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Quiz 30 -
Sporting Adverts - Answers
So how do you think you did.....
10 correct
Perfect - so how many hours a day do you watch TV?
7, 8 or 9 correct
Yes, the adverts are often better than the sport!
4, 5 or 6 correct
A good attempt.
1, 2 or 3 correct
You obviously get out a bit.
0 correct
You obviously go out a lot - or flick through the channels at a break!
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Well
it would have been an easy one back in 2013 but memories fade!
Back then he was a retired footballer - but a well-known one - advertising Kronenbourg
lager on our TV screens. Who?
Eric Cantona |
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The advice to
sporting superstars Jessica Ennis-Hill, Jenson Button and Rory
McIlroy must surely have been 'don't give up your day jobs'
after they had appeared together advertising which bank?
Santander
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Back in the 1970s Kevin Keegan
and Henry Cooper got hot and sweaty together advertising which
product?
Brut
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What one player
did in a match in January 2013 saw one of the clever Specsavers ads
hit the newspapers. Who was the player they were suggesting should
have visited them for a sight test?
Chelsea's Eden Hazard
who had been sent off for 'fouling' a Swansea ball boy in an attempt
to get the ball off him -
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The Coles in happier times.
Back in 2006 - pre-marriage - the international superstar and the
Chelsea footballer got together to advertise what?
The National Lottery
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Long before David Beckham came
on the scene who was the original Brylcreem footballer?
Former Fulham and
England footballer Johnny Haynes
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Players are now bill-boards
for the businesses that sponsor clubs. At the start of the
2013/14 season Newcastle United's new sponsor was a controversial
one with one of their players,
Papiss Cissé, initially refusing to wear a club shirt with the
logo of the new sponsor on it. Who were those sponsors?
Payday loan company
Wonga
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In one of the most famous
footballing ads of them all came a piece of classic coaching advice. If you
didn't drink all your milk you would end up playing for which club?
Accrington Stanley -
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Kevin Keegan did his bit for
road safety when, as probably most famous footballer in the country
at the time, he publicised a code to help kids cross the road
safely. What was the name of that code?
The Green Cross Code
- and you can still buy retro copies of that T-shirt!
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Peter Crouch, serial switcher, hit the TV
screens in 2019 although the switcher bit was more to do with the
ad than the number of football clubs he had played for. It was an
ad for which business?
Carphone Warehouse
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