1. Jermain Defoe has been given his first permanent job as a football manager – at which non-league club?

   1. Woking

   2. Senrab FC

   3. York City

   4. Maidenhead United

2. 

   Roy Hodgson has been given his 25th job in management at Bristol City. What is his history with the club?

   1. He played for them 300 times

   2. His grandson plays for them

   3. They are the first English club he managed

   4. He was born in Bristol and supported them as a boy

3. After a number of impressive victories, Bodhana Sivanandan has become the top-ranked female chess player in England. Why is that remarkable?

   1. Her brother is the top male player in the country

   2. She is also top of the rankings in Scrabble and Monopoly

   3. She is 11 years old

   4. She is blind

4. 

   Super League celebrated its 30th birthday this week. Which capital city hosted the first match of the first season of the competition on 29 March 1996?

   1. Paris

   2. London

   3. Cardiff

   4. Dublin

5. The new County Championship season begins this weekend. Which teams are back in the top flight for the first time in decades?

   1. Glamorgan and Leicestershire

   2. Sussex and Lancashire

   3. Worcestershire and Gloucestershire

   4. Middlesex and Durham

6. 

   Port Vale play Chelsea in the FA Cup quarter-finals this weekend. They are one of the few clubs in English football not named after a town or city. Where are they based?

   1. Stoke-on-Trent

   2. Sheffield

   3. Hull

   4. Carlisle

7. The non-league club Shottery United have a new shirt sponsor. Who or what is it?

   1. Arne Slot

   2. The Formula One driver Pierre Gasly

   3. Elton John

   4. Augusta National Golf Club

8. 

   Italy have failed to qualify for the World Cup this summer. What happened in the last match they played at a World Cup?

   1. They won the trophy

   2. They beat England on penalties (when Andrea Pirlo chipped Joe Hart)

   3. Luis Suárez bit one of their players

   4. They were beaten by Slovakia and had three men sent off

9. Italy did not qualify, but which two teams qualified with Italian managers?

   1. Cape Verde and Haiti

   2. Panama and New Zealand

   3. Jordan and Qatar

   4. Turkey and Uzbekistan

10. 

    England qualified for the World Cup with a foreign manager. Which two teams qualified with English managers?

    1. Sweden and New Zealand

    2. Iraq and Australia

    3. Curaçao and Congo DR

    4. Iran and Ghana

11. In which sporting event are the sisters Mia and Lilli Freischem competing against each other this weekend?

    1. They are rowing in the Women’s Boat Race

    2. They are fighting on the undercard of the Lauren Price v Stephanie Piñeiro bout

    3. They will play on opposite teams at the Women’s Six Nations

    4. They are both playing in the Women's Masters at Augusta

12. 

    Derek Chisora and Deontay Wilder are fighting in London on Saturday night. They’ve had the same number of professional fights. How many?

    1. 29

    2. 37

    3. 49

    4. 71

13. Arsenal beat Chelsea in the quarter-finals of the Women’s Champions League and still have a chance to retain the title they won last year. Which club once won the competition five years in a row?

    1. Barcelona

    2. Wolfsburg

    3. Lyon

    4. Frankfurt

14. 

    Arsenal are also in great form in the Women’s Super League. They beat Spurs 5-2 on Saturday, a week after they had beaten West Ham 5-0. Which players scored hat-tricks in those games?

    1. Stina Blackstenius and Beth Mead

    2. Alessia Russo and Chloe Kelly

    3. Olivia Smith and Smilla Holmberg

    4. Frida Maanum and Caitlin Foord

15. The Masters begins this week. Broadcasters covering the event are given very strict guidelines about which words to use and which words to avoid. Which of these terms is allowed?

    1. "Fans"

    2. "Golf clubs"

    3. "Rough"

    4. "Back nine"

16. 

    Adam Gemili has retired from athletics after 14 years at the top of the sport. He has started a new job, where his speed will be important. What is he doing?

