Weekly Sport Quiz

Sports & Leisure Trivia for April 10, 2026

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +1200

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Which of these is a term used in tennis?
1. Clean bowled
2. Volley
3. Struck out
4. Forward pass

One of the oldest known board games involves a grid of thirty squares and sets of pawns, figured in a 1999 video game, and is called what?
1. Go
2. Mehen
3. Senet
4. Chaupar

For what 1988 game was the fictional Chocobo species introduced?
1. Dragon Quest III
2. Final Fantasy II
3. Altered Beast
4. Ninja Gaiden

Where were the first world championships for mountain bike racing, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 1990, held?
1. Turkey Mountain, Tulsa, Oklahoma
2. Oak Mountain State Park, Pelham, Alabama
3. Wetumpka, Alabama
4. Purgatory, Colorado

The first World Championships held by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB, founded in 1949) to be hosted in Southeast Asia were held in 2025 in which countries?
1. Myanmar, and Cambodia
2. The Philippines, and Thailand
3. Timor Leste, and Papua New Guinea
4. Laos, and Vietnam

Which were the first Olympic Games after the inaugural modern Games in 1896 to see the return of Athens as the host country?
1. 2012
2. 1996
3. 2020
4. 2004

In the 2017 Astros sign-stealing scandal in the US, what were the signs being stolen?
1. Signs in changing rooms
2. Street signs
3. Secret signs used by players in a baseball game
4. Signposts holding club logos

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for April 3, 2026

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Babe Ruth played for which Major League Baseball team between 1914 and 1919?
1. Boston Braves
2. New York Yankees
3. Boston Red Sox
4. Chicago White Sox

For a netball net, how high should the top of the ring be from the ground?
1. 5 feet (1.52 m)
2. 10 feet (3.05 m)
3. 8 feet (2.4 m)
4. 12 feet (3.6 m)

What was heavyweight boxer Joe Louis' nickname?
1. Spirit of St Louis
2. The Brown Bomber
3. Muhammad Ali
4. Tricky Dicky

What is used on a greyhound racetrack to induce the dogs to race?
1. A very loud starting gun
2. A moving lure
3. A thrown stick
4. Video of other races

Where were the 1920 Olympic Games held?
1. Antwerp, Belgium
2. Athens, Greece
3. Christchurch, New Zealand
4. Tokyo, Japan

What is the maximum length of a regulation baseball bat?
1. 30 ins (76.2 cm)
2. 42 ins (106.7 cm)
3. 56 ins (142.24 cm)
4. There is no regulation maximum

What is the length of the pontoons, i.e. the floating supports, required by World Rowing for Para Rowing boats?
1. 20 cm (7.87 ins)
2. 93 cm (36.6 ins)
3. 2 m (78.74 ins)
4. 150 cm (59 ins)

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for March 27, 2026

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Which Scotsman, a self-made man, merchant and yachtsman who created a tea brand, was a persistent challenger for the America's Cup?
1. Henry Moore
2. Sir Thomas Lipton
3. Sir Cameron Mackintosh
4. John Loudon McAdam

In 2022 a French professional football player was accused and later penalised by his club, his sponsors and the Magistrates Court for kicking, slapping and throwing objects at what?
1. A sculpture
2. His mother
3. His cat
4. His tortoise

In "Ticket to Ride", what kind of routes can be claimed in the game?
1. Caribou migration trails
2. Dog sled trails
3. Toll motorways
4. Railway

In 2015 there was an upsurge of inaugural national championships in which of these?
1. Drone racing
2. Electric car racing
3. Gumboot throwing
4. Geocaching

The International Olympic Committee removed which two events from the programme for the 2012 Olympic Games in London?
1. Women's weightlifting: Clean and Jerk and Snatch
2. Chess and women's triple jump
3. Solo synchronised swimming and doubles table tennis
4. Baseball and softball

What is the maximum number of individual players for Ludo?
1. 6
2. 4
3. 10
4. 2

The 2005 British Open Golf Tournament, where Jack Nicklaus at age 65 played his last major championship, was held where?
1. Skye
2. Turnberry
3. Troon
4. St Andrews

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for March 20, 2026

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Which World Championship was officially premièred in Budapest, Hungary, in 1982?
1. IAAF World Championship
2. World Figure Skating Championship
3. World Rubik's Cube Championship
4. The Ashes

Who is popularly recognised as being the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes?
1. Allen Newell
2. Roger Bannister
3. Joe Carstairs
4. James Treadwell

