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Answer: Uruguay

Uruguay hosted the inaugural FIFA World Cup. A mere three stadiums were used: Estadio Centenario, Estadio Pocitos and Estadio Parque Central, all three were in Uruguay's capital, Montevideo (Estadio Pocitos has now been demolished but the other two remain).

The FIFA World Cup has yet to be held in Oceania, let alone Australia itself. England would not host the FIFA World Cup until 1966, and Brazil didn't until 1950.

Answer: Uruguay and Argentina

These two South American footballing giants battled it out in the final after Uruguay defeated Yugoslavia in one semi-final, and Argentina defeated USA in the other. Both semi-finals finished 6-1. England were not a part of FIFA at the time, and therefore were not eligible to take part. Belgium were eliminated in the group stage, losing both their games. Brazil did not make it past the group stage either, finishing second of three teams in Group 2.

Answer: Uruguay

Uruguay defeated Argentina 4-2 in the final. Pablo Dorado gave the hosts the lead after 12 minutes, but in the 20th minute, Carlos Peucelle equalised for Argentina. Guillermo Stabile gave the eventual runners-up the lead in the 37th minute, but 3 goals coming from Pedro Cea, Santos Iriarte and Hector Castro, coming respectively in the 57th, 68th and 89th minutes. Yugoslavia lost 1-6 to Uruguay at the semi-final stage, the USA lost to Argentina in the other semi, and Brazil did not make it past the group stage.

Answer: Guillermo Stabile (Argentina) with 8

Guillermo Stabile of Argentina netted an impressive 8 goals throughout the tournament: a hat-trick in their Group Stage 6-3 victory over Mexico, 2 goals against Chile in the Group Stage (a 3-1 victory for Argentina), two in the semi-final 6-1 victory over USA and one in the final against Uruguay. Carlos Peucelle was also Argentinian and he finished the tournament with 3 goals: 2 in their semi-final match and 1 in the final. American Jim Brown scored just 1, and that was USA's only goal in their crushing semi-final defeat at the hands of Argentina. Yugoslavia's Ivan Bek scored 3 goals: one in the 2-1 victory over Brazil in the group stage and two against Bolivia in the group stage.

Answer: Argentina vs. Mexico

The game produced a staggering 9 goals as the group stage encounter ended Argentina v Mexico 6-3. The scorers being Mexican Manuel Rosas with 2, Mexican Roberto Gayon with 1, Argentinian Guillermo Stabile with a hat-trick, Argentinian Adolfo Zumelzu with 2 and Argentinian Fransisco Varallo with 1.

Answer: Milutin Ivkovic

The Yugoslavian defender earned a place in the journalist-and-expert-chosen "Dream Team" of the 1930 FIFA World Cup. The others were Uruguayan goalkeeper Enrique Ballesteros, Uruguayan defender Jose Nasazzi, Argentian midfielder Luis Monti, Uruguyan midfielder Alvaro Gestido, Uruguayan midfielder Jose Andrade, Uruguayan forward Pedro Cea, Uruguayan forward Hector Castro, Uruguayan forward Hector Scarone, Argentinian forward Guillermo Stabile, and American forward Bert Patenaude.

Answer: Guillermo Stabile

Guillermo Stabile of Argentina scored a hat-trick on 19th July 1930 in a 6-3 Group Stage victory over Mexico. Uruguayan Pedro Cea also scored a hat-trick in the 6-1 semi-final win over Yugoslavia. Hector Castro finished the tournament with 2 goals (1 in the final and 1 in the 1-0 Group Stage victory over Peru).

There was some dispute as to whether Bert Patenaude scored a hat-trick or not on July 17th in a 3-0 Group Stage win over Paraguay (some sources credited one of the goals as an own goal by Aurelio Gonzalez). Patenaude's milestone was officially recognised by FIFA as the first hat-trick in World Cup history on 10th November 2006, 76 years later, when Florie's goal was re-attributed to Patenaude. FIFA cited 'evidence from various historians and football fans, as well as lengthy research and confirmation from the US Soccer Federation.

Answer: 70

That comes to an average of 3.889 goals a match. Guillermo Stabile scored 5.6% of these with 8.

Answer: There was no third-place play-off

The 1930 FIFA World Cup did not have a third-place play-off.

Answer: 3:30 PM

It was played on 30th July 1930; the 1930 FIFA World Cup Final and it kicked off at 3:30 in the afternoon. There was a small amount of controversy leading up to the final due to the dispute as to whether Argentina or Uruguay would provide the match ball for the match, eventually FIFA decreed that Argentina would provide it for the first half, and then Uruguay would provide it for the second.