Sport Quiz #87
Sports & Leisure Quiz for 17 September 2010
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Q1.
In billiards, 2 points are awarded for potting the white ball. How many points are awarded for potting the red ball?
Note: This question was updated in January 2017
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2
Q2.
Charles Sands (USA), Margaret Abbot (USA) and George Lyon (Canada) were winners in what Olympic sport at the 1900 and 1904 games?
Note: This question was updated in March 2017
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Q3.
The oldest bowls club in Scotland still in continuous use was founded in Kilmarnock in which year?
Note: This question was updated in July 2015
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Q4.
What book published in 1864 by William Wallace Mitchell, a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, became the basis of the rules of a modern game?
A
"The Sporte of Croquet in the Modern Daye"
B
"How to Play Crickette"
C
"Rugby Union for Dummies"
D
"Manual of Bowls Playing"
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Q5.
What was worn by the leader of the first Tour de France?
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Q6.
Duke Kahanamoku, who won Olympic gold in Swimming (100 m freestyle) in 1912 at Stockholm and 1920 at Antwerp popularised what sport?
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Q7.
Which sport has been included in only one Olympic Games, in Paris in 1900, when competition was between the Devon and Somerset Wanderers (representing England) and a team from the British embassy in Paris (representing France)?
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