Welcome to this week's news quiz

GOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL! Yes, it is the World Cup. But how much do you know about the beautiful game? Take this quiz to see if you can score more than the U.S. team can in the entirety of the tournament.

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The last time the World Cup was staged in North America was 1994. Its opening ceremony was overshadowed by what event on the same day?

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Argentina got an automatic entry into this year's World Cup as the defending champions. The 2022 winning squad had between them a total of 226 what?

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Haiti returns to the men's World Cup for the first time in 52 years. How many of the 26-strong squad were born in the Carribbean nation they are playing for?

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A machine learning algorithm ran 100,000 simulations to predict the likely winner. And they found that the answer is?

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FIFA changes the World Cup ball in every tournament. What distinguishes this year's model?

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President Donald Trump was honored by FIFA in what way?

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This World Cup has an expanded roster of teams, including for the first time what two countries?

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What should the beautiful game be called?

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