Set 07 Flashcards
The only woman ever to win an F1 race, which South African triumphed at Brands Hatch in the 1980 British Formula One Series?
Desiree Wilson
Every Grand Prix in F1 begins with two free practice sessions on the Friday, except for which venue, where they are on a Thursday?
Monaco
Which sport has re-introduced a ‘107% rule’ for 2010, whereby you qualify if you are within 107% of the time of the best competitor?
Formula One
What is another name for the warm-up lap before an F1 GP, because no overtaking is allowed?
Formation lap
How many red lights are extinguished simultaneously to signify the start of an F1 race?
Five
If an F1 driver raises his arm while on the starting grid, what does it mean?
His car has stalled
Monaco is exceptional in being 160 miles. Most F1 GPs are about how many miles long?
190 miles
What is the time limit for all F1 GPs?
Two hours
Which flag is shown in motor racing to show that the race has been abandoned?
Red
Which colour flag is shown to a slower car indicating that he must led a faster one lap him?
Blue
In an F1 Gp, what percentage of the race do you have to finish to be classified?
90%
What important role in F1 has been carried out since 2000 by the German Bernd Maylander?
Safety Car driver
What colour stripe in motor racing indicates soft or softer tyres?
Green
As of 2010, what role does Charlie Whiting perform in Formula One?
Race Director
When a red flag is shown at an F1 GP, the drivers may restart if up to how many laps have been completed?
Three
From 1994 to 2010, which basic function was permitted at pit stops but now is not?
Refuelling
You get 25 points for finishing first in F1, but how many for second?
18
In F1, what happens in the points table if the race is stopped before 75% of the laps are completed?
All drivers get half points
Which is the only still-active F1 team that competed in its opening season?
Ferrari
Ritchie McCaw is aiming to beat the record number of All Black caps. Who currently holds the record, with 92?
Sean Fitzpatrick
What is the only named wind in Great Britain?
The Helm Wind
Which team did Red Bull buy in F1 that started their rise to contention?
Jaguar
Which driver number is never used in F1?
13
Jochen Rindt won the driver’s championship in 1970 despite dying at which GP?
Italian
Replacing Formula 3000 in 2005, what is the main feeder series for F1?
GP2
Kimi Raikonen entered Formula 1 from which unusually low-level feeder series?
Formula Renault
Mika Hakkinen, David Coulthard and Ralf Schumacher have all raced in DTM after retiring from F1. What does DTM stand for?
Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
When Nigel Mansell left F1, he duelled for the 1993 CART or Champ Car title with which other F1 retiree?
Emerson Fittipaldi
On retirement from F1, Juan Pablo Montoya, Nelson Piquet Jr and Scott Speed all raced in which format?
NASCAR
How many Grands Prix made up the inaugural season, a far cry from 2010’s 19 meets?
Seven
Which country hosted the first ever South American Grand Prix in 1953?
Argentina
Which country hosted the first ever African Grand Prix in 1953?
Morocco
In the 1994 and 1995 F1 seasons, Japan hosted two Grands Prix- what was the second one called?
Pacific GP
Which country hosted three Grands Prix, a record, in the 1982 season?
USA
October 2011 will see/saw the first ever Grand Prix in which country?
India
The US Grand Prix will be held in which city from 2012 to 2021?
Austin, Texas
In which city would you find the F1 circuit Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace?
Sao Paulo
In F1, most circuits run in which direction?
Clockwise
Which three time F1 champion famously described racing in Monaco as “like riding a bicycle around your living room”?
Nelson Piquet
Who designs most new F1 circuits?
Hermann Tilke
In motor racing, what name is given to tyres with no tread patterns?
Slicks
What size engines must Formula One cars have?
2.4 litres
The highest speed ever recorded during a GP in F1 was 221mph set by whom during the 1998 German Grand Prix?
David Coulthard
Each team in F1 can use only a maximum of eight whats in a season?
Engines
Each driver in F1 can use only a maximum of one what per four consecutive events?
