Sports quiz of the week: London Marathon, FA Cup and Olympic teams

1. Chelsea and Manchester City meet in the FA Cup semi-finals on Saturday. How many times have they contested the final of the Cup?

   1. Never

   2. Three times

   3. Six times

   4. Eight times

2. Coventry face Manchester United in the other semi-final. Mark Robins won the FA Cup with Manchester United in 1990, the year when his goal in the third round supposedly saved Alex Ferguson’s job. Who did he score that goal against?

   1. Coventry City

   2. Nottingham Forest

   3. Liverpool

   4. Watford

3. Ludvig Åberg finished second in the Masters on Sunday, which was a sensational performance given it was his first time playing in the tournament. Who was the last golfer to win at Augusta in his debut at the Masters?

   1. Tiger Woods

   2. Fuzzy Zoeller

   3. Jordan Spieth

   4. It has never happened before

4. The Chinese runner He Jie won the Beijing half marathon on Sunday. Why is his victory being investigated?

   1. A rival runner says He Jie was wearing a “jet pack device” that pushed him forwards

   2. Three other athletes ran alongside him for the whole race but slowed up at the finish line and gestured for him to cross the tape first

   3. Another runner says that He Jie tripped him up in a quiet section of the course

   4. A rival runner claims his identical twin ran half of the race for him

5. Which club has reached the Women’s FA Cup final for the first time in their history?

   1. Everton

   2. Tottenham

   3. Leicester City

   4. Luton Town

6. Bayer Leverkusen have won the German league title for the first time in their 119-year history. How many clubs have won the Bundesliga (since it was established in 1963)?

   1. Seven

   2. 13

   3. 20

   4. 25

7. The organisers of the London marathon expect Sunday’s race to set a new world record for the amount of money raised for charity on a single day. What is the current record?

   1. £10m

   2. £33m

   3. £66m

   4. £100m

8. Kelvin Kiptum, who died in a car ­accident in February, won the men’s race at the marathon last year, setting a new course record in London. What was his time?

   1. 1:59:58

   2. 2:01:25

   3. 2:03:12

   4. 2:04:54

9. Which former Brazil footballer has registered as a player for America-RJ, the club he now runs in Rio de Janeiro, so he can “make another dream come true, playing alongside my son”?

   1. Romário

   2. Ronaldo

   3. Cafu

   4. Bebeto

10. Boban Marjanović deliberately missed a free throw in the NBA game between the Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Clippers this week. Why?

    1. His team want to finish lower in the table to guarantee a better draft pick next year

    2. His team was winning by a huge margin and he did not want to “embarrass” the opposition

    3. So fans in the arena would win free chicken

    4. He used his free throw to fling the ball at a fan in the crowd who was heckling him

11. Cole Palmer has scored nine penalties in the Premier League this season. Who holds the record for the most penalties scored in a Premier League season, with 10?

    1. Alan Shearer

    2. Leighton Baines

    3. Bruno Fernandes

    4. Frank Lampard

12. There were nine matches in the County Championship at the weekend. They all …

    1. … were won by the away team

    2. … were drawn

    3. … were called off due to bad weather

    4. … featured players in their 40s

13. Which football club has teams in the semi-finals of the men’s and women’s Champions League?

    1. Barcelona

    2. Bayern Munich

    3. PSG

    4. Real Madrid

14. USA have picked an impressive team for the men’s basketball event at the Olympics in the summer, with LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Joel Embiid and Kevin Durant all on the roster. How did the team do at the last Olympics in Tokyo?

    1. They were knocked out in the group stage

    2. They were beaten 80-79 by Serbia in the final

    3. They did not enter the men’s events

    4. They beat France 87-82 in the final

15. The World Snooker Championship begins this weekend at the Crucible in Sheffield. Where is the reigning champion from?

    1. England

    2. Belgium

    3. The Netherlands

    4. Wales

Solutions

1:A - Even though the teams have won the FA Cup 15 times between them, they have never met in the final. The most common FA Cup finals are: Arsenal v Liverpool, Arsenal v Newcastle and Aston Villa v West Brom, which have each been played three times., 2:B - The story goes that Ferguson would have been sacked if United had lost that tie and gone out of the Cup, as they were 15th in the league and had already been eliminated from the League Cup. But Martin Edwards, who was the chairman of the club at the time, has always denied that Ferguson’s job was under threat., 3:B - Zoeller won the Masters in 1979. He nearly won the Open in 1994 too. And he’s also the man behind Fuzzy’s Vodka. , 4:B - The three runners say they were hired to pace He Jie so he could break the Chinese half marathon record (which he failed to do). , 5:B - They will be up against Manchester United in the final at Wembley next month., 6:B - There were seven winners in the first seven years and just six in the following 53 years. Bayern have won the title 33 times., 7:C - The London marathon set this record too, back in 2019., 8:B - Kiptum will be honoured on Sunday with a 30-second round of applause before the race., 9:A - He is 58. His son is called Romarinho., 10:C - The Clippers offer free chicken if a visiting player misses two consecutive free throws in the fourth quarter. Knowing his team were beaten and that he had already missed a free throw, Marjanović told the crowd: “You want chicken? I got you.”, 11:D - Another Chelsea midfielder. , 12:B - We are two weeks and 18 matches into the season and Essex are the only team with a win., 13:C - PSG face Lyon in the semi-finals of the women’s competition and Borussia Dortmund in the last four of the men’s event., 14:D - They have won four straight golds and look a good bet to make that five. James, Curry, Durant and Embiid have all been named NBA MVP during their careers. Good luck to the rest of the world., 15:B - Luca Brecel won the tournament last year, beating Mark Selby in the final

Scores

1. 1 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week

2. 2 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week

3. 3 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week

4. 4 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week

5. 5 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week

6. 6 and above.

   Not bad. Not bad at all. Have a good weekend

7. 7 and above.

   Not bad. Not bad at all. Have a good weekend

8. 8 and above.

   Not bad. Not bad at all. Have a good weekend

9. 9 and above.

   That's a great score. Have a good weekend

10. 10 and above.

    That's a great score. Have a good weekend

11. 11 and above.

    That's a great score. Have a good weekend

12. 12 and above.

    That's a super score. Have a great weekend

13. 13 and above.

    That's a super score. Have a great weekend

14. 14 and above.

    That's a super score. Have a great weekend

15. 0 and above.

    Ah well. Better luck next week

16. 15 and above.

    Perfection. Have a great weekend