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Sport Quiz #553

Sports & Leisure Quiz for 23 August 2019

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Q1. Scrabble tournament players use special tiles which are not engraved, thereby eliminating the potential for a cheating player to feel for particular tiles in the bag). These are called … ?

A
Even tiles
B
Ceramic tiles
C
Clean tiles
D
Protiles
Select from the options above.

Q2. The first official World Cup for which sport, that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, was held in 1986?

A
South Pacific
B
Westward Ho!
C
Orienteering
D
North by north-west
Select from the options above.

Q3. What game involving reptiles is based on the Indian game called Vaikuntapaoli or Paramapada Sopanam?

A
Checkers
B
Parchisi
C
Snakes and Ladders
D
Darts
Select from the options above.

Q4. What is the standard length of the bars in the uneven parallel bars or asymmetric bars, an artistic gymnastics apparatus used only by female gymnasts?

A
420 cm
B
240 cm
C
150 cm
D
200 cm
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Q5. By what name was Rocco Francis Marchegiano, heavyweight boxing world champion from September 1952 to April, 1956 better known?

A
Rocky Nelson
B
Rocky Romero
C
Rocky Raccoon
D
Rocky Marciano
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Q6. The World Cup for which sport is an annual international competition initiated in 1978 by Swiss journalist Max E. Amman, and originally sponsored by Volvo?

A
Orienteering
B
Show jumping
C
Rugby 7s
D
Motor cycling
Select from the options above.

Q7. During the cycling road race at the Rome Games of 1960, Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen fell from his bicycle. Which of these was not a result of that?

A
Lance Armstrong won
B
He later died
C
He was found to be under the influence of amphetamines
D
The first Olympic death linked to doping
Select from the options above.
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