On 22 January 1955 sportsman Joe Davis scored the first officially recognised what?
1. Maximum break in a snooker game
2. Hat trick in underwater hockey
3. Record speed in the Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake
4. The first skateboard Caballerial in competition

What USA national championship game, played on a Sunday, is the second-largest US food consumption day after Thanksgiving Day?
1. America's Cup
2. Rose Bowl
3. Super Bowl
4. The Commissioner's Trophy

Hungary, Germany, Austria, countries in the Ottoman Empire, and which other were banned from competing in the first Olympic Games after the end of World War I?
1. Bulgaria
2. Soviet Russia
3. Jabal Shammar
4. Armenia

Who were the winning team at the first World Aerobatic Championships in 1960?
1. USA
2. Hungary
3. Czechoslovakia
4. USSR

Which of these does Cagliari refer to?
1. Fashion design
2. Food
3. Car
4. Football

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for March 13, 2026

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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The Magic World Championships centre on competition in what?
1. Optical illusion
2. Close-up, Stage, Mentalism, Escapology
3. Sleight of hand
4. The trading card game "Magic: The Gathering"

The Hong Kong Sevens, a competition for seven-a-side rugby, has been held at what venue since 1994?
1. John F Kennedy Stadium
2. Wembley Stadium
3. Hong Kong Stadium
4. Lords

When did Yu-Gi-Oh! tournaments turn world-wide with a World Championship?
1. 2023
2. 2000
3. 2003
4. 2025

The IAAF's 2001 World Championship in Athletics was the first to be held in North America. Where was it held?
1. Miami, Florida
2. San Francisco, California
3. Juneau, Alaska
4. Edmonton, Alberta

A "bench press" is used in what activity?
1. Wrestling
2. Wheel-making
3. Furniture making
4. Bodybuilding

What game might call for terms such as "eyes", "dame", "ko" or "liberty"?
1. Go, or Weiqi or Baduk
2. Chinese checkers
3. Backgammon
4. Liubo

Why was Korean short-track speedskater Kim Dong-Sung disqualified from the men's 1500 metre final at the 2002 Olympics?
1. Assaulting an official
2. Using the drug darbepoetin
3. Cross-tracking
4. Making obscene gestures

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for March 6, 2026

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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An ancient American two player war game called Patolli uses 5 or 6 dice together with how many game pieces and what shaped board?
1. 4 pieces, oblong board
2. 64 pieces, square board
3. 12 pieces (6 each), X-shaped board
4. 12 pieces, circular board

Which three times Formula One champion was burnt in a crash in the 1976 F1 World Championship?
1. Niki Lauda
2. Michael Schumacher
3. Jensen Button
4. Scott Dixon

Which of these is an American football team based in Dallas?
1. Barça
2. Cowboys
3. Hibernian
4. Galaxy

In what sport would you use a niblick?
1. Shooting
2. Darts
3. Golf
4. Yachting

How did the aftermath of World War I and the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, affect the 1920 Olympic Games?
1. They provided a source of extra funding
2. They came close to cancelling the Games again
3. They almost resulted in cancellation of the proposed venues
4. They created new states, and sanctioned losers and perceived instigators of the War

What is the William Webb Ellis Cup awarded for?
1. Winning the women's singles at Wimbledon
2. Winning the America's Cup yachting race
3. Winning the Rugby World Cup
4. Winning the world slalom championship

In November 2015 how did Michelle Payne make history?
1. She was the first person to cast a coin in the newly renovated Trevi fountain in Rome
2. She was the first to complete a global loop using only solo human power
3. She was the first female jockey to win Australia's Melbourne Cup
4. She became the first female Australian astronaut

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for February 27, 2026

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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What is the name of the short bar with weights at each end that is sometimes used by bodybuilders?
1. Dumb-bell
2. Dumb-show
3. Dum-dum
4. Dumb-found

The most successful tennis player in WTA rankings (for singles) in July 1978 and (for doubles) in September 1984 was originally a citizen of which country?
1. USA
2. UK
3. Czechoslovakia
4. Germany

What equipment is used in a tug o war contest?
1. Coffee machines
2. Small sturdy boats
3. Cannon
4. A rope

In 1905-6 the New Zealand representative rugby team toured the British Isles, France and North America, winning all matches apart from a loss to Wales, and are now known as what?
1. The Big Bruisers
2. The Antipodeans
3. The Originals
4. The Haka Boys

