You’re a sporting genius if you get top marks in our quiz of 2024 – see what you remember about Olympics, Euros and more
WE had a bumper year of sport in 2024, with the Olympics, the Euros and lots, lots more.
So, test your knowledge of 2024’s sporting action with our quiz of the year.
1) Which Greater London football club beat Solihull Moors on penalties in May to win promotion to the Football League for the first time in their history? Following July’s General Election, they are the only club in the top four divisions to be located in a Conservative constituency.
2) Which player scored the winner as Aston Villa beat Bayern Munich in the Champions League?
3) Two former Chelsea managers have taken charge of the USA men’s and women’s national football teams this year. Name them.
4) Real Madrid became champions of Europe for a 15th time. Which team did they beat in the Champions League final?
5) In football’s European Championship, who scored the winning penalty for England in their shootout victory over Switzerland?
6) And who came off the subs’ bench to equalise for the Three Lions in the final against Spain?
7) At £55million, who was the most expensive transfer to a Premier League club in 2024?
8) Fabian Hurzeler became the youngest permanent manager in Premier League history when he was hired by Brighton in August, aged 31. Which former Fulham manager held the record previously?
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9) The name of which sports personality, in the news in 2024, is an anagram of SATCHEL MOUTH?
10) Keely Hodgkinson stormed to 800 metres gold at the Paris Olympics. Which of her training partners also picked up a bronze medal in the women’s 1500m?
11) In which sport did 19-year-old Toby Roberts win Olympic gold for Team GB?
12) Julien Alfred won the Olympic women’s 100m title — earning the first gold medal in the history of which Caribbean nation?
13) Which French swimmer won five golds in the pool in his home Olympics?
14) Who became the first British female Olympian to win three medals at the same Games since Mary Rand at Tokyo 1964?
15) Jodie Grinham won team gold in the para-archery in Paris, becoming the first Paralympic champion to be . . . what?
16) Brit swimmers Poppy Maskill and Alice Tai won five medals each at the Paralympics. Which GB wheelchair athlete matched them with four silvers and a gold in the women’s T53 100m?
17) Which rugby league team swept the board by winning an historic Quadruple of World Club Challenge, Challenge Cup, League Leaders’ Shield and Super League Grand Final?
18) Ali Carter accused Ronnie O’Sullivan of doing WHAT “all over the floor” during their Masters snooker final? He added: “If it gets swept under the carpet then, for me, it’s not good.”
19) Luke Littler dominated the darts world in 2024. Who did he beat in the final of the Premier League?
20) Littler did, however, suffer a first-round loss to Rob Cross in the World Grand Prix. In a tournament of surprises, which Belgian took the title?
21) Which cricketer — whose middle name is Cherrington — smashed England’s sixth triple century in history when he hit 317 against Pakistan in October?
22) How many of their 11 international matches in 2024 did Wales’ men’s rugby union side win?
23) Which golfer won The Masters in April but was then arrested for assaulting a police officer at the USPGA Championship in May — a charge that was later dropped?
24) Which tennis star reached the finals of both the French Open and Wimbledon in 2024 but lost, respectively, to Iga Swiatek and Barbora Krejcikova?
25) To which cartoon character did Damon Hill liken Formula One champ Max Verstappen?
THE ANSWERS
HERE they are...
1) Bromley;
2) Jhon Duran;
3) Mauricio Pochettino and Emma Hayes;
4) Borussia Dortmund;
5) Trent Alexander-Arnold;
6) Cole Palmer;
7) Dominic Solanke — from Bournemouth to Tottenham;
8) Chris Coleman;
9) Thomas Tuchel;
10) Georgia Bell;
11) Sport climbing;
12) St Lucia;
13) Leon Marchand;
14) Emma Finucane;
15) Pregnant;
16) Sammi Kinghorn;
17) Wigan Warriors;
18) Snotting;
19) Luke Humphries;
20) Mike De Decker;
21) Harry Brook;
22) Zero;
23) Scottie Scheffler;
24) Jasmine Paolini;
25) Dick Dastardly.