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Alexia Putellas, Arthur Fery and Erling Haaland. Composite: LCLFC, Reuters, Getty
Have you followed the big stories in football, tennis, rugby union, cricket, cycling, rugby league and swimming?
- 1.Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappé both have a chance to win the Golden Boot a second time. Which player has been the top scorer at two World Cups?
- 2.Jordan Henderson picked up an injury and a yellow card at England’s game against Mexico. How many minutes of the match did he play?
- 3.If Bulgaria did it in 1994, Germany did it in 1998, United States did it in 2002, Argentina did it in 2006 and 2010, the Netherlands did it in 2014 and Brazil did it in 2018, which team did it in 2026?
- 4.Norway, which has a population of 5.5 million, is the smallest country represented in the quarter-finals. What was Uruguay’s population when they won the World Cup in 1930?
- 5.Who has become the first player in history to miss two penalties at the same World Cup?
- 6.England’s quarter-final against Norway gives us a good excuse to remember Bjørge Lillelien’s brilliant commentary when the teams met in 1981. Which two names are missing from his famous quote: “Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, _____, _____. We have beaten them all, we have beaten them all! Maggie Thatcher, can you hear me? Maggie Thatcher … your boys took a hell of a beating. Your boys took a hell of a beating”?
- 7.Which two teams have appeared in the most World Cup quarter-finals?
- 8.Arthur Fery is the latest British sensation at Wimbledon. He has a cosmopolitan backstory: he was born in France; he went to university in the United States; his mother played tennis for Hong Kong; and his father, who is French, owns the Ligue 1 club Lorient. But where did the 23-year-old tennis player grow up?
- 9.The women’s singles final at Wimbledon will feature two players from which country?
- 10.Which Premier League club hosted six rugby league matches at their stadium last weekend?
- 11.Which of the Home Nations lost their match on the opening weekend of the Nations Championship?
- 12.Sarah Storey has retired at the age of 48. She won 19 gold medals at the Paralympics – in which two sports?
- 13.What unusual request did the organisers of the Tour de France make before the third stage of the race this week?
- 14.What remarkable thing has the cricketer Beth Mooney achieved?
- 15.Alexia Putellas won 10 league titles and four Champions League titles with Barcelona, as well as being awarded the Ballon d’Or twice. Where will she be playing her club football this coming season?
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