B421

Multiple Choice Round Examples

B421 Two To One Against

  • A random selection of questions with a sporting theme.  Just select your answer from the three options given.
1.  Who won The World Highland Games Championships a record six times?
a)    Grant Anderson
b)    Geoff Capes
c)    Jim McGoldrick
2.    What jobs did Mike ‘Fluff’ Cowan, Jim ‘Bones’ Mackay and Fanny Sunesson do?
a)    Football referees
b)    Athletics time-keepers
c)    Golf caddies
3.    The ground-breaking Stoke Mandeville Games for the Paralyzed in 1948, featured 14 male and 2 female competitors in which sport?
a)    Snooker
b)    Archery
c)    Shot put
4.    Which former rugby player once called the English RFU committee 'Old Farts'?
a)    Will Carling
b)    Matt Dawson
c)    Bill Beaumont
5.    Which country's first ever home football international was played at the Racecourse Ground in 1877?
a)    England
b)    Scotland
c)    Wales
6.    Frankie Fredericks represented which African country in athletics?
a)    Angola
b)    Namibia
c)    South Africa
7.    In a famous 2006 newspaper article, the then British Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, was photographed playing what sport?
a)    Croquet
b)    Curling
c)    Darts
8.    In inches, how big is the diameter of a basketball hoop?
a)    12
b)    15
c)    18
9.    Wladimir Klitschko is a champion boxer from which country?
a)    Latvia
b)    Russia
c)    Ukraine
10.    In horse racing, which is the last of the five classics to be run each year, and its distance is also the longest?
a)    St. Leger
b)    Oaks
c)    Derby



Answers follow:-

  1. b) Geoff Capes
  2. c) Golf caddies
  3. b) Archery
  4. a) Will Carling
  5. c) Wales
  6. b) Namibia
  7. a) Croquet
  8. c) 18
  9. c) Ukraine
  10. a) St. Leger
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