Gearboxes
Bernie Ecclestone is/was boss of FOM. What does this stand for?
Formula One Management
From 1996 to 2002, a Formula One digital channel showed shots from unusul camera angles (e.g. Onboard, in the pit lane) during races. The service was affectionately nicknamed what, after its founder?
Bernievision
What is snooker’s highest governing body?
World Snooker Association
What is the size of a full-size snooker table?
12 feet by 6 feet
What did snooker originally mean in a military context?
Inexperienced personnel
Which player organised the first ever World Snooker Championship in 1927?
Joe Davis
In 1959, Joe Davis introduced a variation of snooker to try to improve the game’s popularity by adding two extra colours. However, it never caught on. What was it called?
Snooker Plus
In 1969, David Attenborough commissioned which snooker programme to show off the new colour television potential?
Pot Black
What is the maximum number of frames usually found in professional snooker tournaments, typically in the final?
35
In snooker, what is the premier non-ranking tournament?
The Masters
World Snooker, which organises the world tour, is based in which English city?
Bristol
The WPBSA governs the professional games of billiards and snooker. Which body governs the amateur game?
IBSF (International Billiards and Snooker Federation)
If you are what position or above in the world snooker rankings, you don’t have to qualify for tournaments?
Sixteenth
After the World Championship, what is the second most important event in world snooker?
The UK Championship
Organised by Matchroom Sport chairman Barry Hearn, which variant of snooker was established with a 25-second limit on shots?
Premier League Snooker
Identical to the normal rest, yet with a hooked metal end and used to set the rest around another ball. The most recent invention in snooker, what is its name?
Hook rest
Which other animal name, as well as a spider, can be given to a type of cue rest in snooker?
Swan
Usually housed underneath the side of the table, which rest in snooker is a combination of a table length rest and cue which is rarely used unless the cue ball needs to be struck in such a way that the entire length of the table is the actual obstacle?
Half-butt
If Ray Reardon dominated the 1970s in snooker, Hendry the 1990s and Steve Davies the 1980s, who dominated the 1960s?
John Pulman
Which three players won World Snooker Championships in the 2000s, the most open decade for years?
O’Sullivan, Williams and Higgins
As of 2010, who was the last man to successfully defend a world snooker title?
Steven Hendry
Which variant of snooker has only nine reds and matches limited to 30 minutes, with, allegedly, rowdy audiences encouraged to drink as much alcohol as possible?
Power snooker
Sinuca brasileira has how many red balls?
One
Which is the world’s second most popular sport after football?
Cricket
The Royal Grammar School in which English town was the location of cricket’s earliest definite reference, in 1550?
Guildford
In 1844, which two countries, neither of them Test nations, played the first ever international cricket match?
USA and Canada
The first ever Test match was held at which venue?
Melbourne Cricket Ground
How many people on the field while a cricket match is in play?
Fifteen
In limited overs cricket, the team that scores the most runs. Which two additional feats must be performed to win a full match?
Dismissing the opposition twice
Name all three kinds of crease at either end of a cricket pitch.
Popping, bowling and return (of which there are two)
What is the width of a three-stump wicket?
Nine inches
Where does the second umpire stand during a cricket match (i.e the one who is not next to the bowler)?
Square leg
In Test and ICC cricket matches, there are two umpires, a third umpire and which fourth official tasked with ensuring that play is within the laws of cricket and the spirit of the game?
Match referee
How many scorers in a cricket match?
Two
What is the term used in cricket if a bowler straightens his arm illegally during delivery?
Throwing
The wicketkeeper is the only fielder in cricket who can get a batsman out in a certain way- what way?
Stumped
In cricket, what are the three things a substitute fielder is not allowed to do?
Captain, wicket-keep or bowl
In the event of an injured batsman being fit to bat but not to run, the umpires and the fielding captain may allow another member of the batting side to play as what?
A runner
In cricket, hits for what number of runs are unusual and generally are the result of “overthrows” by a fielder returning the ball?
