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21 Dec, 2009 03:00 AM
SPORTS quiz compiled with the assistance of The Original Fame Trivia Company.

BRAIN TEASER

1. Who won The Journal senior Cricketer of the Year Award last season?

2. Who played in the first night game of Australian Rules football and when?

3. When and where was the first Test match played in Australia?

4. Who was Australia's first open golf champion?

5.When were caddies introduced in Australian golf?

6. Who was Australia's first $1 million horse trainer?

7. Who was Australia's first $1 million jockey?

8. Where was the first lawn bowls match played in Australia and who won it?

9. Who was Australia's first Olympic champion?

10. Who was the first captain of the Australian rugby union Wallabies?

11. Who was Australia's first Olympic swimming champion?

12. Who was the first Australian tennis singles winner?

13. Who was first Australian tennis open champion?

14. Who was the first Australian woman tennis player to win a grand slam?

15. Which Australian basketballer played alongside Michael Jordan for the Chicago Bulls?

16. Jay Stacy represented Australia in what sport?

17. Which world heavyweight champion successfully defended his title 25 times?

18. Who were the first two Australian surfers to win the world championships?

19. Raelene Boyle competed at three Olympic Games, held where?

20. Who were the first three

Australian boxers to hold undisputed world championships?

21. Who was Dawn Fraser's swimming coach?

22. What are the five standard positions allocated to players in a game of basketball?

23. In which famous car race were 70 people killed and 100 injured when a Mercedes crashed into the crowd in 1955?

24. How many points are generally needed to win a game of badminton?

25. How many lanes are marked out on an athletics track?

26. Which four players did Jimmy Connors play against in Wimbledon singles finals?

27. Which golfer defeated Greg Norman in a play-off for the US PGA title?

28. The Australian men's hockey team is named after which bird?

29. Which Australian team member won five gold medals at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games?

30. In what year did Joe Bugner fight Muhammad Ali?

31. What is the maximum length in inches a cricket bat is allowed to be?

32. Which two cricketers compiled a record fifth-wicket partnership of 464 runs for NSW against WA in 1990?

33. In which international sport is the Swaythling Cup contested?

34. Under which maiden name did Billie Jean King win her first Wimbledon title?

35. What were the names of the three yachts Dennis Conner used in America's Cup finals races?

36. In which Australian state would you find the Morphettville horse racing track?

37. Which team sport evolved from the Chinese game tsu chu?

38. What was the first Sydney rugby league club that Arthur Beetson played for?

39. Who did Muhammad Ali defeat to regain his world heavyweight boxing title?

40. Who won the 1995 US Masters golf tournament?

41. With which sport do you associate the following sportspeople? 1. Frenchman Jean-Philippe Ruggia 2. Debbie Watson 3. Lee Freedman.

42. What is the title of the song chosen as Australia's official Olympic theme?

43. Aussie swimmer Michelle Ford won gold at which Olympics?

44. What name was given to the new cycling event introduced at the Sydney Olympics in which Australia won gold?

45. To date, which athletes representing Australia have won individual winter Olympic gold medals?

46. Since the Olympics began in 1896, in which five sporting categories has Australia won most of its gold medals?

47. Which is the only country to date to host a summer Olympics but not win any gold medals at them?

48. Which British athlete won the Olympic decathlon in 1980 and 1984?

49. What was the year, month and date of the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony?

50. How many votes did Geelong's Gary Ablett poll to win the 2009 Brownlow Medal?

ANSWERS

1 . Travis Campbell, Mordialloc. 2. Collingwood Artillery v East Melbourne at the MCG on August 6, 1879, using a white ball. Attendance was 12,000. 3. In 1877 at the MCG, with Australia defeating England by 45 runs. 4. Against players from all states, Scotland, New Zealand and England, the Hon Michael Scott won by eight strokes with rounds of 77, 74, 80, 84, aggregate 315. 5. Caddies were first seen in Australia in July 1891, when Royal Melbourne opened its course at Caulfield. 6. JB 'Bart' Cummings became the first Australian trainer to pass the $1million mark in stakes in one season on June 17, 1974. TJ 'Tommy' Smith also reached $1 million later that afternoon. 7. Malcolm Johnston, with aggregate stakes of more than $1 million won by horses he rode in the 1979-80 season. Johnston reached the mark when champion thee-year-old gelding Kingston Town won the HE Tancred Stakes at Rosehill on March 29, 1980. 8. It was played between F Lipscombe and T Burgess at Lipscombe's Tavern, Sandy Beach, near Hobart, on January 1, 1845. Both learned the game in England. Burgess won by "the odd game in 25". 9. EH 'Edwin' Flack, who won the 800 and 1500 metres in athletics at Athens in 1896. Flack was nominated by his London athletics club. There were no national teams entered. 10. Dr HM Moran, whose 1908-09 side won 25 of its 31 games, including the Olympic rugby competition. 11. Fred Lane, winner of the 200 metres at the 1900 Paris Olympic Games. 12. RW Heath in 1905, who also won the Victorian singles, as state and national titles were decided concurrently. 13. Rod Laver, who beat Andres Gimeno of Spain in Australia's first Open singles final at Brisbane in 1969. 14. Margaret Court, who in 1970 won the Australian, French, Wimbledon and US singles titles. 15. Luc Longley. 16. Hockey. 17. Joe Louis. 18. Midge Farrelly, Nat Young 19. Mexico City, Munich, Montreal. 20. Jimmy Carruthers, Lionel Rose, Johnny Famechon. 21. Harry Gallagher. 22. Power forward, forward, centre, guard, point guard. 23. The Le Mans 24-hour race. 24. 15.

25. Eight lanes. 26. Arthur Ashe, Ken Rosewall, Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe. 27. Paul Azinger. 28. Kookaburra. 29. Hayley Lewis. 30. 1975. 31. 38 inches. 32. Steve and Mark Waugh. 33. Table tennis. 34. Billie Jean Moffitt. 35. Freedom, Liberty, Stars & Stripes. 36. South Australia. 37. Soccer. 38. Balmain. 39. George Foreman. 40. Ben Crenshaw. 41. Motorcycle racing, water polo (Australian captain), horse racing. 42. Sail Down To Australia. 43. Moscow (1980). 44. Madison. 45. Stephen Bradbury, Alisa Camplin, Dale Begg-Smith. 46. Athletics (track & field), swimming, cycling, rowing, equestrian. 47. Canada. 48. Daley Thompson. 49. 2000, September 15. 50. 30 votes.

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