Why were the Far Eastern Games discontinued after 1934?
1. Tensions, and then war, between China and the host nation Japan
2. The second World War
3. The Asian Games replaced them
4. They were assimilated by the Olympic Games

In the Paris Summer Olympics in 2024, which sport, in the second year it had been included for competition, gave Australia its youngest gold medallist?
1. Sport climbing
2. Skateboarding
3. Karate
4. Surfing

What game is played in 4 quarters between two teams of 18 outdoors on a large oval grass field with two goal posts and two behind posts at each end, where the primary aim of the game is to score by kicking a ball between the posts of the opposing goal?
1. Rugby Union
2. Australian football
3. Rugby League
4. Cricket

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for February 20, 2026

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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At the 1996 Olympics, what did Carl Lewis become the fourth person to do?
1. Miss a medal award ceremony
2. Run in bare feet
3. Win 9 gold medals
4. Assault an official

"Stumping-gate" in July 2023 involved which two cricketing teams?
1. India and Pakistan
2. West Indies and Pakistan
3. Australia and England
4. New Zealand and Sri Lanka

Which card game is thought to have introduced the joker card?
1. Piquet
2. Zwicker
3. Triomphe
4. Euchre

What does "FA" stand for in the phrase "The FA Cup"?
1. First Archery
2. Free Arthur
3. Fine Antique
4. Football Association

Twenty years after the NFL began formally to review effects of injuries from repetitive play-related head blows e.g. CTE in NFL players, researchers in 2015 announced they had found CTE in what percentage of deceased NFL players examined?
1. 50
2. 96
3. 72
4. 34

The heel of the forward foot must contact the ground before the toe of the rear foot leaves it is a rule of which sport?
1. Walking
2. Triple jump
3. Discus
4. Shot

Which of these is the 1995 WBC Heavyweight champion who wrote the autobiography "Frank: Fighting Back" with the assistance of Kevin Mitchell?
1. Frank Bruno
2. Frank Sinatra
3. Frank Zappa
4. Frank Capra

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for February 13, 2026

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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The TT on the Isle of Man, first run in 1907, is for what?
1. Cars with drivers who don't drink alcohol
2. Motorcycles
3. Table top model train races
4. Visa processing services for European travel

What country was Ben Johnson representing when he was stripped of his gold medal at the 1988 Olympics for taking banned steroids?
1. Canada
2. Russia
3. Germany
4. USA

Where is the race hailed as the world's longest toughest horse race, of 1000 km and modelled on the postal service established by Genghis Khan?
1. Mongolia
2. Australia
3. Thailand
4. Sri Lanka

In 2022 which football team became the first African team to reach the semi-finals of the men's World Cup?
1. Senegal
2. Niger
3. Egypt
4. Morocco

When were the first Far Eastern Games, now replaced by the Asian Games, held?
1. 1982
2. 1913
3. 1962
4. 1926

When were the first modern Olympic Games to hold competition in a winter sport?
1. 1896
2. 1924
3. 1908
4. 1936

In 2005 what did Dame Ellen MacArthur's name become known for internationally?
1. Fastest solo non-stop sailing circumnavigation of the globe
2. First British woman to win the Transpacific Yacht Race
3. First woman to design the winning yacht in the America's Cup
4. She publicly announced her preventive mastectomy

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for February 6, 2026

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Which city hosted the first Winter Olympics awarded to Canada?
1. Calgary
2. Albertville
3. Sarajevo
4. Lillehammer

The inaugural day-night cricket test game played at the Oval, Adelaide, Australia, in November 2015 was played between Australia and which other country?
1. New Zealand
2. England
3. Sri Lanka
4. India

Beginning in 2006 the World Badminton Championships have been held how often?
1. Every four years
2. Annually
3. Biennially
4. Annually except in a year when the Summer Olympics are held

What two teams were the first to compete in the Major League World Series in the USA in 1903?
1. New York Yankees; Kansas City Royals
2. Cincinnati Reds; Cleveland Naps
3. McGraw's Giants; Philadelphia A's
4. Boston Americans (later the Boston Red Sox); Pittsburgh Pirates

Which alpine ski racer was World Cup champion in 1967 and 1968, won the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing with a sweep of the three gold medals for downhill, giant slalom and slalom at the 1968 Winter Olympics, and then retired?
1. Jean-Claude Killy
2. Henri Oreiller
3. Gustav Thöni
4. Billy Kidd

