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Cycling and the Grand Tours
Yellow, pink and polka dots, hairpin bends and eight-second margins. Clip in, climb hard and find out if you can hold the leader's jersey to Paris.
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medium
20 questions
~7 min
What this quiz asks
- What colour jersey does the overall leader of the Tour de France wear?
- The overall leader of this country's Grand Tour wears a jersey of which colour?
- What does the green jersey reward in the Tour de France?
- The Tour de France's best climber wears a white jersey with red polka dots.
- Since 1975, the Tour de France has traditionally finished on which Paris avenue?
- Which Belgian rider, nicknamed "The Cannibal", won the Tour de France five times?
- Has the Tour de France ever started outside France?
- How many stages does a modern Grand Tour usually have?
- In the Tour de France, who is known as the "lanterne rouge"?
- Order these races by the year of their first edition, earliest first.
- Select ALL of these riders who won the Tour de France five times.
- Who won the first Tour de France, in 1903?
- Tour founder Henri Desgrange was the editor of which newspaper?
- Fausto Coppi was the first rider to win the Giro and the Tour de France in the same year.
- In 1979, Portuguese rider Joaquim Agostinho won a Tour stage atop which climb famous for its 21 hairpin bends?
- Select ALL of these races that belong to cycling's five "Monuments".
- In 1987, Stephen Roche won the Giro, the Tour and which other title in the same year?
- Who was the first rider to win all three Grand Tours during his career?
- By how many seconds did Greg LeMond beat Laurent Fignon in the 1989 Tour de France?
- The very first stage of the 1903 Tour de France set off from a café in which town near Paris?