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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Niall McVeigh

Sports quiz of the week: Cook, Kaepernick and county cricket

Alastair Cook is England’s leading run-scorer by a distance, but who is second?
Alastair Cook is England’s leading run-scorer by a distance, but who is second? Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Guardian
  1. Alastair Cook will retire from international cricket after England's fifth Test against India. The former captain is England's all-time leading run-scorer with 12,254 and counting – but who is second?

    1. Graham Gooch

    2. Alec Stewart

    3. David Gower

    4. Kevin Pietersen

  2. Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is the star of Nike's highly-publicised new ad campaign. Which team did he lead to the Super Bowl in 2013?

    1. Seattle Seahawks

    2. Oakland Raiders

    3. San Francisco 49ers

    4. Arizona Cardinals

  3. Who is Christoffer Haagh, and why did he make the news this week?

    1. An umpire who controversially consoled Nick Kyrgios on court at the US Open

    2. A futsal player who turned out in goal for Denmark's football team against Slovakia

    3. A keen horse racing punter who is suing a bookmaker over £1m in winnings not paid out

    4. A Swedish teenage golfer overlooked for the Ryder Cup team, who picked Sergio García instead

  4. What is the name of David Beckham's new Florida-based MLS franchise?

    1. Inter Miami

    2. Tampa Bay Rowdies

    3. Real Sarasota

    4. Orlando United

  5. "He makes the team so much better ... I felt like I had to go a long, long way to leave him out". Who said this, and about whom?

    1. José Mourinho about Paul Pogba

    2. Joe Root about Jonny Bairstow

    3. Thomas Bjørn about Sergio García

    4. Eddie Jones about Danny Cipriani

  6. What happened for the first time since 2003 in cricket's County Championship this week?

    1. A bowler took 10 wickets in a single innings

    2. A match finished in a tie

    3. The team enforcing the follow-on lost the match

    4. A game was played with only one umpire

  7. What is unusual about the assistant coach of Paraguayan football club Sporting Club 2 de Mayo?

    1. He is 95 years old

    2. She is the coach's daughter

    3. He is the country's former president

    4. She is a dog

  8. How has Yerbolat Kabulov made a name for himself at the US Open this week?

    1. He is a late replacement who has reached the mixed doubles final

    2. He is a fan who vocally roots for underdog players

    3. He is a ball boy who made an impressive acrobatic catch

    4. He won 6-0, 6-0 in a boys' singles match

  9. How did NRL side the Canterbury Bulldogs "embarrass themselves, their club and the game", according to the league's CEO, Todd Greenberg?

    1. The team were late for an away fixture after getting locked out of the team bus

    2. Their players were drunk and disorderly at the team's end-of-season party

    3. The team's mascot assaulted a home fan who ran onto the pitch

    4. The head coach walked out on the team at half-time in their final regular season game

  10. What new tournament will feature 55 teams, four leagues, 16 groups, promotion and relegation?

    1. The Hundred

    2. The World Cup of Darts

    3. The Uefa Nations League

    4. The Drone Racing League

Solutions

1:A - Cook's mentor scored 8,900 at an average of 42.58. Stewart, Gower and Pietersen complete the top five, 2:C - They lost 34-31 to the Baltimore Ravens., 3:B - Haagh was one of several amateur players called up with the first team involved in a pay dispute. Denmark lost 3-0 but the goalkeeper impressed with a series of saves, 4:A - Or Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami, to use its full name., 5:C - The European Ryder Cup captain defended the decision to pick García as a wildcard, despite the Spaniard missing the cut at every major this year, 6:B - Lancashire set Somerset a target of just 78 – and the hosts fell one short at Taunton, 7:D - 'Tesapara' is head coach Carlos Saguier's "partner in adventure" – and her support at matches and in training is leading the team on a promotion charge, 8:B - The 39-year-old delivery worker was last heard urging on Lesia Tsurenko in her heavy quarter-final loss to Naomi Osaka. Why does he do it? “Famous superstars have lots of fans.”, 9:B - The team has been fined A$250,000 (£139,000) after photos of players passing out, vomiting and stripping naked in the street were published by the press, 10:C - Confused? So are we

Scores

  1. 8 and above.

    A magnificent innings

  2. 5 and above.

    That's a decent knock

  3. 0 and above.

    Out for a duck

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