The Coronavirus Lockdown - Sports Quiz #1


1. How many times have Ireland progressed beyond the quarter-final stage of the Rugby World Cup since the first tournament in 1987?
2. Who beat reigning champion Serena Williams to win the 2016 Women’s French Open singles?


3. 1940 was the last time an Olympic Torch Relay was scheduled before being cancelled, which city was denied the chance to see the iconic flame that year?
4.  What is England’s Men’s Football team’s largest winning margin?
5.  And who inflicted their largest defeat?
6.  How many defeats had David Haye suffered before he was beaten by Wladimir Klitschko in their 2011 Heavyweight title fight?
7.  In which decade did each of Huddersfield Town’s three domestic English titles come?
8.  Who beat England in their first Men’s Cricket World Cup Final defeat in 1979?
9.  Olympic gymnastics icon Olga Korbutt took home three golds from the 1972 Olympic Games for the Soviet Union, if she was competing today, which country would she compete for?
10. What nationality is Birgid Kosgei, the woman who broke Paula Radcliffe’s 16 year mixed-sex women’s marathon record?
11. Tom Brady left the New England Patriots after 20 years for which other NFL team?


12. Who took a hat-trick to clinch the 2016 County Championship for Middlesex?
13. Who returned from pregnancy to beat Dina Asher-Smith and win the 2019 World Athletics Championships Women’s 100m?
14. Team GB (known as the UK team in 1908) the USA on seventeen occasions, the USSR six times and China in 2008. Who are the other nation to have topped the Summer Olympic medal table?
15. Who preceded Phil Neville as England Women’s Football Coach?


16. Which team has won the Women’s Olympic Archery Team event gold in every year since 1972?
17. What is the name of Loughborough University’s Women’s teams that represent them in the Women’s Cricket Super League and the Tyrell’s Premier Rugby 15s?
18.  Who won the 2006 Ballon D’Or?
19.  Where did Team Europe reclaim the Ryder Cup in 2010?
20. Which team did Jenson Button drive for in his victorious 2009 Formula 1 World Championship win?




Answers: 1. Never, 2. Garbiñe Muguruza, 3. Tokyo, 4. 13 goals, 5. Hungary, 6. One, 7. The 1920s, 8. West Indies, 9. Belarus, 10. Kenyan, 11. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 12. Toby Roland-Jones, 13. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, 14. Germany in 1936, 15. Mark Sampson, 16. South Korea, 17. Lightning, 18. Fabio Cannavaro, 19. Celtic Manor, 20. Brawn GP





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