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1. | Whose previous 200m world record was beaten by Usain Bolt in August 2008? |
2. | What name is given to the handles on a pommel horse? |
3. | What sport is played by the Melbourne Storm? |
4. | Which country holds the dubious record for the fewest runs scored in a completed innings during a test match? |
5. | In rugby union, what three countries are currently competing in the 2020 Tri Nations Series? |
6. | In horse racing, where is the Happy Valley Racecourse? |
7. | The Bell Centre is home to what National Hockey League team? |
8. | In which sport might you perform a Rudolph and a Randolph? |
9. | What is the name of the belt awarded to British boxing champions? |
10. | Between 1993 and 2004, Mark Foster was six times World Champion in what sport? |
11. | In the video game world, what titular character battles with the evil mad scientist, Doctor Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik? |
12. | In boxing and Muay Thai, with a weight limit of 168 pounds, what comes between Middleweight and Light Heavyweight? |
13. | How many players are on the field at one time in an American Football team? |
14. | Which is the only baseball team outside the U.S. to have ever won the World Series? |
15. | What's the most travelled sports team in the world? |
16. | What two Italian tennis players were named Women's Doubles World Champions for three consecutive years from 2012 to 2014? |
17. | Tennis' third "Battle of the Sexes" took place in 1992 over the best of three sets. Dubbed "The Battle of Champions", which two players competed? |
18. | Which professional football club has this as its logo? |
19. | FINA is is the international governing body of what sport? |
20. | The Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE) is the international governing body of what sport? |
21. | Unable to walk until she was 11, which American sprinter won 3 gold medals at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, earning her the nicknames "Tornado" and "the fastest woman on earth". |
22. | Since 1975, Australia have won seven out of eight Rugby League World Cup competitions. Who won the other? |
23. | Name the four teams competing in the semi-finals of the FIFA Women's World Cup this week? |
24. | In Rugby Union, between 1982 and 1996, who was capped by the Wallabies 101 times and holds the record for the most test match tries (64) for Australia? |
25. | The Vicente Calderón Stadium is home to what association football club? |
26. | When he defeated Jack Sharkey by disqualification on 12th June 1930, who became the first and only German to win the world heavyweight boxing title? |
27. | Where do Warwickshire County Cricket Club play their home games? |
28. | Driving for Ferrari, who won his only Formula One World Driver's Championship in 2007? |
29. | How many segments are there on a dartboard? |
30. | Nicknamed 'The Cake Tin' or 'The Ring of Fire', Westpac Stadium is a major sporting venue in what capital city? |
31. | The Spanish term El Clásico is used to describe any match between which two football clubs? |
32. | Playing between 1959 and 1973, what American basketball player was nicknamed "The Big Dipper"? |
33. | In what year were the Winter Olympics played just two years after the previous games, marking the start of the Summer and Winter games being separated into alternating even-numbered years? |
34. | What Major League Soccer team are nicknamed the "Quakes"? |
35. | In 1948, which country hosted the first Summer Olympic Games after World War II? |
36. | In golf, what word is used to describe a score of three under par? |
37. | Which is the first of the four major golf championships contested in any given calendar year? |
38. | In a feat labelled "The Love Double", who was Jimmy Connors' fiancée when they both won Wimbledon in 1974? |
39. | Rosenborg Ballklub, commonly referred to simply as Rosenborg or RBK, is a professional football club based in what Norwegian city? |
40. | What is the current maximum engine size in the MotoGP class of Grand Prix motorcycle racing? |
41. | Who was the last German to be ranked World Number 1 by the Women's Tennis Association? |
42. | What Formula One racing driver worked for McLaren, Renault, Ferrari and Williams between 1980 and 1993, winning the Drivers' Championship four times? |
43. | Between shot put and triple jump, which world record is the most in metres? |
44. | Name the two players awarded the Golden Ball (best player) and Golden Glove (best goalkeeper) at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Finals. |
45. | Name the American track and field athlete who won 122 consecutive races and set four world records in the same event between 1977 and 1987. |
46. | Of what country is this the administrator of association football? |
47. | Which Formula 1 driver won the first of his four World Championships in 1985? |
48. | What 18-a-side ball game is played on an oval pitch? |
49. | In Scrabble, without using any double or triple squares, how many points would you get from the word QUIZ? |
50. | In a baseball career spanning 21 seasons from 1967 to 1987, who was nicknamed "Mr. October"? |
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