Sports quiz of the week: Champions League, French Open and Giro d’Italia

Désiré Doué, Loïs Boissonand Simon Yates. Composite: Guardian Picture Desk; Uefa/Getty Images; Getty Images; AGF/Shutterstock

1. PSG wrapped up a treble on Saturday night when they hammered Inter in the Champions League final. Who were the first European team to win a treble?

   1. Ajax

   2. Celtic

   3. Manchester United

   4. Bayern Munich

2. 

   Désiré Doué was substituted a few minutes after he scored his second goal for PSG in their 5-0 win, so did not have a chance to complete his hat-trick. There have only been four hat-tricks in European Cup finals. Who scored two of them?

   1. Eusébio

   2. Gerd Müller

   3. Alfredo Di Stéfano

   4. Ferenc Puskás

3. Iga Swiatek’s run of 26 wins in a row at the French Open came to an end this week when she was beaten by Aryna Sabalenka in the semi-finals. If Swiatek is the queen of clay, Rafa Nadal was the king. He played 116 matches at the French Open. How many did he lose?

   1. Two

   2. Four

   3. Six

   4. Eight

4. 

   Loïs Boisson also reached the semi-finals, an incredible achievement given it was the first grand slam of her career. Which other player reached the French Open semi-finals in her first slam, doing so at 14 years old? Clue: she would later win the French Open (as well as two Australian Open titles and an Olympic gold medal).

   1. Jennifer Capriati

   2. Chris Evert

   3. Sue Barker

   4. Mary Pierce

5. England are playing Andorra in a World Cup qualifier on Saturday. The game is not being held in Andorra but at the Estadi Cornellà-El Prat – the home of which club?

   1. Toulouse

   2. Girona

   3. Real Zaragoza

   4. Espanyol

6. 

   How has Thomas Tuchel adapted England training so his players will be ready for the World Cup in the US, Canada and Mexico next year?

   1. The staff at St George’s Park have been told to speak to players in American accents

   2. Tuchel has insisted his players must tip hotel staff by at least 20%

   3. Players have to drive to training on the right side of the road to mimic US conditions

   4. They are training in heated tents

7. Australia and South Africa are preparing to meet in the World Test Championship final this coming week. Which country is hosting the final (having also hosted the 2021 and 2023 finals)?

   1. India

   2. England

   3. New Zealand

   4. Bangladesh

8. 

   On the subject of cricket, England players got stuck in traffic and were nearly late for their match against West Indies at the Oval. How did the captain, Harry Brook, and a few others get to the ground?

   1. Local police took them by horseback

   2. They jumped off the team bus and into black cabs

   3. They were given a helicopter ride by the ambulance service

   4. They took Lime bikes

9. Which two countries have qualified for the World Cup next summer, having never played in the tournament before?

   1. East Timor and Malaysia

   2. Uzbekistan and Jordan

   3. Cape Verde and Tonga

   4. Mauritius and Jamaica

10. 

    Simon Yates won the Giro d’Italia on Sunday. There are 21 stages in the race. How many of them did he win?

    1. None

    2. Two

    3. Six

    4. Ten

11. Which rugby league team were beaten finalists in the Challenge Cup last year but have another chance to win the trophy at Wembley on Saturday?

    1. Hull Kingston Rovers

    2. Warrington Wolves

    3. St Helens

    4. Hull FC

12. 

    Epsom hosts the Derby on Saturday afternoon. Which piece of equipment did the organisers borrow from another sport this week for the race?

    1. The chequered flag used for F1 races at Silverstone

    2. The starting blocks from Romford Greyhound Stadium

    3. The balls from the FA Cup draw

    4. The hooter used at the London Olympics in 2012

13. Why is the race called the Derby?

    1. When the race began in 1780, it was held in Derbyshire rather than Surrey

    2. It started out as a race between two horses that shared the same field

    3. The race was sponsored by the 12th Earl of Derby

    4. Epsom took the idea from the Kentucky Derby in the US

14. 

