Tuesday Sports Quiz – 7th July - Answers added

Toastrack

Toastrack

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A baker's dozen of questions this week, all about African football.
And there’s another gimme for Seasiders 🍊

1 Which is the only African men’s football team to have played England twice at the World Cup?
2 Watford’s Nathaniel Chalobah, who played football for England in 2018, was born in which African country?
3 Who is the only African player to have won the Ballon D’Or, doing so in 1995?
4 Who won the first Africa Cup of Nations tournament in 1957 and were also Africa’s first team at the World Cup in 1934?
5 Peter Ndlovu was the first African player to appear in the Premier League — for which country did he win 100 caps?
6 Which three African players were joint top Premier League goalscorers last season?
7 Which team played in seven Africa Cup of Nations finals, winning four, before eventually appearing at their first Fifa World Cup in 2006?
8 Which African country has supplied the most Premier League players (41)?
9 Which is the only men’s football World Cup where England faced two African sides?
10 Which north African country staged the 2002 Italian Super Cup match between Juventus and Parma?
11 African nations boycotted qualifying for which Fifa World Cup, angered by the lack of a guaranteed place?
12 Which South Africa-born winger scored Blackpool’s stoppage-time winner in the “Matthews Final” — the 1953 FA Cup final?
13 Which African team became the first to reach the second round of a Fifa World Cup in 1986?
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Answers
1 Tunisia (England won 2-0 in 1998 and 2-1 in 2018)
2 Sierra Leone
3 George Weah, of Liberia
4 Egypt
5 Zimbabwe
6 Sadio Mané, Mohamed Salah and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
7 Ghana
8 Nigeria
9 1990 (England beat Egypt 1-0 in group, and beat Cameroon 3-2 in quarter-finals)
10 Libya
11 1966
12 Bill Perry
13 Morocco – they drew with Poland and England and beat Portugal
 
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1: Cameroon. 12 is Billy Perry but I thought it was scored in the 89th minute not stoppage time?
 
Toastrack said:
A baker's dozen of questions this week, all about African football.
And there’s another gimme for Seasiders 🍊

1 Which is the only African men’s football team to have played England twice at the World Cup?
2 Watford’s Nathaniel Chalobah, who played football for England in 2018, was born in which African country?
3 Who is the only African player to have won the Ballon D’Or, doing so in 1995?
4 Who won the first Africa Cup of Nations tournament in 1957 and were also Africa’s first team at the World Cup in 1934?
5 Peter Ndlovu was the first African player to appear in the Premier League — for which country did he win 100 caps?
6 Which three African players were joint top Premier League goalscorers last season?
7 Which team played in seven Africa Cup of Nations finals, winning four, before eventually appearing at their first Fifa World Cup in 2006?
8 Which African country has supplied the most Premier League players (41)?
9 Which is the only men’s football World Cup where England faced two African sides?
10 Which north African country staged the 2002 Italian Super Cup match between Juventus and Parma?
11 African nations boycotted qualifying for which Fifa World Cup, angered by the lack of a guaranteed place?
12 Which South Africa-born winger scored Blackpool’s stoppage-time winner in the “Matthews Final” — the 1953 FA Cup final?
13 Which African team became the first to reach the second round of a Fifa World Cup in 1986?
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10. Libya
 
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