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The capital of the Chinese province of Shaanxi, which city was one of the four great ancient capitals of China, was the starting point of the ancient Silk Road and the home of the Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang, China?s first emperor?

XI?AN (accept CHANG?AN)

What insect family with nearly 13,000 classified species, with only Antarctica and a handful of remote islands thought to be outside their range, are estimated by the US National Academy of Sciences to make up somewhere between 15-20% of the total terrestrial biomass and over 25% in tropical areas?

ANTS
If it was actually a lake, Lake Maracaibo would be South America?s largest, nearly 60% larger than Lake Titicaca. However, it?s not a lake, it?s a bay connected to a gulf which shares its name with the country in which Maracaibo is located. Which gulf?

Gulf of VENEZUELA

The fifth largest in Colombia, with a walled city which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which city was home to Gabriel Garcia Marquez for a number of years and, although not directly named in the book, is the setting for the novel ?Love in the Time of Cholera?

CARTAGENA

Although he was actually 11th of the twelve people who have walked on the moon, what is the name of the last person, the commander of Apollo 17, to have set foot on the lunar surface since he was the last to re-enter the lunar module?

Eugene ?Gene? CERNAN

What word, coming from the Latin ?to raise? and reflecting the fact that the sun rises in the east, is given to the region of the Eastern Mediterranean which now comprises the countries Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine?

LEVANT
The earth has been in the Phanerozoic geologic eon for the last 500 million years or so. This eon is split into three eras by geologists, the Paleozoic, the Mesozoic and the what other era, which commenced about 65 million years ago and takes its name from the Greek "kainos", meaning new life?

CENOZOIC / CAINOZOIC / CAENOZOIC

There has been much talk about the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, but which country will host the 2018 FIFA World Cup?

RUSSIA

On which surface is the majority of the Grand Slam Tennis tournaments played on?

HARD COURT

Who is the current president of the IOC? He succeeded Jacques Rogge in September 2013 and won a gold medal for fencing at the 1976 Montreal games?

Thomas BACH
Which athlete headed up sportswear company SKINS? 2013 ?Pure sport?, anti-doping campaign, 25 years after his most famous positive drugs test?

Ben JOHNSON

The competition being held every two years since 1991, New Zealand's Nigel Richards is the current World Champion of which game? It is his third World title, two more than any other player, in an event that has been sponsored by both Mattel and Hasbro, the owners of the game in question.

SCRABBLE

The 2014 F1 season gets underway next weekend, but in which country will the first race be held?

AUSTRALIA

Which format of cricket is played in the Indian Premier League?

TWENTY20
UEFA?s newest member, Gibraltar, played their first competitive match in November 2013. The game was played in the Algarve, which is where they will play all their home qualification matches for UEFA 2016, and it finished in a very creditable 0-0 draw against which European country?

SLOVAKIA

Pesapallo is a bat-and-ball game similar to baseball. It was once played as a demonstration sport at an Olympic games that were held in the same country the sport was developed in. Which country?

FINLAND

Nicholas Kemboi and Felix Kibore are both Kenyan-born long distance runners. Both athletes now compete for which Middle Eastern country?

QATAR

Since the start of the UEFA Champions League in 1992, which team has played in more seasons of the Champions League than any other?

MANCHESTER UTD
The Superbowl is decided over one 60 minute game, but in the other big American sports, how many games must a team win to secure the Stanley Cup, the World Series and the Larry O?Brien Cup?

4 (best of 7)

Which country?s flag was raised 9 days after the opening ceremony of this year?s Winter Olympics in Sochi after the International Olympic committee lifted a suspension that had been in place since December 2012? Prior to the flag being raised the country?s three athletes had entered the games as International Olympic participants, competing under the Olympic flag.

INDIA

A Pine Tree stands in the middle of the 17th fairway at The Augusta National Golf Club, but due to recent icy weather, the tree has been damaged beyond repair and will be removed by course officials. The tree was named after which American president, who campaigned for it to be removed due to him hitting in to it so often during play?

