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Songs about Cricket Trivia Quiz

A lot of wonderful songs are inspired by the crack of leather on willow, so let's see how you go at these.

A multiple-choice quiz by Quacker. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
Quacker

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
66,198

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
330

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Question 1 of 10

1. Paul Kelly remains Australia's godfather of cricket songwriting. In which of his song does he, as a child, pore over cricketing tomes? Hint

Dumb Things

How to Make Gravy

Wisden's

Other People's Houses

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Question 2 of 10

2. In Kelly's encomium 'Bradman,' which of the following is not part of the plan that 'Captain Douglas' had? Hint

Body Line

The Mulligrubber

Leg Theory

Stacked onside fields

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Question 3 of 10

3. In the Lucksmith's gem 'Victor Trumper,' in which old-fashioned fashion is Victor dismissed? Hint

Hit Wicket

Handled Ball

Stumped

Mankadded

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Question 4 of 10

4. In the Lucksmith's gem 'Victor Trumper', how does the singer feel when Trumper goes out? Hint

Like the Demon Spofforth

Like tuberculotic gutters

Like a boy who has killed a dove

Like a dozen guineas

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Question 5 of 10

5. Ruck Rover have a song about indoor cricket named after which aspect of fast medium bowling popular on subcontinental pitches? Hint

Leg Cutter

Reverse Swing

Googly

Middle, Leg and Miandad's pad

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Question 6 of 10

6. Paul Kelly's 'Bradman': what did He do with Them in Kent. Hint

Murder

Dance

Assault

Slaughter

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Question 7 of 10

7. The Mabels have particularly catholic sporting tastes. As for cricket, they have a song named for which aggressive tactic resurrected by the famously dull Mark Taylor? Hint

A Sporting Declaration

The Box Cutter

Joel Garner's Coaching

Bat Pad

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Question 8 of 10

8. The Mabels have a song named for an aggressive tactic resurrected by the famously dull Mark Taylor: in this song, where does the singer's belle have her feet? Hint

Up in his pavilion

Over a yorker

On middle and off

A hair's breadth short

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who is 'Avril' in the Ruck Rover song of the same name? Hint

Australia's finest women's spinner

Don Bradman's illegitimate daughter

Steve Waugh's long-suffering wife

Phil Tufnel between the punk years and the England cap

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which of the following was never a custodian of the Australian cricket team's celebratory ode 'Under the Southern Cross We Stand'? Hint

Greg 'Fat Cat' Ritchie

David 'Keg with Legs' Boon

Rod 'Bacchus' Marsh

Ricky 'Punter' Ponting

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Paul Kelly remains Australia's godfather of cricket songwriting. In which of his song does he, as a child, pore over cricketing tomes?

Answer: Other People's Houses

Paul used to accompany his mother on cleaning rounds, and sometimes he was allowed to look at the cricket books on the shelves. Paul is yet to write a song called 'Wisden's,' but someone probably has.

2. In Kelly's encomium 'Bradman,' which of the following is not part of the plan that 'Captain Douglas' had?

Answer: The Mulligrubber

England captain Douglas Jardine (actually a Scot) employed leg theory, popularly called 'body line,' in which a strong on side field was placed and a stable of fast bowlers would bowl at the batmen's bodies, forcing either risky fending shots or body blows.

The Mulligrubber was masterminded by Australian captain Greg Chappell in a limited overs match against New Zealand when Chappell instructed his brother Trevor, with six runs required, to roll the last ball of the Black Caps' innings along the pitch. For any Kiwis reading, as an Australian, I apologise.

3. In the Lucksmith's gem 'Victor Trumper,' in which old-fashioned fashion is Victor dismissed?

Answer: Stumped

'and he dances down the wicket and he's stumped and I am stunned.' Nowadays, there is a resurgence in spin bowling and, cocomitantly, in stumpings, but there was a time in the 80s when Dean Jones was keeping it alive almost singlehandedly.

4. In the Lucksmith's gem 'Victor Trumper', how does the singer feel when Trumper goes out?

Answer: Like a boy who has killed a dove

Trumper is one of the game's great tragic figures, dying of tuberculosis in his thirties. Turn of the twentieth century cricketers rival great Yiddish writers in their propensity to die of T.B..

5. Ruck Rover have a song about indoor cricket named after which aspect of fast medium bowling popular on subcontinental pitches?

Answer: Reverse Swing

'We look so thin in our pyjamas, but not as thin as the guys from Bowlarama.' Pakistani batsman Javed Miandad never went out L.B.W. at home, so you'd be mad to aim for the stumps there!

6. Paul Kelly's 'Bradman': what did He do with Them in Kent.

Answer: Dance

This was on the tour following the body line controversy, in a tour match.

7. The Mabels have particularly catholic sporting tastes. As for cricket, they have a song named for which aggressive tactic resurrected by the famously dull Mark Taylor?

Answer: A Sporting Declaration

Taylor loved results, but still was extremely boring.

8. The Mabels have a song named for an aggressive tactic resurrected by the famously dull Mark Taylor: in this song, where does the singer's belle have her feet?

Answer: Up in his pavilion

The Mabels love the sporting metaphor a little too much.

9. Who is 'Avril' in the Ruck Rover song of the same name?

Answer: Australia's finest women's spinner

'What would Avril Fahey say if she was here with us today?' This is an absolutely fantastic song.

10. Which of the following was never a custodian of the Australian cricket team's celebratory ode 'Under the Southern Cross We Stand'?

Answer: Greg 'Fat Cat' Ritchie

When Dean Jones was hallucinating, vomitting and wetting himself on the way to his 210 in the tied test at Chennai in 1986 (probably the bravest innings of all time), Border spurred him on by agreeing to let him retire at 150 and 'get a real Australian out here. A Queenslander' with reference to Greg Ritchie.

Source: Author Quacker

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