SPORTS QUIZ 2017
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1. Against which country will Ireland play their first Test match in Malahide next May?
2. Since 1994, there have been six ever-presents at the World Cup who have also qualified for next year’s tournament. Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Mexico, Spain and...?
3. Which former Leinster SHC winner lined out in this year’s Connacht SFC?
4. What English club did Pat Lam leave Connacht for?
5. Kilkenny crashed out of the hurling championship in round two of the qualifiers. When was the last time they left the championship at an earlier stage?
6. What jockey rode Sizing John to the Cheltenham Gold Cup?
7. Rory McIlroy is currently 10th in the world rankings, what place was he in the first week of 2017?
8. Who is this Irish gold medal winner?
9. Which baseball team claimed the World Series for the first time after beating the Los Angeles Dodgers in a winner-takes-all game seven?
10. What was the name of the substance which Chris Froome was deemed to have double the threshold amount of in his body when tested during the Vuelta?
11. Celtic broke their own 100-year record when going unbeaten for 69 matches before losing to Aberdeen. Before that, who was the last team to beat them?
12. Which former All-Ireland winner featured on ‘Dancing with the Stars’?
13. Who became the first player from the northern hemisphere to score four career tries in Tests against the All Blacks?
14. After their 2-28 to 1-17 victory against Dublin in the Leinster SHC quarter-final, how many goals did eventual champions Galway score in their remaining four games?
15. Which horse won the Grand National at Aintree?
16. Who won the 2017 Ladies’ British Open Amateur Championship at Pyle & Kenfig in South Wales?
17. He swapped international for club management. Who is he?
18. Victory at the Mexican Grand Prix saw Lewis Hamilton clinch the Formula One drivers’ championship, but in what year did he win his first?
19. Ronnie O’Sullivan equalled Steve Davis’s record of six UK Championship snooker titles with victory over Shaun Murphy in York. But how many years is it since he won his first UK title?
20. Who were the first team to beat Cork City in the Airtricity League, in their 23rd game of the season?
21. How many games did Dublin draw out of their seven NFL group fixtures?
22. Who won this year’s Christy Ring Cup?
23. What price was Wings of Eagles, the winner of the Epsom Derby?
24. He was king of all he surveyed in 2017, who is he?
25. What sport has 2012 Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins taken up this year?
26. Name the English golfer who won the European Tour’s Race to Dubai.
27. How many fights in the ring did Conor McGregor win this year ?
28. Against which Premier League side did Wayne Rooney score his 250th goal for Manchester United to beat Bobby Charlton’s club record?
29. Defeat against Kerry in the league final ended Dublin’s unbeaten streak of how many matches?
30. There were two Scottish-born players on the Lions touring party. How many New Zealand-born players were there?
31. Offaly hurlers won a total of two games between league and championship. Name the two teams they beat.
32. Rekindling won the Melbourne Cup last month but where did he finish in the Epsom derby?
33. Apart from Jordan Spieth, who was the last player to win a golf Major that wasn’t a first-time winner.
34. Who is this jockey?
35. The longest frame in snooker history took place in April in final qualification for the World Championship, lasting two hours, three minutes and 41 seconds, but who won the frame to take the match 10-9?
36. Who was thrown out of a Fed Cup tie in Constanta, Romania after an extraordinary meltdown that saw him hurl foul-mouthed abuse at the Great Britain team and journalists?
37. Which Irish manager lost his job after his club were relegated from the Scottish Premier Division?
38. Who did Cork beat by a single point in the quarter-finals of the Munster SFC?
39. Who were the only team to score a try in every single round of the 2017 Six Nations?
40. How many of Kilkenny’s games in the 2017 hurling championship were broadcast live on RTÉ?
41. Which jockey earned a threemonth suspension from the British Horseracing Authority after being found guilty of breaching betting regulations this month
42. Who will start the 2018 season as Rory McIlroy’s caddie?
43. She’s a doctor who won her second All-Ireland medal this year. Who is she?
44. Name the Northern Irish motorcyclist who finished second in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
45. Which athlete raced on his own to qualify for the 200m final at the World Championships?
46. For which team was Wayne Shaw a substitute during an FA Cup tie against Arsenal?
47. Who scored the winning penalty in this year’s FAI Cup final?
48. Who knocked Monaghan out of this year’s Ulster SFC?
49. Who were the only Division 1A team to reach the Allianz NHL semi-finals?
50. Victory for which horse sealed Aidan O’Brien’s record-breaking 26th Group One victory of the season?
51. Jordan Spieth won The Open by three strokes at Royal Birkdale but who shot the lowest round in Major championship history, an eight-underpar 62, in the third round?
