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Round 1

  1. QPR won the League Cup in 1967, in the first final of that competition staged at Wembley. Which club did they beat 3-2?
  2. Who was QPR's manager when they finished First Division runners-up in 1975-76?
  3. QPR finished a point behind the champions in the 1975-76 First Division. Which club won the title that season?
  4. Which QPR player scored the 81st-minute winner in the 1967 League Cup final?
  5. Stan Bowles became QPR's cult No. 10 of the 1970s. Which club did he join them from in September 1972?
  6. Loftus Road, QPR's home since 1917, sits in which part of west London?
  7. QPR laid an artificial pitch at Loftus Road in 1981. In which year did they dig it up and go back to grass?
  8. Phil Parkes left QPR in February 1979 for £565,000, then a world record fee for a goalkeeper. Which club signed him?
  9. QPR reached the FA Cup final for the only time in 1982. Which club beat them after a replay?
  10. Rodney Marsh left QPR in March 1972 for a then club-record fee. Which club did he join?
Answers — round 1
  1. West Bromwich Albion — The Midlands side were the holders, having won the League Cup the previous season. They led 2-0 at Wembley and still lost.
  2. Dave Sexton — He arrived at Loftus Road from Chelsea in October 1974 and left for Manchester United in 1977.
  3. Liverpool — Bob Paisley's side took the trophy with 60 points to QPR's 59, winning their final game at Wolves.
  4. Mark Lazarus — It was a winger who completed the comeback, not either of the two men who had already pulled the goals back.
  5. Carlisle United — QPR paid £112,000 to the Cumbrian club. Bowles had played for the other three earlier in his travels.
  6. Shepherd's Bush — The ground is a short walk from the White City site, in the W12 postcode.
  7. 1988 — The plastic lasted seven seasons before being removed in the April of that year.
  8. West Ham United — He moved across London and stayed at his new club for eleven years.
  9. Tottenham Hotspur — The north London side were retaining the trophy, having also won a replayed final the year before.
  10. Manchester City — Malcolm Allison paid £200,000 to take him to Maine Road. He had originally arrived at QPR from Fulham in 1966.

Round 2

  1. QPR finished their 1975-76 league programme top of the table, a point clear of the side who still had a game to play. At which ground was that title-deciding match played ten days later?
  2. Which division were QPR playing in when they won the 1967 League Cup?
  3. QPR's 1981 artificial pitch was the first in British professional football, and three other Football League clubs followed in the 1980s. Which of these was one of them?
  4. Which QPR midfielder captained England during the mid-1970s?
  5. Who scored QPR's equaliser late in extra time of the 1982 FA Cup final at Wembley?
  6. QPR came from behind to win the 1967 League Cup final. What was the score at half-time?
  7. Which manager took QPR to the 1982 FA Cup final and then to the Second Division title the following season?
  8. Don Givens, a QPR forward in the 1975-76 runners-up season, played international football for which country?
  9. QPR reached the quarter-finals of the 1976-77 UEFA Cup, where they went out on penalties. Which club knocked them out?
  10. QPR were back at Wembley for the 1986 League Cup final, then sponsored as the Milk Cup. Which club beat them 3-0?
Answers — round 2
  1. Molineux — The champions' rearranged final fixture was away at Wolves, who needed to win it to stay up.
  2. The Third Division — They won that same division's title in the same season, so the cup came with a promotion.
  3. Luton Town — Kenilworth Road got its plastic in 1985; Oldham and Preston laid theirs the year after.
  4. Gerry Francis — He led England in eight of his twelve caps before a persistent back injury cut his international career short.
  5. Terry Fenwick — It was a defender who would later win England caps and eventually join the very club that beat him that day.
  6. 2-0 down — Clive Clark scored twice for the Midlands side inside the first 36 minutes.
  7. Terry Venables — He took the job in 1980, installed the plastic pitch, and left for Barcelona in 1984.
  8. Republic of Ireland — Born in Limerick, the striker won 56 caps between 1969 and 1981.
  9. AEK Athens — QPR won the home leg 3-0, lost the away leg 3-0 in Greece, and then lost the shootout 7-6.
  10. Oxford United — It remains the only major trophy won by the Manor Ground club, under manager Maurice Evans.

