By Sherry
July 7th 2009 @ 1:25am
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This edition of Sports Trivia is in question form. There’s only one rule: you’re not allowed to Google, Wiki or consult any other encylopedic reference.
It is permitted to ask friends, relations, loved ones etc. Answers will be supplied on Thursday in this space.
So give it a go and see how you do.
(1) All-Black Jeff Wilson (44 tries in 60 tests) also repped NZ in ODI cricket against Oz and a World XI. However, another Kiwi has perhaps a better claim to being NZ’s multi-sport champ. He was a fine first-class cricketer although not a rugby star. Who was he, what was his other sport, and what did he accomplish?
(2) The time posted by a Kiwi who won Olympic gold would have been good enough to take the silver in the same event at the Olympics held 36 years later. Who is he?
(3) When Usain Bolt won the sprint double in Beijing, and also got a gold as a member of the 400 relay, he was only the fourth man in Olympic history to pull off the trick. Who are the other three?
(4) Two retired track stars, one a Kiwi the other an American, have between them run over 236 sub four-minutes miles. Who are they?
(5) There are two players in major rugby who, according to their legal track times, are within centimeters of one another. One of them is Tonderai Chavangha, the other is an Aussie. There are a couple of faster guys playing college rugby in the US, but none of them play on the international scene. Who is the Aussie, and which past or present international players have turned in the next three fastest times over 100 meters? And when it comes to the 40 meter distance, the top two are not in the top ten at 100 meters. Who are they?
As many folk on this forum are also movie fans, here’s a film question. And seeing as how some of the rugby refereeing has been a little macabre lately, the question is a bit goth.
(6) Which producer/director, famous for some great movies but infamous for his on-set temper, directed four female stars in four different pictures all of whom (no connection is intended) later killed themselves?
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Brett McKay said | July 7th 2009 @ 9:16am | Report comment
ah man, no Google, Wiki or any other encylopedic reference?!? Come on Sherry, you’re taking the sport out of it!!
Here’s a rule for you then, you’ll have to provide the answers today if they don’t emerge….
All I can offer is:
3) Marurice Green would have to one of the three, Sydney 2000, and
5) Is the Australian player Lachie Turner??
the all rounder said | July 7th 2009 @ 9:37am | Report comment
This is indeed a bit too left-field for me.
3) Carl Lewis?
Hammer said | July 7th 2009 @ 10:09am | Report comment
4) John Walker and Steve Scott
True Tah said | July 7th 2009 @ 10:17am | Report comment
2) Peter Snell
5) I dont know about the Aussie, but of the fastest three, I guess Nigel Walker (Wales), Bryan Habana (South Africa) might have been two of those.
Jameswm said | July 7th 2009 @ 1:21pm | Report comment
I have no idea who the Aussie is. Lachie Turner?
Q3 – Carl Lewis and Jesse Owens both got the 100, 200, LJ and 4×100 set at a single Olympics. The third I’d guess is Alan Wells from 1976 or the Russian bloke in 1980. Or were they the other way around? Brett I don’t think Maurice Greene won the 200.
Q4 – I was thinking John Walker too. Steve Scott must be the American I guess.
Q2 – I think True Tah has that one.
Q1 – wasn’t the guy who received the underarm delivery an ex-All Black? Can’t remember his name but I think he’s the one. Wait on – Briam McKenchnie or something?
Q5 is an odd one. There’s a guy called Brett Stapleton who’s an ex-national Junior 100 champion over 100, and has run about 10.5. He’s played maybe a small amount of S14 but no tests – nowhere near. Habana is super-charged over 40 but nowhere near as exceptional over 100.
sheek said | July 7th 2009 @ 2:01pm | Report comment
Okay, off the top only…..
1) For some very vague reason Brendon McCullum comes to mind… don’t know why?
2) I’m guessing Johhny Walker & his time in 800 metres, 1976?
3) Jesse Owens & Carl Lewis & one other?
4) Again Walker, with American Jim Ryan/Ryun?
5) No idea?
