[jjamez]

Connections

1) Previous World Cup Final refs
2) Previous recipients of the Best Young Player Award
3) Oldest outfield players in this tournament
4) All won World Cups on home soil
5) Oldest Coaches in this tournament

Missing Link

1) 9- these were numbers of captains in the tournament. MN was Neuer, LM was Messi, GB was Bale, CR was Ronaldo and HK 9 was Harry Kane
2) Bern- hosted the Final of the competition. Bern hosted the fifth final
3) Cafu- these were the previous World Cup winning captains
4) Miroslav Klose- Leading World Cup scorers going into this tournament
5) Oliver Kahn- Previous best player of the tournament winners

Anagrams

1) Jules Rimet Trophy
2) Pickles the dog
3) Lusail Iconic Stadium
4) Edson Arantes Nascimento aka Pele
5) Mario Zagallo- First to win the competition as a player and then as a coach

Group Questions

A
1) Linfield- Qatar lost 1-0
2) Cinchona- Also known as the miraculous fever tree, is used to treat malaria as it produces Quinine
3) Wrestling or Laamb- thousands fill the stadiums to watch the sport
4) Carrots from King William of Orange. Carrots were reportedly purple or white before.

B
1) Anglo-Zanzibar war- it lasted between 38 and 45 minutes
2) Persepolis
3) Oldest bridge in the US, older than the USA itself
4) Bottlenose Dolphin

C
1) Pato or Juego del pato- a cross between polo and basketball played on horse back
2) River- Saudi Arabia has no rivers, just sand
3) It is the worlds smallest volcano
4) Pope John Paul the second

D
1) Literature
2) Meeting place, but also womans cleavage. Canberra is situation between two hills (breasts)
3) Flag
4) Jasmine

E
1) Tomato Fight
2) White tailed deer aka bambi
3) Muller- a few strikers for the national side were half decent and some guy made decent yoghurts...
4) KFC- it is traditional for the Colonel to supply chicken for Japanese families at Christmas time, I'd be alright with that, I don't like turkey

F
1) Manneken Pis- its a statue/fountain of a boy having a wee... Art I guess
2) Bigfoot
3) Roses
4) Nikola Tesla- Serbia also stake a claim but he was born on what is Croatian soil with Serbian parentage

G
1) Snake Island- there was a TV Docuseries about looking for treasure on this island
2) Raspberries
3) Monte Rosa- second highest in the Alps but this is the one that is in Switzerland
4) Prawns- apparently there is a high number of prawns in the main lake of Cameroon and Portuguese explorers named it after them

H
1) Longest and shortest reigns. Afonso Henrique reigned for 73 years, whilst Luis Filipe ruled for roughly 20 minutes. His father the king was assassinated and died instantly meaning Luis took the crown, he was fatally wounded in the attack took and his reign consisted of his head being held together by his brothers handkerchief. His brother would be the last Portuguese monarch
2) Fufu- its a dough like cuisine
3) National anthem
4) Sculptures of penises

General knowledge football

1) Youssoufa Moukoko- German striker at Dortmund, is being linked with a move to Chelsea
2) Barcelona
3) Senegal- they had 0 domestic players
4) Gareth Southgate obvs and John Herdman of Canada, he also became the first to coach at a womens and mens world cup finals
5) Andries Noppert at 6"8 is the tallest keeper, Harry Souttar at 6"6 is the tallest outfielder and Ilias Chair at 5"2 is the smallest outfielder
6) La'eeb- apparently means super skilled player
7) Alfredo Talavera at 40 years old
8) Ronaldo with 191
9) Ghana with 24
10) Iran and Mexico with 28

General Knowledge

1) Montevideo of Uruguay
2) Copenhagen of Denmark
3) In Darkar Senegal and was made by North Korea
4) Holland
5) Argentina
6) Canada
7) Zagreb of Croatia
8) Accra of Ghana
9) West Germany v Hungary
10) The 2002 world cup in Japan and South Korea had 20 venues


and thats your lot, well done for taking part and getting the majority between yous

[Lord Snooty]

Great stuff. Thanks jjamez.