Saio Kamara wins 5th anniversary celebration quiz competition
By Mohamed Fajah Barrie in London
Winner of quiz competition announced at Awards
A football loving Sierra Leonean Saio Kamara has won the 2015 football quiz
competition organised to commemorate the 5th anniversary celebration of Sierra
Leone Football.com.
The announcement of winner of the competition was made during the Sierra Leone Football.com Awards and 5th anniversary colourful ceremony held in London on September 19, 2015.
Kamara who is based in Freetown got the highest score 80% to
win the star prize of US$150 followed by Abdul Bangura who got 70%.
Bangura took the runners-up prize which is US$50. Jamil Jamil came third scoring 65% with the prize being a Sierra Leone Football.com T-shirt.
Kamara who had previously won a Sierra Leone Football.com
quiz competition few years back will receive his cash prize in Freetown.
The quiz competition was on Sierra Leone football aimed at
testing the knowledge of Sierra Leoneans on their country's football.
See below quiz competition's questions and answers.
1A, When was the first time Women's football league was
officially organised in Sierra Leone
Answer: 1995
1B, Which team won the league
Answer: Soccer Queens.
2A. Who won the maiden Sierra Leone Football.com player of
the year award and in what year?
Answer: Kei Ansu Kamara in 2012.
2B, In which year Sierra Leone Football.com was
established?
Answer: 2010
3A. Who was the first Sierra
Leonean international to score a goal in the English Premier League?
Answer: Kei Ansu Kamara
3B, Which team was he playing for
and which team he scored against?
Answer: Norwich City and Everton
4A, Who scored Leone Stars' goals
in their 2-0 win over Nigeria in a 1998 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in
Freetown.
Answer: John Dumbuya and Saidu
'Tibati' Kanu.
4B Leone Stars defeated Ghana's
Black Stars 2-1 in Accra in a 1998 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match. Who
scored the goals for Leone Stars?
Answer: John Dumbuya
5A, Late Ismail Dyfan played for
two clubs outside Sierra Leone. Name the clubs?
Answer: African Sports of Ivory
Coast and Egypt's Arab Contractors
5B, Dyfan played alongside a
Cameroonian goalkeeper, one of Africa's greatest goalkeepers in one of these
clubs. Name the goalkeeper?
Answer: Joseph Antoine Bell
6A, Which Sierra Leonean clubs
have reached the quarter-final of CAF's competitions?
Answer: Mighty Blackpool, Diamond
Stars and Ports Authority.
6B, Name the Sierra Leonean
player who scored four goals in a match in a CAF clubs competition.
Answer: Cecil Swarray.
7A, Which Sierra Leonean team
have played the final of West Africa Football Union (WAFU)?
Answer: East End Lions
7B, Which team did they play
against, in what year, and what were the scores over the two legs?
Answer: L'Association Sportive
Force Armee de Niger (ASFAN) of Niger in 1996. East End Lions won the first leg
in Freetown 3-0 and lost the return leg in Niamey 4-0. 4-3 on agregrate.
8A, How many Justices have been
Present of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA)?
Answer: Three
8B, What are the names of the
Justices?
Justice Beoku-Betts, Justice
Benka-Coker and Justice Tholla Thompson.
9A, How many times Sierra Leone
have reached the final of the Amicar Cabral sub-regional Zone II football
tournament and in which years?
Answer: Four times in 1984, 1986,
1993 and 1995.
9B, How many times Sierra Leone
have won the Amicar Cabral sub-regional Zone II football tournament and in
which years?
Answer: Two times in 1993 and
1995.
10A, How many Leone Stars'
players of Africa Cup of Nations inTunisia 1994 squad survived the Leone Stars'
South Africa 1996 squad.
Answer: Twelve (12)
10B, Name at least six of the
players?
Answer:
Brima Atouga Kamara
Osaio Marah
Abu Bakarr 'Tostao' Kamara
Mohamed Kanu or Ahmed Kanu
John Sama
Lamin 'Junior Tumbu' Conteh
Ibrahim 'Junior Parade' Koroma
Musa 'Jirzinho' Kanu
Abu 'Gbanaloko' Kanu
Lamin Bangura
John Gbassay Sesay
Amidu Karim
