4 Football quizzes, on Football generally, then Scottish football, then Aberdeen FC, then Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC. 

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Football generally
1 Who won the first European Cup
2 Who won more European Cup Winners Cups than anybody else
3 What year was the first FA Cup match
4 Who were the first team to win 2 English football titles in a row
5 Who were the first London team to win the top English league title, 
6 Which 3 teams have won the most Copa del Rey's, and in what order, as of 2021, 
7 Who have won the most Serie; A's as of February 2021, the top 3 and in What order, 
8 Who have won the most German Bundesliga's
9 Who have won the most Brazilian Serie A, or just name at least 1, 
10 What were Man Utd called, when Liverpool FC met them for the first time, in 1894

11 Which international team have these players played for, 

Toni Duggan, Steph Houghton and Karen Bardsley, 

12 Who won the first Fifa world cup 

13 How many World Cups up to 2021, have Wales reached

14 What is the furthest a Welsh Club have got in a major European club competition, like Fairs Cup, Uefa Cup, European Cup, and Europa League

15 What is the furthest the Wales football team have reached in a major international competition, 

16 Who was top scorer at the 1986 World Cup

17 How many times have Hungary reached the Fifa World cup Final as of 2021

18 Where was the 1990 World Cup held. 

19 How many World Cup have Brazil won as of 2021

20 What was symmetrical about Crustal Palaces 1994-95 season, with the number 4,

21 In the Romanian 3rd tier in 1984, 10 pts separated the 30 games a season top and bottom team,  but how many separated 2nd and bottom, 3, 5 or 9, 

22 How many seperated top and bottom in the Morrocan league of 1966, less or more than that Romanian league

23 What was unusual about Man City being relegated in 1938 from the top tier, 2 strange things

24 How many teams were relegated from the Scottish Top tier, in 1975.

25, On the last day of the season in Scotland premier in 1976, what percentage of the league had avoided relegation, 60, 50 or 80, 

26 Who did Raith Rovers beat to win the League Cup in the 1990s 

27 Is it true that Millwall were top of the English second tier in 1995 in December, but were then relegated after only 4 wins all season after then. 

28 Is it true that after being promoted in 1977 from the second tier, in 3rd place, Nottingham Forrest then went on to win the top tier the next season, and the European Cup 2 in a row after that, 

29 How many times have Millwall, up to 2024 been 2nd tier champs. 

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Answers for football generally quiz
1 Real Madrid
2 Barcelona FC
3 1871
4 Preston North End
5 Arsenal
6 Barcelona, Athletic Bilbao, then Real Madrid, 
7 Juve, then Inter, and AC Milan, equal, 
8 Bayern Munich
9  Palmeiras, Santos, Corinthians, Flamengo,
10 Newton Heath

11 England Women's team.

12 Uruguay 

13 one

14 A semi final

15 Semi Final

16 Gary Lineker

17 Twice, 

18 Italy

19 Brazil

20 They were in the last 4 of the cups, knocked out in the semis, and 19th in the premier, so in the last 4 of that, and got relegated sadly for them. 3rd bottom in the league actually,

21, Just 3, but 2 pts for a win.

22 Less, just 8 pts again 2 pts for a win. 

23 They had won the league the season before, and were relegated with a positive goal difference and no pts deduction, 

24 8, 

25 60, 

26 Celtic 

27 Yes

28 Yes? 

29 Twice. 

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Scottish Football
1 Who are the only team to have beaten Barcelona, 4 times out of 4 in European competition. 
2 Who have won most Scottish Cups as of 2021, 
3 Who have won most top tier League titles as of 2021, 
4 If Rangers and Celtic's league positions were removed (not something I would like) who would have won the most League titles, as in the next highest team inherit their league titles on those occasions.  
5 Which 2 teams have won the most Scottish Second tier titles as of 2021, 
6 Which teams have won the most Challenge Cups, 
7 Name the only 2 teams, that have won the Scottish league, but never the second tier,
8 Name the only teams to have won the 1st tier title, but never been Runners Up in it , 
9 Where were St Bernard's FC based, which city or town, 
10 Which team have been Runners up in the top tier the most without winning the league,

11 Which 4 teams as of February 2021, have won  the most 2nd, 3rd, or 4th tier, official Scottish titles, plus tie breaker winner goes to a side whose A team, a old name for a second string, played in the 3rd tier in mid 20th Century when that was allowed.

