Team History: Celtic FC Trivia Quiz

Answer: Hibernian

The club was formally established at St Mary's Church Hall in Glasgow. Andrew Kerins, better known as "Brother Walfrid" in his Irish Marist community, is credited as the club's founder. Victorian Britain was often associated with poverty, and Scotland often suffered the brunt of it. Brother Walfrid hoped to use Celtic as a means of raising funds to alleviate the effects that poverty had on Glaswegians.

The fund-raising pursuit that Celtic embarked upon in their embryonic days was inspired by Hibernian, a club in Edinburgh that was formed in 1875 out of the Scottish capital's immigrant Irish population.

Answer: William Angus

Angus was hardly a legend at Celtic, making a few appearances for the reserve team before leaving in the 1913-14 season, but his bravery in the battlefield was remarkable. In June 1915, while stationed in Givenchy, France, Angus saved Lt James Martin who had been wounded near the German line. As a result, Angus was wounded 40 times and lost an eye, but was regarded as a hero upon his return to Scotland.

Craig played three seasons at Celtic, and was the last player with connections to the club to die in the war. Johnstone was the only contracted Celtic player to die in the war, falling in May 1917 during the Battle of Arras. Roose played in a trial match for the club in 1910 and died in the back-end of the Battle of the Somme, falling in October 1916.

Answer: India

In 1936, the club signed Mohammed Salim, who was born in Calcutta within British India. Salim had been plying his trade in the Calcutta Football League. After inviting Hasheem, a relative living in England, to watch him play, Hasheem insisted that Salim move to Europe to play. Celtic manager Willie Maley could not envisage a bare-footed Indian competing against Scottish professionals.

Salim scored a penalty on his debut against Hamilton Accies and the Scottish sporting press became enamoured by Celtic's new foreign star. The Scottish Daily Express said "Brother Hasheem thinks Salim is wonderful - so did the crowd last night". Salim would only play twice, before becoming homesick and ditching his European experience and returning back to India.

Answer: 7-1

The game took place on 19 October 1957. Centre forward Billy McPhail scored a hat-trick and left winger Neil Mochan netted twice, while Sammy Wilson and Willie Fernie also netted for the Hoops. The game was still close at half-time, with Celtic leading 2-0 before the onslaught that followed in the second half.

The game remains an important fixture in the bitter history between the two clubs. It was the biggest margin of victory in a British cup final in history and Celtic fans still sing about the match to this day, chanting "Hampden in the Sun" to the tune of Harry Belafonte's Islands in the Sun.

Answer: Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

Celtic's first European adventures took place in the 1960s. They first competed in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1962-63, despite only finishing third in the league the previous season. (In the competition's early years, teams qualified by originating from a city that organised trade fairs).

Celtic's first opponent in European competition was Spanish club Valencia, with the Bhoys losing 6-4 on aggregate (2-4 away then 2-2 at home). The club first competed in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1965-66, making their debut in the European Cup the following year. The club's first appearance in the UEFA Cup came in 1976-77.

Answer: Stevie Chalmers

It was quite a remarkable transformation for the club. When Stein arrived at Celtic Park in March 1965, the club was in the midst of a trophy drought that had existed since 1957. In the 1966-67 European Cup, the Hoops defeated FC Zurich, Nantes, Vojvodina and Dukla Prague before facing off against Inter Milan, who had won the title in 1964 and 1965.

Inter led after just seven minutes, when Sandro Mazzola netted a penalty. Celtic, sticking to their principles of what Stein called "pure, beautiful, inventive football", replied with two second half goals, first from Gemmell before a Bobby Murdoch shot hit Chalmers and bounced into the net. They became the first British team to win the competition. They also won the Scottish league title, the Scottish FA Cup, and the Scottish League Cup; for an unprecedented Quadruple.

Answer: Bobby Lennox

All of the Lisbon Lions were born within 30 miles of Celtic Park. Lennox, who spent 20 years at the club between 1961 and 1981, was born in Saltcoats, 30 miles away from Celtic Park.

The European Cup victory remains the greatest achievement in Celtic's history, and the club has taken many steps to ensure the legacy of their Lions is protected. The entire East stand at Celtic Park is dedicated to the Lions, while the West stand is dedicated to Stein personally. Since December 2015, a statue of captain Billy McNeil holding the European Cup trophy has been placed outside the stadium.

Answer: The final was played at the home stadium of Celtic's 1967 final opponents

Celtic headed into the final on the back of winning another league title and the Scottish League Cup in 1969-70, and were the comprehensive favourites to lift the trophy again against Feijenoord. Ultimately, despite a first half lead through Tommy Gemmell's strike, Feijenoord won the match 2-1 through goals from Rinus Israel and Ove Kindvall.

The final was played at the San Siro in Milan, Italy. The stadium is home to both Inter Milan, whom Celtic defeated in the 1967 final, and their local rivals AC Milan. The match went to extra time, not penalties (the first European Cup final to go to penalties was Liverpool's victory over Roma in 1984). Seven of the players to start in 1967 also started in 1970, with Billy McNeill, Tommy Gemmell, Bertie Auld, Bobby Murdoch, Jimmy Johnstone, Willie Wallace and Bobby Lennox starting both finals.

Answer: MTK Budapest and CSKA Sofia

Celtic's dominance of domestic football in this period was almost unparalleled at the time, winning the league title every year from the 1965-66 season to the 1973-74 season. This tied MTK Budapest, who won the Hungarian national championship every year between 1917 and 1925 and CSKA Sofia who won the Bulgarian First League every year between 1954 and 1962.

The record has since been broken numerous times with clubs such as Skonto Riga, Lincoln Red Imps (both 14 times in a row) and Rosenborg and BATE Borisov (13 times in a row) dominating their leagues on an unprecedented scale.

Answer: 822

McNeill had signed for Celtic in 1957 when Jock Stein, the then reserve team coach, had spotted him playing for Scotland schoolboys against England. Over the course of an 18 year period McNeill, nicknamed Cesar, became an iconic figure at Parkhead, making 822 appearances for the Bhoys, never being substituted once.

McNeill achieved countless accolades during his time as a player. He was awarded the Scottish Footballer of the Year in 1965, the first time it was awarded. He was a perennial figure in the team that dominated Scotland and the entirety of Europe in 1967 and even scored the winning goal in the 1965 Scottish Cup Final against Dunfermline. He won nine consecutive league titles, seven Scottish Cups and six Scottish League Cups as well as the 1967 European Cup. He was the first British player to lift the European Cup trophy. His last game as a Hoops player was the 1975 Scottish Cup Final against Airdrie, a 3-1 win. McNeill is considered by many Celtic fans as the greatest player in club history.