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The Guardian - UK

Sport

Paul Campbell

Sports quiz of the week: old friends, happy lovers and comeback kids

Jimmy White and Stephen Hendry at the Crucible in 1988. — Jimmy White and Stephen Hendry at the World Championship in 1988. Photograph: David Muscroft/PA

Jimmy White and Stephen Hendry have been drawn together in the first round of qualifying for next month's World Snooker Championship. How many times did they play each other in the final of the competition back in the 1990s?
1. Three
2. Four
3. Five
4. Six
Melbourne City player Rhali Dobson retired from football this week. The 28-year-old is stepping back from the game to care for her partner, who is receiving treatment for a brain tumour. What happened at the end of Dobson’s last game for Melbourne City?
1. She scored and took off her shirt to reveal a message to her partner, which led to the referee showing her a second yellow card
2. Dobson, a goalkeeper, came up for a corner in the last minute and scored with an overhead kick
3. She scored an own goal that meant her team was relegated
4. Her partner proposed
Which constructor will be back on the Formula One grid this weekend after 61 years out of the sport?
1. DeLorean
2. Leyton House
3. Maserati
4. Aston Martin
Athletic Bilbao played Eibar in La Liga on Saturday. Why did the referee have to stop the game briefly midway through the second half?
1. A streaker made his way on to the pitch (even though there were supposedly no fans in the ground)
2. An owl landed on the crossbar and the referee did not want it to be struck by the ball, so waited until it flew away
3. A drone landed on the pitch
4. All five balls provided for the game had been kicked out of the ground and someone had to run outside and find one of them
England had a disappointing Six Nations, losing to all three of the other home nations. When was the last time England lost to Wales, Scotland and Ireland in the competition?
1. The 1970s
2. The 1980s
3. The 1990s
4. The 2000s
There were 28 races at the Cheltenham Festival. How many of them were won by horses trained in Ireland?
1. 14
2. 17
3. 20
4. 23
It was a bittersweet week for Republic of Ireland manager Stephen Kenny. His team finally scored the first goal of his time in charge but he is still waiting for his first win as manager. For how many games has he been in the job?
1. Five
2. Seven
3. Nine
4. Eleven
Lawrence Okolie beat Krzysztof Glowacki at Wembley Arena on Saturday night to win the vacant WBO world cruiserweight title. It was just Okolie’s 16th fight as a professional. Okolie says he was inspired to become a boxer when he saw Anthony Joshua win gold at the Olympics in London in 2012. What was Okolie doing at the time?
1. He was playing for the Arsenal Under-18s but gave up football to become a boxer
2. He was given a free ticket to the fight because he was at school in Stratford at the time
3. He was working at the McDonald’s in Victoria Station
4. He was a trainee reporter at Boxing News magazine
Masha United and Karachi met in the National Women Football Championship in Pakistan this week. What was unusual about the game?
1. There were no shots in the first half so the teams decided to head home and call it a goalless draw
2. It finished 35-0
3. The referee picked up an injury so the Karachi manager deputised for him and sent off one of his own players, leading to a huge brawl that ended the game
4. The cup tie ended in a draw, meaning the teams have to meet again for a replay
Super League returns this weekend. Which new form of technology will Leeds Rhinos players be using in their game against Wakefield on Saturday?
1. New Nike Vaporfly boots, that apparently help players sprint 4% faster
2. The players will be wearing small cameras on their chests that will be used in the TV broadcast
3. Mouthguards that measure the size of their collisions on the pitch and could help diagnose concussions
4. New environmentally friendly shirts made from coffee grounds

Solutions

1:B - White lost all four of his finals against Hendry in 1990, 1992, 1993 and 1994. Speaking about their upcoming game in Sheffield, he said: "I had my phone switched off but I turned it on and I had all these crazy missed calls. I knew the draw was out but hadn’t looked at it but I saw two missed calls from Stephen Hendry and thought: ‘That’s a bit bizarre I will ring him back.’ It’s a great rivalry, absolutely bizarre, incredible.", 2:D - She said yes., 3:D - Aston Martin competed in F1 in 1959 and 1960 but left the sport after failing to win a single point in either season. Now they are back., 4:C - The drone was carrying a banner with a message about Spain playing Euro 2020 matchem in Bilbao this summer. It will be the first time the national team has played in the Basque Country in decades and various separatist-leaning groups and political parties do not welcome the idea., 5:A - 1976 to be precise: the year when James Callaghan became prime minister, Concorde took its first commercial flight, and Southampton won their first, and so far only, major trophy., 6:D - Irish trainer Willie Mullins was responsible for more winners than the whole of Britain., 7:C - His team’s goal against Serbia was their first in more than 11 hours of football., 8:C - After his GP told him he was clinically obese, Okolie took up boxing and went through a dramatic transformation. He seems to have enjoyed the job at McDonald’s, though. "I was there for like a year and a half,” he told TalkSport. “There were lots of young people. A few girls that I tried to, you know, chat to. It was good, I enjoyed it. It’s not the worst place to work.", 9:B - Masha scored in the first minute and just kept finding the net, with one of their players scoring 16 goals in the game. The Masha keeper even made it on to the scoresheet twice., 10:C - The custom-fitted mouthguards have sensors that measure collisions and impacts to the head. The hope is that the mouthguards will provide fast and reliable data that can be used to show when a player is in danger of suffering a head injury.