How well did you do?

 

10 correct
You are a smart arse, officially.

7, 8 or 9 correct
Well done, you know
your stuff.

4, 5 or 6 correct
A good attempt

1, 2 or 3 correct
Whoops. Let's put it down to a late night last night!

0 correct
Presumably you sporting interest revolves around netball!

 

 

 

Sporting Cities

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Grace Road, Welford Road and Filbert Street are important addresses in the sporting heritage of which British city?
Leicester - Grace Road is the home of Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Welford Road is the home of Leicester Tigers Rugby Club and Filbert Street is the former home of Leicester City FC

 

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Pictured are three famous sporting venues in an English city - which one is at the top of the picture?
The Meadow Lane home of Notts County (the middle one is Nottingham Forest's City Ground and the bottom Trent Bridge - the home of Nottinghamshire County Cricket club)

   
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Which British city made unsuccessful bids to host the 1996 and 2000 Olympics?
Manchester

   
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With which American city do you associate the Bruins (ice hockey), Patriots (American football) and the Red Sox (baseball)?
Boston

   
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Gordon Banks, Jessica Ennis, Naseem Hamed, Uriah Rennie and Neil Warnock would seem a fairly random group of sportspeople but they have one thing in common - they were all born in the same city. Which city?
Sheffield

   
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An aerial photo of the two closest major football stadiums in Britain - where?
Dundee - Dundee FC (Dens Park) at the top and Dundee United (Tannadice) at the bottom.

Which is the most northerly city to have staged a football World Cup final?
Stockholm (in 1958)
   
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In the 1969/70 season which Football League club had to change its name from 'Town' to 'City' when its home town was elevated to city status?
Swansea City who were Swansea Town up to February 1970

     
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Which is the only British city to have hosted the Commonwealth Games twice?
Edinburgh - in 1970 and 1986

               
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Which is the only city in the world to host both the Olympics and Commonwealth/Empire Games, host a cricket World Cup final and one of the four Tennis 'Grand Slam' tournaments and stage a F1 street-circuit Grand Prix?
Melbourne (London hasn't managed the Grand Prix)