The Rugby Piper Christmas Quiz 2020 ANSWERS WALES 1. Which player played against England on 11 occasions between 1969 and 1981 and never lost a game? JPR WILLIAMS 2. What did Wales wear For the first Hme against England on January 15th, 1949? WHITE SHORTS 3. Who was the first Welshman to win 50 caps? GARETH EDWARDS 4. Which Welsh winger reached the semi-final 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? CLIVE ROWLANDS 7. Which team, outside oF the so-called Big Eight, beat Wales 15-9 in Cardiff in 1988? ROMANIA 8. Which player moved to Widnes Rugby League in 1988 For a reported Fee of £200,000? JONATHAN EDWARDS 9. What are the first names oF the two players with the surname Moriarty who have earned 43 caps between them? RICHARD and PAUL 10.Name the five stand-offs that Gareth Edwards played with For Wales and the Lions. DAVID WATKINS, MIKE GIBSON, BARRY JOHN, JOHN BEVAN, PHIL BENNETT. 11.Which Scoash reFeree dismissed Geoff Wheel in an InternaHonal match- the first ever Welsh dismissal. NORMAN SANSOM 12.How many Hmes did the Pontypool Front row oF Faulkner, Windsor, and Price play together as a unit For Wales- 9,19 or 29?19 13.Which winger scored aber 33 seconds against Ireland in 1997 and aber 46 seconds against Japan in 1993? IEUAN EVANS 14.Who was the first ever Welsh subsHtute when he replaced Gerald Davies with Four minutes leb For play in March 1969? PHIL BENNETT 15.Which two Scoash clubs once had players picked For the Welsh internaHonal side? EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY and EDINBURGH WANDERERS. IRELAND 1. When were floodlights installed at Lansdowne Road- 1985, 1990 or 1995? 1995 2. What are the first names oF the two players called Best who have played InternaHonal Rugby For Ireland? RORY and SIMON 3. Which Irishman scored 18 points For the Lions in South AFrica in 1980? TONY WARD 4. Who captained the 1959 Lions to Australia and New Zealand? RONNIE DAWSON 5. Who was Ireland’s captain in the 1987 World Cup? DONAL LENIHAN 6. Who was Ireland’s first ever subsHtute 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 cap at the age oF 33, seven years aber his previous game For Ireland? TONY O’REILLY 12.Which Irish Rugby InternaHonal took part in the shot-puf in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics? VICTOR COSTELLO 13.Two players played 15 Hmes against England. One was Sella oF France. The other one was an Irishman. Who was he? MIKE GIBSON 14.Who captained Ireland on 24 occasions- Fergus Slafery or Tom Kiernan? TOM KIERNAN 15.Who won more Lions caps- Mike Gibson or Willie John McBride? WILLIE JOHN McBRIDE ENGLAND 1. Who was the first Englishman to be sent off- in 1975 against Australia? MIKE BURTON 2. What was different 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-off 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 STADIUM 5. England won the Wooden Spoon Four Hmes in his seven- year career, but he was a star For the BriHsh and Irish Lions. Who is he? DAVID DUCKHAM 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-Hme streak by Erika Roe and Sarah Bennef? AUSTRALIA 8. Who played at Full-back, wing, stand off and scrum halF For England in his career? AUSTIN HEALEY 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? LAWRENCE DALLAGLIO 11.Who beat England 76-0 in 1998? AUSTRALIA 12.Who succeeded Clive Woodward as England coach? ANDY ROBINSON 13.Who has both played in and coached England Grand Slam teams? ROGER UTTLEY 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 SCOTLAND 1. Who scored a try aber only 9 seconds against Wales in his InternaHonal debut in 1999? JOHN LESLIE 2. Scof HasHngs won 65 caps, all but five at centre. Where did he play in the remaining games? FULL-BACK or WING 3. In 2000 Scotland had a real Lifle and Large. One was 7 Feet tall; the other was 5 Feet 6 inches. Who were they? RICHARD METCALFE and GRAEME BEVERIDGE 4. Which Scoash Forward was the owner oF a Grand NaHonal winner called RubsHc? JOHN DOUGLAS 5. Scotland were the last oF the InternaHonal sides to wear numbers on their shirts. True or False? TRUE 6. Scotland have beaten all the Six NaHons sides on the very first occasion they met- except For one. Which one? ITALY 7. Where did Scotland beat Japan 100-3 in 2004? PERTH-McDIARMID PARK 8. Who scored a Full House- try, conversion, penalty and drop goal-against Wales in 1991? CRAIG CHALMERS 9. In which year did Murrayfield 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 Cardiff Arms Park? SANDY CARMICHAEL 11.What was the final score in the inFamous 111 line-outs game between Scotland and Wales at Murrayfield in 1963? SCOTLAND 0 WALES 6 12.Which Six NaHons side did Scotland beat twice in a year- 16-15 and 26-6? ENGLAND 13.Why did the SRU reFuse to let any Scoash players play in Services InternaHonals during the war years? THESE TEAMS CONTAINED RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYERS 14.In 1973, there were allegedly 104,000 in Murrayfield 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? GAVIN HASTINGS and ANDY NICOL. .