Football quiz: snipers, XXX and the Simpsons – the game on screen

Think you know your football? In the first weeks of lockdown The Blizzard started running online quizzes, the result is The Quizzard: The Blizzard Quiz book, which is available in print or digital form. This quiz is a selection of the sort of questions you can expect. It is deliberately hard – this is The Blizzard, after all. Guardian readers can buy a copy of The Quizzard for the reduced price of £6.99 (print version) or £5 (digital) by entering the code GQUIZ at the checkout. Good luck.

1.Which footballer has the line ‘Hands on the hilt, stupid!’ in the 2017 Guy Ritchie film King Arthur?

2.Which player, who won the Ballon d’Or that year, was shot by a sniper during a match in the 1977 film Skytten?

3.Who is played by Timothy Spall in The Damned United?

4.Which footballer stopped a robbery in XXX: the Return of Xander Cage, with Samuel L Jackson and Vin Diesel, by kicking a napkin holder into the assailant’s face?

5.Which former Leicester and Aston Villa player appeared on a TV screen in the background of the 2001 film Hannibal?

6.Which footballer voiced Clark Kent in the French version of the Lego Superman film?

7.What nationality was the lead character in Goal?

8.Which World Cup winner has a cameo as a doctor in the 2014 Eddie Redmayne film The Theory of Everything?

9.Which former footballer played Marco in the 2001 film Swordfish, starring Halle Berry, John Travolta, Hugh Jackman and Don Cheadle?

10.Which Ipswich goalkeeper played in goal for Germany in the 1981 John Huston film Escape to Victory?

11.Which footballer voiced the character Frank McCay in the German version of the 2013 Disney film Monsters University?

12.Which two countries play each other in Springfield in the Simpsons famous take on football?

13.David Pleat’s commentary on which Southampton forward’s wrongly disallowed goal in an FA Cup quarter-final at Manchester United in 1996 is heard in two different episodes of the long-running British crime drama Silent Witness?

14.In the 1996 Anthony Minghella film The English Patient when Kip and Hana go through the effects of Hardy, the bomb disposal expert played by Kevin Whateley, they find a football scarf – from which club?

15.Which former Liverpool player is played by Dougray Scott in the 2011 film United?

source: theguardian.com