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  Take this The Adelaide Crows Quiz    
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The team everybody else loves to hate, the mighty Crows.
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  10 Questions about The Adelaide Crows    
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How well do you know the Mighty Adelaide Crows. Find out here.
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  Mighty Adelaide Crows    
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Quiz for die hard Crows fans
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  The Mighty Adelaide Crows    
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Some general information on my favourite AFL Club, the Adelaide Crows!
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Who kicked the first goal for the Adelaide Crows in the AFL?

From Quiz "The Adelaide Crows"





Adelaide Crows Trivia Questions
1. In what year did the Crows join the AFL?

From Quiz The Adelaide Crows

Answer: 1991

Although they were formed in 1990, they started playing and competing in 1991.

2. Who did the Crows play in their first ever AFL match?

From Quiz The Mighty Adelaide Crows

Answer: Hawthorn Hawks

Adelaide played its first official match against Hawthorn at Football Park. The Crows got off to the best possible start to their AFL life, smashing the eventual premiers by 86 points - 24.11 (155) to 9.15 (69) - in front of a crowd of 44,902.

3. Who was Adelaide's number 1 ruckman in its very first premiership game in 1991?

From Quiz Mighty Adelaide Crows

Answer: Romano Negri

The sturdy big man played a total of 8 games for the Crows.

4. Who is the player to have kicked the most goals for the Crows?

From Quiz The Adelaide Crows

Answer: Tony Modra

Tony Modra, the golden boy who was given the boot.

5. In the Crows' first AFL debut, who did they play and what was the final score?

From Quiz The Adelaide Crows

Answer: Crows won 155-69 against Hawthorn

The Crows smashed Hawthorn, and they made their debut in rd 1, 1991.

6. Who was captain of the 1997 and 1998 premiership winning teams?

From Quiz The Mighty Adelaide Crows

Answer: Mark Bickley

Mark Bickley successfully captained his 1997 and 1998 teams to victory against St. Kilda in 1997, and North Melbourne in 1998.

7. In 2007, who was elected as the new captain?

From Quiz The Adelaide Crows

Answer: Simon Goodwin

Goodwin was the most popular choice by the public behind Andrew McLeod.

8. What happened when the Crows played the Port Adelaide Power in Round 12, 1992?

From Quiz The Mighty Adelaide Crows

Answer: Port were not in the league in 1992

Port entered the league in 1997.

9. Who topped the goal kicking for the Crows in season 2000?

From Quiz Mighty Adelaide Crows

Answer: Scott Welsh

Welshy kicked 47 goals in 2000, a year after winning a premiership with the Kangaroos.

10. Who kicked the first goal for the Adelaide Crows in the AFL?

From Quiz The Adelaide Crows

Answer: Tony McGuinness

Tony McGuinness kicked the first goal in the historic massacre of football powerhouse Hawthorn. Victorian clubs trembled in their boots, well at least until the next game.

11. When Neil Craig took over the team, he was the _____ coach that the Crows had.

From Quiz The Adelaide Crows

Answer: 5

Graham Cornes 1991-94, Robert Shaw 1995-96, Malcom Blight 1997-99, Gary Ayers 2000-04, and Neil Craig 2004.

12. In 2005 and 2006, how many Crows have made the national team, which plays against Ireland?

From Quiz The Mighty Adelaide Crows

Answer: 2

Andrew McLeod made the team in 2005 and became co-captain, and Graham Johncock made it in 2006.

13. Who was the Crows first ever draft pick?

From Quiz The Adelaide Crows

Answer: Jim West

Big Jim West was picked up in the 1992 mid season draft and never played a game for the Crows.

14. Who retired in 2007 because of injury and illness?

From Quiz The Adelaide Crows

Answer: Mark Ricciuto

Roo played 311 games beating the club record which was held by Ben Hart. The old record was 310 games.

15. Which Crows player won the Mark of the Year in 1993 and 1997?

From Quiz The Mighty Adelaide Crows

Answer: Tony Modra

Tony Modra also made the All-Australian team in 1993 and 1997, and won the Coleman Medal in 1997 with 81 goals.

16. Who was named captain of the Crows team of the decade for its 10 year anniversary?

From Quiz Mighty Adelaide Crows

Answer: Chris McDermott

Former male model Chris 'Bone' McDermott was the first ever Crow captain, chosen by the Adelaide powers that be ahead of dual premiership skipper Bickley as the Crows best of its first 10 years.

