Test your sports mettle

Easy 1. In which year did the Eagles win their most recent AFL Premiership? 2. Which Lower South West Football Club has won the most Premierships? 3. Where was the 2016 Olympics held? 4. In which year was the most recent Rugby World Cup? 5. Which Australian cricketer is famous for having a batting average of 99.94? 6. Which Australian Rules Footballer has a freeway in Perth named after him? 7. Cathy Freeman famously took gold in which event at the 2000 Sydney Olympics? 8. Who won the last women’s singles competition at the Australian Open? 9. How many times did Peter Brock win the Bathurst 1000? 10. Who won the 2019 Hyundai A-League Grand Final? Medium 11. Which AFL/VFL player has kicked the most goals in their career? 12. In boxing, who is the current WBC Heavyweight Champion? 13. Who is the most capped Socceroos player in history? 14. Who won this year’s SuperBowl? 15. In Mixed Martial Arts, what does UFC stand for? 16. Who won the NRL in 2019? 17. Mike Tyson famously bit which part of Evander Holyfield’s body in 1997? 18. Which player has played the most AFL/VFL games in history? 19. Before switching to boxing, which sport did Anthony Mundine play professionally? 20. In which year did Australia last win a Rugby World Cup? Hard 21. In which year did Australia win its first Gold Medal at the Winter Olympics? 22. In which year did an Australian side last win the Super Rugby Competition? 23. Who is the most successful Australian paralympian? 24. Which player has scored the most goals at FIFA World Cups in their career? 25. Which Australian has appeared at the most Olympic Games? 26. Which stroke did Australian swimmer Leisel Jones specialise in? 27. Which figure skater had her life story adapted into a film starring Australian actress Margot Robbie? 28. How many wickets did Shane Warne take in his Test career? 29. How many AFL players have won the Brownlow while playing for Western Australian clubs? 30. Conor McGregor became the first UFC fighter to do what in 2016? Hardest 31. Israel Folau plays for which rugby league team? 32. Which former Manjimup resident represented Australia in Field Hockey at the 2008 Olympics? 33. How many Tour De France titles does Lance Armstrong have? 34. Which two rugby league competitions merged in 1997 to create the National Rugby League? 35. How many players have won more than one Brownlow Medal? 36. Who has won the most X-Games medals in the competition’s history? 37. What is the longest suspension ever handed down to a player in AFL history? 38. In which country does Phar Lap’s heart currently reside? 39. Australian Cricketer Jason Gillespie made his 201no against which country in 2006? 40. The Miracle on Ice was an ice-hockey game contested between which two nations? Impossible 41. English band New Order released the song, World in Motion, to coincide with which sporting event? 42. With which sport would you associate Nick Diaz? 43. Tottenham’s South Korean striker Son Heung-min was exempted from national service for winning which competition? 44. Who is the youngest player to ever play an AFL/VFL game? 45. How many gold medals have been won by independent Olympians at the Olympic games? 46. 2012 Olympics opening ceremony music director Ric Smith is part of which musical group? 47. Rodney Mullen is associated with which sport? 48. BJJ is a commonly used acronym for which martial arts discipline? 49. In which year was the first modern Olympic Games held? 50. Which player has reputedly scored the most soccer goals of all time? ANSWERS 1. 2018 2. Southerners 3. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 4. 2019 5. Donald Bradman 6. Graham Farmer 7. Women’s 400m 8. Sofia Kenin 9. Nine 10. Sydney FC 11. Tony Lockett, 1360 goals 12. Tyson Fury 13. Mark Schwarzer, 109 caps 14. Kansas City Chiefs 15. Ultimate Fighting Championship 16. Melbourne Storm 17. His ear 18. Brent Harvey 19. Rugby League 20. 1999 21. 2002 22. 2014 23. Matthew Cowdrey 24. Miroslav Klose, 16 goals. 25. Andrew Hoy, seven. 26. Breaststroke 27. Tonya Harding 28. 708 29. Four 30. Hold UFC Titles in two weight classes simultaneously 31. Catalan Dragons 32. Shelly Liddelow 33. Zero 34. Super League and the Australian Rugby League 35. 15 36. Bob Burnquist 37. 99 games 38. Australia 39. Bangladesh 40. The United States of America and The USSR 41. 1990 FIFA World Cup 42. Mixed Martial Arts 43. 2018 Asian Games 44. Claude Cough 45. Three 46. Underworld 47. Skateboarding 48. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu 49. 1896 50. Josef Bican