Quiz 91 - General Sport - Answers

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Wilson Whineray was a very successful past captain of which international sporting team.
The New Zealand All Blacks Rugby Union side

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Prior to the 2004 Athens games which was the previous capital city to host the Olympic Games? 
1988 Seoul, South Korea

Deputy Chief of Police Patrick Rollins (pictured) may not have been a world-famous sportsman but he did play a significant part in deciding the outcome of which international sporting event in 2012?
The 2012 Ryder Cup - after Rory McIlroy mixed up his tee off times Rollins rushed the Irishman to the course in his police car to prevent him from being disqualified, a disqualification would have lost Europe the Ryder Cup

Which club knocked out Champions League holders Liverpool out of the 2019/20 competition?
Atletico Madrid

Which Motor Racing Circuit hosted the British F1 Grand Prix five times - in 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961 and 1962?
Aintree

Back in 2015 which British sportsman, who had failed a test for the banned steroid nandrolone, claimed that the steroid had entered his system when he innocently ate a natural source of the banned substance - uncastrated wild boar?
Boxer Tyson Fury
 

Gold letter boxes started to appear up and down the country to mark the medal achievements of our Olympic and Paralympic winners in 2012. This one was found in Aldridge to mark the achievement of which Paralympian who had won 4 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze in London to add to the two golds won in Beijing in 2008.
Swimmer Ellie Simmonds

Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan said ‘Today I laid a golden egg’ when she did in 15 minutes at Wimbledon in 2012 something that no other player tennis player had ever done before in a grand slam tournament. What?
She won a ‘golden set’ – winning a set without dropping a single point, that’s winning 24 consecutive winning points

In 2019 England beat New Zealand to win cricket's World Cup for the first time. But which country was the most unsuccessful side in that competition, losing all the 9 matches they played in?
Afghanistan

Dremiel Byers, Mijain Lopez and Khasan Baroyev are all past world champions in which sport?
Greco-Roman wrestling

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