Sport Quiz: 18 Questions on the Olympics and Beyond

Once you move past football, sport questions spread wide: an Olympic host city, a tennis surface, a boxing weight class. That breadth is what makes the category useful in a quiz — almost everyone knows something, and nobody knows all of it.

Easy sport questions

1. How often are the summer Olympic Games held? — Every four years
2. How many players are in a basketball team on court? — Five
3. In which sport would you use a shuttlecock? — Badminton
4. What colour are the Olympic rings on a white background? — Blue, yellow, black, green and red
5. How many holes are in a full round of golf? — Eighteen
6. In which sport is the Tour de France contested? — Cycling

Medium sport questions

1. Which country has hosted the summer Olympics most often? — The United States
2. On which surface is Wimbledon played? — Grass
3. How long is a marathon? — 42.195 kilometres
4. In which sport is the Ryder Cup contested? — Golf
5. Which athlete holds the 100m world record? — Usain Bolt
6. How many rings are on the Olympic flag? — Five

Hard sport questions

1. Which city hosted the first modern Olympics in 1896? — Athens
2. What is the maximum break in snooker? — 147
3. Which country invented the sport of judo? — Japan
4. In Formula One, what flag signals the end of a race? — The chequered flag
5. How many weight divisions are in professional boxing, broadly? — Seventeen
6. Which nation won the first Rugby World Cup in 1987? — New Zealand

Olympic host cities are worth learning as a list — they come up in nearly every general knowledge round, not just sport ones.