Who Ate All The Bratwurst

World Cup wisdom: just a text away

Want to impress your mates (and bore your partner stupid) with World Cup wisdom? We’ve partnered with revolutionary text servivce 82Ask to help you boost your World Cup trivia. Just text them a question (go on anything you like) and they’ll text you back the answer. Here are some toughies we’ve thought of, but there are plenty of others if you really want to get them working for their money.

Q: Who was the first player born after the 1966 World Cup win to win a cap for England?
Q: What do Scotland, Cameroon, England and Belgium have in common in the World Cup?
Q: Dino Zoff has the record for the longest time without conceding a goal. Who eventually scored past him?
Q: Who is the only player to have scored for two different nations in the World Cup?
Q: Which player has the most appearances at the World Cup?

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Play The Simple Game and win 2 World Cup Final tickets!

Philips, one of the official sponsors for Germany 2006, has a great prize of two tickets to the World Cup Final on 9 July. All you have to do is play this addictive little free-kick game, register for the prize draw, cross your fingers and wait…

COMPETITION Write your own World Cup anthem!

Think you have the talent to come up with the next World In Motion? If you do, head over to top viral website Kontraband, which has just launched a competition to find the best new World Cup songwriters. All you have to do is write a footie anthem, make a video for it (as low-budget as you like) and Kontraband's readers (there's a lot of them – around 8 million a month, they claim) will vote on the best ones. Get cracking…

Official FIFA World Cup Trivia Quiz - highly addictive

The infuriatingly addictive trivia quiz is in full swing on the Official World Cup site. It is very interactive as fans from around the world answer the questions at the same time. A points table in the corner lets you know how poorly you are doing. Click here to play. 

Rob Parker

Adopt a German!

I had a German exhange friend once, when I was 15. He was called Thorben, wore thick glasses and hated football. I remember sitting in my living room with him, suffering for 90 minutes as Germany beat Argentina in the 1990 World Cup final, one of the most depressing experiences of my life – the match itself was dire and I was still pissed off because Lothar Mattheus and his blonde team-mates had knocked England out in the semi-final, thereby denying us revenge for Diego Maradona's Hand of God four years earlier. Anyway, that's off my chest: I wish you better luck should you choose to Adopt a German.

COMPETITION Win The Other Half DVD

We've got our hands on DVDs of splendid England footie comedy The Other Half (starring Danny Dyer and Vinnie Jones) to give away to five lucky Bratwurst readers. The film follows the adventures of newlywed England fan Mark (Dyer) and his crafty attempt to watch England in action at Euro 2004 whilst on honeymoon in Portugal. You can watch the trailer here.

To enter this competition, simply answer the following question:

Which team knocked England out of Euro 2004?

Email your answer, along with your name, to this address

The winners will be picked at random & the closing date is 1st June. Good luck!
(PS. If you don't win, then you can always buy The Other Half – it's released on DVD next Monday)

MSN World Cup quiz

If you consider yourself a bit of a World Cup Mastermind, you can test your knowledge by having a go at MSN's World Cup quiz. You have to answer 10 questions as quickly as possible. Providing you finish it the top 100 (and tell their marketeers your deepest, darkest secrets) you will then be entered in a prize draw to win £100 to spend at a league club of your choice. Click here if you want a go.

Rob Parker

Five Live World Cup comedian competition

Just a reminder about BBC Five Live's search for a World Cup comedian. If you crack your mates up down the pub with hilarious metatarsal-based routines, then you could become Five's World Cup comic. For details on how to enter, click below…

COMPETITION! Become Five Live's official World Cup Comedian! cont…

To audition you must be able to put together a very short routine on the forthcoming World Cup - from whatever angle you like.

The BBC want you to leave your routine (plus your contact details) on their phone line. There is more about the competition and the number to call on their website.

They'll select six finalists and invite them to record their routines in a studio. The final round of auditions will be broadcast on the Anita Anand Show (10pm-1am Monday to Thursday) in the week beginning the 22nd of May. The audience will then vote for the winner who will be announced on the Anita Anand Show on the 25th of May.

Who Ate all the Bratwurst? is mildly funny itself (or so we like to think) and we're chuffed to be associated with this great competition. Why not film your routine and post it on YouTube – then we can link to it on this site and you can sit back and prepare for fame and fortune… good luck!

Write for Bratwurst and also be the UK's first mobile blogger and we'll give you £500 to do it.

Ok, so there might be a lot of World Cup competitions around, but this is the coolest by far. How would you like to write for Who ate all the Bratwurst? as well as be the first footy blogger in the UK to go mobile?

And guess what we’ll pay you £500 to do it.

We are looking for four bloggers to write for both Bratwurst and our mobile sister blog Germany 2006 which will be available via the fantastic Mobizines. We want bloggers who can great write great short posts about anything and everything to do with the World Cup. There are four spaces up for grabs and you can find all the details here.

The basics though is that you need to write up to 300 impassioned, maybe witty words about something to do with football or the World Cup.

Germany 2006 will be on Mobizines, which is a fantastic new mobile phone application that offers magazines to go on your handset.

You can read all about how Mobizines work here and what sister blog Tech Digest said about it when it launched here.

So £500 and you could be on your way to be the next Motty. What have you got to lose?

Competition entry form

COMPETITION! Become Five Live's official World Cup comedian!

If you think you're funny ha-ha (rather than funny peculiar) and you know the difference between Frank Lampard and Frank Spencer, then the BBC needs you!

Radio Five Live is looking for fresh new comic talent to take part in its World Cup coverage. The winner will present their views on the tournament weekly on Five Live – their spot will also be available on the station's website. You don't even have to go to Germany – Five Live wants to capture a British way of looking at Germany '06 as it unfolds. For details on how to enter, click below…

COMPETITION! Become Five Live's official World Cup Comedian! cont…

To audition you must be able to put together a very short routine on the forthcoming World Cup - from whatever angle you like.

The BBC want you to leave your routine (plus your contact details) on their phone line. There is more about the competition and the number to call on their website.

They'll select six finalists and invite them to record their routines in a studio. The final round of auditions will be broadcast on the Anita Anand Show (10pm-1am Monday to Thursday) in the week beginning the 22nd of May. The audience will then vote for the winner who will be announced on the Anita Anand Show on the 25th of May.

Who Ate all the Bratwurst? is mildly funny itself (or so we like to think) and we're chuffed to be associated with this great competition. Why not film your routine and post it on YouTube – then we can link to it on this site and you can sit back and prepare for fame and fortune… good luck!