12 Have Queen's Park ever won a Scottish top top tier title, or even finished in the top 3. 

13 Have Queen's Park, ever won a 2nd tier title. 

14 How many clubs have won all 4 tiers of the Scottish league.as of 2021.

15. Which of these teams A teams, never won that Mid 20th Century Scottish league, 3rd tier with their "A" team.   Aberdeen, Rangers, Partick Thistle, Dundee, Hibs, Hearts, Clyde, Celtic,

16  What was the the first world cup the Scotland Women's team reached

17 What was the first European Championships the Scotland Women's team reached

18 How Many times have Scotland Men's team reached the far older, Men's world cup, of FIFA, up to March 2021

19 How Many times have they reached the European Championships, including 2020 which we qualified for this past year

20 Which Swedish footballer has played for Hibs and Udinese, and was born in 1995. His name is also the same as the largest hillfort in Sweden, if you add a letter E.

21 Who won the 1991 Scottish Cup 4 goals to 3. 

22 Who scored for Scotland in their 1 nil win in France against France, over the recent 2006 World Cup runners up 

23 What team plays at Somerset Road, as of 2021, at Somerset Park, actually is the name.  In the Scottish league.

24 What great Scottish team did  Brora Rangers beat 2 to 1 in the greatest shock win in the Scottish Cup since

, since Fraserburgh beat Dundee 1 0 in 1959.

25 Who did Hearts beat to win their first Scottish Cup in years in the 1990s,

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Answers for Scottish football quiz
1 Dundee United
2 Celtic
3 Rangers
4 Hearts https://blog.stevenkellow.com/scottish-league-champions-without-the-old-firm/ 
5 As of 2021 I think Falkirk and St Johnstone have won the most Second tier titles. With 7 each. Ayr Utd, Hibs and Raith are close behind with just six, which is a lot really. . 
6 Falkirk, though 2024, you could say if you merge Airdrieonians, with Airdrie United that became that team after the first one went bust, that puts the Diamonds, one ahead on 5. Additionally there were a few equivalent cups, in the 1940s, the B division cup, of which Airdrie won the Southern League Cup when it was a national post war league, East Fife won 2, but have never won the challenge cup, while St Johnstone and Clyde won 1 each, which is nowhere near with there challenge cups, at Falkirk levels, but Airdrie also won the 1970s Spring cup, so maybe they are on 7, second tier cups. 
7  Aberdeen and Celtic, 
8 Dundee United and Dumbarton, 
9 Edinburgh, 
10 Airdrieonians, 

11 Ayr United, Raith Rovers, Clyde and Stirling Albion have won 9. Clyde's A team, won 2 3rd tier titles. So they win that with 11 I may be wrong, but think I am right.

12 No

13 Yes

14 Just Dumbarton and Rangers. 

15 Surprisingly Celtic, but that was a rare time they were not with Rangers, dominating. 

16 2019

17 2017

18 eight times, 

19 three. 

20 Hallberg

21 Motherwell

22 James McFadden

23 Ayr United

24 Hearts

25 Rangers

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Bad collapses in Scotland, and great rises include Dundee United dropping from 3rd to 8th Dec to end of season, was it early 2000s, or late 1990s, and Motherwell rising , 9th to 3rd in 2007-08 Dec to end of season, and Hibs collapse from 7th to 11th and relegation in 2013, but in that 2nd tier period they did win the Scottish Cup. Also Aberdeen rose from 7th in mid February with no games in hand on anybody, to 3rd in 2023. Also Celtic in 2011, were 10 pts behind in October, losing 3 nil to Kilmarnock at half time, and ended up drawing 3 3 and then beating Rangers to the title.  Also Rangers won the title in 2003, on goal difference by 2 goals, as both teams beat their opponents by big totals 6-1 and  4 0 on the final day helicopter Sunday. Although there was another such day in 2005, "The helicopters changing direction". With Rangers again the winner, as Celtic slipped up due to their loss to Motherwell. While Celtic achieved the 1986 win over Hearts, by beating St Mirren, with Dundee beating Hearts, on the last day so Celtic won the leagues on goal difference, Hearts had been 8th in October, and Celtic lost the first 2 games on Rangers attempt at 10 in a row in the 1990s, with them bottom, and ending up winning the league.   Usually the places in the top 3 or 4, finish top half of table, and the bottom 4 end up near there, with even more stratigraphy and stability than that really a lot of the time. As the first half of the season is often a guide for the rest of the season, except maybe a small change in places. Which is why experts claim thats so so often, but it is not always the case, shock changes do occur.  

Also most times a team finishes in a similar position to the last season, especially top end teams, but in 1994 Aberdeen were 2nd, as they had been a few times in the past few seasons, but then finished 2nd bottom the next season, then Motherwell 2nd in 1995 did the same, but Celtic 2nd in 1996, did not. 

