Super Bowl Quiz: 2005

[Updated With Answers 1/30]

Every year I try to come up with a new Super Bowl Quiz. I'll be posting some of them this week; with answers following the next day. First up: the quiz from 2005.

1. What stadium which no longer exists hosted three Super Bowls?

2. Name four cities that have hosted Super Bowls in more than one stadium.

3. Credit for inventing the term “Super Bowl” is rightly given to:

a. Vince Lombardi’s gardener
b. Lamar Hunt’s daughter
c. Pete Rozelle’s accountant
d. Joe Namath’s bartender

4. When was the term “Super Bowl” first used, and what was the game called before that?

5. Which one of the following questions was asked during a Super Bowl Press Conference?

a. Could you tell me what that drink was that I saw you drinking last night?
b. Lemme get this straight. Is it blind mother, deaf father or the other way around?
c. Is it true that you think that Roger Staubach runs like a sissy?

6. If there is ever again a strike-shortened season, which team should you bet on to win the Super Bowl?

7. San Francisco 49ers Center Randy Cross told reporters after the team's last-second victory over Cincinnati in Super Bowl XXIII that he knew the 49ers would score on their final drive after Joe Montana looked up into the stands and said this to him as they came into the huddle to begin the drive:

a. See that stand right there? That’s where I’ll get my MVP trophy.
b. Boy, I’m glad that sun finally went down.
c. Can you believe the jacket that Bob Costas is wearing?
d. Hey, check it out – there’s John Candy!

8. In the 1983 film “Diner,” the wedding party wore the colors of this team, which later won a Super Bowl:

a. Washington Redskins
b. Baltimore Colts
c. Pittsburgh Steelers
d. Green Bay Packers

9. Super Bowl-winning coaches (and members of the Hall of Fame) Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry were the offensive and defensive assistants, respectively, for which team in the late 1950s?

10. What was unique about the television coverage of the very first Super Bowl?

11. Match the play-by-play announcer to the analyst with whom they broadcast at least one Super Bowl:

Play by Play: Dick Enberg, Curt Gowdy, Pat Summerall, Al Michaels
Color: Al De Rogatis, Boomer Esiason, Merlin Olsen, Tom Brookshier

ANSWERS:

1. Tulane Stadium, in New Orleans. Also hosted the Sugar Bowl prior to the opening of the Superdome in 1976.

2. There have been five: Los Angeles (L.A. Memorial Coliseum, Rose Bowl); Miami (Orange Bowl, Joe Robbie Stadium); Houston (Rice Stadium, Reliant Stadium); Tampa (Tampa Stadium, Raymond James Stadium); New Orleans (Tulane Stadium, Superdome).

3. Lamar Hunt’s daughter. Hunt was the owner of the Kansas City Chiefs.

4. Super Bowl III was the first which used the name “Super Bowl” in its promotion. The first two were known as “The NFL-AFL World Championship Game.”

5. The “blind mother, deaf father” question. Oakland Raiders quarterback Jim Plunkett was asked this.

6. Washington Redskins. They won both Super Bowls which completed a strike-shortened season.

7. Montana spied John Candy in the stands, and enthusiastically pointed him out to Cross, who figured that Joe must be pretty calm if he was noticing things like that.

8. In “Diner,”the bridesmaids wore the blue and white of the Baltimore Colts.

9. Lombardi and Landry were the assistants for the New York Giants.

10. It was carried by two networks: CBS and NBC.

11. Enberg and Olsen; Gowdy and DeRogatis; Summerall and Brookshier; Michaels and Esiason.