Football appears to have existed in some variation or the other since ancient times, with the Chinese game Cuju....
QUIZ WHIZ
1.C
Football appears to have existed in some variation or the other since ancient times, with the Chinese game Cuju - the earliest known form of football - dating back to the 3rd or 2nd century BC.
The first rules of the modern game were drawn up at Cambridge University in the 1840s, and standardized in 1863 with the formation of England’s Football Association, the oldest football association in the world.
The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was formed in 1904, and has its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.
Soccer was first included in the Olympic Games in 1908.
The first World Cup was held in 1904 and has taken place every four years since then, with the exception of 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War.
2.A
Host nation Uruguay beat Argentina 4 goals to 2 in the 1930 FIFA World Cup final, becoming the first country to win the tournament. The United States finished in third place while Yugoslavia came in fourth.
Thirteen teams participated in the 1930 tournament which took place from 13 to 30 July in Uruguayan capital, Montevideo. The majority of the matches took place at the Estadio Centenario, which was built for the tournament.
3.D
Brazil has won the most titles, five (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002).
The current champion, Germany, has won four trophies (1954, 1974, 1990, 2014).
Italy has also won four (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006).
England has won the tournament once (1966).
4.B
Germany’s Miroslav Klose (who participated in the World Cup tournaments from 2002 to 2014) is the all-time top scorer, with 16 goals. He broke Brazil’s Ronaldo’s record of 15 goals (1998 to 2006).
5.B
Germany has scored the most goals (224) and has also conceded the most goals (121).
The German team has also played the most World Cup matches (106), and appeared in the most finals (8), semi-finals (13), and quarter-finals (16).
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7.D
The Telstar 18 balls have been produced by Forward Sports in Sialkot, Pakistan. The ball has six textured panels that are seamlessly glued together, and also has an embedded near-field communication chip.
Telstar 18 was designed by the company Adidas, with the ball’s name paying homage to Adidas’s first World Cup match ball, the Telstar (a combination of “television” and “star”), which was itself named after the Telstar communications satellite that it resembled.
8.D
Zabivaka is an anthropomorphic wolf with brown and white wool wearing a white t-shirt with blue short sleeves and red shorts, a nod to the national colours of the Russian team.
9.A
“Where the stars align” is the official tagline of the 2018 World Cup, which is taking place in Russia this year from 14th June to 15th July.
10.B
The official song for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, ‘Live It Up’, is by Puerto Rican singer Nicky Jam and features American rapper Will Smith and Kosovar singer Era Istrefi.
It isn’t very good.
11.C & D
Iceland (the smallest country in terms of population to reach the World Cup) and Panama have both qualified for the first time.
12.A
Four-time champions Italy has not qualified for the FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1958. Netherlands is missing the cup for the first time since 2002, and United States for the first time since 1986. And Cameroon, the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations winner, didn’t make it to the tournament either.
- S.A.
