for defence?

To direct play from the touchline
The keeper is sighted so he organizes defence

Q16.
Portland Thorns have generally been the most
popular side in the NWSL over the last few years
thanks to organized fan support.
The biggest such group is a play on the city’s
nickname which is also reflected in the club’s name.
In keeping with their theme of women
empowerment, they have added a word after the
city’s nickname to make a pun on something created
more than 70 years ago.
What is the name of the supporter group?

Rose City Riveters

Q17.
Jon Calvert and Claire Newell of the Insight team
from Sunday Times worked on the corruption
scandal and vote-buying in the World Cup hosting
process as they had previously worked on a similar
vote-buying scandal in a completely different field.
In this field it was mainly one country who paid off
the IWC to over-indulge in an activity despite
getting horrible press for it.
The country was supported in this by Norway and
Iceland.
Which country and which activity?

Japan, Whaling

Q18.
Sepp Blatter, who had a burning desire to appear as
a man of the world, set up a FIFA Council of Wisdom
in an attempt to bring together “great men from
various fields of endeavour” as advisors.
Since he was heavily involved in meddling with the
FAs of various countries, his primary target was
someone who had done something similar but on a
much larger scale and with more devastating effects.
Who was his primary target for the Council of
Wisdom, which the person eventually agreed to join?

Henry Kissinger

Q19.
In the 2015 Women’s World Cup, there was a set of
only 11 out of all the players in the tournament, as
opposed to a much higher corresponding number in
the men’s tournament.
This is contributed to by the fact that most clubs are
not ready to support their players in this and players
cant afford the unpaid time.
Casey Stoney and Hedvig Lindahl were counted as 2
of the 11. Although they were technically part of the
list, how were they different from the other 9?

They did not carry the child
The group is, of course, mothers

Q20.
George Merzbach was a Belgian lawyer who set up
the club once called El Mokhtalat. In his time
involved in the administration of the club, he was
friends with someone also living there carrying out a
famous project.
Merzbach offered vice-presidency of the football
club to this person, but it remains unknown if he
accepted.
Following are the excerpts from the other person’s
diary.
Identify him. 1/2

“Saw Merzbach in the afternoon, we sent wires to
the Minister of PWD for reopening the ____.”
“Merzbach came over this morning, and we with
Callender went to the Valley. Baraize began clearing
the entrance to the ____ at 11am.”
“We found the beautiful linen pall over the ____ for
which I brought out Dr Alexander Scott… left out in
the open. It is ruined!”

Howard Carter
El Mokhtalat is now known as Zamalek

Q21.
The match between Poland and Brazil in the 1938
World Cup was scheduled in Toulouse.
The Poles were unhappy about this because they felt
that Brazil would have an advantage over them from
the outset.
The match was shifted to Strasbourg later to the
Poles’ satisfaction (due to the Anschluss, not their
protests) but it eventually didn’t matter as they still
lost.
What advantage did they think Brazil would have?

Toulouse is in the south of France where it is warm
and humid, conditions that Brazil were used to and
they weren’t.

Q22.
The most capped England footballer of all time –
Fara Williams – was once one of 280,000 such
people in the UK for 7 years.
She was actually playing for England while going
through this. After she got in a better place in her
life, she decided to give back to girls who are
especially vulnerable by raising awareness and even
selecting the team for a World Cup that happens for
people who have faced this upto 12 months prior to
it.
What did she go through?

Homelessness

Q23.
Ivan Savvidis bought the Greek club PAOK in 2012
and also holds diverse interests in the region to
“reconnect with his Greek heritage”.
The real reason claimed in the Greek media was that
he was a Russian agent there to disburse funds to
football ultras in Greece as well as a neighbouring
country to foment unrest regarding a decision which
would affect the geopolitics of the region.
Russia did not want it to be successful but could not
stop it.
What was Russia trying to prevent?

Name change to North Macedonia
Greece had vetoed RoM’s entry to EU and NATO till
they changed the name
Macedonia is claimed by separatists, Greeks as well
as the erstwhile Yugoslav republic

Q24.
As statistical modelling in football keeps improving,
the way to interpret data on “space” has also
changed.
Most modern stats merchants use this type of a
diagram to interpret the individual space of a player.
What is the name of such a diagram OR what is the
simple geometric principle behind demarcating these
spaces?

Voronoi diagram
All points within the space allocated to each player
are closer to that player than any other

Q25.
There was trouble in the match between Energie
Cottbus and FC Babelsberg in 2017 in Germany.
Cottbus fans were chanting a rhyming phrase “______
_____ ____, Babelsberg null drei”.
The first three words were deliberately chosen as a
slur because they were found in a famous chilling
inscription somewhere.
What were the words (English translation will do)
and what was their significance?

Work will set you free, Auschwitz

Q26.
In keeping with making arbitrary decisions, Erdogan
banned the use of a certain word in Turkey. He said
that this had no basis in Turkish history and came
from Western Europe.
He was quoted saying “You know what they did
there. They shredded people with animals.”
He was, however, fine with another word coming via
the same culture as a replacement.
What word, universally seen in sports, did he ban
due to which some football clubs had to make
changes?

Arena
He was ok with stadium

Q27.
An artist was commissioned by the FIGC to make an
artwork to be used for their campaign against
racism.
The artist came up with something, saying he had
used “different types of eyes and features to show
different races”.
There was widespread furore due to this artwork
which was considered in keeping with Italy’s general
tone-deafness in fighting racism.
What was controversial about it?

He painted chimps as subjects

Q28.
Juan Mata started the Common Goal charity in 2013
which involves football stars giving back to the
community.
Before starting the charity, he went for advice to
someone in the UK.
The person he went to had also started a highly
successful charity with a popular biennial event
nearly 3 decades ago because of the Ethiopian
famine.
Name the person Mata approached and their charity.

Richard Curtis and Comic Relief

Fin.
Next quiz in the series is on 19th June at 1:30pm
It is a General quiz on Food and Drinks
set by Aditya Gadre, Pranav Joshi and a special
guest QM.
Please join in for that.
Thank you!

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