Sport Quiz #855
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Q1. In the Scripps National Spelling Bee, how many typically go into round three?
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Q2. In the 1984 Summer Olympics, one third of which country's cycling team was found to have been given blood doping transfusions?
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Q3. Egg and spoon races were staged as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II in 2012. When was the earliest recorded reference in the Oxford English Dictionary to an egg and spoon race?
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Q4. The first time that Roger Bannister ran under 4 minutes for a mile at an international meeting was at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, B.C. Which country was he representing?
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Q5. What card game, played usually between 2 players or teams who try to build up collections of cards of the same value, uses 2 packs and four jokers?
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Q6. In Britain, by an act of 1541 (repealed in 1845) artificers, labourers, apprentices and servants were forbidden to play which sport at any time except Christmas, and then only in their master's house and presence?
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Q7. Which English football (soccer) player, whose career playing first class football ran from 1956 to 1973, was England's most capped player (106) when he retired from the England team in 1970?
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