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Round 1

  1. Alongside 'the Invincibles', which nickname is Preston North End known by?
  2. 'The Splash', the Tom Finney statue outside Deepdale, recreates a famous 1956 photograph taken at which ground?
  3. In 1952 Preston's board rejected a lucrative offer for Tom Finney from which Italian club, keeping him at Deepdale?
  4. Tom Finney's only FA Cup final ended in a 3-2 defeat for Preston in 1954. Who beat them?
  5. Who scored the last-minute extra-time penalty that won Preston the 1938 FA Cup final?
  6. Preston's 1888-89 Invincibles won the FA Cup without conceding a goal. Which club did they beat 3-0 in the final?
  7. Howard Kendall became the youngest player in a Wembley FA Cup final with Preston in 1964. Which club did he join from Preston in 1967?
  8. Which former Preston player managed the Second Division side to the 1964 FA Cup final?
  9. Preston led twice in the 1964 FA Cup final. Doug Holden scored one of their goals; who scored the other?
  10. Deepdale's Town End stand, opened in 2001, is named after which goalkeeper, who as of the end of the 2025-26 season was Preston's record appearance maker?
Answers — round 1
  1. The Lilywhites — Preston have traditionally worn white shirts with blue shorts at home, hence the Lilywhites.
  2. Stamford Bridge — Sculpted by Peter Hodgkinson and unveiled in 2004, it is based on a photo of Finney skipping through a waterlogged Stamford Bridge in a 1956 game against Chelsea.
  3. Palermo — Palermo offered Finney a £10,000 signing-on fee, wages, a villa and a car, but chairman Nat Buck refused to let him go.
  4. West Bromwich Albion — Preston led 2-1 through Angus Morrison and Charlie Wayman, but West Brom came back with a penalty and a late Frank Griffin winner.
  5. George Mutch — Mutch was fouled by Alf Young and smashed the penalty in off the bar with seconds of extra time left, after BBC commentator Thomas Woodrooffe had promised to eat his hat if anyone scored.
  6. Wolverhampton Wanderers — Beating Wolves 3-0 in the final completed English football's first League and FA Cup Double.
  7. Everton — Kendall moved to Goodison Park for £85,000 in March 1967 and formed the 'Holy Trinity' midfield with Alan Ball and Colin Harvey.
  8. Jimmy Milne — Jimmy Milne, who played for Preston from 1932 to 1939, led the club to the 1964 final and third place in the Second Division that season.
  9. Alex Dawson — Holden struck after 10 minutes and Alex Dawson after 40, but Ronnie Boyce's 90th-minute header won it for West Ham.
  10. Alan Kelly — Irish international Alan Kelly Sr. kept goal for Preston from 1961 to 1973, including the 1964 cup final, and later managed the club.

Round 2

  1. When Bobby Charlton became Preston manager in 1973, which fellow 1966 World Cup winner did he bring in as player-coach?
  2. Bobby Charlton quit as Preston manager in 1975 in protest at defender John Bird being sold to which club?
  3. In 1979 Preston sold which young striker to Manchester City for a then club-record fee?
  4. Preston laid a plastic pitch at Deepdale in 1986. In which year was it ripped up, when it was the last one left in the English league?
  5. Which Preston manager had generous amounts of sand spread along the flanks of Deepdale's plastic pitch?
  6. Preston reached the 1994 fourth-tier play-off final at Wembley but lost 4-2. Who beat them?
  7. Preston's 1995-96 Third Division title made them the third club to win all four professional divisions. Which two clubs did it first?
  8. Which Manchester United youngster scored twice in five appearances on a month-long loan at Preston in 1995?
  9. The National Football Museum opened at Deepdale in 2001. To which city did it later relocate?
  10. Preston beat Swindon Town 4-0 in the 2015 League One play-off final at Wembley. Which Preston player scored a hat-trick that day?
Answers — round 2
  1. Nobby Stiles — Charlton recruited his old Manchester United and England teammate Nobby Stiles, who later managed Preston himself from 1977 to 1981.
  2. Newcastle United — Charlton fell out with the board over Bird's transfer to Newcastle early in 1975-76; his player-coach briefly took over, then resigned in solidarity.
  3. Michael Robinson — Michael Robinson joined Malcolm Allison's Manchester City in August 1979 for a fee of around £750,000, a huge sum for a player with no First Division experience.
  4. 1994 — The Football League ordered its removal in summer 1994; Preston's first game back on grass was a 4-0 win over Lincoln City.
  5. John Beck — John Beck, appointed in December 1992, was known for controversial long-ball tactics and doctored the plastic surface to suit them.
  6. Wycombe Wanderers — Martin O'Neill's Wycombe won the final at Wembley, their first season in the Football League.
  7. Wolves and Burnley — Wolves completed the set in 1988 and Burnley in 1992; Sheffield United and Portsmouth joined the list in 2017.
  8. David Beckham — David Beckham's loan under Gary Peters helped Preston to a fifth-place finish in the old fourth tier.
  9. Manchester — Funded as part of the Baxi-era rebuild of Deepdale, the museum closed in 2010 and reopened in Manchester in 2012.
  10. Jermaine Beckford — Jermaine Beckford scored after 3, 44 and 57 minutes, with Paul Huntington adding the other goal, as Simon Grayson's side finally won promotion through the play-offs.

