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Quiz 76 -
Sporting Family Connections - Answers
I seriously thought about
starting this quiz with a question
linking me with my only nationally famous relative - a
former test cricketer (of many years ago!).
But then nobody will ever have heard of him
and nobody knows me so 10 proper questions instead!
But you won't get questions 9 or 10 right.
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1.
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What is the surname of the Canadian
father and son, Gilles and Jacques, of F1 motor racing fame?
Villeneuve
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2.
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Gary and Phil Neville are
reasonably well known
as England international footballers but their sister
Tracey is a past England international international in which sport?
Netball. Their Dad - Neville
Neville (I jest not!) - was also a decent cricketer
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Suzanne Packer (right) is perhaps best known
in her role as Tess Bateman in the BBC series Casualty. Name her
younger brother who once won an Olympic medal.
Hurdler Colin Jackson
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Mum won the European 3 day
equestrian event gold medal in 1971 and her daughter won the same title in
2005. Name them.
Princess Anne & Zara Phillips
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In July
1999 a member of a group whose hits included Goodbye, Viva Forever
and 2 Become 1 married an English sportsperson. Name the couple.
David
Beckham and the then Victoria Adams of the Spice Girls
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The son of
a very famous footballer won the Wimbledon junior boys tennis championship
in 1962. Father and son shared the same name, which was...?
Stanley Matthews
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Brothers have often played
together for the same country but at the 2010 World Cup Finals in South
Africa and again at the 2014 finals in Brazil two brothers played in the
same match - but for opposing sides. Kevin-Prince Boateng played for
Ghana and was up against his brother Jerome Boateng who was playing for
which country?
Germany
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Dad played
in the 1971 European Cup Final at Wembley and his son played three times at
the same venue in the late 1990s in the Charity Shield. Name the father and
son.
Johan Cruyff (Ajax 1971) and Jodi Cruyff (Manchester United
1997, 1998 and 1999)
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In 1990 an
unlikely – and short-lived – marriage took place when Damon Welch, the son
of actress Raquel Welch, married Rebecca, the daughter of a famous British
sportsman. Which sportsman?
Rebecca Trueman is the
daugther of cricket legend Fred Trueman
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Name the brother and sister tennis partnership
from Zimbabwe who won the 2004
mixed doubles title at Wimbledon.
Wayne and Cara Black
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