British Sporting Centurions Trivia Quiz

Answer: Bobby Moore

Though he may have won more caps, Beckham was never able to match Moore's most impressive feat--captaining England to the World Cup title, which Moore did in 1966. England's triumph as hosts of the FIFA World Cup capped a fantastic three seasons for Moore that each ended with him lifting a trophy at Wembley Stadium. In 1964 it was the FA Cup with his club, West Ham United, the club's first major trophy success. In 1965, the club followed up their FA Cup win by claiming the European Cup Winners' Cup, becoming only the second English team to win a European title (the first was Tottenham Hotspur in 1963). Then in 1966, along with club mates Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters, who scored all England's goals in the final, he played a huge part in helping England become world champions for the first time.

Moore would play in one more World Cup in 1970, winning huge admiration for his performances but, unfortunately, England were unable to retain their title. England failed to qualify for the 1974 World Cup and following a disappointing performance against Poland in 1973, Moore was dropped from the side after having played every minute of the 108 games in which he appeared. He was never picked for the England side again. Moore died at the age of just 51 in 1993 but a statue of him sits outside the rebuilt Wembley Stadium as a monument to the great achievement of the side he led.

Manchester Utd's Bobby Charlton was the English record holder before Moore having won 106 caps for England between 1958 and 1970. Billy Wright of Wolves was the first player in world football to reach 100 caps, ending his career in 1959 with 105 caps for England.

Answer: Harold Abrahams

Abrahams also claimed a silver medal in the 4 x 100m relay in Paris and reached the 200m final. Sadly, he was unable to defend his title in 1928 as a broken leg in 1925 brought his sprinting career to a premature end. However, his life in athletics was not over. He became team captain for the Great Britain team at the 1928 Olympics and later became chairman of the Amateur Athletic Association.

Eric Liddell was also featured in "Chariots of Fire". He chose not to compete in the 100m in Paris because one of the heats was held on a Sunday, which conflicted with his religious beliefs. He did win the gold medal in the 400m competition at the same Olympics along with a bronze medal in the 200m. Allan Wells won 100m gold in the Moscow Games of 1980. Linford Christie won his 100m gold in 1992 in Barcelona.

Answer: Alec Stewart

Stewart made his 100th test appearance for England on the same day as his long-time opening partner, Michael Atherton, thereby becoming the sixth and seventh men to reach that mark for England. In the course of the first innings of that 100th test, Stewart scored 105 runs, becoming only the fourth man from any country to score a century on his 100th test appearance. Two years later, Stewart overtook Graham Gooch as the most capped player in England history when he won his 119th cap. He would eventually win 133 in total (he retired in September 2003).

Alan Knott made 95 England test appearances between 1969 and 1981. Jack Russell was England's wicketkeeper on and off between 1988 and 1998, winning 54 caps. Colin Cowdrey was the first player in world cricket to reach the 100 caps mark but he was not a wicketkeeper.

Answer: Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent

Redgrave and Pinsent won the coxless pair in the rowing regatta. It was a second gold in consecutive Olympics for Pinsent and a remarkable fourth for Redgrave. Famously, at the end of the race, Redgrave said to a waiting reporter, "If anyone sees me anywhere near a boat again, they have my permission to shoot me." Four months later he began training for a tilt at a fifth Olympic title, which he successfully achieved in the coxless fours at Sydney in 2000 with Pinsent again alongside him. Redgrave finally did retire after Sydney but Pinsent rowed on, claiming his fourth gold medal, again in the coxless fours, at the Athens Games of 2004.

Johnny and Greg Searle had won gold in the coxed pairs in the Barcelona Games in 1992 but had to settle for bronze in Atlanta. Linford Christie won gold in the track 100m in Barcelona but failed to defend his title in Atlanta. Jonathan Edwards was a red hot favourite for the triple jump gold in Atlanta but took silver instead. Chris Hoy and Bradley Wiggins took multiple cycling golds between them but both claimed their first title in 2004 in Athens.

