Know your football? Take the World Cup 2026 quiz

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Jun 04, 2026 · 87 words

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Quiz: World Cup 2026 – player and team records, key statistics Test your football knowledge before the World Cup begins with this 10-question quiz.

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Quiz: World Cup 2026 – player and team records, key statistics Test your football knowledge before the World Cup begins with this 10-question quiz.

Why it matters

Published On 4 Jun 2026 The FIFA World Cup begins on June 11.

Common ground

Here are 10 quiz questions before the tournament kicks off in North America.

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that The FIFA World Cup begins on June 11?
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Claim 1: “The FIFA World Cup begins on June 11.”

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The claim is directly confirmed by Wikipedia and corroborated by multiple independent news sources including NY Post and Al Jazeera.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 FIFA World Cup is the 23rd and current FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men's soccer championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tourname…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Group A of the 2026 FIFA World Cup took place from June 11 to 24, 2026. The group consisted of national football teams representing Mexico (co-host), South Africa, South Korea, and the Czech Republic.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_A

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification decided the 45 teams that joined hosts Canada, Mexico, and the United States at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The qualifying process began on 7 September 2023 with thr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup_qualificat…

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Claim 2: “the tournament kicks off in North America.”

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Wikipedia and Al Jazeera both confirm that the 2026 FIFA World Cup is hosted in North America, with Al Jazeera specifically mentioning venues across three nations.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Asian section of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup for national teams of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). AFC teams were allocated eight …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup_qualificat…

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