1. Which three sides have won the UEFA European Championship on home soil?

2. The UEFA European Football Championship has taken place every four years since which year?

3. What is the connection between Volleyball, Squash and Badminton ? a connection not shared with tennis or table tennis?

4. What is the highest number that appears on a pool ball?

5. What won the grand national in 1994?

6. Which club is known as the stags?

7. Who has won most international soccer caps for England?

8. Who was the first man to do the 100-metre breast stroke in under a minute?

9. In 1981/82 Geoffrey Boycott became the highest run scorer in Test Cricket. Where did he achieve this feat?

10. Name the only two Test cricketers whose first names begin with X?

11. With 501 for Warwickshire against Durham, who made the highest ever score in first class cricket?

12. In which country were the equestrian events held at the Melbourne Olympics?

13. What downhill skiing event has the second longest course?

14. Which golf course is the home of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club?

15. Which country is represented at Rugby Union by a team known as The Pumas?

16. Who play at Knowesley Road?

17. What did Major Walter Clopton Wingfield call his new game tennis when he went to the patent office in 1874 ?

18. Which tennis legend took part in the longest Wimbledon match ever ?

19. Who was the only heavyweight champion to finish his boxing career with a perfect record? (49 wins-0 defeats)

20. Based on the number of Major Championships won (Masters, U.S. Open, The Open, PGA), who is the most successful golfer ever from outside the United States?

21. Which Scottish football team play their home matches at Hampden park?

22. Which footballer was known as ?The wizard of Dribble??

23. Which was the first Asian country to hold a F1 Grand Prix?

24. In 1981, Susan Brown was the first female competitor in which sporting event?

25. Which Irish doctor was capped at Rugby Union and soccer?

26. Where are you if you are at 'Billy Williams' cabbage patch'?

27. Who, in 1980, was the first overseas player to win the World Snooker Championship?

28. What was Geraldine Rees the first to do in 1982?

29. Who was Olympic Boxing Light heavyweight Gold medallist in 1960?

30. What is the last event of the Decathlon?

31. Which sportsman is known as The Golden Bear?

32. Deadly was the nickname of which bowler, who took 297 Test wickets?

33. In which five games can one achieve a traditional Grand Slam? (Curling and Darts excluded)

34. Some claim the first international in which sport was played between Canada and the USA in 1844 ?

35. What is the name of the resort in Southern California that is generally recognised as the American Golf capital, due to the high number of golf courses and year round sun-shine?

36. Over how many holes is the British Open Golf tournament contested?

37. Who became the first president of the International Association of Professional Footballers in 1995?

38. Who became the youngest ever scorer in the football world cup in 1998?

39. How many inches from the ground are the bails of a wicket?

40. How many players are there in a rugby league side?

41. Whom did Virgina Wade beat in the final to win the 1977 Wimbledon Singles tournament?

42. Under international rules of speedway, what is the maximum number of gears allowed on a motorcycle?

43. At which olympic games in the USA were there special events for 'ethnic minorities' ?

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

45. The book "Macca Can" was about which ex-Liverpool footballer?

46. What was the number on the back of the jersey that both Maradona and Pele said was lucky?

47. Which showbiz golfer says, 'I'm in charge'?

48. Which English player scored a hole in one on the final day of the 1995 Ryder Cup?

49. Which football team are known as the Saints?

50. Who Was the Longest Serving England Cricket Captain?

ANSWERS

1. Spain (1964), Italy (1968) and France (1984)

2. 1960 in France

3. Only the server can score

4. 15

5. Minnehoma

6. Mansfield Town

7. Peter Shilton

8. Adrian Moorhouse

9. Delhi

10. Xenephon Balaskas (South Africa) and Xavier Marshall (Jamaica, West Indies)

11. Brian Lara

12. Sweden

13. Super giant slalom

14. St. Andrews

15. Argentina

16. St Helens

17. Sphairistike

18. Pancho Gonzales ( vs. Charlie Pasarel )

19. Rocky Marciano

20. Gary Player

21. Queen's Park F.C.

22. Stanley Mathews

23. Japan

24. The Boat Race

25. Kevin O'Flanaghan

26. Twickenham

27. Cliff Thorburn

28. First woman to complete a Grand National

29. Cassius Clay

30. 1500m

31. Jack Nicklaus

32. Derek Underwood

33. Tennis, golf, baseball, bridge and rugby

34. Cricket

35. Palm Spring

36. 72

37. Diego Maradonna

38. Michael Owen

39. 28

40. 13

41. Betty Stove

42. One

43. St. Louis 1904

44. both were disqualified for doping. (Waterford Crystal was an Irish horse at the 2004 games in Athens)

45. Steve McMahon

46. 10

47. Bruce Forsyth

48. Howard Clark

49. Southampton

50. Michael Atherton