17. Which football journeyman's career saw him go from receiving a famous Plugger elbow to blanketing the King in the 1998 Grand Final?

From Quiz The Adelaide Crows

Answer: Peter Caven

The 'Caveman' originally from perennial cellar dweller Fitzroy ended his career with two Premierships to his name.

18. What was the main difference between the Crows home and away jerseys in 2006?

From Quiz The Mighty Adelaide Crows

Answer: The away has a Crow on it

The home jumper was blue, red, and yellow stripes while the away jumper had similar design with the addition of the crow logo.

19. Former full forward Tony Modra thrust himself to stardom with an outstanding season in 1993. How many goals did he kick that year?

From Quiz Mighty Adelaide Crows

Answer: 129

1993 also saw Geelong's Gary Ablett and Hawthorn's Jason Dunstall finish with goal hauls in the 120's. Ablett won a tight race for the Coleman medal with 124 regular season goals.

20. Which former Crows player is considered one of the luckiest players ever after playing in a winning Grand Final in only his third and last game?

From Quiz The Adelaide Crows

Answer: Aaron Keating

Played in the 1997 winning side only to fall from favour the following year. Delisted in 1998 he was unable to find a place in other AFL sides and eventually quit football in 2000.

21. How many players got sacked in 2007?

From Quiz The Adelaide Crows

Answer: 7

Jason Torney, Matthew Bode, Ian Perrie, John Hinge, Darren Pfeiffer, Andrew McIntyre, and James Turner.

22. A banner at a home match in 1994 suggested the coach should be sent to Columbia, who was the coach?

From Quiz The Adelaide Crows

Answer: Graham Cornes

The disgruntled supporters had heard of the unfortunate incident involving the death of a Colombian soccer player after scoring an own goal in that years World Cup.

23. Who was the first Crows player to reach 300 games?

From Quiz The Mighty Adelaide Crows

Answer: Ben Hart

Ben Hart entered his 15th season and became the first player in Crows history to play 300 games. He achieved the feat in round two against West Coast, with the Crows unfortunately going down in front of a home crowd by just two points. He was later sacked after the 2006 season.

24. From which SANFL club was Crow gun Andrew McLeod recruited?

From Quiz Mighty Adelaide Crows

Answer: Port Adelaide Magpies

McLeod was originally set to move to Fremantle to play with the Dockers. They instead traded him to Adelaide for Chris Groom in what may be the stupidest swaps of all time.

25. Who is the only man to be general manager of an AFL club with no name and no players?

From Quiz The Adelaide Crows

Answer: Bill Sanders

In the rush to create South Australia's first AFL team in late 1990, Bill Sanders was given the job before players had been found or a name decided on. He lasted ten years resigning at the end of 2001.

26. When Simon Goodwin turned captain, he became the ______ captain that the team had.

From Quiz The Adelaide Crows

Answer: 5

1991-1994 was Chris McDermott, 1995-1996 was Tony McGuinness, 1997-2000 Mark Bickley, and 2001-2007 Mark 'Roo' Ricciuto, then Simon Goodwin in 2008.

27. When did Adelaide win the preseason cup?

From Quiz The Mighty Adelaide Crows

Answer: 2003

They beat Collingwood 104 to 73 in front of a 43,571 Telstra Dome crowd. Sadly, in the 2003 Premiership season, the Crows bombed out to Brisbane in the semi-final.

28. One of the major players to swing the game in Adelaide's favour against St Kilda in the 1997 grand final was Darren Jarman. How many goals did he kick in the final quarter?

From Quiz Mighty Adelaide Crows

Answer: 5

"Fudd" kicked 5 of his 6 goals for the game in the final quarter. He followed that up with 5 goals in the 1998 Grand Final against the Kangaroos.

29. Which Crow is now a practicing doctor?

From Quiz The Adelaide Crows

Answer: Matthew Liptak

Liptak favoured by the girls but maligned by many fans, he balanced a medical degree with playing a professional sport and in 1996 was club champion. Injuries shortened his final years and he retired in 1999.

30. What ranking were the Crows in club membership numbers at the conclusion of the 2006 season?

From Quiz The Mighty Adelaide Crows

Answer: 1st

In 2006, the club made history becoming the first club in VFL/AFL history to have more than 50,000 members. This is despite insufficient capacity to seat all members at games, and a waiting list.

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