Here are the answers to our quiz from 5th July 2024 – how did you do?
1. Will Smith won a Best Actor Oscar for playing the title character in which sports biopic?
King Richard
2. Who plays Eddie the Eagle in Eddie The Eagle?
Taron Egerton
3. What Olympic sport connects characters played by Jennifer Lawrence, Kelly Macdonald, and Jeremy Renner in 2012?
Archery (in The Hunger Games, Brave, and The Avengers, respectively)
4. Randy “The Ram” Robinson is the title character in which sports drama?
The Wrestler
5. Which former cycling champion memorably cameos as himself in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story?
Lance Armstrong
6. Which former English Commonwealth Games diver plays Turkish in Snatch?
Jason Statham
7. Shooter McGavin is the antagonist in which sports comedy?
Happy Gilmore
8. How many Mighty Ducks feature films have been released to date?
Three
9. Which English city goes after Bull to make the title of a baseball movie starring Kevin Costner?
Durham, as in Bull Durham
10. Who plays karate kid Daniel LaRusso in The Karate Kid and its various sequels?
Ralph Macchio
11. Who composed the theme tune and score for 1981’s Chariots Of Fire?
Vangelis
12. Which Aardman movie revolves around a football match between Stone Age and Bronze Age players?
Early Man
13. Which 2012 athletics movie connects Lenora Crichlow, Lily James, and Lashana Lynch?
Fast Girls
14. In which decade is the football movie Escape To Victory set?
The 1940s
15. Which sport features prominently in 1963’s This Sporting Life?
Rugby (league)
16. “Who wants to cook Aloo Gobi when you can…” – which 2002 football movie completes this tagline?
Bend It Like Beckham
17. Which Lord Of The Rings star plays an amateur boxer in the 2004 comedy The Calcium Kid?
Orlando Bloom
18. In which James Bond film does 007 have a fencing match with billionaire Gustav Graves?
Die Another Day
19. Which sporting Eric plays himself in 2006’s Looking For Eric?
Eric Cantona
20. In which 2011 romantic comedy does Felicity Jones play a skateboarder-turned-snowboarder?
Chalet Girl
21. Complete the title of the 1977 bodybuilding docudrama starring Arnold Schwarzenegger: Pumping… what?
… Iron
22. Which American figure skater-turned-boxer does Margot Robbie play in I, Tonya?
Tonya Harding
23. Among many achievements, Forrest Gump is an international champion in which Olympic sport?
Ping-pong, or table tennis
24. Who connects the basketball movies White Men Can’t Jump, Semi-Pro, and Champions?
Woody Harrelson
25. Starring Gerard Butler, the 2012 movie Chasing Mavericks revolves around which sport, later introduced as an Olympic event in 2021?
Surfing
26. Which of these 2000s sports movies is set in the world of competitive gymnastics: Stick It or Whip It?
Stick It (2009’s Whip It is about roller derby)
27. Which sport features prominently in the 1953 British drama The Final Test?
Cricket
28. Which UFC star-turned-actor connects the Expendables, Fast & Furious, and Charlie’s Angels franchises?
Ronda Rousey
29. Which 2007 London Marathon comedy was directed by Friends star David Schwimmer?
Run Fat Boy Run
30. And finally, Cool Runnings is about a national bobsleigh team from which country?
Jamaica
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