How many times did Geet Sethi win the IBSF World Billiards title?
Answer: B
Geet Sethi won the IBSF World Billiards title three times as an amateur, in 1985, 1987 and 2001.
He also won the World Professional Billiards Championship six times, and was among the first recipients of the Khel Ratna in 1992–93.
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Which two counties did Kapil Dev play?
Answer: A
Kapil Dev played county cricket for Northamptonshire and Worcestershire.
He was at Northamptonshire from 1981 to 1983 and Worcestershire from 1984 to 1985, in the years between leading India to the 1983 World Cup and becoming Test cricket's leading wicket-taker.
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Which country won the Cricket World Cup in 1999?
Answer: A
Australia won the 1999 World Cup, beating Pakistan by eight wickets in the final at Lord's.
The tournament is better remembered for the tied semi-final against South Africa, which Australia progressed from on the strength of a better group-stage record. It was the first of three consecutive World Cups Australia won.
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Which two counties did Anil Kumble play for?
Answer: C
Anil Kumble played for Northamptonshire and Leicestershire.
He took 105 first-class wickets for Northamptonshire in 1995. He finished with 619 Test wickets, and is one of only two bowlers to take all ten in a Test innings.
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Stripped of his heavyweight title in 1967 for refusing induction into the U.S. military, Muhammad Ali regained the heavyweight championship on October 30, 1974, in Kinshasa, Zaire with an eighth-round knockout of
Answer: A
Muhammad Ali regained the world heavyweight title by knocking out George Foreman in the eighth round at Kinshasa on 30 October 1974 - the fight billed as the Rumble in the Jungle.
Foreman was the undefeated champion and heavy favourite. Ali absorbed his punches on the ropes for seven rounds, a tactic he called rope-a-dope, then knocked out the exhausted champion.
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What Australian player was known as 'Fruitfly' amongst the rest of the team?
Answer: B
Merv Hughes was called Fruitfly by his team-mates - a reference to the fruit fly being described as Australia's biggest pest.
The moustachioed fast bowler took 212 Test wickets and was as well known for his exchanges with batsmen as for his bowling.
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Who is the highest wicket taker in Test cricket?
Answer: D
Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka is Test cricket's leading wicket-taker, with 800 wickets in 133 matches.
Shane Warne is second with 708. Muralitharan also holds the one-day international record, with 534 wickets.
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Which track and field star overcame childhood polio to become one of the greatest athletes of her time?
Answer: A
Wilma Rudolph contracted polio as a child and wore a leg brace until she was nine, yet went on to win three gold medals at the 1960 Rome Olympics - the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay.
She was the first American woman to win three athletics golds at a single Games.
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Former Australian captain Mark Taylor has had several nicknames over his playing career. Which of the following was NOT one of them?
Answer: C
Helium bat was never one of Mark Taylor's nicknames. He was known as Tubby, Stodge and Tubs.
Taylor captained Australia in 50 Tests and shares the record for the most catches in a Test innings by a fielder. He declared on 334 not out against Pakistan in 1998 rather than pass Don Bradman's Australian record.
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Which team did Sachin Tendulkar play for in the Ranji Trophy when he made his debut in first class cricket?
Answer: C
Sachin Tendulkar made his first-class debut for Mumbai (then Bombay) in the Ranji Trophy in December 1988, aged 15.
He scored an unbeaten 100 in that first innings, becoming the youngest Indian to score a century on first-class debut.
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