Football - Quiz

Usually, there are between 11 and 18 players on each team in football.

In all codes of football, common elements include two teams of usually between 11 and 18 players, a clearly defined area in which to play the game, scoring goals or points by moving the ball to an opposing team's end of the field and either into a goal area, or over a line, goals or points resulting from players putting the ball between two goalposts, the goal or line being defended by the opposing team, and players using only their body to move the ball, i.e. no additional equipment such as bats or sticks.

Option B is the correct answer. The game played by Australian tribes of indigenous people with stuffed balls is called Marn Grook.

Ancient Romans are known to have played ball games with an air-filled ball called follis.

Marn Grook is the name of the Aboriginal Australian kicking and catching game with stuffed balls.

Richard Mulcaster, a student at Eton College in the early 16th century and later headmaster at other English schools, has been described as "the greatest sixteenth Century advocate of football".

English public schools were the first to codify football games. In particular, they devised the first offside rules, during the late 18th century. The first known codes – in the sense of a set of rules – were those of Eton in 1815 and Aldenham in 1825.

David Wedderburn's Vocabula, a Latin textbook from 1633, includes a reference to passing the ball ("strike it here") in a football-like game.

Francis Willughby, who had studied at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield, is the author of the Book of Games, which includes the first description of goals and a distinct playing field. He also mentions tactics, scoring, and the way teams were selected. He is the first to describe a "law" of football: "they must not strike [an opponent's leg] higher than the ball".

FIFA was founded in 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.