Qatar 2022 – 100 days before: Test your knowledge with our World Cup quiz!

It's coming. We may have had to wait five months longer than usual, but the 2022 World Cup is only 100 days away.

A likely last hurray on the World Cup stage awaits superstars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, as new names will appear and emerging talent will be put to the test.

Eight nations have been champions of the tournament which was first staged in 1930, and it is France who will be looking to defend the title this time.

Many of us are proud to remember World Cup trivia from past tournaments, but how good is your knowledge?

These 20 Opta-assisted questions should sort out the World Cup quiz champions group stage flops. The answers are below, but don't cheat!

The first…

1. Name the England boss who, at Qatar 2022, will become the first to coach a team at both the men's and women's World Cups?

2. Gregg Berhalter will become the first man to play and coach for the United States at the World Cup. He appeared at the 2002 tournament and is now the boss of the American team. Which current Premier League club did Berhalter belong to then, becoming their first World Cup player?

3. Who became the first player to score a golden goal at the World Cup when he scored for France against Paraguay in a Round of 16 clash in 1998?

4. In the 2018 clash between France and Croatia, who became the first player in World Cup final history to score for both teams?

5. Qatar will be looking to become the first nation from the AFC confederation to win their first World Cup final match. Ten of the previous 11 have lost (including Israel in 1970), but which team in 1982 managed a 1-1 draw against Czechoslovakia?

The last…

6. There have been 52 hat-tricks in tournament history, but who was the last player to score a hat-trick in the World Cup Round of 16?

7. A goalkeeper earned his 159th and final international cap in the 2018 final, when he became the oldest player to feature at the World Cup, aged 45 years and 161 days. He saved a penalty in his side's 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia. Who was this goalkeeper and what team did he play for?

8. Ghana reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup in 2010 and Senegal did so in the final in 2002. But who was the first African team to qualify for the quarter-finals, in the final 1990 in Italy?

9. Brazil last lost a group game at the World Cup in 1998, since then they have won 12 and drawn three games in the first round. Which team beat them in that 1998 tournament?

10. Cameroon have lost each of their last seven World Cup matches (between 2002 and 2014). Only one team has lost more games in a row in the history of the competition: nine between 1930 and 1958. Who was that team?

The most…

11. Just Fontaine scored his 13 World Cup goals in just six games for France. The competition's all-time top scorer is Germany's Miroslav Klose, who scored 16 times for his country in how many matches: 22, 23 or 24?

12. Who will become the only team to have participated in all 22 editions of the World Cup when they take part in Qatar 2022?

13. Iran will be playing in their sixth World Cup and have never made it past the group stage. Which country has made the most appearances (eight) without passing the first round?

14. Which striker has scored the most goals among all players in the European qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup, scoring 12 goals and providing six assists in 10 games?

15. Since 1966, only three players have completed more than 12 dribbles in a single World Cup game, with Brazilian Jairzinho taking 13 against Paraguay in 1970 and Paul Gascoigne matching that tally for England against Cameroon in 1990. scored the most - 15 in a game against Italy in the 1994 tournament?

Goats…

16. Which superstar, who has scored eight times and provided eight assists in 21 World Cup games, also holds the record for the most handball decisions made against a player at the tournament (seven) since records began? /p>

17. Who holds the record for most minutes played in World Cup history, having played 2,216 minutes in the final?

18. Portugal great Cristiano Ronaldo is one of only four players to have scored in four different World Cup tournaments. He will try to do better this year, but Ronaldo currently sits alongside Pele, Klose and what other player?

19. Between them, Ronaldo (seven) and Lionel Messi (six) have managed 13 World Cup goals. How many of these goals were scored in the Round of 16?

20. Ronaldo is one of only two European players to have scored and/or assisted a goal in each of the last five major international tournaments (World Cup/European Championship). Who is the other player to have achieved the feat?

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