Quiz 1986 football World Cup
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Who was England captain at the beginning of the 1986 World Cup, before goalkeeper Peter Shilton took over the role?
- Gary Robson
- Bryan Robson
- Bobby Robson
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The Saltillo Affair was a series of controversies involving a team that was based in the Mexican city of Saltillo during the 1986 World Cup. The team’s campaign began with a player suspected of doping, the players threatening to go on strike and announcing a series of demands from their federation, with reportedly inappropriate behaviour at the team headquarters. Which team?
- Portugal
- Northern Ireland
- Paraguay
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Igor Belanov scored the third and most-recent hat-trick in a losing cause at a World Cup in the 1986 tournament against Belgium in the round of 16. For which team?
- Bulgaria
- The Soviet Union
- Romania
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How many of the quarterfinal matches at the 1986 World Cup went into penalty shootouts?
- Three
- Two
- One
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Who was the top-scorer at the 1986 World Cup?
- Argentina’s Diego Maradona
- England’s Gary Lineker
- West Germany’s Rudi Voller
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Which of these three have hosted two World Cup finals?
- Germany’s Olympiastadion in 1974 and 2006
- Brazil’s Maracanã in 1950 and 2014
- Mexico’s Estadio Azteca in 1970 and 1986
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Franz Beckenbauer in 1990 became the second person to win the World Cup as both player and manager. What distinction did he achieve in 1986?
- He became the first person to lose a World Cup final as both player and manager
- He managed the last German team without players from East Germany at the World Cup before the reunification in 1990
- He followed up his 1984 European Championship runner-up finish as manager with a runner-up finish at the 1986 World Cup
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In August 2015, Diego Maradona visited Ali Bin Nasser, the Tunisian referee who officiated in the Argentina-England quarterfinal at the 1986 World Cup that witnessed both the “Hand of God” and the “Goal of the Century.” How did Maradona refer to Bin Nasser?
- The “greatest referee ever”
- A man of “true integrity”
- His “eternal friend”
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