World Cup Football Quiz held at IIM Kashipur on 13th July, 2014. Part -1. Quiz Master: Snehanth Nath

1. World Cup Quiz
Snehanth Nath

2. Pick A Team
• Group A
• Brazil
• Cameroon
• Croatia
• Mexico
• Group B
• Australia
• Chile
• Netherlands
• Spain
• Group C
• Colombia
• Greece
• Ivory Coast
• Japan
• Group D
• Costa Rica
• England
• Italy
• Uruguay
• Group E
• Ecuador
• France
• Honduras
• Switzerland
• Group F
• Argentina
• Bosnia &
Herzegovina
• Iran
• Nigeria
• Group G
• Germany
• Ghana
• Portugal
• United
States of
America
• Group H
• Algeria
• Belgium
• Russia
• South Korea

3. Group A
• Brazil
• Cameroon
• Croatia
• Mexico

4. Brazil
• They call Brazil’s humiliating defeat to
Germany (1-7) the Minierazo after the
Maracanazo in 1950.
• In 1950 Brazil had lost their final game to
Uruguay 2-1 when a draw would have seen
them crowned champions.
• What was the color of Brazil’s kit then?

5. All White

6. Cameroon
• In 1990, Cameroon caused a major shock
when they defeated the defending champions
Argentina by a solitary goal and held on
despite being reduced to 9 men.
• Who scored that goal?

7. Francois Omam-Biyik

8. Croatia
• Croatia finished third in their debut World Cup
in 1998. Name their star striker, who would go
on to play for Arsenal and Real Madrid, who
was the Golden Boot at the World Cup.

9. Davor Suker with 6 goals

10. Mexico
• Mexico became the first team in the World
Cup to concede a goal, losing 4-1 in the World
Cup’s opening game. Who scored it and for
Whom?

11. Lucien Laurent France in the 19th
minute

12. Group B
• Australia
• Chile
• Netherlands
• Spain

13. Australia
• Who scored Australia’s First World Cup Goal?

14. Tim Cahill vs Japan in 2006

15. Chile
• Chile had a good tournament this year. In
1962 they finished in 3rd place, their best
World Cup position. Who Hosted the World
Cup that year?

16. Chile Themselves

17. Netherlands
• Name this Dutch coach who pioneered Total
Football and was voted ‘Coach of the Century’
in 1999.

18. Rinus Michels

19. Spain
• Spain won the World Cup in 2010, scoring just
8 goals in the whole tournament? Villa top
scored with 5, Iniesta scored in the final and
once in the group stage.
• Who scored their only other goal?

20. Carlos Puyol in the semis against
Germany

21. Group C
• Colombia
• Greece
• Ivory Coast
• Japan

22. Colombia
• In 2014 the Colombian National Team returned home
as heroes, with James Rodriguez a star of the
tournament and a household name. 20 years ago it
was very different. They went home shamed and
another player Andre Escobar became a household
name. Why?

23. He scored an Own goal which led to
Colombia’s ouster. He was shot dead 5
days later.

24. Greece
• Name this German who coached Greece in the
2010 World Cup. He is famous for
masterminding one of the most unlikely
tournament victories when Greece won Euro
2004 in Portugal.

25. Otto Rehhagel

26. Ivory Coast
• The Ivory Coast first qualified for the World
Cup in 2006. What was different about their
23 man squad?

27. Only team with no players playing in
their own country’s league.

28. Japan
• Shinji Okazaki is one of only two Japanese
players to score in multiple World Cups. Who
is the other?

29. Keisuke Honda

30. Group D
• Costa Rica
• England
• Italy
• Uruguay

31. Costa Rica
• Costa Rica upset the odds by not only sailing
through the Group of Death in this World Cup
but only losing the Quarter Finals to the
fancied Netherlands side on Penalties. The
biggest role in their success was played by
goalkeeper Keylor Navas. Which Spanish Club
does he play for?

32. Levante

33. England
• An Englishman has won the Golden Boot for
being the top scorer at a World Cup. Who and
in which year?

34. Gary Lineker in Mexico 1986. He
scored 6 goals in 5 games

35. Italy
• Italy won the World Cup back to
back in 1934 and 1938 due to
the coach Vittorio Pozzo and
this man, widely regarded as
one of the greatest players of all
time. Name this legend, after
whom one of the most iconic
stadiums in World Football is
named.

36. Giuseppe Meazza

37. Uruguay
• My father played in the 1966 and 1974 World Cups.
• My Grandfather coached our national team in 1962
• I played in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014.
• I am the first Uruguay player to play a 100 times for
my country.

38. Diego Forlan

39. Group E
• Ecuador
• France
• Honduras
• Switzerland

40. Ecuador
• Only once have Ecuador made it through to
the knockout rounds in 2006. They were
eliminated by a single goal, scored by whom?

41. David Beckham

42. France
• Laurent Blanc scored the winner for France
against Paraguay in the 1st knockout round in
1998, the year they lifted the trophy. Why was
this a landmark goal?

43. Because it was the first Golden Goal
scored at the World Cup. It was scored
in the 113th minute

44. Honduras
• This is Honduras’ coach at
the 2014 World Cup. He
shares his name with a
famous footballer who
always finds himself in the
news, for reasons good or
bad. At this World Cup, he
left in disgrace. Name?

