Sports Quiz

Challenge yourself with questions about sports, athletes, and championships.

Every sport except football, which has its own theme: swimming, athletics, cycling, hockey. Questions mix rules, disciplines and record holders — Usain Bolt’s 9.58 among them.

1000+ questions in this theme

20 of them, with the answers

The questions, with answers

1. What is the highest governing body for international football (soccer)?

   AnswerFIFA

2. What major annual thoroughbred horse race is held in Australia during the first week of November?

   AnswerMelbourne Cup

3. What tennis player won the US Open in 1990, becoming the youngest ever US Open champion in men’s singles?

   AnswerPete Sampras

4. Who was the first footballer to score 200 goals in the English Premier League?

   AnswerAlan Shearer

5. When Joseph Pilates moved to England at the age of 32, what did he do for a living?

   AnswerHe was a boxer.

6. Which Argentinean top goal scorer played most of his career for the famous 1950s Real Madrid team as they dominated the European Club Cup?

   AnswerAlfredo Di Stefano

7. In the karate terminology, what does kata mean?

   AnswerForm

8. In competitive swimming, what is the shortest standard race distance?

   Answer50 meters

9. Which country produced football players such as Cafu, Roberto Carlos and Pelé?

   AnswerBrazil

10. The Super Bowl is the championship game of which league?

    AnswerNFL

11. Which team wins the English Premiership in the 1994-95 season?

    AnswerBlackburn

12. What nationality is Felix Baumgartner, the first person to break the sound barrier without any machine assistance?

    AnswerAustrian

13. What is the name of the most famous motorcycle racing world championship?

    AnswerMotoGP

14. F1 driver Michael Schumacher decided to return to the track for the 2010 season. Which team did he join?

    AnswerMercedes

15. How many players are in a cricket team?

    Answer11

16. In 1982, Spain hosted the FIFA World Cup for the first time. How many cities in Spain hosted this world tournament?

    Answer14

17. Men’s Gymnastics at Beijing Olympic Games was dominated by Chinese athletes. Who was the only gold medalist from a different country?

    AnswerLeszek Blanik (Poland, vault)

18. In boxing, how long is each round in a professional championship fight?

    Answer3 minutes

19. What is the main method of scoring in American football?

    AnswerTouchdown

20. Which Grand Slam tennis tournament takes place last in the year?

    AnswerUS Open