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Free Sport Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 1
Question 1: In which sport could you find a Night Watchman?
Answer: Cricket
Question 2: What is the second-highest possible checkout in a game of darts?
Answer: 167
Question 3: In 1890, William Townley scored the first hat trick in an FA Cup final, whilst playing for which team?
Answer: Blackburn Rovers
Question 4: What two possible scoring calls from the umpire can follow Advantage in a game of tennis?
Answer: Deuce or Game
Question 5: What sport is played by the Minnesota Twins?
Answer: Baseball
Question 6: What is the white ball called in a game of bowls?
Answer: Jack
Question 7: Mr T appeared in which of the Rocky movies?
Answer: Rocky III
Question 8: Sporting Braga play their league football matches in which country?
Answer: Portugal
Question 9: What fence could you sit on at Aintree?
Answer: The Chair
Question 10: Who is the only man to captain England whilst playing in football's Third Division?
Answer: Ian Botham
Free Sport Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 2
Question 1: Who was the captain of Argentina’s football team at the 2022 World Cup?
Answer: Lionel Messi
Question 2: On the 10th June 1981, at which distance did Sebastian Coe set a World Record time?
Answer: 800m
Question 3: Which striker became the fastest to score 50 goals in the Champions League?
Answer: Erling Haaland
Question 4: In football, who succeeded Steve McClaren as Middlesbrough manager?
Answer: Gareth Southgate
Question 5: Which football team's supporters can be heard chanting “Boing Boing”
Answer: West Brom
Question 6: Against which London club did Alan Shearer score a hat-trick in his debut for Southampton?
Answer: Arsenal
Question 7: What was the first sport screened on ITV, Wrestling or Boxing?
Answer: Boxing
Question 8: Which football team play their home games at Easter Road in Edinburgh?
Answer: Hibernian
Question 9: Is the cheese rolling at Coopers Hill held in Gloucestershire or Somerset?
Answer: Gloucestershire
Question 10: When Usain Bolt ran the 100m at the 2012 Olympics, did his feet only touch the ground for a total of 2 or 3 seconds?
Answer:2 seconds
Free Sport Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 3
Question 1: Pulling the face guard is illegal in what form of football?
Answer: American Football.
Question 2: The Brazilian Grand Prix is held in what city?
Answer: São Paulo.
Question 3: Who is the chairman of Middlesbrough Football Club?
Answer: Steve Gibson.
Question 4: Sabina Park is famous for which sport?
Answer: Cricket.
Question 5: Jules Rimet stood down as president of what football organisation in 1954?
Answer: FIFA.
Question 6: What activity would you be doing if you were using the fartlek method?
Answer: Running – Changing from Sprinting to Jogging.
Question 7: In which sport can you dig, bump, block, spike and pancake?
Answer: Volleyball
Question 8: Hole number 8 of which Scottish golf course is named ‘Postage Stamp’?
Answer: Troon.
Question 9: Mark Twain described what sport as a good walk spoiled?
Answer: Golf
Question 10: Fenway Park is the home to which American sporting team?
Answer: Boston Red Sox.
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Free Sport Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 4
Question 1: What is the nickname of Stoke City F.C.?
Answer: The Potters.
Question 2: Rule 605 relates to broken sticks in which team sport?
Answer: Ice Hockey.
Question 3: Jen Pawol made US sporting history by becoming the first female umpire in which sport?
Answer: Baseball.
Question 4: In motor racing, what colour flag is shown to a car to indicate that another car is trying to overtake?
Answer: Blue.
Question 5: In what sport did Fanny Chmelar compete for Germany?
Answer: Skiing.
Question 6: Footballer Pelé played international football for which country?
Answer: Brazil.
Question 7: Which is the oldest of the five classic English horse races?
Answer: St Leger.
Question 8: How many tournaments make up the Tennis Grand Slam?
Answer: Four.
Question 9: How old are horses running in a nursery event?
Answer: 2 years old
Question 10: Who was the first non-American winner of the US Masters golf tournament?
Answer: Gary Player
Free Sport Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 5
Question 1: What was the nickname of legendary baseball player George Herman Ruth?
Answer: Babe
Question 2: Earl Strickland is a big name in which sport?
Answer: American 9 Ball Pool
Question 3: In American football, which animal is linked to a Chicago team?
