Sports in English speaking countries

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Q.1
Many of the world's famous sports began in Britain, including cricket, football, lawn tennis, golf and rugby

Q.2
Britain's national sport is ...

Q.3
The most popular sport in the UK is ...

Q.4
Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool are ...

Q.5
In England cricket is played on village greens and in towns/cities on Sundays from April to August.

Q.6
Cricket teams are made up of 12 players each.

Q.7
To play cricket you need a horse, a ball slightly smaller than a baseball and a bat shaped like a paddle.

Q.8
The first set of laws of the game of football date from the formation of The Football Association in England in 1863.

Q.9
Rugby originated from Rugby school in ...

Q.10
Rugby is similar to football, but played with an oval ball. Players can carry the ball and tackle each other.

Q.11
American Football derived from English game of Rugby also Baseball derived from the old English game of Rounders.

Q.12
The world's most famous ... tournament is Wimbledon.

Q.13
It is traditional for visitors to eat ... whilst they watch the tennis.

Q.14
Netball is the largest ... team sport in England.

Q.15
Scotland is traditionally regarded as the home of ....

Q.16
Horse racing is sometimes called the sport of Kings.

Q.17
Ascot, a small town in the south of England, becomes the centre of ... world for one week in June.

Q.18
The most important ... club in Scotland is in the seaside town of St. Andrews, near Dundee.

Q.19
Queen Elizabeth II always goes to Ascot. She has a lot of racehorses and likes watching racing.

Q.20
Polo was brought to Britain from ... in the 19th century by army officers.

Q.21
Polo is the fastest ball sport in the world.

Q.22
Polo is played with five men on horses to a team.

Q.23
Table tennis was invented in ... in 1880.

Q.24
... began with Cambridge University students using cigar boxes and champagne corks.

Q.25
British players are very successful in international table tennis championships.

Q.26
Badminton takes its name from the Duke of Beaufort’s country home, Badminton House, where the sport was first played in the 19th century.

Q.27
Students of .... take part in the University Boat Race which is held every spring in either late March or early April.

Q.28
The University Boat Race is held on the ... River.

Q.29
Angling is another word for boxing.

Q.30
Angling is one of the most popular sports in the UK.

Q.31
The aim of the game of bowls is to get your bowls as close as possible to a small white ball called ....

Q.32
Darts is a very popular ... game.

Q.33
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the leading men's professional basketball league in ...

Q.34
American football is the most popular spectator sport in the United States.

Q.35
... considered to be the national sport of the USA.

Q.36
The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL) ....

Q.37
The day on which the Super Bowl is played, now considered by some an unofficial American national holiday, is called "Super Bowl Sunday".

Q.38
Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and Larry Bird are regarded as the best ... .