Set 06 Flashcards
The Maillot jaune, or Yellow jersey, is the jersey worn by the leader of the Tour de France. What is the equivalent name, in English or Italian, of the jersey worn by the leader of the Giro d’Italia?
Maglia rosa (or Pink jersey)
Discovered in 2005, and sharing its name with the daemon of lawlessness in Greek mythology, what is the name of the only known satellite of the dwarf planet Eris?
Dysnomia
Although not primarily thought of as a dramatist, who wrote the 1941 surrealist play Desire Caught By the Tail?
Pablo Picasso
In his 1697 work A New Voyage Round the World, William Dampier writes of a real-life marooned man named only as Will, of the Miskito people of Central America. It is believed by scholars that Will was the inspiration for which literary character?
Man Friday
Related to the spaniel and bearing strong resemblances to the spaniel and setter families, which breed of dog, originating in the Netherlands, is named after one of the varieties of fowl that it was bred to hunt?
Dutch Partridge Dog (or Drentse Patrijshond)
The 2008 European Grand Prix was held at the street circuit in which city?
Valencia
Its name may well be considered appropriate as, at 87 hours long, which 1987 John Henry Timmis IV movie holds the world record for the longest ever film?
The Cure for Insomnia
In the United States, a felony is a crime punishable by more than one year in jail whilst a misdemeanor is a crime punishable by between five days and one year in jail. What name is given to a crime punishable by fewer than five days in jail?
Infraction
Which American triple jumper, who won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, is the only athlete other than Jonathan Edwards to have recorded a non-wind assisted, legal jump of over 18 metres?
Kenny Harrison
In Hindu mythology, the world rests upon the elephant Maha-pudma that is, in turn, supported by which turtle (or sometimes a tortoise) that swims through Ksheera Sagara?
Chukwa
Written sometime between 500 BC and 200 AD, the Chinese text Chou Pei Suan Ching contains what is, perhaps, the earliest known visual proof of which theorem that is known as the Gougu theorem in China and as the Bhaskara theorem in India?
Pythagoras’ Theorem
Although part of its territory was in modern-day Austria, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Roman province of Pannonia was located mostly over the territory of which country?
Hungary
Of the 14 species of birds known collectively as ‘Darwin’s finches’ thirteen reside on the Galápagos Islands. On which island, off the coast of Costa Rica, does the fourteenth reside?
Cocos Island
This name is given to any of several forms of a gene, usually arising through mutation, that are responsible for hereditary variation. In almost all animal cells, two for each gene are inherited, one from each parent. Which name?
Allele
What did Nancy Zerg do on American television on 30 November 2004 that 149 others had tried, and failed, to do?
Defeat Ken Jennings on Jeopardy!
John Ford is famously the only person to win four Academy Awards for Best Director. For half a point each, which two directors each won three Academy Awards for Best Director?
William Wyler and Frank Capra
Although they have since announced their divorce, the Australian actress and singer Natalie Imbruglia married which musician in a beach ceremony in Port Douglas, Queensland on New Year’s Eve in 2003?
Daniel Johns
With a name meaning ‘great city’ and established in the twelfth century by King Jayavarman VII, which was the last and most enduring capital of the Khmer Empire?
Angkor Thom
The name of which disease, which means ‘siphon’ in Greek in reference to one of its most notable symptoms, was coined by the ancient physician Aretaeus of Cappadocia?
Diabetes
What was the name given to the secret research and development laboratories in the Soviet Gulag labour camp system where prisoners, picked from various camps and prisons, were assigned to work on scientific and technological problems for the state?
Sharashkas
Which Dutch preacher founded the Roman Catholic community known as the Brethren of the Common Life in the 14th Century?
Geert Groote
Sharing a name with an Asian capital city, what name was given to a penannular armlet, usually made of bronze or copper, which served as a form of money amongst certain West African tribes from ancient times until the early 20th Century?
Manilla
Which modern sport is thought to have been inspired by, and incorporated rules from, the mediaeval children’s game Duck on a Rock that combined tag and marksmanship?
Basketball
Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky, is found in which southern constellation that takes its name from the Latin for ‘keel’?
Carina
In what year was Anwar Sadat assassinated?
1981
The German composer and pioneer of electronic music Oskar Sala used a personally adapted version of the trautonium to create the celebrated non-musical soundtrack of which 1963 film?
