Sport Quiz #560
Sports & Leisure Quiz for 11 October 2019
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Q1.
Johann Friedrich GutsMuths and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn created exercises for boys and young men on apparatus they had designed, that led to what is considered modern gymnastics. When was this?
D
Late 18th / early 19th century
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2
Q2.
What term is used when a sports team gathers in a tight circle to strategise, motivate or celebrate?
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3
Q3.
"Goal attack" and "wing defence" are positions in which sport?
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4
Q4.
Which of these became a World Formula One Champion while driving for Williams?
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5
Q5.
In 1992 the Toronto Blue Jays became the first baseball team to do what?
A
Win the World Series as a team based outside the USA
B
Qualify, as the Canadian team, for competing officially for the first time at the Olympic Games
C
Compete in the World Series in abbreviated shorts
D
Stage a competition series on the frozen St Lawrence River
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Q6.
Players of the game of Nine Men's Morris, or mills or merels, need what?
B
A bat, a ball and six mats
C
Nine batons and nine sets of bells
D
A board plus 18 stones or counters
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Q7.
New Zealand first won medals in shot put in the Olympic Games in 2008; this was in women's shot put with Valerie Adams (now Vili) winning gold (2008 and 2012) and silver (2016). When did it win in the men's shot put?
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