Sports quiz of the week: young talents, great leaders and legends of Formula 1

1. Vaibhav Suryavanshi made history by becoming the youngest player to get an IPL contract. How old is he?

   1. 11

   2. 13

   3. 15

   4. 17

2. Last Sunday’s Autumn Nations Series match was the 35th rugby match between Scotland and Australia. How much did Scotland win in total?

   1. 10

   2. 13

   3. 16

   4. 19

3. England face the United States on Saturday in a blockbuster women’s friendly at Wembley. The Lionesses look for back-to-back wins against the USWNT for the first time since…?

   1. 1968

   2. 1988

   3. 2008

   4. They’ve never done it before

4. Which famous car brand will join Formula 1 as the new 11th team on the grid from the 2026 season?

   1. Tesla

   2. Cadillac

   3. Citroën

   4. Subaru

5. Who is currently the top scorer in the “big five” European men’s championships: England, France, Italy, Germany and Spain?

   1. Erling Haaland

   2. Harry Kane

   3. Mateo Retegui

   4. Robert Lewandowski

6. In the NFL, the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Carolina Panthers 30-27 to earn their 10th victory in 11 games. How many of those wins were by seven points or less?

   1. Four

   2. Six

   3. Eight

   4. Ten

7. The British Snooker Championship took place in York this week. Which player scored a maximum of 147 breaks during his first round victory?

   1. Barry Hawkins

   2. Ding Junhui

   3. Jack Lisowski

   4. Zhang Anda

8. Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal has won Tuttosport’s Golden Boy Award for the best European Under-21 player. Who is the only Italian player to have received this award?

   1. Federico Chiesa

   2. Gianluigi Donnarumma

   3. Mario Balotelli

   4. Moses Kean

9. 

   Where in the world was this photo taken?

   1. Malmo

   2. Marbella

   3. Monaco

   4. Montenegro

10. Jannik Sinner, the world number 1 men’s tennis player, led Italy to Davis Cup glory in Malaga this week. How many editions of the men’s competition has Italy won?

    1. Two

    2. Three

    3. Four

    4. Five

11. Former Scotland manager Shelley Kerr has taken up a role in men’s football as head of technical development at which club?

    1. Aberdeen

    2. Hearts

    3. Hibernian

    4. Queen’s Park

12. Max Verstappen has won his fourth Formula 1 world championship, joining which two legendary drivers on a quartet of titles?

    1. Alain Prost and Sébastien Vettel

    2. Ayrton Senna and Nelson Piquet

    3. Jack Brabham and Jackie Stewart

    4. Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher

13. Hull City have sacked manager Tim Walter as the team sits 22nd in the Championship. Walter replaced Liam Rosenior this summer after Hull finished where last season?

    1. Fourth in the Championship

    2. Seventh in the Championship

    3. 12th in the Championship

    4. Second in Ligue 1

14. Arne Slot’s Liverpool are eight points clear – the biggest Premier League lead after 12 games since Manchester United in 1993-94. Who was second behind Alex Ferguson then?

    1. Arsenal

    2. Black burn

    3. Newcastle

    4. Norwich

15. Finally, who said that? “My job is to score points…his job is to give his opinion and talk on the radio. I’ll do my job and he can do his job.

    1. Jacob Bethell

    2. Joe Racine

    3. Kane Williamson

    4. Marnus Labuschagne

Solutions

1: B – Suryavanshi, born in March 2011, was signed by Rajasthan Royals after smashing a 58-ball hundred for India Under-19s against Australia., 2: B – Scotland won four of the last five matches between the teams, including Sunday’s encounter – but Australia have won 22 since the first match in 1927., 3:B – England beat USA in their first two meetings – in 1985 and 1988, both at the Mundalito tournament in Italy – but have won only three of the 17 matches between the teams since.,4:B – Cadillac is a division of American automobile giant General Motors ; the team will likely be powered by Ferrari before developing its own engines., 5:D – Lewandowski has scored 15 goals in 14 La Liga games for Barcelona; Kane has 14 goals for Bayern in 11 games, Haaland has 12 in 12 for Manchester City and Retegui has 12 in 13 for Atalanta., 6:C – The reigning Super Bowl champions set an NFL record for close victories; Sunday’s victory was also the fifth of the season sealed in the final game., 7:D – Zhang, 11th seed and one of eight Chinese players in the tournament’s main draw, recorded the third 147 of his career in their 6-3 win over Lei Peifan., 8:C – The striker won the award in 2010, the year he left Inter for Manchester City., 9:B – The women’s team Swedish footballer trains in Spain before heading to Manchester City. Serbia in the first leg of the Euro 2025 qualifying play-offs., 10:B – Italy first won the men’s title in 1976 and have now won back-to-back events., 11:B – The player of 55 years will help the academy. players advance to first-team football in a breakthrough role., 12:A – Frenchman Prost and German Vettel both won four titles; Senna, Piquet, Brabham and Stewart all won three. Hamilton and Schumacher share the all-time lead with seven, ahead of Juan Manuel Fangio, who has five. 13:B – Hull owner Acun Ilicali fired Rosenior after the Tigers missed the playoffs by three points; he joined Strasbourg in Ligue 1., 14:D – After finishing third in 1992-93, the Canaries were nine points behind United after 12 games but found themselves mid-table. Blackburn and Newcastle finished second and third, with Rovers eight points behind champions Ferguson. time without a Test century in Australia. .

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