Answer: Bears
Question 4: The Pittsburgh Pirates play which American sport?
Answer: Baseball
Question 5: In feet, what is the length of a snooker table?
Answer: 12 feet
Question 6: Which popular sport is played in the John Cain Arena?
Answer: Tennis
Question 7: Which country hosted the first Commonwealth Games in 1930?
Answer: Canada
Question 8: In which sport did the term hat trick originate?
Answer: Cricket
Question 9: In 1934, Spencer Horton became the first-ever winner of which sporting event?
Answer: The Masters
Question 10: What nationality are father and son goalkeepers, Peter and Kasper Schmeical?
Answer: Danish
Free Sport Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 6
Question 1: Graeme Souness played at 3 World Cups with which team
Answer: Scotland
Question 2: Steve Cram and Steve Ovett both held the world record for what non-metric event?
Answer: The Mile
Question 3: The 2012 Miracle at Medinah took place at which sporting event?
Answer: The Ryder Cup
Question 4: Footballer Marc Overmars played internationally for which country?
Answer: Netherlands
Question 5: The logo of which sports brand features 2 people sitting back to back?
Answer: Kappa
Question 6: What is the eighth event of an Olympic Decathlon?
Answer: Pole Vault
Question 7: Who did Ali fight in The Rumble in the Jungle?
Answer: George Foreman
Question 8: Which sportsmen would compete in a Basho?
Answer: Sumo Wrestlers
Question 9: Which sport would you be watching if you saw the Miami Heat play the Utah Jazz?
Answer: Basketball
Question 10: The Harvard Rules govern which sport?
Answer: American Football
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Free Sport Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 7
Question 1: For which sport was Peter O’Sullevan a famous commentator?
Answer: Horse Racing
Question 2: From which wood is the traditional snooker cue made?
Answer: Ash
Question 3: Were Liverpool or Man United the first to score 1000 goals at home in the Premier League?
Answer: Manchester United
Question 4: Which sport featured in the 2000 movie The Legend of Bagger Vance?
Answer: Golf
Question 5: Who was the captain of Liverpool when they won the FA Cup for the first time in 1965?
Answer: Ron Yeats
Question 6: For competitions, are there 8 or 10 pullers in a tug of war team?
Answer: 8
Question 7: In which country are the Wife Carrying World Championship held annually?
Answer: Finland
Question 8: Are horses running in a nursery event 2 or 3 years old?
Answer: 2-year-olds
Question 9: Which is the oldest of the five classic English horse races?
Answer: St Leger
Question 10: Is the Sabre or the Epee the heaviest sword in Olympic fencing?
Answer: Epee
Free Sport Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 8
Question 1: How many Olympic Rings are there?
Answer: Five
Question 2: Add together the numbers found opposite 13 and 15 on a dartboard.
Answer: 8+9=17
Question 3: In which city would you find Heart of Midlothian Football Club?
Answer: Edinburgh
Question 4: In what sport can you be out for a duck?
Answer: Cricket
Question 5: What was the birth name of Mohammad Ali?
Answer: Cassius Clay
Question 6: In what year did Red Rum first win the Grand National?
Answer: 1973
Question 7: Which country has won the most Olympic Gold medals in Ice Hockey?
Answer: Canada
Question 8: Who was the first boxer to beat Ali in a professional fight?
Answer: Joe Frazier
Question 9: The Texas Rangers play which sport?
Answer: Baseball
Question 10: Which country has won the football World Cup the most times?
Answer: Brazil
Free Sport Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 9
Question 1: Which sportsperson has won the most Olympic gold medals in history?
Answer: Michael Phelps
Question 2: In what city are the World Snooker Championship held?
Answer: Sheffield
Question 3: Rory McIlroy has completed the Grand Slam of golf, but which of the Big 4 did he win first
Answer: US Open 2011
Question 4: Fans of which English Premier League football club use the X / Twitter hashtag #YNWA?
Answer: Liverpool #you’ll never walk alone
Question 5: Which Spanish team was the first winner of the European Cup?
Answer: Real Madrid
Question 6: Yogi Bear was named after Yogi Berra, who was a famous star in which American sport?
Answer: Baseball
Question 7: Ella Toone played what sport for England?
