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Sports quiz of the week: Alexander Isak, Australian Open, Tyson Fury and WSL

paul campbell
·6-min read
<span>Tyson Fury, the Chelsea women’s team and Novak Djokovic.</span><span>Composite: Action Images/Reuters; Chelsea FC/Getty Images; Reuters</span>
Tyson Fury, the Chelsea women’s team and Novak Djokovic.Composite: Action Images/Reuters; Chelsea FC/Getty Images; Reuters

  1. Novak Djokovic set a new tennis record this week when he played his 430th grand slam singles match. Whose record did he break?

    1. Roger Federer

    2. Serena Williams

    3. Rafa Nadal

    4. Martina Navratilova

  2. Djokovic is being coached at the Australian Open by Andy Murray. What is the age gap between them?

    1. Seven hours

    2. Seven days

    3. Seven months

    4. Seven years

  3. Tyson Fury announced his retirement from boxing this week, saying: “It’s been a blast, I’ve loved every single minute. And I’m going to end with this: Dick Turpin wore a mask.” Who is Dick Turpin?

    1. An actor who starred in the film Mary Poppins

    2. The first British boxer to win a world title

    3. An old Morecambe FC player

    4. A criminal from the 1700s

  4. Fury has a history of retiring from boxing. What prompted his first “retirement” in 2013?

    1. He wasn’t nominated for Sports Personality of the Year

    2. He had just lost to Vitali Klitschko

    3. David Haye had pulled out of their fight due to injury

    4. He was annoyed that Anthony Joshua would not fight him

  5. On the subject of semi-retired athletes, which footballer came out of retirement to play for Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup, was sent off against Real Madrid but ended the ​week with a trophy?

    1. ​Cesc Fàbregas

    2. Víctor Valdés

    3. Wojciech Szczesny

    4. Javier Mascherano

  6. Alexander Isak has scored in Newcastle’s last eight league matches. Who holds the Premier League record for goals in consecutive matches, having scored in 11 straight games for his club?

    1. Ruud van Nistelrooy

    2. Alan Shearer

    3. Daniel Sturridge

    4. Jamie Vardy

  7. Snooker fans are celebrating 50 years of the Masters. What happened in the very first Masters final in 1975?

    1. The match ran past its 12pm curfew so was declared a draw

    2. There was a power cut at Alexandra Palace so the final was delayed by a day

    3. The final went to the last frame, which was decided with a re-spotted black

    4. Ray Reardon, who was trailing 7-0 overnight, didn’t show up for the second day of the final

  8. Shaun Murphy fell just short of a maximum break at the Masters this week. Which player famously missed the last black in a 147 attempt in the Masters final in 2000?

    1. John Parrott

    2. Jimmy White

    3. Ken Doherty

    4. John Higgins

  9. If Carlos Alcaraz wins the Australian Open, he says he will …

    1. … get a tattoo of a kangaroo

    2. … take the trophy to the set of Neighbours

    3. … spend the rest of the year living in Melbourne

    4. … take a campervan holiday from Melbourne to Cairns in the autumn

  10. Jimmy Anderson has signed up to play for Lancashire this season. At 42, he will be the oldest player in the squad by some distance. At 16, who is the youngest?

    1. James Anderson (his son)

    2. Rocky Flintoff (Andrew’s son)

    3. Archie Vaughan (Michael’s son)

    4. Arjun Tendulkar (Sachin’s son)

  11. Southampton’s defeat to Manchester United on Thursday night leaves them stranded at the bottom of the Premier League table with just six points after 21 matches. Which club holds the record for the worst season in the league, having picked up just 11 points in 38 games?

    1. Derby County

    2. Swindon Town

    3. Sunderland

    4. Sheffield United

  12. Chris Eubank and Conor Benn have agreed to fight​ in April. What happened when their fathers fought ​twice in the 1990s?

    1. Nigel Benn won both fights

    2. Chris Eubank won both fights

    3. They were both draws​

    4. Eubank won the first fight and the second was a draw

  13. The hockey player Alex Ovechkin set a new NHL record this week. What did he do?

    1. He scored past his 179th different goalie​ in the league

    2. He became the oldest player in NHL history

    3. He broke Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record

    4. He ​played in the same team as his two sons

  14. Bruno Lobo is a qualified doctor who represented Brazil in kite surfing at the Olympics last year. Why was he in the news this week?

    1. He is Brazil’s new Vice President

    2. He saved a woman who was drowning

    3. He was the brain surgeon who operated on President Lula

    4. He won the Brazilians version of the TV show Traitors

  15. Which football team is unbeaten in their domestic league this season yet sit just fifth in the table?

    1. Motherwell

    2. Juventus

    3. Atlético Madrid

    4. Lille

  16. The Women’s Super League returns this weekend with Chelsea top of the table. Who were the last club other than Chelsea to win the title?

    1. Arsenal

    2. Manchester United

    3. Tottenham

    4. Aston Villa

Solutions

1:A - Djokovic has won 88.1% of those matches., 2:B - Murray is a week older. , 3:D - Turpin was the most famous highway robber of his time. He was caught and hanged in 1739, but his life and crimes have lived on in the public imagination ever since., 4:C - Fury said: “I have officially retired from boxing. There’s too many bent people in the sport. I’m not in a bad mood or anything. I’ve retired 1000000%. No matter what, I’ll never fight again.” He returned to the ring three months later., 5:C - Szczesny retired after the Euros but was tempted back to the sport when Marc-Andre ter Stegen picked up an injury. He was living in Spain with his family so the move suited him well., 6:D - Vardy scored for 11 straight games in the 2015-16 season. He didn’t win the Golden Boot that season – he lost out to Harry Kane – but he did help Leicester win the title. , 7:C - John Spencer beat Ray Reardon in the final. There were no century breaks in the whole tournament, which shows just how far the sport has come in the last 50 years., 8:C - Doherty had to settle for 140, the highest break of the tournament. He went on to lose the final., 9:A - “I will get a kangaroo for sure,” says Alcaraz. He already has tattoos of the date of his 2022 US Open win, the Eiffel Tower to represent his 2024 French Open triumph and a strawberry to represent his two Wimbledon titles., 10:B - Rocky Flintoff is Lancashire’s youngest ever player., 11:A - It’s not looking good for Southampton – they haven’t won a game since November – but they were brilliant against United at Old Trafford., 12:D - The sons are fighting in April, probably at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. , 13:A - The 39-year-old​ is one of just three players to have scored more than 800 goals in the NHL, along with Gretzky and Gordie Howe., 14:B - “I only did what needed to be done and what was within my power,” said Lobo, who is also qualified doctor , 15:B - They have drawn 13 of their 20 games in Serie A., 16:A - Chelsea have won the title for the last five years in a row and are unbeaten so far this season.

Scores

  1. 2 and above.

    Ah well, better luck next week

  2. 3 and above.

    Ah well, better luck next week

  3. 4 and above.

    Ah well, better luck next week

  4. 5 and above.

    Not bad. Not bad at all

  5. 6 and above.

    Not bad. Not bad at all

  6. 1 and above.

    Ah well, better luck next week

  7. 7 and above.

    Not bad. Not bad at all

  8. 8 and above.

    Great work

  9. 9 and above.

    Great work

  10. 10 and above.

    Great work

  11. 11 and above.

    Great work

  12. 12 and above.

    A stunning score

  13. 13 and above.

    A stunning score

  14. 14 and above.

    A stunning score

  15. 15 and above.

    A stunning score

  16. 0 and above.

    Ah well, better luck next week

  17. 16 and above.

    A stunning score