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Football 279 questions.
Or 'soccer' if you're American
Pub quiz question 5813 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which football club did Arsenal sign Andrei Arshavin from in January 2009 for a reported £16.9 million?
  2. Answer: A: Zenit St. Petersburg
  3. Categories: 2000s (7) Football (7) Sports (8)
Pub quiz question 3071 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Mohammed Bin Hammam, who was a FIFA executive committee member, was banned from football for life (on Saturday, 23 July 2011) for handing out bribes. Which country did he represent?
  2. Answer: A: Qatar
  3. Categories: Current Affairs (5) Football (7) Sports (7)
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Pub quiz question 3196 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who did Liverpool beat in the 2006 FA Cup Final?
  2. Answer: A: West Ham
  3. Categories: 2000s (8) Football (6) Sports (7)
Pub quiz question 865 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: in 1992, which conservative MP was ridiculed for asking to make love to Antonia de Sancha while wearing his Chelsea FC football kit?
  2. Answer: A: David Mellor
  3. Categories: 1990s (4) Football (5) Politics (4)
Pub quiz question 8237 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Who won the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year in 1990?
  2. Answer: A: Paul Gascoigne
  3. Categories: Football (8) Sports (8) 1990s (8)
Pub quiz question 5070 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who was the first England player to be sent off in a World Cup?
  2. Answer: A: Ray Wilkins
  3. Notes: *: 1986
  4. Categories: Football (8) Sports (9) 1980s (9)
Pub quiz question 7289 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who was cursed by Béla Guttmann?
  2. Answer: A: Benfica football club in 1962, when he left as manager.
  3. Notes: *: After winning the 1962 European Cup Final against Real Madrid, Guttmann reportedly approached the Benfica board of directors and asked for a modest pay rise. They refused. He said as he left "[n]ot in a hundred years from now will Benfica ever be European champions again." As of 2022, while they've reached the finals 8 times, they've yet to win (twice lost on penalties.) The Uner-19's won theirs in 2022.
  4. Categories: 1960s (7) Football (4) Sports (6) Superstitions (8)
Pub quiz question 430 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: When Trevor Francis became the first ₤1million footballer, who did he leave and which club did he join?
  2. Answer: A: Left Birmingham City and joined Nottingham Forest
  3. Categories: 1970s (7) Football (5) Sports (6)
Pub quiz question 1295 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Name the model and Big Brother contestant
  2. Image: i:
  3. Answer: A: Imogen Thomas
  4. Notes: *: Allegedly the other party to Ryan Giggs in a superinjunction
  5. Categories: Television (5) Entertainment (5) People (5) Superinjunctions (5) Football (5)
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Pub quiz question 1074 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who was named European footballer of the year in 1978?
  2. Answer: A: Kevin Keegan
  3. Categories: Sports (8) Football (7)