Question: If the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing played a prominent role in the 2008 Summer Olympics, the FNB Stadium nicknamed 'Calabash' hosted what major sporting event of the 2000s?
Answer: Finals of the 2010 Soccer World Cup in Johannesburg, South Africa

Question: From 1928 until 2000, the obverse side of Olympic medals contained an image of which person seen holding a winners crown in her right hand?
Answer: Nike, the Greek goddess of victory

Question: Chinook, the first computer program to win a world champion title against humans in any game was developed in 1989 to play what?
Answer: Checkers (or) English draughts

Question: What equestrian category that combines dressage, cross-country, and show jumping is called the triathlon of that sport?
Answer: Eventing

Question: Which sportsperson is associated with the phrases "He can run, but he can't hide" and "Everyone has a plan until they've been hit"?
Answer: Joe Louis (1914-81)

Question: The oche, a line that is 2.369 meters from the target is a term from what sport?
Answer: Darts

Question: The name of what winter sport comes from early racers moving their heads backwards and forwards to make their sliding vehicles go faster?
Answer: Bobsledding (from 'bobbing' on their sleds)

Question: In athletics, what is the maximum permissible wind speed for a result to be registered as a record?
Answer: 2 meters per second

Question: When its big neighbor made its debut at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, this country was asked to use a different name. It refused and thus became the only country to boycott the Winter Olympics. What is the country in question?
Answer: Taiwan

Question: In which Olympic sport do participants wear an electrically conductive jacket called a lamé to define the scoring areas?
Answer: Fencing

Question: What puzzle game whose name means 'single number' was popularized by Nikoli in its native country in 1986 before gaining international popularity from 2005 onwards?
Answer: Sudoku (from Japan)

Question: For those unfamiliar with American football, linemen are usually the largest players on the field since that position requires less running and more strength than others. Al Davis, the owner of Oakland Raiders once considered hiring which overseas superstars to be the linemen for his team?
Answer: Sumo wrestlers!

Question: In 1967, both sides in Nigeria's civil war called a 48-hour cease-fire for an exhibition match of a certain ball game in Lagos. Who or what was the main attraction?
Answer: Pelé

Question: The name of which American sports team has its origin in how the fans avoided getting knocked down by trolleys on their way to the games?
Answer: Brooklyn Dodgers

Question: Which quotable sportsman got his nickname from a friend who said that he resembled a Hindu holy man whenever he sat around waiting to bat, or while looking sad after a losing game?
Answer: 'Yogi' Berra

Question: Using 'games' as a clue, fill in the missing word. ___, Pythian, Nemean, Isthmian
Answer: Olympic

Question: A 1993 spectator sport popularity study that was called the largest of its kind ranked what sport as the 2nd most popular in the US, just behind NFL?
Answer: Ladies' figure skating

Question: When Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years in prison, his first question to an Australian visitor was, "Is ___ still alive?" referring to which sports-person?
Answer: The cricketer Donald Bradman ("Bradman")

Question: Literally meaning 'seven boards of skill', which Chinese puzzle game's objective is to create a shape using seven non-overlapping flat pieces?
Answer: Tangram

Question: The American showman Ely Culbertson is credited with popularising which sport/pastime?
Answer: Contract bridge

Question: Which sports locale is known for its Amen Corner, The Big Oak Tree and the Eisenhower tree?
Answer: Augusta National Golf Club

Question: Which Grand Slam tournament uses the distinctive serving pose of the Swedish player Stefan Edberg on its logo?
Answer: Australian Open

Question: Which French word that means 'to rescue' is a practice that allows participants to continue to the next round in a competition if they failed to meet qualifying standards only by a small margin?
Answer: Repechage

Question: Which two milers featured in a 1954 race in the British Empire Games at Vancouver that is known in sports lore as 'The Miracle Mile', the 'Race of the Century' and the 'Dream Race'?
Answer: Roger Bannister and John Landy

Question: Dhyan Chand of India is regarded as the greatest player of all time in which Olympic sport?
Answer: Hockey

Question: The dictator Mobuto of Zaire may not be well-known for political reasons but he was instrumental in facilitating what major 1974 combat event of the sporting world?
Answer: Rumble in the Jungle between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman

Question: By what name is the famous boxing rematch between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey held on September 22, 1927 better known?
Answer: Long Count Fight, in which Tunney won

Question: Which iconic sportsperson refers to his ethnicity as 'Cablinasian'?
Answer: Tiger Woods

Question: Which Italian form of bowling that starts when a ball called 'pallino' is thrown has been played since Roman times?
Answer: Bocce

Question: Shakehand and penhold grips are used in which sport?
Answer: Tabletennis

Question: What is the essential difference between American roulette and the European roulette?
Answer: In American roulette, there is a pocket marked 00 that is not present in the European version.

Question: Chuck Wepner, an obscure boxer from New Jersey who once went 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali in a fight served as the inspiration for the creation of what on-screen personality?
Answer: Rocky

Question: In 1956, while he was a race car builder at Kurtis Kraft (a famous builder of Indy race cars during the 1950s), Art Ingels assembled the first one of what?
Answer: Go-kart

Question: Nicknamed El Chino ('The Chinese') and El zurdo de Vitacura ('The lefty from Vitacura'), Marcelo Rios of Chile is the only player in the open era of men's tennis to hold the number one ranking despite never doing what?
Answer: Winning a Grand Slam

Question: Senet is a grid game for two players and is thought to be the oldest board game in the world. In which country did it originate?
Answer: Egypt

Question: What is the only country to have won at least one gold at every Summer Olympics?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: Which South Pacific island belonging to Vanuatu is known for being the spiritual birthplace of bungee jumping, originating in an age-old ritual called the naghol?
Answer: Pentecost Island

Question: """If we lose, it will be the biggest upset in the history of sports."" This was the modest statement of a coach in 1992, an Olympic year. Who is 'we'?"
Answer: US Basketball team at the Olympics, the original Dream Team

Question: What sporting rules were written by John Chambers in 1865 and published in 1867 superseding the Revised London Prize Ring rules of 1853?
Answer: Queensberry rules for boxing

Question: There is a prize for the fastest circumnavigation of the world by any type of yacht and was first awarded to a yacht which sailed around the world in less than 80 days. Can you guess after whom the trophy is named?
Answer: jules verne

Question: The 'Aussie Round' is considered by many to be the ultimate test of skills in this field where an object should cross a 50 metre circle and come right back to the centre. What is the object in question?
Answer: Boomerang

Question: After the Olympics, what are the world's second-largest multi-sport event, the Delhi edition of which was in the news in 2010?
Answer: Commonwealth Games

Question: Which land area near Wendover, Utah that is marked out for motor sports is particularly noted as the venue for numerous land speed records?
Answer: Bonneville Speedway