Toastrack
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Just 15 questions this week – hope you get more than my measly four right!
Answers will go on later today.
1 Which team won League Cup finals against second-tier opponents in 1981, 1995, 2001 and 2012?
2 Which Durham wicketkeeper dropped Brian Lara on 18 en route to his 501 not out?
3 In rugby union, what was the score when Australia hosted England in Brisbane on June 6, 1998?
4 Which two former Nottingham Forest centre backs are now captains at Premier League clubs?
5 Which Italian won La Vuelta in 2015?
6 Which city’s teams recorded seven FA Cup triumphs up to 1935 but have added none since?
7 A Briton and a Frenchman share the F1 record for most World Drivers’ Championship runners-up finishes (four). Who are they?
8 Who is Latvia’s only grand-slam singles tennis champion?
9 In which individual sprint event did Allyson Felix win most Olympic medals?
10 Which nation supplied all four Uefa Cup semi-finalists in 1979-80?
11 Which hole at Augusta National is called Azalea?
12 Which sports league contains Broncos, Eels and Cowboys?
13 Which two present Premier League clubs finished runners-up in the top flight in 1983 and 1984 — their only top-two finishes?
14 Jay Trump won which iconic sporting event in 1965?
15 Since 1963, how many Scotsmen have been world snooker champion?
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Answers
1 Liverpool
2 Chris Scott
3 Australia 76-0 England
4 Wes Morgan, of Leicester City; Jamaal Lascelles, of Newcastle United
5 Fabio Aru
6 Sheffield: Sheffield United four and Sheffield Wednesday (two as The Wednesday) three
7 Stirling Moss and Alain Prost
8 Jelena Ostapenko
9 200m (gold and two silvers)
10 West Germany: Eintracht Frankfurt (winners), Borussia Mönchengladbach (runners-up), Bayern Munich and Stuttgart
11 13th hole
12 Australia’s National Rugby League
13 Watford (1983) and Southampton (1984)
14 The Grand National (ridden by Tommy Smith)
15 Three (Graeme Dott, Stephen Hendry, John Higgins)
Answers will go on later today.
1 Which team won League Cup finals against second-tier opponents in 1981, 1995, 2001 and 2012?
2 Which Durham wicketkeeper dropped Brian Lara on 18 en route to his 501 not out?
3 In rugby union, what was the score when Australia hosted England in Brisbane on June 6, 1998?
4 Which two former Nottingham Forest centre backs are now captains at Premier League clubs?
5 Which Italian won La Vuelta in 2015?
6 Which city’s teams recorded seven FA Cup triumphs up to 1935 but have added none since?
7 A Briton and a Frenchman share the F1 record for most World Drivers’ Championship runners-up finishes (four). Who are they?
8 Who is Latvia’s only grand-slam singles tennis champion?
9 In which individual sprint event did Allyson Felix win most Olympic medals?
10 Which nation supplied all four Uefa Cup semi-finalists in 1979-80?
11 Which hole at Augusta National is called Azalea?
12 Which sports league contains Broncos, Eels and Cowboys?
13 Which two present Premier League clubs finished runners-up in the top flight in 1983 and 1984 — their only top-two finishes?
14 Jay Trump won which iconic sporting event in 1965?
15 Since 1963, how many Scotsmen have been world snooker champion?
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Answers
1 Liverpool
2 Chris Scott
3 Australia 76-0 England
4 Wes Morgan, of Leicester City; Jamaal Lascelles, of Newcastle United
5 Fabio Aru
6 Sheffield: Sheffield United four and Sheffield Wednesday (two as The Wednesday) three
7 Stirling Moss and Alain Prost
8 Jelena Ostapenko
9 200m (gold and two silvers)
10 West Germany: Eintracht Frankfurt (winners), Borussia Mönchengladbach (runners-up), Bayern Munich and Stuttgart
11 13th hole
12 Australia’s National Rugby League
13 Watford (1983) and Southampton (1984)
14 The Grand National (ridden by Tommy Smith)
15 Three (Graeme Dott, Stephen Hendry, John Higgins)
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