Another Football Quiz

[Tuna]

Maybe a football lockdown quiz thread would be a good idea.

Here's a different one from The Guardian.

 

I got 4/11 

 

 

 

[Strokes]

18 hours ago, Tuna said:

Maybe a football lockdown quiz thread would be a good idea.

Here's a different one from The Guardian.

 

I got 4/11 

 

 

 

5/11 completely average.

[David Guiza]

Didn't want to start a new thread, but after seeing this tweet resurface from Max Rushden I decided to ask my wife (grew up in Milton Keynes and consequently has literally no interest in football) to name 10 footballers and thoroughly enjoyed her response:-

 

 

My wife managed:-

 

1. Jamie Vardy (standard)

2. Muzzet (Clearly half paying attention whenever I make reference to my favourite ever player)

3. Ian Wright (thanks to his old chicken tonight adverts, allegedly) 

4. Alan Sheargar (assume she meant the ex-Newcastle forward, and not the missing racehorse) 

5. Ndidi (thanks to the usual lame joke we all make)

6. Harry Kane (I put down to news reports)

7. Raheem Sterling (as above)

8. Ronaldo (as above)

9. Michael Owen (no idea on this one, I can assume that it's down to her growing up in the 90s)

10. Bobby Charlton (she blew my mind at this one. Granted he's pretty damn famous, but I just wasn't expecting to hear a 60s footballer)

 

Thoroughly recommend this to anybody who has a friend/partner/family member with little to no interest in the beautiful game. 

 

[Milo]

18 minutes ago, David Guiza said:

Didn't want to start a new thread, but after seeing this tweet resurface from Max Rushden I decided to ask my wife (grew up in Milton Keynes and consequently has literally no interest in football) to name 10 footballers and thoroughly enjoyed her response:-

 

 

My wife managed:-

 

1. Jamie Vardy (standard)

2. Muzzet (Clearly half paying attention whenever I make reference to my favourite ever player)

3. Ian Wright (thanks to his old chicken tonight adverts, allegedly) 

4. Alan Sheargar (assume she meant the ex-Newcastle forward, and not the missing racehorse) 

5. Ndidi (thanks to the usual lame joke we all make)

6. Harry Kane (I put down to news reports)

7. Raheem Sterling (as above)

8. Ronaldo (as above)

9. Michael Owen (no idea on this one, I can assume that it's down to her growing up in the 90s)

10. Bobby Charlton (she blew my mind at this one. Granted he's pretty damn famous, but I just wasn't expecting to hear a 60s footballer)

 

Thoroughly recommend this to anybody who has a friend/partner/family member with little to no interest in the beautiful game. 

 

My other half's attempt...

 

1. Ruud Gullit (curious start)

2. Kenny Dalglish

3. David Beckham

4. George Best

5. Micheal Schmeichel  

6. Pele

7. Ronaldo

8 Ronaldinho (!)

9. Thierry Henry 

10. Gary Lineker

 

Bit of a mixed bag, to say the least...kind of looks like she hasn't been paying much attention since about the nineties 

 

 

 

[David Guiza]

3 minutes ago, Milo said:

My other half's attempt...

 

1. Ruud Gullit (curious start)

2. Kenny Dalglish

3. David Beckham

4. George Best

5. Micheal Schmeichel  

6. Pele

7. Ronaldo

8 Ronaldinho (!)

9. Thierry Henry 

10. Gary Lineker

 

Bit of a mixed bag, to say the least...kind of looks like she hasn't been paying much attention since about the nineties 

 

 

 

Not a bad effort, I'd have lost my head if my other half began with Ruud Gullit 

 

Your other half's effort reminded me that mine attempted to give Callum Best as a legitimate answer. She also once got Babe Ruth as an answer on University Challenge, which has lead to suspect that she's having an affair with a much older man with a passion for wartime baseball. 

[jonthefox]

6/11

[Guest Electric Yetis]

😂 heartily recommend doing this. My other half's attempt.

