The prelims of The Football Quiz done at BCQC, Pune on Jan 5th 2019.

2. Q.1
 The following image is of the index of a book by David
Winner. Given the subject matter of the book, the
irregularity is apt as said by Winner himself. What is the
oddity a tribute to?
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5. Q.2
 A player called Kurt Clemens would have been a World
Cup winner in 1954. Sepp Herberger, the West German
coach, had stated that Clemens would have been a fixture
in his side had he been eligible to play.
 Clemens could not because of the ramifications of WW2
which meant he had to play for the ‘country’ shown in the
image. Identify the side he played qualification games for,
ironically in the same group as West Germany.
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7.  Saarland
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8. Q.3
 There is a 2010 ESPN documentary called ‘I ______ _ ____ in
the _____ ___ _____’ which looks at a group of 54 people (now
increased to 60) who have, sometimes through a single
action, made their names noteworthy.
 Some of the people included are legends like Zinedine
Zidane, Nils Liedholm, Gerd Muller as well as lesser
known players like Pablo Dorado, Dick Nanninga and Jose
Luis Brown. What have all these men done?
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9.  Scored a goal in the World Cup final
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10. Q.4
 The person shown is the Italian footballer Claudio Gentile.
His nickname stems from the fact that he was born in a
former Italian colony and also bears resemblance to
arguably the most famous person from that country,
especially during Gentile’s playing days. What is his
nickname, same as the name of the person he resembles?
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12.  Gaddafi
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13. Q.5*
 River Plate fans taunt the visiting Boca Juniors section in
El Monumental by placing something near their stand.
 This is a reference to Boca’s nickname ‘los bosteros’ gotten
from the manure used in the brick factories in the area
where Boca play.
 What item is this, which would remind one of Pink Floyd?
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14.  An inflatable pig
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15. Q.6
 The first foreign coaches for the Indian cricket and
football team both share the same last name.
 While the cricket coach ushered in a new era for Indian
cricket after an all-time low, the football coach inherited
an already great team after the demise of the great S.A.
Rahim. He led us to the silver medal in the Asia Cup held
in Israel in 1964.
 What last name do the coaches share?
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16.  Harry Wright (football)
 John Wright (cricket)
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17. Q.7
 In the group stages of the 1993-94 Champions League,
French star Youri Djorkaeff scored against Galatasaray and
stated “This is my first response to the ________ ________.”
 In 2001, he publicly thanked President Jacques Chirac
after France passed a bill recognizing something at the
risk of antagonizing another country. What is being
talked about?
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18.  The Armenian Genocide
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19. Q.8
 Four countries were seeded in the 1930 World Cup.
Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil were three. The fourth
country was selected because they were one of the few in
the world to have a professional football league, contrary
to current popular perception. Which country?
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20.  The United States of America
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21. Q.9
 The Soccer City (FNB) stadium in Johannesburg is
informally referred to as a certain gourd because its
design was inspired by it. The gourd itself is used most
often to make pots and bowls and most famously in an
object seen in depictions of a beloved late 19th century
character. What is it called?
 (image follows)
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23.  Calabash
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24. Q.10*
 A documentary called The Football Men follows three
people born within a five-mile radius near Glasgow
who went on to achieve legendary status for their
respective clubs. If one of the three is Bill Shankly,
name the other two European Cup winners in
consecutive years.
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25.  Jock Stein ( Celtic 1967)
 Sir Matt Busby ( Manchester United 1968)
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26. Q.11
 The former Barcelona player Jose Iborra had moved to
Mexico fleeing the Spanish revolution and joined Real Club
Espana made up of Spanish expats.
 He had befriended fellow Catalan expat Ramon Mercader
with whom he was having lunch one day when Mercader
suddenly left in the middle of their meal saying he had an
errand to run. Iborra was called in by the police for
questioning the next day because of Mercader’s actions.
What was Mercader’s errand which he successfully
carried out?
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27.  Assassinating Leon Trotsky
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28. Q.12
 This is a list of flags banned in stadiums in Russia during the 2018
World Cup. Identify the blanked out flag, banned with Indian relations
in mind.
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30.  Azad Jammu and Kashmir
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31. Q.13
 The first round CONCACAF qualification game for the
2014 World Cup had two neighbours drawn to play
together. The qualifying tie was called ‘Battle of the _______’.
 This was also a pun because neither of the teams had
won a single WC qualifying tie before and this would
inevitably be the first time for one of them. Name the two
territories.
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32.  British Virgin Islands vs US Virgin Islands
 (Battle of the Virgins)
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33. Q.14
 In 2012 a player was offered an ultimatum by Canberra
United FC to quit something to continue playing for the
club. Even though Canberra United were the reigning
champions, the player was missing practice quite often
and the club did not want to give preferential treatment.
The player chose to transfer to Sydney FC which had no
problems as the former club. Who is the player who has
eventually been dropped by the national football team and
has since become a star?
