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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 … ?

A
Even tiles
B
Ceramic tiles
C
Clean tiles
D
Protiles
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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?

A
South Pacific
B
Westward Ho!
C
Orienteering
D
North by north-west
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Q3. What game involving reptiles is based on the Indian game called Vaikuntapaoli or Paramapada Sopanam?

A
Checkers
B
Parchisi
C
Snakes and Ladders
D
Darts
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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?

A
420 cm
B
240 cm
C
150 cm
D
200 cm
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Q5. By what name was Rocco Francis Marchegiano heavyweight boxing world champion from September 1952, to April 1956 better known?

A
Rocky Nelson
B
Rocky Romero
C
Rocky Raccoon
D
Rocky Marciano
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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?

A
Orienteering
B
Show jumping
C
Rugby 7s
D
Motor cycling
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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?

A
Lance Armstrong won
B
He later died
C
He was found to be under the influence of amphetamines
D
The first Olympic death linked to doping
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