1. Question: Which country did boxer Lennox Lewis represent at the Olympics?

Answer: Canada

2. Question: How many fights did Muhammad Ali lose during his professional
boxing career?
Answer: Five - Mar 8 1971 Joe Frazier New York L 15 WORLD

3. Question: What is the maximum number of men allowed in a tug-of-war team?

Answer: Eight

4. Question: How long is the motor race which Indianapolis is famous for?
Answer: 500 miles

5. Question: Which sport is played on the largest pitch of any game?

Answer: Polo

6. Question: What is the longest-lasting, non-motorized sporting event in the world?

Answer: Tour de France

7. Question: Who managed the first English side to win the European Cup?
Answer: Matt Busby

8. Question: In golf what is the American term for a bunker?

Answer: Sandtrap

9. Question: In cricket how many runs are scored when the ball hits a helmet left on
the ground by the fielding team?
Answer: 5
10. Question: Before he changed his name, what was Cassius Clay’s middle name?
Answer: Marcellus

11. Question: How long is a pole used in pole-vaulting, in feet?

Answer: 16

12. Question: How many players are allowed in the circle in a netball match?
Answer: 4

13. Question: In sport what can be a maximum of 38 inches ling & 4 inches wide?
Answer: Cricket bat

14. Question: At which golf course does the US Masters take place?
Answer: Augusta (Georgia)

15. Question: Which country's team always leads the Olympic opening procession?
Answer: Greece

16. Question: In darts, what is the highest score from three different trebles?
Answer: 171

17. Question: Which game might you be watching if you were at The Belfry?
Answer: Golf

18. Question: In which year post WW2 was the first Wembley FA Cup Final to need
a replay?
Answer: 1970 (Chelsea v Leeds)
19. Question: Who had the nickname the 'Louisville Lip'? (sportsman)
Answer: Muhammad Ali

20. Question: Besides skiing which other sport takes place on a piste?
21. Answer: Fencing

22. Question: What is Golfer Greg Normans nickname?

Answer: Great White Shark

23. Question: How many jumps are there in the Grand National?
Answer: 30

24. Question: In which English city was the boxer Prince Naseem Hamed born?
Answer: Sheffield

25. Question: Which major sporting event began on 17 June 1994 at Soldier Field,
Chicago?
Answer: Football World Cup

26. Question: Who is the only non-league side to win the FA Cup?
Answer: Tottenham Hotspur in 1901. They were elected to the league in 1908.

27. Question: What boy's name is also a grade of proficiency in judo?

Answer: Dan

28. Question: Which is the only sport you are not allowed to play left-handed?
Answer: Polo
29. Question: On which British Golf Course is there a hole called the Postage Stamp?
Answer: Troon

30. Question: If an umpire in cricket crosses his arms across his body with his hands
pointing downwards, what is being signalled?
Answer: Dead ball.

31. Question: How much time is allowed to find a lost ball in golf?
Answer: 5 minutes.

32. Question: In snooker, how many points is the green ball worth?
Answer: 3

33. Question: Which First Division club were the first to make Anfield their home
ground?
Answer: Everton

34. Question: Born in 1956 he won a total of no less than 62 singles titles, including
11 grand slams before retiring at the age of 27. Who is he?
Answer: Bjorn Borg

35. Question: Where is the world's oldest motorcycle race held?

Answer: The Isle of Man.

36. Question: Apart from England which European country took part in cricket's 1996
World Cup?
Answer: Netherlands
37. Question: How many times is a team allowed to touch volleyball before it crosses
the net?
Answer: 3

38. Question: In speedway racing, how many laps of the track does a race consist of?
Answer: 4

39. Question: In which county is Lord's cricket ground?

Answer: Middlesex

40. Question: How many players are there in a water polo team?
Answer: 7

41. Question: In judo, what colour belt follows yellow?

Answer: Yellow
42. Question: In which Formula One team did Damon Hill replace Nigel Mansell?
Answer: Williams

43. Question: At which venue is the Scottish Cup Final traditionally played?
Answer: Hampden Park

44. Question: In cricket, how many runs is a double nelson?

Answer: 222

45. Question: Which Premier league manager was European Footballer of the Year in
1978 and 1979?
Answer: Kevin Keegan

46. Question: From what bridge does the Oxford/Cambridge boat race start?
Answer: Putney (to Mortlake)
47. Question: How many dimples are there on a regulation golfball?
Answer: 278

48. Question: In 1955, what was used for the first time in a Wembley international?
Answer: Floodlights

49. Question: How many straight lines are there on a football pitch?
Answer: 17

50. Question: Who did Zola Budd accidentally trip in the Los Angeles Olympics in
1984?
Answer: Mary Decker

51. Question: Which football clubs home ground has the same name as a battle in
1066?
Answer: Chelsea (Stamford Bridge)

52. Question: Who captained Europe to victory in the 2002 Ryder Cup?
Answer: Sam Torrance

53. Question: Which Briton won his only Formula 1 title in a McLaren in 1975?
Answer: James Hunt

54. Question: How many 20 minute sessions are there in a game of ice hockey?
Answer: 3

55. Question: What was the surname of cricketer Fiery Fred who retired in 1968?
Answer: Truman
56. Question: What is the regulation height for a 'pin' in ten pin bowling?
Answer: 15 inches or 38.1 centimetres.

