Sports quiz of the week: champions, challengers, crowds and changes

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  1. What was unusual about the Liverpool team Jurgen Klopp picked for their 4-1 win against Brentford this weekend?

    1. It was the same team he had chosen the week before – the first time Klopp has chosen an unchanged team in his Liverpool career

    2. It featured 11 players from 11 different countries

    3. None of the players were part of Liverpool’s 2020 league-winning squad

    4. All 11 players were under 23 years old

  2. What rule change is being tried for the long jump – an idea that four-time Olympic champion Carl Lewis has derided as an “April Fool’s joke”?

    1. Athletes will have to jump barefoot

    2. The starting board is removed so athletes can jump without worrying about contamination

    3. Jumpers land in the water instead of the sand

    4. Athletes get five jumps each instead of three

  3. Wales will play rugby world champions South Africa in June. Why is the match being played at Twickenham and not at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff?

    1. Crufts takes place in June in the Principality

    2. The Wales manager wants his team to “gain the experience of playing in a hostile environment”

    3. Taylor Swift has already booked the stadium in Cardiff

    4. The South African team agreed to play an extra match, but only if they did not have to travel further than London

  4. Ireland play Wales in the Six Nations this weekend. Ireland have won their last ten games in the competition. Who is the only team to have won eleven in a row in the Six Nations?

    1. Ireland

    2. France

    3. England

    4. Wales

  5. Ashwath Kaushik and Leonid Ivanovic have both defeated chess grandmasters in recent weeks. Why is that surprising?

    1. They are also professional snooker players

    2. They are brothers and sisters who were separated at birth and only found each other last year

    3. They are both eight years old

    4. They are 100 years old

  6. Andreas Brehme died this week at the age of 63. He scored penalties in two World Cups: against Mexico in 1986 and against Argentina in 1990. What was unusual about his technique?

    1. They were both Panenka’s that went in via the crossbar

    2. He scored one with his left foot and one with his right foot

    3. He took a one-step ‘run-up’

    4. He closed his eyes during the run-up to “distract the goalkeeper”

  7. Antoine Dupont was the Six Nations player of the tournament last year (and the year before). Where does he compete this weekend?

    1. France

    2. Italy

    3. Qatar

    4. Canada

  8. Joe Hart has announced his retirement after this season. Hart won 75 caps – the same number as any other England goalkeeper?

    1. Peter Shilton

    2. David Zeeman

    3. Jordan Pickford

    4. David James

  9. Jesse Lingard was on the scoresheet for his new club this week as they won the pre-season friendly 11-1. Where?

    1. Seychelles

    2. South Korea

    3. Singapore

    4. Samoa

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    Who will Wigan play in the World Club Challenge this weekend?

    1. Penrith Panthers

    2. South Sydney Rabbitohs

    3. Sydney Hanen

    4. Melbourne storm

  11. Liverpool and Chelsea meet in the League Cup final on Sunday – a repeat of the final from two years ago. That match ended goalless and went to a penalty shootout. There were 22 penalties in the shootout. Who was the only player to miss?

    1. Timo Werner

    2. N’Golo Kante

    3. Caoimhin Kelleher

    4. Kepa Arrizabalaga

  12. Arsenal hosted Manchester United in the Women’s Super League this weekend. How big was the crowd?

    1. 45,005

    2. 51,777

    3. 56,643

    4. 60,160

  13. Which Dutch football club has been driven out of Europe by Roma in each of the past three seasons?

    1. Feyenoord

    2. PSV Eindhoven

    3. Ajax

    4. FC Twente

  14. Ronnie O’Sullivan has been on a great run lately. He won 16 games in a row. What happened on the 17th?

    1. He played left-handed – and won

    2. He hit two 147 breaks

    3. He won 6-0 by hitting six century breaks

    4. He lost 6-0

  15. Complete this sequence: Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Rajkot, Ranchi…

    1. Dharamshala

    2. Mumbai

    3. Calcutta

    4. Chennai

Solutions

1:B – Klopp chose Caoimhin Kelleher (Republic of Ireland), Conor Bradley (Northern Ireland), Ibrahima Konaté (France), Virgil van Dijk (Netherlands), Andy Robertson (Scotland), Curtis Jones (England), Alexis Mac Allister ( Argentina), Wataru Endo (Japan), Diogo Jota (Portugal), Luis Díaz (Colombia) and Darwin Núñez (Uruguay). The number of nationalities rose to 12 when Mo Salah of Egypt came off the bench., 2:B – The proposal is intended to reduce the number of foul jumps, but Lewis is having none of that. “You have to wait until April Fool’s Day for April Fool’s jokes,” he said. “I think it supports what I said, that long distance is the most difficult event in athletics. That would just eliminate the most difficult skill from the event. Just make the basket bigger for free throws because so many people miss them.”, 3:C – The two teams last met at Twickenham during the 2015 World Cup, when the Springboks won a thrilling quarter-final 23-19., 4 :C – Ireland are also chasing back-to-back grand slams – a feat never before achieved in the Six Nations., 5:C – They are the first eight-year-olds to beat grandmasters. Kaushik, who started playing an online chess game at the age of four, says his ambition is to become a world champion. “I think I have a natural talent at chess,” he said – something that is an understatement., 6:B – When asked which of his feet was the strongest, he said: “I honestly don’t know. In 1986 I was asked why I had taken a penalty with my left foot, as I often used my right foot. I hadn’t even noticed. It makes no difference.”, 7:D – He will play in a rugby sevens tournament in Vancouver as part of his preparation for the Paris Olympics later this year. , 8:B – Shilton is the only England goalkeeper with more caps than Hart., 9:B – Lingard has joined FC Seoul after apparently turning down offers from “26 clubs” around the world. His first competitive match in the K-League could come on March 2 in their league opener against Gwangju., 10:A – The same team that lost to St Helens in the match a year ago., 11:D – That was not the case Kepa’s best day as a Chelsea player for a few reasons., 12:D – It was the biggest crowd in the competition’s history., 13:A – Roma’s reward for beating Feyenoord this week is a draw in the last 16 against Brighton. , 14:D – O’Sullivan was whitewashed by Mark Selby at the Players Championship in Telford., 15:A – These are the venues England will visit on their five-Test tour of India.

Scores

  1. 1 and higher.

    Oh well, better luck next time

  2. 2 and higher.

    Oh well, better luck next time

  3. 3 and above.

    Oh well, better luck next time

  4. 4 and higher.

    Oh well, better luck next time

  5. 5 and higher.

    That’s an excellent score. Good weekend

  6. 6 and above.

    That’s an excellent score. Good weekend

  7. 7 and higher.

    That’s an excellent score. Good weekend

  8. 8 and above.

    That’s a fantastic score. Have a great weekend

  9. 9 and above.

    That’s a fantastic score. Have a great weekend

  10. 10 and above.

    Wow. Well played. Nice weekend

  11. 11 and above.

    Wow. Well played. Nice weekend

  12. 12 and above.

    Wow. Well played. Nice weekend

  13. 13 and above.

    Wow. Well played. Nice weekend

  14. 14 and above.

    Wow. Well played. Nice weekend

  15. 0 and higher.

    Oh well, better luck next time

  16. 15 and above.

    Wow. Well played. Nice weekend

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