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| 1. | 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 | |
| 2. | What was the only Central American country to reach the finals of the 2010 FIFA World Cup? |
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Honduras | |
| 3. | With what swimming stroke did Team GB's Adam Peaty break the men's 100m Olympic and World record in Rio de Janeiro in 2016? |
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Breaststroke | |
| 4. | In winter sports, what name is given to a small one- or two-person sled with a face-up and feet-first seating position and no brakes? |
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Luge | |
| 5. | Before moving to Melbourne in 1996, what city's street circuit hosted the Australian Grand Prix from 1985 to 1995? |
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Adelaide | |
| 6. | With how many points did Manchester City win the 2018-19 Premier League season this week? |
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98 | |
| 7. | Old Father Time, the Grace Gates, the Nursery End, and the Pavilion End are all features of what well known sporting venue? |
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Lord's Cricket Ground | |
| 8. | What New Zealand cricketer became the first in the world to pass 400 wickets in 1990? |
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Sir Richard Hadlee | |
| 9. | 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? |
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Nottingham Forest (English First Division 1978 - European Cup 1979,1980) | |
| 10. | Founded in 1900 as the International Lawn Tennis Challenge, by what name is it known today? |
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Davis Cup | |
| 11. | In athletics, what is the shortest distance race for which starting-blocks are NOT used? |
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800 m | |
| 12. | In addition to qualifying in 1974, how many consecutive times have Australia now qualified for the FIFA World Cup? |
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5 (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022) | |
| 13. | What is the name of this Hasbro board game? |
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The Game of Life | |
| 14. | Volleyball, Association Football, Netball. Which of these sports uses the smallest ball in official matches? |
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Volleyball (65–67 cm, 68-70 cm, 68-71 cm) | |
| 15. | Clocked at 105.1 mph (169.1 km/h) on 24th September 2010 while playing for the Cincinnati Reds, who achieved the fastest pitch ever recorded in Major League Baseball? |
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Aroldis Chapman | |
| 16. | Home of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, after which player is the National Tennis Center named? |
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Billie Jean King | |
| 17. | How many times did Red Rum run the Grand National? |
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5 (1st in 1973, 1974 and 1977; 2nd in 1975 and 1976) | |
| 18. | What name is given to a practice by the Australian Rugby Union introduced in 2015 to allow overseas based Australian players to be eligible to play for the Australian national rugby union team? |
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Giteau's law (Named after Matt Giteau. The ruling allowed him to be reselected to the national team after several years' absence.) | |
| 19. | At 263,500, the Circuit de la Sarthe in France is arguably the largest sporting venue in the world in terms of capacity. For what event is it best known? |
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24 Hours of Le Mans | |
| 20. | With what sport are Brendon McCullum and Michael Clarke associated? |
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Cricket (New Zealand and Australia) | |
| 21. | The 32 national teams involved in the 2018 World Cup were each required to register a squad of how many players? |
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23 (including three goalkeepers) | |
| 22. | How many times did Muhammad Ali fight Joe Frazier? |
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3 | |
| 23. | In the Japanese sport of Kendo (剣道), what is the 'shinai' or 'sword' traditionally made from? |
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Bamboo | |
| 24. | 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) | |
| 25. | What sport would you expect to see in a Velodrome? |
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Cycling (track cycling) | |
| 26. | What Australian city is home to the Rebels professional rugby union team? |
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Melbourne | |
| 27. | What American football team won the first ever Superbowl in 1967? |
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Green Bay Packers (beating the Kansas City Chiefs) | |
| 28. | What American former professional baseball player is nicknamed "the Big Hurt"? |
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Frank Thomas | |
| 29. | What country is set to host the 2018 Winter Olympics? |
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South Korea (Pyeongchang) | |
| 30. | In cricket, what two words describe the situation when a batsman is "out" for no runs on the second ball they face?
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Silver Duck | |
| 31. | Who has been sued by Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes, Tim Witherspoon, Mike Tyson, Terry Norris, Lennox Lewis, and Chris Byrd? |
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Don King | |
| 32. | The Baku City Circuit is scheduled to host Formula 1's European Grand Prix from 2016. In what country is it? |
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Azerbaijan | |
| 33. | Michael "Madge" Maguire is Head Coach of what national rugby league team? |
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New Zealand (The Kiwis) | |
| 34. | No social media posts, no denim. What exclusive golf club opened its doors to host the US Open last week? |
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Los Angeles Country Club | |
| 35. | In 2022, who replaced Valtteri Bottas to join Lewis Hamilton in the Mercedes F1 team? |
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George Russell | |
| 36. | Born in Havana, Cuba in 1958, what American track coach, and former world-class long-distance runner, was banned from athletics in 2019 for 4 years for doping offences? |
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Alberto Salazar | |
| 37. | In women's tennis, at the 2021 US Open, who became the first singles qualifier in the Open Era to win a Grand Slam title, beating Leylah Fernandez in the final without dropping a set in the tournament? |
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Emma Raducanu | |
| 38. | Who became the first man to run a mile in under 4 minutes at Oxford in 1954? |
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Roger Bannister | |
| 39. | Which baseball team suffered the Curse of the Bambino, a superstition evolving from their failure to win the World Series in an 86-year period from 1918 to 2004? |
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Boston Red Sox | |
| 40. | Dominating the first decade of Formula One racing in the 1950s, what nationality was Juan Manuel Fangio? |
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Argentinian | |
| 41. | In Australian football (soccer), who won their first A-League championship in the 2016 Grand Final on Sunday? |
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Adelaide United (beating Western Sydney Wanderers 3–1) | |
| 42. | Determining the continental champion of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean; what is the name of CONCACAF's main national association football competition? |
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Gold Cup | |
| 43. | What fruit stands atop the Wimbledon Gentlemen's Singles trophy? |
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Pineapple | |
| 44. | The cricket teams of what two countries were awarded Test status by the ICC last week? |
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Ireland and Afghanistan | |
| 45. | What major sport was contested in the 2016 Summer Olympics for the first time ever? |
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Rugby Sevens (Golf was added for the first time since 1904) | |
| 46. | In golf, The Big Easy is the nickname of what former World No. 1? |
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Ernie Els (South Africa) | |
| 47. | What's the most travelled sports team in the world? |
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Harlem Globetrotters | |
| 48. | Whose steely demeanour on court earned her the nickname the "Ice Maiden" of tennis. |
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Chris Evert | |
| 49. | Of what country is this the administrator of association football? |
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South Africa | |
| 50. | In May 2012, which Australian broke the record for the fastest recorded tennis serve? |
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Samuel Groth (163.4 mph / 263 km/h) | |
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