6) I’m guessing Alfred Hitchcock – although Grace Kelly & Natalie Wood died accidently. Tippy Hendren, can’t remember how she died… perhaps it was another director?
Sherry,
As a past host of trivia occasions, they must be entertaining, interesting, challenging & above all… fun!
Brain/ball-breakers must be kept to a minimum lest you send contestants into a murderous frustration!!
Now that I will be making a one-off comeback in September as a trivia host, I hope I can remember my own advice!!!
sheek said | July 7th 2009 @ 2:20pm | Report comment
Okay,
On question 3, I cheated because I desperately wanted the answer.
It was an American, & it was in Australia, so think about it???
DaniE said | July 7th 2009 @ 2:30pm | Report comment
3) Michael Johnson? Awesome athlete
4) Howard Hawks or John Huston? Definitely not Hitchcock, Eva Marie Sainte is still alive and his other famous leading lady, Ingrid Bergman, died of natural causes
Hammer said | July 7th 2009 @ 2:47pm | Report comment
The answer to Q1 can’t be either Brian McKechnie or McCullum because the question states he played only 1st class cricket and not rugby … McKechnie was a dual international (Cricket / rugby) and McCullum obviously plays international crciket and was also a promising age group rugby player …. by the question it’s got to be a pretty handy sportman and one who’s excelled on the global stage … at a real left field poke how about Ivan Mauger …
2) either Snell or Walker …but I don’t think Walkers Montreal 1500m was a partcularly quick time ..
3. Lewis and Owens … Marion Jones did similar in Sydney and with all those steriods in her she was pretty masculine
Michael C said | July 7th 2009 @ 3:27pm | Report comment
Based on Sheeks hint – it sparked a faint memory, 1956 Melbourne Olympics, some American fellow, I’m trying to remember the old Olympic snippets that we used to get on tele 25 odd years ago – usually during World Of Sport on a Sunday arvo…..I’m thinking Bob or Robert or something, but, I keep getting ruddy Beaman stuck in my head, and he was a legendary jumper a bit later. So, I might be way off. I also can’t forget Al Oerter (I think I spelled it right), he was so often featured on those too…..he was discus or something wasn’t he?
Michael Johnson never did the 100m’s.
sheek said | July 7th 2009 @ 5:46pm | Report comment
Michael C,
Close enough. Let’s lock Q3 in – Jesse Owens (1936), Bobby Morrow (1956), Carl Lewis (1984), Usain Bolt (2008).
sheek said | July 7th 2009 @ 6:15pm | Report comment
Okay, re Q3, which women achieved the same thing – 100m dash, 200m dash, 400m relay?
1948 – Fanny Blankers-Koen (HOL)
1956 – Betty Cuthbert (AUS)
1960 – Wilma Rudolph (USA)
1988 – Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA)
Marion Jones’ achievements in Sydney 2000 have been struck from the records, as should FG-J above.
Marjorie Jackson (AUS) should have joined this illustrious list in 1952. She won both the 100m & 200m, & the Aussies had a big lead at the last changeover of the relay, but the baton hit Jackson’s hand, & fell. By the time Jackson stopped, turned, picked up the baton, & resumed her run, it was all too late.
In 1972, the Russian Valeri Borzov shocked the Americans by taking out the mens 100-200m double. However, the Yanks gained a semblance of revenge by relegating Borzov & the Soviet team to silver in the relay.
Brett McKay said | July 8th 2009 @ 1:16pm | Report comment
come on Sherry, you’ve toyed with us for long enough now…
Jameswm said | July 8th 2009 @ 2:37pm | Report comment
On the Olympic topic – here’s another trivia question while we wait for official weight from sherry.
At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, what was significant about all the medal winners in the men’s long jump and the men’s pole vault?
sheek said | July 8th 2009 @ 4:02pm | Report comment
James,
All the pole vault medallists were ex-Soviet Union reps, while all the long jump medallists were American.
In other words, when leaping across the Bering Straight from the west, use a pole vault, & when leaping across from the east, have a speedy run-up!
Jameswm said | July 8th 2009 @ 4:26pm | Report comment
You got it Sheek…did you choogle? If not, I’m impressed.