The winner is Racharl McFadyen. Thank you everyone who participated!
The answers are:
- The 100m dash because he tested positive for drugs or athletics
- Spain, they were caught entering non-handicapped athletes into the games.
- Greece, Britain and Australia (needed 2)
- 16
- The Toronto Maple Leafs
- 108
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 4657
- Wayne Gretzky, he scored 894.
- Michael Phelps in swimming.
- 7 ft
- Mike Powell
- 1972
- Noah Ngeny
- Long Jump
- Frank Shorter
- Canada
- Edmonton, Canada
- D) 3 x track, 4 X Field
- Jesse Owens
- David Rudisha
- Waterfall Line
- Harold Abrahams
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Old Time Rock and Roll” by Bob Seger
- Mary Poppins
- Smith & Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Sylvester Stallone
- The Beverly Wilshire by Four Seasons
- 1929
- Frodo Baggins
- Jennifer Lawrence.
- Arendelle
- Men in Black
- Forest Gump
A reminder, the questions were:
- Britain’s Lin ford Christie was banned from competing for two years in which sport?
- Which country’s entire team was barred from competing at the Paralympics in Sydney?
- Which two countries have not missed one of the modern day Olympics?
- In Olympic badminton how many feathers does the bird have?
- Which NHL team was once called the St. Patrick?
- How many stitches are there on a baseball?
- Who holds the record in basketball for the most fouls and how many?
- Who holds the record for the most goals in the NHL?
- Who eight gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
- What is the diameter of a shot putt circle?
- Who broke Bob Beamon’s world record in the long jump?
- When was the first year that electronic timing was used in the Olympic Games?
- Who won the Olympic men’s 1500m title in Sydney?
- In what event is the “Hitch-Kick” an internationally recognised method?
- Which American ran both the 10,000 metres and the marathon in the 1972 Olympics, winning gold in the marathon?
- For which country did Ben Johnson run?
- Where were the 2001 World Championships held (country and city)?
- Which of these combinations gives the correct split between individual track and field disciplines that make up the seven events in the Heptathlon? A) 4 x track, 3X field B) 2 X Track, 5 X field C) 5 X track, 2 X Field D) 3 x track, 4 X Field
- Who set 3 world track records and tied a 4th in one day?
- Which Kenyan athlete set a new world record of 1 minute 40.91 seconds for the 800m at the 2012 Olympics?
- What is the curved starting line referred to as?
- What was the name of the British 100m champion in the 1924 Olympics in Paris as immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire?
- What was the first feature-length animated movie ever released?
- In Risky Business, what song did Tom Cruise famously lip-sync to in his underwear?
- For which 1964 musical blockbuster did Julie Andrews win the Academy Award for Best Actress?
- What is the model of revolver made famous by Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty” Harry Callahan?
- Jennifer Lawrence won a Best Actress Academy Award for what 2012 romantic comedy/drama?
- Who wrote the screenplay for Rocky?
- What’s the Los Angeles hotel prominently featured in Pretty Woman?
- In which year were the Academy Awards, or “Oscars”, first presented?
- What is the name of the hobbit played by Elijah Wood in the Lord of the Rings movies?
- Which actress plays Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games movies?
- What is the name of the kingdom where the 2013 animated movie Frozen is set?
- Which 1997 science fiction movie starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones tells the story of a secret agency that polices alien refugees who are living on earth disguised as humans?
- Which Tom Hanks movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1994?