52. Before finishing second in this year’s 5,000m final at the World Athletics Championships, which was the previous year when Mo Farah failed to win in either a 5,000m or 10,000m final in the World Championships or Olympic Games?
53. In what stage race did Sam Bennett take the first World Tour stage win of his career in 2017?
54. In what sport did Liam Finn captain Ireland in a World Cup?
55. Which player featured in the most women’s singles Grand Slam tennis finals in 2017?
56. She was Ireland’s golden girl in August. Who is she?
57. England’s football team completed yet another unbeaten European qualifying campaign. When was the last time they lost a European qualifier match and against whom?
58. When Francesco Totti, who retired this year, made his debut for Roma, how many league titles with United had Alex Ferguson won?
59. Who scored the first goal of this season’s All-Ireland championship?
60. Prior to beating Kilkenny this year, when was the last time Waterford beat the Cats in the championship?
61. Who did Sergio Garcia beat in a play-off to win the US Masters?
62. Name the three counties who lost just once in this year’s All-Ireland football championship.
63. In the three wins of the November Series, against which country did Ireland have their smallest winning margin?
64. Name the teams that Ireland beat in the Women’s Rugby World Cup?
65. The hurling championship will have a new tier introduced in 2018. What will the cup be called?
66. Paul Dunne claimed his maiden European Tour title when he closed with a 61 to win the 2017 British Masters at Close House in Newcastle. Who was second?
67. Who is in the box?
68. What was Diarmuid Connolly’s score tally for the entirety of the 2017 All-Ireland championship?
69. Who scored Denmark’s fifth goal in their 5-1 win over Ireland?
70. Who were the first team to book their place in next summer’s World Cup, via qualification?
71. The New England Patriots overcame a 25-point deficit to beat the Atlanta Falcons 34-28 after overtime at Super Bowl LI, but how many titles does quarterback Tom Brady now hold?
72. In what city will the 2018 Giro D’Italia start?
73. Which athlete ran for Ireland at the European Cross Country event, six months after giving birth to her second child?
74. He is a multiple world champion who is retiring. Who is he?
75. Name the two players who scored more than one competitive goal for Ireland in 2017?
76. Waterford won the League of Ireland First Division. Who came second?
77. What French club did Donnacha Ryan leave Munster for?
78. Who was named World Rugby Referee of the Year for 2017?
79. Name the 2016 Dublin hurler who won an All-Ireland medal with Jim Gavin’s footballers this year?
80. Which politician had a son playing for the Munster club football champions this year?
81. Name the two Kerrymen who were named ‘man of the match’ in consecutive senior matches in Croke Park this year.
82. Who was second in the men’s 100m World Championship final behind Justin Gatlin and ahead of Usain Bolt?
83. Name the cities announced in September as hosts of the Olympic Games in 2024 and 2028 respectively.
84. Which English bowler took his Test wicket tally to 500 against West Indies at Lord’s?
85. Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer were the only winners of men’s singles tennis Grand Slams this year. When was the last year that happened?
86. What country did Dubliner Ian McKinley make his international rugby debut for in November?
87. Bonus points were introduced for the first time in the Six Nations. Who won the first one?
88. Which manager secured their fifth consecutive county SFC title across two different counties this year?
89. How many goals did Sean Maguire score in his 21 League of Ireland games for Cork before joining Preston?
90. What was Ireland’s final position in the Women’s Rugby World Cup?
91. Who is this former Wimbledon champion who passed away in November?
92 .Whose late goal secured promotion to Division 2 for Tipperary after a victory in Armagh?
93. In what year did Limerick last win a game in the Munster SHC?
94. James Ryan followed Brian O’Driscoll’s lead in June by winning his first Ireland cap before making his Leinster debut. Name the other Leinster player in the pro era to have done the same?
95. Who did Mischa Zverev knock out of the Australian Open tennis championship in the fourth round?
96. Which Premier League manager won ‘manager of the month’ in January, and was sacked in December?
97. Who knocked reigning champions Tipperary out of the Munster SHC?
98. Who scored the winning goal for Arsenal in the FA Cup final?
99. Which player was ruled out of starting the All-Ireland camogie final by her manager in a pre-match interview before togging out minutes later?
100. What number do you get if you add the total championship appearances made by Tyrone’s Sean Cavanagh, to the number of consecutive wins by the English rugby team prior to their Six Nations defeat against Ireland, to the number of Group One races won by Aidan O’Brien in 2017.