Sports Variety Trivia Quiz

Answer: Red Rum

Red Rum won the Grand National in 1973, 1974 and 1977, becoming the first horse to win this steeplechase three times. He finished second in between those wins, in 1975 and 1976. He is buried at the winning post at Aintree.

Answer: 18 inches

Darts is an ancient game, now featuring a board of 17 3⁄4 inches or 451 millimetres. It is commonly played in pubs. There are two world championships in this sport: one is run by the World Darts Federation and one by the Professional Darts Corporation.

Answer: Alex Higgins

Alex "Hurricane" Higgins (1949-2010) was a snooker player from Belfast. His speed at the snooker table earned him his nickname.

Answer: Gaelic Football

Gaelic Football is one of Ireland's two national sports. It has been described as a cross between rugby and soccer. While they can play in front of tens of thousands of people, they are not paid to play and they can be back at their job or studies the next day. Players play for the pride of their local community or county and very rarely move to play for other teams.

Answer: Scotland

Due to the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics by many countries, the Scottish sprinter Alan Wells was able to compete without a lot of the great sprinters of the time being there, winning the 100 metres final.

Answer: Arc de Triomphe

On the first Sunday of October every year the horse race known as The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is run at the Longchamp race track near Paris, France. It is one of the top flat races in Europe and has been held since 1920.

Answer: Off-shore sea sailing

The Fastnet Rock is in the Atlantic Ocean, just off the southwest of Ireland. It is the location of an annual sailing race of over 600 miles on a course between Ireland and England (first run n 1925). In 1979 a storm hit the race, tragically resulting in 19 fatalities.

Answer: 6

Jim Gavin was a Dublin Gaelic Football player and manager. He won the All-Ireland Senior Championship as a player in 1995. He managed the Dublin Senior Football team from the 1st of October 2012 until the 30th of November 2019. He was manager when they won in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Answer: Australian Open

The Australian Open is played in January each year. The French Open usually starts in May. Wimbledon normally starts in June. The US Open normally starts in August.

Answer: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

The so-called Baltic States, as they all have coastlines on the Baltic Sea, have a huge interest in basketball. Lithuania won the bronze medal in the Olympic men's tournament in 1992, 1996 and 2000.