Selects • September 2025
Footy!
A footy quiz for all the football people – and the non-footy people who love them.
Kick Off
Let’s take it one category at a time.
In what year was the Victorian Football League renamed the Australian Football League?
Which venue has hosted the largest ever crowd for a rugby league State of Origin match?
Which rugby sevens Olympic bronze medallist was runner up in the 2024 US version of Dancing with the Stars?
A Bonzini model foosball table, used in official tournaments, features how many players per team including the goalie?
Since the introduction of the English Premier League in 1992, six teams have never been relegated from the top flight. Name four of them.
Kick Off
Football On Screen
Can you name the movie or show featuring these footballers?
A Bostonian turned Boer, it’s Matt Damon as Springboks captain Francois Pienaar in a 2009 docudrama.
Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley are soccer players – and their mums are a lot – in this British teen classic.
The world was introduced to Paul Mescal as a chain-wearing Gaelic footballer in this series based on a Sally Rooney novel.
Young Ryan Gosling’s Mickey Mouse Club skills are handy for locker-room singalongs in this true story about American high school football.
This stage-to-film adaptation has John Howard (the other one) as a new recruit for a team that’s “not” the Collingwood Magpies.
Football On Screen
Two-Timing Terms
The answer is a term you'll find in the glossary of its respective sport. We’ll give you a clue relating to another meaning.
E.g. Slang for buttocks (AFL) = Behind.
A spice used to season béchamel sauce and eggnog. (Soccer)
A currency replaced by the Euro. (AFL)
An agile project management framework. (Rugby)
The indented bottom of a wine bottle. (American Football)
“My transmission has ended and I’m waiting for a reply”, on the radio. (International Rules)
Two-Timing Terms
The Next Line
Can you quote (or sing) the next line of these crowd-rousing sporting anthems?
Buddy, you're a boy, make a big noise
Playing in the street, gonna be a big man someday
…
Woke up this morning
From the strangest dream
I was in the biggest army
…
You're simply the best
Better than all the rest
Better than anyone
…
Hands
Touchin' hands
Reachin' out
…
Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
…
The Next Line
Kick a (Mixed) Bag
All in!
Also the name of a 2005 documentary about the sport, what is the vicious-sounding nickname for wheelchair rugby?
Who was the Matildas’ leading goal scorer in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup?
A team sport originating in Malaysia, Sepak Takraw is often described as a mix of soccer and which other sport?
Believed to be the inspiration for Australian Rules, what is the umbrella term for traditional Indigenous Australian team ball games?
In 2000, after polling both the public and industry experts, FIFA named two men Player Of The 20th Century – name both.
Kick a (Mixed) Bag
Huge Fans
We’ll give you the celebrity/character and the sport; you tell us the team they support.
Russell Crowe (NRL)
Julia Gillard (AFL)
Matthew McConaughey (American college football)
Prince William (English Premier League football)
Kath Day-Knight from Kath & Kim (AFL)
Huge Fans
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