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In honour of the start of the 2010 World Cup, here’s a round of 15 questions about this festival of football.

I actually wrote most of this quiz four years ago and, back then, posted it on my old Bebo account.

Let’s see if I still have any friends left from those days!

Questions:

1. The first World Cup finals took place in Uruguay. 13 teams took part, how many of these were European?
2. What was the first country to win the World Cup twice?
3. Six of the seven nations that have won the World Cup did so at least once at home. Which is the odd one out?
4. Which player has the record for the most goals at a single World Cup finals?
5. Hungary, Netherlands and which other country share an unfortunate record of reaching the final twice, but losing both times?
6. The USA has blown hot and cold at the World Cup. What is their best finish?
7. How many goals have Ireland scored at the World Cup finals (excluding penalty shootouts)?
8. There have been two World Cup trophies. What was the first of these called?
9. There World Cup was suspended for 12 years because of World War II. Which two years should have seen finals take place?
10. Hungary hold the record for the most goals scored (10) in a game at the World Cup finals. In which year?
11. Following the 1950 tournament Brazil changed the colour of their strip to yellow from what?
12. Only three players have scored in the final of different World Cups. Pelé, Zinedine Zidane and who?
13. In which year was the first ever match decided by a penalty-shootout at a World Cup finals?
14. Who are the only country to have been eliminated from the World Cup Finals without conceding a goal in the tournament?
15. Finally, what word links the “Wizard of Oz” with the top goal-scorer in the 1990 World Cup finals?

Just for fun, give them a go.

I’ll post the answers later in the week.