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| 1. | What nationality is professional golfer Minjee Lee? |
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Australian | |
| 2. | What was unique about the outcome of rugby union's 1973 Five Nations Championship? |
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Five-way tie (Each won their home games and lost their away games; no further tie-break was applied to separate teams finishing level on match points) | |
| 3. | What is the name of the golf trophy contested in odd-numbered years between male amateur golfers in two teams: United States, and Great Britain and Ireland? |
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Walker Cup | |
| 4. | What is the first event in the women's heptathlon? |
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100m hurdles | |
| 5. | Norwich City and Watford have already been relegated from the Premier League this season. Which three teams are, mathematically, still in danger of the third relegation position? |
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Burnley, Everton, and Leeds | |
| 6. | In football: Juventus of Italy are La Vecchia Signora; UT Arad of Romania are Bătrâna Doamnă. What do those nicknames both translate to in English? |
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The Old Lady | |
| 7. | Set by Mike Powell (USA) in 1991, to the nearest metre, what is the men's long jump world record? |
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9 (8.95 m) | |
| 8. | What ''A" is the national martial art of the Philippines? |
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Arnis | |
| 9. | What is the name of the NBA basketball team based in Houston, Texas? |
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Houston Rockets | |
| 10. | In what American city did the Chicago Cubs win the 2016 World Series? |
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Cleveland (Game 7 at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio) | |
| 11. | What is the maximum permitted weight, in ounces, of a standard ice hockey puck? |
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6 (between 5½ and 6 ounces) | |
| 12. | NBA free agent LeBron James announced on Sunday that he is to sign a four-year, US$154 million contract with what basketball team? |
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Los Angeles Lakers | |
| 13. | Which American golfer is often referred to as Supermex? |
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Lee Trevino | |
| 14. | Martina Navratilova was granted U.S. citizenship in 1981, but in what European capital city was she born? |
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Prague | |
| 15. | In association football, who were the first British team to win the European Cup? |
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Celtic (1967. Manchester United won it in 1968.) | |
| 16. | In July 1939, what New York Yankees player became the first to have his number retired by an MLB team? |
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Lou Gehrig | |
| 17. | What Olympic sport prohibits the wearing of a beard? |
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Boxing | |
| 18. | What team has spent the most consecutive seasons in the top-flight of English football (1919-present)? |
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Arsenal | |
| 19. | Before retiring in 1977, who amassed more Grand Slam singles titles than any other tennis player, male or female, in history? |
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Margaret Court (24) | |
| 20. | In 1991, who was the last German to win a Wimbledon gentlemen's singles final? |
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Michael Stich | |
| 21. | Name the 22-year-old Formula Two driver killed in an accident at the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday. |
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Anthoine Hubert | |
| 22. | Which Olympic athletic event covers the longest distance? |
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50km Walk | |
| 23. | In Association football, name the current leaders of Ligue 1 (France), the Bundesliga (Germany), Serie A (Italy), and La Liga (Spain). |
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Paris Saint-Germain, RB Leipzig, Inter Milan, Barcelona | |
| 24. | In the game of Operation, what object is located in the patient's stomach? |
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Butterfly (Butterflies in Stomach) | |
| 25. | What Swedish sportsman is nicknamed "the Mozart of table tennis"? |
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Jan-Ove Waldner | |
| 26. | One of the most exciting figures in basketball during the 1970s and 1980s, who is nicknamed Dr. J? |
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Julius Erving | |
| 27. | What British doctor and athlete was the first to break the four-minute mile? |
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Roger Bannister | |
| 28. | What name is given to this structure of two concave ramps used in gravity extreme sports such as snowboarding, skateboarding, skiing, freestyle BMX, and skating? |
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Half-pipe | |
| 29. | What sport is played in Australia's Big Bash League? |
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Cricket (Twenty20) | |
| 30. | In Australian Rules Football and Rugby league, what 'F' describes being hit by the ball in the face or head? |
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Falcon (So called in honour of a famous incident involving the face of Rugby League player Mario Fenech, nicknamed the Maltese Falcon because of his Maltese background. ) | |
| 31. | Who won the Rugby World Cup final in 2015? |
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New Zealand | |
| 32. | What four-letter acronym describes the international governing body for basketball? |
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FIBA (Fédération Internationale de Basket-ball) | |
| 33. | In what year was the baseball World Series cancelled because of a players' strike? |
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1994 | |
| 34. | Who did Alex Ferguson succeed as Manchester United manager in 1986? |
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Ron Atkinson | |
| 35. | Amid boos from the crowd, who won the men's 100 m final at the 2017 Athletics World Championships in London on Saturday? |
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Justin Gatlin (USA) | |
| 36. | What football team lost both the 1982 and 1986 FIFA World Cup finals? |
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West Germany (losing to Italy in 1982 and Argentina in 1986) | |
| 37. | When referencing American football positions, what do the letters ROLB stand for? |
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Right Outside Linebacker | |
| 38. | What is the nickname of the Australia women's national soccer team? |
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Matildas / Tillies | |
| 39. | What sport was the subject of the 1993 best-selling book Rare Air? |
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Basketball (Michael Jordan - Rare Air: Michael on Michael) | |
| 40. | What number shirt has David Beckham worn for both Real Madrid and LA Galaxy? |
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23 (Chosen in admiration of basketball player Michael Jordan) | |
| 41. | How many vacant intersections ("points") are there on a standard Go board? |
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361 (19×19) | |
| 42. | In 2012, who was disqualified from the final of the Queen's Club tennis championship after injuring a line judge? |
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David Nalbandian (Argentina) | |
| 43. | Designated by the 1994 National Sports of Canada Act, what is Canada's National Summer Sport? |
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Lacrosse | |
| 44. | In what sport were Chinese and South Korean athletes disqualified for trying to lose during the 2012 Olympic Games in London? |
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Badminton (having both already qualified in the women's doubles group stage, the losers were likely to have faced an easier opponent in the next round) | |
| 45. | Jan Železný (Czech Republic), Andreas Thorkildsen (Norway) and Keshorn Walcott (Trinidad and Tobago) are all Olympic Gold medal winners at what event? |
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Javelin throw (1992-2012) | |
| 46. | Set in October 1985, East Germany's Marita Koch still holds the world record in which athletics event? |
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400 metres | |
| 47. | What is the only Canadian-based team in the NBA? |
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Toronto Raptors | |
| 48. | Brassie, Spoon, Cleek, Niblick and Mashie are obsolete terms used to describe what item of sports equipment? |
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Golf clubs | |
| 49. | What former heavyweight boxing champion died in a plane crash on 31st August 1969? |
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Rocky Marciano | |
| 50. | In Scrabble, without using any double or triple squares, how many points would you get from the word QUIZ? |
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22 (10+1+1+10) | |
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