Who is the brains of your family when it comes to Rugby League?
Here is the perfect way to find out after you’ve had your Christmas dinner, with 100 questions that are designed to test your knowledge of Rugby League in the context of the year 2019.
We’re sure our Christmas Quiz will keep you and your family entertained throughout the Christmas holiday.
You can find the answers at the end, but no cheating!!
Betfred Super League
1 Who scored the first try of the Super League season, in the match between St Helens and Wigan on January 31?
2 Tommy Makinson was the league’s top try-scorer with 23 but which two players were one behind him on 22?
3 Two players were shown three yellow cards in 2019 can you name them?
4 Who scored the most field-goals in the 2019 Super League season, with a total of seven?
5 The same player made the most tackles in Super League (1,259), and missed the most (249!) Who was it?
6 There were seven golden-point games – but which side was involved in the most and how many golden-point games did they play?
7 Which side received the most red cards in 2019 and how many?
8 London Broncos’ season ultimately ended with relegation, but who was their top try-scorer in 2019?
9 Which was the first side to score 50 points in a Super League game in 2019?
10 Excluding London Broncos, which Super League side posted the biggest increase in their average crowd in 2019?
Betfred Championship
11 Who was the top try scorer in the Championship in 2019?
12 Which was the only Championship club that Rochdale Hornets beat in 2019?
13 Which was the only team to beat Toronto Wolfpack?
14 Which Super League club had a dual-registration agreement with Halifax?
15 Who scored the opening try of the 2019 Summer Bash?
16 And who scored the final try of the Summer Bash?
17 Who was the official Championship Coach of the Year?
18 Which Championship club reached the Challenge Cup semi-finals?
19 Which former Great Britain international signed for a Championship club but never played for them?
20 Which two players who played in the Super League Grand Final also played in the Championship in 2019?
Betfred League 1
21 Which team did Whitehaven beat 72-0 on the final day to secure promotion to the Championship?
22 Who scored the first try of the League 1 season?
23 Who scored Oldham’s final try to confirm their play-off final victory against Newcastle Thunder?
24 Which two League 1 coaches turned out for Yorkshire in the Summer’s Origin Legends game?
25 Who finished as League 1’s top try scorer?
26 Which League 1 forward was named in six of the seven Rugby League World magazine’s League 1 Teams of the Month?
27 Which two players each scored two tries in West Wales Raiders’ historic first ever win against Coventry Bears?
28 Which League 1 club played four games at Featherstone’s LD Nutrition Stadium?
29 Which North Wales Crusaders player also made his Super League debut in 2019?
30 Who, against Hunslet in September, became Workington Town’s new all-time leading points scorer?
The NRL and State of Origin
31 Which Fijian winger was the NRL’s top tryscorer in 2019?
32 Who scored a last-minute try for New South Wales to win the Origin decider in Sydney?
33 Who was the oldest player in the NRL in 2019?
34 How many English-born players featured in the NRL Grand Final in 2019?
35 Which American band headlined at the NRL Grand Final?
36 Which player was sinbinned during his side’s NRL Grand Final victory?
37 What is the name of Parramatta Eels’ new home stadium in Sydney, which opened in 2019?
38 Which Queensland-based club bid farewell to its stadium in 2019?
39 Who was the only player, playing in Origin II in Perth, Western Australia, who was born in that state?
40 Which city hosted the NRL’s inaugural Magic Round?
Challenge Cup
41 Which two Championship clubs didn’t enter the Challenge Cup in 2019?
42 Who registered the biggest margin of victory in this year’s competition?
43 Which Eastern European club entered the competition for the first time?
44 Which amateur club defeated League 1 opposition in Round 4?
45 Name the two Championship clubs that defeated Super League opposition?
46 Which League 1 club reached the last 16 of the competition?
