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Football quiz: stadiums of yore


Who flew The Nest? Who hosted the Spice Girls? Who was amused?

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Who are the only British club to have played home matches in a stadium that has also hosted gigs by U2, the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson and the Spice Girls as well as a World Student Games?

Tottenham

MK Dons

West Ham

Rotherham

Whose old ground featured the “Chocolate Boxes” – the only uncovered upper-tier terracing in British football?

Southampton

Tottenham

Brighton

Sunderland

Whose former ground derives its name from a 20-ton rock that may have been a place of worship for ancient druids?

Brighton

Barnet

Swansea

Southampton

Which two bird-nicknamed clubs started life in the Football League at grounds called The Nest?

Bristol City and Swindon Town

Cardiff and Brighton

Crystal Palace and Norwich City

Swansea City and Sheffield Wednesday

In January 1990 Ramsline Halt, a single-platform railway station, was built at a cost of £26,000 next to Derby County’s Baseball Ground. How many trains ever stopped there?

Zero

Four

Several hundred

Three a day ever since

At which football ground would you have found “The Chicken Run”?

Upton Park

Maine Road

Highbury

Belle Vue

There’s a small bronze sculpture in the middle of a housing estate marking the exact spot from which North Korea’s Pak Doo-ik struck his famous winner against Italy in the 1966 World Cup. On the site of which ground does it stand?

Burnden Park

White City Stadium

Roker Park

Ayresome Park

Whose recently vacated old ground was very nearly called Percy Park when it opened in 1899?

West Ham

Manchester City

Tottenham

Arsenal

Which club used to play at a ground known as The Kursaal, an amusement park on the town’s seafront?

Southend United

Portsmouth

Southampton

Plymouth

Which stadium had a record crowd of 75,118 in 1933 but when it closed in 1997 a capacity of only 22,500?

Christie Park

Highbury

Roker Park

Elm Park

4 and above.

Did you get a bit lost?

5 and above.

That is a fine score. Well played

6 and above.

That is a fine score. Well played

7 and above.

That is a very impressive score. Well played

8 and above.

That is an extremely impressive score. Well played

9 and above.

That is an extremely impressive score. Well played

10 and above.

That is an extremely impressive score. Well played

3 and above.

Did you get a bit lost?

2 and above.

Did you get a bit lost?

0 and above.

Did you get a bit lost?

1 and above.

Did you get a bit lost?

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