Team History: Liverpool FC Trivia Quiz

Answer: The FA rejected alternate names for the club

Prior to Liverpool FC's creation, Anfield was the home of Everton FC. When the rent for the stadium reached extortionate levels, Everton left the stadium. With Anfield empty, Liverpool's Lord Mayor John Houlding founded Liverpool FC to fill Anfield.

Houlding had wanted to keep the Everton name for the new club, registering the club at Companies House with the name "Everton Football Club and Athletic Grounds Company Limited". Both the FA and the Football League refused to recognise the new club as Everton, so Houlding renamed the team accordingly.

Answer: South Africa

The name "Spion Kop" was originally given to the new stand by local journalist Ernest Edwards, who worked as sports editor for the Liverpool Daily Post and the Liverpool Echo. The Kop is named after a famous hill in South Africa, where a major battle took place during the Boer War.

In an attempt to gain access to the strategic rooftop, more than 300 men in the British army died, many of whom were born in Liverpool.

Answer: 2

The club won league championships in the 1921-22 and 1922-23 seasons. The latter season saw Scott concede only 31 goals in the league, a record at the time. The club was largely unsuccessful in most of Scott's era, as the team had been harmed by the First World War and an ageing squad.

Scott did appear in an FA Cup final in 1914 with Liverpool, but the team lost 1-0 to Burnley. Instead of building a great team around Scott, this period in Liverpool's history was marred by mediocrity and inconsistency.

Answer: 8th

It seemed as if Liverpool were set for an era of dominance when the club won their fifth league title in 1947. However, the mediocrity of the 1930s soon reappeared. Between 1948 and 1953, the team never finished higher than 8th or lower than 17th, peaking with an 8th placed finish in 1950.

Liverpool were relegated after a disastrous 1953-54 season that saw the team finish bottom of the First Division. The team would not find itself back in the top flight until Shankly led the team to promotion in 1961-62.

Answer: Ron Yeats

After a shareholder, John Moores, urged the club to free more funds for Shankly to spend in the transfer market, Liverpool signed St John from Motherwell and Yeats from Dundee United. Shankly said of Yeats, "Take a walk around my centre half gentlemen, he's a colossus!" during the press conference that confirmed Yeats' arrival.

Lawrence was also a solid player for Liverpool throughout the 1960s, making his debut in October 1963. Hunt was an academy graduate at Liverpool and would go on to retire in 1971 as the club's all-time top scorer.

Answer: KR Reykjavik

Liverpool faced the Icelandic side in the preliminary round, with the winners advancing to the round of 16. Liverpool won the tie easily, winning 11-1 on aggregate after 5-0 away and 6-1 home wins.

Shankly's side had an impressive run in their first ever European campaign. The team made it to the semi-finals and conceded just one goal before the semis. Anderlecht and Koln were also defeated by Liverpool during this run. The eventual champions, Inter Milan, defeated Liverpool 4-3 on aggregate in the semi-finals.

Answer: They were all Scottish

Alex Raisbeck, Donald MacKinlay and Ron Yeats were all born in Scotland. Raisbeck (1878-1949) was born in Wallacestone while MacKinlay (1891-1959) was raised in Lanarkshire. Yeats (born 1937) was born in Aberdeen. All three led Liverpool to two league titles.

Answer: 1973

The 1972-73 season saw the club complete its first double, with Liverpool winning the league title and the UEFA Cup. These two cups ended a trophy drought that had started in 1966. On their way to their first European glory, Liverpool defeated Eintracht Frankfurt, AEK Athens, Berliner FC Dynamo, Dynamo Dresden and Tottenham Hotspur.

In the final against Borussia Monchengladbach, Liverpool won the first leg 3-0 after a Kevin Keegan brace alongside a Larry Lloyd goal. Liverpool lost the second leg 2-0, but won the cup regardless.

Answer: Kevin Keegan

Keegan was the team's top scorer heading into the final, having scored four times during the club's European campaign. However, the team's goals in the final came from slightly less expected sources. McDermott opened the scoring in the 28th minute. In the second half, Borussia's Allan Simonsen scored an equaliser.

However, Smith gave Liverpool the lead in the 64th minute before Neal's penalty sealed the victory for the Reds.

Answer: 68

The team's impressive tally was the result of an incredible home record, with the team only drawing twice and not once losing at Anfield in the league. The Reds finished eight points clear of second placed Nottingham Forest. Liverpool's tally broke the 67 point record achieved by Leeds United in 1968-69.

Answer: Liverpool becomes the first British club with a shirt sponsor

Hitachi became the first club sponsor on a British football shirt, with Liverpool donning the sponsor between 1979 and 1982. Chairman John Smith, who had overseen the transformation of Liverpool FC from just a football club to a more corporate brand, justified the move by saying "The days are gone when a club like ours can control its destiny on money coming through the turnstiles".

Rush joined from Chester City in April 1980, while Liverpool won its third European Cup with a 1-0 win over Real Madrid in May 1981. Grobbelaar replaced Clemence at the start ofthe 1981-82 season.

Answer: 13

Liverpool won six league titles during Paisley's ten-season tenure, winning the title in 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982 and 1983. The team also won the League Cup in the final three years of Paisley's tenure, taking the cup in 1981, 1982 and 1983. The FA Cup always eluded Paisley, with the team's best run under his leadership seeing the team lose the 1977 final to Manchester United.

