Put your knowledge to the test in our quiz of the year
by Liverpool Daily Echo
2) In which events did Scottish cyclist Chris Hoy win his three golds at the Laoshan Velodrome?
3) Rebecca Adlington won Britain's first swimming gold since 1960 over which distance in the 'WaterCube'?
4) How many medals in total did Team GB win - 50, 47 or 45?
5) Name the men's coxless fours who claimed rowing gold in Shunyi Park.
6)Which Jamaican sprinter rewrote the record books when he took gold in both the 200 and 100 metres?
7)Why were host nation China left disappointed in the 110 metre hurdles event?
8) In which class did ace sailor Ben Ainslie claim his third Olympic gold?
9) Christine Ohuruogu won British athletics' only gold in Beijing over which distance?
10) Name the middleweight boxer who claimed Team GB's final gold of the games on Day 15.
11) Tim Brabants, a qualified doctor, took gold in which flat water event?
12)Which Olympic event was held in Hong Kong?
13)Who beat Britain's Phillips Idowu to the triple jump title, giving Portugal their first gold medal in an Olympic field event?
14) Name the British women track cyclists who struck Olympic gold this summer.
15) Sailors Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and PippaWilson claimed gold in which event for Team GB?
16) Name the rowers who took the men's lightweight double sculls crown in Beijing.
17) In which events did cyclist BradleyWiggins win his two golds?
18) Name the Brit who won Olympic gold in the Laser class.
19)Which two cyclists helped Chris Hoy win the team sprint?
20) Over which distance did Rebecca Adlington claim a second gold of the Games?
21) Name the members of the victorious Team GB cycling men's team pursuit quartet.
22)Which Olympic medal did Team GB's men's eight rowers win?
23)Who claimed the silver medal in a Britain one-two behind Chris Hoy in the men's sprint?
24)Which Jamaica-born British athlete took a surprise silver in the men's high jump?
25) Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson took gold for Team GB in which sailing event?
26) Keri-Anne Payne and David Davies finished second in which respective swimming events?
27) Daisy Dick, William Fox-Pitt, Tina Cook, Sharon Hunt & Mary King took bronze in which equestrian discipline?
28) Louis Smith finished third in which gymnastics event?
29)Who claimed silver in the women's modern pentathlon for Team GB?
30) Natasha Danvers won bronze in which athletics event?
31)Which British taekwondo fighter went on to claim bronze after eventually being awarded a winning score in her quarter-final bout, which had originally been missed by the judges?
32) In the Paralympic Games, where did Team GB finish in the final medals table - third, second or fourth?
33) In which sport did 14-year-old Ellie Simmonds claim double Paralympic gold?
34) Paralympian DavidWeir claimed which track double?
35)Who collected the Olympic flag at the closing ceremony on behalf of 2012 hosts London?
SOCCER
36) Name the four English divisional champions in 2008.
37)Which clubs finished bottom of their respective leagues?
38)Which teams won promotion through the play-offs?
39) Name the three beaten play-off finalists.
40)Which club finished bottom of the Scottish Third Division in May 2008?
41) Name the four champions of Scotland in 2008.
42)Who finished as the leading English marksman in the Premier League at the end of the 2007-08 season, way behind 42-goal man Cristiano Ronaldo?
43) Name the beaten semi-finalists in the 2008 FA Cup.
44)Which club won the 2008 Eircom Irish Premier League title?
45)Which two teams contested this year's UEFA Cup final?
46) Name the Birmingham player Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger claimed should be "banned for life" in the aftermath of his tackle on Eduardo, which broke the striker's leg and ended his season.
47)Who won the 2008 Football League Johnstone's Paint Trophy final atWembley?
48) Name the winner of the 2008 PFA Players' Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year.
49)Which team were crowned the 2008 Nationwide Conference champions?
50) