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	Quiz 31 - Muhammad Ali/Cassius Clay - Answers So how do you think you did..... 10 correct Very well done, you can be officially called the 'Greatest'.... well of quizzes anyway! 7, 8 or 9 correct Well done, you certainly know your stuff. 4, 5 or 6 correct A good attempt, it's a toughie 1, 2 or 3 correct Perhaps he was a bit before your time! 0 correct Well, you have probably learnt he was a boxer - and a bloody good one!
	1.	Cassius M. Clay was born on 17th January 1942 - the M stands for what? Marcellus
	2.	In February 1964 who did he defeat to win the World Heavyweight title for the first time? Sonny Liston
	3.	Name the long-time associate of Ali, pictured right. Angelo Dundee - his trainer and cornerman.
	4.	You would think he was fearless but early in his career the then Cassius Clay admitted that he was afraid of something that he was told would prevent him becoming a world-class boxer. He overcame that fear - which was what? A fear of flying
	5.	In which weight category did he win a gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics? Light heavyweight
	6.	Ali was presented with a replacement Olympic Gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics of 1996. In his 1975 autobiography he explained what had happened to the original medal - was it........ a - He threw it into the River Ohio after a racist confrontation. True b - When he joined the Nation of Islam he gave it away, considering it an 'idolatrous trinket'. False c - It was stolen. False
	7.	Ali fought four British boxers in his professional career - Henry Cooper (twice), Joe Bugner (twice) and Brian London while in May 1976 he knocked out which British boxer in a world heavyweight title bout? Richard Dunn
	8.	Which British football ground - pictured right during preparation for the fight - staged the first Henry Cooper-Cassius Clay contest in June 1963? Arsenal's Highbury Stadium
	9.	Who did Ali fight in the 1975 Thrilla in Manila? Joe Frazier
	*10.*	In which country was the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle against George Foreman fought? Zaire (which is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
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