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The Guardian - UK

Sport

Paul Campbell

Sports quiz of the week: deception, humiliation, theft, hurt and crisps

Harry Kane reflects on a tough night in Tottenham. Photograph: Rob Newell/CameraSport via Getty Images

Tottenham were humiliated by Bayern Munich this week but, incredibly, it wasn't their biggest ever defeat at home. Which team beat them 8-2 in 1888?
1. Old Etonians
2. Newton Heath
3. Woolwich Arsenal
4. Notts County
Who is the odd one out?
1. Beauden
2. Jordie
3. Scott
4. Kevin
Why did Nice sack their young striker Lamine Diaby-Fadiga this week?
1. He admitted in an interview that he would rather play for Marseille as "they are a big club"
2. He was caught selling his staff tickets to games on Gumtree
3. He mocked Nice manager Patrick Vieira’s charity work, asking him: “If you love Senegal so much, why didn’t you play for them?”
4. He stole a teammate’s watch from the changing room
The Miami Dolphins have lost all four of their games so far this season, but why was their defeat to the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday particularly painful for one of their fans?
1. He was locked into the stadium after the match and had to bed down on the pitch overnight
2. He broke his wrist while trying to catch a ball in the crowd
3. He broke three ribs when one of the players crashed into him in the front row
4. He was charged $724 for two beers
Liverpool’s last two managers – Jürgen Klopp and Brendan Rodgers – face each other at Anfield this weekend. They are well acquainted professionally but what other relationship do the two managers have?
1. They are brothers-in-law
2. Rodgers is Klopp’s landlord
3. They are cousins
4. Rodgers was Klopp’s assistant at Mainz
Dina Asher-Smith won the women's 200m race at the World Championships this week. The 23-year-old is not just the fastest woman in Great Britain. She’s also a history graduate. What was her dissertation about?
1. How the Beatles revolutionised Liverpool’s tourism industry
2. The evolution of world records in the women’s 200m race
3. Human rights abuses in the Gulf states
4. The history of jazz in the USA
Alan Ruschel scored for Goiás as they beat Cruzeiro 1-0 in the Brazilian league this week. Why is that so remarkable?
1. Ruschel is only 14 years old
2. Ruschel came on as a substitute in the 87th minute and sent off in the 90th minute
3. Ruschel is the team’s manager and hadn’t played a game in 15 years
4. Ruschel is one of the three Chapecoense players who survived the plane crash that killed 71 people in 2016
Kade Lovell won a 10km race in Minnesota this week. Why was that unexpected?
1. He set off 20 minutes after everyone else
2. He is blind and was led around by his guide dog
3. He pulled up with a hamstring injury and hopped the last 500 metres
4. He is nine years old and thought he was running a 5km race
Who said: "I believe we can hurt Young Boys"?
1. Ole Gunnar Solskjær
2. Steven Gerrard
3. Unai Emery
4. Nuno Espírito Santo
The eight teams involved in the new cricket competition, The Hundred, were announced this week. All eight teams will wear shirts sponsored by KP, who make some of the most loved snacks in the UK. Which of these brands does not feature on a shirt?
1. Skips
2. Hula Hoops
3. McCoy’s
4. Monster Munch

Solutions

1:A - Most of the Old Etonians' goals were scored by ATB Dunn, who was famous for his powerful shots. This was back in the day before netting was used between the posts (goalnets weren’t used until the early 1890s), so Dunn’s shots were stopped by an old black shed behind the goal. It was renamed “Dunn’s shed” after that match., 2:D - The Barrett brothers – Beauden, Jordie and Scott – all scored tries for New Zealand in their 63-0 demolition of Canada at the Rugby World Cup. Kevin is their father; he didn’t score against Canada., 3:D - Diaby-Fadiga apologised later, saying he stole the watch – which belonged to Kasper Dolberg and was reportedly worth €70,000 – becasue he was “jealous” of his more successful teammate. “My actions were not taken out of an appetite to gain something, but out of disappointment, frustration and feeling discredited. I reimbursed my teammate fully. I wish him a lot of success at Nice and in his career. Maybe one day we will come across each other on a pitch and this affair will be merely a bad memory.”, 4:D - A vendor at the stadium charged the fan $724 for two beers, using a personal card reader that was set up to his own bank. He has since been arrested by police. The fan received a full refund, so effectively had those two beers for free., 5:B - Klopp's rent may go up after this weekend., 6:D - She focused on Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington., 7:D - What a hero., 8:D - Having started on the 5km route for kids, Lovell took a wrong turn and ended up on the 10km course for adults. When he didn’t finish the 5km race, his mother started to panic. “I ran to the finish line and found the coordinators and said someone needs to find him. I’m freaking out, crying, flustered and no one really knows what to do. A fireman is getting ready to search the course when I get a call from my brother-in-law, who tells me there is a cute little kid in a red shirt running the 10K.", 9:B - The Rangers manager was, of course, talking about his team's opponents in the Europa League., 10:D - Monster Munch are, of course, manufactured by rival company Walkers.