HERE are the answers to our Challenge Cup Final quiz…..
Hands up, how many of you knew that a drop goal in the first Challenge Cup Final was worth more than a try.....four points for a drop, three for a try.
1. Batley dropped one goal when they defeated Saints in the first Challenge Cup final in 1897 – how many points was that goal worth? Four.
2. Saints’ second Challenge Cup Final as staged at which ground? Oldham
3. Which side did Saints lose to in their first Wembley Challenge Cup Final appearance? Widnes
4. Who scored two tries and won the Lance Todd Trophy on his 19th birthday to help Huddersfield beat Saints in the 1953 Final? Peter Ramsden
5. What year did Saints win the Challenge Cup Final for the first time? 1956
6. Who was the first Saints skipper to lift the Challenge Cup? Alan Prescott
7. Tom van Vollenhoven famously inter-passed with which player en route to a spectacular length of the field touchdown in the 1961 final? Ken Large
8. Vinty Karalius - Saints skipper in the 61 final – returned to Wembley three years later to guide which team to victory? Widnes
9. Which future Saints coach made the most Wembley appearances as captain – six in total? Eric Ashton
10. Whose 65-yard penalty goal was part of his 13-point haul in the 1966 Final? Len Killeen
11. Complete the Valentine Alex Murphy sent to Wigan after 1966 “Roses are red, Violets are blue….? St Helens 21 Wigan 2
12. Which Saint scored the fastest ever Wembley try in the 1972 Final? Graham Rees
13. Saints’ 1976 team was given the nickname based on which BBC comedy series? Dad’s Army
14. Saints used neither of their subs in the 1978 final - who were they? Alan Ashton, Tony Karalius
1972 Wembley
15. Who dislodged the ball from Mark Elia’s grasp to foil Saints’ Wembley dreams in 1987? John Pendlebury
16. Who skippered Saints in the 1989 defeat by Wigan? Paul Vautin
17. Who scored Saints’ only try of the 1991 final defeat by Wigan? Alan Hunte
18. Who scored Saints’ opening two tries in the 1996 Challenge Cup final? Steve Prescott
19. Which two professional teams played an abbreviated curtain before the 1997 Challenge Cup Final? Hunslet and Hull KR.
20. Who presented Saints with the Challenge Cup in 2001? Tony Blair.
21. Who won a Challenge Cup winners medal in 2002 AND 2004? Ricky Bibey
22. Which pair of brothers played in the 2004 final? Paul and Danny Sculthorpe
23. Who did Saints thrash in the semis to reach the 2006 final? Hull KR
24. Who scored the first try at the new Wembley in 2007? James Roby
25. Who did Saints defeat in the final the last time they won at Wembley? Hull FC.
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