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31st October 2012:
Q: Which club has the highest number of different 2012-13 Premier League goalscorers up to Matchday 9?
A: 12 different players have scored Premier League goals for Manchester United so far this season: Robin van Persie (7 goals), Wayne Rooney, Javier Hernandez, Rafael Da Silva & Shinji Kagawa (2 goals each), Alex Buttner, Danny Welbeck, Patrice Evra, Jonny Evans, Nick Powell, Paul Scholes & Tom Cleverley (1 goal each).
30th October 2012:
Q: Which club has won promotion to the Top Flight of English Football the most times?
A: Birmingham City with 12 promotions to the Top Flight. Leicester City and Manchester City have been promoted to the Top Flight 11 times each.
29th October 2012:
Q: Which club holds the record for the highest number of promotions & relegations in English League Football?
A: Grimsby Town with a total of 28 (12 promotions & 16 relegations).
28th October 2012:
Q: Which nine stadiums that have hosted Premier League matches no longer exist now?
A: Ayresome Park (Middlesbrough), Baseball Ground (Derby County), Burnden Park (Bolton Wanderers), The Dell (Southampton), Filbert Street (Leicester City), Highbury (Arsenal), Highfield Road (Coventry City), Maine Road (Manchester City) and Roker Park (Sunderland).
27th October 2012:
Q: Which five clubs played in both the Third Division North & Third Division South?
A: Coventry City, Mansfield Town, Port Vale, Shrewsbury Town and Walsall.
26th October 2012:
Q: How many of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations Finals teams feature stars on their flags?
A: 10 of the 16 Nations: Angola, Morocco, Cape Verde, Ghana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Algeria & Togo.
25th October 2012:
Q: Which current Football League club used to have Lindsey as part of their name?
A: Scunthorpe United were called Scunthorpe and Lindsey United from 1910 to 1958.
24th October 2012:
Q: Which six clubs have spent 50 seasons or more in the Second Flight of English Football?
A: Barnsley (72 seasons), Leicester City (61), Hull City (56), Grimsby Town (52), Fulham (51) and Nottingham Forest (50).
23rd October 2012:
Q: Which nine Mali internationals have appeared in the Premier League?
A: Kalifa Cissé (Reading), Samba Diakité (QPR), Mahamadou Diarra (Fulham), Frédéric Kanouté (West Ham & Spurs), Jimmy Kébé (Reading),
Modibo Maiga (West Ham), Mamady Sidibe (Stoke City), Mohamed Sissoko (Liverpool) & Djimi Traoré (Liverpool, Charlton & Portsmouth).
22nd October 2012:
Q: Which of the 10 CONMEBOL South American countries have never appeared in a FIFA World Cup Finals tournament?
A: Venezuela have never appeared in a FIFA World Cup Finals tournament.
21st October 2012:
Q: Who was the first African Footballer of the Year to win the award while with an English club?
A: Nigeria's Nwankwo Kanu with Arsenal in 1999.
20th October 2012:
Q: What was unique about Frédéric Kanouté's 2007 African Player of the Year Award?
A: Mali's Kanouté was the first recipient not to have been born in Africa - he was born in Lyon, France.
19th October 2012:
Q: Which 9 current All-Time Premier League Top 100 goalscorers have yet to score in the 2012-13 season?
A: Michael Owen (149 goals), Wayne Rooney (144), Ryan Giggs (107), Louis Saha (85), Emmanuel Adebayor (78), Gabriel Agbonlahor (53)
Andrew Johnson (51), Gareth Barry (46) and Carlton Cole (42).
18th October 2012:
Q: How many of the 16 Africa Cup of Nations Finalists 2013 have previously won the competition?
A: Ten: Ghana (4 times), Nigeria & DR Congo (twice each), South Africa, Zambia, Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Ethiopia & Algeria (once each).
17th October 2012:
Q: Which four Chelsea or Tottenham Hotspur players went on to manage either club?
A: Danny Blanchflower (Spurs player, Chelsea manager), George Graham (Chelsea player, Spurs manager), Glenn Hoddle (Spurs & Chelsea player & manager) and Terry Venables (Chelsea & Spurs player, Spurs manager). André Villas-Boas managed both clubs but never played for either of them.
16th October 2012:
Q: Which club's players have won the most England caps under Roy Hodgson after his first 10 matches?
