The Rovers Quiz Book: 1,000 Questions on all Things Blackburn

How much do you really know about the club you love?
You can find out by exploring the 1,000 questions set out in 100 categories that make up this Blackburn Rovers quiz book.
It's not often that books on football make reference to Monopoly, the Grand National, a pint of Guinness, Moses, the Hallé Orchestra, Dudley Moore and Blackadder, but this one does!
Try these for size:
• Which Blackburn Rovers player who never won the FA Cup but did win the League Cup with Stoke City is the only man to score in three FA Cup ties for Rovers against Burnley?
• Who was the only player to appear in all 42 League games when Rovers won the Premier League in 1994-95?
• Which Blackburn Rovers manager won the Champions League as a player with Borussia Dortmund?
• When Rovers won the League Cup in 2001-02, who was their only player to net a hat-trick in the competition?
You will struggle to find anything as comprehensive as this eclectic collection.
It's a must for Rovers fans and you may not see anything quite like it again.

• Language: English
• Publisher: G2 Entertainment
• Release date: Dec 18, 2023
• ISBN: 9781782814320

Book preview

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1. The weather was so bad in 1962-63 that Blackburn’s third round FA Cup tie at Ewood Park was postponed 19 times before it was finally played on 5 March, about two months later than it should have been. Naturally, it ended in a 1-1 draw, necessitating another match, which Rovers lost 3-1. Who were their opponents?

A. Manchester City B. Mansfield Town C. Middlesbrough D. Millwall

2. It took 48 years for the last two of the original 12 Football League clubs from 1888-89 to exit the top flight when they went down together in 1935-36. Blackburn Rovers were one of them. Who went down with them?

A. Aston Villa B. Everton C. Preston North End D. Wolves

3. Ewood Park has played host to two full England internationals. England won 2-1 on 6 April 1891 and lost 2-1 on 3 March 1924. Which two countries did they play?

4. Of what is Blackburn supposed to have 4,000, while in reality it appears to have just one?

5. Blackburn Rovers were in European competition between 1994-95 and 2007-08. Which player with a total of 18 made the most European appearances for them over this period?

6. Who are the only club that Blackburn Rovers have played against in FA Cup semi-finals in two different millennia?

7. Which club did Rovers beat 7-0 at Ewood Park on 18 November 1995, in celebration of the completion of the changes made to the ground?

8. On 13 December 2006, Blackburn Rovers won a UEFA Cup tie 1-0 at Ewood Park with the help of a Lucas Neill goal. The French club they beat has a name that is two female names joined together. What were they called?

9. Rovers went top of the Football League on a freezing cold day on 21 December 1963, when they beat Aston Villa 2-0 at Ewood Park courtesy of two Fred Pickering goals. A local band had also just reached Number One with a song called Juliet, and serenaded the Ewood crowd that afternoon. What were they called?

A. A Fourpenny One B. The Four Pennies C. Threepenny Bit D. Tuppence

10. The same player scored Blackburn’s last goal of the 20th century, on 28 December 1999 away to Portsmouth, and their first goal of the 21st century, on 3 January 2000 at home to Wolves. Who was he?

A. Christian Dailly B. Damien Duff C. Egil Østenstad D. Ashley Ward

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THE BEST OF BLACKBURN ROVERS PART 1

All of these individuals made a significant contribution to the history of the club.

11. Which two consistent full backs who between them played in 567 Football League games for the club forged an excellent partnership in the Rovers side that won promotion out of Division Three in 1979-80?

12. Two defenders from different eras ended up making the same number of Football League starts for Blackburn Rovers. They were Ken Taylor, right back between 1950 and 1964, and David Mail, a central defender between 1982 and 1990. How many League starts did they each make?

A. 100 B. 150 C. 200 D. 250

13. Which left half who came to Ewood Park from Everton in 1965 and moved to Southport in 1971 after making 103 Football League appearances for the club shared his surname with a key character from the early days of Coronation Street, played by Violet Carson?

14. Which tough centre half who appeared in 370 Football League games for Rovers between 1976 and 1987 had a certain claim to fame before he arrived at Ewood when he was sent off in the Merseyside derby on his one and only appearance for Everton?

15. Goalkeeper Terry Gennoe, full back John Bray and winger Noel Brotherston played for Rovers in 759 Football League games between them. Blackburn Rovers wasn’t the only club in Lancashire for which they all played. What was the other one?

A. Bury B. Oldham Athletic C. Stockport County D. Wigan Athletic

16. In the 1960s and 1970s, Roy Vernon, Fred Pickering, Keith Newton and John Bailey all made their way from Ewood Park to Goodison Park after collectively playing in 691 Football League games for Rovers. Which of the four played for Rovers most often?

17. Leyland, Bray, Whelan, Clayton, Woods, McGrath, Bimpson, Dobing, Dougan, Douglas, MacLeod was how Rovers lined up for the 1960 FA Cup final. Which three of those 11 played in fewer than 100 Football League games for the club?

18. Which two wide men were in the Rovers side that won the Premier League in 1994-95, between them playing 456 league games for the club?

19. Which Blackburn Rovers player still holds the club’s record for the number of league goals in a season – a record that he set in 1925-26 with a haul of 43 in 37 games?

20. Which popular player came to Ewood Park from Wolves in 1976 and played 77 Football League games on the wing, in two spells? Earlier, he had been the first man in League football to be shown an actual red card.

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THE BEST OF BLACKBURN ROVERS PART 2

All of these individuals made a significant contribution to the history of the club.