Where are the headquarters of the World Backgammon Association, founded in 2001?
1. Malta
2. Monaco
3. USA
4. Portugal

Which of these is a weightlifter who won Olympic golds in 1992 (Barcelona) in the - 90 kg class, 1996 (Atlanta) in the - 99 kg class and 2000 (Sydney) in the - 94 kg class?
1. Koo Stark
2. Kakhi Kakhiashvili
3. Karen Carpenter
4. Kim Kardashian

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for January 30, 2026

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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What motive power does a yacht commonly use?
1. Wind
2. Steam
3. Manned oars
4. AV fuel

Standard rules in most international table football competitions under the International Federation (ITSF), prohibit which of these?
1. Taking time out
2. Chanting insults at the competition
3. Jumping up and down to shake the table
4. "Over 360-degree shots", or "spinning"

Which of these was a heavyweight boxing champion who was nicknamed "the Ambling Alp"?
1. Luigi Musina
2. Primo Carnera
3. Paulino Uzcudun
4. Max Baer

When Kobe Bryant of the Lakers played the farewell game of his 20 year NBA career in 2016 what was his score as part of his side's 101-96 win?
1. 81
2. 60
3. 25
4. NIL

In 2001, discomfort between the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and the relatively new Union of European Leagues of Basketball (ULEB) over control of European club competition, flared with ULEB's taking over what?
1. Basketball Champions League
2. EuroChallenge
3. EuroLeague
4. EuroCup

How many players are there on each team for Gaelic football, hurling and camogie?
1. 10
2. 15
3. 18
4. 5

When a man was jousting in a medieval contest what did he use?
1. Bow and arrow
2. Sword
3. Lance and horse
4. Net and trident

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for January 23, 2026

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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What is the regulation space in a croquet hoop?
1. Maximum 11/32" (8.7mm) wider than the largest ball used in a game
2. 1/32" (0.8mm) on each side of the largest ball used in a game
3. 2.5mm wider than the average size of ball used in a game
4. 3mm wider than the average size of ball used in a game

Which of these is a card game popular with children?
1. Bang
2. Crackle
3. Pop
4. Snap

How many teams have ever entered the Olympic Lacrosse competitions?
1. 5
2. 15
3. 20
4. 25

The Museum and sculpture garden, established in 1993 in Ouchy south of Lausanne, is the largest archive in the world of what memorabilia?
1. Pogo sticks
2. Olympic Games
3. Propelling pencils
4. Ponytails

Which of these is a shooting target?
1. Clay pigeon
2. China eagle
3. Concrete sparrow
4. Wooden thrush

1895 marked the first what for the International Cycling Association World Championships?
1. First races for which gold medals were presented
2. Championship held
3. Championship races for women
4. Championship races open to professionals

The Borg-Warner Trophy is symbolic of victory for what sporting event?
1. The Indianapolis 500 automobile race
2. Wimbledon Men's Singles
3. PGA Golf Tournament, St Andrew's, Scotland
4. Rugby World Cup

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for January 16, 2026

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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What country developed the ancient team sport of kho kho, for which a World Cup had its inaugural tournament in 2025?
1. Australia
2. Canada
3. UK
4. India

What term is applied to a left-handed boxer?
1. Pugilist
2. Leftie
3. Sinister type
4. Southpaw

Where were the Commonwealth Games held in 2014?
1. London, UK
2. New Delhi, India
3. Glasgow, Scotland
4. Sydney, Australia

How many skips does a stone have to make within the marked area in order to be counted in official stone skimming competitions?
1. One
2. Three
3. Two
4. Four

Who was the first General Secretary of the International Olympic Committee, and later its President serving until 1925?
1. Cyrano de Bergerac
2. Baron de Coubertin
3. Guy de Maupassant
4. Charles de Gaulle

What NZ thoroughbred racehorse, foaled in 1925 by the brood mare Marsa and the sire of Phar Lap, was the first horse to win both the Melbourne Cup and Cox Plate in the same year?
1. Phar Lap
2. Night Raid
3. Nightmarch
4. White Nose

In which computer game is there a player in the role of "The Stranger", who uses a special book to travel to an island and thence to several worlds known as "Ages"?
1. Myst
2. The SIMS
3. Riven
4. Grand Theft Auto

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for January 9, 2026

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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Which degenerative disorder is found in professional athletes in the fields of boxing, American football, association football, ice hockey, professional wrestling, stunt performing, bull riding, bicycle motocross and rodeo as a result of their sport?
1. Wernicke's encephalopathy
2. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
3. Ischaemic heart disease
4. Multiple sclerosis

