Sports quiz of the week: Super Bowl, Sky Brown, Six Nations and sackings

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

1. Patrick Mahomes won the Super Bowl on Sunday. What did he do on Monday?

   1. He played a fathers-and-sons game of football at his kid’s school

   2. He went to Disneyland

   3. He signed for Philadelphia Eagles, the team he had just beaten

   4. He played in the opening round of qualifying for this year’s Masters golf tournament

2. 

   Even though he was on the losing side in the Super Bowl, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts was a strong contender for the Most Valuable Player award. There have been 57 Super Bowls. How many MVPs have been from the losing team?

   1. None

   2. One

   3. Six

   4. Nine

3. Newcastle face Liverpool in the Premier League this weekend. Newcastle have played 22 games since they lost to Liverpool in August. Who are the only team to have beaten them in that time?

   1. Manchester City

   2. Everton

   3. Sheffield Wednesday

   4. Luton Town

4. 

   Sky Brown, the British skateboarder who won a medal at the Olympics in Tokyo, became a world champion this week. How old is she?

   1. 12

   2. 14

   3. 16

   4. 18

5. The Italian football manager Davide Nicola is having an unusual start to the year. What has happened to him in the last month?

   1. He has given all three of his sons their debuts at Salernitana

   2. His club sacked him after a run of six straight wins

   3. He has been sacked twice by the same club

   4. He lost his job as manager of the Italy men’s team only to be appointed as manager of Italy’s women team

6. 

   Neil Warnock is the new Huddersfield manager. When did Warnock take his first job in management?

   1. 28 years ago

   2. 36 years ago

   3. 42 years ago

   4. 50 years ago

7. Which of these clubs has lost their last three matches in three different competitions?

   1. Roma

   2. PSG

   3. Juventus

   4. Arsenal

8. 

   Real Madrid won the Club World Cup on Sunday, continuing Europe’s domination of the tournament. European teams have won the Club World Cup in 14 of the last 15 years. Who are the odd ones out?

   1. Liverpool

   2. Chelsea

   3. Manchester United

   4. Inter

9. The knockout rounds of the Champions League and Europa League have thrown up a few glamour ties. Which of these ties has been played as a European Cup final three times, making it the most common final in the competition’s history?

   1. Barcelona v Manchester United

   2. PSG v Bayern Munich

   3. Liverpool v Real Madrid

   4. Inter v Porto

10. Which team is bottom of the Six Nations table with no points after two games?

    1. England

    2. Wales

    3. Italy

    4. Scotland

Solutions

1:B - The Disneyland tradition dates back to 1987, when New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms was named MVP and shouted the famous phrase: “I’m going to Disneyland!”, 2:B - Dallas Cowboys linebacker Chuck Howley is the only player in NFL history to have been voted MVP while on the losing team in a Super Bowl., 3:C - Newcastle’s only defeat in the last six months came in the FA Cup against League One club Sheffield Wednesday. , 4:B - Brown became Britain’s youngest Olympic medalist in Tokyo at the age of 13., 5:C - Nicola was sacked on 16 January after Salernitana lost 8-2 to Atalanta. The club’s owner gave him "another chance" two days later, only to sack him again on 16 February., 6:C - Warnock, now 74, started his managerial career at Gainsborough Trinity in 1981. Since then he has managed Burton Albion, Scarborough, Notts County, Torquay, Huddersfield (twice), Plymouth Argyle, Oldham, Bury, Sheffield United, Crystal Palace (twice), QPR, Leeds, Rotherham United, Cardiff and Middlesbrough., 7:B - PSG have lost to Marseille in the Coupe de France, Monaco in Ligue 1 and Bayern Munich in the Champions League. The last time they lost three games in a row, their winger Warren Zaïre-Emery was just four years old., 8:B - Chelsea lost to Corinthians in the final in 2012. To be fair, they made up for it in 2021, when they beat Palmeiras in the final., 9:C - The teams met in the final in 1981, 2018 and 2022., 10:B - Wales have been extremely disappointing, losing 34-10 to Ireland and 35–7 to Scotland.

Scores

1. 3 and above.

   Oh dear.

2. 4 and above.

   That's a decent effort. Have a great weekend.

3. 5 and above.

   That's a decent effort. Have a great weekend.

4. 6 and above.

   That's a decent effort. Have a great weekend.

5. 7 and above.

   Nicely done. Have a great weekend.

6. 8 and above.

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

7. 9 and above.

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

8. 10 and above.

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

9. 11 and above.

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

10. 2 and above.

    Oh dear.

11. 0 and above.

    Oh dear.

12. 1 and above.

    Oh dear.