Also most promoted teams, are happy and often just stay up, in the bottom half the table, but in 1996, Dundee United, followed promotion after their shock relegation, with 3rd place. in the top tier, Hearts did the same in 2016 and Rangers in 2017, which they did again in 2018, with Dundee United nearing that again with 4th in 2022. Maybe not that surprising for such big teams. 

The most shock relegations in Scottish history, were Dundee in the 1970s, Hearts the same decade and again in the 1980s, and 2010s, and 2020s, Hibs also in the 70s, and Hibs in the 90s, with Hearts and Hibs in the 2010s. Plus Dundee United in the mid 1990s, 2010s, and 2020s, but the biggest of all being Rangers, which was really a much debated demotion, which would not have occurred without the punishments meted out for certain actions.  The biggest shock really was the mid 90s Dundee United one, as all the others had events that helped cause that, such as a noted amount of low places, but Dundee United was a shock, considering their amazing performances so recently. Top amazing fact for United they have never been second, but were 3rd loads. 

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Aberdeen football quiz
1 How many Scottish top tier, league titles have the Dons won, 
2 Who is Aberdeen's record goalscorer
3 Who were Runners up to the Dons in the 1955 56 League Cup, 
4 Who scored the goals in Aberdeen's 1983 taking of the Super Cup, 
5 Which Aberdeen signing scored 2 goals for the Netherlands, before he signed for the Dons, and signed for the Dons in his mid twenties, 
6 Which Danish team did Aberdeen beat 4 - 0 in the late 2000s, 
7 Who scored the last penalty on the 2014 League Cup Final shoot out, 
8 Who did Eoin Jess leave to in a million plus deal in the 1990s, 
9 Who did Steve Archibald leave Aberdeen to, 
10 Is Pittodire, originating as a English, Gaelic, Cumbric, Roman, Norse or Pictish term,

11 Did Alex Fergusson ever manage a team against Aberdeen in a competitive match. 

12 Who were Runnrs Up to Aberdeen all 4 times they have won the Scottish top tier title. 

13 Who did Aberdeen defeat in the Semi Final when they won the League Cup in 1996. 

14 Aberdeen won the European Cup Winners Cup in 1983, who scored the goal against Motherwell in the Scottish Cup their first won on their run to winning the 1982 Scottish Cup, that set them on the road to the 1983 European final. 

15 Which Aberdeen player with the same surname as their most trophy laden captain, left to Celtic, in the late 1980s, before coming back again. 

16 Which Aberdeen player who signed for Celtic in the mid 2010s, but came back in the 2020s, was in the Aberdeen squad for the League Cup Final victory o over Inverness Caledonian Thistle 

17 Which Aberdeen player appeared twice on Pop of the Pops in the same episode. 

18 Who scored the winning goals for Aberdeen in their 1986 Scottish Cup Final victory over Hearts

19 Which former Aberdeen captain was part of the Scotland team that  that drew nil nil with Brazil in 1974 at the World Cup.

20 Name the 2 Aberdeen players who won winner medals at the 1979 80 league tiitle win, who also went oin to score at in one case the 1982 and one the 1986 world cup 

21 Whoi is Aberdeen's most successful trophy winning captain at the club.in terms of major Scottish winners medals won at the club.

22 Which East Anglian team did Aberdeen defeat when they were managed by the great Bobby Robson in the Uefa Cup 

23 Who did Aberdeen beat 8 goal to nil in a League match in the old Scottish Premier League, back in the 20th Century. 

24 Who scored the winning penalty at the 1990 Scottish Cup Final for Aberdeen. 

25 Which Liverpudlian scored both Aberdeen's goals at the 1989 Scottosh League Cup Final.  

26 Is it trie that Aberdeen never finished above Rangers before world war Two,

27 Is it true that Aberdeen finished above Rangers for over a half a decade in the 1980s, but did not again, in terms of a league they were both in till the late 2010s 

28 Which 2 of the players who were playing for Aberdeen in their 1983 ECWC win, went on to win the most trophies as a manager, in terms of top national level for Scotland or England, 

29 And which ECWC player, won the most top level trophies in Scotland,  away from Aberdeen, so otherwise Miller and McLeish may win,

30 Aberdeen glory in 5 unusual honours all of which look suspect on initial glance, but come up trumps on enquiry, whoch of these 6 is not one that is claimed,  

The First Continuance All seater stadium in Britain, true, as the only club Coventry, to have done this before, tore their seats up after a fan protest, 