MuZero, building on the AlphaZero algorithm, was developed to learn to play board games, but under what conditions?
1. Not being pre-programmed with the rules
2. It had the ability to break the rules
3. It was programmed with the aim and the pieces but not with the play area
4. It was programmed with the pieces and the play area but not with the aim

South African-born English cricketer Kevin Pietersen was dropped from the England team in August 2012. What was the reported reason?
1. For texting while waiting at the crease
2. For using his official bat as a prop for runner beans
3. For sending controversial messages about his team mates to an opposing team
4. For not moderating his South African accent

Which African American athlete's career included competing in front of Adolf Hitler?
1. Muhammad Ali
2. Ben Johnson
3. Jesse Owens
4. Floyd Patterson

Who is credited with the invention of the precursor to modern boxing gloves?
1. Jack Broughton (1704 - 1789)
2. Jack Johnson (1769 - 1789)
3. Billy Edwards (1844 - 1907)
4. Jake Kilrain (1859 - 1937)

What was the cause of the disqualification of Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall at Mexico City in 1968, the first as a result of failing a doping test at an Olympic Games?
1. Beer
2. Barbiturates
3. Steroids
4. Marijuana

In 2023, World Aquatics formalised its intention to relocate its headquarters from Lausanne, Switzerland, to where?
1. Budapest, Hungary
2. Antananarivo, Madagascar
3. Almaty, Kazakhstan
4. Vaduz, Liechtenstein

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for January 2, 2026

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1300

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What was the Global Challenge, run every four years from 1992 to 2004/5?
1. A round the world yacht race
2. A geocaching race across the globe
3. A challenge to climb the 7 Summits
4. A round-the-world hot air balloon race

Who, at the beginning of 2016, held the record for most number of weeks in golfing's World Top 10?
1. Phil Mickelson
2. Ernie Els
3. Tiger Woods
4. Henrik Stenson

In athletics, what name is used for the preliminary races that precede quarter-finals or semi-finals?
1. Cools
2. Tepids
3. Heats
4. Hots

With which sport is O J Simpson associated?
1. Soccer
2. Baseball
3. American football
4. Ice hockey

Which Grand Prix, that had taken place during 31 years at the same circuit, was dropped from the 2009 Formula One Championship?
1. United States Grand Prix
2. French Grand Prix
3. Canadian Grand Prix
4. European Grand Prix

In 1950 what was the stadium, rebuilt on the site of an earlier stadium from 1922 and eventually demolished in 2002, the home of the professional American Football teams the Baltimore Colts and the Baltimore Ravens?
1. Memorial Stadium (Babe Ruth Stadium)
2. Nickerson Field
3. Alumni Stadium
4. Fenway Park

What was the reason for the venue for the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships to be abruptly shifted in early 2022 to Melbourne, Australia?
1. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February
2. Finance difficulties forced the original venue to withdraw
3. A wave of CoViD-19 swept through the original venue
4. An earthquake on the site of the original venue

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for December 26, 2025

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +1300

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Which of these items was invented in Budapest?
1. Basketball
2. Volleyball
3. Rubik's Cube
4. Monopoly

From 2015 to 2023, the All-Russia Athletic Federation (now the Russian Athletics Federation) was prevented from fielding athletes under the Russian flag for competition in World Athletics (WA) events; what was the reason?
1. Russia declined to pay WA subscriptions
2. The Federation had been disbanded
3. Russia boycotted WA events
4. Doping violations

Which British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team won four drivers' and two constructors' world championships in its 30-year Formula One history?
1. McLaren
2. Brabham (Motor Racing Developments Ltd)
3. Williams
4. Jordan

Who was President of the International Olympic Committee when the 2000 Games were held in Sydney, Australia?
1. Baron de Coubertin
2. Juan Antonio Samaranch
3. Spiridon Louis
4. Carl Schuhmann

Why were the World Games established?
1. To provide for international competition by board gamers
2. To provide for competition by nations which had boycotted the Olympic Games
3. To provide a world forum for competition in sporting disciplines not contested in the Olympic Games
4. As a forerunner to international e-sports competition

What sport do players in Super League Europe compete in?
1. Soccer
2. Rugby league
3. Gridiron football
4. Lacrosse

Where is the international governing body of powerboating (UIM) based?
1. France
2. Monaco
3. Germany
4. USA

