Rugby and American Football

What this quiz asks

• In American football, played with this ball, how many players does each team have on the field at once?
• The Rugby World Cup trophy is named after which figure from the legend of the sport's invention?
• Does a senior rugby union match last 80 minutes, played in two halves of 40?
• Which country won the first Rugby World Cup, in 1987?
• In American football, how many points does the defence score for a safety?
• Which country joined in 2000, turning rugby's Five Nations Championship into the Six Nations?
• Rugby union officially remained an amateur sport until 1995.
• How many players from each team bind together in a full rugby union scrum?
• Select ALL of these nations that won the Rugby World Cup at least once up to and including 2023.
• The Super Bowl trophy honours Vince Lombardi, who coached which team to wins in the first two Super Bowls?
• In what year was the professional league that became the NFL founded?
• Rugby union's Calcutta Cup is contested between England and which other team?
• In 1972, which team completed the NFL's first perfect season, winning every game including the Super Bowl?
• Order these cities by the year they first hosted a Rugby World Cup final, earliest first.
• In rugby league, a try is worth four points.
• Who kicked the extra-time drop goal that won the 1995 Rugby World Cup final for South Africa against New Zealand?
• The first intercollegiate American football game, played in 1869, was between Rutgers and which college?
• Select ALL of these that are positions in a rugby union team.
• In which year was the forward pass made legal in American football?
• Which player and coach is called the 'Father of American Football' for bringing in the line of scrimmage and the system of downs?