    1. He is helping Nike design "the fastest running shoe in history"

    2. He is a postman

    3. He is working as a test driver for the Ferrari F1 team

    4. He has been appointed a speed coach at Chelsea

Solutions

1:A - Defoe says he is happy to be "earning his stripes" in the National League. "It’s no different than when you’re a player,” he says. “When I was a 16-year-old at West Ham in the youth team, you had to do your apprenticeship. Just because I’ve had a good career, I can’t expect to just jump in at the top or get that big job. It’s one I’m really looking forward to. There’s nothing like it. For me, the love for football’s never changed.", 2:C - Hodgson managed the club in 1982. "I’ve been perfectly happy in my retirement period – a little bit bored from time to time – but a challenge like this was hard to turn down,” said the 78-year-old this week. "Bristol is a lovely city and I have fond memories of my time here.", 3:C - The schoolgirl from London, who has a rating of 2,366, took up chess as a five-year-old when she stumbled upon a board her father had planned to give to charity. She watched a YouTube video to learn the rules and has not looked back. , 4:A - Paris Saint-Germain beat Sheffield Eagles 30-24 in the first match of the new summer league. Neither club is in the division now., 5:A - Glamorgan are in Division One for the first time since 2005; Leicestershire have not played in the top flight since 2000. , 6:A - Port Vale play in Burslem, one of the six towns that make up the city of Stoke-on-Trent. This has been a strange season for the club: they are in the last eight of the FA Cup and bottom of League One., 7:B - Gasly drives for the Alpine team in Formula One. A few of his colleagues on the team play for Shottery so he decided to sponsor their shirts. , 8:C - Italy have not played at the World Cup since 2014. They went out of that tournament at the group stage after a 1-0 defeat to Uruguay that is best remembered for a bite on Giorgio Chiellini. , 9:D - Turkey are managed by Vincenzo Montella and Uzbekistan are managed by Fabio Cannavaro., 10:A - Graham Potter and Darren Bazeley, respectively. Sweden made it to the final with an English manager in 1958., 11:A - Mia is in the Cambridge team; Lilli is rowing for Oxford. The sisters are both completing doctorates: Mia in surgery and Lilli in atmospheric physics. “From the moment we realised it could be a possibility that we were racing each other, we were both just so excited and, if anything, it made us work harder to try to make it happen,” says Mia., 12:C - Wilder has won 44 of his 49 fights (43 by knockout) and Chisora has won 36 of his (23 by knockout)., 13:C - They have been drawn against Arsenal in the semi-finals this year., 14:B - This could be a massive season for Arsenal. Their men’s and women’s teams could both win league and Champions League doubles. , 15:B - In the pedantic world of Augusta National, "fans" are "patrons", "rough" is the "second cut"; and the "back nine" is the "second nine"., 16:D - He spent seven years in the youth academy at Chelsea before he turned pro as a sprinter.

Scores

1. 1 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week

2. 2 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week

3. 3 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week

4. 4 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week

5. 5 and above.

   Ah well. Better luck next week

6. 6 and above.

   Nice work. That's a fine score.

7. 7 and above.

   Nice work. That's a fine score.

8. 8 and above.

   Nice work. That's a fine score.

9. 9 and above.

   Nice work. That's a great score. Have a good Easter.

10. 10 and above.

    Nice work. That's a great score. Have a good Easter.

11. 11 and above.

    Nice work. That's a great score. Have a good Easter.

12. 12 and above.

    Nice work. That's a great score. Have a good Easter.

13. 13 and above.

    Nice work. That's a great score. Have a good Easter.

14. 14 and above.

    Nice work. That's a great score. Have a good Easter.

15. 15 and above.

    Nice work. That's a great score. Have a good Easter.

16. 0 and above.

    Ah well. Better luck next week

17. 16 and above.

    Nice work. That's a great score. Have a good Easter.