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for December 19, 2025

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +1300

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What is the next in this series: Sarajevo, Calgary, Albertville ...?
1. Salt Lake City
2. Nagano
3. Lillehammer
4. Turin

Why was the EnduroGP World Championship 2025 round in Romania cancelled?
1. An outbreak of African swine fever
2. Lack of sponsorship
3. The course and specialist areas could not be completed in time
4. Security concerns

How is duplicate bridge played?
1. The same deal is played again by another set of players
2. Players are each dealt a second hand from another pack of cards
3. The game is played without court cards
4. Players swap partners

The powerboating championship for jetskis and runabouts, UIM-ABP Aquabike World Championship, is run in five disciplines, being freestyle, jet raid, closed circuit, endurance and which other?
1. Slalom
2. Breakaway
3. Chilean
4. Offshore

In US sport, what do the initials MLB stand for?
1. Major League Baseball
2. Minor League Basketball
3. Most Liked Batter
4. Multi-level Baseball

What is the maximum width for a cricket bat under International Cricket Council (ICC) rules?
1. There is no officially prescribed width
2. 4.25 ins (10.8 cm)
3. 6 ins (15 cm)
4. 8 ins (20.3 cm)

Backgammon is a game for how many players?
1. 4
2. 1
3. 2
4. 8

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for December 12, 2025

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +1300

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After two previous world championship meets, in what year were the official IAAF "1st World Championships in Athletics" held?
1. 2001
2. 1970
3. 1999
4. 1983

What were the grounds for the debate about whether Russian athletes would be allowed to participate in the 2016 Olympic Games?
1. Irregularities alleged in the 2012 Olympics in Russia
2. Revelations about longstanding, state-sponsored and systematic doping among Russian Olympic athletes
3. Concern about Russian current military confrontations with many of the countries participating
4. Security difficulties following threats against Russia by Daesh/ISIS extremists

Drones encased in orbs with coloured LED lights are an intrinsic part of what?
1. Walmart fairy lights
2. Events in Christkindlesmarkt in Nuremberg
3. Cheerleading at Red Bull Flugtag competitions
4. Drone soccer

In sport what does "OBP" measure?
1. How often a baseball batter reaches base per plate appearance
2. How many times a hole in a golf round is reached with one stroke
3. The force applied to a tennis ball in a professional match
4. How many times a tiddlywinks counter lands on target

Brian Lochore was coach to the New Zealand team in the first World Cup in 1987 for what sport?
1. Handball
2. Tennis
3. Swimming
4. Rugby

Which of these is a boxing classification?
1. Overweight
2. Longweight
3. Featherweight
4. Outhwaite

How high, including a landing mat of about 20 cm thick, should a pommel horse be?
1. 100 cm
2. 115 cm
3. 130 cm
4. 150 cm

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for December 5, 2025

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Tenzing Norgay was famous for his activities in what field?
1. Mountaineering
2. Beekeeping
3. Pop singing
4. Manufacture of alpine equipment

In the final Test match of his career, international cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan became the first bowler to take 800 Test wickets. What nation did he represent?
1. India
2. Sri Lanka
3. Bangladesh
4. Pakistan

Mancala is an ancient family of games played with what?
1. Animal heads
2. Small sticks
3. Pebbles, seeds or similar
4. A ball and scoop

The first World Championships were organised in 2006 for wrestling in what kind of environment?
1. Underwater
2. On a beach
3. In clown costumes
4. On grass

What was the original name of the board game invented by Elliot Rudell, similar to Scrabble, whereby letters can be stacked on top of others to create new words?
1. Funworder
2. Boggle
3. Upwords
4. 3D Cross

Battle of the Year, for which a solo category was inaugurated in 2009, is for competition in what discipline?
1. Frog racing
2. Robot e-sports
3. Breakdancing
4. Kite flying

What sport was Thierry Sabine, who founded the Paris-Dakar Rally in 1977, most involved with at the time?
1. Car racing
2. Motorcycle racing
3. Golf
4. Yachting

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for November 28, 2025

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Which was the first modern Olympic Games in France, Pierre de Coubertin's home country?
1. 1900
2. 1924
3. 1968
4. 1992

Breakdancing, or breaking, was first included for competition at which Summer Olympics?
1. 2016
2. 2020
3. 2024
4. 2000

Which of these sports has a Doubles variety?
1. Biathlon
2. Snowboarding
3. Cross country skiing
4. Luge

