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Quiz on Australian Rules Football: History and Gameplay

This quiz tests knowledge about Australian Rules Football, including its history, gameplay, and cultural significance.

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1 What does the following picture show?  Before the start of each AFL match, players run through a banner constructed by supporters.   The two tall central posts are the goal posts, and the two shorter outer posts are the behind posts.   An AFL Premiership season match at Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast between Adelaide and Melbourne. The AFL is the most attended national competition in Australia and the only fully professional league for Australian Rules in the world.

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3 What does the following picture show?  Precise field and goal kicking using the oval shaped ball is the most important skill in Australian rules.   The two tall central posts are the goal posts, and the two shorter outer posts are the behind posts.   The two tall central posts are the goal posts, and the two shorter outer posts are the behind posts.

4 In 1858 ________ began to be played in Melbourne and surrounding districts.

5 In 1984, the first official representative matches of International Rules were played, and these were played annually each October between the AFL and the ________ between 1998 and 2006.

6 What is Australian rules football's union called?

7 What does the following picture show?  Australian rules football is popular amongst indigenous communities.   For terminology, see Glossary of Australian rules football.   Before the start of each AFL match, players run through a banner constructed by supporters.   The two tall central posts are the goal posts, and the two shorter outer posts are the behind posts.

8 Australian football became organised in Melbourne in May 1859, when the first laws of the game were published by the ________.

9 In 1978, the term ________ was used to describe the football dichotomy that had emerged in Australia over three quarters of a century and also the first suggestion of regular interstate club competition or national league.

10 What does the following picture show?  A statue next to the Melbourne Cricket Ground on the approximate site of the 1858 "foot-ball" match between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College. Tom Wills is depicted umpiring behind two young players contesting the ball. The plaque reads: "Wills did more than any other person – as footballer and umpire, co-writer of the rules and promoter of the game – to develop Australian Football during its first decade."   Australian soldiers, sailors, and airmen take part in an impromptu game of end-to-end Australian rules football in Central Australia in 1944.   For terminology, see Glossary of Australian rules football.   A NSW player outmarks a West Australian opponent in the goal square at the 1933 Australian Football Carnival at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • recently-retired indigenous Australian rules footballer Darryl White was once approached by a member of an opposing team before leaving the field immediately after a match for a photograph with his hero.
  • an Australian football player was banned for life for umpire abuse.
  • the Young Australia League was initially formed in 1905 to promote Australian rules football.
  • the national sport of Nauru is Australian rules football.
  • with Kerry's victory in the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Tadhg Kennelly became the first person to win medals at the highest level of Australian rules and Gaelic football.
  • Keith Smith was a leading Australian rules footballer of the 1930s and '40s.
  • Jimmy Melbourne, who co-incidentally was murdered in Melbourne, was the first Indigenous Australian to play Australian rules football at a senior level.
  • VFL footballer Charlie Moore, the first Australian to die of gunshot wounds in the Boer War, played in the 1898 VFL Grand Final against Stan Reid, who died in the same war six weeks later.
  • Adrienne Beames, the daughter of Australian rules footballer, first-class cricketer, and journalist Percy Beames, was the first woman to break the 3-hour barrier in the marathon.
  • Glenn James is the only Indigenous Australian to umpire top grade Australian rules football.
  • James Wandin, the first Australian Rules footballer of aboriginal descent to play with St Kilda Football Club, was also the tribal leader of the Wurundjeri people.
  • Australian rules footballer Tom Lonergan returned to the sport ten months after losing a kidney as the result of an injury.
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