The 1977, 1978 and 1981 European Cups were also won by Liverpool in this time period, and the Reds had previously won the 1976 UEFA Cup before their European dominance began.

Answer: Spectator allocation played a key role in the disaster

The Taylor Report declared spectator allocation as irrelevant to the disaster. His report said, "I do not consider choice of ends causative of the disaster. Had it been reversed, the disaster could well have occurred in a similar manner but to Nottingham (Forest) supporters."

Taylor concluded that policing "broke down" on that terrible day, and that there was no effective leadership in handling the stampede. While many attribute the disaster to the police's refusal to open gates to exit the stadium, Taylor placed more blame at the failure by South Yorkshire Police to close the stadium's access tunnel.

Taylor did not blame Liverpool fans for the disaster nor did he paint the fans in a bad light, but he did say that ticket-less fans, some of whom were drunk, played an "aggravating" role in the disaster rather than a primary cause.

Answer: Delfi Geli

The game was an instant classic. Liverpool looked like they would annihilate their Spanish counterparts after Markus Babbel and Steven Gerrard scored in the opening 20 minutes. Ivan Alonso got one back for Alaves but Gary McAllister made it 3-1 before half time. Alaves forward Javi Moreno scored twice within the first five minutes of the second half to level it at 3-3.

Robbie Fowler's 73rd minute strike seemed to seal it but Jordi Cruyff's 88th minute equaliser forced extra time. Geli's 117th minute own goal was the final blow for Alaves, however, and Liverpool sealed its first European trophy since its return to European football in 1991.

Answer: 30+ goals in all competitions

Torres got off to a great start in English football, scoring 24 goals in the Premier League. Torres also scored six times in the Champions League and three times in the League Cup, bringing the tally to 33.

While Torres did score hat-tricks in consecutive home games, he was not the first player to achieve this. Jack Balmer also accomplished the feat in 1946. While Torres did make the PFA Team of the Year, he lost out on the Young Player of the Year award to Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas. Torres scored in eight consecutive Anfield games, equalling a record set by Roger Hunt.

Answer: 3

Of the 13, only Daniel Sturridge, Philippe Coutinho and Jordan Henderson remained a part of Klopp's squad. Three left after the 2013-14 season, with top scorer Luis Suarez joining Barcelona, Daniel Agger returning to his native Denmark to play for Brondby and Victor Moses returning to his parent club Chelsea. Another three left in 2015 -- captain Steven Gerrard (LA Galaxy) and forward Raheem Sterling (Manchester City). Iago Aspas also returned to Celta Vigo.

As for the remaining four, Martin Skrtel joined Fenerbahce in 2016 while Joe Allen joined Stoke City that same summer. Mamadou Sakho and Jon Flanagan were still technically Liverpool players, but Sakho was relegated to training with the youth players and Flanagan was loaned out to Burnley.

Answer: Marko Grujic

Upon Klopp's arrival at Anfield in October 2015, he chose to avoid big name signings to begin with, so he could analyse the squad properly. Grujic joined the club in January 2016 from Red Star Belgrade, although he spent the rest of the season with his original club. Matip only officially joined the club in the summer of 2016, but he announced in February that he was joining the club. Mane joined in June 2016 while Wijnaldum joined in July.

Answer: Trent Alexander-Arnold

Despite Liverpool's incredible efforts, only four of the team's players were included in the PFA team. Alexander-Arnold was included alongside his fellow Reds defenders Virgil Van Dijk and Andy Robertson. Sadio Mane was the other Liverpool player who made the cut.

Six of the PFA team's players were from Manchester City -- Ederson Moraes, Aymeric Laporte, Fernandinho, Bernardo Silva, Raheem Sterling and Sergio Aguero making the team. The remaining spot went to Manchester United's Paul Pogba.

Answer: Emlyn Hughes and Ray Clemence

Hughes (1967-79) and Clemence (1967-81) both made 665 appearances for the club and incredibly both men started all 665 of these games. Grobbelaar (1980-94) and Hansen (1977-91) made 628 and 620 appearances respectively while Rush (1980-87, 1988-96) and Neal (1974-85) made 660 and 650 appearances respectively. Carragher (1996-2013) made 737 appearances while his long-time team mate Gerrard (1998-2015) played 710 games for the Reds.

Answer: 20

From the club's founding in 1892 until 1896, the post was joint-held by William Edward Barclay and John McKenna. Tom Watson held the post until 1915, while David Ashworth (1919-23) and Matt McQueen (1923-28) held the post for short periods. George Patterson had two separate spells in charge (1915-19, 1928-36).

George Kay was manager between 1936 and 1951, while Don Welsh and Phil Taylor had spells before the Shankly/Paisley era. Joe Fagan was manager between 1983 and 1985. Kenny Dalglish had two spells in charge also (1985-91, 2011-12). Graeme Souness held the post between 1991 and 1994. Roy Evans (1994-98) and Gerard Houllier (1998-2004) had spells in charge, including a period of joint-management in 1998.

Rafael Benitez (2004-10), Roy Hodgson (2010-11), Brendan Rodgers (2012-15) and Klopp (2015-), alongside Daglish's short spell, were the only Liverpool coaches in the 2010s.