The Birds
Deriving from the Akkadian for “to build on a raised area”, what name was given to the temple towers of the ancient Mesopotamian valley that took the form of terraced pyramids of successively receding levels?
Ziggurats
Founded in 1944 as a manufacturer of steel tubing and bicycles, which car maker has a name that can be translated into English as ‘Rising out of Asia’?
Kia
Which South African cream liqueur, made with the fruit of the tree Sclerocarrya birrea, known locally as the elephant tree or marriage tree, is now the world’s second best-selling cream liqueur, outsold only by Bailey’s Irish Cream?
Amarula
According to Alexander Pushkin in his preface to the fantasy poem Ruslan and Lyudmila, which child-eating witch-like character of Slavic folklore dwells in a “cabin on chicken legs… with no windows and no doors”?
Baba Yaga
The tumbi is a traditional Punjabi instrument with how many strings?
One
Located in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, and sharing its name with an English county, which is the world’s largest uninhabited island?
Devon Island
Founded in 1952, which sports entertainment company has its headquarters at 1241 East Main Street in Stamford, Connecticut?
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
The Argentine author Manuel Puig, who would later write The Kiss of the Spider Woman, penned his first novel in 1968. Its title alluded to a Hollywood actress whose final film role was in the 1972 western The Wrath of God. The title of the novel was Betrayed by… whom?
Rita Hayworth
Several figures in the scientific community have proposed that the Renaissance painter Michelangelo may well have suffered from HFA. Currently, there is little consensus as to the extent of the overlap between HFA and Asperger’s syndrome. For what do the letters HFA stand?
High-functioning autism
Similar in size to a domestic cat and named after a 19th Century French zoologist, which cat species that inhabits the Andes, Pampas and the Gran Chaco is the most common wild cat species in South America?
Geoffroy’s Cat
Until well into the 20th Century this record was held by Mount Everest and until 2001 the record was held by Lhotse Middle. What record is now held by Gangkhar Puensum, a mountain in Bhutan with an elevation of 7570 metres?
The world’s highest unclimbed mountain
Although Nautalius and Novatian are sometimes considered this, Hippolytus, who died in around 235 AD, is commonly recognised as the first person to be described by what title?
Antipope
Who did the actor Michael Massee shoot and kill on 31st March 1993?
Brandon Lee
Premiering in Dresden in 1901, Manru was the only opera by which Polish composer?
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
The Bolivian President Evo Morales is the most high profile member of which ethnic group that lived in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America for over 2,000 years before becoming a subject people of the Inca, and later of the Spanish?
Aymara
Rolas is the third largest island of which island nation?
São Tomé and Príncipe
For many years there was a gap in the periodic table between molybdenum (element 42) and ruthenium (element 44) although many of its properties were predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev. Officially discovered at the University of Palermo in 1937, what is the name of element 43, the lightest chemical element with no stable isotope?
Technetium
It is a signaling pathway, implicated in the development of certain cancers, and is one of the key regulators of animal development conserved from flies to humans. What creature gives its name to this pathway that has three homologues in mammals, the best known of which is the Sonic?
Hedgehog
Radio Bemba Sound System are the backing group of which French-born singer and political activist of Spanish origin whose most recent album, La Radiolina, was released in 2007?
Manu Chao
Examples include ‘halfwit’, as a halfwit is neither a half nor a wit, and ‘hatchback’. What word, deriving from the Sanskrit for ‘much rice’, do linguists give to this type of nominal compound that refers to something that is not specified by any of its parts by themselves?
Bahuvrihi
Which late-Pleistocene and Holocene culture, that settled along the coast of present day Ecuador between 8000 BC and 4600 BC, shares its name with a well-known U.S. City?
Las Vegas culture
It is often said that the pig is the only mammal other than humans to suffer from sunburn. This may come as some surprise to Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, a rodent for whom sunburn is a major problem. Which rodent, whose common name means ‘master of the grasses’ in the Guarani language, is this?
Capybara
A barn is a non-SI unit of area that is used to measure cross sections in nuclear reactions involving incident particles, and equals 10 to the negative 28 square meters. The unit got its whimsical name as it is said to be “as big as a barn” compared to the typical cross sections for nuclear reactions. What name is given to the non-SI unit of area that was devised to describe an area equal to 10 to the negative 24 barns?