The team from which country won the 2014 ICU World Cheerleading Championship in the All Girl Elite and Coed Elite categories?
1. USA
2. Chile
3. Philippines
4. New Zealand

With which sport is Brett Favre associated?
1. American football
2. Synchronised swimming
3. Diving
4. Gymnastics

What game is played on a table 9 feet (2.74 m) by 5 feet (1.525 m), 2 foot 6 inches (76 cm) above the floor, divided by a net 6 inches (15.25 cm) high?
1. Petanque
2. Quoits
3. Roulette
4. Table tennis

Commander Shepard, Jacob Taylor, Miranda Lawson, Thane Krios, Grunt, Jack, Mordin Solus, Samara, Morinth, Legion, Zaeed Messani, Garrus Vakarian and Tali'Zorah Vas Neema are characters in which computer game?
1. Death Wish III
2. Warcraft IV
3. Doom II
4. Mass Effect 2

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for November 21, 2025

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Which of these is an activity that involves jumping with a parachute?
1. B.A.S.E. jumping
2. BMX
3. Triple jump
4. Camogie

Which is a game to guess a five-letter word, picking from letters supplied and feedback as to when letters are in the word, placed correctly or not in the word at all?
1. Wordle
2. Wordful
3. Wordaholic
4. Wordable

Which card game involves 2 teams of 2 players aiming to reach 7 points, with each trick taken above 6 counting as 1 point, using 52 cards, all dealt except the last, which is turned up as trumps?
1. Poker
2. Five Hundred
3. Whist
4. Blackjack

What origin is quoted for what became the sport of air hockey?
1. Funicular railways
2. Fun fair diversions
3. Bullet trains
4. Conveyor technology to allow heavy objects to slide

Which is a move in chess?
1. Castle
2. Knight
3. Bishop
4. Pawn

Which was the glider which won for Sweden the, arguably, first two world Gliding Championships, in 1948 and 1950?
1. DFS Weihe
2. Fafnir São Paulo
3. Slingsby Type 34 Sky
4. Slingsby T.25 Gull 4

Kyorugi is a discipline in which World Championships?
1. Karate
2. Judo
3. Sumo
4. Taekwondo

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for November 14, 2025

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What is sumo?
1. Full-contact wrestling
2. A Japanese musical instrument
3. An ancient board game
4. A rival to Lego

How often are High Speed Telegraphy World Championships usually held?
1. Every 10 years
2. Biannually
3. Every four years
4. Every two years

Where was an interim Olympic Museum, library and Studies Centre opened in 1982?
1. Barcelona, Spain
2. Paris, France
3. Lausanne, Switzerland
4. Athens, Greece

What is the name for the event of 750 m swim, 20 km bike, 5 km run in elite races in the annual World Triathlon Championship series?
1. Super sprint
2. Standard
3. Sprint
4. Short

The game of Rummikub, invented in the 1930s and later developed in Israel, is played with tiles; which describes best how many are needed?
1. 32
2. 52 pairs
3. 106
4. 12 sets of 4

When injury stopped Ben Stokes from captaining the England cricket team for the test series against Sri Lanka in 2024, who captained in his place?
1. Harry Brook
2. Jacob Bethell
3. Ollie Pope
4. Jos Buttler

Which board game has horse pieces?
1. Backgammon
2. Battleships
3. Chinese checkers
4. Chess

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for November 7, 2025

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Which are requirements for the stones which are to be used in the annual World Stone Skimming Championships on Easdale Island, Scotland?
1. The stone must be no thicker than 30 cm
2. The stone must be sourced on the island and be no lighter than 200 gm
3. The stone must be of naturally formed greywacke
4. The stone must be of naturally formed Easdale slate, no more than 3 inches at its widest point

In 2001, who became the first golfer to hold all four major championship titles at the same time?
1. Luke Donald
2. David Duval
3. Vijay Singh
4. Tiger Woods

Solitaire is typically for how many players?
1. As many as can be fitted around the board
2. One
3. One, plus two to hold the hoop
4. Four

In what sport is the item which is played by the contestants stipulated to be 1.2 inch (30 mm) thick, 3.51 inches (80 mm) in diameter, and in the adult size weighs 2.9lb (1.3kg)?
1. Skeet shooting
2. Ice hockey
3. Underwater hockey
4. Conkers

Torvill and Dean are famous in which winter activity?
1. Ski jump
2. Ice hockey
3. Curling
4. Figure skating

