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    Talking about sports
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  • What is the most popular game in the world?
    Soccer
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  • In Europe during the Middle Ages, what was the soccer ball made of?
    Inflated pig bladders
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  • How many panels a soccer ball has, and what does it represent?
    Soccer ball has 32 panels representing one of the 32 countries in Europe
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  • How many people play soccer per year around the world?
    Approx. 250 million
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  • When the women soccer games started in the Olympics
    It started in 1996
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  • In 1998 a lightning bolt killed an entire team during a soccer game. Where were they from?
    Democratic Republic of Congo. (nobody on the opposite team was hurt)
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  • Originally what the World Cup was made of? (before 1950)
    Paper mache
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  • When was the first World Cup, and where it was placed?
    Uruguay in 1930. 13 countries played and Uruguay won the Cup.
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  • How old was Pelé when he played his first World Cup?
    He was 17 years old.
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  • Famous Brazilian footballer Manoel Francisco dos Santo - who is he?
    Garrincha
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  • How many World Cups Brazil has attended?
    All of them. It´s the only country to attend all World Cups.
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  • How many times has Brazil hosted the World Cup?
    Twice
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  • How many European countries attended to the first World Cup held in Uruguay?
    Only four European countries made the trip to South America for the competition: France, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Belgium.
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