Sport Quiz #116
Sports & Leisure Quiz for 8 April 2011
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Q1.
Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed during a training run on the course for the 2010 Winter Olympics. He was a competitor in what sport?
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Q2.
Competitors representing which country won the most Olympic gold medals in Greco-Roman wrestling between 1896 and 2008?
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3
Q3.
In the Olympic shot put competition, what is the weight of the women's shot?
A
24 kilograms (52.92 pounds)
C
14.52 kilograms (32 pounds)
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Q4.
What name was given to a group of racing drivers that included Woolf Barnato, Glen Kidston, Henry Birkin, Bernard Rubin, Dudley Benjafield & Sammy Davis, who were responsible for four consecutive victories at the Le Mans 24 hours from 1927 to 1930?
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Q5.
Up to and including 2010, Switzerland and 3 other countries have hosted the World Rowing Championships 4 times since the first in 1962. Which of these was not one of them?
Note: This question was updated in December 2018
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Q6.
Croatia won their first ever Olympic gold in Atlanta in 1996 in which event?
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Q7.
What annual event, to have been held in 2008, was cancelled after al-Qaeda's murder of four French tourists on Christmas Eve in December 2007 in Mauritania?
B
North African Tennis Open
C
World Water Divining Championship
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