Australian Sport

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1. Which Aussie basketballer had a short stint in the American NBA in 1998 - 99 with the San Antonio Spurs?
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2. What boxer is also known by the nickname The Man?
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3. Australian Rules Football was originally designed to give what type of sportsmen something to play during the off season?
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4. In 1997, which Australian broke the world record when she pole vaulted 4.55 metres?
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5. Who did AFL fans refer to as God in the 1990s?
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6. What is unusual about Australian climber Paul Hockey who conquered Mt Everest?
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7. Which famous Australian sportsman escaped the Twin Towers terrorist attack by returning to his hotel for his camera?
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8. Who skippered the Australia II to America’s Cup victory in 1983?
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9. In 2002, which businessmen was removed as President of the Carlton Football Club, a position he had held for two decades?
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10. Which horse won her third successive Melbourne Cup in 2005?
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11. Which cricketer won the 2005 Allan Border Medal?
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12. What percentage of TV sports coverage was given to womens sport in Australia in the early 1990s?
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13. Which Australian sportsman became the first cricketer to sign a $1 million sponsorship deal?
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14. How many points is a goal in AFL football?
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15. What sport does the Australian magazine ‘Tracks’ center on?
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16. What Australian marathon swimmer was the first person to successfully swim from Cuba to the United States?
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17. What sport was Australian Harry Hopman associated with?
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18. What was the 2004 theme song of Australias NRL football, written and performed by the Hoodoo Gurus?
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19. Who caused an international cricket uproar when he delivered an underarm bowl against New Zealand in 1981?. .
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20. What former Australian cricketer accepted the job of coaching Indias national team in 2005?
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21. How many players form a scrum in Rugby Union?
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22. In rugby league, which position binds the back of a scrum?
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23. What is centre court at Melbourne Park Tennis Stadium called?
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24. What games international governing body is known as FIFA?
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25. What sports name do people mistakenly think originated from the acronym Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden?
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26. What team won the 2003 AFL Grand Final?
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27. Name the Australian yacht that took the Americas Cup off the Yanks for the first time in 130 years in 1983.
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28. In what sport did Australias Geoff Hunt compete?
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29. What size are swimmer Ian Thorpes feet?
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30. Which annual sailing race was first held in December 1945?
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31. How many players are there in an AFL team, including the interchange bench?
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32. Born in 1938, which tennis player was the first to win the Grand Slam twice?
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33. For what sport was Walter Lindrum the world champion from 1933 to 1950?
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34. In what sport did tuna fisherman Dean Lukin win a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics?
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35. What Australian, from 1979 to 1982, was the first sportsperson to win four consecutive world surfing titles?
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36. In 1996, what golfer won the Rookie of the Year and became the first woman player to win more than $1 million American dollars in a season?
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37. What tennis player held the position of number 1 player in the world from July 26th to August 1st, 1999?
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38. Which Queensland-born netballer retired in 1999, with 99 international caps to her credit?
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39. Which Rugby League player kicked 7 goals from 7 attempts to help Queensland win the inaugural State of Origin game?
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40. Which Sydney-born legend took up swimming to help overcome asthma, then became the first athlete to win the same event at three successive Olympics?
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41. Which touring car driver was known as the King of the Mountain?
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42. Who became the first alpine World Champion in the Southern Hemisphere when she won gold in the womens slalom event at the 1999 World Skiing Championships?
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43. Who broke 3 world records in 3 days during the 2000 Australian Olympic swim trials?
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44. Who was the first Australian Aboriginal to win a world title, in any sport?
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45. Who was the first woman to sail solo and non-stop around the world?
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46. In what country was the boxer Johnny Famechon born?
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47. The Australian Touring Car Championship is raced between Holden and which other make?
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48. What sportsman was born in 1908 at Cootamundra, New South Wales?
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49. What Queensland yacht race starts on Good Friday?
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50. If you are at a footy game eating a pie floater, what is the pie floating in?
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51. On which day of the week is the Melbourne Cup traditionally run?
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52. Which equestrian rider won Olympic team gold for Australia in 92, 96, and 2000?
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53. What sport would you associate with the venue Mount Panorama?
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54. For what team sport, which is no longer part of the Olympics, did Australia win their only gold at the 1908 Olympics in London?
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55. What English footballer put an end to Australias 2004 World Cup Rugby hopes with a last minute drop goal?
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56. Which Australian was the first to score 60 tries in international rugby union?
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57. What two sports are traditionally played on the SCG?