57. Question: What nationality is tennis player Michael Chang?

Answer: American

58. Question: What name is given to the last man in a tug of war team?
Answer: Anchor man.

59. Question: Which sport uses five different coloured balls depending on the
temperature, ranging from yellow for hot and blue for cold?
Answer: Squash

60. Question: In cricket, when does a `duck` become a `diamond duck`?

Answer: When it’s the first ball of the match.

61. Question: In what sport do players take long and short corners?
Answer: Hockey
62. Question: Which sport uses the most muscles in the body?
Answer: Swimming

63. Question: Where were the 2002 Commonwealth Games held?

Answer: Manchester, England

64. Question: How many umpires are there in a baseball game?

Answer: 4
65. Question: Which sport features an 'Eskimo Roll'?
Answer: Canoeing

66. Question: Who was the first boxer to beat Muhammed Ali as a professional?
Answer: Joe Frazier

67. Question: In boxing what weight is between a flyweight and a featherweight?

Answer: Bantamweight

68. Question: In which sport is an epée used?

Answer: Fencing

69. Question: Who scored a hat-trick in the 1966 World Cup Final?
Answer: Geoff Hurst (of England)

70. Question: What are the small indentations on a golf ball called?
Answer: Dimples

71. Question: In 1994 the football league banned an innovation first introduced by
Queen's Park Rangers in 1982, what was it?
Answer: Artificial pitch.

72. Question: Which sportsman was nicknamed 'Pistol Pete'?

Answer: Pete Sampras

73. Question: In which team sport would you hear the terms serve, dig and spike?
Answer: Volleyball
74. Question: In which city is the Maracana, reputedly the world's largest football
stadium?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro

75. Question: Who were Liverpool’s opponents when the Hillsborough disaster
happened?
Answer: Notts Forest

76. Question: Which leader of a country has been linked with trying to Buy Crystal
Palace FC?
Answer: Colonel Gaddafi

77. Question: How high is a basketball hoop from the ground?

Answer: 10 feet (3.05 metres)

78. Question: What number did motorcycle racer Barry Sheen have on his bike?
Answer: 7

79. Question: Who did Goran Ivanisevic beat in the men's singles final at Wimbledon
in 2001?
Answer: Pat Rafter

80. Question: Who was the first player to score a hat-trick in the English
Premiership?
Answer: Eric Cantona (playing for Leeds United in August 1992)

81. Question: How many balls are on the table at the start of a Snooker game?
Answer: 22
82. Question: What did the English international football team do in October 1961
and in November 1981, but never in between?
Answer: They had to qualify for the world cup finals
83. Question: Brian Deane scored the first ever Premiership goal for which team?
Answer: Sheffield United

84. Question: What is the diameter of a Golf cup (or hole)?

Answer: 4.25 inches or 10.795 centimetres.

85. Question: Who was the first snooker player to score a maximum 147 break in
World Championship snooker?
Answer: Cliff Thorburn (from Canada).

86. Question: What is the only sport where the defending team are always in
possession of the ball and the attacking team can score without even touching it?
Answer: Baseball (cricket)

87. Question: Which football team lost the F.A. Cup final in both 1998 and 1999?
Answer: Newcastle United

88. Question: What was the cause of the brief, undeclared war that broke out between
Honduras and El Salvador in July 1969?
Answer: El Salvador's victory over Honduras in the 3 game world cup soccer play
off.

89. Question: How many throwing events are there in a decathlon?

Answer: 3. Day 1 - 100 metres, long jump, SHOT PUT, high jump, and 400
metres. Day 2 - 110 metres hurdles, DISCUS, pole vault, JAVELIN; and 1,500
metres.

