Answer These Yes or No Questions and We’ll Guess Your Favourite Rugby Team

By: Zoe Samuel
Estimated Completion Time
2 min
Answer These Yes or No Questions and We’ll Guess Your Favourite Rugby Team
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About This Quiz

In 1845, the names of pupils at Rugby School were etched into history. It was that year when Rugby School codified the rules that became known as rugby union. Rugby is a game with roots going back to what was known as townball, a game in which a ball would be moved from one end of a town to another in much the same way as a ball is moved across the pitch in rugby, but with fewer rules and little oversight. That basic game evolved into football, rugby, and in America, baseball. In the Victorian era, each of these sports laid down their rules as weights and measures so that all players could refer to the same rules and play the same game.

Unlike those other sports, rugby union did not become a professional sport until fairly recently, opening that particular Pandora's box in 1996. Since then, some teams have benefited from the professionalisation of rugby using expensive training resources, analytics, and of course, backers with deep pockets. Other teams have had to fold, done in by their lack of cash. For those surviving or amalgamated clubs, rugby is that oft-overlooked cousin of football and proof of the adage "Football is a gentleman's game played by hooligans, but rugby is a hooligan's game played by gentlemen."

1980s Rugby
videosport75 via YouTube
You were drawn to rugby and became a fan in the 1980s, didn't you?
Yes
No
CA Brive
Layor XV via YouTube
Do you hate Brive?
Yes
No
Rugby scrum 1
Flying Colours Ltd/DigitalVision/GettyImages
Do you follow another sport as much as you follow rugby?
No
Yes

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Stade Francais
Stade Français Paris via YouTube
Do you agree with the statement "Stade Francais is the best team in France"?
No
Yes
Rugby mud
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Is the weather always miserable when you go to see rugby matches?
No
Yes
Gloucester
BT Sport
Is Gloucester overrated?
Yes
No

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Cricket game
Nazar Abbas Photography/Moment/GettyImages
Did you play cricket before you played rugby?
No
Yes
Leeds Tykes
Yorkshire Carnegie via YouTube
Are your feelings about Leeds Tykes a mixed bag?
Yes
No
2002 Heineken Cup final
Sky Sports
Do you agree that back to back championships are the highest achievement in sport?
No
Yes

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Stadium
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You don't plan on going to the stadium to see games very often, correct?
Yes
No
Sports fans
Dmytro Aksonov/E+/GettyImages
Would you ever support a rival to your favourite rugby team in the event your favourite rugby team folded?
Yes
No
Newcastle Falcons
NewcastleFalcons1 via YouTube
If nothing else is on, would you bother watching a game featuring the Newcastle Falcons?
Yes
No

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Rugby jump
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Was your favourite rugby team always located where it is today?
Yes
No
Healthy food
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Do you plan to eat healthy food all week before the game so you can feast on treats during the game?
Yes
No
Sports at home
Towfiqu Photography/Moment/GettyImages
Do you wear your team's colours even when watching them play on television, alone in your home?
Yes
No

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Reading UK
David Cabrera/Moment/GettyImages
Would you bother riding National Rail up to Reading just to see a game?
No
Yes
Stadium seats
Stadium seats
Are you going to go to the game with family, rather than friends?
Yes
No
Munster rugby
Wiki Commons
Will the Munstermen ever actually win a championship?
No
Yes

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NEC Harlequins
Wiki Commons by Jack86mkII
We'll just say it: NEC Harlequins are cursed. Do you see things the same way?
Yes
No
Rugby league
Wiki Commons by Imnayaf
Rugby League is definitively better than Rugby Union, no?
Yes
No
Rugby scrum 2
South_agency/E+/GettyImages
Do you agree that a strong showing in the finals is better than a strong regular season?
Yes
No

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Northampton Saints
Wiki Commons by David Jones
Northampton Saints's fans are better fans than the Northampton Saints are a rugby club, isn't that so?
Yes
No
Sale Sharks
Wiki Commons by Fanny Schertzer
Would you be concerned if your favourite team were playing in a game with the Sale Sharks?
No
Yes
Saracens
Wiki Commons by Charlie from UK
Do you think that the Saracens' budget would be better spent on literally anything else?
No
Yes

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Ulster
Wiki Commons by Kanbers
Is Ulster a threat to your team winning the championship?
No
Yes
Money problems
andresr/E+/GettyImages
Has your rugby team lifted your spirits with inspiring wins when times were tough economically?
No
Yes
Bag of crisps
Irina Marwan/Moment/GettyImages
Do you bring your own food when you attend games?
No
Yes

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Rugby ball
Manuel Breva Colmeiro/Moment/GettyImages
Have you changed your rugby allegiance?
Yes
No
Calling in sick
d3sign/Moment/GettyImages
You have pulled a sickie to attend a rugby match, yes?
No
Yes
Argument
Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision/GettyImages
Have you argued with a total stranger about rugby while not at a stadium, or in a location where watching or listening to the game is possible?
No
Yes

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