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58. Who was Young Australian of the Year in 2003?
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59. At which Olympics has Australia achieved their most successful medal tally to date?
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60. How many gold medals had Ian Thorpe won after the Athens Olympics, making him the most successful Australian Olympian ever?
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61. What Australian Olympic Gold Medallist was known as the Lithgow Flash?
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62. Who was the Olympic torchbearer at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics?
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63. Who was the 2004 Australian of the Year?
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64. According to Sponsorship Solutions what Aussie sports star was the top earner from sponsorship deals in 2003, pipping Lleyton Hewitt at the post?
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65. At what Olympics did Australia last win a gold in the 4 x 100m womens relay event before Athens 2004?
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66. Aussie Stuart OGrady is associated with which sport?
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67. Australian Kerry Saxby set 27 national records and held 32 world titles in what sport?
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68. How old was Shane Gould when she won three gold medals at the 1972 Munich games?
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69. Name the Aussie world 400m hurdles champion who suffered a knee injury prior to the Athens Olympics.
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70. Name the swimmer who forfeited his place in the 400m freestyle so Ian Thorpe could swim it at the Athens Olympics.
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71. Socceroo Harry Kewell plays for which English club?
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72. Traditionally, what is Mrs Palmers and 5 Daughters wax used for?
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73. What 2003 Australian event was a bigger financial bonanza for Cabcharge Australia than the 2000 Sydney Olympics?
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74. What Australian rugby league team is the only one to have won eleven grand finals in a row?
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75. What Australian sporting arena would you be in if you were sitting in the M.A. Noble Stand?
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76. What Australian won the World Driving Championships in 1959, 1960, and 1966?
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77. What event did Australia win matching bronze husband and wife medals at the Athens Olympics?
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78. What event was Ian Thorpe disqualified from at the 2004 Olympic Swimming Trials?
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79. What is Cazalys first name in the famous AFL song Up There, Cazaly?
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80. What medal did Alicia Molik win at the Athens Olympic tennis singles?
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81. What race, staged in America since 1851, was held for the first time in Australia in 1987?
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82. What sport does Leisel Jones compete in?
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83. What sport is associated with the Frank Worrell Trophy?
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84. What two years were the Olympic Games held in Australia?
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85. What type of sport does Australian Matt Shirvington compete in?
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86. What was Australian athlete Debbie Flintoff-Kings specialist Olympic event?
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87. What year did Pat Cash win the mens singles championships at Wimbledon?
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88. Which Aussie sports star answers to the nickname Flip, along with a few others?
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89. Which Aussie surfer was the first male or female surfer in history to win six consecutive world titles?
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90. Which Australian became World Bantamweight Boxing Champion in 1968?
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91. Which Australian racehorse was the first to exceed one million dollars in prize money?
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92. Which stadium was the venue for the track and field events at the 1956 Olympics?
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93. Which team won the 2003 National Netball League final?
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94. Who broke the world record for the womens 200m butterfly at the 2000 Australian Olympic swim trials?
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95. Who did Australian Pat Cash beat in the 1987 Mens Final at Wimbledon?
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96. Who retired from swimming in 2000 with 35 Australian titles?
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97. Who was Australias first Olympian, and also Australias first Olympic gold medallist?
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98. Who was the first Australian to be invited to play for the Womens National Basketball Association in the USA. .
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99. Who was the first Australian woman to win a Wimbledon Singles title?
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100. Who won the first 500cc race at Phillip Island?
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101. In what decade was the first game of Australian Rules Football, between Melbourne and Carlton at the MCG, played?
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102. What Australian champion swimmer in the 1920s had the nickname ‘Boy’?
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103. Who was the first person to be both Young Australian and Australian of the Year?
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104. What flower is traditionally worn on Derby Day during Melbourne’s Spring Racing Carnival?
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105. What Australian was the first female swimmer to win gold medals in three consecutive Olympic Games?
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106. Name the racecourse where the Melbourne Cup is held each year.
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107. What is the new name of the Sheffield Shield, a competition that has been steeped in Australian history since 1892?.
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108. Who broke the world cricket test wicket record on October 15, 2004, after claiming his 533rd wicket?
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109. What sporting event was first contested in 1931 and was named after the Governor-General of New Zealand at the time?
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110. What football team did the Brisbane Bears merge with in 1997?
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111. What AFL team won the Australian Football League Trophy in 1994?
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112. What sportsman did Marilyn Monroe marry in 1954?
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