The Banter Central FC end of year quiz 2011

26 competitive games were played in 2011 and Banter won 16 of them. As ever, we celebrated the end of the year with another big Banter Central FC quiz.

The questions, answers and those who got it correct, are all below.

Note: unless the word ‘friendly’ is used in the question, it always refers to competitive matches.

1. Going back to the very beginning of 2011, which captain was victorious in the Banter vs. Central friendly?
Ben Doherty
(Ben Doc, Elmander, Euro trash, The Icon, tino, vidic)

2. Which player was brought down and successfully converted the resulting penalty in that game?
David Baird
(Elmander, Euro trash, ridders, Susie, The Icon, tino, vidic)

3. Who has scored the most Banter goals in 2011?
Chris Brown, 18 goals
(Ben Doc, Elmander, Fintan, ridders, Susie, tino, The Icon, vidic)

4. Seven teams have defeated Banter this year. You can have one point for each that you can name, but beware! For this question only, you will lose one point for each incorrect answer.
Barracuda (Ben Doc, Euro trash, tino, vidic)
Croydon Independiente B (vidic)
Woodmansterne Hyde (Elmander, Euro trash, ridders, vidic)
Santos 92 (Ben Doc, Elmander, Euro trash, Fintan, The Icon, tino, vidic)
Ashburton Wanderers (Ben Doc, Euro trash, Fintan, ridders, The Icon, tino, vidic)
Surrey Valley (twice, but no extra points for that) (Ben Doc, Elmander, Euro trash, Fintan, Susie, Tall Paul, The Icon, tino, vidic)
Wheelwrights (Ben Doc, Elmander, Fintan, ridders, Tall Paul, The Icon, vidic)

Points were deducted for wrong answers

5. 2010/11’s goal of the season was scored in this calendar year. Who scored it?
Tommy Warburton, vs. Kurdish Euro (a)
(Ben Doc, Euro trash, Fintan, ridders, The Icon, tino)

6. Which player opened the scoring in April’s semi final against Ashburton Wanderers?
David Baird
(Euro trash, The Icon, ridders, tino, vidic)

7. In 2011, three players have achieved the very rare feat of winning back-to-back man of the match awards. You can have one point if you can name two of them, two points if you can name all three.
Rob Stewart – January 2011 (Euro trash, Fintan, ridders, tino)
Andrew ‘Tino’ Sheridan – April 2011 (Ben Doc, Fintan, Tall Paul, tino, vidic)
Phil Hughes – November 2011 (Ben Doc, ridders, Susie, Tall Paul, tino, vidic)

8. What was the score in the Nottingham pre-season tour match against Eastwood & Kimberley?
2-5
(Euro trash, Fintan, ridders, Tall Paul)

9. Banter have failed to score in one game this year. Who was it against?
Barracuda 0-1, January 2011
(Euro trash, Tino, vidic)

10. After Cling, which player has played in the most games this year?
Dan Wilkes, 25/26 games
(Fintan, ridders, vidic)

11. Name the players (one in each case and one point per correct answer) who scored the winning/deciding goals in these tightly fought contests:
a) 06/02/11 – Real Madras 2-3 Banter Central - Warburton (Tall Paul, tino)
b) 09/10/11 – Shirley Rangers 0-1 Banter Central - Hughes (Euro trash)
c) 06/11/11 – Donnington W 0-2 Banter Central - Warburton (Euro trash, Fintan, ridders, Susie)
d) 04/12/11 – Coulsdon Town 3-4 Banter Central - Ridley (Ben Doc, Elmander, Euro trash, Fintan, ridders, Tall Paul, tino)

12. Finally, five players have made competitive appearances for Banter this year without ever being defeated. Not once. Only the final result counts, i.e. not the score when they came on/went off. You can have one point for every undefeated Banterer in 2011 that you can name.
First, apologies. I checked and checked but your answers gave me some more thinking to do and so there are actually more than five names. I’ve re-checked and the final list is below. I stayed lenient if descriptions were clear enough and people couldn’t remember names properly.

Richard Bennett (Ben Doc, Euro trash, Fintan, ridders, tino, Susie)
Alex Bush (Ben Doc, Tall Paul)
James Sinclair (Ben Doc, Euro trash, Fintan, ridders, The Icon, tino, Susie)
Bill Stagg (ridders)
Charlie Stagg (Ben Doc, Euro trash, ridders, The Icon, tino, Susie)
Ben Waller (Euro trash, ridders)

The results

Tall Paul – 4 - it also looks a lot like he cheated to get this

Susie – 7 - she's attended 25 games and "baby brain" is an excuse being trotted out a little too much now...

Elmander – 8 - not even he knew how many games he'd played

Fintan – 11 - a valiant effort

The Icon – 11 - likewise

Ben Doc – 12 - likewise +1

vidic – 14 - very nice, not just because he moved to Oceania (not the club) in June, but because he answered all 7 teams in the defeated question right

tino – 15 - very close, a splendid display

Ridders – 16 - no cigar, but almost another title for the 2009 winner

But in first place, with a fantastic 18 points is...

Euro trash !!!