Drawing up a sports quiz usually starts by defining a number of categories under which you can subdivide your questions, such as the Olympic Games, the Tour de France, various sports, … This gives you a varied quiz. If you want to prepare a quiz, you can now and then pick up questions from newspapers, magazines and current events, again to increase the variety of your quiz.
Olympics
- After whom is the famous flop of the flop jump, in which an athlete crosses the bar back to back after a bent run-up, in the high jump? He introduced the technique at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and took gold with a jump of 2m24 …
- This Australian won 5 gold medals at the Olympic Games in Sydney and Athens and won eleven world titles in the freestyle and medley. He was voted swimmer of the year four times and before Michael Phelps staged his Olympic putsch in Beijing, he was the swimming sensation of the 2000s. What is the name of this man who stopped swimming in 2006 and seemed to be making a comeback last year ??
- Which Romanian gymnast scored the first ten (perfect exercise) in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal?
- In which Russian city will the winter games be held in 2014?
- Where were the first modern Summer Olympics hosted in 1896?
Answers
- Richard Douglas (Dick) Fosbury
- Ian Thorpe
- Nadia Comaneci
- Sochi
- Athens
Football
- Surprisingly, who succeeded Jean-Marie Philips as CEO of the KBVB in January 2011?
- Spain became European, World and again European champions in 2008, 2010 and 2012. They faced three different opponents in the respective finals. Which of the following countries did the Spaniards not have to fight during their finals? a. The Netherlands, b. Italy, c. Portugal, d. Germany
- Give two of the six top scooters of the European Championship 2012. They all scored three goals.
- Which two Dutchmen won the Golden Ball 3 times and only have to tolerate Michel Platini next to them and Lionel Messi with four trophies above them in this list?
- Since the inception of the Champions League in 1992, three clubs have already managed to win the champion ball. Which one?
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- Steven Martens
- c. Portugal
- Mario Balotelli, Fernando Torres, Dzagoev, Mandzukic, Mario Gomez, Cristiano Ronaldo
- Johan Cruijff, Marco van Basten
- AC Milan, Real Madrid, FC Barcelona
Cycling
- Until last year, it had been 25 years since a Belgian managed to maintain a top-five ranking until Paris. Which Morkhoven locomotive managed to achieve this feat and finished fifth after Contador, Andy Schleck, Denis Menchov and Samuel Sanchez?
- Milan-Sanremo or the Primavera, the Tour of Flanders or Flanders’ most beautiful, Paris-Roubaix or the hell of the north, the Tour of Lombardy or the course of the falling leaves. All top classics, cycling classics for those who have not yet figured out hot, have an appropriate pet name. But what do we call Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the Walloon classic par excellence that was programmed last week? For French speakers, the literal meaning is “the blanket of old age”.
- Which Dutchman triumphed in 1986 in the Tour of Flanders and 10 years later became cyclocross world champion in Montreuil, France?
- Which Italian rider, nicknamed ‘Il Campionissimo’, won the Tour de France five times and the Tour of Italy in the 1940s and 1950s? In addition, he was the best in the Tour of Lombardy five times and won Milan-Sanremo three times.
- Due to persistent doping reports, Rabobank withdrew as a sponsor of a cycling team in 2012. What was the name of the former Rabobank team until a new sponsor was found?
Answers
- Jurgen Van den Broeck
- La Doyenne
- Adrie Van der Poel
- Fausto Coppi
- Blank
Tennis
- We may no longer need to tell you that Roger Federer is a gifted tennis player. Far fewer people know that there is another Swiss in the top 20. How did the 25-year-old Swiss, who was still 9 in 2008, and who took gold in the doubles at the Olympic Games together with Federer that same year?
- Two men managed to achieve the career golden slam, winning all grand slam tournaments + gold medal in the Olympic Games. Who?
- It may not surprise you that Rafael Nadal took the Olympic gold in Beijing in 2008. His opponent in the final is less well known. Nevertheless, this Chilean won a medal in addition to silver at the Olympic Games in 2004, then a bronze, and for years he nestled in the second tier of tennis (his highest ranking was number 5), he won 11 ATP titles and was in 2007 losing finalist at the Australian Open. What is the name of this Chilean tennis player?
- How many Grand Slams has Belgium conquered in its tennis history?
- 7 men managed to complete the Career Slam, winning all Grand Slams at least once during your career. Give three …
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- Stanislas Wawrinka
- Andre Angassi and Rafael Nadal
- Fernando Gonzalez
- 11 (Justine Henin won 7, Kim Clijsters 4)
- Fred Perry, Don Budge, Roy Emerson, Rod Laver, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal
All kinds of
- Which country hosted the 7th Rugby World Cup (October 2011) and also won the tournament?
- The moment of the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu was the false start and disqualification of Usain Bolt in the 100 m, which meant that the top favorite missed the world title. Which fellow countryman took full advantage of this situation and sprinted to gold in 9 ?? 92?
- This Belgian snowboarder already achieved a silver medal at the age of 17 in the ‘big air’ section in Gongwan, South Korea in 2009. This year he did even better in Barcelona, conquered bronze in ‘big air’ and became world champion in the section ‘slopestyle’.
- At the end of the 1980s, Racketlon was created, an all-around sport in which the best all-round racket player should be awarded. In four separate sets up to 21 points, in table tennis, squash, badminton and tennis, the opponents compete for as many points as possible. Where did this sport originate? a. Austria, b. Sweden, c. Scotland, d. Finland
- What is the name of the prestigious biennial showdown in golf between Europe and America?
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- New Zealand (Australia, South Africa and New Zealand each 2x World Champion, England 1 time)
- Yohan Blake
- Seppe Smits
- d. Finland
- Ryder Cup