Round 3

  1. QPR were founder members of the Premier League. Where did they finish in the inaugural 1992-93 season?
  2. The nickname 'the Hoops' comes from the club's shirt. Which two colours are the hoops?
  3. In May 2011 an FA commission fined QPR £875,000 over the registration of one of their midfielders, but imposed no points deduction, so the promotion stood. Which midfielder was at the centre of the case?
  4. Who scored the 90th-minute goal that won QPR the 2014 Championship play-off final at Wembley?
  5. Which manager led QPR to the Championship title and promotion to the Premier League in 2010-11?
  6. QPR led 2-1 away on the final day of 2011-12 before the hosts turned it around in stoppage time. Who scored the goal that had put Rangers in front?
  7. QPR lost the 2003 Division Two play-off final at the Millennium Stadium to an extra-time goal. Which club beat them?
  8. QPR were relegated to the third tier at the end of 2000-01, their first drop that low since the 1960s. Which former Rangers midfielder had taken over as manager that February?
  9. QPR won the 2014 Championship play-off final at Wembley. Which club did they beat?
  10. Which manager was in charge when QPR were relegated from the Premier League at the end of 1995-96?
Answers — round 3
  1. Fifth — They were the highest-placed London club that season, finishing above both Tottenham and Arsenal.
  2. Blue and white — Celtic wear the green version of the same design; the Loftus Road version swaps in a cooler colour.
  3. Alejandro Faurlín — The Argentine had joined from Instituto in 2009, and the charges that were dismissed concerned third-party ownership rules.
  4. Bobby Zamora — The veteran striker struck from the edge of the box with almost the last kick of the game.
  5. Neil Warnock — He arrived from Crystal Palace in March 2010, and was sacked in January 2012 during the club's first season back in the top flight.
  6. Jamie Mackie — The Scotland forward headed in Armand Traoré's cross just after the hour, with Rangers already down to ten men.
  7. Cardiff City — Andy Campbell's chip over Chris Day settled it, taking the winners into the second tier for the first time since 1985.
  8. Ian Holloway — He had played for the club in the 1990s before returning to the dugout, and later took them back up as Division Two runners-up in 2004.
  9. Derby County — The beaten side dominated possession and were managed by Steve McClaren, who called it the cruellest game ever.
  10. Ray Wilkins — The former England midfielder took over in late 1994 and left Loftus Road in September 1996.

Round 4

  1. QPR signed Trevor Sinclair in 1993 for a fee that broke his previous club's record for a sale. Which club did he leave?
  2. Trevor Sinclair's overhead kick for QPR won the BBC's Goal of the Season in 1997. Which club were the opponents in that FA Cup fourth-round tie?
  3. Which striker scored 24 Premier League goals for QPR in the 1994-95 season?
  4. QPR sold their leading scorer of the previous season for £6m in the summer of 1995. Which club bought him?
  5. QPR won automatic promotion from Division Two in 2003-04 as runners-up. Which club finished above them as champions?
  6. QPR played much of the 2014 Championship play-off final with ten men. Which midfielder was sent off in the 60th minute?
  7. Harry Redknapp took over as QPR manager in November 2012. Which manager did he replace?
  8. QPR broke their transfer record in January 2013 to sign a defender from Anzhi Makhachkala. Who was he?
  9. Which attacking midfielder was named Championship Player of the Year after scoring 19 league goals in QPR's 2010-11 promotion season?
Answers — round 4
  1. Blackpool — The £600,000 move took the winger from the Lancashire coast to west London; he went on to join West Ham in 1998.
  2. Barnsley — Rangers won the January tie 3-2 at Loftus Road, and the opponents went up to the Premier League that same season.
  3. Les Ferdinand — 'Sir Les' came through non-league football at Hayes before making his name at Loftus Road.
  4. Newcastle United — Kevin Keegan's side paid the fee; Ferdinand only moved on to Tottenham two years later.
  5. Plymouth Argyle — The Devon club took the title on 90 points, with Bristol City finishing third, a single point behind QPR.
  6. Gary O'Neil — He was dismissed for hauling down Johnny Russell as the Derby forward ran through on goal.
  7. Mark Hughes — His predecessor had taken just four points from the opening twelve league games of that season.
  8. Christopher Samba — The £12.5m fee could not save Rangers, who finished bottom of the table on 25 points that season.
  9. Adel Taarabt — The Morocco international had signed permanently from Tottenham the previous August.

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