47 Where was the Challenge Cup semi-final double-header held?
48 Which St Helens player scored the disallowed try at the start of the Challenge Cup Final?
49 Who refereed the Challenge Cup Final?
50 Who won the Lance Todd Trophy?
1895 Cup
51 Sheffield Eagles and Widnes Vikings played in the 1895 Cup Final. Who did they defeat in the semi-finals?
52 Who scored a hat-trick for the Eagles in the Final?
53 What was the scoreline in the final?
54 Who refereed the final?
55 Who won the Ray French Trophy as man of the match in the final?
56 Which quarter-final match went to Golden Point?
57 Which Championship owner’s company sponsored the 1895 Cup?
58 Three League 1 teams didn’t enter the 1895 Cup. Who were they?
59 Doncaster recorded the highest margin of victory in the 1895 Cup. Who did they defeat 70-6?
60 Two clubs moved home ties to alternative grounds in the earlier rounds. Who were they?
Women’s Rugby League
61 Who scored Castleford Tigers’ opening try in the Challenge Cup Final?
62 Which Leeds Rhinos player became the youngest ever player to win a Challenge Cup Final, before going on to score twice in the Grand Final?
63 Who were the three nominees for the Woman of Steel award?
64 Who did Leeds Rhinos beat in both the Challenge Cup and Super League play-off semi-finals?
65 Which two teams will join the Super League in 2020 after finishing first and fourth in the Championship?
66 Which two former England internationals became Bradford Bulls’ coaches in 2019?
67 Who joined Leeds Rhinos from the Army towards the end of the season and scored seven tries in five games?
68 Who became the first player from the York City Knights Foundation’s Girls Excel programme to be handed her first-team debut?
69 Which two teams changed their coach midway through the year?
70 Which team handed Castleford Tigers their only league defeat?
Amateur Rugby League
71 Which two clubs met in both the BARLA National Cup Final and the Kingstone Press National Conference League Grand Final?
72 Who scored the winners’ Golden Point try in the NCL Grand Final?
73 Who notched the clinching score in the National Cup Final?
74 Which Super League star is a coach at Hunslet Club Parkside?
75 Who is the former referee who will coach one of the teams in this Sunday’s BARLA Yorkshire Cup Final?
76 Who coached England’s Wheelchair side to Ashes glory Down Under in 2019?
77 Who were the Southern Conference League champions in 2019?
78 The RFL’s Chief Executive Ralph Rimmer and Super League supremo Robert Elstone played against each other whilst at university. Which Student sides were they playing for?
79 Which team won the Steven Mullaney Memorial Trophy curtain raiser to the Coral Challenge Cup Final at Wembley?
80 Who is the former NCL Player of the Year who has joined Hunslet?
International Rugby League
81 Who scored a hat-trick for England Knights during their win over Jamaica at Headingley?
82 Who scored a hat-trick for Australia in the World Cup 9s Men’s Final?
83 Which nation won the inaugural World Cup 9s Women’s Final?
84 Five teams qualified for the 2021 World Cup in 2019. Can you name them?
85 Who won the inaugural Oceania Cup?
86 Which second-tier nation did the Junior Kangaroos thump 62-4 in October?
87 Who scored Great Britain’s lone try in defeat to Tonga Invitational?
88 Which stadium hosted the triple-header featuring Fiji v Samoa, Australia v Tonga Invitational and New Zealand v Great Britain?
89 Which player was flown out to join the Great Britain squad during their tour in 2019, only to fail to make an appearance for Wayne Bennett’s side?
90 Which Doncaster player inspired Papua New Guinea to victory over Great Britain in Port Moresby?
2019 Miscellany
91 What was Jackson Hastings’ squad number for Salford Red Devils?
92 Who took over from Brian Barwick as the RFL Chairman?
93 Who was the Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Rugby League Group?
94 Who was the Albert Goldthorpe Rookie of the Year?
95 What squad number did Albert Goldthorpe Medal winner Jonny Lomax wear?
96 Before the 2019 general election, which was the only constituency in the United Kingdom to have both a Conservative MP and a professional Rugby League club?
