Wednesday 12th February 2025
Difficulty: Hard

Cursed sports teams (Quiz #817)

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1. Which English football team's ground is said to have been cursed by a community of travellers that was removed from the land on which their stadium was built?

A. Birmingham City

B. Fulham

C. Wolverhampton Wanderers

2. Portuguese football team Benfica were European Cup winners in 1961 and 1962. But why is coach Béla Guttmann said to have put a curse on the club, since which time they have failed to win the competition, in spite of reaching the final five times?

A. He was denied a pay rise

B. He wasn't allowed to make an expensive transfer deal

C. One of the players had an affair with his (Guttmann's) wife

3. Who is said to have cursed Gaelic football team Mayo in 1951, causing them to lose every one of their 11 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final appearances since?

A. A priest (because the team disrupted a funeral)

B. A pub landlord (because the team drank his pub dry without paying)

C. A young woman (because the team captain rejected her romantic advances)

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