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So Little Time Trivia Quiz

Timing can be everything in sports! This quiz looks at famous sporting events where timing was important.

A multiple-choice quiz by EmmaF2008. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
EmmaF2008

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
333,098

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

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418

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Question 1 of 10

1. The ice hockey final at the 2010 Winter Olympics was a real nailbiter as Canada and the USA battled it out for gold. With only 25 seconds of normal time remaining, which USA player leveled the score and forced the game into sudden death? Hint

Ryan Kessler

Sidney Crosby

Corey Perry

Zach Parise

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Question 2 of 10

2. Tennis is not a usually a game of timing, but in 2010 at Wimbledon, the first round game between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut broke records both for the sheer number of games and the length of the match. How many hours of playing time did this game take? Hint

11 hours and 5 minutes

7 hours and 6 minutes

6 hours and 31 minutes

8 hours and 11 minutes

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Question 3 of 10

3. The 2009 RBS Six Nations came down to the final game to decide the winner. In the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales and Ireland were competing for the title. Which Irish player scored in the 78th minute to grant victory to Ireland? Hint

Ronan O'Gara

Brian O'Driscoll

Paul O'Connell

Tommy Bowe

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Question 4 of 10

4. Super Bowl XLII, the culmination of the 2007 season, featured the New York Giants against the New England Patriots. In the closing minute of the game, Eli Manning threw a touchdown pass to Plaxico Buress to edge the Giants ahead with just 35 seconds remaining. What was the final score of the game? Hint

7-3

32-29

27-23

17-14

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Question 5 of 10

5. The Tour de France is a cycling race in which the overall winner is decided by time. In 1989, which American rider started the final stage in second place overall, 50 seconds behind the leader, and went on to win by a margin of just eight seconds? Hint

Sean Kelly

Lance Armstrong

Greg LeMond

Laurent Fignon

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Question 6 of 10

6. At the FIFA World Cup 2010, the USA won a tightly contested game by a single goal scored in the first minute of additional time. They held on to this lead for three minutes, beating which team? Hint

Ghana

England

Algeria

Slovenia

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Question 7 of 10

7. In 1986, the Spanish Grand Prix came right down to the wire and included a photo finish which showed two cars seperated by just 0.014 of a second. Which Formula One great emerged victorious? Hint

Ayrton Senna

Alain Prost

Nigel Mansell

Nelson Piquet

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Question 8 of 10

8. The 2005 UEFA Champions League final appeared to be over at halftime, with AC Milan ahead by three goals. In the second half, Liverpool launched a counter-attack which drew the game level and forced the match to penalties. What was this incredible comeback christened? Hint

Miracle of Istanbul

Anfield Ascension

Mauling at Milan

French Fightback

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Question 9 of 10

9. Usain Bolt dazzled the world at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, where he set new world and Olympic records for the 100 metres. In 2009 at the World Championships in Berlin, he again set a new world record in the 100 metres, running the final in what astonishing time? Hint

9.69

9.71

9.89

9.58

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Question 10 of 10

10. The 2003 Rugby World Cup was played between Australia and England. The game was level at 80 minutes and extra time was played. In the final minute of extra time, Jonny Wilkinson managed to score a drop goal. How much time was left on the clock when he did this? Hint

53 seconds

21 seconds

38 seconds

7 seconds

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: Zach Parise

Zach Parise scored in the final minute, bringing the score to two all. The game went into overtime with sudden death, that is the first team to score would win. After seven minutes and forty seconds, Sidney Crosby scored for Canada, giving the gold medal to the home team. Ryan Kessler scored America's opening goal in the final, and Corey Perry scored Canada's second goal.

Answer: 11 hours and 5 minutes

The marathon match took place over three days and 183 games, with the fifth set alone taking eight hours and 11 minutes of playing time. The majority of the fifth set took place on day two of the match and also set a record for the longest playing time in a single day, a total of seven hours and six minutes.