Five
In Australia, what are extras called in cricket?
Sundries
In limited overs cricket, what term is given to the innovation whereby a batsman is safe from losing his wicket (except via run out) for the ball after a no ball?
Free hit rule
In cricket, which extra is awarded if the batsman misses the ball and it goes past the wicketkeeper to give the batsmen time to run in the conventional way? A mark of a good wicketkeeper is that he avoids these.
Bye
In cricket, which extra(s) are awarded if the ball hits the batsman’s body, but not his bat, while attempting a legitimate shot, and it goes away from the fielders to give the batsmen time to run in the conventional way?
Leg bye
In cricket, how many ways can a batsman be dismissed?
Ten
In cricket, which unusual dismissal is given if a new batsman does not appear at the crease within three minutes of the previous one being given out?
Timed out
In cricket, what are the three different ways of retiring as a batsman?
Retired hurt, retired ill or retired out (the last if there is no clear reason for the retirement, but counts as a dismissal)
Cricket is unique in sports because as well as adhering to the laws, players must also do what?
Abide by the Spirit of the Game
What is the main sartorial distinction, particularly when viewed at a distance, between what an umpire wears and what a cricket player wears?
Black trousers
Which was the most recent nation to gain Test status?
Bangladesh
Australia and England were the first two Test nations. Which was the third?
South Africa
Players from which other country are eligible to play for the England cricket team?
Wales
In cricket, the West Indies and England compete for the Wisden trophy, but for which trophy do Australia and the West Indies compete?
Frank Worrell Trophy
Except in Twenty20, what is the usual maximum number of overs in an innings?
Fifty
Who hosts the Cricket World Cup in 2011?
India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
In which country was the 2009 Twenty20 World Championship won by Pakistan?
England
In cricket, what is the BCCI?
Board of control of cricket in India
Which has been the most successful ever county in first-class cricket in England?
Yorkshire
What is the highest domestic first-class honour in Australian cricket?
Sheffield Shield
Which is the most successful state in the history of the Sheffield Shield?
New South Wales
What is the highest domestic first-class prize in Indian cricket?
Ranji Trophy
What is the highest domestic first-class prize in New Zealand cricket?
Plunket Shield
What is the highest domestic first-class prize in South African cricket?
Currie Cup
What is the highest domestic first-class prize in West Indian cricket?
Shell Shield
What was the first ever limited overs knockout competition in cricket, established in England in 1963?
Gillette Cup
In which variant of cricket does the bowler does not have to wait for the batsman to be ready before a delivery, leading to a faster, more exhausting game designed to appeal to children, which is often used in PE lessons at English schools?
Kwik Cricket
In some variants of cricket, what does the “Tip and Run”, “Tipity” Run, “Tipsy Run” or “Tippy-Go” rule signify?
The batsman must run if contact is made between bat and ball, even if unintended
What is the name of the Samoan variant of cricket, played with hockey-stick shaped bats?
Kilikiti
In which unlikely country is an annual Ice Cricket tournament held?
Estonia
The ICC is now headquartered in Dubai, but what did the ICC stand for when it was founded in 1909?
Imperial Cricket Conference
The Guide to Cricketers was a predecessor of Wisden and was edited between 1849 and 1866 by which man?
Fred Lillywhite
In cricket, a batsman’s batting average is determined by the total number of runs scored by what?
Number of innings in which he was out
in cricket statistics, what does BF stand for?
Balls Faced
in cricket statistics, what does SR stand for?
Strike rate
In cricket bowling statistics, what single word signifies ‘the average number of runs conceded per over’?
Economy
Which English born player, originally a cricketer, was responsible for most of the statistical expressions still used in baseball, coming eventually to be known as Father Baseball?
Henry Chadwick
Athletics derives from the Greek word athlos meaning what?
Contest
What was the ancient Irish equivalent of the Olympics and/or the Highland Games?
Tailteann Games
What name was given to the only event at the first Ancient Olympics, a running race the length of the stadium?
