2005 AFL season Trivia Quiz

Answer: Brisbane Lions

The Brisbane Lions defeated St Kilda by 23 points at the Gabba in a match that became controversial as several Lions players appeared to target the injured shoulder of newly-appointed Saints captain Nick Riewoldt.

It was also the only Thursday night match played that season.

Answer: Sydney Swans

The Sydney Swans thrashed Hawthorn by 63 points - 18.10 (118) to 8.7 (55) - in their season opening match at the SCG - and finished first ahead of the Geelong Cats, which thrashed Richmond by 62 points but conceded more points.

The two Adelaide clubs' scores of 7.11 (53) were the joint-lowest scores of the round.

Answer: Lance Franklin

Of the four players mentioned, only Lance Franklin debuted in round one. Jarryd Roughead and Jordan Lewis both debuted against Essendon in round three, while Luke Hodge debuted back in 2002.

Answer: Barry Hall

With scored tied at 81-apiece in red time, Brisbane Lions defender Chris Scott gave away a free kick after a high shot on Barry Hall, which earned the Swans forward a free kick inside the Swans' forward 50.

As Hall took his shot, the final siren went. He needed only to score to win the match for his side. His goal put the Swans in front for the first time of the evening.

Answer: St Kilda

St Kilda won a high scoring match by 47 points - 23.13 (151) to 15.14 (104). Melbourne had won their first three matches of the season, while St Kilda had lost two of their first three, with their round two win over Fremantle being by a solitary point.

Answer: 8

The Brisbane Lions won by 48 points - 21.10 (136) to 12.16 (88).

Brown had been suspended for five matches for striking and wrestling with Port Adelaide's Josh Carr in the previous year's Grand Final, which the Lions lost by 40 points, denying them a record-equalling fourth straight premiership.

Answer: Barry Hall

Fraser Gehrig, Matthew Lloyd and Scott Lucas played their 200th AFL games during the 2005 season - in rounds 10, 13 and 19 respectively.

In addition to Lucas, Gehrig (200th game), Michael Voss (250th), Mal Michael (100th club game for the Brisbane Lions) and Jeff White (200th) brought up their milestones in home games against the Swans during the season.

Answer: Western Bulldogs

This effectively gave the Swans an extra home game, though they were designated as the away side when the teams met in round nine. The Sydney Swans won this match by 13 points.

Also, Melbourne played a "home" game against the Brisbane Lions at the Gabba in round fourteen.

Answer: Robert Walls

Walls declared sometime during the regular season that the Swans couldn't win the premiership under Paul Roos' coaching.

The Swans' defeat to St Kilda proved to be a turning point in their season; afterwards, they'd only lose two more matches, both by seven points or less, on their way to finishing third on the ladder.

Answer: Richmond

Richmond defeated Essendon by 26 points - 14.8 (92) to 9.12 (66) - at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The match was held during NAIDOC week, and since 2006 has been played in either late May or early June.

Answer: True

The Dockers' nine-point win over the Cats was their first in nine attempts at Kardinia Park. It also ended the Cats' six-match winning streak.

Ryan Crowley made his AFL debut in this match.

Answer: Nathan Brown

Going into the Melbourne vs Richmond game in round ten, Nathan Brown was second on the Coleman Medal having kicked 32 goals.

Brown sadly suffered a broken leg when his opponent, Matthew Whelan, fell on him while trying to smother a kick in the final quarter, and he ended the night in hospital.

Richmond would fall away badly after this; from being in the top four having won seven of their first nine games, the Tigers crashed to 12th place with a final record of 10-12.

Nathan Foley made his AFL debut in this match.

Answer: True

The Sydney Swans won this match, thrashing the Brisbane Lions by 84 points - 19.10 (124) to 6.4 (40). All of the Swans' previous matches at the venue were played at night.

Answer: 1988

Melbourne won a close match by only one point - 14.16 (100) to 15.9 (99) - despite kicking one goal less than their opponents.

Answer: 11

In a match that saw St Kilda achieve a club record winning margin, thrashing the Brisbane Lions by 139 points (it was also a club record loss for the Lions), Stephen Milne kicked eleven goals - four more than what the entire Lions side managed for the match.

Answer: True

Only Hawthorn (1,904 points) and Collingwood (1,884) scored lower than the Sydney Swans across 22 matches during the 2005 premiership season.

The Swans scored only 1,974 points - 42 points fewer than wooden spooners Carlton (2,016 points) - and only scored over 100 points in nine matches (including the last four of the regular season).

However, they did have the second-best defensive record, only conceding 1,696 points. Only the ladder-leading Adelaide Crows conceded fewer points - 1,517 points.

Answer: False

St Kilda won a low-scoring match by eight points - 10.5 (65) to 8.9 (57). The Crows' ten-match winning streak thus came to an end and they were forced to play a knock-out semi-final against Port Adelaide the following week.

Answer: Nick Davis

The Swans trailed by 22 points a few minutes into the final quarter, but would rally to win one of the games of the season, with Nick Davis kicking four goals.

The final goal came with merely seconds left, and sent the Swans into a preliminary final against St Kilda.

Answer: 0

Despite leading by seven points at three-quarter-time, the injury-ravaged Saints were overrun in the final quarter by the Sydney Swans, which kicked seven goals straight to just four behinds.

This marked the Swans' first finals win at the MCG since 1934 and sent them through to their first Grand Final since 1996. It also reversed two heavy defeats to the Saints in the past twelve months - by 51 points in the semi-final in 2004 and by 43 points in round ten the following year.

Answer: Chris Judd

Although the West Coast Eagles lost a close Grand Final by just four points, Chris Judd was deemed to be best-on-ground by the judges.

This was the fourth time the Norm Smith Medal had gone to a player from the losing team, and the second time in four years after Nathan Buckley was part of the Collingwood side that lost to the Brisbane Lions in 2002.

Ryan O'Keefe would later win the award in his own right in 2012.