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The Guardian - UK

Sport

Paul Campbell

Sports quiz of the week: goalkeeper goals, golf records and an F1 great

Alisson joined an exclusive group this week. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/AFP/Getty Images

Alisson became the sixth goalkeeper to score in the Premier League when he found the net against West Brom. What made his goal different from the others?
1. It was the first goal scored by a foreign keeper in the Premier League
2. It was the first headed goal by a keeper in the Premier League
3. It was the first time a keeper had scored inside the opposition’s half
4. It was the first time a keeper has scored in his team’s own stadium
Peter Schmeichel was the first keeper to score in the Premier League. Who was he playing for at the time?
1. Manchester United
2. Manchester City
3. Leeds United
4. Aston Villa
The second golf major of the year, the US PGA Championship, is being played at Kiawah Island in South Carolina this week. Which player won the tournament by a record eight-shot margin the last time it was held at the course, in 2012?
1. Graeme McDowell
2. Lee Westwood
3. Justin Rose
4. Rory McIlroy
How long did it take for Barcelona to score four goals against Chelsea in the Women’s Champions League final?
1. 20 minutes
2. 36 minutes
3. 44 minutes
4. 50 minutes
The F1 season makes its way to Monaco this weekend. William Grover-Williams won the first Monaco Grand Prix in 1929. Why did he compete under the name “W Williams”?
1. He was racing for Williams racing team and they thought that changing his name would help with their brand recognition
2. He did not want his family to find out he was competing
3. The organisers of the race were not sure what he was called so made up a name “that would befit an Englishman”
4. He “hated the name William and could not bear to see it written twice”
Scott Carson made his Manchester City debut this week. What was unusual about the game for Carson?
1. It was his first appearance in the Premier League for a decade
2. He was given a guard of honour by the opposition before the match
3. He saved a penalty and conceded from a penalty
4. He has been at the club for two years but it was the first time he had made it onto the pitch
5. All of the above
Federico Chiesa scored the winning goal for Juventus in the Coppa Italia final this week. With which club did his father win the trophy in 1999?
1. Parma
2. Fiorentina
3. Lazio
4. Roma
If Josh Taylor beats José Ramírez on Saturday night, he will hold all four belts in the super-lightweight division: the IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO titles. Which other British boxer has held all four belts in a single division?
1. Lennox Lewis
2. David Haye
3. Anthony Joshua
4. No one
River Plate beat Santa Fe in the Copa Libertadores this week. What was unusual about their win?
1. They won 3-0 thanks to three own goals from Santa Fe players
2. They had a midfielder in goal
3. The game was 0-0 after 90 minutes and they went on to win 6-0 in extra time.
4. The game was not played in South America
There was some controversy in the semi-finals of the Irish Cup this weekend. The game between Crusaders and Larne went to penalties after a 1-1 draw. During the penalty shootout the Crusaders goalkeeper Jonathan Tuffey was sent off. What had he supposedly done wrong?
1. The keeper stuck his tongue out at a Larne player while he was taking his kick and was shown a red card for “violent conduct”
2. He asked the referee (who is English) “bout ye?” and the referee assumed it was a grave insult
3. He moved off his line before penalties were kicked three times in a row
4. He took off his gloves and boots off before the shootout and would not put them back on, saying he wanted to be “at one with the grass”

Solutions

1:B - It was also the first time a keeper had scored a winning goal., 2:D - Schmeichel scored a tidy volley for Villa in their 3-2 defeat to Everton in 2001. , 3:D - McIlroy’s closest rival that week was the Englishman David Lynn, who has since retired from golf to become a property developer. , 4:B - Barcelona went 1-0 up in the first minute., 5:B - Williams was quite the character. He worked as a chauffeur in Paris and ended up marrying his boss’s mistress; he served as a spy in the second world war; and he was executed by the Nazis in 1945 (although there were rumours that he survived the war and ended up working for MI6)., 6:E - Carson has been on loan at City for the last two seasons as a third-choice keeper., 7:A - Gigi Buffon was the goalkeeper for both teams., 8:D - Taylor has the opportunity to become the first British fighter to win all four world titles in a weight division, although Ramírez – who has won all 26 of his professional fights – also has his heart set on becoming an undisputed champion., 9:B - River had 20 players missing for the match due to an outbreak of Covid-19 in their squad. They had no substitutes and all four of their keepers were ruled out, so midfielder Enzo Pérez played in goal. They won the game 2-1 and Pérez was named man of the match.⁣⁣ Afterwards he said he was “a little lost” at times but "used the penalty spot as a reference”., 10:C - Tuffey saved three penalties in a row but each time the referees ruled that he had moved off his line before the ball had been struck. He received a warning for the first incident, received a yellow for the second and a red for the third. Larne went on to win the shootout and Crusaders starting speaking to lawyers about appealing the decision.