From blanket pitches to World Cups — how much do you know about the classic tabletop football game Subbuteo? Test your knowledge now.
📝 10 questions
First question:
Peter Adolph named Subbuteo after the scientific name of which bird, as he could not trademark his preferred name 'Hobby'?
Subbuteo
1Peter Adolph named Subbuteo after the scientific name of which bird, as he could not trademark his preferred name 'Hobby'?
💡 Hobby hawk
2The first Subbuteo sets did not include a playing pitch — what household item were purchasers instructed to use as a playing surface instead?
💡 A blanket
3Which well-known games company acquired Subbuteo in 1969, before later selling it to Hasbro?
💡 Waddingtons
4Subbuteo was adapted from an earlier table football game called Newfooty — in which city was Newfooty invented?
💡 Liverpool
5Which country won the first Subbuteo World Cup, held in London in 1970?
💡 West Germany
6In Subbuteo, how many consecutive flicks is the same figure allowed to make before possession must change?
💡 Three
7In Subbuteo, the offside law applies to figures forward of the opposing team's shooting line, rather than which line as in actual football?
💡 The halfway line
8What nickname was given to the Subbuteo figure introduced in 1978 to facilitate machine painting, before it was replaced in 1980?
💡 Zombie
9Early production of Subbuteo was centred in Langton Green, near which English town?
💡 Royal Tunbridge Wells
10In which German city was the Federation of International Sports Table Football (FISTF) founded in 1992?
💡 Hamburg
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