Answer: Virginia Wade

The centenary tournament in 1977 also coincided with Queen Elizabeth II's silver jubilee so Wade's triumph seemed particularly apt. The Queen herself was in attendance for the final and presented the rose bowl to Wade on her victory. It was Wade's one and only success at Wimbledon and the last of her three Grand Slam singles titles after the US Open in 1968 and the Australian Open in 1972.

Neither Durie nor Barker ever won the Wimbledon singles title. Maud Watson was the victor in the very first ladies' singles tournament, beating her sister in the final.

Answer: Jason Leonard

Leonard, who made his England debut at the age of 21 in 1990, ended his career with 119 international caps, 114 for England and five for the British Lions. At the time it was more than any other player in the history of the game. George Gregan of Australia took his record three years later. Leonard appeared in two World Cup finals at either end of his career.

In 1991, he was on the losing side as Australia claimed the title but in 2003 he came off the bench in extra time to help shore up the English scrum and help the team to their first world title.

Answer: Duncan Goodhew

Goodhew was driven as a sportsman by his view of himself as "an oddity" as a child. As well as being totally bald, as a consequence of a fall from a tree at the age of ten, he was also dyslexic, a disability that was little understood at the time. He was obsessed with the Olympic Games from a young age and he made his debut in the Montreal Games as a teenager. His victory in Moscow came at the expense of the favourite, local boy Arsens Miskarovs. It was the only major title that Goodhew ever won - he won bronze medals at both the World and European championships as part of the British medley relay team.

David Wilkie took gold in the 200m breaststroke in the Montreal Games of 1976, also claiming silver in the 100m event. Moorhouse regained the 100m title for Great Britain in Seoul in 1988 having missed out on a medal in 1984. Gillingham won silver in 1988 in the 200m breaststroke and then bronze four years later. He never won an Olympic title.

Answer: Kenny Dalglish

Dalglish made his debut for Scotland at the age of 20 in 1971 and won a total of 102 caps over the following 15 years. His tally of 30 goals equalled the Scottish record held by Denis Law. He played in three World Cups in 1974, 1978 and 1982 scoring two goals, including the first in Scotland's famous 3-2 win over the Netherlands in Argentina in 1978. He won four Scottish league titles with Celtic and six in England with Liverpool, whose fans renamed him "King Kenny" and voted him the club's greatest ever player in a 2006 poll. As a manager, he won three league titles with Liverpool and a fourth with Blackburn Rovers.

Denis Law played 55 times for Scotland but never played club football in the country, spending all but one year of his career in England, the other in Italy. Danny McGrain played with Dalglish at Celtic and was a fellow member of the 1974 World Cup squad along with Denis Law. He won 62 caps for Scotland. Ally McCoist played 61 times for Scotland, scoring 19 goals.

Answer: Marathon

Singh is a remarkable man. He set all sorts of age-based records in the course of his athletic endeavours and these achievements have seen him appear alongside David Beckham and Muhammad Ali in advertising campaigns for sporting goods manufacturers. Toronto, Canada seemed to bring the best out of him.

After setting a marathon record time of five hours 40 mins for the over 90s age group in the city, he took to Toronto's streets again at the age of 100 years and six months to become the oldest man to complete a marathon.

This came just three days after setting age-based records for 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, the mile, 3000m and 5000m in the city. I say it again, this is a remarkable man.

Answer: Stephen Hendry

Hendry became the youngest ever world champion in snooker when we won the title in 1990 at the age of 21. Though he failed to retain his title the following year, he did claim it in each of the subsequent five years. In 1999, he claimed his seventh title, putting him ahead of all other players in the modern era (Joe Davis won the title 15 times up to 1946 but many of those successes came when there were as few as two entrants to the competition). Hendry compiled a total of 775 competitive century breaks in his career, nearly 100 ahead of his nearest challenger at the time of his retirement. He had also set records for most centuries in a single match (seven) and most in a tournament (16).

Alan McManus was the player that ended Hendry's winning run at the British Masters in 1994 after Hendry won the previous five. He had never been world champion at the time of Hendry's retirement. Higgins is another hugely successful Scottish snooker player with multiple world championship victories but did not retire in 2012. Gavin Hastings was a hugely successful and talented Scot but at rugby not snooker (not to my knowledge at least!)