21. Which Rovers player who scored 88 times in 179 Football League games for the club captained Stoke City when they won the League Cup at Wembley in 1972?

22. Which one of the following Rovers goalkeepers did not play in an FA Cup semi-final for the club?

A. Jock Crawford B. Fred Else C. Reg Elvy D. Harry Leyland

23. Which central defender played 134 Premier and Football League games for Rovers after signing from Everton in 1999?

24. Benni McCarthy scored 37 Premier League goals in 109 outings for Blackburn Rovers between 2006 and 2010. Around 80 years before, Syd Puddefoot found the net 79 times in 250 Football League games for Rovers. For which London club did they both play?

25. Which two members of the Blackburn Rovers side that won promotion to the Premier League in 1991-92, who both arrived at the club from Everton, also picked up medals when they won the Premier League in 1994-95, playing 16 games between them?

26. Which popular local player who appeared 387 times in Football League matches for Blackburn Rovers was a vital creative force in midfield when they took the Division Three title in 1974-75?

27. Which player who won the Man of the Match award when Blackburn Rovers won the Full Members’ Cup final at Wembley in 1987 ended up appearing in 182 Football League games in Rovers’ midfield before a move to QPR in 1988?

28. Which central defender who played in 147 Football and Premier League games at Blackburn Rovers towards the end of a great career was the first player to be sent off in an FA Cup final?

29. Which superb player who scored 94 Football League goals for Blackburn Rovers in 256 outings between 1906 and 1917 lost his life in the First World War?

30. Which attacking full back made 132 Football League appearances for the club between 1970 and 1979, before joining Leeds United?

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31. Crawford, Hutton, Jones, Healless, Rankin, Campbell, Thornewell, Puddefoot, Roscamp, McLean, Rigby: that was the Rovers team that won the FA Cup by beating Huddersfield at Wembley in 1928. Who was the only member of that team not to reach three figures in appearances for the club?

32. Which member of that team signed for Huddersfield Town, the team they had beaten, the following season?

33. Mike Ferguson was an exciting forward who played 220 times in the Football League for Rovers before a move to Aston Villa. They had picked him up in 1962 from another Lancastrian club for just £1,000! Who were they?

A. Accrington Stanley B. Bury C. Oldham Athletic D. Preston North End

34. Who came to the club from Southport, scored 45 goals in 106 Football League games and then departed for Sheffield United in 1974?

35. He broke the transfer record when signing for Preston North End from Sheffield Wednesday in December 1949 and scored 95 goals in his 159 Football League games for Rovers between 1951 and 1956, creating large numbers of goals for the free-scoring Rovers with his quality on the ball. Who was he?

36. Derek Dougan, Rovers’ controversial centre forward in the 1960 FA Cup final, and Tim Flowers, their goalkeeper when the Premier League was won in 1994-95, played for a number of clubs in their careers. For which two did they both play besides Blackburn?

37. Two great centre halves, the first of whom played in 165 Football League games between 1957 and 1966, while the second made 172 Premier League appearances between 2005 and 2012, both left the club to join Spurs. Who were the pair?

38. Talking of great centre halves, which man from the days when they were often called pivots shored up the Rovers defence on 260 occasions in the Football League between 1956 and 1963, before leaving to try his luck in Australia?

39. Between them, Mike Harrison, David Speedie, Chris Sutton and Graeme Le Saux played in 455 Football and Premier League games for Blackburn Rovers. What else links them?

40. Which unsung but highly effective utility man played in 35 league games for the club when they won the Premier League in 1994-95, joining from Scunthorpe United and eventually leaving after 257 league games to play for Wolves?

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41. Who played 250 games for the club in two spells between 1993 and 2003, but lasted just two months as Rovers’ manager when he took the job in 2012?

42. Which player with a surname that sounds like the shortened version of a well-known football club appeared in all five of Blackburn’s successful FA Cup finals between 1884 and 1891, scoring in two of them?

43. Which Rovers full back who made 134 league appearances between 1987 and 1992 was a member of Harry Redknapp’s Bournemouth side that knocked Manchester Utd out of the FA Cup by 2-0 at Dean Court on 7 January 1984?

44. This classy playmaker seemed to be on everybody’s shopping list! While he was at Blackburn, rival manager Alex Ferguson said he would have liked him to run United’s midfield if he had been ten years younger, while Mark Hughes, the Blackburn manager of the time, said that if he had been ten years younger he would probably have been at Barcelona! Which player, who ended his career with 94 caps for his country, were they discussing?

45. Crowd favourite Matt Jansen scored 44 goals in his 153 league games for Rovers and netted on his debut at Ewood Park, in a 1-1 draw with a London club on 30 January 1999. He had left another club from the capital to join Rovers. Which two clubs are involved here?

46. This is about two full backs. The first captained the club to the Second Division title in 1938-39 and, after the war, completed a record run of 208 consecutive Football League appearances. The second played in 247 Football League games for Rovers between 1963 and 1972 before going south to Pompey. The first shares his surname with a post-Second World War prime minister, while the second is what politicians often get called! Who are they?

47. Which creative player who was at Ewood Park from 1986 to 1992 scored 35 times in 202 Football League games, helping Rovers to promotion to the Premier League in 1991-92, when he was their second highest league goalscorer, before returning to Leeds, the club from which he had come?

48. Which Rovers players who thrilled the fans between 1913 and 1920 had the superb scoring record of 62 Football League goals in 97 games, his time at Ewood bringing him a league title