Quiz 18 - Sporting Cities

So how do you think you did..... 

10 correct
You obviously know your way around the bright lights.

7, 8 or 9 correct
Excellent, well above average.

4, 5 or 6 correct
A good attempt

1, 2 or 3 correct
Not so good, below the pass mark.

0 correct
OK, so you live in a village miles from any city I guess!

Grace Road, Welford Road and Filbert Street are important addresses in the sporting heritage of which British city?
Leicester - Grace Road is the home of Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Welford Road is the home of Leicester Tigers Rugby Club and Filbert Street is the former home of Leicester City FC - Leicester City League history

2.

Which city hosted the Commonwealth games in both 1970 and 1986? 
Edinburgh 

Pictured are three famous sporting venues in an English city - which one is at the top of the picture?
The Meadow Lane home of Notts County (the middle one is Nottingham Forest's City Ground and the bottom Trent Bridge - the home of Nottinghamshire County Cricket club)

Which is the only city in the world to host both the Olympics and Commonwealth/Empire Games, host a cricket World Cup final and one of the four Tennis 'Grand Slam' tournaments and stage a F1 street-circuit Grand Prix?
Melbourne (London hasn't managed the Grand Prix)

In the 1969/70 season which Football League club had to change its name from 'Town' to 'City' when its home town was elevated to city status?
Swansea City who were Swansea Town up to February 1970

 

Which British city made unsuccessful bids to host the 1996 and 2000 Olympics?
Manchester

An aerial photo of the two closest major football stadiums in Britain - where?
Dundee - Dundee FC (Dens Park) at the top and Dundee United (Tannadice) at the bottom.

With which American city do you associate the Bruins (ice hockey), Patriots (American football) and the Red Sox (baseball)?
Boston

Gordon Banks, Jessica Ennis, Naseem Hamed, Uriah Rennie and Neil Warnock would seem a fairly random group of sportspeople but they have one thing in common - they were all born in the same city. Which city?
Sheffield

Which is the most northerly city to have staged a football World Cup final?
Stockholm (in 1958)

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