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The Guardian - UK

Sport

Paul Campbell

Sports quiz of the week: champions, chancers and Premier League climax

Lucas Moura and Christian Eriksen look forward to the Champions League final. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

Oakley Cannonier, a 14-year-old from Leeds, had a big impact this week. What did he do?
1. He became the youngest chess grandmaster in history
2. He became the youngest footballer to play in a Premier League match
3. He beat Ronnie O’Sullivan at the World Snooker Championship
4. He helped Liverpool take a quick corner and score against Barcelona
Sprinter Elija Godwin will miss the rest of the athletics season due to injury. What happened to him?
1. He was hit with a shot put
2. He impaled himself on a javelin
3. He tripped and broke his leg after one of his teammates tied his laces together for a laugh
4. A bird pooed on his hand, he rubbed his eye and it became infected
Clubs from London could win the Champions League and Europa League this season. Which city picked up two European trophies in the 1993-94 season?
1. Madrid
2. Milan
3. Manchester
4. Munich
All-English finals are not a new thing. Who won the very first meeting of two English clubs in a European final (the Uefa Cup final in 1972)?
1. Tottenham
2. Liverpool
3. Chelsea
4. Arsenal
Judd Trump beat John Higgins 18-9 in the Snooker World Championship final. Why was Neil Morrice particularly pleased with the result?
1. He put a £10 bet on Trump to win a world title at odds of 1,000-1
2. Higgins’ defeat means Morrice has gone to No 1 in the world rankings
3. The early finish meant Morrice, who refereed the final, made it to Manchester City’s match on Monday night
4. Higgins’ defeat means Morrice is still the only player to have won the title in his 40s (back in 1965)
Why was Dutch footballer Jordie van der Laan sacked this week?
1. He walked off the pitch 12 minutes into a game to show solidarity with Extinction Rebellion
2. He kissed the club owner's wife at the club’s end-of-season party
3. He skipped training to attend the Spurs v Ajax game and his club found out
4. He got a tattoo of his club’s local rivals on his chest
Complete this sequence: Cardiff in 2014, London in 2015, Lyon in 2016, Edinburgh in 2017, Bilbao in 2018…
1. Newcastle in 2019
2. New York in 2019
3. Newport in 2019
4. Nashville in 2019
The Giro d’Italia begins in Bologna this Saturday. Why was the Giro launched in 1909?
1. To help a local politician win an election
2. To pressurise the government into improving the roads
3. To bring tourists to isolated parts of Italy
4. To help a newspaper sell more copies
Manchester City will retain the Premier League title if they beat Brighton on Sunday. Who were the last club to win back-to-back titles?
1. Chelsea
2. Manchester United
3. Arsenal
4. Blackburn Rovers
Liverpool can also win the title on Sunday. When is the last time a club started the final day in second place and finished it as champions?
1. 1989
2. 1995
3. 2005
4. 2012
How many former Southampton players could feature in the Champions League final?
1. Four
2. Six
3. Eight
4. Ten

Solutions

1:D - The young ballboy gave Alexander-Arnold the ball while Barcelona’s defenders were napping and Liverpool scored their winning goal., 2:B - Godwin was running backwards on the track when he backed into a javelin that was stuck in the ground. He went to hospital with it sticking out of his chest., 3:B - Milan won the Champions League and Inter won the Uefa Cup., 4:A - They beat Wolves over two legs., 5:A - Morrice placed the bet 21 years ago, when Trump was just eight years old. , 6:C - “I just called in sick and of course it wasn’t the best decision. In the end someone found out,” he said., 7:A - These cities have all hosted the Champions Cup final in recent years. Saracens (the 2017 champions) take on Leinster (the 2018 champions) at St James’ Park on Saturday., 8:D - Tullo Morgagni, the editor of the La Gazzetta dello Sport, came up with the idea and their rival paper, the Corriere della Sera, also chipped in to help fund the first race., 9:B - That was 10 years ago when, you've guessed it, Alex Ferguson was their manager., 10:A - When Arsenal went to Anfield, beat Liverpool 2-0 and won the title on goals scored with the final kick of the season. , 11:C - Five from Liverpool (Virgil van Dijk, Sadio Mané, Adam Lallana, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Dejan Lovren) plus three from Tottenham (Toby Aldeweireld, Victor Wanyama and Paulo Gazzaniga). And one manager. And Liverpool have another former Southampton player out on loan (Nathaniel Clyne).