Olly Hunter 

Quiz: Football and film

With the Oscars on Sunday, here is test your football and movie knowledge with our quiz.
  
  


  1. Escape to Victory is probably the greatest football film of all time but which of these players didn't appear in it?

    1. Pelé

    2. Bobby Moore

    3. Ossie Ardiles

    4. Franz Beckenbauer

  2. Sylvester Stallone played the plucky Canadian goalkeeper, but which legend coached and taught him how to be a convincing goalie?

    1. Gordon Banks

    2. Dino Zoff

    3. Jan Tomaszewski

    4. Sepp Maier

  3. Zidane: A 21st Century portrait is a documentary, using 17 cameras, following the French midfielder during a whole game in 2004. What team was he playing against?

    1. Real Madrid

    2. Barcelona

    3. Villarreal

    4. Sevilla

  4. Ex-Crazy gang and Wales midfield hard-man has appeared multiple movies, but in which film did he make his acting debut?

    1. Snatch

    2. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

    3. Gone in 60 Seconds

    4. Mean Machine

  5. The Damned United, starring Michael Sheen as Brian Clough during his 44-day stint as manager of Leeds, was released in what year?

    1. 2007

    2. 2008

    3. 2009

    4. 2010

  6. Ken Loach directed a film in 2007 which starred Eric Cantona playing a skewed version of himself. What was it called?

    1. Being Cantona

    2. Looking for Eric

    3. Karate Kid Cantona

    4. Le God

  7. The Other Final is a 2003 documentary film, directed by Johan Kramer, about a football match between the two lowest-ranked national teams in the world. Who were they?

    1. Bhutan v Montserrat

    2. Palestine v East Timor

    3. Tibet v Greenland

    4. Sri Lanka v Fiji

  8. Goal!, which features appearances from David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane and Luis Figo, is a series of three films about a young Mexican player coming to Europe to try and make it in football. At which club did Santiago Muñez get his first games?

    1. Real Madrid

    2. Real Betis

    3. Arsenal

    4. Newcastle United

  9. Ricky Tomlinson starred as the national team manager in Mike Bassett: England Manager, but from which club in the film did he leave to become the England boss?

    1. Ipswich Town

    2. Norwich City

    3. Burnley

    4. Wigan Athletic

  10. Which actor played Jimmy Muir, a brewery worker who gets plucked from obscurity to play for Sheffield United in the 1996 film When Saturday Comes?

    1. Phillip Glenester

    2. Tom Wilkinson

    3. Mark Addy

    4. Sean Bean

Solutions

1:D, 2:A, 3:C, 4:B, 5:C, 6:B, 7:A, 8:D, 9:B, 10:D

Scores

  1. 0 and above.

    Prize turkey

  2. 1 and above.

    A comprehensively failed audition. Find another agent

  3. 2 and above.

    Don't give up the day job

  4. 3 and above.

    More Swept Away than bowled away

  5. 4 and above.

    A straight-to-DVD dud of a performance

  6. 5 and above.

    You've not done enough to merit a sequel

  7. 6 and above.

    Mediocre - a bit of a phoned-in performance to be honest

  8. 7 and above.

    Nominated for a gong, but you've just fallen short

  9. 8 and above.

    Star of the silver screen - not perfect but you're still box office

  10. 9 and above.

    Cinema paradiso - you've applied your film geekery wisely

  11. 10 and above.

    And the Oscar goes to ... you're an unparallelled football celluloid buff

 

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