What kind of World Championships requires mats, jacks, centre blocks (for short mat play), special shoes and sets of biased balls weighted on one side?
1. Chinese Checkers
2. Indoor croquet
3. Indoor Bowls
4. Curling

When was the Vendée Globe single-handed, non-stop, unassisted round the world yacht race established?
1. 2019
2. 1949
3. 1989
4. 1896

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for October 31, 2025

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How many sports were contested in the first Winter Olympics?
1. Sixteen
2. Five
3. Three
4. Eleven

For WWE, the integrated media and sports entertainment company, what does "WWE" stand for?
1. World Wildlife Exercises
2. World Wide Enterprises
3. World Wrestling Entertainment
4. Wrestling World Entrepreneurs

The yachts in the around-the-world Ocean Race, run every three or four years and lasting up to 9 months with a route varied to suit the particular year, have departed from where since 2008?
1. Antananarivo, Madagascar
2. Portsmouth, UK
3. Hobart, Australia
4. Alicante, Spain

The ICSD officially joined WADA in 2006 in connection with what?
1. Deaflympics
2. Heats to determine cycling candidates for Olympic Games
3. Supply of medications and equipment for snow sports in the Paralympics
4. Design of diet regimes

Who was the first British golfer from the Bailiwick of Jersey to win the US Open?
1. Tony Jacklin
2. Nick Faldo
3. Edward Ray
4. Harry Vardon

Zara Phillips, the daughter of Princess Anne of the UK, is associated most with which of these?
1. Wig making
2. Board sailing
3. Singing
4. Horses

The 1956 Winter Olympics in Italy unusually, up to then, relied on what?
1. Ticket pre-sales from more than a year in advance
2. Input from neighbouring countries
3. Corporate sponsorship
4. Spreading events across multiple cities.

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for October 24, 2025

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In 2024, actors and friends Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman bought which sporting team?
1. Townsville Crocodiles basketball
2. Olympique Lyonnais Féminin
3. Liverpool F.C.
4. Australia SailGP

Which better describes the game of Scrabble?
1. Foxhunting
2. War game
3. Word game
4. Ball game

The World Championships overseen originally by ISAF since 2003 are competitions in several events contested at the Summer Olympics in what discipline?
1. Skiing
2. Skating
3. Sailing
4. Slalom kayaking

In what sporting discipline are mandatory features known as "attack mode" and "pit boost" used?
1. Beach volleyball
2. Indy Car
3. e-Sports
4. Formula E

What way is it NOT acceptable to move a Grand Prix bike to a race track?
1. Transport it by water
2. Airlift it
3. Ride it by public road
4. By truck or train

Where are soksom and degor traditional and popular sports?
1. Bhutan
2. Vietnam
3. Mongolia
4. Nepal

A famous round-robin chess tournament, one of the first super tournaments, was conducted in Hastings in England from August 5 to September 2 of what year?
1. 1927
2. 1841
3. 1851
4. 1895

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Sports & Leisure Trivia for October 17, 2025

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +1300

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Which World Championship, first held in 1989, involved balls, hoops and mallets?
1. Croquet
2. Netball
3. Hockey
4. Water polo

What was the nickname of the defending champion in the 2014 World Snooker Championship?
1. The Rocket
2. The Jester from Leicester
3. Interesting
4. On-Fire

What is a Panigale?
1. An old type of mudguard for racing trucks
2. A family of sport motorcycles manufactured by Ducati since 2011
3. A hatch for sports yachts
4. A food crew to support pit teams for motorcycle contests

Which was unusual about the Olympic Games scheduled for 1940?
1. The first to include venues in Asia
2. The first to take place entirely outside Europe
3. The first to be held across multiple venues
4. The first where the Winter and Summer Games were not held in the same year

The modern Olympic Games are named after games held originally in what country?
1. Greece
2. China
3. Iran (Persia)
4. Italy

In 2020, a revised version of both Warcraft III and its expansion, The Frozen Throne, was released under what name?
1. Warcraft III: Reforged
2. Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
3. Warcraft III: Remastered
4. Warcraft IV

The sport which occurs usually on a snowy straight, or L- or U-shaped, or oval, track anywhere from 600 to 1,000 ft long (183 to 305 m) with skiers pulled behind horses, dogs, other animals or motorised vehicles, with or without slaloms, is known as what?
1. Ski-orienteering
2. Skijoring
3. Pulka
4. Freeride skis

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