The Grand Slam Trivia Quiz

Answer: Travers Stakes

The Travers Stakes is a Grade I race for three-year olds held at Saratoga Racecourse in Saratoga Springs, New York. First held in 1864, it is the third ranked race for horses in the three-year old age group, behind the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes.

In 1941, Whirlaway became the first horse to complete this version of the Grand Slam, which is also referred to as the "superfecta", although the first attempt was undertaken in 1930, when Triple Crown winner Gallant Fox was entered in the Travers, but finished second by three lengths of 100/1 outsider Jim Dandy.

In 2015, American Pharoah won the Triple Crown and was entered in the Travers, losing by 3⁄4 of a length to Keen Ice. However, in October of the same year, the horse was entered in the Breeders' Cup Classic (a race that is not age-restricted), which was held that year at Keeneland, and won by 6 1⁄2 lengths, becoming the first horse to win this version of the Grand Slam.

Answer: Bobby Jones

In the modern era, the four major tournaments are the Masters Tournament, the PGA Championship, the US Open, which are all held in the United States, and the Open Championship, held in the United Kingdom. However, prior to the creation of the Masters in 1934, the majors were considered to be the two open tournaments, and their equivalent for non-professionals, the US Amateur and the Amateur Championship.

In 1930, Bobby Jones, one of the most successful golfers of the day, who up to then had won nine majors (three US Opens, four US Amateurs and two Open Championships), became the first player to win all four in a single year - he won the Amateur Championship at St Andrews at the end of May; the Open Championship at Hoylake in the third week of June; the US Open at Interlachen in mid-July; and the US Amateur at Merion at the end of September, taking his tally of major victories to 13.

The first player to hold all four of the modern major titles at the same time was Tiger Woods, although this was over two successive years, with his victories coming at the 2000 US Open, 2000 Open Championship, 2000 PGA and 2001 Masters.

Answer: John Schneider

"Grand Slam" was an action adventure series created by Bill L. Norton, and starring John Schneider as Dennis "Hardball" Bakelenoff and Paul Rodriguez as Pedro N. Gomez, a pair of bounty hunters working for competing bail bond companies in San Diego who, in the pilot episode, are forced to team up in an effort to catch a criminal who has skipped bail.

The pilot episode was broadcast by CBS on 28 January 1990 following the network's transmission of Super Bowl XXIV, with the first regular episode following three days later on 31 January.

However, CBS pulled the series after the transmission of the sixth episode on 14 March, leaving two remaining episodes that were not broadcast.

Answer: Troy Trojans

Roger Connor was born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1857. He first played professional baseball with the minor league Waterbury Monitors in 1876, before moving to the Holyoke Shamrocks, where he gained a reputation for big hitting that was enough to impress Bob Ferguson, manager of the National League Troy Trojans, who signed Connor in 1880. On 10 September 1881, in a game against the Worcester Ruby Legs at Riverfront Park, Connor came out to bat in the bottom of the ninth inning, with his team trailing 7-4 and with two outs, but with the bases loaded. Connor proceeded to power the ball away for a home run, allowing the Trojans to score the four runs they needed to win the game 8-7. Nineteen days after Connor's walk-off grand slam (neither of which terms were used at the time), Harry Stovey of the Ruby Legs scored the second recorded grand slam, this time against the Chicago White Stockings.

Answer: Barnes Wallis

The Grand Slam was a 22,000 lb earthquake bomb developed for use by the Royal Air Force towards the end of the Second World War. A larger version of the 12,000 lb 'Tallboy' bomb, the Grand Slam was designed with a thick casing to allow for deep penetration into the ground before detonation, with the 9,500 lb of Torpex explosive creating a cavern in the area of detonation that would go to undermine building foundations.

The first Grand Slam operation was undertaken on 14 March 1945, when 15 Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron flew against the Schildesche viaduct in Bielefeld armed with 14 Tallboy bombs and a single Grand Slam. 617 Squadron flew another eight operations armed with Grand Slams up to the end of the war, with a total of 41 dropped on targets.

