Sport Quizzes > Sport Quiz #6
Sport Questions I
- When Princess Ann won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award in 1971 a footballer and rugby player were runners up, can you name both?
- Which English national team was coached by Tracey Neville?
- Which tennis player won the 1976 Ladies French Open title?
- Which rugby player was Player of the Tournament for the 2016 Six Nations Championship?
- How old was Boris Becker when he won Wimbledon for the first time?
- Which former Olymic track cyclist has become a competitive jockey?
- Who told his players; 'You've won it once; go out and win it again'?
- What is former decathlete Daley Thompson's real first name?
- What is the maximum number of clubs that a golfer is allowed to have in his bag?
- In which city did Christopher Dean and Jayne Torvill win gold in 1984?
- Which tennis Grand Slam comes first in the year?
- In which country was the 1974 boxing event the 'Rumble in the Jungle'?
- Which European country has competed in 19 Summer Olympics without winning a gold medal?
- The Stanley Cup is a championship trophy awarded annually in which sport?
Answers:
- George Best and Barry John (2nd and 3rd, respectively)
- Netball
- Sue Barker
- Stuart Hogg
- 17
- Victoria Pendleton
- Sir Alf Ramsey (when the 1966 World Cup Final went to extra time)
- Francis
- 14
- Sarajevo
- Australian (January)
- Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Iceland (Liechtenstein has competed in 16 and have never won a medal of any colour)
- Ice Hockey
Sports Quiz II
- Name the holder of the men's long jump world record?
- Paul Lim, Richie Burnett, Alan Norris and Les Wallace are associated with which sport?
- In which British city did Garry Sobers hit six sixes in an over in 1968?
- The National Football Museum is in which English city?
- Who won Britain's Strongest Man competition in 1980 and 1982 and married American athelete Mary Decker?
- In which year did Dennis Taylor beat Steve Davis to become World Snooker Champion on the final black?
- How many Olympic golds did Jesse Owens win in Berlin in 1936?
- Which former sportsman features in the 2014 western film The Salvation?
- Who was nicknamed The Clones Cyclone?
- Quorum and Mared are imortant to which sporting great?
- Retired American basketball player Larry Bird played his entire career for which team?
- In feet, how long is a table tennis table (a whole number is needed)?
Answers:
- Mike Powell
- Darts
- Swansea
- Manchester
- Richard Slaney
- 1985
- Four
- Eric Cantona
- Barry McGuigan
- Red Rum (sire and dam (parents) of Red Rum - the name Red Rum was taken from the last three letters of Mared and Quorum)
- Boston Celtics
- 9 feet (and 5 feet wide)