Q 01/05

Which 2022 World Cup venue was built from recycled shipping containers?

A) Lusail Stadium

B) Khalifa International Stadium

C) Stadium 974

D) Ahmad bin Ali Stadium

Answer · why

C) Stadium 974

Stadium 974 is named for its 974 containers, a number that is also Qatar's dialling code, and it was the first World Cup ground designed to be fully d...

Q 02/05

Which London club was founded in 1905 specifically to occupy Stamford Bridge after Fulham turned the ground down?

A) Chelsea

B) Brentford

C) Millwall

D) Crystal Palace

Answer · why

A) Chelsea

Chelsea was created by new owner Gus Mears to fill Stamford Bridge, an athletics venue since 1877, after Fulham declined it for financial reasons. The...

Q 03/05

Which ground, opened in 1989 on an island in Pyongyang's Taedong River, was built with an official capacity of 150,000?

A) Kim Il Sung Stadium

B) Yanggakdo Football Stadium

C) Rungrado May Day Stadium

D) Sosan Stadium

Answer · why

C) Rungrado May Day Stadium

Rungrado May Day Stadium was re-rated at about 114,000 after seats replaced benches in a 2014 refit, and it stages North Korea's Mass Games far more o...

Q 04/05

Which Munich stadium, host of the 2006 World Cup's opening match, has an inflated plastic skin that changes colour?

A) Volksparkstadion

B) Mercedes-Benz Arena

C) Red Bull Arena

D) Allianz Arena

Answer · why

D) Allianz Arena

Allianz Arena glows red for Bayern and shone blue for 1860 Munich, who sold their half of the ground to Bayern in 2006 to ease a financial crisis and ...

Q 05/05

Which London ground's grass pitch splits into three sections and slides away to reveal an artificial NFL field beneath?

A) Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

B) London Stadium

C) Brentford Community Stadium

D) Emirates Stadium

Answer · why

A) Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium's pitch rides on 99 trays weighing 10,000 tonnes in all and retracts under the South Stand, the first in the world to split ...

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