The Fiendish Palace Christmas Quiz – The Answers

I hope you have enjoyed the quiz, but I also hope it has frustrated you a little, but kept up your interest over the Christmas break.

Time to put you out of your frustration. Here are the answers …

Five Odd Ones to start

1. Which of these managers is the odd one out and why? – Terry Venables, Neil Warnock, Alan Smith, Dave Bassett and Peter Taylor – Peter Taylor only managed the club once
2. What is the connection between former Palace players Neil Alexander, Cedric Carasso, Bobby Mimms and Neil Sullivan? All are goalkeepers who only played once for Palace
3. Which of these players is the odd one out and why? – Mel Blyth, Shaun Derry, Billy Gilbert, Steve Kember and Neil Shipperley Billy Gilbert never came back for a second spell
4. What connects Palace and the car with the number plate RGX690F? This was the number plate of one of the cars that was used by groundsman Len Chatterton to roll over the divots in the goalmouth in the seventies
5. Which of these players is the odd one out and why? – Alex Dyer, Paul Mortimer, Darren Pitcher, Paul Williams and David Whyte. Darren Pitcher as he was bought from Charlton and the others were sold to Charlton

The Sequences round

6. Which player is next in the sequence and why?

Sean Scannell; Owen Garvan; Marouane Chamakh; Brede Hangeland; __________

Wilf Zaha – first league goal of the season for the last five years

7. Which is the final opposition club in this sequence and why?

Walton & Hersham, Millwall, Scarborough, Leeds, Chelsea, Sunderland, __________

Southampton – were the last team we played in the 1975/76 FA Cup run

8. Can you name the two Palace players at either end of this sequence and why?

_________ Kieron Cadogan, Lee Hills, Mark Kennedy, ____________

Mile Jedinak and Aki Riihilahti, consecutive wearers of the number fifteen shirt

9. Which opposition club is missing from this sequence and why?

Blackburn Rovers, Leicester City, Sheffield United, West Ham United, Watford, __________, Watford

Bristol City – teams we have played in our last play-off games from 1989 onwards

10. What is the missing number and which year is it? 6, 6, 3, 15, 3, 10, 20, ____, 19, 3, 6, 20, 14

1 – We finished first in the “old First Division” in 1993/94. The other numbers are our final League positions in the seasons either side

Classic Line-ups

The next five questions are starting line ups (in alphabetical order) from five notable games in Palace’s history. Which games did these sides start?

11. Ambrose, Butterfield, Carle, Clyne, Danns, Davis, Derry, Hill, Lawrence, Lee, Speroni

Palace versus Wolves February 2010 in the FA Cup – the Butterfield perfect hat-trick

12. Austin, Berhalter, Carlisle, Forssell, Freedman, Kolinko, Morrison, Mullins, Riihilahti, Smith, Thomson,

Stockport away May 2001

13. Barber, Bright, Burke, Hopkins, Madden, McGoldrick, O’Reilly, Pardew, Pemberton, Suckling, Wright

Blackburn Rovers in the May 1989 play-off final second leg

14. Blyth, Cannon, M Hinshelwood, Jackson, Mulligan, Payne, Philip, Possee, Rogers, T Taylor, Whittle

Palace versus Chelsea March 1973, Malcolm Allison’s first game as manager and Jim Cannon’s debut

15. Carter, Dare, Fenwick, Fry, Gilbert, Hilaire, Lovell, MacKenzie, Murphy, Nicholas, Sparks

Palace versus Aston Villa in the 1978 FA Youth Cup final

Who am I?

Here are brief biographies of five Palace players. Can you name them from the clues?

16. I was born in Kent, have played International football but not for England, have spent time on loan in the Championship, but have yet to play for the club in the Premiership

Kwesi Appiah (not Jonny Williams who has played for us in the Premier League)

17. I scored from a corner, played in a World Cup, but ended up in prison;

Rachid Harkouk (not Michele Padavano)

18. I was signed from my home town club, was top scorer in my first season, but forced to retire with a knee injury at age 27;

Kevin Mabbutt (not Mike Elwiss who was not born in Preston)

19. I came to Selhurst with a great reputation from London youth football, had a famous “Ghost goal” wrongly disallowed and never actually scored for the club, leaving soon afterwards;

Freddie Sears (not Clive Allen who did score a few goals)

20. I was a Keeper who played over 250 games for Palace, playing on a promotion-winning side and was on the losing side in an FA Cup semi-final after leaving the club

John Jackson (played for Orient in the 1978 Cup semi-final vs Arsenal)

Only Connect Wall:

If you have watched ‘Only Connect’ on BBC2 you will be familiar with the Connecting Wall round. Here is one specific to Palace.

There are sixteen names in the table below, all surnames of players that have played for the club. Arrange them into four groups of four, where the four players in each group have something in common (other than playing for Palace!).

One group of four should be pretty easy if you know your Palace history – start with that one and take it from there. But look out for red herrings – names that could appear in more than one group!

The four goalscorers in the 1990 FA Cup semi-final

Players sold to Arsenal

Republic of Ireland Internationals (and capped while at Palace)

All called Andy (not Clinton!)