With 2024’s summer of sport well underway, this week’s film quiz features an Olympic-sized batch of sports movie questions.
It can hardly have escaped your notice that there are a lot of sports tournaments this July. Euro 2024 football has reached the quarter-final stage, we’ve already had a week of tennis at Wimbledon, and later this month, the Summer Olympics kick off in Paris. Handily, there are a lot of sports movies to ask quiz questions about, so this week’s Film Quiz Friday is one of our occasional themed editions – and if the summer of sport leaves you cold, it’ll be back to quizness as usual next week.
When you’ve completed all three rounds, you’ll find a link to a separate post with the correct answers at the bottom of this post. Scores are out of 30 this week, so please let us know how you did and send any other lovely feedback in the comments. As always, this is just for fun, but in the spirit of competition, why not see how a couple of your mates do too? Who will win beautiful gold, so-so silver, and shameful bronze?
ROUND ONE – Olympic Years In Movies
First, a round of sports-themed questions about movies released in the last 10 Summer Olympics years, starting in 2021 (nee. 2020) and going backwards…
1. 2021 – Will Smith won a Best Actor Oscar for playing the title character in which sports biopic?
2. 2016 – Who plays Eddie the Eagle in Eddie The Eagle?
3. 2012 – What Olympic sport connects characters played by Jennifer Lawrence, Kelly Macdonald, and Jeremy Renner in 2012?
4. 2008 – Randy “The Ram” Robinson is the title character in which sports drama?
5. 2004 – Which former cycling champion memorably cameos as himself in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story?
6. 2000 – Which former English Commonwealth Games diver plays Turkish in Snatch?
7. 1996 – Shooter McGavin is the antagonist in which sports comedy?
8. 1992 – How many Mighty Ducks feature films have been released to date?
9. 1988 – Which English city goes after Bull to make the title of a baseball movie starring Kevin Costner?
10. 1984 – Who plays karate kid Daniel LaRusso in The Karate Kid and its various sequels?
ROUND TWO – Team GB Movies
Next, 10 questions about British movies that feature Olympic events in some way or another…
11. Who composed the theme tune and score for 1981’s Chariots Of Fire?
12. Which Aardman movie revolves around a football match between Stone Age and Bronze Age players?
13. Which 2012 athletics movie connects Lenora Crichlow, Lily James, and Lashana Lynch?
14. In which decade is the football movie Escape To Victory set?
15. Which sport features prominently in 1963’s This Sporting Life?
16. “Who wants to cook Aloo Gobi when you can…” – which 2002 football movie completes this tagline?
17. Which Lord Of The Rings star plays an amateur boxer in the 2004 comedy The Calcium Kid?
18. In which James Bond film does 007 have a fencing match with billionaire Gustav Graves?
19. Which sporting Eric plays himself in 2006’s Looking For Eric?
20. In which 2011 romantic comedy does Felicity Jones play a skateboarder-turned-snowboarder?
ROUND THREE – Sporting Pot Luck
Let’s finish with a random selection of sports-related movie questions – these could come from any era, any sport, or any level of difficulty. Enjoy!
21. Complete the title of the 1977 bodybuilding docudrama starring Arnold Schwarzenegger: Pumping… what?
22. Which American figure skater-turned-boxer does Margot Robbie play in I, Tonya?
23. Among many achievements, Forrest Gump is an international champion in which Olympic sport?
24. Who connects the basketball movies White Men Can’t Jump, Semi-Pro, and Champions?
25. Starring Gerard Butler, the 2012 movie Chasing Mavericks revolves around which sport, later introduced as an Olympic event in 2021?
26. Which of these 2000s sports movies is set in the world of competitive gymnastics: Stick It or Whip It?
27. Which sport features prominently in the 1953 British drama The Final Test?
28. Which UFC star-turned-actor connects the Expendables, Fast & Furious, and Charlie’s Angels franchises?
29. Which 2007 London Marathon comedy was directed by Friends star David Schwimmer?
30. And finally, Cool Runnings is about a national bobsleigh team from which country?
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We’ll be back next Friday with another film quiz, but until then, check out Issue 50 of Film Stories Magazine, which features 50 all-new questions on movie songs, the films of 1974, and the number 50! You can also listen to our suitably named film quiz podcast, The Film Quiz Podcast, which features Nick Helm asking movie questions and occasionally berating contestants for getting them wrong.
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