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Quiz 26 - General
Sport
Back to Sport again -
let's see how you do with these 10 questions, not the toughest I have set
perhaps.
A mixture of sports and time periods.
A pass mark of 5 out
of 10.
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answers
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Name
the Scottish athlete who won a gold at the 1991 World Championships and
later that year became BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
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2.
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Power
play, shut-out, body-check, face-off and sin-bin are all terms used in
which sport?
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3. |
Who
is pictured alongside?
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Name
the Canadian snooker player who was able to claim the cost of his 20 or so
pints of lager before a match as an expense by the Inland Revenue who
accepted it as a medication for a nerve-related illness.
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5. |
New
Zealanders Ivan Mauger and Barry Briggs are both former world champions in
which sport?
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6. |
In December 2019 Fallon Sherrock hit
the sporting headlines when she became the first woman to defeat
a male darts player at the PDC World Darts Championship. But
less likely to be rembered is who who was the first male to lose
to a female darts player at the PDC Worlds Darts Championship.
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On
Saturday November 2nd 1991 the televising of which sporting event resulted
in nearly half the clubs staging a Football League match that day
recording their lowest gate of the season?
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8. |
Cricket, who was the first bowler to
take 300 Test wickets?
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9. |
Name the sporting stadium pictured below.
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10. |
In
July 2005 who became the first French club to play in the semi-final of
the Rugby League Challenge Cup?
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