Football Trivia
Ten questions a week for you and your friends to ask each other. The answers are further down the page.
Trivia #2 · released 19 October 2026
The questions
- In the last match of his career, the 2006 World Cup final, Zinedine Zidane was sent off in extra time for headbutting which Italian player in the chest?
- In October 2009 Sunderland beat Liverpool 1–0 with a Darren Bent shot that went in off something a Liverpool fan had thrown onto the pitch. What was it?
- Barcelona lost 4–0 away to Paris Saint-Germain in 2017, then won the second leg 6–1. Who scored the sixth goal, in the fifth minute of injury time?
- Kevin Keegan was European Footballer of the Year in both 1978 and 1979. Which club was he playing for?
- At the 2010 World Cup, two half-brothers played against each other, one for Germany and one for Ghana. What is their surname?
- The 2012 Africa Cup of Nations final was played in Libreville, a few kilometres from where most of one finalist's national team had died in a 1993 air crash. Which country?
- Uruguay have won the World Cup twice but wear four stars on their crest. What do the other two stand for?
- At the first Women's World Cup, in 1991, matches were shorter than the usual 90 minutes. How many minutes did a match last?
- In 1998 Sheffield Wednesday's Paolo Di Canio pushed referee Paul Alcock to the ground after being sent off against Arsenal. For how many matches was he banned?
- All but two of Celtic's 1967 European Cup squad were born within 10 miles of Celtic Park. Bobby Lennox was born furthest away: how many miles?
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Answers
In the last match of his career, the 2006 World Cup final, Zinedine Zidane was sent off in extra time for headbutting which Italian player in the chest?
Marco Materazzi
The two of them had scored their teams' only goals of the game. The red card came in the 110th minute.
In October 2009 Sunderland beat Liverpool 1–0 with a Darren Bent shot that went in off something a Liverpool fan had thrown onto the pitch. What was it?
A beach ball
The deflection sent the shot past a confused Pepe Reina in the Liverpool goal.
Barcelona lost 4–0 away to Paris Saint-Germain in 2017, then won the second leg 6–1. Who scored the sixth goal, in the fifth minute of injury time?
Sergi Roberto
Barcelona went through 6–5 on aggregate, having lost the first leg at the Parc des Princes a month earlier.
Kevin Keegan was European Footballer of the Year in both 1978 and 1979. Which club was he playing for?
Hamburg (Hamburger SV)
He joined in the summer of 1977. Hamburg finished only tenth in the league in his first season, and he still won the award.
At the 2010 World Cup, two half-brothers played against each other, one for Germany and one for Ghana. What is their surname?
Boateng (Jérôme and Kevin-Prince)
It was the first time two brothers had played on opposite teams at a World Cup, and they did it again four years later.
The 2012 Africa Cup of Nations final was played in Libreville, a few kilometres from where most of one finalist's national team had died in a 1993 air crash. Which country?
Zambia
Eighteen players were killed in the 1993 disaster.
Uruguay have won the World Cup twice but wear four stars on their crest. What do the other two stand for?
Olympic gold medals (1924 and 1928)
FIFA recognises those two Olympic tournaments as senior world championships, and confirmed the four stars again in 2021.
At the first Women's World Cup, in 1991, matches were shorter than the usual 90 minutes. How many minutes did a match last?
80
FIFA would not yet call it a World Cup: it was the 1st FIFA World Championship for Women's Football for the M&M's Cup.
In 1998 Sheffield Wednesday's Paolo Di Canio pushed referee Paul Alcock to the ground after being sent off against Arsenal. For how many matches was he banned?
Eleven
He was also fined £10,000. Three years later FIFA gave him its Fair Play Award for stopping play when a goalkeeper lay injured.
All but two of Celtic's 1967 European Cup squad were born within 10 miles of Celtic Park. Bobby Lennox was born furthest away: how many miles?
30 miles (in Saltcoats)
The other exception, Tommy Gemmell, was born 11 miles away. Celtic beat Inter Milan 2–1 in Lisbon.