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34.  Ellyse Perry
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35. Q.15*
 The following dissertation about mixed strategy in game
theory was co-authored by Clark Medal winner Steve
Levitt (of Freakonomics fame). He uses something from
football as the focal point of this theory, which says
randomization produces optimal results. What?
 (image follows)
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38. Q.16
 The Prague derby between Slavia and Sparta was
embroiled in controversy in 2006-07 because of two
incidents in a similar vein.
 One was Sparta fans making references to their opponents
as ‘Jude Slavia’.
 The other one involved Sparta’s own coach Horst Siegl.
Sections of Sparta fans ostensibly cheered their own coach
from the stands but were in fact using his name as a
disguise for what?
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39.  Chanting Sieg(l) Heil
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40. Q.17
 The term entered pop-culture during the ’96 Presidential
elections with Bill Clinton supposedly targeting this swing
vote demographic. The socio-economic reasons behind
the formation of the mostly white demographic were cited
as the laid-back nature of age-group competitions in the
US, mostly encouraged in suburban school districts,
practice time seen as a social event and equal
opportunities for girls and boys.
 Most of this is not true if taken strictly within the confines
of its name, but the term has this image associated with it.
It has variants in the north of America, and Canada. What
term?
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41.  Soccer Mom
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42. Q.18
 Marcio Richardes, a Brazilian playing for Albirex Niigata,
scored a hat-trick against Vegalta Sendai. Richardes was a
specialist and this hat-trick was a testament to his skills
from certain situations. This has been the only recorded
instance of a perfect ____ ____ hat-trick in top flight football,
where three variants were used to score.
 Sinisa Mihajlovic scored a hat-trick using just one of those
variants for Lazio against Sampdoria.
 What constitutes this type of perfect hat-trick?
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43.  Perfect dead ball hat-trick
 Scored from a penalty, free kick and corner kick
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44. Q.19
 Guillermo Varela was advised by Eintracht Frankfurt not
to go ahead with something even though such a decision is
completely personal otherwise.
 Varela disregarded the advice and went ahead with it
anyway. The reason his club had warned him not to came
true and he had to sit out because of injury.
 To literally add insult to injury, he was also suspended by
Frankfurt.
 What was the nature of his injury after his personal
decision?
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45.  Infected tattoo
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46. Q.20*
 When Paul Gascoigne moved to Lazio, the fans quickly
nicknamed him La Gazza Ladra. This was an Italian twist
on his existing nickname after a popular 1817 opera by
Giaochino Rossini.
 The name was doubly apt since Gascoigne started his
career at a club which had the same nickname as what
‘gazza’ meant in Italian. Which opera was he nicknamed
after?
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47.  The Thieving Magpie
 (Gascoigne started his career at Newcastle United
who are nicknamed The Magpies)
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48. Q.21
 The 1966 World Cup started on the 11th of July, which is
much later than the traditional May or June start to the
tournament. This was largely due to the BBC showing
peak Britishness and refusing to air something as populist
as the World Cup if it clashed with two other elite British
events. Name both which caused the delay.
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49.  Wimbledon
 The British Open (golf)
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50. Q.22
 FIFA had invited the Moo Pa football team based in Mae
Sai for the 2018 World Cup final. However, the final was
held on July 15th and the team was supposed to be under
medical supervision for a week till July 20th, which
meant they could not go to Moscow.
 How are the Moo Pa team better known to us?
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51.  Thai boys’ team trapped in the cave
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52. Q.23
 Mohammedan Sporting were gathering pan-India support
as the representative club of Muslims in the 1930s. Noor
Mohammad and Jumma Khan were two solid defenders of
that team.
 These two were employed by the Indian Tea Market
Expansion Board in 1938.
 What first in Indian sport was this short-term
employment, misattributed to a superstar from another
sport in 1941?
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53.  First Indian sportspersons to feature in
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 CK Nayudu was the first cricketer, not
sportsperson
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54. Q.24
 Manuel Estiarte holds the vague title Director of First
Team Management, Operations and Support at
Manchester City. What he really does is get a sense of what
the players are feeling and reports back to Guardiola.
 Estiarte and Guardiola became friends at the 1992
Barcelona Olympics where Estiarte was the bigger star in
Spain and the best player in his sport consecutively for 7
years.
 Winner of a gold and a silver Olympic medals, known as
‘Maradona del agua’, which sport was Estiarte a superstar
of?
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55.  Water Polo
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56. Q.25*
 Ada Hegerberg won the first ever Ballon D’Or Feminin in
2018.
 She did this while carrying a certain self-imposed
handicap on her career from mid-2017.
 Luka Modric, her male counterpart for 2018, in all
probability would not have won the award if he had the
same handicap.
 Her reason for this is the lack of equal opportunities for
girls in football in Norway.
 What handicap?
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57.  Voluntarily took a break from the national team
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