90. Question: How many umpires are there in a baseball game?

Answer: 4. They are stationed at home plate, along the first and third base lines,
and in the infield near second base.
91. Question: Of the five coloured Olympic rings, which colour represents Europe?
Answer: The blue ring

92. Question: Vince The Lombardi Trophy is given to the team winning which
competition?
Answer: Superbowl - American Football

93. Question: Merseyside football teams failed to win the First Division
championship only twice in the 1980's - name either team to win it on these two
occasions.
Answer: Arsenal or Aston Villa

94. Question: In bingo what number is snakes alive?

Answer: 55

95. Question: Which boxer was the first to win the Olympic heavyweight title and
then go on to win the World Heavyweight title?
Answer: Joe Frazier

96. Question: Which country does the Puma's rugby union team represent?
Answer: Argentina

97. Question: In which country was ex-boxer Joe Bugner born?

Answer: Hungary

98. Question: Where are the headquarters of the Rugby Union?

Answer: Twickenham
99. Question: Which three football teams were part of the original football league in
1888 AND part of the Premiership when it started in 1992?
Answer: Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers and Everton

100. Question: Which golfer scored the most points for Europe in their 2002
Ryder Cup victory over USA?
Answer: Colin Montgomerie

101. Question: Which English football team has won the European Cup more
times than they have won their own domestic league?
Answer: Nottingham Forest
102. Question: The US open tennis tournament is held in New York City, but
what is the name of the venue?
Answer: Flushing Meadow

103. Question: In 1948, who was out for a duck in his last cricket Test match
when four runs would have given him a batting average of 100?
Answer: Donald Bradman

104. Question: If an American base ball player manages to run round all four
bases with only one strike of the ball what is this score called?
Answer: A home run

105. Question: In which sport were the competitors known as The Wolf, The
Saltshaker, The Sea Slug, and The Dump Truck familiar names a few years ago?
Answer: Sumo wrestling

106. Question: Who was killed at San Marino in May 1994?

Answer: Ayrton Senna

107. Question: Which sport requires competitors to throw stones at houses?

Answer: Curling – the 'houses' are the rings and the centre is the 'tee' or 'button'.
108. Question: Who did Roy Keane play for before signing for Manchester
United?
Answer: Nottingham Forest

109. Question: Who won the first football who world cup in 1930?
Answer: Uruguay

110. Question: Which company sponsors both Manchester United and the
England Cricket team?
Answer: Vodaphone

111. Question: What game is played on an area measuring 9 feet by 5 feet?

Answer: Table Tennis

112. Question: What colour is the centre scoring zone on an archery target?
Answer: Gold

113. Question: Leeds United’s football strip changed from blue and gold (to all
white) in 1961 after manager Don Revie wanted to model them on which team?
Answer: Real Madrid

114. Question: In which sport would you go to a basho?

Answer: Sumo Wrestling

115. Question: Which company based in Clemont-Ferrand, is the largest

producer of tyres in France and is now involved in Formula One racing?
Answer: Michelin.
116. Question: How is the sport of tauromancy better known?
Answer: Bull Fighting

117. Question: Who is the only soccer player to score in a Manchester,

Merseyside and Glasgow derby?
Answer: Andrei Kanchelskis

118. Question: Who was Britain's first million pound footballer?

Answer: Trevor Francis

119. Question: Where were the 2006 Winter Olympics held?

Answer: Turin

120. Question: Which sporting establishment unveiled plans to build a roof

over its main stadium early in 2004?
Answer: The All England Club, Wimbledon Centre Court

121. Question: Who was the first footballer to be knighted?

Answer: Sir Stanley Mathews

122. Question: How many minutes duration is a normal men's fencing bout?
Answer: 6

123. Question: How many rounds are there in an amateur boxing match?
Answer: 3

124. Question: The Pasedena Rose Bowl hosted which famous event in 1994?
Answer: World Cup Final
125. Question: In tennis, what is the woman's equivalent of the Davis Cup?
Answer: Federation Cup

126. Question: What is the official diameter of the centre circle on a soccer
pitch?
Answer: 20 yards

127. Question: In what ball sport is 'boasting' part of the game?

Answer: Squash

128. Question: How many hurdles in a 110m and 400m race?

Answer: There are 10 in both of them.

129. Question: Which bowler has taken more test wickets than any other?
Answer: Muthai Muralitherin (Sri Lanka). He took his 520th against Zinbabwe to
overtake Courtney Walsh of the West Indies.