Shed
Sunni Ali was, perhaps, the most famous ruler of this African empire. Its land stretched from modern day Mali into Nigeria and had its base in what is now Niger and Burkina Faso and its capital at Gao. What was the name of this empire that was destroyed towards the end of the 16th Century?
Songhai (or Songhay) Empire
With over 2 million adherents, which syncretist, monotheistic religion, officially established in 1926 in Tây Ninh in southern Vietnam, is the largest religion, in terms of followers, to have been established in the 20th Century?
Cao Dai (or Caodaism)
The Cibi is a war dance performed by the national rugby union team of which country prior to international matches?
Fiji
Which Russian starred as Rudolph Valentino in Ken Russell’s 1977 film Valentino?
Rudolf Nureyev
Which dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin, that was to be a major influence on both Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley’s Brave New World, became, in 1921, the first novel to be banned by the Soviet censorship bureau?
We
The 18-year old Fiona Butler was the model for a photograph of 1976 that has been described as ‘the most published photograph of all time’. What sport was she playing in the photograph?
Tennis
Sometimes called the world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji is attributed to which 11th Century Japanese noblewoman?
Murasaki Shikibu
In the 1957 film Jailhouse Rock, Elvis Presley’s character, Vince Everett, was serving time in prison after he was convicted of which crime?
Manslaughter
The father was a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. The son is an acclaimed abstract expressionist painter known for his large scale graffiti paintings such as Apollo and the Artist and Three Studies from the Temeraire. What is their shared name?
Cy Twombly
According to legend, the Chinese Emperor Yao had this game designed in the 23rd Century BC to teach his son discipline, concentration and balance. It is known as Wéiqí in Chinese and Baduk in Korean. How is it known in English?
Go
Gremolata, typically containing garlic, parsley and grated lemon peel, is the traditional accompaniment to which Milanese braised veal shank dish?
Ossobuco
The concepts outlined in a book entitled The Philosophy of Time Travel by Roberta Sparrow feature prominently in which 2001 American independent movie, written and directed by Richard Kelly?
Donnie Darko
In which Spanish city was Expo 2008 held?
Zaragoza
Which powerful female figure, the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, ruled over China from ‘behind the curtains’ for 47 years from 1861 until her death in 1908?
Cixi
As the last known individual of the subspecies Geochelone niger abingdonii, Lonesome George is the ‘rarest creature on Earth’. The common name of his subspecies is taken from the island (alternatively known as Abingdon Island) in the Galápagos Islands group on which he lives. What is this subspecies’ common name?
Pinta Island Tortoise
Which eccentric composer, known for his daily routine of leaving his apartment in the Parisian suburb of Arcueil to walk across the city to either Montmartre or Montparnasse, before walking back again in the evening, also published writings under the pseudonyms Virginie Lebeau and François de Paule?
Erik Satie
What is the famous last line of Lord Alfred Douglas’ poem Two Loves, first published in The Chameleon in 1894?
I am the love that dare not speak its name
Between 1988 and 1998, which filmmaker of the Nouvelle Vague created the influential video project Histoire(s) du cinéma?
Jean-Luc Godard
On 26th February 1297 in Loenen aan de Vecht in the Netherlands, townsmen took it in turns to attempt to hit the door of Kronenburg Castle with a leather ball. This is thought to be the earliest recorded game of which sport?
Golf
Named after the host of the long-running American game show Let’s Make a Deal, discussions of which counterintuitive probability puzzle, which requires a person to select the correct door from three in order to win a prize, have appeared most prominently in Marilyn vos Savant’s Ask Marilyn column in Parade magazine and, more recently, in Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time?
Monty Hall Problem (or Monty Hall Paradox)
Daisy-Head Mayzie (1995) and Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! (1998) were posthumously published books based on the notes and sketches of which author who died in 1991?
Dr. Seuss
What is the name of the bamboo sword used as a practice weapon in kendo?
Shinai
The subject of paintings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Sebastiano del Piombo, which Christian saint, martyred in Catania in the 3rd Century, is said to have had her breasts removed after she had rejected the amorous advances of a Roman prefect?
Agatha
Based on Tod Robbins’ short story Spurs, which 1932 horror film about sideshow performers, directed and produced by Tod Browning, was exceptional for its casting of real people with deformities as the titular central characters?
Freaks
In Alan Paton’s 1948 novel Cry, The Beloved Country, what is the name of the protagonist, a black South African Anglican priest from the rural town of Ixopo?
