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This World Cup quiz is for soccer nerds
Updated June 5, 2026 – 8:17 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
“Eleven friends have to be yours,” Sepp Herberger is said to have once said. The aim here is to answer eleven questions – about the biggest curiosities and scandals in World Cup history. Can they all transform?
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Where does the term “quiz” come from?
The word “quiz” comes from English. There are different theories about the exact origin of the word. A rather unlikely theory goes back to the Irish theater director Richard Daly. He is said to have bet that he could add a new word to the English language and invented the word “quiz” for this purpose.
Another theory suggests that the term comes from the Latin question “Quis es?” (in German: “Who are you?”) comes from. The most common theory is that “Quiz” is an abbreviation of the English word “question”.
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