County Cricket Quiz

The football season's over, and the Cricket season has started, and started well if the Second Test is anything to go by (A magnificent double century from Pieterson). So let's have a ....
Quiz on County Cricket

1. Which county lost its first-class status in 1795 and was re-founded in 1895 since when it has performed in the Minor Counties league ?

2. Name the fore-runners of Lancashire and Yorkshire Cricket Clubs.

3. Who won a hat-trick of Minor Counties League titles in 1991/2/3 ?

4. Who won in 1994/5/6/7 ?

5. Which two minor counties shared the title in 2005 ?

6. And who are the current holders ?

7. There are four U.C.C.E.s with first-class status: name them and explain the term.

8. Match the following Limited Overs teams to their counties (1pt each ):
a Bears
b Brown caps
c Crusaders
d Dragons
e Dynamos
f Eagles
g Foxes
h Gladiators
i Hawks
j Lightning
k Outlaws
l Phantoms
m Phoenix
n Royals
o Sabres
p Sharks
q Spitfires
r Steelbacks

9. Here are three county emblems. Name the counties (1pt for each)


10. Who won the main County Championship for seven consecutive seasons in the 1950's ?

11. Who won a total of six County Championships in the 1960's ?

12. Who won back-to-back titles in :
a 1988/9 ?
b 1991/2 ?
c 1994/5 ?
d 1999/2000 ?

13 Finally, who are the current holders of the County Championship title ?

[WolfLord]

1.Wiltshire
2.Manchester, Sheffield
3.Staffordshire
4.Devon
5.Suffolk, Cheshire
6.Devon
7.Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, Loughborough
8a.Warwickshire
b.Surrey
c.Middlesex
d.Glamorgan
e.Durham
f.Essex
g.Leicestershire
h.Gloucestershire
i.Hamptshire
j.Lancashire
k.Nottinghamshire
l.Derbyshire
m.Yorkshire
n.Worcestershire
o.Somerset
p.Sussex
q.Kent
r.Northamptonshire
9.Essex, Notts?,Surrey
10.Surrey
11.Yorkshire
12a.Worcestershire
b.Essex
c.Warwickshire
d.Surrey
13.Sussex

A near-perfect set of answers from Wolfman. And he took less time to provide the answers than I did to compile the quiz !! :o

Only blemish is answer to number 1 - as you can see Wiltshire does not quite fit the bill:
A county organisation was formed on 24 February 1881. The present Wiltshire CCC was founded in January 1893, and joined the Minor Counties Championship for the 1897 season, competing every season since then.

And for number 7 there's a point left for anyone who can define the term "U.C.C.E."

Leaderboard:
[glow=red,2,300]Wolfman 38pts[/glow]

[davejones]

University Centre of Cricketing Excellence

Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, Loughborough, Glamorgan, Leeds

Correct Dave,
A scheme launched in 2000, the MCC took over the running and funding of the programme in 2005. The last two actually are "Cardiff/Glamorgan" and "Leeds/Bradford".

Leaderboard:

1. Wolfman 38pts
2. DaveJones 1pt

Just Q1 left to get.

[barbelman]

Sweeping up the crumbs left by Wolfman's savage Googleattack :( ,,,the answer to Q1 is Berks (which is apt) ;D

cheers
Tony

Well done Tony, you get the last point.

This is the full S.P. in regard to Berkshire's little piece of uniqueness, courtesy of Wikepedia :

"By the late 18th century, Berkshire had become a first-class team. Its strength was in the prominent Oldfield Club of Bray, near Maidenhead, which had a team representative of Berkshire as a county and was capable of taking on other leading teams of the time. The first time we encounter Berkshire as a county team is in a match against Surrey in June 1769 and the county was first-class from then until August 1795 when, after losing to MCC at Lord's, it abruptly ceased to appear in important matches.

The Oldfield Club was effectively a Berkshire county team but it was not formally constituted as a county club.

Berkshire CCC was founded on 17 March 1895, the same year that the Minor Counties Championship began. It did not compete in the first year of the competition but joined for 1896 and has taken part ever since, winning the title three times."

Quiz ended :
1. Wolfman 38pts
2= DaveJones 1pt
2= Barbelman 1pt