Sport Quiz #553
Sports & Leisure Quiz for 23 August 2019
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Q1.
Scrabble tournament players use special tiles which are not engraved, thereby eliminating the potential for a cheating player to feel for particular tiles in the bag). These are called … ?
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2
Q2.
The first official World Cup for which sport, that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, was held in 1986?
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Q3.
What game involving reptiles is based on the Indian game called Vaikuntapaoli or Paramapada Sopanam?
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Q4.
What is the standard length of the bars in the uneven parallel bars or asymmetric bars, an artistic gymnastics apparatus used only by female gymnasts?
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Q5.
By what name was Rocco Francis Marchegiano heavyweight boxing world champion from September 1952, to April 1956 better known?
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Q6.
The World Cup for which sport is an annual international competition initiated in 1978 by Swiss journalist Max E. Amman, and originally sponsored by Volvo?
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Q7.
During the cycling road race at the Rome Games of 1960, Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen fell from his bicycle. Which of these was not a result of that?
C
He was found to be under the influence of amphetamines
D
The first Olympic death linked to doping
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