Sports quiz of the week: birthdays, baguettes, broken records and a baby
Who turned 160? Who was pelted? And who is too dedicated to his team?
Which football club – the oldest in the world – celebrated its 160th birthday this week?
Kilmarnock
Huddersfield Town
Sheffield FC
Nottingham Forest
How many players from the Premier League were selected in Fifa’s World XI this week?
None
One
Two
Three
Who said: "They threw everything at me. There were baguettes, orange juice, Coca-Cola. I could have had lunch. This is not football, it’s not the way to go. It’s like going to a restaurant and hitting the chef with a knife and fork"?
Mark Noble
Slaven Bilic
Leonardo Bonucci
Neymar
Ellyse Perry, who played for Australia against England this week (and was the player of the series in the last Women’s Ashes in 2015) made her international cricket debut aged 16. Which other feat did she achieve before turning 17?
She was awarded a degree from Harvard
She made her debut for Australia’s women’s football team
She won Australia’s Got Talent as a dancer
She sold an app to Facebook for $500m
Sergio Agüero scored his 177th goal for Manchester City against Burnley to join Eric Brook as the club's all-time top goalscorer. Which of these players is not an all-time top goalscorer for a Premier League club?
Wayne Rooney (Manchester United)
Frank Lampard (Chelsea)
Alan Shearer (Newcastle)
Ian Wright (Arsenal)
Who was talking about whom when he said: “Every time we win a European title, he sends me the same message: ‘Congratulations for the European title you have won with my players’"?
Pep Guardiola talking about Frank Rijkaard
Florentino Perez talking about Daniel Levy
Zinedine Zidane about Paul Clement
José Mourinho about Louis van Gaal
Eddie Nketiah scored twice for Arsenal against Norwich City in the League Cup on Tuesday night. What was special about his brace?
He became the club’s youngest goalscorer of all time
He only had two touches in the game
He became the first player born after Arsène Wenger was appointed Arsenal manager to score for the club
He became the first Arsenal player to score on his debut in the Wenger reign
Who said: “I dedicate 99% of my lifetime to try to make you happy. Looking at what happened today, it is not easy”?
Ronald Koeman
Craig Shakespeare
Jürgen Klopp
Arsène Wenger
Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins was not able to join his team-mates for a meeting so took part via FaceTime. Where was he at the time?
Prison
Doing punditry on TV
With his wife, who was giving birth at the time
At his previous club, having not yet signed a contract with the Redskins
Rugby union's first World Cup was held in 1987. When was the first Rugby League World Cup?
1887
1954
1970
1988
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