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Wed, 03 February 2010 06:24 |
 Paul Morgan - RW
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Thanks to everyone who entered this year's Christmas Quiz - and there were a lot of you!
No one got them all right, but here are the questions, answers and at the bottom the winners and what they won.
Paul Morgan - Editor
A.Anglo ’allo
1 Who made his Guinness Premiership and England debuts two months apart?
2 What was unusual about Argentina’s home first Test against England in June?
3 What did Premier Rugby propose – rejected by
the RFU – to counter the
effects of the recession?
4 Who was voted Twickenham’s Player
of the Century?
5 Who did the RFU get into
bed with in a daring new publishing venture?
6 What did physio Steph Brennan buy from a Clapham joke shop?
7 Why was last month’s Leeds Carnegie-Leicester LV= Cup game so special to England defence coach Mike Ford?
8 Richard Hill (above) left relegated Bristol this year. Which team does he now coach?
9 Which three England World Cup winners joined Sale? (3)
Answers:
1. Gloucester prop Paul Doran-Jones
2. It was played in England (at Old Trafford)
3. Six more Premiership fixtures
4. Martin Johnson
5. Mills & Boon (series of rugby-themed romances)
6. Fake blood capsules
7. His teenage sons, Joe and George, were the opposing fly-halves
8. Chalon-sur-Saone (French third-tier side)
9. Ben Cohen, Jason Robinson and Phil Keith-Roach (3)
TOTAL MARKS: 11
B. match play
Pair up the player to his club
1 Kris Chesney Bayonne
2 Bruce Douglas Biarritz
3 Ayoola Erinle Brive
4 Andy Henderson Clermont A
5 Census Johnston Montauban
6 Ace Tiatia Montpellier
7 Shaun Perry Racing Métro
8 Ollie Phillips Std Français
9 Francois Steyn Toulon
10 Jason White Toulouse
C. TRUE OR FALSE
Two points on offer for each…
1 Ben Clarke was the first player to be sin-binned in international rugby.
2 Ex-Wasp Fraser Waters was expelled from Harrow for streaking at Lord’s and knocking the bails off with his todger.
3 England’s Melbourne win of 2003 was their first success v Australia away from Twickenham.
4 Ian McGeechan’s daughter, Heather, is married to Scotland prop Allan Jacobsen.
5 Mike Campbell-Lamerton, the former Lions captain, once stepped on a landmine
and had to stay motionless until it had been defused.
6 Jonathan Davies said
“How are you, fatty?” in Welsh to the King of Tonga.
7 Dewi Morris’s first name
is actually Maud, which means ‘strength in battle’.
B. MATCH UP
1. Kris Chesney Toulon
2. Bruce Douglas Montpellier
3. Ayoola Erinle Biarritz
4. Andy Henderson Montauban
5. Census Johnston Toulouse
6. Ace Tiatia Bayonne
7. Shaun Perry Brive
8. Ollie Phillips Stade Français
9. Francois Steyn Racing Metro
10. Jason White Clermont Auvergne
TOTAL MARKS: 10
C. TRUE OR FALSE
1. False – he was the first player to be yellow-carded (in 1995) but in
those days it meant only a warning
2. True
3. False – they beat them 25-22 in Cape Town at the 1995 World Cup
4. False – it’s Wasps prop Charlie Beech
5. True
6. True (on a 1986 Wales tour)
7. False – it’s Colin
TOTAL MARKS: 14
D. WHO THE DICKENS
1 Who were the opposing captains who scored tries
in a Test at Croke Park? (2)
2 Who’s supping up above?
3 Who is the only Dutchman playing professional rugby?
4 Who’s upside-down right?
5 Who’s the only front-five forward to score a try in
a Heineken Cup final?
6 Who’s hiding (far right)?
1. Brian O’Driscoll and Rocky Elsom (2)
2. Lawrence Dallaglio
3. Tim Visser of Edinburgh
4. Shane Williams
5. Raphael Ibanez of Wasps (in 2007)
6. Donncha O’Callaghan
TOTAL MARKS: 7
1 Referee Alan Lewis played what sport for Ireland?
2 Which All Black lock
scored with his first touch
for Western Province?
3 Before this year, when was the last time the Lions went into a Test series unbeaten?
4 Which French team had
two games postponed because of swine flu?
5 What was historic about
the Cardiff Blues-Edinburgh
match on 17 May?
