Sports quiz of the week: Masters, macaroni cheese and match point

Who found love? Who served steak? Who had a massive boost?

Who hosted a dinner party this week and laid on a menu of rib-eye steak, mac and cheese, creamed spinach and creamed corn?

Jordan Spieth

Patrick Reed

Sergio García

Rory McIlroy

Rory McIlroy is aiming to complete his “career slam” at Augusta this weekend. Which of these golfers also won the Open, US Open and PGA Championship, but never won the Masters?

Arnold Palmer

Nick Faldo

Lee Trevino

Phil Mickelson

Formula One celebrates its 1,000th race at the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday. Where was the first Grand Prix held back in 1950?

Silverstone

Monaco

San Marino

Dakar

Watford have made it to the FA Cup final for only the second time in their history. Who beat them the first time they reached the final?

Plymouth Argyle

Ipswich Town

Sunderland

Everton

Why did an international wheelchair tennis tournament have to move venues this week?

The arena did not have wheelchair access

The organisers had mistakenly booked a table tennis venue

The tennis court was built on a slope

The building was not tall enough and balls kept hitting the ceiling

British tennis player Tara Moore was losing 0-6, 0-5 and facing match point. What happened next?

The rain came on, the game was delayed and officials ended up calling it a draw

The lights in the arena went off due to a power cut and the match was called off

Her opponent tripped on the court, injured her ankle and conceded the match

She came back and won 0-6, 7-6, 6-3

What did a referee do on the pitch before kickoff in a Romanian fourth division game this week?

He sent off three players who were laughing at his new haircut

He took a pee in the centre-circle

He got down on one knee and proposed marriage to his assistant referee

He took the ball and performed 100 keep-ups to impress the players and “discourage any disrespect”

FC Zurich tweeted the news that Florent Malouda had stopped coaching at the club “by mutual consent” this week. How did Malouda reply to the tweet?

“You better pay my wages this month!”

“I’m unfollowing you now”

“Really, I didn’t know that??”

“Your job was a massive waste of my time anyway”

Which two cities are involved when the Falcons play the Tigers and City play United on Friday night?

Melbourne and Sydney

Newcastle and Leicester

Austin and Dallas

Toronto and Vancouver

Who did Scotland women’s football team beat this week? Clue: Scotland men’s team has played this country 10 times without ever beating them.

Germany

Brazil

England

Northern Ireland

1 and above.

Oh dear

2 and above.

Oh dear

3 and above.

That’s respectable – just about

4 and above.

That’s respectable – just about

5 and above.

That’s a respectable score. Have a good weekend

6 and above.

That’s a fine score. Have a good weekend

7 and above.

That’s an excellent score. Have a great weekend

8 and above.

That’s a mighty fine score. Have a great weekend

9 and above.

That’s a mighty fine score. Have a great weekend

0 and above.

Oh dear

10 and above.

Perfection. You are awesome

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source: theguardian.com