Reckon you know North Melbourne better than your gran, mum or best mate? Test them and yourself with our festive Kangaroos quiz.
1) Who is the only player to be on a North Melbourne list with both Glenn and Jackson Archer?
2) Which player is the only Kangaroo to win the Rising Star Award?
3) Name North Melbourne's two current No.9s
4) Who was the last Kangaroos player to win the Coleman Medal?
5) What pick did games record-holder Brent Harvey go at in the 1995 National Draft?
6) Which player sits second on the all-time games played list for the Roos?
7) Which then-North player took an icy plunge for the 2020 Big Freeze fundraiser dressed as Simpsons character Sideshow Bob?
8) Before they were the Kangaroos, which of these was a former North Melbourne nickname: a) Blue Boys, b) Blue Birds, c) Blue Tops?
9) North Melbourne and which two other clubs joined the VFL from the VFA in 1925?
10) Kangaroos ruckman Alex 'the Big Russian' Ishchenko actually had a heritage from which country: a) Belarus, b) Croatia or c) Ukraine?
11) Brother Boys is a book by Sean Gorman about which legendary North Melbourne siblings?
12) Matthew ‘Spider’ Burton played at North Melbourne and which other AFL club?
13) Is 210cm Burton longer or shorter than a king-size bed?
14) Was Kangaroo player Laurie Dwyer nicknamed Twinkletoes because a) he was a ballroom dancer; b) he was born with four toes on his right foot; or c) he was famously clumsy?
Kangaroo connections
What links ...
15) Hearts, recreation, chorus?
16) Noel Teasdale, Keith Greig (twice), Malcom Blight, Ross Glendinning?
17) Arnold Briedis, Ian Fairley, Shannon Grant, Jason Horne-Francis?
18) John Longmire, Wayne Carey, Phil Baker, Brent Crosswell?
19) Hawthorn, Collingwood, Sydney, Carlton?
20) Tennyson St, Kensington with Wreckyn St, North Melbourne?
ANSWERS
1. Todd Goldstein
2. Byron Pickett, in 1998
3. Emma Kearney and Luke Davies-Uniacke
4. John Longmire, in 1990
5. Pick 47
6. Drew Petrie
7. Ben Brown
8. b) Blue Birds
9. Footscray and Hawthorn
10. c) Ukraine
11. Phil and Jim Krakouer
12. Fremantle
13. Burton is 7cm longer
14. a) he was an Australian ballroom dancing champion
Kangaroo connections
15. Found in the lyrics to the club theme song
16. North Melbourne Brownlow winners
17. No.6 guernsey wearers
18. North players with animal nicknames: Horse, Duck, Snake (Long bombs to Snake!), Tiger
19. Beaten Grand Final opponents: 1975, 1977, 1996, 1999
20. Arden St
