Sports Mixed Bag [2] Trivia Quiz

Answer: Arsenal

The League Cup was first contested in 1961. The final was originally played over two legs, but since 1967 has been a single game. It was not until 1993 that a team won both the League Cup and the F.A. Cup in the same year.

Answer: Joe Frazier

Muhammad Ali arrived in New York City with a perfect 31-0 professional record in March 1971, for the first of his three fights against Smokin' Joe Frazier. He boasted (literally) victories over big names including Archie Moore, Sonny Liston (twice), Henry Cooper (twice), Floyd Patterson, and Jerry Quarry. Frazier, meanwhile, came in with a perfect 26-0 record, although Jerry Quarry, arguably the best boxer never to win a world title, was the class of his opponents up to that point.

In what was billed as 'The Fight of the Century', Frazier won a unanimous decision and left with his unblemished record intact and the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world.

It would eventually be Ali who had the last laugh. He won both of the subsequent fights between the two. One by a decision in 1974 and the other by a 15th-round TKO in 'The Thrilla in Manila' in 1975.

Answer: Wrexham

Bangor-on-Dee is a small village on the River Dee in the county borough of Wrexham in northeastern Wales. The county is adjacent to Cheshire across the border with England. Bangor-on-Dee racecourse has been a venue for jump racing since 1859. It is unique amongst British courses in that it has no grandstand.

Answer: Seve Ballesteros

A former world #1 at the age of just 19, and playing in only his second 'major', Severiano Ballesteros finished tied for second in the 1976 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale (Seve was 6 strokes behind Johnny Miller, who was recording his only victory in the Open.). During his career, Seve won the Open three times (1979, 1984 and 1988) and The Masters twice (1980 and 1983).

His final appearance in a 'major' was at the 2007 Masters, although he last made 'the cut' at a 'major' in 1996. The first of Seve's 49 European Tour victories came in 1976 (The Dutch Open) and the last in 1995 (The Spanish Open). Bernhard Langer scored 40 European Tour wins between 1980 and 2002. Ian Woosnam had 28 between 1982 and 1997, and Nick Faldo 27 between 1977 and 1994.

Answer: Jim Clark

James Clark Jr was born in Fife, Scotland in 1936, the youngest of five children, the others all girls. In a career spanning nine seasons between 1960 and 1968, he won the poll position for 28 of his 72 starts. He won 25 of those 72 races and recorded seven other podium finishes.

He was World Champion twice, in 1963 and 1965. He drove for Lotus throughout his career. He recorded his first Grand Prix victory in 1962, when he won three times with the Belgian, British, and American. The following year, he completely dominated, winning seven of the ten races and finishing 2nd and 3rd in two of the others. Clark won the British Grand Prix in 1962-63-64-65 and 1967. Of the other three options, Nigel Mansell came closest to equaling the record of Clark and Prost, winning four times (1986, 1987, 1991 and 1992).

He also finished second in both 1988 and 1989. Stirling Moss (1955 and 1957) and Jackie Stewart (1969 and 1971) both won the British Grand Prix twice.

Answer: Marathon

Charles Spedding collected a bronze medal in the Men's Marathon, finishing behind Carlos Lopes of Portugal and Ireland's John Treacy. Lopes took 34 seconds off the previous Olympic record, which had stood since 1976. After just over 26 miles, Spedding finished only 3 seconds outside the previous record and only 2 seconds behind Treacy. Spedding comes from Bishop Auckland in County Durham.

He also won the London Marathon in 1984 (in a time just 1 second faster than his time in Los Angeles). Welshman Steve Jones won the London Marathon and broke the world record in 1985, but Spedding's was the last British medal of the 20th Century in the event.

The Women's Marathon was only introduced in 1984, but Britain failed to win a medal in the 20th century in that event.

Answer: Hampshire

Charles Philip Mead, born in Battersea (Surrey) in 1887, was a left-handed batsman. Many of the records that he established still stood more than 70 years after he finished playing. Besides the record for runs scored for a single county team, he had also scored more runs in the English County Championship than any other player. Between 1907 and his last year as a full-time professional at the age of 49 in 1936, he scored at least 1000 first-class runs in every season.

Indeed, he scored more than 3000 in 1928, and an injury-affected season in 1929, was the first since the end of WWI in which he did not pass the 2000-run mark.

He finished with a career first-class batting average of 47.67, a top score of 280 not out, and more than 150 centuries to his name. Mead was also a capable bowler, 277 wickets at an average of under 35, and an excellent fielder (675 catches).

He played 17 test matches for England, scoring 1,185 runs at an average of 49.37.

Answer: Doug Mountjoy

Ray Reardon, affectionately known as 'Dracula' because of his distinctive hairstyle, dominated the sport in the 1970s, winning six World titles including four in a row (1970, 1973-74-75-76 and 1978). Terry Griffiths, a former postman renowned for his interminably slow play, kept the title in Wales by winning in 1979. Mark Williams, nicknamed 'The Welsh Potting Machine', won the title in 2000 and 2003.

In 2005, he became the fifth player to record a maximum 147 break at the World Championships. Former coal miner Doug Mounjoy is the odd one out.

He arrived on the snooker scene with a spectacular victory in the 1977 Masters, beating Fred Davis, Alex Higgins, and Ray Reardon on the way to the title. He reached the final of the World Championship once, in 1981, but lost 18-12 to Steve Davis.

Answer: Lleyton Hewitt

Lleyton Glynn Hewitt was born in Adelaide, Australia, in 1981. He won his first Grand Slam title with victory over Sampras in the final of the 2001 U.S. Open, and then added a second by beating Nalbandian at Wimbledon in 2002. He lost to Federer in the final of the 2004 U.S. Open and to Marat Safin in the 2005 Australian Open final. Sampras lost in two consecutive U.S. Open finals, and it was Safin that beat him in 2000. Safin's semi-final appearance at Wimbledon in 2008 was the first time he had made it to the second week. Agassi played Sampras in the 2002 U.S. Open final and in 1999 at Wimbledon, but Sampras won both of those. Agassi won the title in 1999, but beat Todd Martin in that final. Federer won four consecutive U.S. Open finals between 2004-05-06-07 and five consecutive Wimbledons from 2003-04-05-06-07, but he did not play Sampras in any of those nine finals.

Answer: Dallas Cowboys

The San Francisco 49ers set a high standard, winning in all their first five appearances in the Super Bowl: 1982, 1985, 1989, 1990, and 1995. The Pittsburgh Steelers enjoyed a purple patch in the late 1970s, winning in 1975, 1976, 1979 and 1980. They added a fifth victory in 2006.

The New England Patriots dominated the early 21st-Century, winning Super Bowls in 2002, 2004, and 2005. The Dallas Cowboys won in 1972, 1978, 1993, 1994, and 1996. They also lost three times, in 1971, 1976 and 1979, to make them the first franchise to play in the Super Bowl eight times.