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Sport Quiz #359

Sports & Leisure Quiz for 4 December 2015

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Q1. The Superclásico is contested between Boca Juniors and River Plate in Buenos Aires, in what sport?

A
Baseball
B
Football
C
Beach Volleyball
D
Pelotte
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Q2. What is Tiger Woods' first name, really?

A
Mandrake
B
Baldrick
C
Partick
D
Eldrick
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Q3. Where was the starting point for the 2015 Tour de France, for the sixth time?

Note: This question was updated in August 2024
A
Netherlands
B
Belgium
C
Germany
D
UK
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Q4. Who was the first recipient of the Pierre de Coubertin World Fair Play Trophy, awarded since 1965 to honour an athlete or a team for an act of fair play that cost, or could have cost, them victory, or could have downgraded their sport performance?

Note: This question was updated in November 2024
A
Luz Long, 1936 Olympics
B
Emil Zatopek, 1952 Olympics
C
Eugenio Monti, 1964 Winter Olympics
D
Franz Jonas, 1969
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Q5. Which teams contested baseball's American League Championship series in 2009?

A
Milwaukee Brewers and Oakland Athletics
B
Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Indians
C
Texas Rangers and Boston Red Sox
D
New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels
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Q6. Why did Soviet Union athletes not receive any medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics?

A
Limited opportunities for international competition in the preceding two years
B
Training programmes had been depleted by Russian military action in Afghanistan
C
Their nations boycotted the Games
D
Drug contraventions by the winners
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Q7. What is the name of an exhibition basketball team created by Abe Saperstein in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, which grew a focus on athleticism, theatre and comedy?

Note: This question was updated in June 2024
A
Queens Hitchhikers
B
Jersey Pigstrotters
C
Manhattan Wanderers
D
Harlem Globetrotters
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