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Quiz I
- Who in 1979 became Britain's first one million pound football player?
- Who was the first snooker player to score a maximum 147 break in the World Snooker Championships?
- Sue Brown was the first woman to participate in which sporting event?
- In rugby, which player was the first man to reach 100 international caps? (And he did it in an era when winning 50 was a huge achievement.)
- Who was the first player to be sent off in an FA Cup Final?
- Which city was the first to host the Summer Olympic Games in the southern hemisphere?
- Which track and field athlete became the first woman to win four Olympic gold medals, and the first one to do so in a single games?
- Which country won the first World Cup final settled by a penalty shoot-out?
- Which country were the first ever winners of football's World Cup?
- Which female gymnast was the first to score a perfect 10 in the Olympic Games?
- Which football team became the first British team to win the European Cup?
- Can you name the first athlete to run the 100 metres in under 9.80 seconds?
- Who was the first winner of the European Footballer of the Year award?
- In which year was the first Super Bowl held?
- Who was the first athelete to pole vault over 19 feet?
- Which American jockey became the first ever to ride the winners of both the Kentucky Derby and the Epsom Derby?
- Name the first bowler to take over 400 Test match wickets?
- We need a year and city. At which Olympic Games did women compete for the first time?
- Can you name the world's first purpose-built 'banked' motor racing circuit?
- Which tennis player, male or female, became the first to achieve the grand slam, winning all four majors in the same year?
- Which footballer was the first to win 100 caps for England?
- Which cricketer was the first player to achieve the double triple, with a total of more than 3000 runs and 300 wickets in Test cricket?
- Who is the first British woman to run 100m in under 11 seconds?
- Can you name first British female to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field?
- Who was the first recorded person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aids?
- In 1976 Blackburn's Dave Wagstaffe the first football player to receive what, in the English game?
Answers:
- Trevor Francis
- Cliff Thorburn
- The University Boat Race
- Philippe Sella (France)
- Kevin Moran (for Man Utd - he committed a professional foul on Everton's Peter Reid)
- Melbourne (1956)
- Fanny Blankers-Koen (at the London Olympics of 1948)
- Brazil (1994)
- Uruguay
- Nadia Comaneci (in 1976)
- Celtic
- Maurice Greene
- Sir Stanley Matthews
- 1967
- Sergey Bubka
- Steve Cauthen (1985)
- Richard Hadlee
- 1900 in Paris
- Brooklands
- Donald Budge
- Billy Wright
- Ian Botham
- Dina Asher-Smith
- Mary Rand
- Captain Matthew Webb
- A red card