The Rugby Piper Christmas Quiz 2020

ANSWERS 1. Which player played against on 11 occasions between 1969 and 1981 and never lost a game? JPR WILLIAMS

2. What did Wales wear for the frst tme against England on January 15th, 1949? WHITE SHORTS 3. Who was the frst Welshman to win 50 caps? 4. Which Welsh winger reached the semi-fnal of the 100 metres in the 1948 Olympics? KEN JONES 5. Who won 18 caps for Wales and captained Glamorgan at cricket between 1947 and 1960? WILF WOOLER 6. Who was nicknamed Top Cat? 7. Which team, outside of the so-called Big Eight, beat Wales 15-9 in Cardif in 1988? ROMANIA 8. Which player moved to Widnes in 1988 for a reported fee of £200,000? JONATHAN EDWARDS 9. What are the frst names of the two players with the surname Moriarty who have earned 43 caps between them? RICHARD and PAUL 10.Name the fve stand-ofs that Gareth Edwards played with for Wales and the Lions. , MIKE GIBSON, , , . 11.Which Scotsh referee dismissed Geof Wheel in an Internatonal match- the frst ever Welsh dismissal. NORMAN SANSOM 12.How many tmes did the front row of Faulkner, Windsor, and Price play together as a unit for Wales- 9,19 or 29?19 13.Which winger scored afer 33 seconds against in 1997 and afer 46 seconds against Japan in 1993? 14.Who was the frst ever Welsh substtute when he replaced with four minutes lef for play in March 1969? PHIL BENNETT 15.Which two Scotsh clubs once had players picked for the Welsh internatonal side? UNIVERSITY and EDINBURGH WANDERERS.

IRELAND 1. When were foodlights installed at - 1985, 1990 or 1995? 1995 2. What are the frst names of the two players called Best who have played Internatonal Rugby for Ireland? RORY and SIMON 3. Which Irishman scored 18 points for the Lions in South Africa in 1980? 4. Who captained the 1959 Lions to Australia and New Zealand? RONNIE DAWSON 5. Who was Ireland’s captain in the 1987 World Cup? 6. Who was Ireland’s frst ever substtute when he came on in January 1969? MICK HIPWELL 7. In which year in the 60s was there a scoreless game between Ireland and England? 1963 8. Which country did Ireland beat 83-3 in June 2000? USA 9. Which famous Irish player was born in the USA? RONAN O’GARA 10.Who captained Ireland in the 1991 World Cup? PHILIP MATTHEWS 11.Who won his last at the age of 33, seven years afer his previous game for Ireland? TONY O’REILLY 12.Which Irish Rugby Internatonal took part in the shot-put in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics? VICTOR COSTELLO 13.Two players played 15 tmes against England. One was Sella of . The other one was an Irishman. Who was he? MIKE GIBSON 14.Who captained Ireland on 24 occasions- Fergus Slatery or ? TOM KIERNAN 15.Who won more Lions caps- Mike Gibson or Willie John McBride? WILLIE JOHN McBRIDE ENGLAND 1. Who was the frst Englishman to be sent of- in 1975 against Australia? MIKE BURTON

2. What was diferent about the England shirts for the match on January 7th, 1961? MODERN NUMBERING.FULL BACK 15 etc. 3. Which player, born in India, made his debut at stand-of against Wales in 1960 and his name wasn’t even in the programme? RICHARD SHARPE 4. On which ground have England played a Home and an Away match? WEMBLEY 5. England won the Wooden Spoon four tmes in his seven- year career, but he was a star for the Britsh and Irish Lions. Who is he? 6. Who won an England Rugby cap in 1956 and went on to captain England in 50 Cricket Test Matches between 1958 and 1972? MIKE SMITH 7. Who were England playing in the infamous half-tme streak by Erika Roe and Sarah Bennet? AUSTRALIA 8. Who played at full-back, wing, stand of and scrum half for England in his career? 9. Who was England’s captain at the 1987 World Cup? MIKE HARRISON 10.Which famous England player has the middle names Bruno and Nero? 11.Who beat England 76-0 in 1998? AUSTRALIA 12.Who succeeded as England coach? 13.Who has both played in and coached England teams? 14.Who captained England in the 1999 World Cup? MARTIN JOHNSON 15.Which brothers played for England on the very same day in 1974- one at Cricket and one at Rugby? THE OLD BROTHERS-ALAN AND CHRIS 1. Who scored a try afer only 9 seconds against Wales in his Internatonal debut in 1999? JOHN LESLIE 2. Scot Hastngs won 65 caps, all but fve at centre. Where did he play in the remaining games? FULL-BACK or WING 3. In 2000 Scotland had a real Litle and Large. One was 7 feet tall; the other was 5 feet 6 inches. Who were they? RICHARD METCALFE and GRAEME BEVERIDGE 4. Which Scotsh forward was the owner of a Grand Natonal winner called Rubstc? JOHN DOUGLAS 5. Scotland were the last of the Internatonal sides to wear numbers on their shirts. True or False? TRUE 6. Scotland have beaten all the Six Natons sides on the very frst occasion they met- except for one. Which one? ITALY 7. Where did Scotland beat Japan 100-3 in 2004? -McDIARMID PARK 8. Who scored a Full House- try, conversion, penalty and drop goal-against Wales in 1991? 9. In which year did Murrayfeld have the electric blanket installed- 1951, 1961 or 1971? 1961 10.Who was the only Scot in the Barbarians team that beat the All Blacks in 1973 at Cardif Arms Park? 11.What was the fnal score in the infamous 111 line-outs game between Scotland and Wales at Murrayfeld in 1963? SCOTLAND 0 WALES 6 12.Which Six Natons side did Scotland beat twice in a year- 16-15 and 26-6? ENGLAND 13.Why did the SRU refuse to let any Scotsh players play in Services Internatonals during the war years? THESE TEAMS CONTAINED RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYERS 14.In 1973, there were allegedly 104,000 in Murrayfeld and about 20,000 locked out. Who were Scotland playing? WALES 15. Which two Scots were in the Rest of the World XV which played New Zealand in the 1992 NZRFU Centenary Match? and .