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The Sports and Games Marathon

Fifty questions, ten sports and one very long finish line. Lace up, pace yourself and see how many you can still nail at question 50.

⚽ Sports medium 50 questions ~18 min

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What this quiz asks

Which country won the first FIFA World Cup, held in 1930?
In which city does the Maracanã stadium stand?
Which competition crowns the champion club of South America?
Which club won the first European Cup, in 1956?
In football, a goal can be scored directly from a corner kick.
Select ALL of these countries that have hosted a men's FIFA World Cup.
Order these players by the year they first won the Ballon d'Or, earliest first.
How wide is a full-size football goal, in metres?
Which city hosted the first Summer Olympics held in Asia, in 1964?
What do the five Olympic rings stand for?
Which athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics?
How many hurdles does a runner clear in the men's 110 m hurdles?
The marathon distance of 42.195 km comes from the course used at the 1908 London Olympics.
Select ALL of these events that form part of the men's decathlon.
Order these Olympic running events by distance, shortest first.
What is the weight of the shot in the men's shot put, in kilograms?
Which Grand Slam tournament is played on clay?
What is the women's equivalent of the Davis Cup called?
May a player touch the net with the racket while the ball is still in play?
Which tournament in this sport is the oldest, first played in 1877?
In table tennis, how many points win a game under the rules used since 2001?
Which flag is waved to signal the end of a Formula 1 race?
How many laps make up the Indianapolis 500?
Which Formula 1 team has its factory in Maranello, Italy?
Under the points system used in Formula 1 since 2010, a race win is worth 25 points.
Order these motorsport events by the year they were first held, earliest first.
Which one-day race is nicknamed the 'Hell of the North' for its cobbled sectors?
Select ALL of these races that are cycling's Grand Tours.
A rider who finishes a Tour de France stage outside the time limit can be thrown off the race.
The track cycling event called the keirin, paced by a motorised bike, began in which country?
How many seconds does an NBA team have to attempt a shot?
In which city was basketball invented in 1891?
Can a single free throw in basketball be worth three points?
How many players from each team are on court in team handball, goalkeeper included?
How many points is a try worth in rugby union?
How many players are on each side in rugby league?
In cricket, what is a bowler said to have taken after three wickets in three consecutive deliveries?
Select ALL of these that are genuine ways of being dismissed in cricket.
How many rounds does a modern world title fight in professional boxing last?
In judo, which score ends the contest immediately?
Select ALL of these that are weapons used in Olympic fencing.
In which winter sport do team-mates sweep the ice ahead of a sliding stone?
Biathlon combines cross-country skiing with which other discipline?
Which trophy is awarded to the champions of this sport's National Hockey League?
Select ALL of these chess pieces that can never move diagonally.
A standard Go board is a grid of how many lines each way?
Who is recognised as the first official world chess champion, crowned in 1886?
In darts, what is the highest score possible with three darts?
Which video game did Alexey Pajitnov create in Moscow in 1984?
Order these video games by their original release, earliest first.