General Chat

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1. WHAT IS THE LONGEST; golf hole in the world, winning margin in a Classic horse race, grand slam tennis match, Olympic career, cricket test match, baseball throw, boxing match, ski jump 2. WHAT IS THE GREATEST SPEED ACHIEVED BY; a bicycle, a skier, a sailing boat, a horse, a greyhound, a skater, a runner, a swimmer 3. ROUND THE WORLD; first to circumnavigate the earth, to sail solo round the world, fastest time round the world in a boat, first female sailor to win the solo non stop record, how did Bauer /Williams circumnavigate the world in 17days 16hrs 14mins, first man to walk round the world, fasted trip round the world on scheduled flights, balloonist to set the longest distance attempted to fly round the world 4. WHO WAS THE FIRST; cricketer to take 100 wickets and score 1,00- runs in a single season, boxer to win titles in more than two weights, black winner of a grand slam tennis title, athlete to clear 100 metres with the javelin, holder of the World Motor Racing Champion title, to ride 1,000 National Hunt winners, darts player to score 501 in nine darts, female tennis player to win £1m in prize money 5. WORLD STADIUMS; world’s most expensive, greatest capacity for spectators, which football match attracted a record crowd to Wembley, largest soccer stadium, where is the Mile High Stadium, largest National Football League stadium, largest covered stadium, largest cricket ground (capacity 130,000) 6. WHO IS THE YOUNGEST TO; win a world boxing championship, men’s tennis grand slam, play in the NBA, score a hole in one in golf, win a F1 Grand Prix, become a professional world snooker champ, compete as a gymnast in an international competition 7. ANIMALS (pre 2000); highest price paid for a racehorse, greyhound to have the most career wins, highest a horse has jumped on record, greatest distance completed by a pigeon in a competitive race, in 85-85 which UK greyhound eclipsed Joe Dump’s record of 31 consecutive wins, biggest fish ever caught on a rod, world’s most successful racehorse, greyhound with the most wins in a year 8. FIRST TO DO WHAT; Susan Brown, Trevor Francis, Adrian Moorhouse, Alfred Adolf Oerter, Cheng Jinlin, Manchester United, Giacoma Agnostini, Kurt Browning 9. NAME THE OTHER SPORT THEY EXCEL AT; Fred Perry, Joe Davis, Geoff Hurst, Johnny Weissmuller, Rob Andrew, Dennis Compton, Michael Jordan, Colin Jackson 10. WHICH IS THE ODD ONE OUT & WHY; Uraguay 1930; Italy 1934, Sweden 1958, England 1966, Brazil 1970, West Germany 1974, Argentina 1978, France 1998 11. GUESS THE RECORD HOLDER; LA stop rain (motor racing), Vain thing sags (rugby), Radical girl REM (skiing), Do Rainman (US football), Rave vest greed (rowing), Boast nice sea (athletics), When Jool (darts), home corn Jen (tennis) 12. COMMON DENOMINATOR; Terry Sawchuk - US, Abel Resino – Spain, Richard James Allen – India, Dino Zoff – Italy, Peter Shilton – England, Jacques Plante – Canada, Willie Fouke – England, Gerry Cheevers - US

8 Seem to remember Trevor Francis was the first player sold for 1000,000 pounds? 9 Fred Perry..... Tennis, Joe Davis.......Billiards/snooker, Geoff Hurst.....Football, Johnny Weismuller.....Swimming, ? ? Michael Jordan......Basketball Colin Jackson......Hurdles 10 Sweden are the only team to host the World cup amongst those, but not win it...all the others hosted and won!