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1. In 2016 Juventus paid Napoli around €90m for which striker, a then-record fee for a transfer within Italian football?

   • Gonzalo Higuain
   • Mauro Icardi
   • Carlos Tevez
   • Edinson Cavani
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   Answer: Gonzalo Higuain

   Higuain crossed a bitter divide from Napoli to Juve for roughly €90m, an Italian transfer record at the time.

2. Juventus lost the 2015 Champions League final in Berlin to which Spanish club?

   • Barcelona
   • Atletico Madrid
   • Sevilla
   • Real Madrid
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   Answer: Barcelona

   Barcelona's MSN attack beat Juve 3-1 in Berlin, with Morata equalising briefly before Suarez and Neymar sealed it.

3. Juventus's nickname 'La Vecchia Signora' (The Old Lady) carries a built-in irony. What is it?

   • The Latin name 'Juventus' literally means 'youth'
   • The club is the youngest of Italy's giants
   • It was founded by teenagers on a park bench
   • Their first president was only 19
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   Answer: The Latin name 'Juventus' literally means 'youth'

   'Juventus' is Latin for youth, so a club named after the young became affectionately known as the Old Lady — a nickname that grew in the 1930s as the team leaned on aging legends.

4. Which Juventus goalkeeper set a Serie A record by going 974 minutes without conceding during the 2015-16 season?

   • Dino Zoff
   • Gianluigi Buffon
   • Angelo Peruzzi
   • Stefano Tacconi
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   Answer: Gianluigi Buffon

   Buffon's 974-minute shutout streak in 2015-16 broke Sebastiano Rossi's long-standing Serie A clean-sheet record.

5. Giovanni Trapattoni is now best remembered abroad for his 'Ich habe fertig' meltdown at Bayern — but at Juventus he left a far bigger legacy. What is true of 'Il Trap' at Juve?

   • He only ever managed the youth team
   • He was sacked after a single season
   • He never won a Serie A title there
   • He remains the club's most decorated manager
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   Answer: He remains the club's most decorated manager

   Across two spells (1976-86, 1991-94) he won six Scudetti plus the European Cup, UEFA Cup and Cup Winners' Cup — 14 trophies, more than Lippi or Allegri. The 1998 Bayern rant ('weak like an empty bottle') came years later in Germany.

6. Juventus signed which striker from Ajax in the summer of 2004?

   • Marco van Basten
   • Zlatan Ibrahimovic
   • Patrick Kluivert
   • Nwankwo Kanu
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   Answer: Zlatan Ibrahimovic

   Ibrahimovic moved from Ajax to Juventus in 2004 and won two league titles later stripped in the Calciopoli fallout.

7. Roberto Baggio, a Juventus star of the early '90s, earned a poetic nickname tied to his hairstyle and his Buddhist faith. What was it?

   • Il Divin Codino
   • Il Pinturicchio
   • Re Leone
   • Il Fenomeno
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   Answer: Il Divin Codino

   'Il Divin Codino' — the Divine Ponytail — captured both his signature look and the near-religious devotion he inspired; the nickname 'Il Pinturicchio' actually belonged to Del Piero.

8. Juventus won the 1996 Champions League final against Ajax in a tense penalty shootout in Rome. Which goalkeeper was the hero, saving two spot-kicks?

   • Edwin van der Sar
   • Gianluigi Buffon
   • Stefano Tacconi
   • Angelo Peruzzi
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   Answer: Angelo Peruzzi

   Peruzzi saved from Davids and Silooy, and Vladimir Jugovic slotted the decisive penalty to give Juve their second and (to date) last European Cup.

9. Juventus won five consecutive Serie A titles in the 1930s, an era of dominance known by what Italian name?

   • Il Triennio
   • Il Decennio
   • La Grande Juve
   • Il Quinquennio d'Oro
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   Answer: Il Quinquennio d'Oro

   'Il Quinquennio d'Oro' (the Golden Five Years) marks Juve's run of five straight titles from 1931 to 1935.

10. Which elegant Juventus libero and 1982 World Cup winner is remembered as one of football's greatest sweepers before his death in a 1989 car crash?

    • Sergio Brio
    • Gaetano Scirea
    • Claudio Gentile
    • Antonio Cabrini
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    Answer: Gaetano Scirea

    Scirea, admired for his composure and sportsmanship, anchored Juve's defence for over a decade before dying in a road accident in Poland in 1989.

11. Pavel Nedved, a Juventus midfield icon, was given a nickname celebrating both his nationality and his relentless running. What was it?

    • The Czech Cannon
    • The Prague Express
    • Furia Ceca (The Czech Fury)
    • Il Tornado
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    Answer: Furia Ceca (The Czech Fury)

    'Furia Ceca' captured Nedved's tireless box-to-box engine; he won the 2003 Ballon d'Or but was suspended for the Champions League final Juve lost that year.

12. Which Argentine-born forward won the 1961 Ballon d'Or while starring for Juventus?

    • Luis Monti
    • Raimundo Orsi
    • Omar Sivori
    • Alfredo Di Stefano
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    Answer: Omar Sivori

    Sivori, an oriundo who played for Italy, took the 1961 Ballon d'Or as a Juventus forward — the club's first winner of the award.

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