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| 1. | Competing from 1993 to 2008, what former professional boxer is nicknamed "The Pride of Wales" and the "Italian Dragon"? |
| 2. | What is the name of this trophy, presented by the National Hockey League to the team that finishes with the most points during the NHL regular season? |
| 3. | What Spanish professional golfer is nicknamed "El Niño"? |
| 4. | The modern pentathlon includes fencing, 200m freestyle swimming, pistol shooting, a 3200m cross-country run, and what else? |
| 5. | In what athletics event has Jürgen Schult of East Germany held the men's world record since 6th June 1986? |
| 6. | What is the only football club to have won the European Cup/UEFA Champions League more times than they have won their domestic top-flight league championship? |
| 7. | Which well known singer played in goal for Real Madrid's youth team until a car accident ended his football career in 1963? |
| 8. | How old was Boris Becker in 1985 when he became the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles title at Wimbledon? |
| 9. | What sportsman did Swedish-born Elin Nordegren divorce in 2010? |
| 10. | Which Dutch athlete from the mid-20th century was nicknamed "the Flying Housewife"? |
| 11. | What Olympic first did Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall "achieve" in 1968? |
| 12. | Name the two athletes who famously collided during the women's 3,000m at the LA Olympics on this day, 10th August 1984. |
| 13. | In the Tour de France, what English title is given to the cyclist awarded the maillot à pois rouges, a white jersey with red polka dots? |
| 14. | Who won all of the men's speed skating races, an unprecedented five individual gold medals, and set four Olympic records and one world record at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York? |
| 15. | What professional boxer is nicknamed "The Gypsy King"? |
| 16. | How many times did Muhammad Ali fight Joe Frazier? |
| 17. | Who beat the United States on penalties to win the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Final? |
| 18. | Which Olympic sport has a playing area of 9 ft by 5 ft? |
| 19. | What is the maximum permitted weight, in ounces, of a standard ice hockey puck? |
| 20. | Which former heavyweight boxer holds triple nationality; Hungarian, British and Australian? |
| 21. | What city is set to host the 2020 Summer Olympics? |
| 22. | What vehicle manufacturer won the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans on Sunday? |
| 23. | Which is the first of the four major golf championships contested in any given calendar year? |
| 24. | Who made headlines at Wimbledon in 2019 when, at the age of 15, she beat Venus Williams? |
| 25. | Who was named the Most Valuable Player of the 2020 World Series last week? |
| 26. | What top-flight New Zealand Rugby Union team are called the Lions? |
| 27. | What European capital city was the birthplace of Martina Navratilova in 1956? |
| 28. | The most successful professional doubles tennis players of all time, what is the surname of American identical twin brothers Bob and Mike? |
| 29. | Old Father Time, the Grace Gates, the Nursery End, and the Pavilion End are all features of what well known sporting venue? |
| 30. | In what sport is the Melbourne Cup competed annually on the first Tuesday of November? |
| 31. | In women's tennis in the 1980s, what doubles team won an all time record 79 titles? |
| 32. | Keke Rosberg, Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet and Riccardo Patrese all raced at one time or another for which Formula 1 team during the 1980s? |
| 33. | In the UK, for Premier League games not picked for regular TV coverage, a pay-per-view model was introduced this week. Controversially, how much is being charged to watch a single game? |
| 34. | The distance between the wickets, what is the length, in yards, of a cricket pitch? |
| 35. | Running in the 100 metres and 200 metres, he won four silver medals at the Olympic Games (two in 1992 and two in 1996), making him Namibia's first and only ever Olympic medallist. Name him. |
| 36. | Who famously lost a six shot lead to finish second to Nick Faldo in the 1996 Masters Tournament at Augusta, Georgia? |
| 37. | On which Paris racecourse is the annual Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe run? |
| 38. | How many balls are used in a standard game of English billiards? |
| 39. | Dump, floater and wipe are terms used in what team sport? |
| 40. | In what year did Diego Maradona score his "Hand of God" goal against England? |
| 41. | Under international rules, what sport has a playing surface measuring 28 metres by 15 metres? |
| 42. | What U.S. city is home to the Mariners Major League Baseball team? |
| 43. | In 1922, what Austrian-Hungarian-born American swimmer became the first man to swim 100m in less than 1 minute? |
| 44. | What is the slowest competitive swimming stroke? |
| 45. | In boxing, what weight class comes immediately below heavyweight? |
| 46. | Who, respectively, won the newly created men's and women's rugby sevens competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics? |
| 47. | Rebranded as Washington Football Team in 2020, to what were the former Washington Redskins renamed in 2022? |
| 48. | Who was named Super Bowl LI MVP after the New England Patriots pulled off the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history on Sunday night? |
| 49. | Who is the only Scottish player in history to have won the prestigious European Footballer of the Year award? |
| 50. | Awarded to the winner of the match between England and Scotland during the annual rugby union Six Nations Championship, what animal stands atop the Calcutta Cup? |
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