The Quiz: test your sporting knowledge

Who is the only Australian swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal before winning their first individual national title?

Only see two Australians have beaten Roger Federer at a grand slam tournament. See Question 21. Picture: Getty Images

Our resident trivia master Stephen Samuelson tests your sporting knowledge.

Questions

1. Which Australian has won a medal at the past four Olympics?

2. The Kevin Sheedy medal is the best and fairest award for which AFL club?

3. Which Big Bash team did Englishman Ben Stokes play for in 2014/15?

4. After Tiger Woods, which golfer has won the most majors this century?

5. Which is the only NRL team to win a premiership in each of the past five decades?

6. Who are the last three Australian women to win a world surfing title?

7. Is Daytona 500 an IndyCar or NASCAR event?

The answer to Question 8 in the pool at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Picture: Brett Costello

8. Who is the only Australian swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal before winning their first individual national title?

9. Which five members of the AFL’s 300 game club played in Round 1 this season?

10. Which Australian tennis great was nicknamed Sunshine Super Girl?

This famous American football player features in Question 11. Picture: AP

11. Which NFL quarterback, pictured above, played himself in the film There’s Something About Mary?

12. In 2017, which World Cup winning five-eighth was the last Wallaby inducted into the Hall of Fame?

13. Which two players in the NRL this season made their debut in the competition before 2005?

14. How many clubs survived the National Soccer League to join the A-League?

15. Who played both rugby league for Australia and rugby union for New Zealand?

Do you recognise this diver from Question 16? Picture: AP

16. Who holds the record for the highest scoring dive in Olympic history?

17. Which three Australian-born players played alongside LeBron James at the Cleveland Cavaliers?

18. Which four bowlers with a surname beginning with M have taken more than 300 Test wickets?

19. Who has been awarded man of the match the most times in rugby league’s State of Origin?

20. The 2018 FIFA World Cup final was between …?

21. Who are the two Australians to defeat Roger Federer in a grand slam tournament?

22. Which two Test cricketers have brothers who played only white-ball cricket for Australia?

23. In 2017, Nathan Walker became the first Australian to compete in which major North American league?

24. In which Olympic sport does Japan top the medal tally?

25. Which Super Netball team is part-owned by an NRL club?

26. Which two teams won their first AFL/VFL premierships in a year ending in 4?

27. Who has won more Formula One races? Daniel Ricciardo or Mark Webber?

28. Which country has won every Rugby World Cup final it has appeared in and which one has lost every final?

29. A beach volleyball match is the best of how many sets?

30. What is the longest race won by an Australian in Olympic athletics?

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Answers

1. Anna Meares (cycling)

2. Greater Western Sydney Giants

3. Melbourne Renegades

4. Phil Mickelson (5)

5. Manly Sea Eagles

6. Stephanie Gilmore, Tyler Wright and Layne Beachley

7. NASCAR

8. Kyle Chalmers

9. Shaun Burgoyne (Hawthorn), Gary Ablett (Geelong), Kade Simpson (North Melbourne), Heath Shaw (GWS) and Scott Pendlebury (Collingwood)

10. Evonne Goolagong

11. Brett Favre

12. Stephen Larkham

13. Cameron Smith and Benji Marshall

14. Four – New Zealand Knights (formerly Football Kingz) Adelaide United, Newcastle Jets (formerly United) and Perth Glory

15. Brad Thorn

16. Matthew Mitcham (final dive Beijing 2008)

17. Matthew Dellavedova, Kyrie Irving and Andrew Bogut (for 58 seconds)

18. Muttiah Muralitharan (800), Glenn McGrath (563), Malcolm Marshall (376) and Morne Morkel (310)

19. Wally Lewis (8)

20. France and Croatia

21. Pat Rafter (French Open 1999) and John Millman (US Open 2018)

22. Mike Hussey (David Hussey), Brett Lee (Shane Lee)

23. National Hockey League (for Washington Capitals)

24. Judo

25. Sunshine Coast Lightning (Melbourne Storm)

26. Footscray (Western Bulldogs) 1954 and Port Adelaide 2004

27. Mark Webber (9 to 7)

28. South Africa (won 1995, 2007, 2019), France (lost 1987, 1999 and 2011)

29. Three

30. 50km walk (Jared Tallent 2012)