130. Question: What was the first Australian city to host the Olympic games?
Answer: Melbourne

131. Question: In a standard pack of playing cards what do the queens hold in
their hands?
Answer: Flowers

132. Question: In golf, how many stokes would you have to take at a par 4 hole
to get an albatross?
Answer: 1
133. Question: In Rugby Union, which colour is the 1st choice shirt of the
British Lions?
Answer: Red

134. Question: In which city is the San Siro stadium?

Answer: Milan

135. Question: Which outdoor ball game is played on a level lawn that
measures 90 feet by 60 feet?
Answer: Croquet

136. Question: How many tiles are used in a game of Scrabble?

Answer: 100

137. Question: Brazil have won the World Cup most times, which country did
they beat to win it the 1st time?
Answer: Sweden 1958

138. Question: The winner of which sporting event is awarded the 'Venus Rose
Water Dish'?
Answer: Ladies Singles at Wimbledon

139. Question: What unique Olympic sporting record is held by Eddie Eagen of
the USA?
Answer: Won medals at both Summer and Winter Olympics

140. Question: What is the maximum number of players on court in one

basketball team?
Answer: 5
141. Question: Apart from Rangers and Celtic which team last won the Scottish
league?
Answer: Aberdeen 1985
142. Question: What is the name given to the supporters of the Ferrari Formula
I motor racing team?
Answer: Tifosi

143. Question: Had Charles Dempsey voted as instructed, which country would
have won the vote to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: South Africa

144. Question: Who were the defending champions at the 1966 World Cup?
Answer: Brazil

145. Question: Who in April 2001 became England's Rugby Union leading
points scorer of all time?
Answer: Johnny Wilkinson

146. Question: What record did David Beckham set while playing for England
in October 2005?
Answer: He became the only English player ever to be sent off twice.

147. Question: How many players make up a rugby league team?

Answer: 13

148. Question: What do cricketers call a ball that flies over the batsman's head
without bouncing?
Answer: Beamer

149. Question: What is the method of training a horse to carry out a

predetermined routine of specified movements called?
Answer: Dressage
150. Question: How many points is a touchdown worth in American Football?
Answer: 6

151. Question: Which golfer is nicknamed El Nino?

Answer: Sergio Garcia

152. Question: In cricket, who is the fielder who patrols the boundary behind
the slips?
Answer: Third Man

153. Question: Which Wimbledon court is known as “The Graveyard of

Champions”?
Answer: Court no 2

154. Question: In May 1984, Alan Pettigrew of Loch Lomond gained the world
record from throwing what item with a distance of 55.11 metres?
Answer: A haggis

155. Question: As at March 2006, how many teams have won the English
Premiership?
Answer: 4

156. Question: Which country provided the opposition for Sven Goran
Eriksson's 1st match as England manager?
Answer: Spain

157. Question: In Gladiatorial combat, the Retiarius would be armed with a net
and which weapon?
Answer: Trident
158. Question: Who did Lennox Lewis lose the Heavyweight Championship to
and then regain it from the same person?
Answer: Hasim Rahman

159. Question: Which family owns the American wrestling federation, the
WWF?
Answer: The MacMahons

160. Question: Who is the youngest ever winner of the World Heavyweight
Boxing Championship?
Answer: Mike Tyson

161. Question: Which 20th century leader introduced the custom of carrying a
flaming torch from Athens to the site of each Olympic games?
Answer: Adolf Hitler

162. Question: How many minutes of play are in an American football match?
Answer: 60

163. Question: In Badminton, how high is the centre of the net from the
ground?
Answer: 5 ft / 1.524 metres

164. Question: Who was the first person to Captain and Manage a World Cup
winning Football team?
Answer: Franz Beckenbauer

165. Question: What is the name given to the mark or ridge on the floor behind
which a darts player must stand to throw?
Answer: Oche
166. Question: In Rugby Union which position usually wears the No 9 Shirt?
Answer: Scrum half

167. Question: What did G K Chesterton describe as 'an expensive way of

playing marbles' and Mark Twain suggest was 'a good walk spoilt'?
Answer: Golf

168. Question: What sport was originally played at the All England Club,
Wimbledon?
Answer: Croquet

169. Question: Who reached a milestone in 2001 of being the 1st player to
score 1000 points in International Rugby Union?
Answer: Neil Jenkins

170. Question: How many players are there on a Baseball Team?

Answer: 9

171. Question: What Olympic record did Jesse Owens hold for 25 years?
Answer: Long jump

172. Question: Who won a 'Golden Slam' in 1988 by winning the singles titles
at the Australian, French, Wimbledon and United states tennis championships and
the Olympic games?
Answer: Steffi Graff

173. Question: What takes place in Happy Valley in Hong Kong?

Answer: Horse Racing
174. Question: Who was the first Black soccer captain for England?
Answer: Paul Ince

175. Question: Whose long jump record in the 1968 Olympics lasted for 24
years?
Answer: Bob Beamon's

176. Question: Which famous sports person married his fiancé Elin Nordegren
in Barbados in October 2004?
Answer: Tiger Woods

