World Cup Football quiz 2014 at Calicut

Football World Cup Quiz at Calicut on 6th
June 2014
Organised by the Indian Youth
Congress,Kozhikode Lok Sabha
Committee
QM: Riyas Rehman
Reasearch: Shibin Azad. With inputs from
Atul V Nath

 Q1)Michael Moran, a reporter of The
Guardian newspaper, jokingly suggested
better ways than penalty shoot-outs to decide
the winners in World Cup matches.
 1)
 2)Dance-Off
 3)Bake-off
 4)Swimming gala
 5)Gender-neutral tag team challenge
 What was number 1?

General Knowledge Quiz/Quiz

Q2)“Enikku ettavum ishtamulla tharam
Higuita yalla. Puskas, George Best, Pele,
Maradona ennivaranu”
Whose quote?

Q3)The game shown is considered the
earliest form of football. Identify the game.

Q 4)“The greatest goal I ever scored was a
one-two with Dona celeste”-Dondinho.
What ‘goal’ was Dondinho talking about?

Q5) What is being referenced here.

Q 6)Identify this player who lost his arm in an
accident while using an electric saw. He was
nicknamed ‘El Manco’ and played for Uruguay
in the final of the 1930 World Cup and scored a
goal as well.

Q 7) “who would have believed me if I said
I’d scored five times as many goals as
Pele!”. The guy who said the quote was
given the golden boot by the IFFHS for
being the greatest goal scorer of the last
century. Who?

Q8) The guy shown
in the pic was the
captain of the 1938
Italian World Cup
team. The stadium
of San Siro, shared
by crosstown rivals
Inter Milan and AC
Milan is officially
named after him.
Identify.

“Only three people have ever silenced
200,000 people at the Maracana with a
single gesture: Frank Sinatra, Pope John
Paul II, and I.” – Alcides Ghiggia

Q 10) Which side has the all-time highest
Football Elo Ranking in the world, with
2166, and had one of the longest
undefeated runs in football history,
remaining unbeaten in 31 games,
spanning over more than 4 years?

Q11) Surprisingly, the guy shown in the
picture is a supporter of Uruguay.
He said “ The shirt is not a symbol of
Brazilian citizenship. It is a symbol of
corruption and of the status quo”
Identify

Aldyr Garcia
Schlee, who
designed the World
Cup jersey for
Brazil

Q12) Who was the referee who officiated the
infamous ‘Battle of Santiago’ match between
Chile and Italy in the 1962 World Cup. He was
also the guy who gave the idea for something
which was first introduced in the 1970 World
Cup.

Ken Aston, who gave the idea of Red and
Yellow cards

Q 13)After years of refusing to publicly
name her favourite football team, Queen
Elizabeth revealed that she was a fan of X.
The players from the club X formed the
core of the 1966 England team which won
the World Cup under Alf Ramsey. Which is
this club?

Q 14) X was the Best Young Player of the
1970 World Cup. X’s freekick in the 1978
World Cup Vs Scotland, inspired Y to take
up free kicks. Y had the nickname ‘ the
Bulldog’ because of his fiery temper.

X- Teofilo Cubillas
Y- Jose Luis Chilavert

 Q 15) In the 1974 World Cup everyone in the
Holland team wore a jersey with 3 stripes,
except for Cryuff. He refused to wear one with 3
stripes and was allowed this by the Dutch
Football federation. Why?

Cryuff was the brand ambassador of
Puma, while the Dutch team was
sponsored by Adidas.

Q 17) Identify both the players
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGq7Vca
Hoqo


Harald Schumacher
Pattrick Battiston

Q 18) Who was the referee that allowed
the infamous Hand of God?
[video removed]

Q 19) Identify both the players.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeRlJJb
tdHc

Benjamin Massing
Claudio Caniggia

Q 20) Identify the player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFjke_a
hBYY

Q 21) Identify the artist who sang the
official song of the 1998 World Cup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8_vxD_
Yk2M

Q 22) His hairstyle in the 2002 was given
the title ‘Powercut’ by a news bureau,
since they said there wasn’t any in the
barber shop where he got the haircut.
Who?

Q 23) This team has only qualified for the
finals of the World Cup only once. The
team has the nickname Palancas
Negras(Sable antelope). The logo of the
their football federation is shown. Give me
the name of the country.

Q24) Why was this guy in news after the
2010 World Cup, even though he did not
play any match?

