A Quizzical Treasure House

Question: As you can see, he is a Aussie player. Question is what record does he hold with respect to FIFA world cups? There are sufficient hints in the picture to crack this question easily

Answer: Archie Thomson scored 13 goals, for Australia in their 31:0 win over American Samoa on 11 April, 2001. This is the "Most goals scored by a player in qualifiers"

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Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 6/28/2010 01:30:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

Question: In a match played between two teams on June-23, 2010 a unique record was set with respect to the two players in the picture above. One hint is they are brothers. 1) Identify the players 2)What teams? 3)What is the record?

Answer: For the first time in World Cup history, two brothers lined up against each other. Jerome Boateng represented Germany and his elder half-brother Kevin-Prince Boateng represented Ghana.

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Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 6/25/2010 01:30:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

Question: This is the goal scoring celebration of a Danish player from the 1998 FIFA world cup match. This goal also established a unique record for this person in FIFA world cup history.
1)Name the person 2)What is the record?

Answer:
1)Denmark's Ebbe Sand against Nigeria in FIFA98 2)Fastest goal by a substitute

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Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 6/24/2010 01:30:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

Question: Very easy question. This person is one of the all time greats of Argentinian football. Who is he? What unique record he holds in FIFA world cup history?

Answer: Gabriel Omar Batistuta - the first player to score a hat trick in 2 world cups

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Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 6/23/2010 01:30:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

Question: Everyone know who is the person with the green jersey - Roger Milla. Question is who is the person with the white jersey. What unique record he holds in FIFA world cup history?

Answer: That is Oleg Salenko of Russia, who scored 5 goals against Cameroon in the 1994 FIFA world cup. The record is 5 goals in a match is the record of scoring most goals in a single game in FIFA world cup history.

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Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 6/22/2010 01:30:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

Question: From the pic, who is the person with a white jersey? what unique record does he hold in world cups?


Answer: Bora Milutinovic
One of the 2 coaches, who made 5 countries to reach the world cups - Mexico(1986), Costa Rica(1990), USA(1994), Nigeria(1998) & China(2002).

Other one is Carlos Alberta Pereira - Kuwai (1982), UAE(1990), Brazil(1994, 2006), Saudi Arabia (1998) and South Africa(2010)

Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 6/21/2010 01:30:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

Question: (L->R) Identify the 3 people in the picture. What is the connection?

Answer: The Palacios brothers - Johny, Wilson and Jerry. First ever time three brothers have been called up to the national squad for the world cup.

Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 6/17/2010 01:30:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

Question: Identify the figure and what is its significance? If you are not able to view the picture you can view it by clicking here


Answer: Orange, purple and blue (respectively) futuristic, computer-generated creatures. Collectively members of a team of "Atmoball" (a fictional football-like sport), Ato is the coach while Kaz and Nik are players. The three individual names were selected from shortlists by users on the Internet and at McDonald's outlets in the host countries.

Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 6/15/2010 02:13:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

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Question: Left to right, identify the players. And among them, what unique record they hold?


Answer:
Scored opening goals of FIFA world cups in 2002, 2006 & 2010
 1.Bauba Diop of Senegal in 2002
2.Lahm of Germany in 2006
3.Tshabalala of South Africa in 2010

Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 6/14/2010 02:07:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

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Another simple question:

The above teams form a unique group in the last 4 football world cups. What is the categorization?

Answer: The FIFA Award for the Most Entertaining Team for the last 4 world cups

Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 6/09/2010 06:56:00 AM | Permalink | Comments

Very Simple Question: From left to right, identify the personalities. And they are arranged in some order. What is the order?

Posted by Karthick Viswanathan at 6/08/2010 08:23:00 AM | Permalink | Comments