Madrid Pub Quiz

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Sport

93 questions in this category

Who is the youngest men’s champion of Wimbledon in the 20th century?
Boris Becker, 17 years 7 months old in 1985.
Who was the last European golfer to win the US Open?
Matt Fitzpatrick of England won the U.S. Open in 2022
Who is the youngest person to race in a Formula 1 Grand Prix?
Max Verstappen, who was 17 years and 166 days old when he became the youngest driver to start a Formula 1 race. During the race, a mechanical issue forced Verstappen to retire.
What’s the longest distance Olympic event?
The men’s cycling road race covers 250 km (155.3 miles).
With thanks to Mike Healy and Carol Balster for fine tuning the question and updating the answer
Which two popular American games have been dropped from the Olympic program after the games in Beijing 2008?
Baseball and softball
With thanks to Matt Jones for fine tuning the question
Who is the only professional boxer to have retired undefeated holding the world heavweight title?
Rocky Marciano
With thanks to Geoff Swaine for clarifying the question
In which alpine resort were the first ever Winter Olympics held in 1924?
Chamonix (France)
In which sport do you have a short stop and you can have a pinch hitter, a long reliever or a closer?
Baseball
What is an Olympiad?
It’s the period between Olympic Games (currently refers to a period beginning on January 1st of the year in which the Summer Olympics take place and lasting four years).
Which US sports team fell under the ‘Curse of the Bambino’ causing it to have an 86 year drought of championship trophies after its star player was sold in 1919 to its major rival?
The Boston Red Sox
Which sport was founded by Japanese master Kano Jigoro?
Judo
In which football competition is the Henri Delaunay trophy awarded?
The UEFA European Football Championship
Which martial art, when translated, originally meant ‘Chinese hand’ and now means ‘empty hand’?
Karate
Which sport has the highest ratio of officials to players?
Tennis
Which former Olympic sport required the athletes to move backwards to win?
Tug of War (Olympic sport from 1900 to 1920).
Which baseball team has won the World Series most often?
The New York Yankees have won 27 times in 40 appearances (to 2021).
Which sport invented at the Outrigger Canoe Club in Waikiki, Hawaii, and popularised in Santa Monica, California, since the 1920s became an Olympic sport in 1996?
Beach volleyball
In which Olympic sport do players slide stones to houses?
Curling
In Judo, what is a judogi?
The traditional uniform
Which NBA player, son of an NBA player, was named after a steak his parents saw on a restaurant menu just before he was born?
Kobe Bryant (LA Lakers)
In Mogul skiing, what are moguls?
Bumps or hills
At the ‘Parade of Nations’ of the opening ceremony of the modern Olympic Games, which countries march first and last?
Greece always marches first and the host nation last
Whose ears did Mike Tyson bite in ‘The Sound and the Fury’ fight held in Las Vegas in 1997?
Evander Holyfield
Where were the Harlem Globetrotters formed?
Chicago in 1926
Who irritated Hitler by winning four gold medals in the Olympics?
Jesse Owens
, by winning four gold medals: 100 meters, long jump, 200 meters, and 4 × 100-meter relay.
This is a Spanish-based question From which city is the Gimnastic football (soccer) team?
Tarragona
Since 1975, what sport must be played right-handed even if you are left-handed?
Polo (for safety reasons)
Who are the two racers to have won the most Grand Prix motorcycling titles in history?
Giacomo Agostini and Angel Nieto
Which country won the first FIFA World Cup held in 1930?
Uruguay
When New Zealand won the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987, who did they defeat?
France
The tennis record of 46 successive wins is held by Argentinean Guillermo Vilas. Who recently wrecked Federer’s chance of surpassing it?
Guillermo Cañas (Argentinean)
The 1000 Lakes Rally was held in which country?
Finland (now called Rally Finland, Suomen ralli, or Finska rallyt).
This is a Spanish-based question Who was the first person to win the Príncipe de Asturias prize in sports (in 1987)?
Sebastian Coe
Vijay Singh, US Masters champion, comes from where?
Fiji
Where do Portuguese Formula 1 Grand Prix races take place (at least since 1984 and when they happen)?
Autodromo de Estoril
Which swimmer won six gold medals at the Athens Olympics in 2004?
Michael Phelps
Which two English golfers won the 2004 Golf World Cup in Seville?
Paul Casey and Luke Donald
Which is always the third grand slam event in the tennis calendar?
Wimbledon
How many pockets does a snooker table have?
Six
With which game would you associate the names of Mikhail Botvinnik, Alexander Alekhine, and José Capablanca?
Chess
Who was the first person to swim the English Channel?
Captain Matthew Webb in 1875
Who was the first non-European to win the Tour de France?.
Greg Lemond of USA in 1986
Who was the first gymnast to score a maximum 10 points (seven 10s) in the Olympics?
Nadia Comaneci in 1976.
Who was the first American to win the Formula 1 World Championship?
Phil Hill in 1961
Who was Formula One World Champion first: Graham Hill or Jim Clark?
Graham Hill in 1962 and 1968. Jim Clark in 1963 and 1965.
Which weapons are used in Women’s fencing?
Foil, epee and sabre, although until 1989 only the foil was used in world championships
With thanks to Susanne for correcting this question
Which team defeated the world champions Argentina in the opening game of 1990 World Championship?
