Sports quiz of the week: shocks, a Swiss soldier and ‘a serial killer’

by Loknath Das / Sports / 30 Sep 2019

Colchester United players enjoy the moment as they knock Tottenham Hotspur out of the League Cup.

Colchester United players enjoy the moment as they knock Tottenham Hotspur out of the League Cup. Photograph: Stephen Pond/Getty Images

Luke Matheson received his GCSE results last month. What did he do this week?

Scored a try for Wales at the Rugby World Cup

Completed his first grand prix as an F1 driver

Beat Andy Murray at the Zhuhai Championships in China

Scored against Manchester United at Old Trafford

What happened in the first five games of the Rugby World Cup?

The team from further south won the game

The team that opened the scoring went on to lose the match

Both teams scored three tries each

The five winning teams each had a man sent off

How did a fan help Kieran Trippier during Atlético Madrid’s match against Celta Vigo?

The fan warned Trippier that Celta Vigo were taking a short corner

The fan translated instructions from the Atlético manager into English

The fan threw his water bottle to Trippier to give him a drink

The fan saw that Trippier was going to crash into an advertising board so threw himself towards the field as a human shield

Barcelona broke transfer rules when they signed Antoine Griezmann from Atlético Madrid this summer for €120m. How much did the Spanish federation fine Barcelona this week?

€300

€300,000

€3m

€30m

Why is mountain biker Nino Schurter, who won a gold medal at the Olympics in 2016, in trouble with the Swiss army?

He cycled through private army territory in Switzerland and posted a video online

He said in an interview that “Swiss army knives are stupid”

He posted a photo online in which he suggested his bare bum would do a better job of the presidency than Donald Trump

He pretended he was injured to avoid military service but was then spotted winning an event in Australia

Who said: “Pep is lively as well, but not that lively. He looks better when he’s shouting. Pep always looks perfect – body, clothes, everything is perfect. When I shout, I look like a serial killer”?

Diego Simeone

Jürgen Klopp

Roy Hodgson

Mauricio Pochettino

Colchester United pulled off a shock on Tuesday night when they knocked Tottenham out of the League Cup. Colchester are no strangers to an upset. Their most famous giant-killing came in the FA Cup in 1971, when they were in the Fourth Division and beat the team that was leading the First Division. Who were that team?

Liverpool

Leeds

Everton

Tottenham Hotspur

When did Tottenham last win an away match in the league?

November

January

March

May

Why did a referee have to go to hospital after a college football game in Maine?

He was tripped up on the touchline by an angry coach

He was hit in the face by a cannon blast

He tried to stop a fight and took a fist to back of the head

He was bitten by a stray dog that invaded the pitch and thought it might have rabies

Uruguay beat Fiji at the Rugby World Cup this week, securing their third victory in the history of the competition. Which other teams have Uruguay beaten at Rugby World Cups?

France and Scotland

Spain and Georgia

Wales and Japan

Italy and South Africa

What word or phrase did Liverpool Football Club try (unsuccessfully) to trademark for their own financial gain?

“Istanbul”

“Premier League champions”

“Liverpool”

“Slip”

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