Bill Edgar's fiendish Friday quiz - with the answers

Think you're smart? Try Bill Edgar's brain-mangling Friday quiz questions. Answers are at the bottom of this post.

Question One: Which former Premier League player had his country’s record caps total equalled and his record goals tally beaten in the same match on Wednesday

A Viorel Moldovan
B Shaun Bartlett
C Eyal Berkovic

Question Two: Everton’s back four against West Ham United last weekend were Phil Neville, Phil Jagielka, Joleon Lescott and Leighton Baines. Phil Neville has played for Manchester United and England alongside his brother, Gary. Which of the other three does not have a brother who has played English league football?

A Phil Jagielka
B Joleon Lescott
C Leighton Baines

Question Three: Which of the following pairs of clubs each recorded a 5-4 home league win over the other in the same calendar year in the 1990s?

A Blackburn Rovers and Nottingham Forest
B Newcastle United and Leicester City
C Derby County and Chelsea

Question Four: For Brad Friedel, the Blackburn Rovers goalkeeper, what is notable about the match between Blackburn and Birmingham City at Ewood Park on May 15, 2004?

A He played outfield for the last 15 minutes.
B The last league game he missed.
C He scored at both ends, the only time a goalkeeper has done so in league history.

Question Five: How many Scottish members of Nottingham Forest’s league title-winning squad of 1977-78 had also won the league with Derby County six years earlier?

A 1
B 3
C 5

Question Six: What was unusual about the kick up field by Nick Culkin, the Manchester United goalkeeper, in the 2-1 win away to Arsenal in August 1999?

A It hit the Arsenal crossbar.
B It struck a bird in the air.
C It was the only kick of his United career.

Question Seven: Which of the following links Robbie Fowler, the former Liverpool striker, with Jason Roberts, the Blackburn Rovers forward?

A Birthday
B Nickname
C Their height 

Question Eight: Who scored a league goal against Arsenal in successive days for the same club in 1986?

A Malcolm Allen
B Paul Goddard
C Wayne Clark

Question Nine: How many times have Rangers and Celtic met in Scottish Cup or Scottish League Cup matches since the Second World War?

A 34
B 54
C 74

Question Ten: Last season the Professional Footballers’ Association named Cristiano Ronaldo as their player of the year and also their young player of the year. On how many other occasions has the same player won both awards since they were introduced in 1974?

A 0
B 1
C 3

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Question One: (A) Shaun Bartlett. Benni McCarthy, of Blackburn Rovers, moved ahead of Bartlett’s South Africa scoring record in the 3-0 win over Paraguay (McCarthy has 30 to Bartlett’s 29); and Aaron Mokoena, also of Blackburn, equalled Bartlett’s mark of 74 appearances.

Question Two: (C) Leighton Baines. Stephen Jagielka played for Shrewsbury Town; Aaron Lescott plays for Bristol Rovers.

Question Three: (B) Newcastle United and Leicester City. Newcastle won in January 1990 and Leicester gained revenge 11 months later. Both were second-tier fixtures.

Question Four: (B) The last league game he missed. He had played 145 consecutive league games for the club before this weekend.

Question Five: (B) 3: Archie Gemmill, John McGovern and John O’Hare.

Question Six: (C) It was the only kick of his United career. He was a late substitute for the injured Raimond Van der Gouw.

Question Seven: (B) Nickname. Fowler and some Liverpool team-mates were dubbed the Spice Boys in the 1990s. Roberts plays international football for Grenada, who are known as the Spice Boyz.

Question Eight: (A) Malcolm Allen. He scored in Watford’s 2-0 victory at Highbury on Easter Monday, and again in a 3-0 win at Vicarage Road the following day.

Question Nine: (C) 74.

Question Ten: (B) 1. Andy Gray, of Aston Villa, in 1977.

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On Thursday we asked you: Which two clubs presently in the Premier League or Championship have only ever played league football in the top two tiers but have never been league champions?

Answer: West Ham United and Leicester City.