Quiz 26 - General Sport - Answers

So how do you think you did..... 

10 correct
OK, you certainly know your sports.

7, 8 or 9 correct
Well done, certainly above average..

4, 5 or 6 correct
A good attempt

1, 2 or 3 correct
Don't be disheartened - it was tough.

0 correct
I know the feeling. 
I watch Question of Sport and often don't get anything right!

Name the Scottish athlete who won a gold at the 1991 World Championships and later that year became BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
Liz McColgan (10,000 metres)

2.

Power play, shut-out, body-check, face-off and sin-bin are all terms used in which sport? 
Ice Hockey

Who is pictured alongside?
Former world motorcycling champion Barry Sheene

Name the Canadian snooker player who was able to claim the cost of his 20 or so pints of lager before a match as an expense by the Inland Revenue who accepted it as a medication for a nerve-related illness.
Bill Werbeniuk

New Zealanders Ivan Mauger and Barry Briggs are both former world champions in which sport?  
Speedway

In December 2019 Fallon Sherrock hit the sporting headlines when she became the first woman to defeat a male darts player at the PDC World Darts Championship. But less likely to be rembered is who who was the first male to lose to a female darts player at the PDC Worlds Darts Championship.
She beat Ted Evetts in the First Round

On Saturday November 2nd 1991 the televising of which sporting event resulted in nearly half the clubs staging a Football League match that day recording their lowest gate of the season?
The Rugby Union World Cup final at Twickenham between England and Australia.

Cricket, who was the first bowler to take 300 Test wickets?
Fred Trueman

In July 2005 who became the first French club to play in the semi-final of the Rugby League Challenge Cup? 
Toulouse

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