Cameroon
What are the two main distinguishing features of Speedway motorbikes?
No brakes and only one gear
With thanks to Mike Jones for amending the answer to this question
What is the difference between a men’ and a women’s lacrosse team?
A men’s team has ten players, a women’s has twelve.
With thanks to Diane Peake for her assistance in correcting this question
What is James Naismith best known for?
Inventing basketball
What are the only two colours allowed for the ball in Table Tennis competitions?
White and orange
With thanks to Ted Bollard from Dublin for updating the answer to this question
In which sport would you see a ‘Tsukahara’?
Gymnastics; it’s a type of vault
With thanks to Kirsty Taylor for correcting this question
In which sport do neither the participants nor the spectators know the score until the end?
Boxing
In American Football, where would you find the Orange Bowl?
Miami
Brazil have been world football champions more times than any other nation. Whom did they beat to become World Champions the first time?
Sweden, in Sweden, 1958.
With thanks to Karim Nanji, Entertainments Officer, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, for correcting this question
The duration of a game of Polo is measured in what?
Chukkas (or Chukkers)
With thanks to Dave Love and Andy Bell for correcting this question
Only one modern olympic games was not named after the host city – the ‘Interim Olympic Games’ of 1906. In which city were they held?
Athens 1906 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the modern games. (Not recognised by the IOC.)
Which country has won the most medals in the Winter Olympics (to February 2022)?
Norway (405)
The Fed (Federation) Cup is the most important women’s team event in this sport. What is the equivalent male competition?
The Davis Cup
The Web Ellis Cup is given to the winners of which tournament?
The Rugby World Cup
In cross-country cycling, what do the initials BMX stand for?
Bicycle moto cross
Which athlete scored the first perfect ten in Olympic history?
Nadia Comaneci for gymnastics in the 1976 Montreal games.
Which Olympic sport has a playing area that is 9 ft (2.74m) by 5 ft (1.525m)? (it’s 30 inches ∕ 76 cm high)
Table tennis
In golf, what is sometimes called a 10-iron?
A wedge (pitching wedge)
The first long distance car race was held in 1907 and finished after nearly 10,000 miles in Paris. The winners were Prince Scipione Borghese and journalist Luigi Barzini, Sr. who claimed the prize of a bottle of Mumm champagne. Where did the race start?
Beijing
How many balls are there on a snooker table at the start of a game?
22: Fifteen red balls and white, yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black.
The Vince Lombardi Trophy is awarded at which event?
The Superbowl
In which sport would you perform an Eskimo roll?
Kayaking of some sort
The Marquis of Queensbury Rules are the accepted code of rules for which sport?
Boxing
What is Tiger Woods’ first name?
Eldrick
What’s the name of the chess move in which a piece takes another but does not move into the square of the captured piece?
En passant (a special capture made immediately after a player moves a pawn two squares forward from its starting position, and an opposing pawn could have captured it if it had only moved one square forward)
First seen internationally in the 1968 Olympics, most modern high jumpers use a back first technique developed by which American athlete?
Dick Fosbury developed what is now called the Fosbury Flop
What’s the second largest multi-sport gathering after the Olympics?
The Commonwealth Games (5,000 athletes v 10,000 at the last Olympics).
If your balls are black and blue and your opponent’s are red and yellow, what would you be playing?
Croquet
Which sport or game consists of a pick, approach, plant, and toss?
Caber toss
Who is the only Irish cyclist to win the Tour de France?
Stephen Roche
Which race over 200 laps is started with the words, “Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines”?
The Indianapolis 500
Who is the Greek goddess of Victory?
Nike
Who bought the Benetton Formula 1 racing team in 2001?
Renault (rebranded as Alpine in 2021).
What is the most common distance of a drag race?
A quarter of a mile (or 1320ft or 402m)
Which international sports competition started on June 17th, 1994, at Soldier Field in Chicago?
1994 FIFA World Cup
What swimming stroke is the first leg of the medley relay?
Backstroke
In which sport would you go to a Basho?
Sumo wrestling
How many hurdles are there in the men’s 110m race?
10
Who was the first unseeded player to win the men’s singles at Wimbledon?
Boris Becker in 1985
Which two boxers fought the ‘Rumble in the Jungle’?
George Foreman and Muhammad Ali.
What did football referees get in 1970 that they hadn’t had before?
Red and yellow cards.
They were first used in 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.
What colour jersey does the leader of the Giro d’Italia wear?
Pink
One Soviet Bloc country participated in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Which one?
Romania
Which is always the first event of the Men’s Decathlon?
100 metres
How many rounds are there in an Olympic boxing match?
Four
With thanks to Dave Harrop for correcting this question
Which cyclists have won the Tour de France five times?
Jacques Anquetil, Lance Armstrong, Bernard Hinault, Miguel Indurain, Eddie Merckx
With thanks to Lynne and Thierry in Paris, and Steve Hall in Angola for correcting this question
What is South America’s equivalent of the Champions League called?
Copa Libertadores