97 Which Super League club didn’t have a player wearing squad number 6?
98 Who was the oldest player to play in Super League, the Championship or League 1?
99 Which player was granted a three-month testimonial in November in recognition of his services to the game?
100 What was the highest squad number in Super League in 2019, which player wore it and for which club?
Now scroll down to find out the answers and how many you got right!!
Betfred Super League
1 Kevin Naiqama
2 Ash Handley and Niall Evalds
3 Jake Connor and Danny McGuire
4 Marc Sneyd
5 Danny Houghton
6 Castleford, three
7 Catalans, two
8 Rhys Williams, 13
9 Warrington, v Hull FC in March, 63-12
10 Salford, 923
Betfred Championship
11 Matty Ashton
12 Barrow Raiders
13 Toulouse Olympique
14 Castleford Tigers
15 Gareth O’Brien (Toronto Wolfpack)
16 Gregg McNally (Leigh Centurions)
17 James Ford
18 Halifax
19 Gareth Hock
20 Jack Ashworth and Aaron Smith (both Leigh Centurions)
Betfred League 1
21 Coventry Bears
22 Alex Clegg (Newcastle Thunder)
23 Jimmy Beckett
24 Chris Thorman (Workington) and Jermaine Coleman (London Skolars)
25 Kieran Gill (Newcastle Thunder)
26 Marc Shackley (Whitehaven)
27 Ash Bateman and Archie Snook
28 Doncaster
29 Callum Hazzard (St Helens)
30 Carl Forber
The NRL and State of Origin
31 Maika Sivo – 22 tries in his rookie season for Parramatta Eels
32 James Tedesco
33 Paul Gallen
34 3 – Josh Hodgson, John Bateman and Elliott Whitehead
35 OneRepublic
36 Cooper Cronk
37 Bankwest Stadium
38 North Queensland Cowboys
39 Kalyn Ponga
40 Brisbane
Challenge Cup
41 Toronto & Toulouse
42 Leeds Rhinos beat Workington Town 78-6
43 Red Star Belgrade
44 Thatto Heath Crusaders
45 Bradford Bulls and Halifax
46 Doncaster
47 Bolton
48 Morgan Knowles
49 Robert Hicks
50 Daryl Clark
1895 Cup
51 Batley Bulldogs and Leigh Centurions
52 Aaron Brown
53 36-18
54 Chris Kendall
55 Anthony Thackeray
56 York v Batley (16-17)
57 AB Sundecks (owned by Derek Beaumont, the owner of Leigh Centurions)
58 Coventry Bears, London Skolars, North Wales Crusaders
59 West Wales Raiders
60 Halifax and Leigh Centurions
Women’s Rugby League
61 Rhiannon Marshall
62 Fran Goldthorp
63 Courtney Hill, Emily Rudge, Kelsey Gentles
64 St Helens
65 Warrington Wolves and Huddersfield Giants
66 Kirsty Moroney and Beth Sutcliffe
67 Abby Eatock
68 Rebecca Waterworth
69 Wigan Warriors and Wakefield Trinity
70 St Helens
Amateur Rugby League
71 Thatto Heath Crusaders and West Hull
72 Matty Plummer (West Hull)
73 Shaun Quinn (Thatto Heath)
74 Paul McShane (Castleford Tigers
75 Richard Silverwood (Mirfield Stags)
76 Mark Roughsedge
77 Hammersmith Hills Hoists
78 Liverpool and Hull
79 Great Sankey (Warrington)
80 Danny Rowse
International Rugby League
81 Greg Minikin
82 Mitchell Moses
83 New Zealand
84 Cook Islands, Scotland, Italy, Ireland and Greece
85 Australia
86 France
87 John Bateman
88 Eden Park
89 Ash Handley
90 Watson Boas
2019 Miscellany
91 Number 31
92 Simon Johnson
93 Judith Cummins, MP for Bradford South
94 Morgan Smithies (Wigan Warriors)
95 Number 1
96 Copeland
97 Hull Kingston Rovers
98 Fuifui Moimoi
99 Jamie Jones-Buchanan (Leeds Rhinos)
100 Number 43 worn by Bevan French for Wigan Warriors
