Test your World Cup knowledge

Try these 20 questions on the Cup, then back up with another 20 questions in next Friday's special All Blacks Cup preview.

The answers are at the bottom of this page.

1: Who refereed the 1987 World Cup final?

2: Who captained Italy in the first Cup match, against the All Blacks at Eden Park in 1987?

3: How many countries hosted games in the 1991 tournament?

4: Name the rival captains in the 1991 final.

5: How many tries were scored in England's semifinal win over Scotland at Murrayfield in 1991?

6: Who kicked the winning dropped goal in extra time for South Africa in the 1995 final against the All Blacks?

7: Who ended Samoa's dream run at the 1991 tournament in the quarter-finals and what was the score?

8: Which country lost its first Cup finals game 89-0?

9: How many teams made their first Cup appearance at the 1999 tournament?

10: Three countries have contested every Cup but never made the quarter-finals. Name them.

11: How many countries appeared in the first four tournaments?

12: Name the last two teams to qualify for the 2003 World Cup.

13: In how many Cup games has a team failed to score any points?

14: Who finished third at the 1987 and 1995 tournaments?

15: Yes or no: Have any two countries met each other in pool play at every World Cup?

16: Who has scored the most World Cup points?

Clue: He is the only player with more than 200 points.

17: Which country has had the most Cup finals tournament losses?

18: Eight players have scored four tries in a Cup match.

Three are All Blacks Craig Green, John Gallagher and Jonah Lomu. Name the other five.

19: How many times has a team posted a century of points in a Cup game?

20: Who was the referee of the 1999 final?

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Answers:

1: Kerry Fitzgerald of Australia.

2: Marcio Innocenti.

3: Five

4: Nick Farr-Jones (Australia) and Will Carling (England).

5: None.

6: Joel Stransky.

7: Scotland, 28-6.

8: Ivory Coast.

9: Three, Uruguay, Namibia and Spain.

10: Japan, Romania and Italy.

11: 23.

12: United States and Tonga.

13: Three, Canada against South Africa 0-20 and Ivory Coast v Scotland 0-89, both in 1995 and Spain v Scotland, 0-48, in 1999.

14: Wales and France.

15: No (however Samoa have met Argentina in all three of Samoa's appearances at the finals).

16: Gavin Hastings (Scotland) with 227.

17: Japan, with 11.

18: Gavin Hastings (Scotland), Chester Williams (South Africa) and Ieuan Evans (Wales), Brian Robinson (Ireland), Keith Wood (Ireland).

19: Three, All Blacks 145-17 over Japan in 1995; and 101-3 over Italy in 1999; and England 101-10 v Tonga in 1999.

20: Andre Watson (South Africa).

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