 

1: Jamie Vardy

2: Andy King

3: "that horrible tramp Carroll" (presume Andy rather than Roy)

4: "that horrible bastard Hamvic (finally worked out she meant Ibrahimovic.

5: David Beckham

6: Paul Scholes

7: Michael Owen

8: Alan Shearer

9: Emile Heskey

10: "Jimmy Hasleybank" (Hasselbaink)

 

Quite disturbed by the number of 90s players she's listed considering before she met me in 2001 she'd never watched a match. Might get her listening to Quickly Kevin! 

[Izzy]

12 minutes ago, Milo said:

My other half's attempt...

 

1. Ruud Gullit (curious start)

2. Kenny Dalglish

3. David Beckham

4. George Best

5. Micheal Schmeichel  

6. Pele

7. Ronaldo

8 Ronaldinho (!)

9. Thierry Henry 

10. Gary Lineker

 

Bit of a mixed bag, to say the least...kind of looks like she hasn't been paying much attention since about the nineties 

 

My Mrs calls him Micheal Schmeichel too!  

 

Here's her word for word answers just now..

 

1. David Beckham (obvs )

2. The Va Va Voom bloke  (Henry)

3. Stuart Pearce! (she must have been caught up in the Euro 96 hype)

4. Ryan Giggs 

5. The one who looks like Shrek  (Rooney)

6. Muzzy Izzet (good girl )

7. Walshie (another good answer)

8. Seaman (More Euro 96 focus there)

9. Flowers! (must be the funny name)

10. Kenny Dalglish (random trip back to the 80's with that one)

 

Funny as fvck doing that 

 

[Alf Bentley]

8 minutes ago, David Guiza said:

 

Your other half's effort reminded me that mine attempted to give Callum Best as a legitimate answer. She also once got Babe Ruth as an answer on University Challenge, which has lead to suspect that she's having an affair with a much older man with a passion for wartime baseball. 

 

42 minutes ago, David Guiza said:

 

My wife managed:-

 

[....]

2. Muzzet (Clearly half paying attention whenever I make reference to my favourite ever player)

[....]

 

 

Or is she having an affair with a much older man with greying ginger hair and a passion for youth coaching and top quality jokes? 

 

@Izzy used to be "Izzy Muzzet", as I recall....

[David Guiza]

2 minutes ago, pds said:

😂 heartily recommend doing this. My other half's attempt.

 

1: Jamie Vardy

2: Andy King

3: "that horrible tramp Carroll" (presume Andy rather than Roy)

4: "that horrible bastard Hamvic (finally worked out she meant Ibrahimovic.

5: David Beckham

6: Paul Scholes

7: Michael Owen

8: Alan Shearer

9: Emile Heskey

10: "Jimmy Hasleybank" (Hasselbaink)

 

Quite disturbed by the number of 90s players she's listed considering before she met me in 2001 she'd never watched a match. Might get her listening to Quickly Kevin! 

There's always at least one that blows your mind. Where on earth has pulled that from?

 

Love Quickly Kevin by the way, great pod! 

 

Just now, Alf Bentley said:

 

 

Or is she having an affair with a much older man with greying ginger hair and a passion for youth coaching and top quality jokes? 

 

@Izzy used to be "Izzy Muzzet", as I recall....

Some serious questions to be asked when I get home 

[Guest Electric Yetis]

Just now, David Guiza said:

There's always at least one that blows your mind. Where on earth has pulled that from?

I've just checked and Hasselbaink was top scorer in the 2000/2001 Premier League season, we met in May 2001, my early football chat must have made a real impression 😂.

[Izzy]

7 minutes ago, pds said:

I've just checked and Hasselbaink was top scorer in the 2000/2001 Premier League season, we met in May 2001, my early football chat must have made a real impression 😂.

It’s funny because you could trace 8/10 of my wife’s answers back to 95/96 when we first moved in together.

