Today's sports quiz will feature questions all about Postponed, cancelled or void sports events, in keeping with the current trends...
1. Which game was the first in this year's Men's Six Nations to be postponed due to the Coronavirus outbreak?
2. And in the Women's competition?
3. How many days, due to postponements, did the FA Cup third Round take to complete in the freezing winter of 1963?
a) 22
b) 44
c) 66
d) 88
4. And how many postponements were there in total?
A) 81
B) 176
C) 233
D) 261
5. Why was the Grand National of 1997 postponed?
6. Which of the four tennis majors wasn't held in 1986?
7. Who won the postponed Ryder Cup of 2002, which had been delayed a year due to the events of September 11th 2001?
8. Who was the initial winner of the Tour de France for seven years in a row between 1999 and 2005? There is now officially "No Winner".
9. Which of these years was the FA Cup final NOT held?
A) 1914
B) 1915
C) 1919
D) 1939
10. England's touring cricketers saw two test matches abandoned in 1998 and 2009 for an unacceptable playing surface against which team?
11. Which Football League club saw their home game against Lincoln City stopped early due to a devastating fire in 1985?
12. Which country ended England's 2001 Six Nations Grand Slam hopes, after their final game was delayed to October due to the outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease?
13. What was the "result" for England vs France and New Zealand vs Italy after both 2019 Rugby World Cup games didn't go ahead due to Typhoon Hagibis?
14. Who did Liverpool beat in FA Cup Final of 1989, a tournament marred by the Hillsborough disaster which postponed their semi-final against Nottingham Forest?
15. Which month will the postponed 2020 French Open tennis, initially set for May, be due to begin after being delayed following the Coronavirus outbreak?
16. What caused stage 19 of the 2019 Tour de France to be cut short at the end, and stage 20 to be cut short at the start?
17. How many consecutive US Open Tennis Men's Finals had to be delayed up to 2012, prompting the USTA to intentionally change the schedule for the 2013 and 2014 finals to the following Monday?
A) 3
B) 5
C) 7
D) 9
18. Which all-time great MMA fighter refused to take a replacement opponent ahead of UFC 151, causing the entire event to be cancelled, an unprecented event in UFC at the time?
19. Which Middle Eastern country saw their 2011 F1 Grand Prix cancelled due to civil unrest?
20. Which city were due to host the 1940 Summer Olympics (after Tokyo were stripped of the right themselves for Japan's invasion of Manchuria), but couldn't after they themselves were invaded by the Soviet Union?
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Answers: 1. Ireland vs Italy, 2. Italy vs Scotland, 3. C) 66, 4. D) 261, 5. An IRA bomb scare, 6. Australian Open - held in December 1985 then January 1987, 7. Europe, 8. Lance Armstrong, 9. C) 1919, 10. West Indies, 11. Bradford City, 12. Ireland, 13. 0-0 draws in both games with each team awarded two points, 14. Everton, 15. September, 16. Hailstorms which caused Mudslides/Landslides (a point if either is mentioned), 17. B) 5, 18. Jon Jones, 19. Bahrain, 20. Helsinki
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