Australian Rules Trivia

1. Which team's song is the tune to the French national anthem?

From Quiz AFL Club Songs

Answer: Brisbane Lions

We are the pride of Brisbane town, We wear maroon, blue and gold. Is the first 2 lines from the Brisbane theme song. La Marseillaise is the name of the song which was written by 'Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle' (yes that is his name) in 1792. But it wasn't until 1944 that Norm Byron rewrote the words. The words are almost the same when they were written to how they are now. Before Brisbane Lions was merged, this was Fitzroy's song. The Brisbane Bears had a song set to 'Glory, Glory, Halleluja'.

From Quiz AFL Game Rules

Answer: 9

There are two goal umpires, four boundary umpires, and three field umpires. There are also emergency umpires but they are not on the ground.

From Quiz Know the Laws of AFL

Answer: Spirit of the Laws

These laws are used for consistency so that players and spectators understand what are the basic rules of the game, thus making it easy for an umpire to control the game.

From Quiz Australian Rules Football Lingo

Answer: Taken to the bench

Being 'dragged' is normally a result of a bad error or disciplinary reasons. If a player is reported the umpire has seen him do something illegal in the game of football and will have a trip to the tribunal on the following Monday or Tuesday.

From Quiz AFL Grand Finals

Answer: Hawthorn

Hawthorn won the 1989 Grand Final by 6 points. Hawthorn 21.18.144 defeated Geelong 21.12.138.

From Quiz Footy Rules

Answer: 6

A Footy player scores six points every time he or she kicks it through the middle of the Goals, and gets 1 point for a behind.

From Quiz AFL Football

Answer: Warren Tredrea

He was also Port`s strongest mark.

From Quiz What's the Nickname?

Answer: Crows

Malcolm Blight led the Adelaide Crows in back-to-back premierships in 1997 and 1998.

From Quiz Australian Football Knowledge

Answer: 16

The AFL grew to 16 teams in 1995 with the admittance of Frematle Dockers. It remained at 16 teams when Port Adelaide Power was admitted in 1997, as Brisbane Bears and Fitzroy Lions merged to form Brisbane Lions. From 16 it is reduced to 8 teams in the post-season finals in September every year.

From Quiz Australian Rules Football

Answer: North Melbourne

North Melbourne beat Carlton by 35 points in the 1999 Grand Final.

From Quiz Aussie Rules Pot Pourri

Answer: Cricket

The game that came to be known as Australian Rules Football (or Aussie Rules) began to evolve in Melbourne during the middle of the nineteenth century. There were a number of variants being played in the region and the inspiration for these were drawn from the Gaelic football game, ball games played in British parklands and an Aboriginal game known as marngrook. The latter involved kicking a ball, made of an animal skin stuffed with charcoal or feathers, high into the air. Nothing was formalized or codified until 1858 when a group of cricketers got together to try and find a way to maintain their fitness after the cricket season had ended. This led to a series of games being played between the students from Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar School and these would be recorded by the AFL, the Australian Football League, as the sport's first competitive games. The following is an extract from the journals of cricketer Tom Wills: "Now that cricket has been put aside for some few months to come, and cricketers have assumed some-what of the chrysalis nature (for a time only 'tis true), but at length will again burst forth in all their varied hues, rather than allow this state of torpor to creep over them, and stifle their new supple limbs, why can they not, I say, form a foot-ball club, and form a committee of three or more to draw up a code of laws." (19 July 1858). Almost a year later Tom, along with six other members of the Melbourne Cricket Club, would establish the first formal rules for the game.

From Quiz AFL Club Songs

Answer: Collingwood Magpies

Good old Collingwood forever, we know how to play the game. Is the first 2 lines of Collingwood's club song. This song was rewrote to the tune of the American Civil War and the Boer War marching song 'Goodbye Dolly Gray' in 1906. In the 1980's the board proposed to change some of the words but was turned down by the supporters. The Demon's club song was the second oldest being sung back in 1912.

From Quiz Aussie Rules Mascot Melee

Answer: Collingwood's territorial magpie will swoop Fremantle's laid-back surfer into submission

Collingwood's Jock 'One Eye' McPie is taking on Fremantle's Johnny 'The Doc' Docker at the MCG (the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which is the ground where the season grand final is traditionally played). Johnny is a relaxed and sun-bleached surfer type, and if you don't think the magpie would beat him, you've never been swooped by a territorial magpie in nesting season. Every year, magpies are responsible for sending scores of Australians to the emergency room, particularly in September and October, so look out Fremantle if Johnny has to face off with Jock during season finals.

