BBC Sports Personalities of the Year [2] Quiz

Answer: Long jump

Mary Rand won a gold medal for her long jump of 6.76 metres. She also won silver for the Pentathlon and bronze for the 4x100m relay at the same Olympics. She was the first British woman to win an Olympic gold for a track and field event. An injury excluded her from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and she retired from athletics in that year.

Answer: Of exhaustion during a race

A professional cyclist since 1959, Tom Simpson became the first Briton to win the Professional Road Racing Championship in 1965. In 1967, while taking part in the Tour de France, Simpson was seen riding erratically. The temperature that day was extremely hot. Simpson fell once but insisted on continuing, and he was helped back onto his bike.

He fell a second time, and this time did not get up. He was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital and the cause of death was given as a heart attack. However, it was discovered that he had taken amphetamines and he had drunk brandy in the early stages of the race, and it was thought that these two factors, together with the physical effort in punishing heat, contributed to his death.

Answer: Chelsea

Bobby Moore was captain of West Ham United. He famously led the England team and to a 4-2 victory over West Germany. Before the match, the England manager, Sir Alf Ramsey, had been overheard discussing the possibility of dropping Moore from the final. Bobby played for England 108 times, 90 times as captain.

He was the first footballer to win the Sports Personality of the Year title. Sadly, he died from bowel cancer in 1993. The Bobby Moore Fund raises money for research into this disease.

Answer: Henry Cooper

Henry Cooper won the title in 1967 after being undefeated in all his fights that year. At one point he held the British, Commonwealth, and European Heavyweight titles. He also won three Lonsdale Belts. Muhammad Ali later described Cooper's punch as "being felt by my ancestors in Africa".

Henry retired from professional boxing in 1971, after losing his titles to Joe Bugner in a heavily disputed match, which Bugner won by a quarter of a point. In the 1970s he became known for advertising Brut aftershave.

He had a small role as Victorian boxer and MP Jack Gully in the 1975 film "Royal Flash". Always an absolute gentleman, he remains a popular public figure.

Answer: 400m hurdles

David Hemery set a new world record of 48.12 seconds. He had previously won a gold medal for the 120-yard hurdles at the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.

Answer: Ann Haydon Jones

Anne Haydon Jones had made the finals in 1967, but was beaten by Billie Jean King. She won the French Championships in 1961 and 1966, and was runner-up in the French Open in 1969.

Answer: Pele

Born Edison Arantes do Nascimento in 1940, Pele, played in his first World Cup match in 1958. He was also part of the Brazilian team in the 1962, 1966, and 1970 World Cups. In 1966, he became the first player to have scored goals in three different World Cups.

He has won several different "Player of the Century" awards, and in 2005 he won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award.

Answer: Princess Anne

Princess Anne remained a keen horsewoman. She won the 1971 individual title at the European Championships at Burghley, riding Doublet. She went on to win two silver medals at the 1975 European Eventing Championship at Luhmuhlen. She also took part in the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, but did not win any medals.

Answer: Pentathlon

Mary Peters was born in Merseyside in 1939, and moved to Northern Ireland as a child. In the 1972 Olympics, she set personal bests in the hurdles, shot put, and high jump. She had a narrow win over the German favourite, Heidi Rosendahl. However, her victory was tainted by the murder of 11 members of the Israeli squad the following day. Mary participated in every Commonwealth Games from 1958-1974, winning three gold medals and one silver.

Answer: Jackie Stewart

Jackie Stewart was involved with cars from an early age, being an apprentice mechanic at his family's garage. He won the F1 World Championship in 1969, 1971, and 1973 and clocked up 27 wins in his F1 career. Jackie was involved in a crash at Spa in 1966 where he lay trapped in his car for nearly half an hour, covered with petrol.

There were no emergency crews to free him, no doctors and no proper first aid facilities. After this, he became an ardent campaigner for improved race track safety and emergency services. F1 still isn't exactly a safe sport, but at the time, he was racing a driver who raced for five years and had a two in three chance of being killed. Thanks partly to his efforts, things have improved vastly today.