Sport Quiz #73
Sports & Leisure Quiz for 11 June 2010
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Q1.
A New Zealand squash player who dominated the sport in the late 1980s and early 1990s, winning the World Open 4 times, is Susan who?
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Q2.
Racing on ordinary roads from town to town was banned in France from 1903 when a number of people, spectators and drivers (including Marcel Renault) were killed during a race between which two cities?
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Q3.
Andreas Thorkildsen set a new Olympic record at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing for throwing what?
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Q4.
Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian-born American sports coach and innovator, invented which sport in 1891?
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Q5.
What is the next in this series: Moscow, Los Angeles, Seoul …
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Q6.
For which sport, now banned in Britain by the Hunting Act 2004, was the "Waterloo Cup" 3 day event run annually at Great Altcar in Lancashire, England from 1836 to 2005?
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Q7.
The object of which card game is to make, for example, pairs, sequences, and 15 and 31 points, where scores are marked by means of pegs in a board?
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