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Round 1

  1. Blackburn Rovers won the FA Cup in three consecutive seasons in the 1880s. Which three?
  2. Blackburn Rovers beat the same Scottish club in both the 1884 and the 1885 FA Cup final. Which club?
  3. Blackburn Rovers won the 1890 FA Cup final 6-1 at Kennington Oval. Which club did they beat?
  4. Blackburn Rovers won the FA Cup for the sixth and last time in 1928. Who did they beat in the Wembley final?
  5. Blackburn Rovers were champions of the Football League First Division twice before the First World War. In which seasons?
  6. Bob Crompton's 41 England caps, won as a Blackburn Rovers full-back, stood as the England appearance record until 1952. Who finally passed it?
  7. Ted Harper set Blackburn Rovers' club record for league goals in a season in 1925-26, a Football League record at the time. How many did he score?
  8. Which forward scored 168 league goals for Blackburn Rovers between 1978 and 1992, more than any other player in the club's history?
  9. Which defender played 18 seasons for Blackburn Rovers from 1969 to 1987, making more appearances than any other player in the club's history?
  10. Bryan Douglas spent his whole playing career at Blackburn Rovers and went to two World Cups with England. Which two tournaments?
Answers — round 1
  1. 1884, 1885 and 1886 — Only Wanderers, in the 1870s, had won three FA Cups in a row before Rovers did it in 1884, 1885 and 1886 — and no club has managed it since.
  2. Queen's Park — Queen's Park, the Glasgow amateurs, reached both finals at Kennington Oval and lost both — 2-1 in 1884 and 2-0 a year later.
  3. Sheffield Wednesday — Wednesday were swept aside by three goals from William Townley — the first hat-trick ever scored in an FA Cup final.
  4. Huddersfield Town — Jack Roscamp scored twice and Tommy McLean once in a 3-1 win over Huddersfield — the last major trophy Rovers would win for 67 years.
  5. 1911-12 and 1913-14 — Bob Crompton was the club's captain for both titles, and the 1914 championship stood as Rovers' last league title until 1995.
  6. Billy Wright — Crompton played his last international in 1914 and his mark survived 38 years, until Wolves' Billy Wright overtook it on the way to 105 caps.
  7. 43 — Harper's 43 in 37 games included five at Newcastle and four against the eventual champions; the League record lasted only until Dixie Dean's 60 two seasons later.
  8. Simon Garner — Garner spent 14 years at Ewood Park, almost all of them outside the top flight, and left for West Bromwich Albion in the summer the Premier League began.
  9. Derek Fazackerley — Fazackerley's 671 games in all competitions were played entirely outside the First Division, in Rovers' long exile in the second and third tiers.
  10. 1958 and 1962 — Douglas won 36 caps and played in every England game in Sweden and Chile; the Darwen End at Ewood Park now carries his name.

Round 2

  1. Blackburn Rovers lost the 1960 FA Cup final 3-0 and finished it with ten men after a full-back broke his leg. He later built the JJB Sports chain and bought Wigan — who was he?
  2. Blackburn Rovers were relegated from the First Division in 1966. How long did they spend away from the top flight before returning?
  3. Blackburn Rovers won a Wembley final in 1987, beating Charlton 1-0. Which competition was it?
  4. In which season did Blackburn Rovers win the Third Division championship?
  5. What is the traditional design of Blackburn Rovers' home shirt, worn since the 1880s?
  6. Jack Walker, the local businessman who took full control of Blackburn Rovers in 1991 and bankrolled its rise, made his fortune in which industry?
  7. Blackburn won the 2002 League Cup final 2-1 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Which club did they beat?
  8. Venky's, the Indian company that bought Blackburn Rovers in November 2010, built its business in which industry?
  9. Kenny Dalglish's Blackburn won the 1992 Second Division play-off final at Wembley to reach the new Premier League. Which club did they beat 1-0?
  10. Which stadium has been Blackburn Rovers' home since 1890, and was substantially rebuilt with Jack Walker's money in the 1990s?
Answers — round 2
  1. Dave Whelan — Whelan fractured his leg in a challenge with Wolves' Norman Deeley, and with no substitutes allowed Rovers had to play out the final a man short.
  2. 26 years — Rovers went down in 1966 and did not play top-flight football again until the inaugural Premier League season of 1992-93.
  3. The Full Members' Cup — Colin Hendry volleyed the winner five minutes from time in the Full Members' Cup, a competition invented for First and Second Division clubs after English sides were banned from Europe.
  4. 1974-75 — Rovers dropped into the third tier in 1971 and came back up as champions four years later; they were relegated to it once more in 1979 before going up again in 1980.
  5. Blue and white halves — The halved shirt dates back to Rovers' Victorian sides, and since the Second World War the blue half has almost always sat on the left.
  6. Steel — Walker built Walkersteel into Britain's largest steel stockholder and sold it to British Steel in 1989, then ploughed the proceeds into his hometown club.
  7. Tottenham Hotspur — Matt Jansen and Andy Cole scored for Graeme Souness's side after Christian Ziege had levelled for Spurs; it was Blackburn's first League Cup.
  8. Poultry farming — The Rao family's Pune-based VH Group is an integrated poultry and processed-food business; the takeover was reported at around £23m.
  9. Leicester City — Mike Newell's penalty settled it, ending more than two decades away from the top flight for Rovers.
  10. Ewood Park — Walker funded a redevelopment costing around £20m, and one of the new stands was named the Jack Walker Stand in his honour.

