The Worst-Worded Quiz Question, Ever

Name the clubs that have supplied exactly one Scotland international

The question.

This article has the answers to a quiz question I posted on social media earlier today. I was writing an article on the clubs that have only ever provided one player to the Scotland national team, and decided to pose the question online first. Perfect quiz question material, or so I thought.

Perfect quiz question material - or so I thought.

Most of the wrong answers were probably my fault, as the wording in my post admittedly wasn’t clear. The question I meant to ask was:

there are nearly 70 clubs that have only ever provided one player to the national team; name the 29 clubs to join that list since France ‘98.

I ended up trying and failing to explain, on four different social media platforms, why Che Adams at Torino doesn’t count as an answer, because Denis Law played for Torino in 1961.

Anyway. The answers are here, along with the number of players every club has provided to the national team, and the total number of caps awarded to players of each club.

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One Scotland Player Clubs

If you ask it correctly, this could be a good question to pass the time when travelling to America. Take turns naming clubs that have provided players to the Scotland national team. Amazingly, there are 174 correct answers.

Of those 174 clubs, 69 have provided exactly one player, while the other 105 have provided two or more. Guessing the 69 clubs that have only ever provided one player becomes very difficult, very quickly.

Only 105 of those have provided more than 2 players, so guessing these 69 clubs that have only ever provided one player starts to become very difficult, very quickly.

The quiz question answers for the one-club-players since 1998 are the first 29 clubs in this graphic down until O’Neill with Wolfsburg 1998.

The 69 clubs to provide exactly one player to the Scotland men’s national team.

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Scotland Players By Club

Across those 174 clubs, there are 1,710 club/player combinations, involving the 1,244 men that have played for Scotland. The 69 clubs above have provided exactly one player, with the remaining 105 clubs providing two or more.

This next list shows the 41 clubs to provide 12 or more players, purely because the graphic would get too big if I went down to the next 64 clubs, who have provided 11 or fewer.

The top three English clubs may surprise you!