Sports quiz of the week: World Cup losers, Ashes winners and a promise

Who kept a promise? Why is a surfer owed a beer? Where next for rugby?

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Which country lost to France on Friday, to Australia on Saturday and to Ireland on Sunday?

New Zealand

Wales

Scotland

Papua New Guinea

At which stage have Italy been knocked out at the last two World Cups, in 2010 and 2014?

The group stage

The last-16 stage

The quarter-finals

The semi-finals

The final

Six countries have qualified for the last seven World Cups (going back to 1994): Brazil, Germany, Argentina, Spain, Mexico and …

Croatia

Sweden

England

South Korea

What did Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts achieve this week?

He was in the Peru team that qualified for the World Cup

He hit a perfect 300 in the World Series of Bowling

He ran 100m in less than 10 seconds at the US Olympic trials

He hit a century break at the Shanghai Masters

Which team has won the most Ashes series since England and Australia started playing each other 135 years ago?

England

Australia

They are tied

If it was France in 2007, New Zealand in 2011 and England in 2015, where will it be in 2023?

Qatar

South Africa

France

Ireland

Why does Charlie Fry owe professional surfer Mick Fanning a beer?

Fry, an Olympic sailor, was going the wrong way in a race until the surfer told him to turn around

Fry qualified for Australia's Olympic skiing squad after taking balance lessons from Fanning

Fry escaped from a shark attack by using Fanning’s technique of "punching it in the nose"

Fry took up skateboarding because he “could never beat Mick in the sea” and now he is a world champion

Which of these players became his country’s all-time leading goalscorer this week?

Christian Eriksen

Mile Jedinak

Nicklas Bendtner

Romelu Lukaku

What promise did Pedro Pablo Kuczynski keep this week?

He walked for 50 miles with no shoes on

He sold a football club

He gave everyone a day off work and school

He collected an award in his pants

What did lawyers have to explain to a court in New York this week?

That the Pittsburgh Penguins are not really birds

That the Dallas Cowboys are not really cowboys

That the Red Sox are not pieces of clothing

What football and Fifa are

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