European Sport

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1. In which year were the Olympics held at Wembely Stadium?
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2. Who is the only woman to have held the European, World, Commonwealth and Olympic 400 metre hurdles titles at the same time?
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3. In what year was footballs first European Championship held? (soccer)
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4. German club Borussia Dortmund sold goalkeeper Jens Lehmann to which UK club in 2003?
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5. What two football teams are based at the Stadio Olimpico? (soccer)
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6. During the 1990s, who was the only other team, aside from Real Madrid and Barcelona, to win a Spanish Premera Liga title?
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7. Which Portuguese football team did Graeme Souness manage for a brief period?
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8. Which Italian footballer left Inter Milan to play for Sheffield Wednesday in 1996?
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9. Which country won the European Football Championship in 1992 even though they initially failed to qualify?
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10. What was the final score in the 1966 FIFA World Cup final?
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11. In 2002, what two football teams played in the last game at the old Wembley Stadium?
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12. What European football team are based at the Nou Camp stadium?
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13. Which French defender is the youngest player ever to win the Premiership Medal?
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14. What two football teams play at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza or San Siro Stadium?
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15. What country were the first in history to win both the FIFA World Cup and the European Football Championship?
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16. In 1956, who was the first British player to be awarded European Footballer of the Year?
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17. What sport was Ernest Hemingways novel Death in the Afternoon about?
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18. Which Mediterranean team did not score a single goal during soccers 1994 FIFA World Cup?
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19. What event earned Norways Johann Olav Koss three gold medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics?
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20. What two continents fielded teams in the World League of American Football in 1991?
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21. What games international governing body is known as FIFA?
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22. Which Spaniard won the womens French Open final in 1994?
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23. On what surface is the Olympic luge event conducted?
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24. What Czech tennis star once proclaimed: I was born to be an American?
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25. What French tennis player, and winner of the Australian Open Womens Singles Title in 1995, was actually born in Canada?
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26. Name the Norwegian ice skater, who is still the only woman to have won three consecutive Olympic gold medals in figure skating.
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27. What Scottish sport involves somersaulting a heavy wooden pole so that one end passes vertically over the other?
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28. Which Irish sport is sometimes confused with the Scottish game shinty?
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29. What country is hosting the 2006 World Cup soccer?
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30. What two sports are played at Irelands largest venue, Croke Stadium?
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31. Which golf course is the home of golf?
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32. Which player won her last tennis Grand Slam tournament in Paris in 1999?
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33. Who was the first Russian player to win a Tennis Grand Slam event when he won the French Open in 1996?
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34. Who was the first Olympic gymnast to achieve a perfect score of 10, and actually received seven during the 1976 Olympics?
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35. Which cyclist won the Tour de France a record six times in 2004?
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36. Which tennis player was stabbed in the back at a tournament in Hamburg in 1993?
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37. Which tennis star released his autobiography detailing an encounter with a Russian model in a broom cupboard?
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38. Who ran the first sub-four-minute mile at Oxford, on 6 May 1954?
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39. What French soccer player scored the winning goal for France in the 1998 Soccer World Cup ?
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1. Who made the first solo flight around the world in 1933?
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2. Who pulled the thorn from the paw of a lion in the classic story?
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3. How many Canterbury Tales are there?
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4. What Dane is famous for his fairy tales and stories written in the 1800s?
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5. What tale is about a man from Hamelin who lures rats?
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6. According to Irish folklore, what do you call a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death?
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7. Commonly featured in Australian childrens stories, what Aboriginal creature lives near bodies of water?
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8. In Greek mythology, what were the race of creatures that were half man and half horse?
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9. Mainly found in Irish Folklore, what is the name of the mythical creature that is a cobbler by trade?
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10. What half fish - half human woman sometimes sits on a rock and sings, luring sailors to their doom?
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11. What is the American Indian name for a large, ape-like creature better known as Big Foot?
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12. Which tale by the Brothers Grimm is the story of two children, abandoned by their father in the woods, who find a witch and a gingerbread house.
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13. Whos heart does Robin Hood pursue in the classic tale?
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14. In the ancient story, which legendary Roman slave pulled the thorn from the paw of a lion?
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15. Which giant was made to carry the heavens on his shoulders as punishment for having fought against Zeus?
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16. What was the only thing that remained in Pandora’s box after it was opened?
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17. What Brothers Grimm character spins straw into gold, in exchange for your first born child?
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