From Quiz Know the Laws of AFL

Answer: Four

A team must have 14 to 18 players with a maximum amount of four players on the interchange bench. A player count can be called by the opposing captain, and penalties such as the loss of points from a team score and 50 metre penalties can occur.

From Quiz Australian Rules Football Lingo

Answer: Running into or standing in the forwards leading space

Filling the hole is one of the most courageous things a footballer can do. It takes guts to stand in front of a 6'4" and 100kg forward (normally full forward) sprinting straight at him. An example of this type of positioning was when Robert 'Dipper' Robert DiPierdomenico dropped into Gary 'God' Ablett's leading space and suffered a punctured lung for his trouble. Another example was when Peter Caven dropped into Tony Locketts leading space which resulted in serious facial injuries for Caven and a 16 week suspension for Lockett.

From Quiz AFL Football

Answer: Robert Harvey

He won the Brownlow because Chris Grant of the Bulldogs was suspended.

From Quiz Rules of Australian Rules

Answer: Ball!

The spontaneous eruption of 50,000 people yelling is one of the most awe-inspiring sounds in Australian sport. 'Ball' is short for 'Holding the Ball', and relates to one of the more contentious laws of footy. A player must get rid of the ball, by handpassing or kicking it, before he is tackled. If he does not do so, the umpire has two options. Firstly, he will award a free kick to the tackler, or if he considers that the player had no opportunity to dispose of the ball, he will bounce the ball. It seems whatever he decides to do, half of the crowd will disagree with with him, and question his eyesight and the marital status of his parents.

From Quiz What's the Nickname?

Answer: Lions

From Quiz Australian Football Knowledge

Answer: 1994

It went from 4 to 5 in 1972, then became 6 in 1991, and then became 8 in 1994! The competition changed its name from the VFL to the AFL for the 1990 season.

From Quiz Australian Rules Football

Answer: Shane Crawford

Debuting for the Hawks in 1993, he was named captain and won the Brownlow (for the fairest and best) in 1999.

From Quiz Aussie Rules Pot Pourri

Answer: There was no time limit

In the early incarnations of the game the match was deemed to be completed when one of the teams kicked two goals. This led to some long-winded contests. It was reported that in 1858 one game went into its third day. When it got dark, and no further goals had been scored, the game was called a draw. A time limit of 100 minutes was introduced in 1869. This was later reduced to 80 minutes of "actual" playing time, with time-on being added for stoppages. Since the introduction of time limits there has been only one occasion that a game has lasted more than a single day. This occurred in 1996 in a match between St. Kilda and Essendon. The lights in the stadium went out half-way through the game, forcing the players to return the following day to complete the match.

From Quiz AFL Club Songs

Answer: Essendon Bombers

See the Bombers fly up, up! To win the premiership flag. Our boys who play this grand old game, Are always striving for glory and fame! Is the first 4 lines of the Essendon Bombers Club Song. There is a dispute over who actually wrote the song. Two different people are claiming different things. But the common theme is that a band played a song called sunnyside up at an Essendon Club meeting in 1906. And the club loved it so much that they decided to adopt it from there.

From Quiz Aussie Rules Mascot Melee

Answer: Richmond's tiger will maul Sydney's swan

Tiger 'Stripes' Dyer, named after club great Jack Dyer, is the mascot for the Richmond Tigers, and to quote 'Stripes' himself, "How can you beat roar talent?" The Sydney Swans' mascot is Syd 'Swannie' Skilton, and takes the form of a large swan. He was named after Bobby Skilton who played for the team when they were still based in South Melbourne.

From Quiz AFL Game Rules

Answer: 9 metres

The fullback and the full forwards hang around the goal-square but not always. Fullback kicks in from the behinds.

From Quiz Australian Rules Football Lingo

Answer: Kicked the ball low to the ground

'Worm Burners' are usually a result of either a player looking for too much penetration on the kick or kicking under pressure. Hitting a player on the chest is what every footballer aims to do with every pass. Good players will do it time after time.

From Quiz AFL Grand Finals

Answer: Melbourne

Melbourne won 8.16.64 to Collingwood 8.12.60. Neil Crompton snapped a ripper goal with a couple of seconds left.

From Quiz Footy Rules

Answer: Throw it in to the two teams Ruckman

When the ball is forced out of bounds the boundary umpire throws it back into play, but if the ball is kicked over the line on the full, it's a free kick to the opposing team.

From Quiz AFL Football

Answer: Anthony Stevens

It stirred up a lot of the media.

From Quiz What's the Nickname?

Answer: Blues

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