The Left Back In The Changing Room Bumper Christmas Quiz

A few days later than normal but then I have been on honeymoon and was banned from blogging. Quite rightly, I'd imagine.

So here we are, the thing you've been holding out for, the blogging equivalent of the Coca Cola advert, the first whiff of Bailey's and the double Radio Times, it is ''The Annual Left Back In The Changing Room Bumper Christmas Quiz 2011''.

The previous quizzes can be found here (2008, 2009, 2010). The answers were correct when the quizzes went to print.
As ever, I'd ask you not to Google or Wiki the answers - there really isn't much point (and some of the questions cannot be answered that way). It is supposed to a bit of fun and, as ever, the top scorer will receive a bottle from the Left Back Cellar (this year: Chateau St Bernard's Crescent). I am very sloppy at handing out these prizes as my good pal, JP Murphy, will attest.

Anyway, drop me an email to lbinthechangingroom@yahoo.co.uk with your answers. Results will follow early in the new year.

Nicknames 

1. Which Argentine player is nicknamed ''The Rabbit''?

2. Who are 'The Red Lichties'?

3. If the ''Cabbages'' were playing ''the Cabbage and Ribs'' who would be playing each other?

4. Which club are named after the fig tree?

5. Who are ''The Gas''

6. Which inter-war legend was known as ''The Mozart of Football''?

7. Which Brazilian legend was nicknamed ''Queixada'' or ''Jaw''?

Quotations

Who said:

8. Coincidence is logical

9. There is no pressure at the top. The pressure is being second or third.
10. If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.

11. At a football club, there's a holy trinity: the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are there to sign the cheques.

12. There's only two types of manager. Those who've been sacked and those who will be sacked in the future.

The United Kingdom

13. How many English clubs have won the Welsh Cup? (And an additional point for each one that you can name).
14. Which club's motto is ''Ludere Causa Ludendi'' or, in English, ''to play for the sake of playing''?

15. And similarly, whose motto is ''Audere est Facere'' or, in English, ''to dare is to do''?

16. Who, according to myth and legend, are Rollo, Maine and Aquitane?

17. Who is the only player to have captained England at both cricket and football?

18. Who plays at Solitude?
19. What took place at The Meadows on Christmas Day in 1875?

20. The football section of Homerton College, Cambridge became which English football club?
21. Which club started life as St Mark's (West Gorton)?
22. And who started out as Small Heath FC?
23. Who plays in Garibaldi Red?

24. What did Danny Blanchflower, Dixie Dean, Duncan Edwards, Bobby Moore, and Billy Wright do in 1996?

25. Who holds the record for most goals in an English top flight game?

Foreigners

26. Which team's name translates as Royal Society (or, technically, the Royal Society of Football?)
27. Which club has won the Belgian top division on the most occasions?
28. Name the three clubs that have never been relegated from the Spanish top division (1 point each)
29. About whom did Glenn Hoddle say ''it was like watching an 18-year old playing in a game for 12-year olds''?

30. Who is the youngest goalscorer in La Liga history?
31. Who is the all-time top goalscorer in Serie A?
32. Al-Saadi Gaddafi was on the books of which three Italian clubs?

33. What has Carlos Tevez done three times which Diego Maradona only managed twice and Pele only did once?

34. Which 16th century Mapuche chief is immortalised in the name of one of South America's leading teams?

35. Who did Sir Stanley Matthews call ''The best one-footed player since Puskas''?

36. Who is the All-Time top goalscorer in the Africa Cup of Nations?

37. Who won the Golden Ball at the 1982 World Cup?

38. Which four players have scored in the final of two different World Cups?
39. Which city has won the most European Cups?

40. Two teams have lost five European Cup finals. Who are they? (One point each)

Name that Brazilian

41. Sharing a name with a hero king of the Agiad age, this legend of the game is regarded as one of the finest players of the first half of the 20th century. He won both the Golden Ball and Golden Boot at a World Cup and was nicknamed both ''the Black Diamond'' and ''Rubber Man''. He is remembered by many as the man who created bicycle kick.

42. Born Waldyr Pereira, this midfielder won two World Cups and is considered to be one of the finest passers of the ball in the history of the game. He is best remembered for his ''falling leaf'' free kicks.

43. Born Thomas Soarez da Silva this attacking midfielder or winger is one of fewer than 30 men to be inducted into the Brazilian hall fo game. Pele rated him as the greatest player he ever saw and called him ''a complete player'. He shone at the 1950 World Cup and turned down invitations to play in the 1954 and 1958 tournaments.

44. One of the most under-rated players of the 1980s and early 1990s, the player born Antonio de Oliverira Filho shone at the 1986 World Cup and was part of the famous Napoli team - proving once and for all that it wasn't a one-man team.

45. Marcos Evangelista de Moraes is one of the finest full-backs of all-time and who gained his playing name from a Brazilian forward of the 1970s. Known for his overlapping runs he was nicknamed ''The Pendolino''.

And there we have it. Answers in the email box please. From Left Back In The Changing Room, I trust all readers have a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous 2012.

RCM