Sports quiz of the week: Fury v Whyte, Ten Hag, Dyche, difficulty and dogs

Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte prepare for their fight this weekend. Photograph: Mikey Williams/Top Rank Inc/Top Rank/Getty Images

1. Liverpool and Chelsea have reached the finals of the League Cup and FA Cup this season. Who were the last clubs to play each other in both domestic cup finals in the same season?

   1. Manchester United and Newcastle United

   2. Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday

   3. Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur

   4. Middlesbrough and Aston Villa

2. Why will there be an unusually large number of dogs at Wembley on Saturday?

   1. Wembley Arena is hosting the inaugural World Indoor Surfing Championship

   2. Crufts is making its debut at Wembley Stadium

   3. The European Dog Frisbee Cup final is being played at Wembley

   4. Police are using sniffer dogs to deter people from taking cocaine to the Tyson Fury v Dillian Whyte fight

3. 

   Sean Dyche was the longest serving manager in the Premier League until he was sacked by Burnley. Who has that honour now?

   1. Brendan Rodgers

   2. Pep Guardiola

   3. Jürgen Klopp

   4. Ralph Hasenhüttl

4. Mason Mount did it in October. Raheem Sterling did it in February. Ivan Toney did it in March. Who did it in April?

   1. Pep Guardiola

   2. Sadio Mané

   3. Cristiano Ronaldo

   4. César Azpilicueta

5. Erik ten Hag has taken over at Manchester United. For which club did he make most appearances as a player?

   1. RB Leipzig

   2. Ajax

   3. FC Twente

   4. Ten Hag did not play football professionally but skipped straight to coaching

6. 

   Dillian Whyte is hoping to become a world champion on Saturday night when he boxes Tyson Fury at Wembley. In which sport was Whyte a British and European champion before he took up boxing?

   1. Weightlifting

   2. Shot put

   3. Hammer throw

   4. Kickboxing

7. Fury has never lost a professional fight. Which British boxer has beaten Whyte?

   1. Anthony Joshua

   2. Derek Chisora

   3. David Haye

   4. Joe Joyce

8. Manchester United had just 28% possession in their 4-0 defeat to Liverpool this week. That’s low but Swansea hold the unwanted record for the lowest possession in a Premier League game – how much of the ball did they have when they lost 5-0 to Manchester City in 2018?

   1. 8%

   2. 12%

   3. 17%

   4. 21%

9. 

   Which of these sporting figures is not involved in a bid to buy Chelsea?

   1. Sebastian Coe

   2. Serena Williams

   3. Lewis Hamilton

   4. Gianluca Pagliuca

10. According to Thomas Tuchel, what makes it “very, very difficult” for Chelsea to play at home?

    1. The fans are so loud the players cannot hear each other

    2. The low capacity at their stadium

    3. The state of their pitch

    4. The fact their ground is based within Fulham rather than Chelsea

11. If Bayern Munich win their match in the Bundesliga this weekend, they will clinch their 10th consecutive title. Who were the last club other than Bayern to win the league in Germany?

    1. Wolfsburg

    2. Stuttgart

    3. Borussia Dortmund

    4. Bayer Leverkusen

Solutions

1:B - In 1993. Arsenal won both finals. , 2:D - Up to 94,000 are expected to attend the fight, making it the largest boxing event staged in the UK. , 3:C - Klopp has been in the Liverpool job for six and a half years. Guardiola is now the second longest serving manager at a Premier League club. , 4:C - All four of them have scored hat-tricks against Norwich in the Premier League this season. , 5:C - Ten Hag had three spells at FC Twente, where he played as a centre-back and won the Dutch cup in 2001., 6:D - He also had a stint in MMA before focusing on boxing. , 7:A - Joshua stopped Whyte in the seventh round when they fought in 2015. , 8:C - City have recorded the five highest possession shares in Premier League matches – all of which are above 80%., 9:D - Although the American investor Stephen Pagliuca is trying to buy the club. , 10:C - “It is a very, very difficult pitch we have here,” said Tuchel after Chelsea’s third straight home defeat. “It is not to our favour.”, 11:C - When Dortmund won the league in 2012, they were managed by Jürgen Klopp. Robert Lewandowski and Shinji Kagawa were their top scorers that season.

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.

   Nicely done. Have a great weekend

6. 6 and above.

   Nicely done. Have a great weekend

7. 7 and above.

   A fine score. Nicely done. Have a great weekend

8. 8 and above.

   A fine score. Nicely done. Have a great weekend

9. 9 and above.

   A fine score. Nicely done. Have a great weekend

10. 10 and above.

    That's an excellent score. Have a great weekend

11. 0 and above.

    Ah well. Better luck next week

12. 11 and above.

    That's an excellent score. Have a great weekend