Sport Quiz #271
Sports & Leisure Quiz for 28 March 2014
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Q1.
Muhammad Ali (who was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.) is associated with which sport?
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2
Q2.
Otto Lilienthal was an inventor whose designs and practice led to the first practical what in the 1890s?
B
Propeller for powered flight
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3
Q3.
The 2009 season of the Indian Premier League, a Twenty20 cricket competition initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, was held where?
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4
Q4.
Which Olympics were the ones where the IOC first operated drug use controls?
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Q5.
During the cycling road race at the Rome Games of 1960, Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen fell from his bicycle. Which of these was not a result of that?
C
He was found to be under the influence of amphetamines
D
The first Olympic death linked to doping
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Q6.
Steven Adams a basketballer from New Zealand joined the US team Thunder in 2013 just before they became the first-ever champions of the Orlando Summer League. One of his siblings is known on the world stage as who?
Note: This question was updated in July 2022
C
Blair Adams, footballer
D
Danielle Adams, basketballer
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Q7.
Which trophy, damaged by Benjamin Peri Nathan with a sledgehammer in March 1997, was restored to its original condition, free of charge, by London silversmiths Garrard & Co., who had made it in 1848?
C
The William Webb Ellis Trophy
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