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Quiz: How much do you know about sports movies?

Let’s test out your knowledge here.
4.38pm, 26 Jun 2020
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Which of these NBA stars did NOT feature in the famous Space Jam film?
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Larry Bird
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Charles Barkley

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Shawn Bradley
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Scottie Pippen
What is the name of the High School at the centre of the American Football movie Remember The Titans?
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T.C. Williams High School
William McKinley High School

North Shore High School
Permian High School
Robert De Niro plays which iconic boxer in Raging Bull?
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Jack Dempsey
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James Braddock

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Jake LaMotta
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Rocky Marciano
Complete the lyrics of this song from Cool Runnings - 'The fastest of the fastest of Jamaican sprinters. Go to Olympics...'
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Hon Jamaica!
Fight for Jamaica

Ja-making me crazy
Win for Jamaica
The Battle of the Sexes is about which female tennis legend?
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Billie Jean King
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Martina Navratilova

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Martina Hingis
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Monica Seles
Brad Pitt stars in the baseball movie Moneyball. What is the name of his character?
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Peter Brand
Gary Fudson

Coach Parker
Billy Beane
Mark Whalberg and which other actor depict the lives of boxing half-brothers Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund in The Fighter?
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Matthew McConaughey
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Christian Bale

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Matt Damon
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Tom Hardy
Mean Machine ends with a game where the cons defeat the guards. Who scores the winning goal?
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Monk
Danny Meehan

Billy The Limpet
Trojan
The 1981 epic Chariots of Fire focuses on two athletes competing at which Olympic Games?
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1908 - London
1920 - Antwerp

1924 - Paris
1936 - Berlin
True or false: Actor John Gregson participated in the 1957 All-Ireland hurling final as part of his role in the film Rooney?
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True
False
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Top of the pile, you really were paying attention when you were watching the movies.
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Silver
Not too bad at all. If you'd paid a little more attention to the movies you could have won the gold.
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Bronze
The questions just didn't suit you this time. Maybe try against next time.
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Wooden Spoon
Well now. There's not much we can say about that. Do you even like sports movies?
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