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Winning Words (World Cup Championship Games)

Read each sentence and guess which team won the World Cup championship game.
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Which team won?

  1. In 1998, France shutout Brazil 3-0.

  2. In 1994, Italy was edged by Brazil 3-2 on penalty kicks (after extra time).

  3. In 1990, West Germany blanked Argentina 1-0.

  4. In 1986, West Germany was narrowly defeated by Argentina 3-2.

  5. In 1982, Italy topped West Germany by a score of 3-1.

  6. In 1978, Argentina downed Holland 3-1.

  7. In 1974, West Germany nipped Holland 2-1.

  8. In 1970, Italy was crushed by Brazil 4-1.

  9. In 1966, West Germany was routed by England 4-2.

  10. In 1962, Brazil bested Czechoslovakia 3-1.

  11. In 1958, Sweden was trounced by Brazil 5-2.

  12. In 1954, West Germany topped Hungary 3-2.

  13. In 1950, Uruguay outpointed Brazil and Sweden in group play.

  14. In 1938, Hungary was beaten 4-2 by Italy.

  15. In 1934, Italy won 2-1 over Czechoslovakia.

  16. In 1930, Argentina lost to Uruguay 4-2.

Copyright (C) 2002 Nevitt Reagan
This quiz is part of the HTML-Only Self-Study Quizzes which is part of Activities for ESL Students, a project by The Internet TESL Journal.