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| 1. | Beginning in 1927, who won the first 15 professional world snooker championships? |
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Joe Davies (1927–1940, 1946) | |
| 2. | In 1991, who was the last German to win a Wimbledon gentlemen's singles final? |
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Michael Stich | |
| 3. | What city is host to the Australian soccer club nicknamed The Roar? |
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Brisbane | |
| 4. | What jockey famously rode all seven winners on British Champions' Day at Ascot in 1996? |
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Frankie Dettori | |
| 5. | Numbered 6 and 7, what 'F' describes the positions that exist in rugby union, but not in rugby league? |
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Flanker (aka breakaway, flank, and flank forward) | |
| 6. | What Wales and British and Irish Lions international rugby union player holds the record as the most capped player for Wales and the fourth most-capped player in rugby union history? |
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Gethin Jenkins | |
| 7. | In most countries, what colour sign is used to indicate the easiest ski slopes (Learning or Beginner)? |
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Green | |
| 8. | Placed second and third at the Brazilian Grand Prix, which two drivers were awarded their first Formula One podiums on Sunday? |
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Pierre Gasly and Carlos Sainz Jr. (Toro Rosso and McLaren) | |
| 9. | For what athletic event was the world record set at 3 hours 32 minutes and 33 seconds in 2014? |
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50 kilometres race walk (Yohann Diniz) | |
| 10. | In tennis, who lost the men's and women's singles finals at the 2023 French Open this week? |
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Casper Ruud & Karolína Muchová (to Novak Djokovic and Iga Świątek) | |
| 11. | What 'S' describes the ball used in the Gaelic games of hurling, camogie, and rounders? |
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Sliotar / Sliothar | |
| 12. | In what month is Australia's major thoroughbred horse race, the Melbourne Cup, held? |
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November (3pm (daylight saving time) on the first Tuesday in November) | |
| 13. | Known around the NFL as "Sweetness", what American football running back played for the Chicago Bears for thirteen seasons between 1975 and 1987? |
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Walter Payton | |
| 14. | What water sport has been approved to make its debut in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo? |
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Surfing | |
| 15. | In Olympic boxing, what two colours are opposing competitors' gloves, headgear and uniform? |
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Red and Blue | |
| 16. | In rugby union, the initiation of a scrum is verbally coordinated by the referee calling out what three words? |
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Crouch, Bind, Set (formerly 'crouch, touch, pause, engage' before 2013 and 'crouch and hold, engage' before 2007) | |
| 17. | Bruce Rioch, Stewart Houston, Pat Rice. Who comes next? |
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Arsène Wenger (most recent managers of Arsenal football club) | |
| 18. | Whose steely demeanour on court earned her the nickname the "Ice Maiden" of tennis. |
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Chris Evert | |
| 19. | What were the first names and family name of the British father and son who both held world land and water speed records during the 20th century? |
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Malcolm and Donald Campbell | |
| 20. | What 'S' is the official nickname of Australia's national soccer team? |
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Socceroos | |
| 21. | In what New Zealand city is the Highlanders Super Rugby team based? |
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Dunedin | |
| 22. | In thoroughbred horse racing, conducted by the Victoria Racing Club, on what course in Australia is the Melbourne Cup run? |
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Flemington Racecourse | |
| 23. | Achieved between 1969 and 1989, who is the NBA's all-time leader in points scored (38,387), field goals made (15,837), and career wins (1,074)? |
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | |
| 24. | In what year did Roger Bannister become the first to break the 4-minute mile? |
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1954 (3 minutes and 59.4 seconds) | |
| 25. | What nationality is Formula One racing driver Pastor Maldonado? |
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Venezuelan | |
| 26. | In which Italian city do soccer team Juventus play their home games? |
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Turin | |
| 27. | Set in 1999 at 43.18 seconds, who holds the world and Olympic records in the men's 400 metres? |
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Michael Johnson | |
| 28. | Who was the last host nation to win the FIFA World Cup? |
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France (1998) | |
| 29. | In what sport did Hank Aaron excel between 1954 and 1976? |
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Baseball | |
| 30. | Including the doubling cube, how many dice are there in a backgammon set? |
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5 | |
| 31. | 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 | |
| 32. | Complete the name of this NFL team: ____ ____ Buccaneers. |
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Tampa Bay | |
| 33. | What nationality is Formula 1 Red Bull racing driver Daniel Ricciardo? |
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Australian | |
| 34. | The most decorated Olympian of all time, how many Olympic gold medals has Michael Phelps won? |
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18 (22 medals in total) | |
| 35. | In women's tennis in the 1980s, what doubles team won an all time record 79 titles? |
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Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver | |
| 36. | How many players are there in a Canadian Football team? |
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12 | |
| 37. | What promising 19-year-old lit the Olympic Flame at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne and, between 1965 and 1968, broke eight different world records? |
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Ron Clarke (5000 m, 10000 m, 20000 m, 1 hour, 2 miles, 3 miles, 6 miles, 10 miles) | |
| 38. | Which country has won the FIFA World Cup final four times, in 1934, 1938, 1982, and 2006? |
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Italy | |
| 39. | Which domestic football club did Jackie Charlton play for between 1950 and 1973? |
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Leeds United | |
| 40. | Who were awarded best male player and best men's coach at the Best FIFA Football Awards 2019 last night? |
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Lionel Messi & Jurgen Klopp | |
| 41. | In a set of 16 chess pieces, how many can capture a piece by moving forwards in a straight line? |
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4 (1 x King, 1 x Queen and 2 x Rooks) | |
| 42. | 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 | |
| 43. | What U.S. city is home to the "Royals" Major League Baseball team? |
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Kansas City (Missouri) | |
| 44. | Which country both hosted and won the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930? |
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Uruguay | |
| 45. | The Hills Golf Club, Clearwater Golf Club, and Millbrook Resort are among recent hosts of what annual golf competition? |
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New Zealand Open | |
| 46. | Who was awarded Most Valuable Player at the 2023 Super Bowl on Sunday? |
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Patrick Mahomes (Kansas City Chiefs quarterback) | |
| 47. | How tall, in inches, is a regulation ten-pin bowling pin? |
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15 | |
| 48. | Nine of the top ten all-time Premier League goalscorers are English. In 5th place, who is the only non-English player in the top 10? |
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Thierry Henry (Arsenal / France) | |
| 49. | Which well known sportsman's first names are Eldrick Tont? |
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"Tiger" Woods | |
| 50. | Who was stabbed during a Citizen Cup singles quarter final match with Magdalena Maleeva in 1993? |
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Monica Seles (by an obsessed fan of Steffi Graf, Günter Parche) | |
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