Stephen Kumalo
The motorboat racer Ken Warby currently holds the water speed record. What was the name of his boat that, in October 1978, reached a record speed of 317.60 miles per hour (511.13 kilometres per hour) upon Blowering Dam in New South Wales?
Spirit of Australia
So named because it is equal to the inverse of electrical impedance or resistance, what name, symbolised by an upside-down capital Greek letter Omega, was used in science for the SI derived unit of electric conductance prior to the adoption of the siemens?
Mho
Gatka, meaning ‘one whose freedom belongs to grace’, is a martial art that was developed by members of which religion?
Sikhism
When Heath Ledger died in January 2008 in the midst of the production of this movie, filming had been finished for the scenes set in the real world. Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell have since been cast to portray the various magical transformations of his character, Tony, in the film’s scenes set in a magical realm. Which film, due for release in 2009 and starring Christopher Plummer in the title role, is this?
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The words ‘galaxy’ and ‘Milky Way’ both first appeared in the written English language in which 1380 poem by Geoffrey Chaucer that takes the form of a dream-like vision composed in octosyllabic couplets?
The House of Fame
Featuring her breakthrough single Lucky Number, which American singer, born to a British mother and a Serbian father, released her first full-length album, Stateless, in 1978?
Lene Lovich
Art historians believe that, prior to losing her arms, the Venus de Milo held which object from Greek mythology in her left hand?
Golden apple
Originally evolving in the 19th Century in areas of Russian partition, Grypsera is a cryptolect used to this day as a secret language by prisoners in which country?
Poland
After the singer and musician Prince changed his name to a seemingly unpronounceable symbol, a combination of the symbols for male (♂) and female (♀), he was often referred to as ‘the symbol’, ‘the squiggle’ or ‘the artist formerly known as Prince’. The symbol, however, did have a name and it was later copyrighted as such. What name?
Love Symbol #2
The only dog to be given a name in the entire works of Shakespeare belongs to Launce in The Two Gentleman of Verona. He has been described as “the most scene-stealing non-speaking role in the canon”. What is the dog’s name?
Crab
Which Uzbekistani boxer, nicknamed ‘White Tyson’, has held the WBA Heavyweight title since defeating Nikolay Valuev in April 2007?
Ruslan Chagaev
Originating in the town of Saint-Malo in Brittany, which group of French privateers took their name from the commissioning document they received from the King?
Corsairs
The Japanese avant-garde composer Toshi Ichiyanagi married which artist and musician in 1956?
Yoko Ono
Which American gangster, who was shot dead by the FBI in 1934, was personally responsible for the murder of more federal agents than any other person in history?
Baby Face Nelson (or Lester Joseph Gillis)
Only two elements are named for women- meitnerium and which other?
Curium
What is the name of the school bus driver in the Simpsons?
Otto Mann
Modelled on la Gendarmerie Nationale of France, and with a name meaning ‘Corps of Law Soldiers’, what was the military police arm of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1881 to 1945?
Kempeitai
It had been removed from packets in 2006 as Nestlé were initially unable to find a natural dye, but which colour Smartie was reintroduced in February 2008, using a dye derived from the cyanobacteria spirulina?
Blue
Forshi is an Irish variant of which game?
Jai alai
Which fictional language, created for a strategic life-simulation video game series first seen in 2000, is a mixture of fractured Ukrainian and Tagalog?
Simlish
Until 2002, Slymenstra Hymen was the female dancer and occasional vocalist with which heavy metal group, formed in Virginia in 1985, who are perhaps best known due to their status as the favourite group of Beavis and Butthead?
GWAR
What is the stage name of the singer of Lordi?
Mr Lordi
King Kamehameha II of Hawaii and his queen died in London during a state visit to Britain in 1824 after catching which disease, to which neither had any immunity?
Measles
Caused by the bacteria Coxiella burnetii, Q fever is often considered the most infectious disease in the world, as a human can be infected by a single bacterium. Applied historically at a time when the causative agent was unknown, for what does the letter Q in Q fever stand?
Query
The term ‘second-string’ comes from a sensible precaution taken by mediaeval competitors in which activity?
Archery
Inspired by his own painting Necronom IV, the Swiss painter and sculptor Hans Ruedi Giger won the 1980 Academy Award for visual effects for his design of the title characters in which film?
