FunTrivia Sports Mix: Vol 7 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Spain

Spain's major football league is known as the Primera División. Barcelona is one of its oldest teams, debuting in 1928 and winning their 20th title in 2009-2010.

Question by player timence

Answer: 1970s

The Munich tragedy was in 1972. Jackie Stewart won his Formula One championships in 1969, 1971, and 1973. The Netherlands faced West Germany in the 1974 FIFA World Cup, then Argentina in 1978. They were runners-up both times.

Question by player Nightmare

Answer: They were all heavyweight boxing champions

Schmeling was the earliest title holder of these listed in 1930. Charles held the belt for a few years until Walcott defeated him in 1951. Ellis had the title in 1968. Holyfield became champion in 1990 when he beat James "Buster" Douglas. Lewis' first crown came in 1992.

Question by player Nightmare

Answer: Dish

Rhythmic gymnastics is an Olympic sport that involves the use of five different apparatus while doing non-tumbling floor exercise. These pieces of equipment include clubs, ball, rope, hoop, and ribbon. The sport combines ballet, gymnastics and dance and can be a solo or team competition.

Question by player dcpddc478

Answer: Borussia Dortmund

The European Champions Cup was reformed as the UEFA Champions League in 1992. The 1997 final between Borussia Dortmund and Juventus F.C. took place in the Olympic Stadium of Munich. Dortmund won the match 3-1, with two goals scored by Karl-Heinz Riedle and one by Lars Ricken. In 2009 Ricken's goal was elected 'BVB Goal of the Century' by the fans.
The first German team to win the European Champions Cup (or simply the European Cup) was Bayern Munich in 1974, when they beat Atletico Madrid 4-0.

Question by player Siggi

Answer: Canadian

National Hockey League - The 31 teams were re-organised into geographic divisions to keep travel down in a time of pandemic. The seven Canadian teams (Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver) were placed in one division to avoid crossing an international boundary. The official name was the "North" division.

Question by player Ampelos

Answer: cricket

The Ashes is a terracotta urn filled with the ashes of a burned cricket bail. It is the prize to the cricket team which wins a five-test cricket series between England and Australia. The first series was won by Australia in 1882. Australia has done slightly better than England over the course.

The name of the trophy comes from a British newspaper article in 1882 which, following the defeat of the English team to the Australians, saying that English cricket had died, and "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia".

Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: golf

The "jigger" is a four-iron. A "spoon" is a three-wood. A "brassie" is the term for a two-wood, and a "wedge" is a ten-iron.
In golf, the lower the number of the club, the farther the ball hit with that club will travel, if you hit it correctly. Thus, a one-wood ("driver") is typically used to "tee off" or start the hole on a par four or five hole. A wedge (pitching or sand wedge, for example) is typically used around the green and gives the golfer a short, high-arcing shot.

Question by player Sundancer415

Answer: Australian Rules Football

The MCG as it is known or "The G" is the 11th biggest stadium in the world and the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. The crowd at the the 1970 Victorian Football League Grand Final between Collingwood and Carlton housed 121,696 people. The Grand Final had 118,696 attending the year after.

In 1984, an all seating ground was implemented reducing capacity significantly. When the Great Southern Stand was completed in 1991, the stadium was encircled by an all-seated configuration for the first time and could seat 100,000 people.

The 2018 Grand Final had 100,022 people in attendance. Crowds for cricket, rugby league and union and soccer have all exceeded 90,000 on occasions.

Question by player 1nn1

Answer: Steve Ovett

Born on 9th October 1955 in Brighton, West Sussex, Steve Ovett won his first major title as a middle distance runner in the European Junior Championships in 1973. The 1980 Olympics was just the seond time that Ovett and Coe raced against each other (the first was in 1978 at the European Championships). A new statue of Steve Ovett was unveiled in Brighton, England to celebrate the start of the 2012 Olmpic games taking place in Great Britain (it was built in 1987 but stolen in 2007).

In 1979, Sebastian Coe broke the world records for 800m, 1500m and the mile, becoming the first athlete to hold these three world records at the same time. Steve Ovett broke Coe's mile record in 1980.

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