Round 3

  1. Blackburn were champions in 1994-95 despite losing 2-1 at Anfield on the final day, because the side chasing them could only draw their last match away at which club?
  2. Blackburn broke the British transfer record for a second time in July 1994, paying £5m for Chris Sutton. Which club did he leave to join them?
  3. How many Premier League goals did Alan Shearer score in Blackburn's title-winning 1994-95 season?
  4. In 1993 Blackburn made Tim Flowers the most expensive goalkeeper in British football. Which club did they sign him from?
  5. Who captained Blackburn Rovers through their 1994-95 Premier League title-winning season?
  6. Graeme Souness left Blackburn in September 2004 to take charge of which club?
  7. Blackburn sold Damien Duff for £17m in July 2003. Which club bought him?
  8. Blackburn's eleven-year run in the Premier League ended on 7 May 2012 with a home defeat that confirmed relegation. Which club beat them at Ewood Park?
  9. Andy Cole scored Blackburn's winner in the 2002 League Cup final, roughly two months after signing. Which club did Blackburn buy him from?
  10. Blackburn's 1994-95 title season began with a first-round UEFA Cup exit at the hands of which club?
Answers — round 3
  1. West Ham United — United drew 1-1 at Upton Park and finished on 88 points, one behind Blackburn's 89.
  2. Norwich City — Sutton moved from Carrow Road to Ewood Park and formed the SAS partnership with Alan Shearer in the title-winning season.
  3. 34 — Shearer's 34 equalled Andy Cole's record from the previous season and won him the Golden Boot; Chris Sutton added 15.
  4. Southampton — The £2.4m deal reunited Flowers with Alan Shearer, who had left the same club for Ewood Park a year earlier.
  5. Tim Sherwood — Sherwood wore the armband in midfield, with Colin Hendry marshalling the defence behind him.
  6. Newcastle United — Souness swapped Ewood Park for St James' Park, and Mark Hughes left the Wales job to replace him at Blackburn.
  7. Chelsea — Roman Abramovich's first summer of spending took the Republic of Ireland winger from Ewood Park to Stamford Bridge.
  8. Wigan Athletic — Antolin Alcaraz headed the only goal late on as Wigan won 1-0, sending Steve Kean's side down with a game still to play.
  9. Manchester United — Souness paid around £8m to bring Cole from Old Trafford in December 2001; he had been the Premier League's top scorer at Newcastle years earlier.
  10. Trelleborgs FF — The little-known Swedish side won 1-0 at Ewood Park and drew 2-2 in the return leg in Sweden, knocking the future champions out in September 1994.

Round 4

  1. Blackburn won only one match in the 1995-96 Champions League. Which club did they beat 4-1 at Ewood Park in December 1995?
  2. Two Blackburn team-mates traded punches on the pitch during a Champions League group game in Moscow in November 1995. Graeme Le Saux was one of them, but who was the other?
  3. Blackburn appointed Paul Ince in June 2008, making him the first black British manager in the Premier League. Which club had he just led to the League Two title?
  4. Blackburn goalkeeper Brad Friedel scored a Premier League goal from a corner in stoppage time in February 2004. Which club were Blackburn playing?
Answers — round 4
  1. Rosenborg — Ray Harford's side still finished bottom of Group B with one win, one draw and four defeats from six games.
  2. David Batty — Le Saux broke a bone in his hand throwing the punch, and the captain took a stray blow trying to separate them; Spartak Moscow won 3-0.
  3. Milton Keynes Dons — Ince won the League Two title and the Football League Trophy with MK Dons in 2007-08, but lasted only 177 days at Ewood Park.
  4. Charlton Athletic — Friedel's 90th-minute equaliser made it 2-2 at The Valley, and Charlton went straight up the other end to win it 3-2.

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