The first dug out, true 

The only Scottish club up to 2024 to win 2 European trophies, true as of as well as the Cup Winners Cup, the Super Cup, which some people would besmurch, but in those days the ECWC and Uefa d European winners were more equal as only 1 club got into European cup from every nation, and money was more euqal across clubs and nations then, 

Aberdeen won the Southern League Cup in the 1940s, and claim it as a major honour, becuase that was the year it became a national trophy as the regional wartime leagues merged and there was no real war time interferance anymore, 

Aberdeen have never been relegated up to 2024, strange as you look at the 1917 league table and they were bottom, and were not in the next season, the answer to why is that they had tro withdraw as of transport reasons due to wartime, and 2 teams above the 2nd bottom team did too, plus the next season hibs were bottom but did not go down as there was no second tier. 

Finally the wrong one, Aberdeen,  alim to be the most northern team in British club football,  

31 is it true a Aberdeen A team won the Highland League in 1925 and 1913, and, a Runner up,  and Aberdeen won the Scottish Qualifying Cup, in 1904, 

32 How many times did Aberdeen knock Rangers out of the cups in 2018-19. 

33 How many times up to 2024 including the Southern League Cup, have the Dons beaten Rangers in a League Cup or Scottish Cup final. 

34 How many times have they beaten Celtic in Cup Finals, including the Dryborough Cup,   Also up to 2024, 

35 Same for Hibs

36 Lastly same for Hearts, 

37 Have Aberdeen finished over 12 times above Celtic in a league they were in, 

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Answers to Aberdeen FC quiz
1 Four, 
2 Joe Harper, 
3 St Mirren, 
4 McGhee and Simpson, 
5 Hans Gilhaus
6 FC Copenhagen, 
7 Adam Rooney, 
8 Coventry City, 
9 Spurs, 
10 Pictish,  

11 Yes, St Mirren, 

12 Celtic

13 Rangers

14 John Hewitt

15 Joe Miller.

16 Jonny Hayes 

17 Steve Archibald

18 John Hewitt and Billy Stark

19 Martin Buchan

20 Steve Archibald and Gordon Strachan

21 Willie Miller

22 Ipswich Town

23 Motherwell

24 Brian Irvine

25 Paul Mason 

26 Yes, the first time was 1955, then they did twice in the early 70s, did 7 times in the 80s, and 4 times when they were sent down, and 2 times under McInnes. And only once did Aberdeen finish level on pts with them, but behind them, and a few more times, And only twice did Aberdeen finish a pt behind and twice 2 pts behind. Most times they were runner ups to them in the league, it was more than that. 

27 Yes

28 Alex McLeish and Gordon Strachan, 

29 Mark McGhee

30 Yes Aberdeen were only the most northern team till Caley and Ross County joined in the 1990s, 

31 Yes, 

32 Twice

33 Thrice without, so for four with the Southern League Cup.  

34 Four times, plus 1 in the Dryborough Cup, plus all league wins had them in second place. 

35 Twice

36 Once, 

37 Yes, its something like 17 times, up to 2024. 

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Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC Quiz
1 What year did ICT found, 
2 What year did they defeat Celtic, to cause the great Liverpool 2 times League Champion John Barnes, to quit the club,  
3 How many Scottish Challenge Cup finals have Inverness qualified for as of 2021. 
4 As of 2021 how many times has they won the second tier
5 How many Highland League's did Caledonian win. 
6 How many did Inverness Thistle win
7 What year did Inverness Caledonian Thistle win the Scottish Cup
8 What decade did Thistle and Caledonian both start, and for that matters Clach, 
9 What is Inverness Caledonian Thistle's highest ever league position. 
10 Who did Inverness beat in the Semi Final, to reach the League Cup final which they lost to Aberdeen.

11 What was unusual about Inverness's relegation in 2024, in goal difference to the 3rd tier. 

12 Who did Inverness beat in the 2023 Scottish Cup Semi Final, on their way to their lose to Celtic in the final. 

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Answers to ICT FC quiz
1 1994, 
2 2000
3 5
4 Twice
5 18
6 8
7 2015
8 1880s 
9  3rd. 
10 Hearts, 

11 They had a positive goal difference, I am sure there was a season they climbed from near relegation to mid table within a few years before, 

12 Falkirk

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My top 10 successful controversial plays in football history, not that they were good, or bad. Excluding evil beyond belief

1 Argentina penalty tricks 2022 world cup 

2 Maradona hand of God 1986

3 Scotland 1978 world cup penalty v Wales, despite it being a Scottish player the hand hit, I say its as Wales let the crowd be Scottish as they played at Anfield for money, swaying the ref, 

4 Ill stop there,