The ultimate quiz

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Have a crack at this collection of World Cup puzzlers, featuring the globe’s weirdest anthropomorphic orange

01

Fabien Barthez and which other goalkeeper are tied at the top for most clean sheets at World Cups, posting 10 apiece?

02

Which nation has endured the longest gap between World Cup victories, a wait of 44 years?

03

Who was Scotland’s manager at the 1986 World Cup, taking over after Jock Stein’s death?

04

With a colossal 13 strikes at the 1958 finals, which Frenchman has notched the most goals at a single World Cup?

05

Who is the oldest player to net a goal at the World Cup, doing so aged 42 in 1994?

06

Three teams have sealed World Cup glory having won all of their matches inside 90 minutes. Can you name them?

07

Which South American phenom is the only player to bag at least one World Cup goal in his teens, his twenties and his thirties?

08

Which Russian is the only man to plunder five goals in a World Cup match, during a 6-1 rout of Cameroon in 1994?

09

Which former England player recently sold Diego Maradona’s jersey from Argentina’s 1986 quarter-final win for more than £7m?

11

Wayne Rooney was dismissed for treading on which centre-back at the 2006 World Cup?

12

Germany and which other nation have prevailed in the most World Cup penalty shootouts?

13

England played their last game of the World Cups listed below against which team?

1958 Group stage play-off
1962
Quarter-finals
1970
Quarter-finals
1982
Second group stage
1990
Third-place play


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