Round 3

  1. Preston's hat-trick scorer in the 2015 League One play-off final was on loan at the time. Which club was he on loan from?
  2. Which Preston striker finished the 2014-15 League One regular season as the division's top scorer, with 25 goals?
  3. David Moyes' Preston lost the 2001 First Division play-off final 3-0 at the Millennium Stadium. Who beat them?
  4. Billy Davies' Preston lost the 2005 Championship play-off final 1-0 to West Ham in Cardiff. Who scored the only goal?
  5. A year after losing the 2005 play-off final, Billy Davies' Preston were knocked out in the 2006 Championship play-off semi-finals. Who beat them?
  6. Which striker scored 22 league goals as David Moyes' Preston won the 1999-2000 Second Division title?
  7. David Moyes left Preston in March 2002 to become manager of which club?
  8. Who replaced David Moyes as Preston manager in 2002?
  9. In June 2006, after taking Preston to two Championship play-offs in a row, Billy Davies left to manage which club?
  10. In March 2007 David Nugent became the first Preston player since Tom Finney to play for England, scoring on his debut. Who were England playing?
Answers — round 3
  1. Bolton Wanderers — He had been on loan from Bolton since November 2014. Bolton released him that summer and he signed a two-year deal at Deepdale.
  2. Joe Garner — Joe Garner went into the play-offs as League One's leading scorer and set up one of the goals in the 4-0 final win over Swindon.
  3. Bolton Wanderers — Sam Allardyce's Bolton won through goals from Gareth Farrelly, Michael Ricketts and Ricardo Gardner. Preston had beaten Birmingham on penalties in the semi-final.
  4. Bobby Zamora — Bobby Zamora finished Matthew Etherington's cross in the 57th minute, his fourth goal in three play-off games, to send West Ham back to the Premier League.
  5. Leeds United — Leeds won 3-1 on aggregate, taking the second leg 2-0 at Deepdale. Preston had finished fourth, their best second-tier finish since 1964.
  6. Jon Macken — Jon Macken, signed from Manchester United by Gary Peters, led the line as Preston returned to the second tier after 19 seasons away.
  7. Everton — Moyes left for Goodison Park on 14 March 2002, four years after his promotion from Preston centre-half to manager.
  8. Craig Brown — Former Scotland boss Craig Brown took over before the 2001-02 season ended and stayed until August 2004, when his first-team coach Billy Davies succeeded him.
  9. Derby County — Davies moved to Derby County and was replaced at Deepdale by Carlisle manager Paul Simpson.
  10. Andorra — Nugent came off the bench in Barcelona and tapped in England's third goal deep into the game against Andorra. That July Preston sold him to Portsmouth for a then club-record £6m.

Round 4

  1. In September 2010 Darren Ferguson's Preston came from 4-1 down to win 6-4 at which club's ground?
  2. Simon Grayson, who led Preston to promotion at Wembley in 2015, left in June 2017 to manage which club?
  3. After loan spells at Deepdale, Callum Robinson joined Preston permanently in July 2016 from which club?
  4. Alan Browne, who went on to make more than 400 appearances for Preston, joined in January 2014 from which League of Ireland club?
  5. Paul Simpson signed defender Sean St Ledger for Preston in July 2006. Which club did St Ledger join from?
  6. Tom Clarke scored a late winner against Blackpool on only his second Preston appearance in August 2013. Which club had released him that summer?
  7. Which Preston player came on at Ipswich in November 2018, scored a free-kick with his first touch, and then went in goal after Chris Maxwell was sent off?
Answers — round 4
  1. Leeds United — The comeback came at Elland Road. Ferguson called it "an amazing game", but he was sacked that December with Preston bottom of the Championship.
  2. Sunderland — Grayson moved to Sunderland after two eleventh-place Championship finishes. Alex Neil replaced him at Deepdale in July 2017.
  3. Aston Villa — Robinson came through the Aston Villa academy. He left Preston for Sheffield United in 2019 after scoring 40 goals for the club in all competitions.
  4. Cork City — Browne signed from his home-city club Cork City and later came on as a substitute in the 2015 play-off final win over Swindon.
  5. Peterborough United — St Ledger cost an initial £225,000 from Peterborough United, where he had appeared in Sky's Big Ron Manager. He left for Leicester City in 2011.
  6. Huddersfield Town — Clarke had been at Huddersfield Town for eight years. He went on to make 211 league appearances for Preston before joining Salford City in 2020.
  7. Paul Gallagher — Paul Gallagher curled in a low free-kick with his first touch, then kept goal for the last 20 minutes or so as Preston held on for a 1-1 draw. In January 2020 the fans voted him the club's player of the decade.

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