Sport Quiz #311
Sports & Leisure Quiz for 2 January 2015
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Q1.
What game, created in 1904 by a quaker, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Phillips, when revised by Charles Darrow and others became one of the world's most played commercial board games?
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2
Q2.
Crampons are used in what?
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3
Q3.
Four year old Exodus, who died due to an accident with a treadmill in May 2009, was the daughter of whom?
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4
Q4.
FIA introduced a new racing category, with its first race in September 2014 in Beijing, China, and finishing June 2015 in London, UK. What distinguishes it from the other categories?
A
The cars are diesel-fuelled
B
The cars are fully electric
C
The cars are solar-powered
D
The circuits are all located in Europe
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5
Q5.
Which of these is a footballer who married a Spice Girl?
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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.
In Britain, by an act of 1541 (repealed in 1845) artificers, labourers, apprentices and servants were forbidden to play which sport at any time except Christmas, and then only in their master's house and presence, or be fined 6s. 8d?
Select from the options above.