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1. Seated in your comfy armchair, you checked the listings and decided on "Iconic Sporting Moments". You heard a shout of, "You cannot be serious!". What were you watching?
2. You dozed off in front of the television and awoke to a discussion on deck work and cadence action. What sport was on your screen?
3. Bored with television, you picked up your newspaper, turned to the back page and read about a 'bully'. This was not a player committing a foul, but a means of deciding advantage in a game of what?
4. You remembered it was Saturday and thought you might take a little gamble on the lotto. At what horse racing event in 1839 was the very first winner a horse named 'Lottery'?
5. You had a lottery ticket and it reminded you of Lottie Dod, Wimbledon champion and all round athlete. She won a silver medal in the 1908 Olympics in which event?
6. As you ate your pizza and chips, you remembered how when you were young and fit that you tried to perfect a new technique first seen globally in the 1968 Olympics, the 'Fosbury Flop'. What was this sport?
7. You met up with your mates for a Saturday night out at the 'local'. You 'diddled for the middle', and were now ready for a game of what?
8. Sunday morning, but no time for a lie-in as it was the London Marathon, albeit from the comfort of your armchair. In what months has this event mostly taken place?
9. The smell of Sunday lunch wafting from the kitchen with roast beef and all the trimmings was making you hungry. Which English cricketer had a nickname associated with this meal?
10. Time for a walk, but Granddad was glued to the television, arms waving, clutching a device with a wrist strap. He said he was ten-pin bowling from his armchair. What was he really playing with?
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