 

Thats clearly the one and only year she ever listened to me 

 

 

[Guest Electric Yetis]

1 minute ago, Izzy said:

It’s funny because you could trace 9/10 of my wife’s answers back to 95/96 when we first moved in together.

 

Thats clearly the one and only year she ever listened to me 

Great season too!

[The Quick Brown Fox]

John Terry
Jamie vardy
Marez
Esteban cambiaso
Harry Kane
Marcus rashford 
Marvin harewood
Christiano Ronaldo
Suarez
Jamie Redknapp 

Easy! Xxx

 

Reply when I asked my wife to name 10 footballers, id have been pissed of she had missed off Cambiasso as I wanted to name my boy Esteban.

Surprised at Marlon Hardwood though, random one. 

[Dahnsouff]

Mrs Souff said

1. Les Ferdinand (She meant Rio though)
2. Ozzie Ardilles (or some dreadfully spelt version)
3. Jamie Vardy
4. Peter Shilton
5. Ally McCoist
6. Paul Scholes
7. David Beckham
8. Phil Neville
9. Gary Neville
10. Jaap Stam 

The game was played over Skype, and every single answer was horrendously misspelt. 

[Izzy]

22 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Mrs Souff said

1. Les Ferdinand (She meant Rio though)
2. Ozzie Ardilles (or some dreadfully spelt version)
3. Jamie Vardy
4. Peter Shilton
5. Ally McCoist
6. Paul Scholes
7. David Beckham
8. Phil Neville
9. Gary Neville
10. Jaap Stam 

The game was played over Skype, and every single answer was horrendously misspelt. 

Sounds like Mrs Dahnsouff is a closet Man Utd fan - which makes sense if she lives dahn souff 

[Dahnsouff]

1 minute ago, Izzy said:

Sounds like Mrs Dahnsouff is a closet Man Utd fan - which makes sense if she lives dahn souff 

This is actually better than the truth. Growing up in Enfield can only mean one thing for the poor lamb.  

[Alf Bentley]

There's no longer any Mrs. Alf, so I asked my daughter, who has as little interest as her mother.....

 

1. Messi

2. Kasper

3. Rooney

4. Beckham

5. [Thinks hard]....Leonardo da Vinci*, er [laughs]

6. Schmeichel ()

7. Wes Morgan

8. The really famous one, not Messi, the other one, might be Italian or something

9. I guess there's Jamie Vardy

10. Li with an "I", when I watched China v. Wales [women's international - the girl knows more than her old man]

11. Tanaka, when I watched Japan v. England ()

 

* (An absolute artist on the pitch and a great utility player - a real Renaissance man of football)

 

In fairness, I should add that I failed to name the members of 21 Pilots (and there are only 2 of them) or the instruments they play

[David Guiza]

51 minutes ago, Alf Bentley said:

There's no longer any Mrs. Alf, so I asked my daughter, who has as little interest as her mother.....

 

1. Messi

2. Kasper

3. Rooney

4. Beckham

5. [Thinks hard]....Leonardo da Vinci*, er [laughs]

6. Schmeichel ()

7. Wes Morgan

8. The really famous one, not Messi, the other one, might be Italian or something

9. I guess there's Jamie Vardy

10. Li with an "I", when I watched China v. Wales [women's international - the girl knows more than her old man]

11. Tanaka, when I watched Japan v. England ()

 

* (An absolute artist on the pitch and a great utility player - a real Renaissance man of football)

 

In fairness, I should add that I failed to name the members of 21 Pilots (and there are only 2 of them) or the instruments they play

I'd also not be able to name those guys!

 

My wife challenged me to name ten 19th century writers. I got to 9 and then panicked and said Jack Kerouac and realised that it was the equivalent of her naming Callum Best. 

[tom27111]

My Mrs could have got to 10, but the first thing she said was "Pep Gladioli" 

[Bob666]

Asked the Mrs - she said "I don't care".  Obviously in one of her better moods