Sport Quiz #595
Sports & Leisure Quiz for 12 June 2020
A new sport quiz is available each week. Try our daily general knowledge quiz or work through our archive of daily and themed quizzes.
1
Q1.
At which Summer Olympics was women's football, or soccer, first included in the programme?
Select from the options above.
2
Q2.
The game of Roulette was created by which mathematician, physicist, and Catholic philosopher in the 17th century in his search for a perpetual motion machine?
Select from the options above.
3
Q3.
When was the first FIA Formula E championship held?
Select from the options above.
4
Q4.
Brian Lara is associated with which sport?
Select from the options above.
5
Q5.
The Super Bowl, the championship game of the National Football League, was first played as part of a merger agreement between the NFL and its rival, the American Football League, in what year?
Select from the options above.
6
Q6.
What decided the International Olympic Committee to hold the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics a year later, in 2021?
A
Too many athletes had been injured in qualifying
B
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic declared in 2020
C
A wish to reset the timing of the Games
D
The economic effect of a plague of locusts in most of the countries participating
Select from the options above.
7
Q7.
Who played the part of the Stig, the incognito expert driver for BBC's programme "Top Gear", on just one occasion on 22 June 2009?
Select from the options above.