Pauls Sports Quiz 1 (Questions only)

1. In which sports would you find the following:
    a: a brassie 
    b: three in a bed 
    c: a mahout 
    d: a bonspiel?

2. Mr. Shepard was the first man to do what in the "world" of sport?

3. A word for a costly victory (in terms of injury or death). Seven letters, third letter "R", fouth letter "R".

4. Which Brazilian football legend had the nickname El Diamante Negro (the black diamond)?

5. What job do the ball boys have to do in elephant polo, which ball boys in tennis dont have to? (Clue, if needed: sounds like a bell)

6. What do Ben Johnson and Waterford Crystal both have in common?

7. Perhaps the greatest athlete in the world in 1912 was an American Indian. King Gustav V said while presenting his gold medals "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world". "Thanks King" was the reply! What was his name? (Clue, if needed: his gold medals were later taken away because US Olympic officials discovered he had played a season of baseball for 60 dollars as a young kid)

8. Who were the two "bad boys" of tennis in the early and mid 70s? (Clue, if needed: one was a Wimbledon singles winner, the other a finalist)

9. A seven year old French boy won an Olympic medal for Holland in 1900. Which sport did he participate in?

10. Complete Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's famous line
    "no sports ........"