Sports quiz of the week: shirts, shocks, stars and a stone-skimming scandal

Terence Crawford, Armand Duplantis and Tatyana Heard. Composite: Getty Images

1. Which team is yet to score a goal in the Premier League this season?

   1. Wolves

   2. Aston Villa

   3. West Ham

   4. Brentford

2. 

   Mondo Duplantis won gold in the men’s pole vault at the World Athletics Championships, setting a new world record of 6.30 metres. What height did the silver medalist clear?

   1. 5.80 metres

   2. 6.00 metres

   3. 6.10 metres

   4. 6.29 metres

3. After Nottingham Forest lost 3-0 in his first game as manager, Ange Postecoglou was asked when the team would be moulded in his image. He replied: “It won’t be months, it won’t be weeks, it’ll be Wednesday.” Forest played second-tier club Swansea on Wednesday. What happened?

   1. They lost 1-0 and he was sent off for arguing with the referee

   2. They were beaten on penalties

   3. They lost 3-2, having been up 2-0

   4. They won 6-0

4. 

   At which World Athletics Championships event was this photograph taken?

   1. 200 metres

   2. 800 metres

   3. 5,000 metres

   4. Marathon

5. In which sport did athletes from Denmark, Portugal and Great Britain finish first, second and third this week?

   1. Long jump

   2. Steeplechase

   3. Javelin

   4. Cycling

6. 

   Which county lost the T20 Blast final last weekend but have another chance to win silverware this weekend in the One-Day Cup final?

   1. Somerset

   2. Hampshire

   3. Surrey

   4. Kent

7. Grimsby knocked Manchester United out of the League Cup last month. They pulled off another shock this week by beating which Championship team in the competition?

   1. Sheffield Wednesday

   2. Bristol City

   3. Ipswich Town

   4. Derby County

8. 

   England beat Scotland in the quarter-finals of the Women’s Rugby World Cup on Sunday. How did they set a new world record in the process?

   1. All 15 of their players scored points

   2. It was their 31st win in a row

   3. Marlie Packer scored eight tries – the most by a substitute in an international rugby match

   4. They became the first team to score 100 points in a Rugby World Cup match

9. England will play France in the semi-finals on Saturday. Why will France be without Axelle Berthoumieu for the match?

   1. She has travelled to Tokyo to compete in the Athletics World Championship

   2. She has been banned for nine matches for biting

   3. She has left the squad after falling out with the manager

   4. She is half English and has vowed never to play against them

10. 

    Ricky Hatton died this week at the age of 46. Hatton’s greatest night in the ring came in 2005, when he beat Kostya Tszyu in a world title fight in Manchester. How did the fight end?

    1. Hatton won by knockout in the first round

    2. Hatton won on points

    3. Tszyu retired on his stool before the final round

    4. Hatton won by knockout in the last minute of the last round

11. Terence Crawford’s victory against Canelo Álvarez means he has won world titles at five different weight divisions. Which boxer holds the record for winning world titles at most weight divisions (eight)?

    1. Floyd Mayweather

    2. Sugar Ray Leonard

    3. Manny Pacquiao

    4. Canelo Álvarez

12. 

    Who wore the No 9 shirt for Borussia Dortmund against Juventus in the Champions League?

    1. Johan Dortmund

    2. Serhou Guirassy

    3. Jobe Bellingham

    4. Carney Chukwuemeka

13. There was high drama at the World Stone Skimming Championship in Scotland at the weekend. What happened?

    1. Two skimmers started throwing stones at each other and the event had to be cancelled

    2. Competitors “doctored” their stones and made them “suspiciously circular”

    3. Two adults tried to enter the children's competition

    4. The event was delayed by two hours by pro-Palestine protestors

14. 

    Robbie Savage, the Forest Green Rovers manager, did something unusual in the first minute of his team’s match in the National League Cup this week. What did he do?

    1. He went to the dressing room and watched the match on TV

    2. He made four substitutions

    3. He was sent off for pinching the fourth official’s bum

    4. He went into the stands to watch the match with the fans

15. What are Europe’s golfers doing to prepare for the noisy and hostile crowds they will face at the Ryder Cup in the US?

    1. They plan to wear noise-cancelling headphones on the course

    2. They are wearing virtual reality headsets ­where they hear a lot of abuse

    3. They have been hypnotised by Derren Brown to "not hear the noise'

    4. Benedict Cumberbatch has given them a pep talk about the "mind palace" used by his character Sherlock Holmes

Solutions

1:B - Their results have been poor – two goalless draws and two defeats without scoring – but they aren’t bottom. Wolves, who have lost all four of their games, are at the foot of the table., 2:B - Duplantis has now broken the pole vault world record 14 times in his career., 3:C - Postecoglou takes his new team to Burnley on Saturday, which is a good chance to pick up his first win., 4:D - The 26.2-mile race came down to a sprint finish. Alphonce Simbu pipped Amanal Petros to the finish line by 0.03 seconds., 5:D - Not at the World Athletics Championships but at the Vuelta a España, where Jonas Vingegaard won the race, João Almeida finished second and Tom Pidcock was third., 6:B - Hampshire, who were beaten by Somerset in the T20 Blast final at Edgbaston, take on Worcestershire in the 50-overs format at Trent Bridge., 7:A - It’s been a great season for the club, who are sitting fifth in League Two., 8:B - The previous record of 30 straight wins was also set by England., 9:B - She has apologised, saying: "It's not the image I want to give, nor the player I want to be. I accept the sanction.", 10:C - It was an incredible win for Hatton, who was a big outsider against Tszyu, then widely regarded as one of the world’s top pound-for-pound boxers. It was a pivotal moment in both of their careers. Tszyu retired after the defeat and Hatton went on to unify the division by beating Carlos Maussa., 11:C - The Crawford v Álvarez fight on Saturday was watched by more than 41 million people on Netflix. , 12:B - His shirt did not give it away., 13:B - Jon Jennings, who won the top two prizes, said he noticed some competitors’ stones “seemed a little too perfect.” He became the tournament’s first American winner after skimming his stones a cumulative distance of 177 metres. “Cheaters never win and winners never cheat,” he said., 14:B - The rules state that teams must field a team that includes at least four players who started their last league game. Savage started four players and then took them off straight after kick-off. It worked as his team won the game 3-2., 15:B - The idea is to try to replicate the name-calling the players will face on the course. “It is to simulate the sights and sounds and noise,” explained Rory McIlroy. “It’s better to try to desensitise yourself as much as possible before you get in there. You can get them to say whatever you want them to say. So you can go as close to the bone as you like.”

Scores

1. 1 and above.

   Ah well, better luck next week

2. 2 and above.

   Ah well, better luck next week

3. 3 and above.

   Ah well, better luck next week

4. 4 and above.

   Ah well, better luck next week

5. 5 and above.

   Ah well, better luck next week

6. 6 and above.

   That's a great score. Well played.

7. 7 and above.

   That's a great score. Well played.

8. 8 and above.

   That's a great score. Well played.

9. 9 and above.

   That's a great score. Well played.

10. 10 and above.

    That's a sensational score. Well played.

11. 11 and above.

    That's a sensational score. Well played.

12. 12 and above.

    That's a sensational score. Well played.

13. 13 and above.

    That's a sensational score. Well played.

14. 14 and above.

    That's a sensational score. Well played.

15. 0 and above.

    Ah well, better luck next week

16. 15 and above.

    That's a sensational score. Well played.