6 What decision went in rugby’s favour by 81 votes to eight?
7 Which player conceded the penalty that almost cost Ireland a Grand Slam in Cardiff?
8 What, said Brian O’Driscoll, were “among the worst things to have happened to rugby”?
9 London Welsh’s Aled Thomas scored a famous try. Why was it so special?
10 Why did the French union apologise to South Africa after the sides met in Toulouse?
1. Cricket
2. Chris Jack (v Sharks after 22 secs)
3. 1989
4. Castres
5. It was the last game played at the Arms Park (Cardiff Blues then moved to
Cardiff City Stadium)
6. Rugby’s readmission into the Olympic Games
7. Paddy Wallace (Stephen Jones missed the kick)
8. Experimental Law Variations
9. It was the winning try for Wales against Argentina in the Sevens World
Cup in Dubai
10. Awful rendition of the South African anthem
11. Scarlets v Worcester, Darren Daniel is the try-scorer (3)
TOTAL MARKS: 13
In 2009, who won…
1 RBS Player of the 6 Nations
2 The Heineken Cup
24th-place play-off
3 The title of club champions in England, Scotland and France (3)
4 A marketing award for
The Big Game
5 The Lions’ left-wing berth for each of their summer Tests (3)
6 The Rugby World School Team of the Year award
7 The Guinness Challenge
8 The Churchill Cup
9 The Bill Beaumont Cup
1. Brian O’Driscoll
2. Dragons (beat Calvisano)
3. Leicester, Ayr and Perpignan (3)
4. Harlequins
5. Ugo Monye, Luke Fitzgerald and Shane Williams (3)
6. Millfield
7. Leicester (beat Munster)
8. Ireland A
9. Lancashire
TOTAL MARKS: 13
Can you uncover these
cryptic men of rugby?
1 Super 14 coach cooked fine roast (3,6)
2 Decrepit maul, no ten crazily
for French player (7,10)
3 Haul, pull! Drag into shape for West Country coach (4,4)
4 Clumsy woman trod over Premiership coach (6,7)
5 Tigger’s home vandalised by 100-capper (6,5)
6 Carter’s aunt last to see reason for RFU coach (6,9)
7 Spill I hope I’ll clear up for English export (5,
8 Pain no taxi alleviates for former Scotland forward (4,6)
9 A ninth Shane? A muddled finish for Lions tourist (6,5)
10 Bruises which Ron treats
for Springbok (8,7)
1. Ian Foster
2. Clement Poitrenaud
3. Paul Hull
4. Trevor Woodman
5. George Smith
6. Stuart Lancaster
7. Ollie Phillips
8. Iain Paxton
9. Nathan Hines
10. Heinrich Brussow
TOTAL MARKS: 10
H. ANIMAL MAGIC
Name these beastly players…
1 High flyer who soared for Fylde, Swansea and Bath
2 Premiership fly-half with
a spring in his step
3 English tiger gets the bill
4 Songbird from Hurricanes engine room
5 Piggy in the middle for Scots
6 Not many lives left for this old-timer!
7 Venomous Crusaders coach, but seldom fatal
8 World record scorer ahead
of the hounds
9 Ace kicker and fantastic mister
10 Premiership coach has plenty to crow about
1. Tony Swift
2. Ryan Lamb
3. Jordan Crane
4. Jeremy Thrush
5. Ally Hogg
6. Mike Catt
7. Todd Blackadder
8. Dusty Hare
9. Grant Fox
10. Richard Cockerill
TOTAL MARKS: 10
What do these sets of three have in common? Two points for each
1 Jack Rowell, Declan Kidney and Mike Ruddock?
2 Julian White, Schalk Burger and Steve Borthwick?
3 Prince Obolensky, Sir
Tasker Watkins and
Gareth Edwards?
4 Richard Parks,
Raphaël Ibañez and Roland Reid?
5 Bristol RFC, Cambridge University RUFC
and James Haskell?
6 Chris Cusiter
(right), Brian Moore and Nick Farr-Jones?
1. Won a Grand Slam in their first Five/Six Nations campaign
2. Won their 50th cap this year
3. Each has a statue erected in their honour
4. Retired because of injury in 2009
5. Sanctioned by RFU for contravening ticket regulations
6. Studied law at university
TOTAL MARKS: 12
OUT OF 100
Drum Roll…………and the winners were, from a very big field:
250 cans of Guinness - Robin Peters, Bath
Puma Boots
Paul Whitney
Cheltenham
Keith Mabe
Bath
Sam Bennett
Leeds
Jason K Ratcliffe
Merseyside
Richard Williams
Radstock, Avon
Nick Saunders
Bristol
GP Final Tickets, which will be sent out in May
Jeff Ferris
Bristol
Mr Geoff Mutton
Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire
Bob Depledge
Bath
Robert Staite
Christchurch, Dorset
Mr Brian Reynolds
Frome, Somerset
Cases of Guinness
David Prettyjohns
Leicester
Mr Benjamin Saunders
Beckenham, Kent
Clive Pendrey
Timsbury, Somerset
Ms Anna Taplin
Beckenham, Kent
Ron Goodwin
Sittingbourne, Kent
Tom Kilburn
Hinckley, Leics
IRB World Rugby Yearbook
Julie Fenwick
Hucclecote, Glos
Peter Oatley
Frome, Somerset
John Lewis
Machen, Caerphilly
Liz Goodman
Leicester
Nick Murley
Weedon, Northampton
Graham Norton
Maidstone, Kent
Gary Edmunds
Karl Nielson
Mr Philip Pawson
Settle, North Yorkshire
John Baser
Leicester
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Any queries on the Quiz, or on the prizes to beatrice_asprey@ipcmedia.com
Paul Morgan - Editor, Rugby World Magazine, the world's best-selling rugby magazine
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