Sports quiz of the week: Premier League, Paralympics and Pacquiao

Maria Andrejczyk with her silver medal. Photograph: Javier Soriano/AFP/Getty Images

1. Maria Andrejczyk won a silver medal in the javelin at the Olympics in Tokyo. What has she done with her medal?

   1. She melted it down and turned it into a wedding ring

   2. She had it plated with gold as she feels as if she "was the real winner"

   3. She auctioned it off for a toddler who needed the money to pay for life-saving heart surgery

   4. She had to see her vet as her dog ate it. (The dog was OK)

2. The Paralympics begin on Tuesday in Tokyo. Which two new sports will feature at the Games this year?

   1. Chess boxing and squash

   2. Badminton and taekwondo

   3. Croquet and snooker

   4. Padel and kabaddi

3. 

   Chelsea have now signed Romelu Lukaku twice: from Anderlecht in 2011 and from Inter in 2021. How much has his transfer fee increased by in the last decade?

   1. 100%

   2. 333%

   3. 622%

   4. 1,500%

4. What was unusual about the results in the first weekend of the Premier League season?

   1. All 10 games were won by the home team

   2. No English players scored any goals

   3. There were no English managers in charge of the 20 teams

   4. There were no draws

5. Why did Mark Allen say his match in the first round of the British Open snooker competition this week was "horrible"?

   1. He lost 5-0 and didn’t manage to pot a ball

   2. He smashed his his cue on the table halfway through the match after missing an easy shot and had to play on with half a cue

   3. He was playing against his ex-girlfriend

   4. He missed out on a 147 break (and £147,000) by missing the final black ball

6. 

   Danny Ings scored the 2,000th penalty in Premier League history on Saturday. Which player has scored more of those 2,000 penalties than anyone else?

   1. Bruno Fernandes

   2. Frank Lampard

   3. Alan Shearer

   4. Matt le Tissier

7. Mark van Bommel has taken over as the new Wolfsburg manager. What happened in his first game in charge of the club – a match in the German Cup?

   1. Wolfsburg lost 4-0 to a team from the eighth tier

   2. Van Bommel brought on too many substitutes and Wolfsburg were kicked out of the cup

   3. Four of his players were sent off for fighting each other

   4. His assistant manager quit midway through the second half

8. Gerd Müller died this week at the age of 75. He scored 68 goals for West Germany – in how many appearances?

   1. 52

   2. 62

   3. 72

   4. 82

9. 

   Manny Pacquiao is fighting Yordenis Ugás on Saturday night for a version of the welterweight world title. When did Pacquiao win his first world title?

   1. 1998

   2. 2002

   3. 2006

   4. 2010

10. Speaking of athletes in their 40s, Michael Hogan bowled the last wicket in the One-Day Cup final this week to give his county their first silverware in 17 years. Which county was he playing for?

    1. Essex

    2. Glamorgan

    3. Durham

    4. Kent

Solutions

1:C - Andrejczyk had bone cancer herself and said she did not want her medal to “collect dust in the closet”. The medal was bought by Zabka, a chain store in Poland, who said she could keep it., 2:B - Sailing and seven-a-side football have been ditched, 3:C - Chelsea paid £13.5m for him in 2011 and £97.5m for him in 2021. Maybe they should have kept him in the first place., 4:D - Ten of the teams in the division have three points and the other 10 have no points., 5:C - Allen won the match 3-2 but acknowledged he had been a bit lucky, saying: "She played much better than me but I made a good break to win it. She potted some unbelievable individual balls. She was very unfortunate not to go on and win it. It was horrible. It’s not something I want to really go through too often, but we had to try and remain as professional as possible and I think I did that very well.", 6:C - Shearer scored 56 penalties in the Premier League. He scored 10 of them in the 1994-95 season, when Blackburn won the league., 7:B - Wolfsburg are considering their legal options., 8:B - That’s 1.1 goals per game. He also won the World Cup and European Championship., 9:A - He won his first world title at 19 and is still fighting at 42. The bout on Saturday night will be his 72nd fight as a professional. , 10:B - The 40-year-old was playing pub cricket for The Cricketers Arms in rural Australia at 21. Now he is a hero in Wales.

Scores

1. 1 and above.

   Oh dear

2. 2 and above.

   Oh dear

3. 3 and above.

   An OK score. Not great. But OK.

4. 4 and above.

   An OK score. Not great. But OK.

5. 5 and above.

   Nice work. Have a good weekend

6. 6 and above.

   Well played. Have a good weekend

7. 7 and above.

   Well played. Have a good weekend

8. 8 and above.

   Very well played. Have a great weekend

9. 9 and above.

   Very well played. Have a great weekend

10. 0 and above.

    Oh dear

11. 10 and above.

    You star. Have a great weekend