Alien
According to a widely accepted theory first proposed in 1998 by Stanley H. Ambrose of the University of Illinois, a supervolcanic event at which lake on Sumatra, approximately 75,000 years ago, reduced the world’s human population to below 10,000?
Lake Toba
Formulated by an Austrian theoretical physicist in 1925, which quantum mechanical principle states that no two electrons (or, indeed, any fermions) within an atom can have identical quantum numbers simultaneously?
Pauli Exclusion Principle
Although neither of the country’s two capitals, which is the largest city in Bolivia in terms of population?
Santa Cruz (de la Sierra)
Formed in 1993, which American group, who had their first UK top 10 hit in 2002 with the song Blurry, chose their name as a result of their studio being swamped during the Mississippi River Flood?
Puddle of Mudd
Although he has never made it past the 4th round of a Grand Slam tournament, which tennis player, born in 1979 and nicknamed ‘Ball’, reached a career high world ranking of 9 in 2003, the highest ranking that has ever been achieved by an Asian-born male tennis player?
Paradorn Srichaphan
Which country, that has won a record 24 world titles, won the inaugural Ice Hockey World Championships in Antwerp in 1920?
Canada
Located near the modern-day town of Boğazkale in Turkey, which World Heritage Site was the capital of the Hittite Empire?
Hattusa
Named after an English explorer, what name is shared by the strait in Papua New Guinea that separates Umboi Island from New Britain and the strait in Indonesia that separates Bird’s Head Peninsula from the islands of Waigeo and Batanta?
Dampier Strait
In the popular television series The X Files, Dana Scully’s dog shared its name with the chief harpooner aboard the Pequod in Melville’s Moby-Dick. What name?
Queequeg
The Spanish novelist Javier Marías, styled as King Xavier I, is the best known of the four claimants to the ‘throne’ of which tiny uninhabited island within the inner arc of the Leeward Islands chain?
Redonda
How did soccer get its name- it was an abbreviation of which word?
Association (football)
In the laws of football, which is the only position specified?
Goalkeeper
Where did England play Scotland in the first ever international match?
Oval
The Cambridge Rules, important in the evolution of football, were drawn up at which college?
Trinity College
John Charles Thring of which public school also devised an influential set of football rules in 1862?
Uppingham
The FA first met in 1863 at which London pub?
Freemason’s Tavern
Which club was the first to withdraw from the FA, and move in a different sporting direction?
Blackheath
Who founded the FA Cup?
C W Alcock
Which man, of Aston Villa, founded the Football League in 1888?
William McGregor
In which city was FIFA founded in 1904?
Paris
What’s the name of the organisation consisting of FIFA and each of the four home nations’ football associations who maintain the Laws of the Game?
International Football Association Board
The national football team helped secure a truce to the civil war in 2006 in which country?
Cote D’Ivoire
What were Croatia Zagreb called in Yugoslavian days?
Dinamo Zagreb
How many rules of football are there?
Seventeen
In football, what is usually considered to be the minimum necessary for a team, including goalkeeper, with the ref directed to stop the game if the number fall below this number?
Seven
According to the rules, football kit must include what as well as shirt, shorts, socks and boots?
Shin guards
In 2008, the IFAB set how many metres in length as a standard international pitch?
105m
What are the only circumstances under which a ref is not allowed to end a football match?
When a penalty is about to be taken
Added time was incorporated into football after which team beat Stoke 1-0 in very controversial circumstances?
Aston Villa
Which was the only major competition to use a Silver Goal rule?
Euro 2004
In football, which uncommon restart occurs when the referee has stopped play for reasons including a serious injury to a player, interference by an external party, or a ball becoming defective?
Dropped ball
At which World Cup were red and yellow cards used for the first time?
1970 Mexico
What is the Asian equivalent of UEFA?
AFC
As CONCACAF is to North America, is what to South America?
CONMEBOL
What is the African equivalent of UEFA?
CAF
And in Oceania?
OFC
Each UK FA on the IFAB has one vote. How many votes does FIFA have?
Four
Since 1900, there has been a football tournament at every Olympic Games except for which one?
1932 Los Angeles
Which was the first Olympic games to permit professional footballers in the soccer tournament?
1984 Los Angeles
From Beijing 2008 onwards, what is the main restriction placed on national teams in men’s Olympic football?
Must field a U-23 team
What is the name of the CONMEBOL competition?
