The competition is open to any eligible club down to Levels 10 of the English football league system - all 92 professional clubs in the Premier League and Football League (Levels 1 to 4), and several hundred "non-league" teams in Steps 1 to 6 of the National League System (Levels 5 to 10). A record 763 clubs competed in 201112. The tournament consists of 12 randomly drawn rounds followed by the semi-finals and the final. Entrants are not seeded, although a system of byes based on league level ensures higher ranked teams enter in later rounds - the minimum number of games needed to win the competition ranges from six to fourteen.

The first six rounds are the Qualifying Competition, from which 32 teams progress to the first round of the Competition Proper, meeting the first of the 92 professional teams. The last entrants are the Premier League and Championship clubs, into the draw for the Third Round Proper. In the modern era, non-league teams have never reached the quarter finals, and teams below Level 2 have never reached the final.[note 1] As a result, as well as who wins, significant focus is given to those "minnows" (smaller teams) who progress furthest, especially if they achieve an unlikely "giant-killing" victory.

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. How many rounds does the Qualifying Competition start with?
2. How many teams will progress to the first round?
3. How many teams will they meet then?
4. Are they professional or amateur?
5. Who are the last entrants?
6. And who else?
7. What are they put into the draw for?
8. Who has never reached the quarter finals these days?
9. What have teams below level 2 never reached?
10. Which teams are significant focus given to?
11. Are they bigger or smaller teams?
12. What type of victory is unlikely?
13. Who is the competition open to?
14. How many non-league teams are there?
15. How many clubs competed in the 2011-2012 season?
16. Was it a record?
17. How are the initial 12 rounds drawn?
18. What type of teams enter in later rounds?
19. What ensures this?
20. What's that based on?
1. Six
2. 32
3. 92
4. professional
5. The Premier League
6. Championship clubs
7. The Third Round Proper
8. Non-league teams
9. The final
10. minnows
11. Smaller
12. "giant-killing"
13. any eligible club
14. several hundred
15. 763
16. Yes
17. Randomly
18. Higher ranked
19. a system of byes
20. On league level