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Have you been following the big stories in football, rugby union, snooker, baseball and athletics?
- 1.England play Uruguay on Friday night at Wembley. England have never beaten Uruguay at a World Cup (not even in 1966). Who scored both goals for Uruguay when the teams last met at the tournament, in 2014?
Diego Forlán
Luis Suárez
Edinson Cavani
Diego Godín
- 2.Zoe Stratford captained England to victory in the Women’s Six Nations last year. Why is she not in the squad this year?
She retired after the tournament last year
She is now playing rugby league for the South Sydney Rabbitohs
She is pregnant with her first child
Like Antoine Dupont, she has taken up rugby sevens in the hope of winning an Olympic gold medal
- 3.Why have the non-league club Rushden & Diamonds told two players, Bruno Andrade and Tyler Winters, to look for other clubs?
They were spotted wearing Kettering Town shirts
They went to the League Cup final on Sunday after calling in sick and missing their team’s 4-1 defeat at Harborough
They have signed up for Love Island and will miss the rest of the season
They were sent off for fighting each other on the pitch last weekend
- 4.Three of these statements about the League Cup final between Manchester City and Arsenal last Sunday are true. Which one is false?
Pep Guardiola has become the first manager to win the trophy five times
It was the first final contested by the teams teams that were first and second in the top flight on the day of the match
Nico O’Reilly was the only player who had a shot on target
Arsenal have now lost their last four League Cup finals
- 5.Which club has won all of their home games in their league this season?
Lens
Barcelona
Arsenal
Bayern Munich
- 6.The World Snooker Championship has been played at the Crucible in Sheffield since 1977 and will remain at the venue until 2045. Where was it played in 1976?
Middlesbrough and Manchester
London
China
Various snooker halls across Scotland
- 7.The new Major League Baseball season began this week. Which team will be trying to win the World Series three years in a row?
Los Angeles Dodgers
Texas Rangers
Atlanta Braves
Boston Red Sox
- 8.Mohamed Salah is leaving Liverpool at the end of the season. Which club did Liverpool sign him from?
Fiorentina
Chelsea
Basel
Roma
- 9.Salah won the Puskás Award – the prize given out by Fifa for the "most beautiful" goal of the year – in 2018. Which team did he score that goal against?
Real Madrid
Manchester United
Tottenham
Everton
- 10.Which of the quarter-finals in this year's Women’s Champions League features two clubs that have won the competition?
Wolfsburg v Lyon
Barcelona v Real Madrid
Manchester United v Bayern Munich
Arsenal v Chelsea
- 11.Erling Haaland has spent €118,000 on a gift for the people of his home town. What is it?
A Manchester City shirt for every resident (who wants one)
A 16th-century book about vikings
A 10-foot tall statue of Erling Haaland
One thousand tickets for Norway's matches at the World Cup this summer
- 12.The organisers of the London Marathon are planning a big change for the race next year. What is the plan?
To have a 50km race to mark the marathon’s 50th anniversary
To make it a triathlon with a cycle around the M25 and a swim down the Thames
To hold it over two days with twice as many runners
To ban runners from emailing colleagues asking for money for charity
- 13.Who claimed that their team could win more medals at the London Stadium than “West Ham have seen in their entire history”?
Mikel Arteta
Joe Marler (who will be playing there in Soccer Aid)
Thomas Tuchel
Keely Hodgkinson
