Sport Quiz #51
Sports & Leisure Quiz for 8 January 2010
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Q1.
What card game is argued by 19th century authority on card games Henry ("Cavendish") Jones to have been derived ultimately from the pre-16th century Italian game called "ronfa"?
Note: This question was updated in February 2017
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Q2.
What modern sport can trace its origin back to a Scramble that took place at Camberley, Surrey England in 1924?
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Q3.
What striking and fielding team game, originating in England and known in Ireland as cluiche corr, is played between two teams alternating between batting and fielding and involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a round bat and then running around four bases in order to score?
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Q4.
As at 2022, who has won the most medals in Olympic Games since the modern Olympics began in 1896?
Note: This question was updated in December 2022
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Q5.
Usain Bolt is what type of athlete?
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Q6.
Which of these people have never been a US Open Golf champion?
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Q7.
How high should a badminton net be at the centre?
A
1.016 metres (3 ft 4 inches)
D
.8128 metres (2 ft 8 inches)
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