Bill Edgar's fiendishly difficult Friday football quiz - with the answers

You know the score by now: Bill Edgar popped up on Friday to wreck your weekend by posing ten of the most difficult football questions known to man. Having let you stew for 48 hours he has very kindly popped back to put you out of your misery, so check out the answers - if you need to - which you will find at the bottom of this post.

Remember, also, Bill also teases you daily a trivia question; the answer to his Thursday poser can also be found at the very bottom of this post.

Question One: Lee Cook (Queens Park Rangers to Fulham) and Russell Anderson (Aberdeen to Sunderland) moved for a total of £3.5million in transfer fees last summer. How many combined Premier League appearances have the pair made for their new clubs this season?

(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3

Question Two: Which player supplied the final Premier League goal of last season but has not scored at all in the Premier League this season?

(A) Brynjar Gunnarsson
(B) Luke Moore
(C) Harry Kewell

Question Three: Which Spanish club have fielded players named Geovanni, Giovanni and Giovani dos Santos in the past ten years?

(A) Atletico Madrid
(B) Real Madrid
(C) Barcelona

Question Four: Which is the only country to have won all three main European club trophies in the same season?

(A) England
(B) Italy
(C) Spain

Question Five: How many clubs have spent time in the Premier League (ie in the top flight since 1992) and subsequently had at least one season outside the top two divisions?

(A) 7
(B) 10
(C) 13

Question Six: Five Premier League clubs recorded average attendances of more than 40,000 last season. How many have done so this season?

(A) 5
(B) 6
(C) 8

Question Seven: Which of the 16 countries at this summer’s European championship have beaten England twice at leading tournaments in the past ten years, each time doing so with a winning goal in the 89th minute or later?

(A) Romania
(B) Sweden
(C) Portugal

Question Eight: Who are the only team to have won an FA Cup replay this season from the fourth round onwards?

(A) West Bromwich Albion
(B) Middlesbrough
(C) Liverpool

Question Nine: Rochdale, who have been ever-present members of the fourth tier since 1974, have qualified for the League Two play-offs. How many previous play-off campaigns have they fought in this division?

(A) 1
(B) 7
(C) 8

Question Ten: When Arsenal beat Manchester United on penalties after a 0-0 draw in the 2005 FA Cup Final, it was the first goalless draw in how many FA Cup Final matches, including replays?

(A) 30
(B) 60
(C) 90

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Fiendish Friday quiz, the answers:

Question One: (A) 1 Anderson came on as a 62nd-minute substitute against Wigan Athletic in August.

Question Two: (C) Harry Kewell scored Liverpool’s last-minute equaliser at home to Charlton Athletic from the penalty spot but has not added another goal in his ten league appearances this season.

Question Three: (C) Barcelona. Geovanni has played this season for Manchester City, who are also reported to be interested in signing Giovani dos Santos.

Question Four: (B) Italy. In 1989-90 AC Milan won the European Cup, Sampdoria the Cup Winners' Cup and Juventus the Uefa Cup.

Question Five: (B) 10. They are Barnsley, Bradford City, Leeds United, Manchester City, Oldham Athletic, Nottingham Forest, Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield Wednesday, Swindon Town and Wimbledon (now Milton Keynes Dons). Leicester City will have joined this list in a year’s time.

Question Six: (C) 8. They are Manchester United, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Liverpool, Sunderland, Manchester City, Chelsea and Aston Villa

Question Seven: (A) Romania. They beat England 2-1 at the 1998 World Cup and 3-2 at the 2000 European championship.

Question Eight: (B) Middlesbrough. They beat Sheffield United in the fifth round.

Question Nine: (A) 1. They lost to Rushden & Diamonds in the semi-finals in 2002.

Question Ten: (C) 90. The previous goalless draw had been between Barnsley and West Bromwich Albion in 1912 (Barnsley won the replay 1-0). 

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On Thursday we asked you: Which club, then in the fourth tier, had to apply for re-election to the Football League (they were successful) just six years after playing in the top flight? 

Answer: Northampton Town, in 1971-72.