Quiz: World Cup hat-tricks

1. Harry Kane became the third England player to score a hat-trick at a World Cup on Sunday. Who was the first?

   1. Gary Lineker

   2. David Platt

   3. Geoff Hurst

   4. Bobby Robson

2. Bert Patenaude scored the first hat-trick at the first World Cup in 1930. Who was he playing for?

   1. Brazil

   2. USA

   3. Italy

   4. Uruguay

3. How many hat-tricks have been scored in World Cup finals?

   1. None

   2. One

   3. Two

   4. Three

4. What do Sandor Kocsis, Gerd Müller, Just Fontaine and Gabriel Batistuta have in common?

   1. They scored five goals in a World Cup match

   2. They scored two World Cup hat-tricks

   3. They scored a hat-trick and were sent off in the same game

   4. They scored hat-tricks and went on to win the trophy

5. Who was the last player to score a hat-trick for a team that went on to win the World Cup in that campaign?

   1. Pelé

   2. Geoff Hurst

   3. Paolo Rossi

   4. Thomas Müller

6. Oleg Salenko is the only player to have scored five goals a World Cup match. What was the score in that game?

   1. Russia 7-2 Nigeria

   2. Russia 5-0 Sweden

   3. Russia 6-1 Cameroon

   4. Russia 8-3 El Salvador

7. Who scored a World Cup hat-trick when just 17 years and 244 days old?

   1. Pelé

   2. Gary Lineker

   3. Thomas Müller

   4. Ronaldinho

8. Laszlo Kiss hit the fastest hat-trick in World Cup history when he scored three goals in seven minutes for Hungary in 1982. Who were the opponents?

   1. Zaire

   2. Sweden

   3. El Salvador

   4. South Korea

9. What was unusual about Miroslav Klose's hat-trick in Germany's 8-0 win against Saudi Arabia at the 2002 World Cup?

   1. They were all penalties

   2. They were all headers

   3. He scored them all within the first 10 minutes of the match

   4. He scored them all in injury time (in both halves)

10. Geoff Hurst was not the only player to score a hat-trick at the 1966 World Cup. Who hit one in the quarter-finals?

    1. Jimmy Greaves

    2. Bobby Charlton

    3. Eusébio

    4. Pelé

Solutions

1:C - Gary Lineker scored the second., 2:B - Patenaude scored all three of USA’s goals in their 3-0 win against Paraguay. USA made it to the semi-finals of the first World Cup, where they were trounced 6-1 by Argentina., 3:B - Geoff Hurst is the one and only on that front., 4:B - Sandor Kocsis for Hungary in 1954; Just Fontaine for France in 1958; Gerd Müller for West Germany in 1970; and Gabriel Batistuta for Argentina in 1994 and 1998, making him the only player to have scored hat-tricks at two World Cups., 5:D - Müller hit three goals when Germany beat Portugal 4-0 in the group stage in Brazil four years ago., 6:C - Roger Milla scored for Cameroon, 7:A - Cristiano Ronaldo became the oldest when he scored three goals against Spain last week., 8:C - Kiss came off the bench on the 56th minute and had scored a hat-trick within 20 minutes., 9:B - Klose scored 16 goals at World Cups., 10:C - Eusébio was the top scorer at the tournament.

Scores

1. 2 and above.

   Ah well. Enjoy the rest of the World Cup

2. 3 and above.

   That's a hat-trick for you. Unfortunately this quiz is out of 10

3. 4 and above.

   Decent score. Just one more than the hat-trick

4. 6 and above.

   Nice work. Enjoy the rest of the World Cup

5. 5 and above.

   That's a decent performance. Enjoy the rest of the World Cup

6. 7 and above.

   Nice work. Enjoy the rest of the World Cup

7. 8 and above.

   Superb. Enjoy the rest of the World Cup

8. 9 and above.

   Superb. Enjoy the rest of the World Cup

9. 10 and above.

   Perfect. Enjoy the rest of the World Cup

10. 0 and above.

    Ah well. Enjoy the rest of the World Cup

11. 1 and above.

    Ah well. Enjoy the rest of the World Cup