Stadion
The earliest recorded modern athletic meeting was held in which English county in 1840?
Shropshire (Royal Shrewsbury School)
It used to be the International Amateur Athletics Federation- for what does IAAF now stand?
International Association of Athletics Federations
In which American city is the National Marathon held?
Washington
Road running evolved as a betting sport where wagers would be placed on the ability of what kind of person to win the race?
Footman
To the nearest whole number, how long is a marathon in kilometres?
Forty two
Originating in Japan and remaining very popular there, what races are a relay race variation on the marathon?
Ekiden
Which is the only athletics sport in which judges monitor athletes on their technique?
Racewalking
As well as always having to have a foot in contact with the ground, race walkers have to ensure that their advanced leg is what?
Straight
Racewalking has its origins in which sport, originating in England in the late c18?
Pedestrianism
In a Racewalking Centurion contest, what must you do to complete the race?
Walk 100 miles in 24 hours
Over which two distances are race walking competitions in the Olympics?
20km and 50km
In athletics, what is always 1.22m in width?
Race lane
Black SBR or colored EPDM granules have what application in a sporting context?
Athletics track surfaces
A standard indoor athletics track is what length?
200m
The Millrose games are an athletics event held at the indoor athletics track in which famous venue?
Madison Square Garden
At the elite and professional level, courses must be looped and each lap must be between 1750m and 2000m in length. What event is being described?
Cross-country race
Road racing courses in athletics are of two primary types- point to point and which other?
Looped
In athletics, which part of the world is CONSUDATLE the federation for?
South America
In athletics, which part of the world is NACACAA the federation for?
North America, Central American and Caribbean
Of the four major divisions in athletic events, which is the only one ever to have been dropped permanently from the Olympics?
Cross-country
Outdoor track and field is the only sport in athletics that does not have a its own distinct global championship which is separate from other types of athletics, but it does have which quadrennial cup competition?
Continental Cup
The World Youth Championships in Athletics are for athletes under 17. Which championship exists for under 19s?
World Junior Championships
Which world championships exist for athletes over the age of 35?
World Masters Athletics Championships
In his treatise Rhetoric, which Greek philosopher argued that athletes in the pentathlon were the most beautiful because they were all-rounders?
Aristotle
Jim Thorpe- All-American was a 1951 biopic starring whom as Thorpe?
Burt Lancaster
The 2007 documentary film Spirit of the Marathon followed runners preparing for which specific event?
Chicago marathon
According to legend, whih son of Zeus first called the Olympic games ‘Olympic’ and built the first Olympic stadium?
Heracles
The ancient Olympics were suppressed in which year, when Theodosius I demanded that all pagan cults and practices end?
393 AD
Whih event held in the 1790s in France is held to be the first to have introduced metric measurements into athletics and hence the modern Olympic movement?
L’Olympiade de la Republique
Which man started the Much Wenlock olympics?
William Penny Brookes
Between 1862 and 1867, which UK city held an annual Grand Olympic Festival, started by John Hulley and Charles Melly?
Liverpool
What was first proposed by poet and newspaper editor Panagiotis Soutsos in his poem “Dialogue of the Dead”, published in 1833?
The revival of the Ancient Greek Olympics
Which wealthy Greek-Romanian philanthropist sponsored the first modern revival of the Olympics in 1859, held in an Athens square?
Evangelis Zappas
Dr William Penny Brookes, flush from his success at Much Wenlock, ran a National Olympic Games in England at which venue in 1866?
Crystal Palace
Where in Paris was the first ever meeting of the IOC, presided over by Baron de Coubertin, in 1894?
The Sorbonne
Which Greek writer was the first ever IOC President?
Demetrius Vikelas
In 1900, the revival of the Olympics were threatened when they were held as a mere sideshow to what?
Paris Exposition
Which city hosted the 1906 Intercalated Games?
Athens
Which town hosted the second Winter Olympics, in 1928?
St Moritz
Who founded the Paralympic Games at Stoke Mandeville?
