Sports quiz of the week: a fight, a joke, a gift and a Liverpool legend

Zoe Stratford, a London Marathon runner, Mohamed Salah. Composite: Getty, Alamy

1. England play Uruguay on Friday night at Wembley. England have never beaten Uruguay at a World Cup (not even in 1966). Who scored both goals for Uruguay when the teams last met at the tournament, in 2014?

   1. Diego Forlán

   2. Luis Suárez

   3. Edinson Cavani

   4. Diego Godín

2. 

   Zoe Stratford captained England to victory in the Women’s Six Nations last year. Why is she not in the squad this year?

   1. She retired after the tournament last year

   2. She is now playing rugby league for the South Sydney Rabbitohs

   3. She is pregnant with her first child

   4. Like Antoine Dupont, she has taken up rugby sevens in the hope of winning an Olympic gold medal

3. Why have the non-league club Rushden & Diamonds told two players, Bruno Andrade and Tyler Winters, to look for other clubs?

   1. They were spotted wearing Kettering Town shirts

   2. They went to the League Cup final on Sunday after calling in sick and missing their team’s 4-1 defeat at Harborough

   3. They have signed up for Love Island and will miss the rest of the season

   4. They were sent off for fighting each other on the pitch last weekend

4. 

   Three of these statements about the League Cup final between Manchester City and Arsenal last Sunday are true. Which one is false?

   1. Pep Guardiola has become the first manager to win the trophy five times

   2. It was the first final contested by the teams teams that were first and second in the top flight on the day of the match

   3. Nico O’Reilly was the only player who had a shot on target

   4. Arsenal have now lost their last four League Cup finals

5. Which club has won all of their home games in their league this season?

   1. Lens

   2. Barcelona

   3. Arsenal

   4. Bayern Munich

6. 

   The World Snooker Championship has been played at the Crucible in Sheffield since 1977 and will remain at the venue until 2045. Where was it played in 1976?

   1. Middlesbrough and Manchester

   2. London

   3. China

   4. Various snooker halls across Scotland

7. The new Major League Baseball season began this week. Which team will be trying to win the World Series three years in a row?

   1. Los Angeles Dodgers

   2. Texas Rangers

   3. Atlanta Braves

   4. Boston Red Sox

8. 

   Mohamed Salah is leaving Liverpool at the end of the season. Which club did Liverpool sign him from?

   1. Fiorentina

   2. Chelsea

   3. Basel

   4. Roma

9. Salah won the Puskás Award – the prize given out by Fifa for the "most beautiful" goal of the year – in 2018. Which team did he score that goal against?

   1. Real Madrid

   2. Manchester United

   3. Tottenham

   4. Everton

10. 

    Which of the quarter-finals in this year's Women’s Champions League features two clubs that have won the competition?

    1. Wolfsburg v Lyon

    2. Barcelona v Real Madrid

    3. Manchester United v Bayern Munich

    4. Arsenal v Chelsea

11. Erling Haaland has spent €118,000 on a gift for the people of his home town. What is it?

    1. A Manchester City shirt for every resident (who wants one)

    2. A 16th-century book about vikings

    3. A 10-foot tall statue of Erling Haaland

    4. One thousand tickets for Norway's matches at the World Cup this summer

12. 

    The organisers of the London Marathon are planning a big change for the race next year. What is the plan?

    1. To have a 50km race to mark the marathon’s 50th anniversary

    2. To make it a triathlon with a cycle around the M25 and a swim down the Thames

    3. To hold it over two days with twice as many runners

    4. To ban runners from emailing colleagues asking for money for charity

13. Who claimed that their team could win more medals at the London Stadium than “West Ham have seen in their entire history”?

    1. Mikel Arteta

    2. Joe Marler (who will be playing there in Soccer Aid)

    3. Thomas Tuchel

    4. Keely Hodgkinson

Solutions

1:B - England failed to win any of their games at the World Cup in 2014 and finished bottom of their group. Roy Hodgson kept his job but things didn’t get much better at Euro 2016. , 2:C - Abbie Ward and Lark Atkin-Davies are also unavailable for the tournament as they are pregnant., 3:D - “They let themselves down, they let the team down, they let the club down,” said Rushden manager Elliot Sandy., 4:C - It wasn’t the greatest game of football, but there were six shots on target: two for City and four for Arsenal., 5:B - Played 15, won 15. , 6:A - The tournament took place at two venues: the Middlesbrough Town Hall and the Wythenshawe Forum in Manchester. Ray Reardon beat Alex Higgins in the final. , 7:A - The Dodgers are strong favourites to win the title again. , 8:D - The club signed Salah in 2017 for £34m – less than they had paid for Andy Carroll six years earlier. , 9:D - Don’t worry if you got this one wrong. It’s a fine goal, but definitely not the best of the year. As James Milner put it at the time: "Congrats Mo Salah on your seventh best goal from last season winning goal of the year.", 10:A - Wolfsburg, Lyon, Barcelona and Arsenal have won it; Real Madrid, Chelsea and Bayern Munich have not. , 11:B - Haaland has donated the book to his local library. “I have never been a big reader, but I want the book to always be open, so that you can read about those who came from my area, from Bryne and Jaeren,” he explained. “I’ve been lucky enough to live out my dream through football, and I know not everyone gets that chance. Books give so many more people the chance to dream big, see new possibilities and find their own path.”, 12:C - With more than a million people applying to participate in the race, the organisers want to expand. A two-day event would double to number of runners to 100,000 and raise tens of millions more for charity., 13:D - Hodgkinson poked fun at West Ham after it emerged they could ruin London’s chances of hosting the 2029 World Athletics Championships. The event is likely to be held in September as a finale to the athletics season but West Ham do not want to give up the London Stadium during the football season.

Scores

1. 1 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week

2. 2 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week

3. 3 and above.

   That's a decent score. Well played. Have a good weekend

4. 4 and above.

   That's a decent score. Well played. Have a good weekend

5. 5 and above.

   That's a decent score. Well played. Have a good weekend

6. 6 and above.

   That's a decent score. Well played. Have a good weekend

7. 7 and above.

   That's a fine score. Well played. Have a good weekend

8. 8 and above.

   That's a super score. Well played. Have a good weekend

9. 9 and above.

   That's a sensational score. Well played. Have a great weekend

10. 11 and above.

    That's a sensational score. Well played. Have a great weekend

11. 10 and above.

    That's a sensational score. Well played. Have a great weekend

12. 12 and above.

    That's a sensational score. Well played. Have a great weekend

13. 0 and above.

    Ah well. Better luck next week

14. 13 and above.

    That's a sensational score. Well played. Have a great weekend