Christmas Quiz Answers

Here are the answers to the Rugby World Christmas Quiz...

A. EARLY EXCHANGES

1. Varsity Match

2. They've all won 100 caps

3. He detected Leicester lineout weaknesses that brought two tries for Wasps

4. Reds

5. Devon (beat Lancashire in County Championship final)

6. New Zealand

7. It was played in England instead of North America

8. False - Scotland conceded six points more

9. Cigarette lighter

10. Lawrence Dallaglio

11. Billy Dods (an 'extra' who was on the England bench in the final)

12. Elvis Vermeulen

13. Chris White

14. Borders

15. Italy scored three converted tries to lead 21-0

16. A gang of bikers were about to stay and they feared noise disruption

17. A sheep

18. Shane Horgan, Marcus Horan and John Hayes

B. KEEPING IT TIGHT

19. Australia's Owen Finegan (in 1999)

20. It resulted in only the second draw in World Cup history

21. He missed a forward pass in the build-up to France's winning try in the

quarter-final

22. As TMO he ruled that Mark Cueto hadn't scored in the final against South

Africa

23. Canada's Ric Suggitt

24. Felipe Contepomi

25. John Hart, NZ (1991 and 1999) and Bernard Laporte (2003 and 2007

26. 2001

27. Shock the world<

28. Bryan Habana, Felipe Contepomi, Richie McCaw, Yannick Jauzion, Juan

Martin Hernandez

29. He damaged some cars in a late-night incident at New Zealand's hotel at

Heathrow Airport

30. Ugo Monye

31. Marc Lievremont

32. HSBC

33. Sean Lamont

34. Tom Walkinshaw

35. Play 50 Heineken Cup matches

C. THIRD QUARTER

36. Takudzwa Ngwenya

37. Wasps and Munster

38. Gordon Bulloch, Chris Cusiter, Simon Taylor and Jason White

39. Drug tests

40. Outgoing IRB chairman Syd Millar

41. Because engineering works affected the train service

42. Toby Flood

43. Gerald Davies

44. Gethin Jenkins

45. Prince William Cup

46. Triple Crown trophy

47. Because of political instability in the East European country

48. David Strettle

49. The longest kick in Welsh international rugby - 70 yards, 8.5 inches

50. Mark, Stephen, Duncan, Adam. Alun Wyn and Ryan

51. Dave Gallaher (born in County Donegal in 1873)

52. Gregor Townsend

D. PUSH FOR VICTORY

53. The disbanding of Connacht

54. Nili Latu

55. Garryowen

56. Ronan O'Gara

57. True

58. They were the 1,000th player to be capped by their country

59. All World Cup winners who played in the Varsity Match

60. The final between South Africa and England (15-6)

61. Murray Kidd, Brian Ashton and Warren Gatland

62. Colin Charvis (v France 2003, v Canada 2003, v Argentina twice in 2006)

63. Ollie Smith and Geordan Murphy

64. Cardiff (Heineken Cup final hosts)

65. Chris Paterson, Nathan Hines, Allan Jacobsen and Richard Metcalfe

66. Princess Anne

67. Who Scotland played their final World Cup game against

68. False. They've also lost to South Africa in 1937, Australia in 1949 and

to France in 1994

69. Ben Kay