Sunderland Quiz Questions and Answers

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Round 1

  1. What is Sunderland's traditional home kit design?
  2. In which year did Sunderland win their most recent English league title?
  3. Which side did Sunderland famously beat in the 1973 FA Cup Final?
  4. Sunderland's fierce Tyne–Wear derby is contested against which club?
  5. Whom did Sunderland defeat to lift their first FA Cup in 1937?
  6. Which Sunderland striker won the European Golden Shoe in 1999–2000?
  7. Sunderland set a divisional points record in 1998–99 with how many points?
  8. Who managed Sunderland to the 1998–99 First Division title?
  9. Roy Keane led Sunderland to which title in 2006–07?
  10. Who is recognised as Sunderland's all-time leading goalscorer?
Answers — round 1
  1. Red and white stripes — The club has worn vertical stripes in these two colours for well over a century.
  2. 1936 — Their sixth championship came in the mid-1930s under Johnny Cochrane.
  3. Leeds United — The Wearsiders shocked the reigning holders and league heavyweights of the day.
  4. Newcastle United — The rivals sit just up the coast on the Tyne.
  5. Preston North End — Sunderland came from behind to win the Wembley final 3-1 against this Lancashire side.
  6. Kevin Phillips — He top-scored across Europe with 30 Premier League goals that season.
  7. 105 — Their First Division tally that season was a record for the division at the time.
  8. Peter Reid — The same manager guided the Phillips–Quinn era into the Premier League.
  9. The Championship — In his first managerial season he won promotion back to the top flight.
  10. Bobby Gurney — This 1930s forward scored well over 200 goals and netted in the 1937 Cup Final.

Round 2

  1. Which forward set Sunderland's single-season league scoring record of 43 goals in 1928–29?
  2. In 2009, a Darren Bent goal against Liverpool was deflected past the keeper by what object?
  3. The Stadium of Light was built on the former site of which industry?
  4. Which Republic of Ireland striker later served as Sunderland's chairman?
  5. When Sunderland won the 1973 FA Cup, which division were they playing in?
  6. Sunderland reached the 2014 League Cup Final, losing to which club?
  7. Who managed Sunderland in the 2014 League Cup Final?
  8. Sunderland won the 2021 EFL Trophy, beating which club in the final?
  9. Sunderland won the 2022 League One play-off final against which side?
  10. In what year was Sunderland AFC founded?
Answers — round 2
  1. Dave Halliday — His prolific late-1920s haul remains the club's best in one league campaign.
  2. A beach ball — An item thrown from the stands wrong-footed Pepe Reina for one of football's oddest goals.
  3. A coal mine — A miners' lamp monument outside honours the Wearmouth pit that once stood there.
  4. Niall Quinn — The tall forward moved from the pitch to the boardroom after his playing days.
  5. Second Division — Their triumph is celebrated as one of the great cup upsets by a non-top-flight side.
  6. Manchester City — They led early at Wembley before the eventual Premier League champions hit back to win 3-1.
  7. Gus Poyet — The Uruguayan also engineered that season's 'Great Escape' from relegation.
  8. Tranmere Rovers — The Wembley final was settled 1-0 against this Merseyside opponent.
  9. Wycombe Wanderers — A 2-0 Wembley win over the Buckinghamshire club sealed a return to the Championship.
  10. 1879 — The club began as a schoolteachers' association side in the late 1870s.

Round 3

  1. The first season of 'Sunderland 'Til I Die' documented relegation to which division?
  2. Academy graduate Jordan Pickford was sold in 2017 to which club?
  3. Sunderland's record home attendance of 75,118 at Roker Park in 1933 came against which club?
  4. Popular goalkeeper Thomas Sørensen represented which country?
  5. In their 1973–74 European Cup Winners' Cup run, Sunderland were eliminated by which Portuguese club?
  6. Which Ghanaian striker became Sunderland's club-record signing in 2010?
  7. Kevin Phillips joined Sunderland in 1997 from which club?
  8. Who captained Sunderland's 1937 FA Cup-winning side and was a celebrated creative inside-forward?
  9. Which flamboyant post-war Sunderland forward was nicknamed the 'Clown Prince of Soccer'?
  10. Sam Allardyce left Sunderland in 2016 to take which job?
Answers — round 3
  1. League One — The 2017–18 campaign dropped the club into the third tier.
  2. Everton — The England goalkeeper joined the Merseyside club for a large fee.
  3. Derby County — The huge crowd packed in for an FA Cup tie against the East Midlands visitors.
  4. Denmark — The keeper of the Reid era was a full international for his Scandinavian homeland.
  5. Sporting CP — The Lisbon side ended the FA Cup holders' only major European campaign.
  6. Asamoah Gyan — The Black Stars forward arrived after a strong 2010 World Cup.
  7. Watford — He arrived from the Hertfordshire club for a modest fee before becoming a prolific scorer.
  8. Raich Carter — The homegrown playmaker also skippered the 1936 title team.
  9. Len Shackleton — His entertaining style earned him the theatrical moniker in the late 1940s and 50s.
  10. England — After keeping the club up, he departed for the national team role.

Round 4

  1. David Moyes's 2016–17 season at Sunderland ended in what?
  2. Sunderland won the league in 1913 but lost the FA Cup Final that year to which club, narrowly missing the Double?
  3. Who scored the only goal as Sunderland won the 2021 EFL Trophy final?
  4. In which city is the Stadium of Light located?
  5. Sunderland's record top-flight away win, 9–1 in December 1908, came at which club's ground?
  6. Which French coach was appointed Sunderland head coach in 2024, arriving from Ligue 1's Lorient?
  7. Which early-20th-century Sunderland and England forward later became a famous football journalist with his own monthly magazine?
  8. Sunderland's great side of which decade was dubbed the 'Team of All the Talents'?
  9. Club great Charlie Hurley played international football for which nation?
  10. Which long-serving Sunderland midfielder and captain of the 1990s was nicknamed 'Bally'?
Answers — round 4
  1. Relegation from the Premier League — His single full season saw the club drop out of the top flight.
  2. Aston Villa — A single goal from the Midlands side denied them the double in 1913.
  3. Lynden Gooch — The USA-born forward struck the winner at Wembley.
  4. Sunderland — The ground sits in the North East city the club is named after.
  5. Newcastle United — The thrashing was inflicted on their nearest rivals on their own turf.
  6. Régis Le Bris — The former Lorient boss took charge for the club's promotion push.
  7. Charlie Buchan — His name lived on in a hugely popular post-war football publication.
  8. The 1890s — The nickname belonged to the dominant championship-winning team of Victorian times.
  9. Republic of Ireland — Though based in England, the Cork-born defender represented the country of his birth.
  10. Kevin Ball — The combative skipper later served the club as a coach and caretaker manager.

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