Dr Ludwig Guttman
Which was the first city to host both paralympics and Olympics?
Seoul
The inaugural Youth Winter Olympics will be held where in 2012?
Innsbruck
What is the international federation for governing volleyball?
FIVB
Which rival resort in Switzerland was bidding against Turin for the right to host the 2006 Winter Olympics and accused Turin of breaking the rules?
Sion
With the acronym TOP, which arrangement, both exclusive and expensive, allows selected organisations to use the Olympic rings in their advertising and logos?
The Olympic Programme
Although the 1936 Berlin games were the first to be televised locally, which Olympics were the first to be televised globally?
1956 Winter Games (Cortina d’Ampezzo)
What is the significance of the colour of the Olympic rings on the flag?
Every country has at least one of the colours on its national flag
At which Olympics was the flag first used?
1920 Antwerp
The person who lights the Olympic flame at Olympia faces which important restriction?
Must be a woman
Which Russian bear cub was the mascot of the 1980 Olympics?
Misha
What is the very first element of an Olympics opening ceremony?
Hoisting of flag of host country and playing of national anthem
Which country’s athletes are always last to enter in the Olympics opening ceremony?
Host country
Which three country’s flags are flown at the closing ceremony of an Olympic games?
The host country, Greece and the next host country
The mayor of the city that organized the Games transfers a special Olympic flag to the president of the IOC, who then passes it on to the mayor of the city hosting the next Olympic Games at the closing ceremony of the Olympics, in a protocol bearing the name of which city?
Antwerp
The medal ceremony of which Olympic event usually forms part of the closing ceremony?
Men’s marathon
Which is the other Olympic wrestling discipline as well as Graeco-Roman?
Freestyle
Athletics, swimming and which two other sports have never been absent from the Olympics programme?
Fencing and artistic gymnastics
History and tradition of the sport, universality, popularity of the sport, image, athletes’ health, development of the International Federation that governs the sport, and costs of holding the sport are the seven criteria used to judge what?
If a sport should be Olympic
Which two sports were excluded from the Olympic programme for London 2012?
Baseball and softball
From 2016, rugby sevens and which other will be Olympic sports?
Golf
Jim Thorpe was stripped of his medals because he had played which sport semi-professionally?
Baseball
Which is the only Olympic sport in which no professionals are allowed to compete?
Boxing
Which European country boycotted the 1936 Olympics due to eligibility criteria imposed by the IOC?
Ireland
Why did the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland boycott the 1956 Melbourne Olympics?
Soviet intervention in Hungary
Cambodia, Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon boycotted the same Olympics due to which event?
Suez Crisis
China boycotted the Melbourne games for a third reason- what?
Taiwan was allowed to compete
In 1972 and 1976, many African countries boycotted the Olympics in protest at what?
Apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia
Thanks to this boycott, which country led a withdrawal from the Montreal Olympics, even after some athletes had competed?
Tanzania
In which year did Taiwan return to the Olympic fold under the name of Chinese Taipei?
1984 Los Angeles
What was the name of the 1984 ‘alternative Olympics’ held by those countries boycotting the Los Angeles games?
Friendship Games
Which Indian captained his national team to gold against Nazi Germany at the 1936 Games?
Dhyan Chand
The Soviet Union did not participate in the Olympics until 1952 in Helsinki, instead organising their own games called what?
Spartakiads
Other communist countries organised which alternative to the Olympics between the World Wars?
Workers Olympics
When Peter Norman supported Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s protest at the 1968 Olympics, he wore the badge of which organisation?
Olympic Project for Human Rights
Which country currently has a policy of avoiding Olympic competition between its athletes and Israel, which led to the withdrawal of a judoka in 2004 because he was “overweight”?
Iran
The winner of the marathon in 1904, the American Thomas Hicks, was given brandy and which highly toxic substance to improve his performance by his coach in the days before anti-doping drives?
Strychnine
Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen is the only Olympic athlete to hold what distinction when he competed at the 1960 Rome Olympics?
Died through drug use