Iniesta paid tribute to him after scoring the
goal in the final match of 2010 World Cup

Written
Video on the famous incidents in World
Cup
+10 for each correct answer
Bonus of 10 for all correct

Q1) The video shows a behaviour typical
of the animal featured. Which player was
given the name of the animal as a
nickname due to an incident that took
place in the 1990 World Cup?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_6XHB
8D9vQ&hd=1

Frank Rijkaard(5)
Llama(5)

Q 2) Identify the player who is nicknamed
“Maradona of the desert” and scored one
of the greatest world cup goals for Saudi
Arabia versus Belgium in the 1994 World
Cup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxDNew
TtlXU&hd=1

Q3) Identify the Chilean goalkeeper who
cut himself in a qualification match against
Brazil for the World Cup, which led to the
Chilean team being barred from
participating in the 1994 World cup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8s4Nzn
rWG0&hd=1

Q4) Identify the World Cup in which this
incident took place and tell me who
emceed the event.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EBIDJL
l7a4&hd=1

Q 5) Identify the Mexican player
performing the trick versus South Korea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5yiaQzq
KLU&hd=1

Q 6)Which team is kicking away the free
kick awarded to Brazil? They were the first
sub-Saharan African team to play in the
finals of the World Cup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDXkV
GpMpc&hd=1

Q7) Whose kick is being cleared away by
Rene Higuitta? His father is presently the
manager of the English club Queens Park
Rangers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0bSvD
kXqhw&hd=1

AZED
5 points for each correct answer.
5 points extra if all correct

A, was credited with the first hat-trick of the
World cup until 2006. He played for the
club B as a player-manager at a later
stage in his career. The club B was set up
by C and Ernest Weber. The world cup
trophy designed by D, took inspiration from
a statue representing the goddess E.
Trophy was renamed in honour of C.
A-E please.

A-Guillermo Stabile
B-Red Star Paris
C-Jules Rimet
D-Abel Lafleur
E-Nike

Clockwise
Infinite Pounce
+10/-10 on pounce
+10 on normal passing

Q1) Similar to the “Unofficial
World Champions” there is
also an unofficial _______
baton, which changes hands
each time the holder is
defeated in a match till the
next world Cup. Every 4
years, the holder of the
World Cup also becomes the
holder of the ______ baton.
The baton is named after the
guy shown in the picture.
FITB.

Nasazzi’s baton/Jose Nasazzi
First world cup winning captain of Uruguay

Q2) Hungarian goalkeeper Antal Szabo,
who let in four goals against Italy in the
1938 World Cup said “I may have let in
four goals, but at least I saved their lives”.
Why did he say so?

Due to the apparent death threat issued by
Mussolini “Win or Die”

Q 3)Hilderaldo Bellini, was the first World
Cup winning captain of Brazil. What act did
he do to enable the photographers to
properly see the World cup trophy, which
became a standard practice afterwards?

He held the World Cup above his head.

Q 4) What was started in the USA in 1993,
due to a condition imposed by the FIFA so
that they could be the hosts for the 1994
World Cup?

Major League Soccer(MLS)
Accept, created a professional football
league

Q 5) This is a plaque outside the Estadio
Azteca. Give the two teams involved and
what was the match dubbed as?

Game of the Century
Italy and Germany

Q 6)”I played 18 years in top football and
17 times for Sweden but that moment
against ______ was the proudest moment
of my career. I thought I’d win the ball for
sure, but he tricked me. I was not
humiliated. I had no chance. ______ was a
genius.”-Jan Olsson.
What was Jan Olsson the ‘victim’ of in the
1974 world cup?

Q 7) Suarez was given a 4 month ban by
FIFA. But Hajvalia, came forward with a
offer that they said would be presented to
Liverpool. The club director said that since
the country in which the club was based
was not a full time FIFA member, the ban
would not apply . Identify the country in
which the club Hajvalia is based

Q8) He is the only player ever to score to
score at least two goals in four world cups.
He was made the second honorary captain
of his national team in 1972. His name was
used to help the Germans to pronounce
the name of an instrument which came into
news during the 2010 World Cup.

Q 9) Vittorio Pozzo, manager of Italy who
won 2 world cups, selected several of
them for the victorious 1934 World Cup
side. He rebutted critics of his policy by
saying “if they can die for Italy, they can
play for Italy”. Who were they?

Oriundi
Italian immigrant of native ancestry
Luisite monti, Guiseppe Rossi et all

Q 10) European teams which played in the
first World Cup held in Uruguay travelled
by ship as air transport was not very
popular at that time. When the World Cup
was held in Brazil in 1950, even when rest
of the European teams took the air route,
Italy travelled by sea. What was the reason
behind this?

Superga air crash(1949) which killed the
members of the Torino FC team, which
included many Italian first team members.

Raymond Domenech, the coach of France
world cup team in 2010 reading out the
letter from the players after they revolted.

Q12) The guy in the middle with the tie and
suit is John Langenus. What was his job in
the final match of the first world cup?

Referee!
Since, there was not a
standard uniform at
that time he decided
he would wear a tie
and a suit!

List it round.
3 points for each correct answer.
+5 for getting all correct.

List the 5 players who have won the
Golden ball award as well as the Golden
shoe award in the same world cup.

