Sports quiz of the week: a style icon, a cup finalist and an unlikely cricketer

Serena Williams has been winning in style at the Australian Open. Photograph: Mackenzie Sweetnam/Getty Images

1. Serena Williams has been wearing a one-legged catsuit at the Australian Open. Which athlete inspired the outfit?

   1. John Daly

   2. Jorge Campos

   3. Florence Griffith Joyner

   4. Billie Jean King

2. Leon Spinks, who beat Muhammad Ali to become the heavyweight champion of the world in just his eighth professional fight, died this week at the age of 67. How many people were in the arena to witness the greatest moment of Spinks’ career on that Wednesday afternoon back in 1978?

   1. 5,298

   2. 98,999

   3. 112,345

   4. 156,777

3. Zlatan Ibrahimovic opened the scoring for Milan against Crotone at the weekend, scoring his 500th goal in club football. At which of his nine clubs has he been most prolific, scoring 156 of those goals?

   1. Malmö

   2. Ajax

   3. Juventus

   4. Inter

   5. Barcelona

   6. Milan

   7. PSG

   8. Manchester United

   9. LA Galaxy

4. What task brought Porto and Braga players together during a cup tie in Portugal?

   1. The two captains did a symbolic dance together on the pitch to encourage fans to maintain social distancing rules at all times

   2. Two players caught a streaker together. A Porto forward tackled him to the ground and the Braga keeper protected his modesty with his gloves

   3. They pushed a broken-down ambulance off the pitch

   4. Players from both teams petitioned the referee not to send off a striker who had taken off his shirt after scoring an overhead kick. The opposing captain told the referee: 'Did you not see it? It was perfect. He should be allowed to take off his shorts after scoring that goal!'

5. Which former footballer has revealed his desire to take up cricket once lockdown eases, saying: "I was an all-rounder. I was really good. I just love playing. I was probably playing more cricket than soccer at school. I’m on YouTube a lot watching cricket. My wife always says: ‘What are you watching? What is this?’ Three hours a day watching games from 1984 and 1986, and she is going: ‘What is wrong with you, why aren’t you normal?’ When it gets a bit warmer and we can start to go out a bit easier, I would like to go training with the national team and see how fast the ball really comes at you, with your pads and everything. I think it would be a good experience"?

   1. Phil Neville

   2. Shay Given

   3. Frank Lampard

   4. Christian Vieri

6. Peter O’Mahony was sent off during Ireland’s game against Wales in the Six Nations at the weekend. How many players have been sent off in the Six Nations (in 318 matches since Italy joined the competition in 2000)?

   1. Three

   2. Nine

   3. 30

   4. 55

7. England’s start to the Six Nations was about as successful as O’Mahony’s. They lost a home game to Scotland for the first time in 38 years. Things should improve this weekend, when they play Italy at Twickenham. England have played Italy 27 times. How many of those games have they won?

   1. 24

   2. 25

   3. 26

   4. 27

8. The Champions League returns this week. Which two countries will be hosting knockout ties for the first time (in the Champions League era)?

   1. Denmark and Cyprus

   2. Hungary and Romania

   3. Greece and Belgium

   4. Switzerland and Turkey

9. Tom Brady won the Super Bowl for the seventh time on Sunday. Which NFL team has won as many Super Bowls as Brady?

   1. New England Patriots

   2. San Francisco 49ers

   3. Dallas Cowboys

   4. Pittsburgh Steelers

   5. None of them

10. Which of the eight clubs left in this season’s FA Cup has reached the final on four previous occasions but never won the trophy?

    1. Bournemouth

    2. Sheffield United

    3. Leicester City

    4. Southampton

Solutions

1:C - Joyner won three gold medals at the 1988 Olympics and clearly made an impression on the young tennis player. "I was inspired by FloJo, who was a wonderful track athlete when I was growing up," said Williams. "Watching her fashion, just always changing, her outfits were always amazing. This year we thought of what can we do to keep elevating Serena Williams on the court.", 2:A - No one expected Spinks to win, with the bookies giving him odds of 10-1 to beat the champion. Ali won the rematch a few months later in front of a record-breaking crowd of 63,350 spectators., 3:G - He also scored 62 goals for Sweden., 4:C - An ambulance came on to the pitch to help one of Braga’s defenders. When the driver couldn’t get it started again, the players grouped together and pushed it off the field., 5:D - Even though Vieri was born in Bologna and made 49 appearances for Italy, he spent most of his childhood in Sydney, where he played a lot of cricket. , 6:B - O’Mahony was the first Ireland player to see red in a Six Nations game., 7:D - England have scored 1,092 points to Italy’s 324., 8:B - A few of the last-16 ties have been moved due to travel restrictions. Bucharest is hosting Atlético Madrid v Chelsea, with both RB Leipzig v Liverpool and Borussia Mönchengladbach v Manchester City being played in Budapest. Eastern European clubs had more success in the early days of the European Cup; the Hungarian side Vörös Lobogó reached the quarter-finals of the very first European Cup back in the 1965-66 season., 9:E - The Steelers and Patriots are tied on six each., 10:C - Leicester were beaten finalists in 1959, 1961, 1963 and 1969.

Scores

1. 3 and above.

   Not bad. Have a good weekend

2. 4 and above.

   A decent score. Well played. Have a great weekend

3. 5 and above.

   A decent score. Well played. Have a great weekend

4. 6 and above.

   Well played. Have a great weekend

5. 7 and above.

   Well played. Have a great weekend

6. 8 and above.

   Well played. Have a great weekend

7. 9 and above.

   Well played. Have a great weekend

8. 10 and above.

   Perfection. Well played. Have a great weekend

9. 2 and above.

   Oh dear

10. 0 and above.

    Oh dear

11. 1 and above.

    Oh dear