This by itself is longer than the six hours and 31 minutes it took Vicki Nelson and Jean Harper to play out a record setting game in 1984.

Answer: Ronan O'Gara

O'Gara's drop goal handed victory to Ireland, by a margin of just two points, securing not only the match but also the championship with a Grand Slam, which is winning every game in the competition, beating every other nation. The Six Nations is an annual rugby union competition played between Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland, France and Italy. Brian O'Driscoll, Paul O'Connell, and Tommy Bowe are all prominent Irish rugby players who were on the 2009 winning team.

Answer: 17-14

The National Football League is made up of 32 teams which is split into two conferences, the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). Each conference consists of 16 teams, split into four divisions of four teams each.

The Super Bowl is the culmination of the NFL playoffs, where the winners of each division plus two wildcard entries from each conference compete. The Super Bowl is contested between the champion of the AFC and the champion of the NFC. The New England Patriots were definite favourites heading into Super Bowl XLII with an undefeated season behind them.

The New York Giants were a wildcard entry, and became the first wildcard entry from the National Football Conference to win the Super Bowl.

Answer: Greg LeMond

The 1989 Tour de France was unusual in that the final stage featured a time trial. LeMond managed to make up the 50-second deficit and more, winning the yellow jersey by one of the narrowest margins in cycling history with a total time of 87 hours, 38 minutes and 15 seconds.

This was his second win, after his 1986 victory when he became the first American to win the Tour de France. He retained his title in 1990, making it a hat-trick of wins. Laurent Fignon of France came in second, just eight seconds behind. Sean Kelly of Ireland won the points competition and Lance Armstrong of America went on to win the Tour de France for the first time in 1999.

Answer: Algeria

The winning goal was scored by Landon Donovan and was the final game in Group C. This goal not only clinched the match for the USA, but it also made them winners of their group, allowing them to advance to the final 16. England were runners up of Group C and Slovenia came third. Had USA not beaten Algeria in that final match, they would have been in third place behind Slovenia and exited the championship. Team USA met Ghana in the next round, and were defeated with a final score of two goals to one.

Interestingly, Ghana had defeated the USA by the same margin in their final group game at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

7. In 1986, the Spanish Grand Prix came right down to the wire and included a photo finish which showed two cars seperated by just 0.014 of a second. Which Formula One great emerged victorious?

Answer: Ayrton Senna

The race was the first Spanish Grand Prix to be held for five years. It was closely contested by Mansell and Senna throughout, with Senna starting in a better position and the lead being exchanged numerous times during the race. Coming off the final corner, Mansell launched a last ditch effort to take the race.

He was almost successful, but the photo finish showed that Senna had won. Alain Prost went on to win the 1986 season. Sadly for Mansell, had he won at Jerez, he would have won the drivers championship by one point. Nelson Piquet was Mansell's teammate at Williams-Honda that season, and their team which won the constructors championship in 1986.

Answer: Miracle of Istanbul

2005 was the first time that Liverpool had appeared in the UEFA Champions League Final since 1985, when the disaster at Heysel stadium occured, a tragedy which resulted in all English football teams being banned from the competition for five years and Liverpool in particular for six.

In a remarkable comeback, Liverpool scored three goals in just six minutes, taking the game into extra time and subsequently to penalties. In the penalty shootout, goal keeper Jerzy Dudek saved three penalty shots to make Liverpool the winners.

Answer: 9.58

The aptly named Bolt shaved off 0.11 seconds from his Olympic time, a huge difference and the biggest single improvement since the introduction of electronic timing for the 100 metres. Bolt's spectacular performance wasn't limited to the 100 metres. He also smashed his 200 metres record, again by over .010 of a second.

Answer: 21 seconds

England won the game 20-17, disappointing the host nation Australia. It was England's first Rugby World Cup victory. Jonny Wilkinson was the tournament's highest point scorer, clocking up a total of 113 points.

Source: Author EmmaF2008

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