2006 FIFA World Cup trivia

[AreliusIV]

1) What is the official charity of the 2006 FIFA World Cup?

2) How many officials officiate a given match?

3) How many of the 12 hosting stadia are in what was formerly known as East Germany?

4) How many teams are making their first appearance in a World Cup finals? Who are they?

5) What is the name of the official World Cup ball?

6) What team represents a country that ceased to exist prior to the start of the tournament?

7) What is the longest period of time since any of the 2006 World Cup teams have last played in a World Cup finals? Which team is it?

8) What were the highest ranked teams (as ranked by FIFA) that failed to qualify for the World Cup finals?

9) What are the officials mascots for the World Cup finals?

10) What language is represented by more teams than any other? What teams speak that language?

11) What language has the second greatest representation in the World Cup finals? Which teams speak that language?

12) What language has the third greatest representation in the World Cup finals? Which teams speak that language?

13) What record did the opening match between Germany and Costa Rica break?

14) What mistake did the organizers make before the S. Korea/Togo match?

15) In which match was the first penalty kick awarded in the 2006 World Cup finals?

16) Which player has scored during this World Cup that also scored in a World Cup 12 years ago? How many times has that feat occurred?

[Old Ska]

Originally Posted by AreliusIV

10) What language is represented by more teams than any other? What teams speak that language?

11) What language has the second greatest representation in the World Cup finals? Which teams speak that language?

12) What language has the third greatest representation in the World Cup finals? Which teams speak that language?

Lets make these harder: answer both for "official languages of the country" and languages actually spoken by the players as native languages.

The results are markedly different.

[AreliusIV]

Originally Posted by Old Ska

Lets make these harder: answer both for "official languages of the country" and languages actually spoken by the players as native languages.

The results are markedly different.

I'm talking official (or de facto) languages...