177. Question: Which soccer team did Ian Botham play for?
Answer: Scunthorpe United

178. Question: What is the bookmakers signalling system called?

Answer: Tic tac

179. Question: The Sheffield Shield is competed for in which sport?

Answer: Cricket

180. Question: What name is given to the goalkeeper in ice hockey?

Answer: The net minder

181. Question: It's played over four periods of 15 minutes and only two of the
seven players can score, which sport?
Answer: Netball
182. Question: How many of the drivers who finish a formula one grand prix
win points?
Answer: 8
183. Question: In 10-pin bowling, a strike is when you get all pins down with 1
ball - what term is used for getting them down with 2?
Answer: A spare

184. Question: Which team was Liverpool playing in the 1985 European Cup
Final when the Heysel stadium disaster happened, banning all English clubs from
European Football for 6 years?
Answer: Juventus

185. Question: In which team sport would you hear the terms serve, dig and
spike?
Answer: Volleyball

186. Question: How long is a Pole used in Pole vaulting?

Answer: Sixteen feet (5.333 yards or 4.877 metres)

187. Question: What is the name of the West Indies cricket Coach?
Answer: Bennett King.

188. Question: Which baseball fielding position is behind home plate?

Answer: Catcher

189. Question: Which famous golf course is located at Virginia Water, Surrey,
England?
Answer: Wentworth

190. Question: Which leader of a country was linked with trying to Buy Crystal
Palace FC ?
Answer: Colonel Gaddafi
191. Question: In F1 motor racing what flag is displayed by all track marshalls
when a race is to be stopped?
Answer: The red flag

192. Question: How many lanes does an Olympic swimming pool have?
Answer: 8

193. Question: What game is played on a Diamond?

Answer: Baseball

194. Question: In which sport are competitors required to change lanes after
every lap?
Answer: Speed Skating

195. Question: It’s the Oxford and Cambridge boat race this afternoon. What
number race is it?
Answer: 151st (This is out dated)

196. Question: How long is a full-size snooker table?

Answer: 12 feet (4 yards or 3.3676073 metres - precisely)

197. Question: There are four strokes in competitive swimming, breaststroke,

backstroke, butterfly and which other?
Answer: Freestyle

198. Question: In cricket how many runs are scored when the ball hits a helmet
left on the ground by the fielding team?
Answer: Five
199. Question: In 1994 the football league banned an innovation first
introduced by Queen's Park Rangers in 1982, what was it?
Answer: Artificial pitch.

200. Question: Which golfer won the 2002 British Open Championship?
Answer: Ernie Els

201. Question: What is the most popular sport played in Nudist Camps?
Answer: Volleyball
202. Question: The Mosconi Cup is played for in which Sport?
Answer: Pool

203. Question: What does the term 'king pair' mean to a cricketer?
Answer: Out 1st ball in both innings

204. Question: Which now regular items first appeared in the FA Cup final of
1891?
Answer: Nets in the Goalmouth

205. Question: In cycling, who has set a record by winning 6 Tours de France
in succession?
Answer: Lance Armstrong

206. Question: What does the Olympic motto, Citius, Altius, Fortius, literally
translate as?
Answer: Swifter, Higher, Stronger

207. Question: How many countries played in the 2003 cricket world cup?
Answer: Fourteen (Netherlands, Canada, Kenya, Pakistan, Namibia, Sri Lanka,
New Zealand, Bangladesh, West Indies, South Africa, India, England, Zimbabwe
and Australia.
208. Question: Which England player was revealed to have lost £30,000
playing cards during the 2002 World Cup?
Answer: Michael Owen

209. Question: What’s the name of Yorkshire Cricket Club’s ground?

Answer: Headingly

210. Question: In June 1906 where was the world’s first grand prix held?
Answer: Le Mans in France

211. Question: Other than Skiing, in which other sport is there a slalom?
Answer: Canoeing and water ski-ing.

212. Question: Who won the 2004 British Open Golf championship?
Answer: Todd Hamilton

213. Question: In the Six Nations Rugby Tournament which cup is played for
when England and Scotland play?
Answer: Calcutta Cup

214. Question: What do Sumo wrestlers throw into the ring prior to a match?
Answer: Salt

215. Question: What score is denoted by the term ‘bed and breakfast’ in a game
of darts?
Answer: 26
216. Question: What is the famous five-word catchphrase of American boxing
MC Michael Buffer?
Answer: Let's Get Ready To Rumble

217. Question: In Rugby Union, who is Australia's all time record try scorer?
Answer: David Campese

218. Question: Which sporting trophy was held for 132 consecutive years by
the USA?
Answer: The Americas Cup in Yachting (1851 (when it started) until 1983). In
1983 Australia II defeated the United States entry, Liberty, for the first victory by
a non-American boat in the race's history.

