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Paul Campbell

Sports quiz of the week: Anthony Joshua, Cristiano Ronaldo and Francesco Totti

Cristiano Ronaldo
Man of the people Cristiano Ronaldo. Photograph: fotopress/Getty Images
  1. Only four people have had their pictures printed on bus tickets in Rome. Francesco Totti and three…

    1. Artists

    2. Opera singers

    3. Italy managers

    4. Popes

  2. Which of these competitions has Francesco Totti not won in his career?

    1. Serie A

    2. World Cup

    3. Coppa Italia

    4. European Championship

  3. Which of these heavyweight boxing champions has lost a professional fight?

    1. Anthony Joshua

    2. Deontay Wilder

    3. Joseph Parker

    4. Tyson Fury

    5. None of them

  4. Juventus have kept clean sheets in all five of their knockout games in the Champions League this season. Which team made it through six knockout games – home and away in the last-16, quarter-finals and semi-finals – without conceding a goal?

    1. Chelsea

    2. Manchester United

    3. Liverpool

    4. Arsenal

  5. Which of these objects struck a baseball fan while she was watching St Louis Cardinals play this week?

    1. A football that was blasted over from the nearby stadium

    2. A camera that fell from a drone in the sky

    3. Half a baseball bat

    4. A bullet

  6. Cristiano Ronaldo became only the second player to score hat-tricks in consecutive Champions League matches this week. Luiz Adriano was the first. For which club did he score his two hat-tricks?

    1. Milan

    2. Shakhtar Donetsk

    3. Spartak Moscow

    4. Rubin Kazan

  7. Who said: "Brendan Rodgers you are also the best manager I ever had. Amazing"?

    1. Joe Allen

    2. Mario Balotelli

    3. Scott Brown

    4. Kolo Touré

  8. Mark Selby has become the fourth player to retain the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre. Which of these players has not won the event in successive seasons?

    1. Stephen Hendry

    2. Ronnie O’Sullivan

    3. Steve Davis

    4. John Higgins

  9. If Manchester United win the Europa League, they will become the second British team to have won all three of Uefa's competitions (the other two being the Champions League and Cup Winners' Cup). Who were the first?

    1. Liverpool

    2. Aston Villa

    3. Celtic

    4. Chelsea

  10. Which American state was Andre Iguodala of the Golden State Warriors talking about when he said: "You’re just sitting there and your mind is, like, dead. It can kind of lull you to sleep. And then you’ve slept too long or are bored out of your mind and now you gotta try to pump yourself up for the game. You know you’re in the playoffs and you’re supposed to be pumped anyway, but the vibe is just like: ‘Man, let’s just get out of here.'"?

    1. Kansas

    2. Utah

    3. California

    4. Iowa

Solutions

1:D - Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII., 2:D - He did win the European Under-21 Championship in 1996 (thanks to the first golden goal in football history, scored by Pierluigi Orlandini)., 3:E - Let the games begin., 4:D - Arsenal kept out Real Madrid, Juventus and Villarreal on their run to the 2006 final, which they lost 2-1 to Barcelona. , 5:D - It was fired in the air a mile away, 6:B - Both were scored against BATE Borisov. Funnily enough, Ronaldo has scored two hat-tricks against Atlético this season – in La Liga and the Champions League. , 7:B - Rodgers had joked that Balotelli was the best player he has coached, so Balotelli responded in kind., 8:D - Higgins' four titles came in 1998, 2007, 2009 and 2011., 9:D - Only Juventus, Ajax Bayern Munich and Chelsea have won all three trophies, 10:B - Don't expect to see Iguodala holidaying in Salt Lake City after the playoffs.

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