Copa America
Which tournament consists of the winners of the 6 continental championships, the World Cup holders and the host nation?
Confederations Cup
What is the South American equivalent of the Champions League?
Copa Libertadores de America
What are the names of the two sections that some football championships are divided into in Latin American countries?
Apertura and Clausura
What is the name of the French equivalent of the Premiership?
Ligue 1
The first written rules of rugby union appeared in which decade?
1840s
Which was the last Olympics at which rugby was played?
1924 Paris
What are the maximum dimensions of a rugby pitch?
100 x 70m
In which decade did William Webb Ellis run with the ball at Rugby school?
1820s
In which year did rugby union become professional for the first time?
1995
What is the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of the Six Nations?
Tri Nations
What is the name of the French domestic rugby league?
Top 14
What is the name of the domestic rugby cup competition in South Africa?
Currie Cup
In which country is the ITM Cup played in rugby?
New Zealand
The Magners League added teams from which country from 2010-11?
Italy
Who are the founder three countries of the Magners League?
Ireland, Scotland and Wales
What is the new name for what started as Super 12, then became Super 14, the transnational Southern hemisphere rugby league?
Super rugby
What was the name of the precursor of the Six Nations that started in 1883?
Home Nations Championship
Where was the first ever rugby sevens competition held, somewhere that still has an association with this form of the game?
Melrose
Which was the first overseas international rugby team to tour England?
New Zealand Native
In 1973, what was the venue for the first ever international rugby sevens tournament, also the venue for the first ever Rugby Sevens World Cup in 1993?
Murrayfield
Before 1995, rugby union was often marked by accusations of what, a portmanteau word?
Shamateurism
Rugby tackles must be lower than which part of the body?
Neck
In rugby union, a player who has been substituted may return permanently, but only if he is replacing which position?
Front-row forward
In international rugby union matches, up to how many replacements are allowed?
Seven
How many forwards are there per team in rugby union?
Eight
How many in rugby league?
Six
One of the main differences between rugby and American football is that in rugby, only the player with the ball may be tackled. This means that what is allowed in American football that is not allowed in rugby?
Blocking
How high above the ground is the crossbar in rugby union?
Three metres
In rugby union, how are touch judges now more commonly referred to?
Assistant referees
In rugby union, what does TMO stand for?
Television Match Official
In rugby union, what is it called when the ball is kicked a very short distance from hand, allowing the kicker to regather the ball and run with it?
Tap kick
In rugby union, a yellow card sends players to the sin-bin for how long?
Ten minutes
What is the maximum width of the non-rigid shoulder pads allowed in rugby?
10mm
In which city are the IRB HQ?
Dublin
In rugby union, what does NACRA stand for?
North America and Caribbean Rugby Union
FIRA-AER regulates rugby in which global region?
Europe
FORU governs rugby in which part of the world?
Oceania
CONSUR governs rugby in which part of the world?
South America
Which association governs rugby in Asia?
ARFU
In Rugby Union, what does SANZAR stand for?
South Africa, New Zealand and Australia Rugby
In April 2010, with a win over Serbia, which unlikely country from tier 2 beat South Africa and New Zealand’s record of 17 consecutive wins in Rugby Union?
Lithuania
Which country will host the 2015 Rugby World Cup?
England
Which country will host the 2019 Rugby World Cup?
Japan
Emily Valentine, in Portora Royal School, Enniskillen in 1887, set up one of the first what in the world?
Women’s rugby teams
Which country was excluded from the Five Nations from 1931 to 1939?
France
In which Roman stadium do the Italians play their home Six Nations games?
Stadio Flaminio
In the Tri Nations, each team plays the others how many times?
Three
In 2012, which fourth country will be invited to take part in the Tri-Nations?
Argentina
Which was the first Commonwealth Games to host Rugby Sevens?
1998 Kuala Lumpur
In which city were the Commonwealth Games held in 1990?
Auckland
In which city were the Commonwealth Games held in 1978?
Edmonton
In which city were the Commonwealth Games held in 1974?
Christchurch
In which city were the Commonwealth games held in 1966?
Kingston, Jamaica
In which city were the Commonwealth Games held in 1962?
Perth
In which city were the Commonwealth Games held in 1954?
Vancouver
In which city were the Commonwealth Games held in 1950?
Auckland
In which city were the Commonwealth Games held in 1938?
Sydney
In which city were the Commonwealth Games held in 1934?
London