A: Going into the Poland match, players from Manchester City have won 29 caps (25 starts, 4 substitutes) followed by Manchester United (23 + 4) and
Liverpool (19 + 8) both with 27 caps.
15th October 2012:
Q: Which one of the 16 participants of the England 1966 FIFA World Cup made their debut in the Finals?
A: North Korea, who made their second Finals appearance in South Africa 2010.
14th October 2012:
Q: Who are Poland's all-time top three international goalscorers?
A: Wlodzimierz Lubanski (48 goals), Gregorz Lato (45 goals) and Kazimierz Deyna (41 goals).
13th October 2012:
Q: How many players have won two FIFA World Cup Finals?
A: Twelve: Giovanni Ferrari & Giuseppe Meazza (both Italy 1934, 1938), Didi, Djalma Santos, Garrincha, Gilmar, Nilton Santos, Vava, Zagallo & Zito
(all 8 Brazil 1958, 1962), Pele (Brazil 1958, 1970) and Cafu (Brazil 1994, 2002).
12th October 2012:
Q: Which five players have had the shortest England full international careers?
A: Martin Kelly (Liverpool, 2 minutes v Norway 2012), Peter Ward (Brighton, 6 minutes v Australia 1980), Jim Barrett (West Ham, 8 minutes v Ireland 1928),
Brian Marwood (Arsenal, 9 minutes v Saudi Arabia 1988) and Fraizer Campbell (Sunderland, 10 minutes v Netherlands 2012).
11th October 2012:
Q: Which unfortunate FIFA World Cup Finals record does Ernst Willimowski of Poland hold?
A: He is the only player to score four goals in a FIFA World Cup Finals match, yet still be on the losing team. Poland lost 5-6 to Brazil in France 1938.
10th October 2012:
Q: Which three Scottish internationals have won the Premier League Player of the Month Award?
A: Duncan Ferguson (Everton, February 1995), Gary McAllister (Liverpool, April 2001) and Steven Fletcher (Sunderland, September 2012).
9th October 2012:
Q: How many Davids have won Premier League Winners Medals?
A: Five: David Beckham (6 medals), David May (2), David Seaman (2), David Platt (1) and David Silva (1).
8th October 2012:
Q: Which four Premier League teams have not conceded or been awarded a penalty so far this season?
A: Arsenal, Sunderland, Swansea City & West Ham United.
7th October 2012:
Q: In which year did Brazil start wearing their iconic yellow shirts?
A: Brazil's first game with their yellow shirts with green trim was in March 1954. Prior to this, Brazil wore white shirts with blue trim.
6th October 2012:
Q: What was unusual about the football used for the 1930 FIFA World Cup Final?
A: Two different balls were used - Argentina's choice for the first half and Uruguay's for the second half. Uruguay won 4-2 after being behind 2-1 at half-time.
5th October 2012:
Q: How many of the current 20 Premier League managers have won Manager of the Month Awards twice or more?
A: Six: Sir Alex Ferguson (26 times), Arsène Wenger (12), David Moyes & Martin O'Neill (8 each), Sam Allardyce (4) and Roberto Mancini (twice).
4th October 2012:
Q: Which five Republic of Ireland players have won 100 or more full international caps?
A: Shay Given (125 caps), Robbie Keane (121), Kevin Kilbane (110), Steve Staunton (102) and Damien Duff (100). All except Staunton are current players.
3rd October 2012:
Q: How many Foreign players named Paul have appeared in the Premier League since 1992-93?
A: Seven: Paul Okon (Australia), Paul Scharner (Austria), Paul Ifill (Barbados), Paul Stalteri (Canada), Paul Pogba (France), Paul Hall (Jamaica) and
Paul Bosvelt (Netherlands).
2nd October 2012:
Q: How many of the 2012-13 Premier League clubs feature dates in their badges?
A: Seven - Everton (1878), Liverpool (1892), Queens Park Rangers (1882), Reading (1871), Stoke City (1863), Swansea City (1912-2012)
and Wigan Athletic (1932).
1st October 2012:
Q: Who are the only players from Burundi, Gabon & the Faroe Islands to have played in the Premier League?
A: Gael Bigirimana (Burundi - Newcastle Utd), Daniel Cousin (Gabon - Hull City) & Gunnar Nielsen (Faroe Islands - Manchester City).
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