    Vasiliy Lomachenko has retired from boxing at the age of 37. The Ukrainian won two Olympic gold medals and world titles at three weights. In the amateur ranks, he had 397 fights. How many of them did he lose?

    1. None

    2. One

    3. Six

    4. Nine

15. Max Verstappen crashed into a Mercedes car at the Spanish Grand Prix, which led the boss of the Mercedes team, Toto Wolff, to compare his driving to …

    1. “… a kid playing mariokart”

    2. “… taxi drivers in Naples and Rome”

    3. “… a teenager with L plates ”

    4. “… a Formula Three driver”

Solutions

1:B - There have been 11 treble winning teams: Celtic in 1967, Ajax in 1972, PSV Eindhoven in 1988, Manchester United in 1999, Barcelona in 2009 and 2015, Inter in 2010, Bayern Munich in 2013 and 2020, Manchester City in 2023 and PSG in 2025., 2:D - No one has scored a hat-trick in a European Cup final since the 1960s., 3:B - Nadal won the event 14 times and his win-loss record went from 31–0 to 70–1, 105–2 and 112–3, before finishing at 112–4. , 4:A - Capriati’s career was up and down to say the least. She reached the French Open semi-finals at 14, was arrested on shoplifting and marijuana charges later in her teens, and returned to tennis and won three grand slams. , 5:D - England are playing twice in the next week: against Andorra in Spain and against Senegal in a friendly at the City Ground in Nottingham., 6:D - “I have done pre-season in Orlando and I will be very surprised if we do not suffer,” said Tuchel. “Suffering is one of the headlines for this World Cup.” Sounds fun., 7:B - The 2021 final was at the Rose Bowl, the 2023 final was at the Oval and the 2025 final will be at Lord’s. Despite the lure of playing at home, England have never reached the final. , 8:D - The West Indies players stayed on their coach and were late, meaning they did not have a proper warm-up. “It was very tough,” said Gudakesh Motie. “It was a long drive to the ground with a lot of traffic – it took about two hours on the bus. When we got to the ground we had only a few minutes before play.” , 9:B - It’s a 48-team tournament so expect to see a few new faces – and a few more pages – in the sticker album., 10:A - Yates did not win any of the stages but he completed the 2,140-mile course quicker than anyone else. , 11:B - Warrington are up against it. They lost to Wigan in last year’s final and are underdogs against Hull KR this time around. , 12:C - The draw for the race took place at a Picturehouse cinema in Epsom and featured the balls and velvet bag used in FA Cup draws. It was a step up from last year, when they used hand-scrawled ping-pong balls and held the draw outside the local Wetherspoons. , 13:C - The Earl of Derby and Sir Charles Bunbury both helped establish the race. They supposedly flipped a coin to determine whether it would be named “Derby Stakes” or “Bunbury Stakes.” Although Bunbury lost the coin toss, Newmarket later featured his name in the “Bunbury Cup”., 14:B - Boxing has lost one of its greats. , 15:B - Taxi drivers in Rome did not welcome the comparison. “We are the best at not having accidents, otherwise we would lose our working day,” said one annoyed driver. “I would like to see Formula One drivers manoeuvring around construction sites, scooters and golf carts the way we do. Rome is now a jungle, not a Formula One track.”

Scores

1. 1 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week.

2. 2 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week.

3. 3 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week.

4. 4 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week.

5. 5 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week.

6. 6 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week.

7. 7 and above.

   Not bad. Not bad at all.

8. 8 and above.

   Not bad. Not bad at all.

9. 9 and above.

   That's a great score. Well played

10. 10 and above.

    That's a great score. Well played

11. 11 and above.

    That's a great score. Well played

12. 12 and above.

    That's a sensational score. Well played

13. 13 and above.

    That's a sensational score. Well played

14. 14 and above.

    That's a sensational score. Well played

15. 0 and above.

    Ah well. Better luck next week.

16. 15 and above.

    That's a sensational score. Well played