45. Luis Fernando Suarez

46. Switzerland
• Switzerland were defeated by Ukraine on
penalties in the 2006 World Cup in the 1st
Knockout Round. They became the first (and
only) team in World Cup History to be
eliminated with what record?

47. They did not concede in the whole
tournament

48. Group F
• Argentina
• Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Iran
• Nigeria

49. Argentina
• Only one player has scored a hat trick in 2
World Cups. They both came on the 21st of
June and the hat trick goal in both cases was a
penalty. Who?

50. Gabriel Batistuta

51. Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Yugoslavia was dissolved in 1992, and each of
the 6 new countries had a football team. Only
one of these teams has not qualified for the
World Cup finals. Which one?

52. Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia,
Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia and
Montenegro are the six countries.
Of these, Macedonia has not
qualified for the World Cup

53. Iran
• There aren’t many famous
football players to come out
of Iran. The man in the
picture is though. With 149
caps for Iran, he is the only
player to score over a 100
international goals (109),
though none at the 3 World
Cups he played. Name this
Record Holder who even
played for Bayern Munich

54. Ali Daei

55. Nigeria
• In their first World Cup in 1994, Nigeria
topped a difficult group and were eliminated
from the Quarter Finals by Italy. Who scored
Italy’s equalizer with 2 minutes left and the
Winner in Extra time, in a tournament he
would never forget.

56. Roberto Baggio

57. Group G
• Germany
• Ghana
• Portugal
• United States of America

58. Germany
• In 1974 Jurgen Sparwasser scored the only
goal in the game that gave the Germans
Victory. But this did not go down well back in
Germany. Why?

59. He scored the winner for the
unfancied East Germany against West
Germany, who were the favorites and
went on to win the tournament

60. Ghana
• Why did half-brothers Jerome Boateng and
Kevin-Prince Boateng not speak to each other
for months in the build up to the 2010 World
Cup?

61. Ghanian Kevin Prince Tackled Michael Ballack
in the FA Cup Final when Ballack was playing
for Chelsea. This ruled the German captain out
of the tournament and Jerome Boateng, Kevin-
Prince’s half brother, played for Germany

62. Portugal
• Only one Player has scored 4 goals in a
knockout round of the World Cup – not
including third place matches. Who and when
– this was a famous incident as he was Golden
Boot at the World Cup.

63. Eusebio

64. United States of America
• ‘Soccer Fever’ had gripped the United States as they
hosted the World Cup in 1994. Attendance records
were shattered as on average 70,000 people watched
matches in the stadiums, among which was the first
Indoor Football Stadium, the Pontiac Silverdome. In
which stadium was the final held?

65. Rose Bowl, Pasadena, LA

66. Group H
• Algeria
• Belgium
• Russia
• South Korea

67. Algeria
• Algeria set what record for African teams at
this World Cup in their match against South
Korea?

68. First and only African team to score 4
goals in a game

69. Belgium
• In the 1960s at Belgian club Anderlecht
developed a defensive strategy under the
French Coach Pierre Sinbaldi that the national
team used in 1970. What was it?

70. The Offside trap

71. Russia
• Russian Goalkeeper Lev Yashin is
considered one of the greatest
goalkeepers of all time. In 1962,
Colombia played Russia (then the
Soviet Union) and with the
Russians leading 4-1, Colombian
Marcos Coll scored a quite unique
goal that led a fight-back as the
game ended in a 4-4 draw. What
happened that fooled the great
Lev Yashin?

72. He scored an Olympic goal – directly
from the corner – the only such
instance in World Cups

73. South Korea
• Why was Korean football player Ahn Jung-
Hwan dismissed from his club side Perugia in
2002?

74. He scored the Golden goal that
knocked out Italy from the 2002 World
Cup

75. Extra Questions
• Germany and Argentina have played each
other in the final once before. The Germans
won thanks to an 85th minute penalty scored
by whom?

76. Andreas Brehme

77. • Which was the First World Cup to have a
Mascot

78. 1966 England – World Cup Willie – a
Lion

79. • The Germans have been a part of 4 penalty
shootouts in World Cup football. They have
won all 4. Which team has lost all 3 of its
penalty shoot outs? –the only team with such
a bad record

80. England

81. • Which is the only country to have hosted the
World Cup that has not gone into the
knockout rounds?

83. • Josip Simunic, while playing for Croatia against
Australia was a very lucky boy because of
what glaring error by English Referee Graham
Poll?

84. Was Yellow Carded 3 times

85. • Franz Beckenbauer, ‘Der Kaiser’, and the Brazilian
Mario Zagallo are the only football players to win
the World Cup both as a player and as a coach.
Beckenbauer won as a player in 1974 when he was
West German Captain, and as a coach in 1990 for
Germany.
• Who is the only football player to lose finals as a
player and coach.

86. Franz Beckenbauer again. He lost as a player in
1966 and as a coach in 1986

87. • One of the finest players of all time, Zinedine
Zidane has one World Cup Record. What is it?

88. Most cards for one player – 6
(shared with Cafu)

89. It’s time for kick off, folks!!!