England's Rugby World Cup debacle, Andy Murray crashing out at Wimbledon ? for some, 2011 was a year they'd rather forget. But how much did you remember? Test your knowledge in our quiz
1 Which of these football teams went through 2011 unbeaten in all competitions?
a) World and European champions Spain
b) World club champions Barcelona
c) World Cup finalists Holland
d) Fabio Capello's widely derided England
2 Whose brilliant undercover detective work led to prison sentences for three Pakistani Test cricketers, the only international spot-fixing conviction ever successfully brought anywhere?
a) The Metropolitan Police
b) Interpol
c) Disgraced tabloid News of the World
d) The International Cricket Council's full-time in-house anti-corruption unit
3 How did Fifa president Sepp Blatter suggest cases of on-field racism be dealt with in football?
a) A red card and a heavy fine
b) Ban from playing and enrolment in a series of educational seminars
c) Immediate strike action by injured party in grand tradition of passive resistance to bigotry
d) Quick handshake afterwards and say no more about it
4 For which indiscretion were members of Martin Johnson's England squad heavily censured at the Rugby Union World Cup?
a) Making inappropriate comments to a hotel maid
b) Bungee jumping off a 134-metre cliff between matches
c) Leaping into Auckland harbour from a passenger ferry
d) Reported heavy drinking among senior players
e) Reported heavy drinking among junior players
f) Wild antics at a dwarf-tossing night at the Altitude Bar in Queenstown
g) Breaking sponsor's rules with branded mouthguards
h) Coaches illegally switching the type of ball being used during matches
i) A senior player saying "there goes �35,000" after the team was eliminated by France
j) All of the above
5 England finished the year as Ashes winners, and No 1-ranked Test Match and Twenty20 cricket teams. But how many players did they field this year who were born outside the UK?
a) 10
b) 0
c) 3
d) 4
6 "I'm absolutely delighted with the result." What was Wayne Rooney talking about?
a) England's successful qualification for Euro 2012
b) Manchester United reaching their third Champions League final in three years
c) United's 19th League title in June, a new English record overtaking Liverpool's previous best
d) His �30,000 hair transplant at a Harley Street clinic
7 The NBA "lockout", which delayed the start of the basketball season until Christmas and was the most expensive sporting strike of all time, was the result of:
a) A protest about bad behaviour on court
b) A protest about unethical manufacture of branded sports shoes
c) Players' insistence on having their own individual set of keys cut to every NBA arena
d) A complex dispute over salary caps and the exact percentage of revenue paid to players amounting to billions of dollars over the next decade.
8 Basil D'Oliveira died this year as did Joe Frazier (boxing), Gary Speed, Socrates and Jimmy Adamson (football), Peter Roebuck (cricket) and Marco Simoncelli (Moto GP). How did D'Oliveira, a non-white South African-born cricketer, contribute unwittingly to the eventual end of apartheid?
a) By making a protest record with the Specials
b) By taking part in a rebel tour in the 1980s
c) By his inclusion, aged 40, in England's tour of his homeland, which was then cancelled by order of the South African prime minster
d) Refusing to bank with Barclays because it operated in South Africa
9 What excuse did David Haye give for a hugely disappointing performance in his world heavyweight title unification bout against Wladimir Klitschko?
a) A damaged fingernail
b) The wrong walk-out music played on his way to the ring
c) His pet chihuahuas Oscar and Millie had been taken unwell
d) He had a broken little toe
10 Which sporting event broke the world record this year for most Twitter tweets per second (an amazing 7,196)?
a) Dale Benkenstein's hundred for Durham on the opening day of the county championship in April
b) Manchester United's defeat by Barcelona in the Champions League final in June
c) The final of the Fifa women's world cup between Japan and the United States in July
d) Serena Williams' defeat by Sam Stosur in the final of the US Open in September
11 How many competitive marathons has Britain's No 1 male marathon runner of 2011 and chief Olympic hope Scott Overall run ? and what is his day job?
a) 15 marathons ? he's a professional athlete
b) 25 marathons ? he's a PE teacher
c) Five marathons ? he's a soldier
d) One marathon ? he works in a sports shop in Clapham Junction
12 What do Rory McIlroy, Sebastian Vettel, Lionel Messi and Barney Gibson have in common?
a) They all finished the year No 1 in their respective disciplines
b) They have all dated Caroline Wozniaki
c) They all speak at least four languages
d) They all broke records for extreme youthfulness this year
Want to know how you did? Then check the answers here.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2011/dec/25/quiz-of-the-year-sport
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