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Quiz 75 - General Sport - Answers

Back to Sport with another selection of sports and 
as usual also a selection of difficult questions and easier ones.
I would say that overall this is a toughie so
the pass mark is down to 4 out of 10.
Now there's a challenge! 
Best of Luck.

 

1.

In 2014 cycling's Tour de France started in England with the first stage starting in which city?
Leeds


2.

Virginia Wade was Wimbledon champion, Geoff Boycott scored his 100th hundred at Headingley, Red Rum won the Grand National for the third time and Liverpool won the European Cup for the first time. All in the same year - which year?
1977


3.


The 'Brylcreem Boy'  - pictured alongside - was a bit of an all-rounder. He was a top cricketer and footballer and later a BBC TV commentator. Name him.
Denis Compton

4.

Prince Alexander Obolensky was an England international at which sport in the 1930s?
Rugby Union

 


5.


Which stadium hosted the opening ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games?
Celtic Park in Glasgow


 

6. In the 1970s Jonah Barrington and Geoff Hunt competed against each other many times when leading players in which sport?
Squash


7.

Which British sporting venue is pictured below?  (2006 photo)
Ascot racecourse


8.

Paul Kaye and Johnny Vegas were members of the cast in the 2003 film Blackball which was based on a story-line about which sport?
Bowls

 

9.


Name the Australian golfer nicknamed 'The Great White Shark'? 
Greg Norman



10.


Which British sportswoman give birth to her first child - a daughter named Isla - in Monaco in January 2007?
Paula Radcliffe


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