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Have you been following the football, rugby league, cricket, horse racing, cycling, tennis, Formula One and boxing?
- 1.PSG wrapped up a treble on Saturday night when they hammered Inter in the Champions League final. Who were the first European team to win a treble?
- 2.Désiré Doué was substituted a few minutes after he scored his second goal for PSG in their 5-0 win, so did not have a chance to complete his hat-trick. There have only been four hat-tricks in European Cup finals. Who scored two of them?
- 3.Iga Swiatek’s run of 26 wins in a row at the French Open came to an end this week when she was beaten by Aryna Sabalenka in the semi-finals. If Swiatek is the queen of clay, Rafa Nadal was the king. He played 116 matches at the French Open. How many did he lose?
- 4.Loïs Boisson also reached the semi-finals, an incredible achievement given it was the first grand slam of her career. Which other player reached the French Open semi-finals in her first slam, doing so at 14 years old? Clue: she would later win the French Open (as well as two Australian Open titles and an Olympic gold medal).
- 5.England are playing Andorra in a World Cup qualifier on Saturday. The game is not being held in Andorra but at the Estadi Cornellà-El Prat – the home of which club?
- 6.How has Thomas Tuchel adapted England training so his players will be ready for the World Cup in the US, Canada and Mexico next year?
- 7.Australia and South Africa are preparing to meet in the World Test Championship final this coming week. Which country is hosting the final (having also hosted the 2021 and 2023 finals)?
- 8.On the subject of cricket, England players got stuck in traffic and were nearly late for their match against West Indies at the Oval. How did the captain, Harry Brook, and a few others get to the ground?
- 9.Which two countries have qualified for the World Cup next summer, having never played in the tournament before?
- 10.Simon Yates won the Giro d’Italia on Sunday. There are 21 stages in the race. How many of them did he win?
- 11.Which rugby league team were beaten finalists in the Challenge Cup last year but have another chance to win the trophy at Wembley on Saturday?
- 12.Epsom hosts the Derby on Saturday afternoon. Which piece of equipment did the organisers borrow from another sport this week for the race?
- 13.Why is the race called the Derby?
- 14.Vasiliy Lomachenko has retired from boxing at the age of 37. The Ukrainian won two Olympic gold medals and world titles at three weights. In the amateur ranks, he had 397 fights. How many of them did he lose?
- 15. Max Verstappen crashed into a Mercedes car at the Spanish Grand Prix, which led the boss of the Mercedes team, Toto Wolff, to compare his driving to …
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