Sports quiz of the week: sailing, settling scores, signings and the Super Bowl

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Sports quiz of the week: sailing, settling scores, signings and the Super Bowl

Who pulled up? Who keeps going? Who hasn’t kept up?

Zlatan Ibrahimovic was sent off in the second half of the Milan derby this week. Who followed him off the pitch 20 minutes later?

Romelu Lukaku

Ashley Young

Alexis Sánchez

Paolo Valeri

Tom Brady has reached yet another Super Bowl. By the time the game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs is played next weekend, what percentage of Super Bowls will have featured Brady?

6%

12%

18%

25%

What will make this year’s Super Bowl different from the previous 54?

The sitting US president will not be in attendance for the first time

The two teams are from the same US state

One of the teams is playing in their home stadium

There will be no fans

It was an interesting week at Chelsea, where Frank Lampard was replaced by Thomas Tuchel as manager of the men’s team. How did the Chelsea women’s team make the news?

They became the first club to put out a full starting XI of foreign players in the Women’s Super League

Their game against Aston Villa was delayed for three hours because of snow, so it started on Tuesday and ended on Wednesday

They selected three sisters for their game against Aston Villa – a first in the Women’s Super League

They set a new record for the longest unbeaten run in the Women’s Super League

Yannick Bestaven won the Vendée Globe round-the-world sailing race this week. He was declared the winner of the solo race with a time of 80 days, three hours, 44 minutes and 46 seconds. However, Bestaven was not the first sailor to reach the finish line. What happened?

The sailor who finished first had taken a shortcut, bypassing Australia

The sailor who finished first had snuck his partner on to the boat, so was disqualified from the solo race

Bestaven had set off 10 days later than all of the other competitors due to a Covid scare

After Bestaven reached the finish line, he was reimbursed 10 hours of time that he had used rescuing a fellow competitor whose boat had sunk

The January transfer window has been quiet this year, with just a handful of permanent deals going through so far. Which Premier League club holds the record for paying the most for a player in January?

Manchester United in 2020

Chelsea in 2019

Liverpool in 2018

Manchester City in 2017

Teams from which two cities will contest the Copa Libertadores final at the Maracanã on Saturday night?

Buenos Aires and Bogotá

Medellín and Montevideo

São Paulo and Santos

Lima and La Plata

Who said: “I need activity, guys, come on. You don’t get away with being inactive in this business and that’s the way it is. I’ll take me licks. It’s a tough one to swallow”?

Gareth Bale

Donny van de Beek

Frank Lampard

Conor McGregor

Martin Ødegaard has joined Arsenal on loan from Real Madrid. Which of these records has Ødegaard not broken in his career?

The youngest player to represent Real Madrid

The youngest player to play in the Norwegian professional leagues

The youngest player to represent Norway

The youngest player to score in a clásico

All 20 Premier League teams have scored at least one goal in the league in 2021. Which team was slowest to find the net?

Newcastle United

Liverpool

West Brom

Fulham

3 and above.

Not bad. Have a good weekend

4 and above.

Well played. Have a great weekend

5 and above.

Well played. Have a great weekend

6 and above.

Well played. Have a great weekend

7 and above.

A fantastic score. Have a great weekend

8 and above.

A fantastic score. Have a great weekend

9 and above.

A fantastic score. Have a great weekend

10 and above.

Perfection. Fantastic. Have a great weekend

2 and above.

Ah well. Have a good weekend

0 and above.

Ah well. Have a good weekend

1 and above.

Ah well. Have a good weekend

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