Sports Quiz of the Year

Round one: Olympic Games

1 Who won Great Britain's first gold medal in Beijing and in which event did it come?

2 Whom did the eighth-placed Cassie Patten, looking into the BBC's poolside camera, address directly after Rebecca Adlington won her second gold medal?

3 Why did the world discuss Yang Peiyi's teeth?

4 What did Usain Bolt admit to enjoying as a midnight snack the night before the men's 100 meters final?

5 Which animal featured prominently in the BBC's opening titles?

6 How did Britain's Sarah Stevenson manage to win a bronze medal despite being defeated in the second round of the taekwondo?

7 What does Michael Phelps owe to his US team-mate Jason Lezak?

8 How did Sweden's Ara Abrahamian make a name for himself in the Greco-Roman wrestling?

9 Who did Argentina beat in the football final?

10 How many Britons have won more gold medals at a single Games than Chris Hoy managed in 2008?

Round two: Who said?

11 "My diet was sausages then, in no particular order, sausages, chips, sausages, toast, sausages, beans, sausages, cheese, sausages, eggs, and the occasional sausage."

12 "You can't beat Sinatra. I was actually supposed to have dinner with him one night, but we lost to Charlton so I cancelled it and went home!"

13 "I don't train and train as hard as I've done for a silver medal. It's all about the gold or nothing."

14 "I thought, 'Do I have it, do I have it?' When they told me [I did] I was ecstatic. I have done enough and we made it. I can forget everything else."

15 "I guess I might be the best athlete ever."

16 "The one thing I really wanted from this Olympics was to get on the Jonathan Ross show."

17 "The French looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner. We looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to play whiff whaff."

18 "Who is Terry Butcher?"

19 "When this was announced in June I was a hero; now I'm a skunk in October."

20 "I'm not sure I'm better than Steven - but I'm definitely thinner than Frank."

Round three: Football

21 What is this sequence? Eriksson, Shearer, Goor, Karagounis, Sverkos.

22 Whose goalscorers were Pacquette (8min), Skrtel own-goal (31min)?

23 How many times had the XI that started the Champions League final for Manchester United previously played together?

24 Which country's prime minister said he "wanted to kill" after Howard Webb gave a penalty against them during Euro 2008?

25 Only one of the 16 nations at Euro 2008 had got past the group stages at Euro 2004 and the World Cups of 2002 and 2006. Who?

26 Who was the last Arsenal player before Theo Walcott to score a hat-trick for England?

27 How many times did Joe Kinnear swear in a five-minute spell during his famous October press conference?

28 Who ended his career with an 88th-minute goal against Chester?

29 Who now plays at the Prostar Stadium?

30 Five clubs topped the Premier League in 2008: Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and who?

Round four: Whose autobiography?

31 In Pursuit of Glory

32 Stand Up Pinocchio

33 No White Flag

34 Better Than Sex

35 The Magnificent Seven

36 Starting Out

37 FA Confidential: Sex, Drugs and Penalties.

38 The Two of Me

39 From Gipsyville to the Premiership

40 Hitting Back

Round five: Cricket

41 Which former roof tiler played for England at Headingley and how many wickets did he take?

42 Which English batsman set a world record for hitting the most sixes in a single innings?

43 Mark Ramprakash had to wait 11 innings for his 100th 100 - to what did he attribute his slump in form after he reached his 99th?

44 And who were the opposition when he finally reached the magic mark?

45 Which county side managed to lose to Hampshire in the C&G Trophy despite scoring 350 in their 50 overs?

46 Who has scored 719 runs for England this year at an average of 37 and yet did not play in a single Test?

47 Which England-qualified batsman was the leading first-class run-scorer in the 2008 county season?

48 Who was the only English player in the inaugural edition of the Indian Premier League?

49 Which notoriously inept No11 batsman began the year by reaching double figures for the first and only time in his 45-match career before describing his batting as "the exclamation mark on poor performance".

50 Only one player in history has scored more runs in all forms of cricket than Graeme Hick, who retired this year. To the nearest 5,000, how many runs did Hick make, and who is the man ahead of him on the list?

Round six: Who were the runners-up?

51 Olympic men's 100m final

52 Rugby's Six Nations Championship

53 Cricket's County Championship

54 Olympic rowing men's coxless fours

55 Coca-Cola Championship

56 Carling Cup final

57 Super League grand final

58 Artois tennis tournament

59 World snooker championship

60 The Open

Round seven: Rugby union

61 Which James revealed an unsuspected past life as a crew member on the Bond film Die Another Day

62 Which ground held one last memorial service for all those who had had their ashes scattered on its hallowed pitch?

63 How many ELVs are there?

64 Which then Premier League manager spent some quality time with the All Blacks in June?

65 Who is playing the Springbok captain Francois Pienaar in Clint Eastwood's The Human Factor, a film about Nelson Mandela?

66 Which county's socks did the Barbarians wear for the Olympic Centenary match against Australia at Wembley?

67 What was Munster's unusual response to the New Zealand haka?

68 Where did Angel Barbie, the Pony Club and the Duracell Bunny make unwelcome appearances?

69 Who, while recovering from yet another injury, announced a new love of quantum physics and Buddhism?

70 Who, on suffering a thumb injury in a pre-season match, was replaced by his own son?

Round eight: Football transfers

71 Which prolific wee countryman went from white to see the light but found he was still at his best in green?

72 Which strawberry blond former royal gunner forsook his pension to spark a revival among villains?

73 Which pair of East End barrow boys became a shopkeeper's playthings after their enthusiasm was curbed?

74 Who was the mustard lover who returned from his honeymoon to swap a cockerel for a livelier red bird?

75 Who took his Harpo Marx haircut from a Spanish Atlantic port to a nest of thieves by the North Sea?

76 Which Ramsay Street bad boy and no fan of divots got the Spanish archer from Señor Ramos to become a rover?

77 Who swapped a new field for a berth at a bridge courtesy of a gargantuan lover of horses and "slug balancer"?

78 Which former jungle widower left his rehab room on the Mersey to take roost in Constantine's eastern capital?

79 Who was the balsawood man who went from devilish inconsistency to the confectioners' darlings?

80 Who remained a citizen but left an east land for an eastern outpost to kickstart a tiger-striped surge?

Round nine: Who . . . ?

81 ... tried to cover up a damaging leak by talking about sandwich orders?

82 ... was holding the Olympic torch when it was snatched from her grasp in London?

83 ... were married at Santa Margherita Ligure in June?

84... was the double World Cup winner Garforth Town persuaded to sign for them in 2009?

85 ... who swapped insurance details with a second-hand car dealer after knocking him over with his van?

86 ... was the international manager who proposed to his girlfriend on live television during Euro 2008?

87 ... will play Brian Clough in the upcoming film The Damned United

88 ... had a run-in with an eight-legged menace in the build-up to Beijing?

89 ... predicted he would "never lose to a white boy" shortly before losing to Joe Calzaghe?

90 ... was the Super Bowl winner who later managed to accidentally shoot himself in the thigh during a visit to a nightclub?

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