Football General Quiz Finals

Finals of the general quiz on football done for BCQC, Pune's Covid relief fundraiser series.

1. Finals

2. Muddied Oafs – Rajiv, Vinoo and Brajendu Cardboard – Aswath , Atulya and Sandeep RoTF – Srinath, Navin and Manu Huey Dewey & Louie – Akash, Arun and Zaman Boka Juniors – Jayashree di, Arnold and Kinshuk ITECITW – DD, Boss and Talent The Ball is Round – Piyush, Kanishka and Partha ZeI – Ingit saar , Venky and Dada Football Quiz League Season 2 | Ranajeet Soman

3. Laws of the Game Football General Quiz| Ranajeet Soman 28 questions on infinite rebound 2 written rounds of 3 questions each +/-10 on the pounce

4. 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

5. 1. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

6. 2. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman This kit of FC Bahia references what issue that has affected the region of late?

7. 3. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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9. Exchange Sheets?? The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman

10. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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.

11. Domestic violence The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman

12. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman This kit of FC Bahia references which disaster that has affected the region of late?

13. Oil spills in the ocean The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman

14. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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16. Prostate cancer The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman

17. Infinite Rebound 1 The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 14 questions Clockwise IR +/- 10 on the pounce

18. Q1. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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.

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22. Q2. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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25. Q3. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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28. Q4. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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.

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30. Chicago, 1 st of May The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman Both references to the Haymarket Riots

31. 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? The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman

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34. Q6. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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36. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman Only he could have his name on the back of the jersey Commentators took only his name while commentating

37. Q7. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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40. Q8. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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42. Made up honours for players The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman Mentioned players were decorated in the application although they weren’t

43. Q9. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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45. Singing the national anthem The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman Spain’s anthem doesn’t have words

46. Q10. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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48. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman It is based in a village built on stilts in the water They don’t have any land to practice on

49. Q11. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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51. Cuba, Vietnam The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman He was from North Korea

52. Q12. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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.

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54. Shut down the women’s team The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman

55. Q13. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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57. Q14. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman Hardline Islamist clerics across the Middle East were not too happy in the early 20 th 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?

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59. Imam Hussain’s death The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman They claimed the Yazidis kicked his body after death

60. Written Round 2 The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman Music and Football 3 musical references in football +5 for each correct answer +5 bonus for getting all correct

61. 1. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman This is the logo of Memphis 901 FC which plays in the USL. Explain the musical reference in the logo.

62. 2. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman This is a Seattle Sounders kit which pays tribute to someone with a reference to a famous song?

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64. 3. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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66. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman This is the logo of Memphis 901 FC which plays in the USL. Explain the musical reference in the logo.

67. Crown referencing Elvis The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman The King, who was from Memphis

68. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman This is a Seattle Sounders kit which pays tribute to which famous son of the soil, with a reference to a famous song?

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71. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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74. Infinite Rebound 2 The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 14 questions Anti-clockwise IR +/- 10 on the pounce

75. Q15. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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77. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman To direct play from the touchline The keeper is sighted so he organizes defence

78. Q16. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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81. Q17. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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84. Q18. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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87. Q19. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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89. They did not carry the child The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman The group is, of course, mothers

90. Q20. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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

91. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman “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!”

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93. Howard Carter The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman El Mokhtalat is now known as Zamalek

94. Q21. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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96. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman Toulouse is in the south of France where it is warm and humid, conditions that Brazil were used to and they weren’t.

97. Q22. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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101. Q23. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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103. Name change to North Macedonia The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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

104. Q24. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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107. Voronoi diagram The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman All points within the space allocated to each player are closer to that player than any other

108. Q25. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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111. Q26. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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114. Q27. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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?

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117. Q28. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman 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.

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120. Fin. The Football General Quiz | Ranajeet Soman Next quiz in the series is on 19 th 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!