Leonidas (1938)
Garrincha (1962)
Mario Kempes (1978)
Paolo Rossi (1982)
Salvatore Schillaci (1990)

Q 14)This Brazilian is credited with being
the first to try and execute the free-kick
known as ‘folha seca’(literally translated as
‘dry leaf’). He was also the coach of the
Peru team in the 1970 World Cup?

Q 15) Which player
got this tattoo in
memory of his
former teammate?

Ecuador captain Antonio Valencia

Q 16) How were these players popularly
known as. They played together for the
1958 Swedish team as well as for AC
Milan

Q17) Who is this golden boot winner who
appeared on BBC, wearing an Italian
jersey, when Italy needed to beat Ecuador
for England to have any chance to qualify
into the second round?

Q 18) X has the nickname ‘Der
Kraftwurfel’, which means the Power
Cube. He has also been dubbed as ‘the
alpine messi’. He stands 50th in a list of
players which is headed by Bert
Patenaude. Id

Q 19) The pic shows a
Croatian player who was
suspended for 10
matches by the FIFA as
he did a Nazi salute after
defeating Iceland in a
qualification match, as a
result of which he missed
this year’s World Cup.
What happened in 2006
when he was at the
receiving end of an error
by Graham Poll.

This is Josip Simunic, who received 3
yellow cards in a single match.

Q 20) What is the significance of the song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84jZDpJ
HP3Q&hd=1

First official anthem of the FIFA world Cup
1962 Chile

 Q 21) X who scored the
lone goal for US against
the English team in
1950, which helped US
team defeat them by a
single goal was Haitian
in origin. He was taken
away by Tonton
Macoutes, a
paramilitary force
created by Francois
‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier and
not seen again. Who?

Q 22) 1982 Spain World Cup was the first
one covered by Bhasi Malapparamba.
Which former India team captain who led
his team in the first Asian games and the
Helsinki Olympics travelled with the same
travel agency that arranged the travel for
Bhasi Malapparamba?

Q 23) What was this award given for from
1982-1994? The design of the trophy has
been changed.

Q 24) No need to ID;
but how has he been
immortalized in World
Cup history.
2

• Victor Dell’Aquila; man
behind the ‘The Soul’s
Embrace of 1978’
• Victor Dell’Aquila is the
Argentine soccer fan
standing next to goalkeeper
Ubaldo Fillol and defender
Alberto Tarantini right after
the ‘78 final match got over
• He wanted to embrace both
the players in this moment of
glory but couldn’t do it as he
had lost both his arms at the
age of 12

 Q 25) As per the company’s website
• ‘X’ is headquartered in Modena since its inception
• It is the world leader in the published collectable sector and
one of the leading publishers of children’s magazines and
books, comics, manga and graphic novels, in both Europe
and Latin America.
• Owned by the ‘X’ Management and Fineldo (holding
company of X's equity sponsor Vittorio Merloni).
• In 2013, the sales exceeded 531 million Euros (728 million
USD) with sales in over 120 countries, supported by 12
subsidiaries and over 900 employees worldwide
• X please.

• Company behind
the ‘Panini
Stickers’

Q 26) X was captured along with his air
force baseby US during World War 2 and
sent to a detention camp. He was
identified at Ukraine where he kicked a ball
from the crowd while watching a match. He
was asked to play and was permitted to
return to Kaiserslautern.

Differential scoring
15 points if only 1 team gets it right
10 points if 2,3 or 4 teams get it right
5 points if 5,6 or 7 teams get it right
0 points if all teams get it right

 1) Florencio Xatruch, is an
army General who led an
expeditionary force against
American freebooters
under William Walker and
defeated them. The
followers of the general
was called _________ by
the Nicaraguans.
 FITB.

2)Identify the animal shown in the picture

3) He was known as “Hormiguita”- the little
ant because of his work on the field. He
worked as a taxi driver in the 1978 World
cup taking delegates from one venue to
the other.
Id

4
• Started his playing
career with SC
Freiburg in 1978
• Concluded his
playing career with a
Switzerland club
• Have also played 4
times for his national
under-21 football
team
• ID

5) Identify the President of the Kuwait FA
federation who is arguing with the referee’s
decision

 6) X was the coach of the Brazilian during the
qualification campaign of the 1970 World
Cup. He is said to have fallen out of favour
because of his unwillingness to select players
who were personal favourites of President
Emilio Garrastazu Médici, in particular striker
Dario. He reportedly said “the president only
has the right to select his ministers. The
players will be selected by the coach”. X?

5) Identify the President of the Kuwait FA
federation who is arguing with the referee’s
decision
[video removed]

Sheikh Fahid Al Ahammed Al Jahir Al
Sabah

Visual connect
Points on the slides

Nicknames of National football teams

Thank You
Send your feedback to:
quizzylogic@gmail.com
To conduct quizzes, and send feedback,
Riyas Rehman:9895345079
Shibin Azad:9042242705/9847282247

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