International Rugby League in 2001 Quiz

Answer: True

The American National Rugby League has been running since 1997. The 2001 champions Glen Mills Bulls won the title for the 4th consecutive year, beating Media Mantarays 26-16 in the Championship Final on August 4th, 2001. The other 2 teams in the 2001 competition were New Jersey Sharks and Philadelphia Fight. A 5th team the New York Knights was added to the comp after the season ended.

Answer: True

The 2001 Morroccan Rugby League was a 6 team competition.

Answer: True

Rugby League started in Japan in 1993, and a 6 team domestic competition started in 1998: Japanese League 13.

Answer: True

The Russuan Rugby Football League was formed in 1990. Their 6 team competition began in 1995 based in Moscow, St Petersberg and Tartenstan.

Answer: True

The CRFL has been running a 6 team competiton since the early 1990s.

Answer: False

The strongest and the best Rugby League competition in the world had been run by the National Rugby League since 1998. The ARL ran the national premiership until 1997, and then formed a joint venture, the NRL, with Super League. The ARL continued to run the State of Origin series.

Answer: True

Super League, a 12 team competition, kicked off in 1996. St Helens were champions in 2000, for the 3rd time in 5 years. In 2001 the league was sponsored by Tetley. The domestic competition in England began in 1895, when professional teams split from Rugby Union and formed the Northern Union.

Answer: True

A minor 8 team competition which started in the early 1990s.

Answer: True

The French Rugby League (Ligue de Rugby a X111) was formed on 6 April 1934. Rugby League (Rugby a X111) first came to France on December 31st, 1933 when England played Australia in an exhibition match at the Stade Pershing in Paris. France became the 4th rugby league playing nation, behind England, Australia and New Zealand.

Answer: True

The FNRL started in the 1980s.

Answer: False

A small competition with 4 teams in each of 2 conferences (Leinster and Munster), started in the mid 1990s. In the competition's 2001 Grand Final, played on August 11th, Cork Bulls beat Dublin City Exiles 18-16, and the All Ireland trophy left Dublin for the first time ever.

Answer: False

Bartercard Cup -- At team based in NZ, the Auckland Warriors joined the then ARL competition in Australia in 1995 (replaced by the NZ Warriors in the 2001 season). They were the first team from outside Australia to join the competition.
[it became the NRL competition in 1998]

Answer: False

It's was a 10 team competition (started in 1990). The Port Moresby Vipers appeared in the first two seasons of the Queensland Cup (1995 and 1996), but they pulled out.

Answer: False

A small 6 team competition. It started in 1994.

Answer: False

A minor 10 team competition based around Cardiff.

Answer: True

It folded in late 2000/early 2001.

Answer: False

An 8 team competition, started in 1988.

Answer: True

They did have one in the early 1950s. There was talk in the early 2000s about the competition being restarted.

Answer: True

Although they play at international level, there is no domestic competition in Lebanon.

Answer: False

A small competition with 8 teams was set up in the 1980s.

Answer: True

It started in the late 1990s.

Answer: True

Serbian sports administrator Dragan Marsicevic was the main person behind Rugby League in Yugoslavia when two French University teams were brought to Belgrade in 1953. Most of the teams switched to rugby union in 1964 and that was the end of their local comp.

Answer: United Kingdom, Ireland and France

Australia won the final against New Zealand 40-12.

Answer: True

They brought the 'greatest game of all' to Australia in 1907, and the NSWRL competition began in the following year. England had been playing rugby league since its split with rugby union in 1895.

Answer: Rugby Union

The game of Rugby League began on August 29th, 1895 at the George Hotel, Huddersfield when England's new Northern Union was formed, as a split from Rugby Union. The first round of Rugby League matches was played on Saturday September 7th, 1895. The Northern Union became the Rugby Football League in 1922.