Sports quiz of the week: Penalties, pay, populations and protests

Alisson came to rescue for Brazil at the Copa América. Photograph: Juan Mabromata/AFP/Getty Images

1. Wimbledon begins on Monday. How much are players paid if they lose in the first round of the single’s tournament?

   1. Nothing

   2. £27,000

   3. £45,000

   4. £62,000

2. Venus Williams celebrated her 39th birthday earlier this month. How old is the player she will face in the first round of Wimbledon?

   1. 15

   2. 18

   3. 38

   4. 42

3. What happened in the 61st minute of the Africa Cup of Nations game between Mali and Mauritania?

   1. The referee stopped the game briefly so he could use the toilet

   2. Adama Traoré was substituted off and Adama Traoré was substituted on

   3. The Mauritania players walked off in protest after VAR ruled out a goal

   4. The temperature hit 45C, so the referee halted the game until it cooled

4. Maurizio Sarri was unveiled as the new Juventus manager this week and was immediately asked the big question that matters: exactly how many cigarettes does he smoke every day. What did he say?

   1. He has given up this summer

   2. 40

   3. 60

   4. 80

5. Which British cultural institution agreed to screen the Women’s World Cup quarter-final between England and Norway after a request from England midfielder Georgia Stanway?

   1. Wimbledon

   2. The Prince Charles Cinema

   3. Glastonbury festival

   4. The National Theatre

6. The Boston Red Sox are playing the New York Yankees twice this weekend in the MLB. Where?

   1. A huge boat in the Hudson River

   2. Lord’s

   3. A sheet of ice in the Arctic

   4. The London Stadium

7. Atlético Alvarado were promoted to the second division in Argentina this week. What was unusual about their play-off victory against San Jorge?

   1. With the score 4-0 at half time, the San Jorge manager conceded the tie

   2. A San Jorge defender scored an own goal – a week after he had agreed to sign for Atlético Alvarado

   3. The referee abandoned the game because the San Jorge players were sitting on the pitch in protest at his decisions

   4. Both clubs have the same owner and one of them was suspiciously out of form

8. At which international football tournament did a country with a population of 65,000 beat a country that has 10 times as many people?

   1. Copa América

   2. Women’s World Cup

   3. Gold Cup

   4. Africa Cup of Nations

9. Who said: "People were waiting for us to fail. They are not willing us on to win, in many ways, they are waiting for you to get that loss, so they can jump on your throat. It’s a typical English thing to do, in every sport"?

   1. Phil Neville

   2. Heather Watson

   3. Eoin Morgan

   4. Jonny Bairstow

10. Brazil beat Paraguay on penalties to reach the semi-finals of the Copa América. What was unusual about the game?

    1. Brazil scored four goals but they were all ruled out by VAR

    2. Paraguay had three men sent off but still held on for penalties

    3. There was no extra time

    4. Brazil won the shootout 1-0 after nine players missed their spot-kicks

Solutions

1:C - If that sounds like a lot, remember the winners of the men's and women's tournaments are each paid £2.35m., 2:A - Cori Gauff, the 15-year-old who will face Williams in the first round, is the youngest player to have qualified for the tournament since the Open era began in 1968. She was not even born when Williams won Wimbledon in 2000 and 2002., 3:B - Mali have two players called Adama Traoré and one replaced the other in their 4-1 win over Mauritania. They both scored., 4:C - "I smoke 60 a day, which is probably a few too many," admitted Sarri. "I don’t particularly feel the need to smoke during games, but straight afterwards it really is necessary.", 5:C - Stanway tweeted Glastonbury to tell them that her brother was at the festival and wanted to see her play. So they agreed to show the match., 6:D - West Ham’s ground has been chosen to host the first ever MLB regular season game played in Europe., 7:C - San Jorge players staged a sit-down protest after the referee sent off two of their players in the first half. “We did not deserve this – we were robbed in the face,” said San Jorge player Ricardo Tapia., 8:C - Bermuda, who are playing in the Gold Cup for the first time, beat Nicaragua 2-0 in New Jersey. , 9:D - He continued: “Look how successful Eddie Jones was, then all of a sudden a training camp is wrong and it’s his fault. The same with Stuart Lancaster.” , 10:C - Strangely, the Copa América uses extra time in the final but not in the quarter-finals or semi-finals.

Scores

1. 1 and above.

   Oh dear

2. 2 and above.

   Oh dear

3. 3 and above.

   Solid, if not spectacular

4. 4 and above.

   Solid, if not spectacular

5. 5 and above.

   Solid, if not spectacular

6. 6 and above.

   Solid, if not spectacular

7. 7 and above.

   A superb effort

8. 8 and above.

   A superb effort

9. 9 and above.

   You hero

10. 0 and above.

    Oh dear

11. 10 and above.

    You hero