EISENHOWER

A layback spin, a Biellmann spin and a death drop are all terms given to particular moves that can be performed in which sport?

FIGURE SKATING
Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli were two of eight players disqualified from which sport at the 2012 London Olympics?

BADMINTON

At present, Tom Watson has selected two Vice Captain?s for the Ryder Cup next September. Name either one.

Andy NORTH / Raymond FLOYD

Frenchman Sebastien Loeb has dominated the World Rally Championship, winning a record nine consecutive titles from 2004-2012, but which other Sebastien, also a Frenchman, is the current World Rally Champion after winning the 2013 championship?

Sebastien OGIER

The Big Blue, so named because blue is the main colour of both teams' playing kits, is a match in Australia's premier soccer competition, the A-League, and is contested between rival teams from which two cities?

SYDNEY / MELBOURNE

A brand-named version of this game shares its name with a Shakespearean tragedy. What game is played on an 8 x 8 uncheckered board, with 64 identical disks, light on one side, dark on the other, where the object of the game is to have the majority of disks turned to display your colour when the last playable empty square is filled? The individual and team World Championships have been dominated by Japan since 2005.

OTHELLO accept REVERSI

Gareth Bale is the world?s most expensive footballer, having moved from Tottenham Hotspur to Real Madrid for a fee of ?100m. Which Portuguese man is the most expensive soccer manager, after Chelsea paid Porto, via the manager in question, ?15m to activate his release clause and free him from his contract with Porto.

Andre VILLAS-BOAS

Winner of nine Olympic medals in the pool, the last coming in Sydney 2000, 4 years after a near fatal stabbing incident in Moscow, who is the only male swimmer in history to win four Olympic gold medals in individual freestyle events?

Alexander POPOV

Nicknamed ?The Crocodile? because of his tenacity on the court, which French tennis player won 7 Grand Slam singles titles in the 1920?s? In 1933 he founded a clothing company, that specialises in Polo Shirts, which bear the logo of his nickname.

Henri LACOSTE

Which sport is played on ice on an area the same size as a soccer field, with 11 players per team and consists of two halves of 45 minutes. It is a national sport in Russia, who retained their World Championship title in February this year.

BANDY

In table tennis, what is the minimum number of points required for a player to win one game?

11

Cesar Azpilicueta, Alejandro Pozuelo and Antonio Luna all play football in the English Premier League, but what country were they all born in? There is a good chance that some of them may play in this summer?s World Cup in Brazil.

SPAIN

Which athletics event has the longest-standing world record in men?s track and field? It was set in June 1986 by a then East German athlete, Jurgen Schult.

DISCUS

Similar to lawn bowls, which sport sees competitors assigned to one of four sport classes, BC1, BC2, BC3 or BC4, depending on their functional ability? It has been ever-present in the Paralympics since 1984 and is one of only three Paralympic sports that have no counterpart in the Olympic program.

BOCCIA

Dublin hosted its only major European Club Football final in 2011 when two Portuguese teams contested the Uefa Cup Final at the newly revamped Lansdowne Road. FC Porto won 1-0, but which team did they beat?

SC BRAGA

Prior to Stanislaw Warinka winning this years Australian Open, who was the last man to win a Grand Slam other than the so called Big-Four: Djokovic, Nadal, Federer & Murray?

Juan Martin DEL POTRO

A two time winner of the Indianapolis 500, which English driver was killed as a result of injuries sustained in a crash at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in October 2011?

Dan WHELDON

Who was the captain of the first Rugby Union World Cup winning side? He was made captain of the 1986 ?Baby Blacks? when most regular All Blacks were banned from playing due to their participation in a rebel tour of South Africa. When the rebel players returned his place in the squad was in danger, but he was made captain of the team for the World Cup when original captain Andy Dalton had to withdraw due to an injury.

DAVID KIRK

In October 2009, FIFA announced the introduction of an award that is given to the player, male or female, judged to have scored the most aesthetically significant and "most beautiful" goal of the year. After which player is the award named?

Ferenc PUSKAS

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