Aussies Mixed Quiz

1.Australia first sent competitors to the Winter Olympics way back in 1936, but it was not until 2002 that they won their first gold medal. Who won that medal?

2. In the 2002 Soccer World Cup qualifying matches, who did Australia beat by a mammoth 31 to zero?

3. Which father and son jockeys both rode the Melbourne Cup winners twice each?

4. Which long-serving basketball coach retired in 2005, after coaching the Melbourne Tigers for 35 years?

5. Which Australian golfer won the Arnold Palmer Trophy for the leading money-winner on the US Tour three times, in 1986, 1990 and 1995?

6. Which of the cricketing Chappell brothers is the oldest?

7. In 1979, the fifth Netball World Championship was held in Trinidad and Tobago. Because of the way the tournament was set up, there were no provisions to split a dead-heat, and three teams finished with eight of nine wins. One of these teams was Australia, but who were the other two?

8. The Gold Coast were a short-lived Rugby League team that only existed from 1988 to 1998, but during that time they were known by three nicknames. What were these names?

9. Because the majority of the Australian population lives within about 300 kms of an ocean, surf sports are a part of life here. Who won a record six Australian Open Ironman titles between 1987 and 1994?

10. Roger Bannister was the first person to run a sub-four-minute mile, in 1954, but an Australian was the second person to break the barrier. Who was he?

ANSWER

1.Steven Bradbury.
2.American Samoa.
3. Billy and Peter Cook.
4.Lindsay Gaze.
5.Greg Norman.
6.Ian.
7. New Zealand and Trinidad and Tobago.
8.Giants, Seagulls, Chargers.
9.Trevor Hendy..
10.John Landy.