Sport Quiz #593
Sports & Leisure Quiz for 29 May 2020
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1
Q1.
What sport is featured in "Chariots of Fire", a 1981 film starring Ben Cross?
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2
Q2.
What name is generically given to any football match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, the most followed club football match in the world, watched by hundreds of millions?
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3
Q3.
Which of these is a professional boxer who became world heavyweight champion in 1962 by knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round?
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4
Q4.
Where were the first Winter Youth Olympic Games held?
D
Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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5
Q5.
What width are the lines used to mark out a soccer, or football, pitch?
B
Not more than 12 cm (4.72 in), and all the same width
D
Not more than 10.16 cm (4 in), and all the same width
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6
Q6.
Between 1989 and 2002, the UK's Dalton Grant was a gold medal winner in what sport?
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7
Q7.
How did Jeff Stone, at the time Gilooly, figure in the 1994 Winter Olympic Games?
A
He designed the closing ceremony
B
He won the first Aerials, in freestyle skiing, competed at the Olympic Games
C
He was involved in arranging an assault on one of his ex-wife's Olympic rivals
D
He accepted the Olympic flag on behalf of the next hosting country
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