New Year sports quiz

Eyes down for the biggest sporting challenge of the last 12 months – our annual New Year quiz.

Mike Wilson is back with 50 brain teasers to test your knowledge on a wide range of sports.

Let’s get cracking – answers are on the foot of the next page but no peeking!

1

Who became the first British tennis player to win the Indian Wells title in October?

2

Who are the only senior club to clinch a Scottish football league title in England?

3

Name Ange Postecoglou’s last club before he was appointed Celtic manager.

4

Former Dundee United youngster Ryan Gauld is now making his mark on the other side of the Atlantic with which club?

5

Which Scottish athlete broke Paula Radcliffe’s UK record for 10 miles with a course best at the Great South Run?

6

Which former Arsenal favourite was appointed manager of Crystal Palace?

7

Who did Emma Raducanu beat in the final of the US Open?

8

What is the nickname of WBC world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury?

9

She has earned 172 caps to set a record for the England women’s football team. Who is she?

10

This cricketing great was named as the Government’s trade envoy to Australia?

11

Euro 2020 finals...who scored Scotland’s only goal?

12

Which country will host the 2023 Ryder Cup?

13

Rachael Blackmore became the first female jockey to win the Grand National. On what horse?

14

This Yorkshireman, whose mum hails from Glasgow, was called into Scotland’s squad for World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Denmark. 15

This keeper won the Under 17 World Cup with Switzerland as a youth and is now a star in the SPL.

16

He replaced Ronald Koeman as Barcelona coach in November and vowed to restore them to their position as the best club in the world.

17

Modern pentathlon chiefs will remove which sport from the event after the 2024 Olympics?

18

Cricket: Who was Scotland’s captain in the T20 World Cup? 19

Who did Antonio Conte replace as boss of Tottenham?

20

Name the three Ayr United players who have played in European Cup finals.

21

Which manager famously chimed an imaginary bell while saying ‘dilly ding, dilly dong’ as his team won the English Premier Division?

22

Which national team does Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah play for? 23

This Londoner was dethroned as world heavyweight champion by Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk in October.

24

Which manager led Leeds United back into the Premier League after a 16 year absence from the top flight?

25

Ryder Cup: Who captained Team USA to a record breaking 19-9 drubbing of Europe at Whistling Straits?

26

Which Team Europe veteran has never lost in his seven Sunday singles in the Ryder Cup?

27

How many times have Auchinleck Talbot won the Scottish Junior Cup?

28

Who did Steven Gerrard replace as head coach of Aston Villa?

29

Now a TV presenter, she won 140 caps and was inducted into the English Football

Hall of Fame in 2019.

30

Horse racing: Which football great owns Protektorat, trained by Dan Skelton?

31

Mighty Thunder won the 2021 Coral Scottish Grand National for which well known Kinross based trainer?

32

England won their group in Euro 2020 by scoring how many goals?

33

Name the two players who were equal top scorers in Euro 2020 with five goals. 34

Now an MSP, he famously ran with one shoe to help GB win relay gold in the 1986 European Championships.

35

Which country will host the Rugby World Cup in 2023?

36

This Irishman has been flat racing champion jockey for the last three years.

37

Name the first Ayrshire team to win the Scottish Junior Cup.

38

Who is the last British player to win The Masters? 39

Who holds the record for most Masters victories?

40

Jota joined Celtic from which European club on a season-long loan deal?

41

Rangers great had the unique distinction of being the only player ever to play in the English, Scottish and Welsh Cups in the same season (1966-67).

42

Steven Gerrard headed to America in season 201516 to sign for which club? 43

Name the solo inductee to the Scottish Rugby Hall of Fame in 2020.

44

The 2017 Ayr Gold Cup was switched to which course because of waterlogging problems?

45

Name the three clubs who have been relegated from the Scottish Second Division since the introduction of the pyramid system.

46

Who is the youngest winner of the F1 World Drivers’ Championship? 47

Cumnock born defender made 407 appearances for Rangers in 13 years at the club.

48

Collin Morikawa won the 2021 Open at Royal St George’s. Who was runner-up?

49

Who is the only person to have held British, American, Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic swimming titles at the same time?

50

From which Ayrshire club did Ayr United sign centurion goal scorer Michael Moffat?