Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Which sprinter gained a gold medal in both the 100 and

200 metres at the Olympic Games in LA in 1984? Answer: Carl Lewis Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: How many players are there in a mens lacrosse team? Answer: 10 Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: What is the length of an Olympic swimming pool? Answer: 50 metres Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: What sport was Greg Le Mond famous for? Answer: Cycling Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: White City, in London, was famous for athletics and which other track sport? Answer: Greyhound Racing Category:

Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Seven men have won the Wimbledon singles title who fit the following criteria. Their first and last initial are the same. For example, Robert 'Bobby' Riggs. R R Name the other six. Answer: Tony Trabert, 1955, Stan Smith, 1972, Arthur Ashe, 1975, Bjorn Borg, 1976-80, Boris Becker, 1985 86 89, Andre Agassi, 1992, (Bobby Riggs 1939) Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Name the five persons who have won the Grand Slam in tennis. Answer: Don Budge (1938), Maureen 'little Moe' Connelly (1953), Rod 'the rocket' Laver (1962,1969), Margret Smith Court (1970) and Steffi Graf (1988). Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Since 1968, which country has had the most athletes tested positive for doping at the summer olympics? a. DDR, b. BUL, c. USA, d. CAN Answer: b. BUL Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: What is the lighter weight in boxing, bantam or featherweight? Answer: Featherweight Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Which club did Alex Ferguson leave to go to Man United? Answer: Aberdeen

Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: In what country were the 1992 Olympics held? Answer: Spain Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: What was the name of the first ever golf course? Answer: St Andrews (in Scotland) Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: In soccer, from which two kicks must the ball go forward? Answer: Kick-offs and penalties Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: What is the longest race in mens athletics? Answer: 50 kilometre Walk Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: How many chukkas make up a game of polo? Answer: 6 Question:

Who in the 1959 season scored 127 goals for Santos? Answer: Pele Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: In which sport would a player use a spider? Answer: Snooker Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: In the Tour de France cycle Race, how is the current leader distinguished? Answer: They wear a yellow jersey Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Ice Hockey is played with a small rubber disc what is it called? Answer: Puck Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Which Australian runner broke 11 world records in 1965 yet never won an Olympic Gold Medal? Answer: Ron Clarke Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: A left handed scissors forward crossover is a manoeuvre in which sport?

Answer: Ice Skating Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: In which sport would a participant use a Gaff? Answer: Angling (its a strong lifting hook) Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Which soccer club is nicknamed The Shakers? Answer: Bury Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: The Frankfurter hairdresser Karl Wald invented which nail-biting and sometimes heartbreaking 'punishment' in 1970? Clue if needed, it is a major cause of heart attacks. Answer: The penalty shootout in football after extra time. Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: For which team did Dixie Dean score a record 60 goals in a single season? Answer: Everton Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Which former arsenal footballer also holds the record, set in 1947, of 18 centuries in a single cricket season?

Answer: Denis Compton Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Who captained the winning team in the 1974 football world cup? Answer: Franz Beckenbauer Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: For which club did former England goalkeeper Peter Shilton sign in December 1996? Answer: Leyton Orient Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: What are the periods of play in polo called? Answer: Chukkas Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Who won a tennis 'Golden Slam' in 1988 by winning the singles titles at the Australian, French, Wimbledon and United States tennis championships and winning a gold medal at the Olympic games? Answer: Steffi Graf Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Which American athlete won 4 gold medals at the 1984 Olympic games?

Answer: Carl Lewis Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: There have been some great names over the years in sport. Here's one that stands out, Napoleon Einstein ! Fear, power and genius in one name. In which sport is Napoleon Einstein a crack? a. Snooker, b. Table tennis, c. Cricket, d. Chess, e. Ice hockey Answer: c. Cricket (Indian Premier League) Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Which one of the following was never a modern olympic discipline? a. tumbling, b. running deer shooting, c. horseshoes (throwing), d. club swinging, e. tug of war, f. under water swimming, g. 200m obstacle swimming Answer: c. horseshoes Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: What is the only city in the world named after an olympic gold medalist? a. Mark Spitz Town, b. Cassius Clay Town, c. Edward Edwards Town, d. Jim Thorpe Town Answer: d. Jim Thorpe Town (in Penn. USA) Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Edward Eagan is the only person in modern olympic history to a. win gold in both a summer and winter olympiad, b. win a medal in five consecutive olympic games or c. be disqualified in two different olympic games, once for doping, once for accepting a bribe Answer: a. win gold in both a summer and winter olympiad (boxing and 4 man bob) Category:

Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: After losing a wrestling bout against the German Jakob Brendel at the 1932 games in L.A., the Sizilian Marcello Nizzola went to the dressing room and a. attacked his opponent with a dagger, b. committed suicide, c. continued the fight Answer: a. attacked his opponent with a dagger Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Countries from which continent boycotted the 1976 summer Olympics in Montreal? a. Europe, b. Africa, c. Asia, d. South America Answer: b. Africa Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Many fans today complain about ticket prices in English football. In 1953, 63,000 people paid to see an FA Cup tie between Newcastle United and Swansea Town. How much money was made at the gate? (nearly) a. 1,000 pounds, b. 7,000 pounds, c. 21,000 pounds, d. 50,000 pounds Answer: b. 7,000 pounds (2/3d per head in old money). The match was abandoned because of fog (the simple grey kind) after 8 minutes play. Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Who won the 1989 Tour de France by a nose, namely 8 sec. in front of 2nd place Laurent Fignon, the closest finish in tour history? Answer: Greg Lemond Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Billions of eyes around the world watched which football superstar muff the deciding penalty in the 1994 football world cup final?

Answer: Roberto Baggio ( Il Divin Codino, the divine pony tail) Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Who was recognized as the first and last heavyweight champion of bare knuckle boxing in the late 19th century? (the first to be presented with the championship belt) Answer: John L. Sullivan Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Who did Steve Davis defeat in his very first World Championship Snooker final in 1981? Answer: Doug Mountjoy. Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Who won the Ice Dance Gold Medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics? Answer: John Curry Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: Where would you find the Grace Gates? Answer: Lords

Category: Sports Pub Quiz Questions Question: In what event would you perform a triple salko or triple toe loop? Answer: Figure skating