Hat-Trick Trivia Challenge Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

although England centre forward Geoff Hurst had scored a hat-trick and was therefore entitled to keep the match ball, it was German striker Helmut Haller who took it home after the 1966 World Cup final.

Udaya Wickramasinghe, the Sri Lankan cricket umpire is remembered for giving three lbw decisions which enabled Pakistani bowler Aaqib Javed to achieve a hat-trick and world record.

footballer Arthur Bate scored a hat-trick on his league debut for Nelson, yet finished on the losing team in the match.

no footballer has scored a hat-trick against England since Marco van Basten in 1988.

when Ireland bowler Peter Connell took a hat-trick on his debut in first-class cricket, he was the first player to do so in an international match.

Stan Mortensen scored a hat-trick in the 1953 FA Cup Final at Wembley, becoming the first player ever to do so.

Irfan Pathan, the only bowler to take a Test hat-trick in the first over of a match, grew up playing cricket inside a Baroda mosque where his father was the muezzin, and could not afford equipment until his domestic team furnished it, at age 15.

South African cricketer Geoff Griffin took a hat-trick in his second Test match, at Lord's in 1960, but was no-balled repeatedly for throwing in the same match and in the exhibition match that followed it, and never played Test cricket again.

Claude Lambie scored Burnley's first-ever competitive hat-trick.

Eduardo Ricagni scored his only hat-trick and won his only trophy with Boca Juniors on his debut.

Harbhajan Singh was rewarded with an offer to become the Deputy Superintendent of Punjab police after becoming the first Indian cricketer to take a Test hat-trick.

Hockey Hall of Famer Bill Mosienko is most famous for scoring three goals in a span of 21 seconds in a 1952 game, a feat that remains a National Hockey League record.

Hat-Trick Trivia Challenge

1 Seven players have scored a hat-trick in the ________.

2 On December 4, 2009, Neil Musselwhite of the State University of New York at Oswego Lakers recorded a shorthanded natural hat trick against the ________ Golden Eagles.

3 ________ scored a memorable hat trick against Leicester City in September 1997.

4 Taft arranged a deal with Kaleta stipulating that if Kaleta scored three goals as he played the ________ that night, he would give him a free hat.

5 ________ scored a hat trick at the Euro 2008 competition in Austria and Switzerland for Spain against group rivals Russia, a game which Spain won 4-1.

6 Overs • Run • Wickets • No ball • Wide • Bowling average • ________

7 In ________, a hat-trick occurs when a player hits the Bullseye (target) with all three darts in a single turn.

8 In both codes of ________ (rugby union and rugby league) a hat-trick is scored if a player scores three or more tries in a game.

9 In Twenty20 International Cricket, ________ of Australia had a hat-trick against Bangladesh in the Super Eight of the Twenty20 World Cup on 16 September 2007 in South Africa.

10 In ________, a hat-trick (or hat trick) means to achieve a positive feat in the sport three times during a game.

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