PowerPin Rugby #7 answers
Saturday, 17 October 2026
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Where did Australia become the first team to win two World Cups, in 1999?
Answer: Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Australia beat France 35–12 in the first final at the new stadium, built on the site of the old National Stadium at Cardiff Arms Park.
Where did Japan beat Scotland 28–21 to top their pool at the 2019 World Cup?
Answer: International Stadium Yokohama, Japan
The game went ahead a day after Typhoon Hagibis hit Japan. It sent Japan into their first World Cup quarter-final.
An earthquake stripped this ground of its 2011 World Cup matches. Where was it?
Answer: Lancaster Park, Christchurch
The February 2011 earthquake damaged the stadium beyond use. Its seven World Cup games were moved elsewhere and it was later demolished.
Rugby union is the national sport of which island country, whose capital hosts huge crowds for tests?
Answer: Antananarivo, Madagascar
Madagascar's team is nicknamed the Makis, after the ring-tailed lemur. Crowds of tens of thousands turn up for big games.
Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus grew up in which small town near Gqeberha?
Answer: Despatch, Eastern Cape
Erasmus played 36 tests as a flanker before coaching South Africa to World Cup wins in 2019 and 2023.