Which was the 1st non Test playing country to beat India in an international match?
Answer: B
Sri Lanka was the first non-Test-playing country to beat India in an international, doing so in the 1979 World Cup at Old Trafford.
Sri Lanka was granted Test status two years later, in 1981, and won the World Cup itself in 1996.
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Ricky Ponting is also known as what?
Answer: D
Ricky Ponting is known as Punter, a nickname earned by his fondness for betting on the horses and the dogs.
He captained Australia to two World Cup titles and finished with more than 13,000 Test runs.
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Which county signed Yuvraj Singh to play for them in 2003?
Answer: D
Yuvraj Singh signed for Yorkshire for the 2003 season, becoming only the second overseas player the county had ever contracted after Sachin Tendulkar in 1992.
He was 21 at the time and had already won India the NatWest final at Lord's the previous summer.
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In what year was the first international cricket match held?
Answer: D
The first international cricket match was played in 1844 between Canada and the United States, at the St George's Cricket Club ground in New York.
It predates the first Test match by 33 years, and the fixture is the oldest continuing international sporting contest of any kind.
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What do African-American football players Ernie Davis, Archie Griffin, and Tony Dorsett have in common?
Answer: B
Ernie Davis, Archie Griffin and Tony Dorsett all won the Heisman Trophy, awarded annually to the outstanding college football player in the United States.
Davis won it in 1961 as the first African-American recipient; Griffin, in 1974 and 1975, is the only player ever to win it twice.
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Which county did speedster Javagal Srinath play for in 1995?
Answer: C
Javagal Srinath played for Gloucestershire in 1995, his first county season.
He took 87 first-class wickets that summer, and later played for Leicestershire and Durham.
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India won its first Olympic hockey gold in?
Answer: A
India won its first Olympic hockey gold at Amsterdam in 1928, beating the Netherlands 3–0 in the final without conceding a single goal in the whole tournament.
It was the beginning of a run of six consecutive titles, from 1928 to 1956, with Dhyan Chand the outstanding figure.
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When was the first cricket Test match played?
Answer: B
The first cricket Test match was played at Melbourne in March 1877, between Australia and England. Australia won by 45 runs.
Charles Bannerman of Australia scored the first Test century, 165 not out, and faced the first ball ever bowled in Test cricket.
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Pravin Amre and Vinod Kambli played for which province in South Africa?
Answer: B
Pravin Amre and Vinod Kambli both played for Boland in South Africa, in the 1994–95 season.
Boland is based at Paarl in the Western Cape and was then a smaller provincial side that took overseas professionals.
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Mark Waugh is commonly called what?
Answer: B
Mark Waugh was universally called Junior, being the younger of the twins by four minutes - his brother Steve was Tugga.
He was also called Afghanistan for a time, as 'the forgotten Waugh', while he waited years for a Test place behind his brother.
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