219. Question: Which type of weapon fires a quarrel?

Answer: Crossbow

220. Question: What name is given to the coloured uniform of a jockey?

Answer: Silks

221. Question: If your balls are black & blue, what colour are your opponents
balls, in Croquet?
Answer: Red & Green
222. Question: In sport, what can be a maximum of 38 inches long and 4 inches
wide?
Answer: Cricket Bat

223. Question: What was the final score in the 2003 England/Australia rugby
world cup final?
Answer: England won 20-17.

224. Question: What event took place in the Circus Maximus?

Answer: Chariot Racing
225. Question: In what sport are ten pieces of wood separated by a chain?
Answer: Cricket (A chain is a measure of 20 metres)

226. Question: What is the name of Gavin Hastings brother who also played
rugby Union for Scotland?
Answer: Scott Hastings

227. Question: Which sport uses the lightest ball?

Answer: Table Tennis

228. Question: Who is the only person to have won 18 major golf
championships?
Answer: Jack Nicklaus

229. Question: Who was manager of Manchester United immediately before

Sir Alex Ferguson?
Answer: Ron Atkinson

230. Question: Which sporting event is contested from the capital of France to
the capital of Senegal?
Answer: The Paris to Dakar Rally

231. Question: Who said, "Some people believe football is a matter of life and
death.I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much
more important than that.'?
Answer: Bill Shankly - manager of Liverpool 1959 to 1974.

232. Question: In cricket, what would an umpire be signalling if he bent his

arm upwards and touched his nearer shoulder with the tips of his fingers?
Answer: A short run
233. Question: In golf what is the American term for a bunker?
Answer: Sandtrap

234. Question: Of all the 'metric' track events competed for at the Olympics,
World Championships etc, which is closest in total distance to the old mile?
Answer: 4 x 400 meters (One mile is 1,609 metres)

235. Question: In May 2003 the West Indies scored 418 runs, why was this a
landmark?
Answer: It was the highest ever winning fourth innings total in tests

236. Question: In which city is the Gabba cricket ground?

Answer: Brisbane. In Vulture Street, in the suburb of Woolloongabba

237. Question: Which Sport is played by the Boston Red Sox?

Answer: Baseball

238. Question: In equestrianism which event tests the horse's obedience?

Answer: Dessage

239. Question: Which country hosted the 1999 Rugby Union World Cup?
Answer: Wales

240. Question: In Football by what name is or was Edson Arantes do

Nascimento better known?
Answer: Pele
241. Question: What colour flag would a motor racing driver receive if he were
disqualified
Answer: Black
242. Question: In rugby what is bag snatching?
Answer: Squeezing your opponent's testicles while in a ruck.

243. Question: In April 2002, which footballer became the youngest captain of
England since Bobby Moore?
Answer: Michael Owen

244. Question: What nationality is F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen?

Answer: Finnish

245. Question: Which International Rugby Union team has the shortest name?
Answer: Fiji

246. Question: Which golf course staged the 2006 British Open after an
absence of 39 years?
Answer: Hoylake (accept Royal Liverpool)

247. Question: What was Mr. Ferrari's first name?

Answer: Enzo

248. Question: What nationality is England cricket coach Duncan Fletcher?

Answer: Zimbabwean

249. Question: In boxing, what instruction is given by the officials before the
beginning of each round to indicate that everybody apart from the boxers and
referee should leave the ring?
Answer: Seconds out
250. Question: What nationality is the Golfer Padraig Harrington?
Answer: Irish

251. Question: What is the most popular spectator sport in Spain?

Answer: Football. Not Bullfighting

252. Question: In polo, what is used to hit the ball?

Answer: A mallet

253. Question: Before he changed his name, what was Cassius Clay's middle
name?
Answer: Marcellus.

254. Question: At the start of a game of chess, each player has a choice of how
many moves?
Answer: 20 (8 pawns can move 1 or 2 squares and 2 knights can move in 2
directions)

255. Question: Who announced his retirement from the England cricket team,
after playing in no fewer than 128 Tests?
Answer: Alec Stewart

256. Question: Which car manufacture makes the engine for the Mclaren F1
team?
Answer: Mercedes Benz

257. Question: In which city were the 2008 Olympics be held?

Answer: Beijing
258. Question: If you were at The Brickyard what sport would you be
watching?
Answer: Motor Racing (nickname for Indianapolis)

259. Question: Before Arsenal, which is the only other team to go through an
entire top flight league season in England undefeated?
Answer: Preston North End - 1888-89

260. Question: What name is given to a racehorse that has never won a race?
Answer: A maiden

261. Question: Brian Lara holds the world record for runs in a test match – how
many did he score?
Answer: 400 not out
262. Question: What’s the name for descending down sheer faces by sliding
down a rope – as practiced by rock-climbers?
Answer: Abseiling

