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Sports Quiz - Number 3


Questions I

  1. The Sochi Autodrom is home to which country's Grand Prix?
  2. Who won The World Highland Games Championships a record six times?
  3. What jobs did Mike ‘Fluff’ Cowan, Jim ‘Bones’ Mackay and Fanny Sunesson do?
  4. The groundbreaking Stoke Mandeville Games for the Paralyzed in 1948, featured 14 male and 2 female competitors in which sport?
  5. Which former rugby player once called the English RFU committee 'Old Farts'?


  6. Which country's first ever home football international was played at the Racecourse Ground in 1877?
  7. Frankie Fredericks represented which African country in athletics?
  8. In a famous 2006 newspaper article, the then British Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, was photographed playing what sport?
  9. In inches, how big is the diameter of a basketball hoop?
  10. Wladimir Klitschko is a champion boxer from which country?

Answers:

  1. Russia
  2. Geoff Capes
  3. Golf caddies
  4. Archery
  5. Will Carling
  6. Wales
  7. Namibia
  8. Croquet
  9. 18 inches
  10. Ukraine



Quiz Questions II

  1. In horse racing, which is the last of the five classics to be run each year, and its distance is also the longest?
  2. In sport, what is black, 1 inch thick, 3 inches in diameter, and weighs between 5.5 and 6 ounces?
  3. In rugby, which country will the British and Irish Lions tour in 2017?
  4. In the 1995–96 season, who scored 114 goals in 29 games for Everton's under-10s and 11s?
  5. In golf, who won won his first major at the Masters in 2015 and also won the 2015 U.S. Open?
  6. In feet, how high is a basketball hoop?
  7. What nationality is tennis player Novak Djokovic?
  8. In 1971, what team did Kevin Keegan joined Liverpool from?
  9. Jan-Ove Waldner, Zhang Jike and Deng Yaping have been noteable players in which sport?
  10. Which jockey won the Investec Derby in 2015 on Golden Horn?

Answers:

  1. St Leger
  2. Ice Hockey Puck
  3. New Zealand
  4. Wayne Rooney
  5. Jordan Spieth
  6. 10 feet
  7. Serbian
  8. Scunthorpe United
  9. Table tennis
  10. Frankie Dettori



Quiz III

  1. Name the European club David Beckham ended his career with?
  2. In golf, over how many holes is The Open Championship contested?
  3. In cricket, how many matches generally make up an Ashes Test series?
  4. Which 100/1 outsider won the 2009 Grand National?
  5. The San Siro Stadium is in which Italian city?
  6. The Eclipse Stakes is run at which racecourse?
  7. In American Football which famous Miami Dolphins quarterback retired in 2000?
  8. Sixways Stadium is the home ground of which English Premiership rugby union team?
  9. In which athletic event did Bruce Jenner win the gold medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics?
  10. Who won the men's single at Wimbledon in 1985 at the age of just 17?

Answers:

  1. Paris Saint-Germain





  2. 72 (4 rounds of 18)
  3. Five
  4. Mon Mome
  5. Milan
  6. Sandown
  7. Dan Marino
  8. Worcester Warriors
  9. The Decathlon
  10. Boris Becker