Sports quiz of the week: boxers, dancers, dashers and bad throwers

Who stayed up? Who went down? Who changed course?

There have been 16 foul throws in the Premier League this season. Which player has been responsible for five of them?

Paul Pogba

Héctor Bellerín

Trent Alexander-Arnold

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Neil Robertson beat Judd Trump in the final of snooker’s UK Championship on Monday. What was unusual about the final?

The players had to move to a new table midway through the match as the balls kept bouncing on the cloth

Robertson whitewashed Trump, beating him 10-0, meaning the final did not even reach the evening session

The final did not end until 12.55am

Both players hit 147 breaks

Which sport will feature at the Olympics for the first time in 2024 in Paris?

Salsa dancing

Ten-pin bowling

Squash

Breakdancing

Which of these sports featured when Paris first hosted the Olympics back in 1900?

Croquet

Polo

Tug of war

Cricket

All of them

Sheffield United are still waiting for their first win of the season after 11 league games. It’s a bad run, but it is not the worst in the Premier League era. Which club once started a Premier League season without winning any of their first 16 games?

Derby County

Swindon Town

Sunderland

QPR

Anthony Joshua returns to the ring on Saturday night after more than a year out. What happened in his last fight?

He won by knockout

He lost by knockout

He won on points

He lost on points

On Saturday night Joshua will be facing Kubrat Pulev, a 39-year-old from Bulgaria who has only lost one of his 29 professional fights. Who beat him in that fight?

Wladimir Klitschko

Deontay Wilder

Tyson Fury

Lennox Lewis

The group stage of the Champions League reached its conclusion this week. Which team beat the other three teams in their group and were beaten by the other three teams in their group?

Manchester United

Real Madrid

Barcelona

PSG

Paolo Rossi died this week at the age of 64. Rossi pulled off a remarkable treble at the World Cup in 1982, when he won the tournament, the Golden Boot as top scorer and the Golden Ball award for the player of the tournament. Which two other players have done the same at a World Cup?

Diego Maradona and Pelé

Mario Kempes and Garrincha

Ronaldo and Thomas Müller

Zinedine Zidane and Eusébio

James Dasaolu ran 100 metres in 9.91 seconds a few years ago, making him the second fastest Briton of all time after Linford Christie. Dasaolu will be competing at a World Cup event in Austria this weekend – in which sport?

Surfing

Weightlifting

Skateboarding

Bobsleigh

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source: theguardian.com