263. Question: Which English bowler took a hat trick in 2004 against the West
Indies?
Answer: Matthew Hoggard

264. Question: Which formula one driver is the owner of the luxurious
Columbus Hotel in Monaco?
Answer: David Coulthard

265. Question: Before the 2001 tournament, who were the ball boys at
Wimbledon warned not to stare at?
Answer: Anna Kournikova

266. Question: How high is the crossbar on a football goal?

Answer: 8 ft (2.44 metres)
267. Question: In chess, which piece must always stay on the same colour
squares?
Answer: Bishop

268. Question: What starts an ice hockey match?

Answer: A face off

269. Question: Which Paul was named Sports Personality of the Year in 1990?
Answer: Gascoigne

270. Question: Who was Mr Universe between 1978 and 1980?

Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger

271. Question: In gin rummy, how many cards are dealt to each player?
Answer: 10

272. Question: How many laps are there in a normal speedway race - 3, 4 or 5?
Answer: 4

273. Question: How many Grand Prix had Jordan competed in before they won
their first race?
Answer: 127

274. Question: Which tennis player was stabbed while playing against Steffi
Graf in Hamburg in 1993?
Answer: Monica Selles
275. Question: Which American horse race is run at Churchill Downs?
Answer: Kentucky Derby

276. Question: By what name was world champion boxer Walker Smith better
known?
Answer: Sugar Ray Robinson

277. Question: Whose autobiography is entitled Zero to Hero?

Answer: Frank Bruno

278. Question: In which country was tennis player John McEnroe born?
Answer: Germany

279. Question: An Eskimo roll would be seen in which sport?

Answer: Kayaking

280. Question: In which year was the first FIFA World Cup held?
Answer: 1930 (in Uruguay - Uruguay beat Argentina 4-2)

281. Question: In poker what is a hand containing the 2 black aces and the 2
black 8’s called ?
Answer: The Dead Man’s Hand – Wild Bill Hickock was shot and killed whilst
playing poker and his hand contained these cards!
282. Question: The Triathlon consists of swimming, cycling and running, What
is the official total distance in Km?
Answer: 51.5km (1.5km swim, 40km cycle and 10km run). The distance for each
event varies depending on the level of competition. The annual Ironman World
Championship in Hawaii, includes a 3.8km swim, a 179km bicycle race and a
42km marathon (224.8km)
283. Question: In snooker, how many points are scored on the black ball in a
147 break?
Answer: 112

284. Question: What term is used for the distance a golf ball travels from the
tee to first bounce?
Answer: The carry

285. Question: In baseball, how far is it between bases?

Answer: 30 Yards (27.43 metres)

286. Question: Peter Beardsley played one season at Manchester United during
the 1982/83 season. How many goals in total did he score in the league, league
cup, FA cup, UEFA cup and cup winner’s cup (in which he never actually played)
combined?
Answer: 0

287. Question: In Cricket, what is it called if you are out 1st Ball?
Answer: Golden Duck - not Duck

288. Question: At which club did Sir Stanley Mathews begin and finish his
playing career?
Answer: Stoke City

289. Question: What is the maximum number of points that can be scored from
a single shot in billiards?
Answer: 10. (3 for the red, 3 for going in off the red, 2 for the canon and 2 for the
white).

290. Question: In 1987, which Swede became the first man for 40 years to win
a match at Wimbledon without losing a single game?
Answer: Stefan Edberg
291. Question: How many 20 minute sessions are there in a game of ice
hockey?
Answer: 3

292. Question: Who is the only footballer to have played for Manchester
United, Manchester, City, Liverpool and Everton?
Answer: Peter Beardsley

293. Question: Who won the 2001 British Open Golf Championship?
Answer: David Duval

294. Question: Bring on the clown was a book about which footballer
(goalkeeper)?
Answer: Bruce Grobelaar

295. Question: Which footballer's full name (excluding his first name) is Luis
Nazario de Lima?
Answer: Ronaldo

296. Question: What is Golfer Greg Norman’s nickname?

Answer: Great White Shark

297. Question: Which England Cricketer was killed in a Car crash in 2002?
Answer: Ben Hollioak

298. Question: Who are the engine suppliers for the 'Williams' formula 1 team?
Answer: BMW
299. Question: On which card in a pack of playing cards is usually to be found
the maker's mark and the copyright mark?
Answer: Ace of Spades

300. Question: Poland's Stella Walsh (Stanislawa Walasiewicz) won the

women's 100-meter race at the 1932 Olympics, becoming the first woman to
break the 12-second barrier. When she was killed 48 years later in 1980,what
happened?
Answer: A post mortem declared her to be a male.