Answer: Austria

The Four Hills Tournament is an annual event consisting of four of the individual events on the FIS World Cup tour. The event, also known as the German-Austrian Ski Jumping Week, takes place over the course of seven days between 29 December and 6 January at four towns - Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany, and Innsbruck and Bischofshofen in Austria.

Although each individual event offers points for a competitor's overall World Cup total, the competitor who achieves the most points at the four events will win the overall Four Hills title.

Although the Four Hills began in 1953, the first competitor to win the Grand Slam by coming first in each of the four events was Sven Hannawald of Germany in 2002.

Answer: Juan Manuel Fangio

The Formula One World Drivers' Championship began in 1950, with the first season consisting of a total of seven races, with six held in Europe and the other being the Indianapolis 500. At the season's second race, held in Monaco, pole position was won by the Argentine driver Juan Manuel Fangio, driving for Alfa Romeo, in a time of 1:50.2.

In the race, a multi-car incident on lap 1 saw at least ten of the 17 entries forced to retire, although Fangio was able to escape the incident. Fangio led the race for all 100 laps, recording the fastest lap of the race, at 1:51.0, on the first lap. Fangio took the chequered flag to record the first of his eventual total of 24 wins in Formula One, and the first of his two Grand Slams, the other coming at the 1956 German Grand Prix.

Answer: Australia

Prior to April 1968, the major tennis tournaments (the Australian, French, US and Wimbledon championships) were only available for amateur players to enter, with no prize money on offer. As a result, tournaments for those players who had elected to turn professional were established, with a number of 'championship tournaments' taking place bringing the best players together.

The longest running of these professional tournaments - the US Pro Tennis Championships, the French Pro Championship and the Wembley Championship - came to be regarded as the 'pro slams', the equivalent of the majors.

In 1967, the last full year of the distinction between amateur and professional, Rod Laver, who had won a Grand Slam in 1962, his last year as an amateur, won all three of the pro slam tournaments to achieve an equivalent in the professional ranks.

In April 1968, the Grand Slam tournaments agreed to allow professionals to enter, beginning the 'Open Era' in tennis - the French Pro ended in 1968, while the US and Wembley championships continued as tour events into the 1990s.

In 1969, the first full year of the Open Era, Rod Laver achieved his second Grand Slam.

Answer: Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn's first major role came when the novelist Colette had her cast to play the title role in the Broadway adaptation of her novel "Gigi" in 1951. The success of "Gigi" saw her cast in her first leading role in film, as Princess Ann in "Roman Holiday". Her performance was such that her co-star, Gregory Peck, ostensibly the film's lead, insisted that Hepburn's name join his above the title. Following the production of "Roman Holiday", and her next film role in "Sabrina", Hepburn returned to the stage as the lead in Jean Giraudoux's play "Ondine". On 25 March 1954, at the 26th Academy Awards, Hepburn was awarded the Best Actress Oscar for her role in "Roman Holiday". Three days later, on 28th March at the 8th Tony Awards, she was then awarded the Distinguished Dramatic Actress Tony for "Ondine".

In the 1990s, Audrey Hepburn had gone into semi-retirement, when she undertook two more personal projects. In 1992, she recorded a spoken word album, "Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales", in which she read a number of classic fairy tales set to classical music, while in 1993, she translated her love of gardening and gardens into a documentary television series for PBS, "Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn". At the same time, she was diagnosed with abdominal cancer, and died in January 1993, the day before "Gardens of the World" was first transmitted. At the 45th Primetime Emmy Awards on 19 September 1993, Hepburn was posthumously awarded the Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming Emmy, while at the 36th Grammy Awards on 1 March 1994, she won the Best Spoken Word Album for Children Grammy. In doing so, she became the first EGOT winner to complete the set posthumously, and the first to do so with a single award in each.

Answer: The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers is a musical group from Cincinnati, originally formed in the 1950s by brothers O'Kelly, Rudolph and Ronald Isley. By the early 1970s, the original trio had expanded with the inclusion of Ernie and Marvin Isley, together with Rudolph's brother-in-law Chris Jasper.

In March 1981, "Grand Slam" became the group's 19th album release, featuring a total of seven tracks. Reaching number three on the Billboard R&B chart, and 28 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, "Grand Slam" eventually sold more than 500,000 copies and was certified Gold in May 1981.