Answer: Football
Question 8: What was the score after 90 minutes in the 1966 World Cup Final?
Answer: 2-2
Question 9: Shoulder, toe and face and all areas of which piece of sporting equipment?
Answer: Cricket Bat
Question 10: In what sport can a player be ‘sacked’ during a play?
Answer: American Football
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Free Sport Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 10
Question 1: Horse Racing - On which course is the Coronation Cup run?
Answer: Epsom
Question 2: Wide Receiver is a position in which sport?
Answer: American Football
Question 3: England defender John Stones left Manchester City for which Italian club?
Answer: Inter Milan
Question 4: San Antonia Spurs play which sport?
Answer: Basketball
Question 5: Which female athlete won three gold medals for Great Britain at the 2026 European Championships?
Answer: Amy Hunt
Question 6: In what sport do players wear tops called Guernseys?
Answer: Australian Rules Football
Question 7: Heads or Tails – In tennis finals between Borg and McEnroe, who leads 5-4, Borg or McEnroe?
Answer: John McEnroe
Question 8: Kevin Keegan and David Beckham both famously wore what numbered shirt in football?
Answer: 7
Question 9: Dick Fosbury became famous in which athletics event?
Answer: High Jump
Question 10: Fenway Park is the host to which Baseball team?
Answer: Boston Red Socks
Free Sport Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 11
Question 1: Who did England defeat in the 1966 football World Cup Final?
Answer: West Germany
Question 2: The 1985 Black Ball final was a famous event in which sport?
Answer: Snooker
Question 3: Which Chelsea goalkeeper famously wore a head protector after suffering a skull fracture?
Answer: Petr Čech
Question 4: What sport features in the movie Those Glory Glory Days?
Answer: Football
Question 5: In which sport did Nicola Adams win Olympic gold for GB in London and in Rio de Janeiro?
Answer: Boxing
Question 6: What nationality is Grand Prix racing driver Max Verstappen?
Answer: Dutch
Question 7: The Proclaimers hit Sunshine on Leith is associated with which Scottish football club?
Answer: Hibernian
Question 8: Which British cyclist holds the record for the most stage wins in the Tour De France?
Answer: Mark Cavendish
Question 9: Who scored the first-ever Premier League goal?
Answer: Brian Dean
Question 10: Which football team has won the Premier League at the biggest starting odds at the bookies?
Answer: Leicester 5000/1
Free Sport Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 12
Question 1: Middlesbrough Football Club moved to the Riverside Stadium from which ground?
Answer: Ayresome Park
Question 2: In Rugby Union, which country is known as The Pumas?
Answer: Argentina
Question 3: A hooker in rugby wears what number on his strip?
Answer: 2
Question 4: During normal play, how many people would you find on a cricket pitch?
Answer: 15
Question 5: What is the nickname of Stoke City F.C.?
Answer: The Potters
Question 6: Which Winter Olympic sport features a Brakeman?
Answer: Bobsleigh
Question 7: Is the Kentucky Derby the first, second or third race in the American Triple Crown?
Answer: First
Question 8: Which sporting event celebrated its Centenary in 1975
Answer: Kentucky Derby
Question 9: At which racecourse did Frankie Dettori ride seven winners on the same day in 1996?
Answer: Ascot
Question 10: World Cup winner Messi played football for which country?
Answer: Argentina
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Free Sport Quiz Questions & Answers - Section 13
Question 1: Followers of which football club are known as the Jacks?
Answer: Swansea
Question 2: What was the score in the 1966 World Cup final before the commentator said They think it's all over – it is now?
Answer: 3-2
Question 3: How many players are there in a Curling team?
Answer: 4
Question 4: Which north-east football team lost in two consecutive FA Cup finals in the 1990’s?
Answer: Newcastle United
Question 5: Charlotte Brew was the first woman to ride in which famous horse race?
Answer: Grand National
Question 6: Dr Coburn Haskell developed the ball used in which sport
Answer: Golf
Question 7: Which football league club did cricketer Ian Botham play for?
Answer: Scunthorpe
Question 8: Which sport is played by the Los Angeles Lakers?
Answer: Basketball
Question 9: What was seen for the first time in the 1933 FA Cup Final?
Answer: Shirt Numbers
Question 10: What sport does the movie character Happy Gilmore play?
Answer: Golf
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