301. Question: In Bingo, which number is known as The Brighton Line?

Answer: 59
302. Question: The first Test match was played at Melbourne in March 1877
between England and Australia. The first Test in England was against Australia in
September 1880 at the Oval. Which was the next country to play test cricket?
Answer: South Africa in 1889 then West Indies (1928), New Zealand (1930),
India (1932), Pakistan (1952), Sri Lanka (1982), and Zimbabwe (1992).

303. Question: Who Bills himself as the 'Worlds greatest Boxing Promoter'?
Answer: Don King

304. Question: What's the name of the game played by Harry Potter and his
team mates on broomsticks?
Answer: Quidditch

305. Question: Which club did Alex Ferguson leave to go to Manchester

United?
Answer: Aberdeen (in November 1986)

306. Question: Theoretically, what is the minimum number of strokes a player

needs to make to win a set at tennis?
Answer: 12
307. Question: In golf what name is given to the number 10 Iron?
Answer: Pitching Wedge

308. Question: Which small Norwegian town hosted the 1994 Winter
Olympics?
Answer: Lillehammer

309. Question: What is written in big letters on the back of a cricket test
umpire’s shirt?
Answer: Fly Emirates

310. Question: Who defeated Oliver McCall in 1995 to become WBC

Heavyweight champion?
Answer: Frank Bruno

311. Question: Which F1 Team made their Debut in Australia on March 3rd
2002?
Answer: Toyota

312. Question: Which word beginning with "C" is the name given to the
electronic line judge at Wimbledon
Answer: Cyclops

313. Question: In the game of Scrabble, how many letters does each player start
with?
Answer: 7

314. Question: China has won the Swaythling cup more times than any other
country. In which sport is the Swaythling cup played for?
Answer: Table Tennis
315. Question: The Bill Shankly stand can be found at which football club's
ground?
Answer: Preston North End

316. Question: Which famous sportsman said "When you are as great as I am,
it's hard to be humble"?
Answer: Muhammad Ali

317. Question: How man hoops are there on a croquet pitch?

Answer: 6

318. Question: What number shirt does David Beckham wear?

Answer: 23

319. Question: Which chess piece can only move diagonally?

Answer: Bishop

320. Question: Larry Holmes is famous for which sport?

Answer: Boxing

321. Question: Which soccer side had a hit with 'I'm forever blowing bubbles'?
Answer: West Ham United
322. Question: How many red balls are on the table at the start of a frame of
snooker?
Answer: 15

323. Question: Which 2 continents battle it out for the Ryder Cup?
Answer: Europe and USA
324. Question: Which game can be 'lawn' or 'crown green'?
Answer: Bowls

325. Question: Cross country skiing and rifle shooting make up which sport?
Answer: Biathlon

326. Question: Which footballer was also known as 'The Divine Ponytail'?
Answer: Roberto Baggio

327. Question: Which team was Liverpool playing in the 1985 European Cup
Final when the Heysel stadium disaster happened, banning all English clubs from
European Football for 6 years?
Answer: Juventus

328. Question: Which footballer’s autobiography is titled The Good The Bad
and the Bubbly?
Answer: George Best

329. Question: At which ski resort would you see the Cresta Run?
Answer: St. Moritz

330. Question: How many players are there in an Australian Rules football
team?
Answer: 18

331. Question: How many times in succession did Bjorn Borg win the Men's
Tennis Singles at Wimbledon?
Answer: 5
332. Question: In motoring terms what does OHC stand for?
Answer: Overhead Camshaft

333. Question: If you were playing darts and got a 'Shanghai' score of 72 with 3
darts which number have you scored on?
Answer: 12

334. Question: When was the last bare-knuckle fight in professional boxing?
Answer: It took place in 1889. John L(awrence) Sullivan –1858 to 1918 knocked
out Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds.

335. Question: Ron Dennis has been the manager for many years of the team
behind which Formula One motor racing car?
Answer: McLaren

336. Question: In July 2003 Mark Rowe was disqualified at the open, who was
his playing partner who was also disqualified?
Answer: Jesper Parnevik

337. Question: Who is the last English born manager to coach an FA Cup
winning side?
Answer: Joe Royle (1995 - Everton 1 Man. Utd. 0)

338. Question: Constantino Rocca plays which sport?

Answer: Golf

339. Question: In Basketball it’s called a Tip Off, in Football a Kick off what is
it called in Ice Hockey?
Answer: Face off
340. Question: How many holes are there in a ten pin bowling ball?
Answer: 3
341. Question: Who holds the record as being Britain's youngest ever Formula
1 Driver?
Answer: Jensen Button