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Question: Which Country won the first Football World Cup in 1930?
Answer: Uruguay.

Question: Which player scored in all six of Brazil's matches during the 1970 World Cup?
Answer: Jairzinho.

Question: Which two players topped the football goal statistic charts during the 1994 World Cup?
Answer; Oleg Salenko of Russian and Hristo Stoichkov of Bulgaria.

Question: Which Country won the first Woman’s Football World Cup in 1991?
Answer: USA.

Question: Which other player scored alongside Marco Van Basten for Holland in the 1988 European Championship final against the Soviet Union?
Answer: Ruud Gullit.

Question: How many times did Ajax Amsterdam win the European Cup (now known as the Champions league) in the 1970's?
Answer: 3 (1971, 1972,1973).

Question: Which football team did Arsenal beat in both the 1993 English League Cup and 1993 English Football Association Cup?
Answer: Sheffield Wednesday.

Question: Which football team was founded first Glasgow Celtic or Glasgow Rangers?
Answer: Glasgow Rangers (1873, Celtic founded 1888).

Question: Which year did Manchester United first win the European Cup (now known as the Champions League)?
Answer: 1968.

Question: Which football team did Liverpool legend Bill Shankley first manage?
Answer: Carlisle.

Question: Which football team did Manchester United legend Bobby Charlton player- manage for two seasons?
Answer: Preston North End.

Question: Which football team did Stanley Matthews begin and end his playing days with?
Answer: Stoke City.

Question: Which England Goalkeeper lost an eye in a car crash?
Answer: Gordon Banks.

Question: Which French football player was banned for a year from the national team after falling out with then manager Henri Michel?
Answer: Eric Cantona.

Question: Who joined Liverpool from Celtic in 1977 for £400,000
Answer: Kenny Daglish.

Question: What was Billy McNeill the first British player to do when captaining Celtic?
Answer: Lift the European Cup in 1967.

Question: For which player did Manchester United break the British Transfer record for, spending £1,500,000?
Answer: Bryan Robson (West Bromwich Albion).

Question: Which football team did Neville Southall leave to join Everton?
Answer: Bury.

Question: Which Manchester United player was the first to be sent off during an English FA cup final?
Answer: Kevin Moran (1985).

Question: What is the unusual record set by Arbroath and Bon-Accord in 1885?
Answer: Arbroath beat Bon-Accord 36-0 during a Scottish FA Cup first round match, still the British first-class football match highest score.

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