Sports quiz of the week: Ireland, Harry Kane, Lewis Hamilton and a payday

Ireland now have a winning record against the All Blacks (in matches played in the last five years). Photograph: Dan Sheridan/INPHO/Rex/Shutterstock

1. Ireland have won three of their last five matches against the All Blacks. Before this run, the teams had met 28 times in 111 years. How many of those games did Ireland win?

   1. None

   2. One

   3. Three

   4. Five

2. The Premier League returns this weekend after the international break. Which club is yet to win a game in the league this season?

   1. Norwich City

   2. Newcastle United

   3. Burnley

   4. Leeds United

3. 

   Harry Kane scored four goals against San Marino on Monday night. Who was the last England player to score four goals in a game?

   1. Harry Kane

   2. Alan Shearer

   3. Jermain Defoe

   4. Ian Wright

4. Which of this weekend’s Premier League fixtures is the highest-scoring game in the history of the competition?

   1. Manchester City v Everton

   2. Arsenal v Liverpool

   3. Tottenham v Leeds

   4. Leicester v Chelsea

5. 

   England are playing South Africa at Twickenham on Saturday. It will be their first meeting since they contested the Rugby World Cup final in Japan two year ago. By how many points did South Africa win that game?

   1. One

   2. 10

   3. 20

   4. 30

6. Leeds United had a hand in helping 130 people from Afghanistan – including 30 young female footballers – flee the Taliban and resettle in the UK this week. Who did they work alongside to pull it off?

   1. The European Union

   2. Angelina Jolie

   3. The Queen and Prince Charles

   4. Kim Kardashian West

7. 

   Lewis Hamilton won the Brazil Grand Prix in São Paulo on Sunday. Where did he finish in qualifying?

   1. 10th

   2. 15th

   3. 20th

   4. 25th

8. The Australian baseball team Perth Heat have come up with a new way of paying their players. What is their approach?

   1. Players have been offered a ‘double or quits’ deal in which they will be paid double if they win their league but nothing if they fail to win it

   2. Their pay is purely performance based – for every run, strike and out, etc.

   3. The players and staff will be paid in bitcoin

   4. They have decided to pay all of their players the same wage

9. 

   Exeter beat Bradford City 3-0 in the FA Cup in midweek, so why are the teams replaying the tie?

   1. The Exeter chairman wrote in his programme notes that, if his team did not score at least four goals in the game, he would give Bradford a replay – and they have taken him up on the offer

   2. It later emerged that the referee is an Exeter season ticket holder

   3. Exeter brought on too many substitutes in the game

   4. All three of Exeter’s goals were checked by VAR after the game and all three were offside

10. England have qualified for the World Cup next year, and both Wales and Scotland will be hoping to join them in Qatar. When was the last time the three countries qualified for the same World Cup?

    1. 1930

    2. 1958

    3. 1970

    4. It has never happened

Solutions

1:A - Ireland’s ability to beat New Zealand is a very new phenomenon. The teams played for the first time in 1905 but Ireland did not beat the All Blacks until 2016, when they met at Soldier Field in Chicago., 2:B - Eddie Howe will be aiming to change that when he takes charge of his first game at the club against Brentford on Saturday., 3:D - Wright scored four in England’s 7-1 win against in San Marino in 1993. Funnily enough, the previous time a player scored four for England was also in a match against San Marino, when David Platt hit four in a 6-0 win earlier in 1993. Also, Kane’s only hat-trick for the England Under-21s came against San Marino., 4:B - There have been 169 goals in the 58 games between Arsenal and Liverpool in the Premier League. It is also the fixture with the most hat-tricks, including one each from Thierry Henry, Peter Crouch, Roberto Firmino, Andrey Arshavin, and two from Robbie Fowler., 5:C - The game finished South Africa 32-12 England., 6:D - Kardashian West paid for the charter flight that brought the 30 young players and their families to the UK and Leeds will now support them., 7:C - Hamilton was disqualified due to a technical infringement with his car and had to start at the back of the grid. He drove from 20th to fifth in the sprint qualifying and then from fifth to first in the main part of the race., 8:C - The Heat say they are the first professional sports club in the world to ‘fully embrace’ bitcoin. , 9:C - The Bradford chief executive Ryan Sparks is not happy about the decision. "It’s an out and out shambles," he said. "The whole situation is an embarrassment to the game and to the FA. We are the losers in this situation both financially and logistically. I find it contradictory that the FA, who are so proud of the magic of the competition and want us to uphold the integrity of it, and there’s people that can’t even count. It’s a disgrace.", 10:B - Northern Ireland also qualified for that World Cup. England and Scotland were knocked out in the groups; and Wales and Northern Ireland were beaten quarter-finalists.

Scores

1. 1 and above.

   Oh dear.

2. 2 and above.

   Ah well. Have a good weekend.

3. 3 and above.

   Ah well. Have a good weekend.

4. 4 and above.

   Ah well. Have a good weekend.

5. 5 and above.

   Not bad. Not bad at all. Have a great weekend.

6. 6 and above.

   Not bad. Not bad at all. Have a great weekend.

7. 7 and above.

   Nicely done. Have a great weekend.

8. 8 and above.

   That is a sensational score. Have a great weekend.

9. 9 and above.

   That is a sensational score. Have a great weekend.

10. 0 and above.

    Oh dear.

11. 10 and above.

    That is a sensational score. Have a great weekend.