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YORK CITY SOUTH |
York City Quiz - Pre 2004
Try these questions used in the branch's York City quizzes pre 2004.
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Moved to Bootham Crescent |
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Reached The FA Cup quarter finals for the first time. |
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Reached The FA Cup semi finals for the only time |
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Were promoted for the first time |
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Were relegated for the first time |
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Appointed Wilf McGuinness as manager |
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Appointed Denis Smith as manager |
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City beat Arsenal 1-0 |
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Most recently reached Round 5 of The FA Cup |
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Made our first (and to date only) trip to Wembley |
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Numbers Game |
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How many times have we reached the FA Cup quarter finals |
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How many away league wins in our 1973/4 promotion season |
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How many away league wins in our 1954/5 FA Cup semi final season |
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How many metres above sea level is Bootham Crescent |
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Which was the first City shirt number to have 2 owners during the 2002/3 season |
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How many points did City win in our record breaking 1984 Championship winning season |
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How many minutes have we played Liverpool in Round 5 of the FA Cup |
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What figure was widely quoted as being Steve Agnew's weekly salary during his 3 year City contract |
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How much did City pay for Keith Walwyn |
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What was Denis Smith's annual salary when he heft City in 1987 |
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He was signed from Ayr, a former Manchester United junior, he retired when he failed to overcome a long term injury |
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Whose testimonial game was a 5-5 draw against "The Happy Wanderers" |
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Which former City keeper broke the pain barrier during Emley’s cup run which took them to a replay against West Ham |
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Who was signed from Burnley following a successful trial to demonstrate that he’d overcome previous injury problems, he retired a year later in 2001 through injury |
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Which ex England B player and former City captain had his contract terminated in acrimonious circumstances when failing to recover from injury in 2001 |
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Which ex Halifax midfielder had his contract cancelled for medical reasons a few weeks later |
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Name the former City loan signing, he retired following an injury received whilst playing for Celtic |
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Who missed a League Cup game with Manchester United through an injury sustained the previous weekend |
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And name the wide man who missed the same game with a medium term injury. |
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Whose broken finger in July 2002 left City in a goalkeeping dilemma |
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Name the current leading manager who was once on a shortlist of one for the Bradford City job, only to be pipped by Terry Dolan and then didn’t even get an interview when he applied for the City job |
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According to dressing room rumour, which apprentice tried on the boots of Eric Cantona prior to City's League Cup game with Manchester United at Bootham Crescent |
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How did K. Dalgleish upset Sir Alex Ferguson in York on a sunny October Saturday afternoon in 2001 |
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Name Richard Cresswell's room mate when he made his England Under 21 debut. |
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Which 1983/4 City player had a dog called Yorkie |
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Which City keeper from the 1970s won a medal at Wembley in 1986 and was later a physio at clubs including Aston Villa and Derby County |
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Which former City keeper had a fanzine named after him at one of his previous clubs |
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Which of our former players had previously been flung over a car bonnet following a rather acrimonious European game in Italy |
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Which former City star was a member of the Halifax side that lost their league status in 2002 |
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Which club played City in a friendly to mark official switch on of original floodlights in the 1950s |
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Wayne’s World - Round 1 |
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As a schoolboy, Wayne won European honours with which club. |
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Wayne joined City in 1989 after a trial, which other basement club did Wayne have a trial with that season |
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Which manager signed Wayne for City |
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At the time, in which traditional South Yorkshire industry was Wayne working |
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Where did he made his full City debut |
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What shirt number did he wear that day |
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And who wore the Number 3 shirt |
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Against who did he score a spectacular thunderbolt goal live on Sky |
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Which of City’s 5 penalties did Wayne convert at Wembley |
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On October 25, how many candles will Wayne be blowing out |
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Wayne's World - Name His Teammates |
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Lance, a striker with a love – hate relationship, depending on whether you ask the fans or a former chairman |
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Clifford, no one’s Number One |
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Lyndon, Wayne’s partner for many seasons |
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Brian, he later played in a Scottish Cup Final |
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Laurence, England Under 15/16/ 17 caps and no a full England international caps |
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Wayne's World Left Back Rivals |
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When squad numbers were first introduced, he was our first Number 3 |
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Signed from Manchester City, sold to Plymouth |
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Had a heart transplant operation after he left City |
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Booby Saxton’s captain |
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Born Singapore and a favourite of Alan Little, equally ineffective in Number 3 shirt as in any other shirt. |
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York City + - Pop Quiz |
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Which footballer appeared singing with two different groups in one edition of Top Of The Pops in 1982. |
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With which English league club did Rod Stewart have an unsuccessful trial in the 1960's |
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Who does Frank Sidebottom support |
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Who sang lead vocals on the B-side of York City's 1984 single |
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Who or what connects York City and Manchester City with the 2 Scottish groups The Proclaimers and The Jesus And Mary Chain. |
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When was Back Home a hit for the England World Cup squad |
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Which group helped England on their 1990 World Cup song |
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Which Liverpudlian group once turned down an opportunity to play on TV's The Tube because it would have meant missing a Tranmere fixture. |
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Who was "Head Over Heels In Love" in the 1970's. |
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Whose "Perfect Cousin" always beat them at subbuteo. |
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Which Division 1 club share their name with an early punk rock group. |
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Which club do both Chas And Dave and Phil Collins support. |
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Which singing superstar once had a trial with Real Madrid. |
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Which opera singer had a hit with a theme tune from the 1990 World Cup. |
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Who had the original hit with Fog On The Tyne, a song that Paul Gascoigne took back into the charts in 1990. |
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At which club was Elton John once chairman. |
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Name Mike Oldfield's hit which is also the name of a 2nd division team. |
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On which Yorkshire ground did The Happy Mondays and The Farm play a summer 1991 concert. |
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Which Division 4 ground staged a concert featuring some of the Midlands top pop groups a few weeks later. |
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What's the connection between this pop quiz and York City |
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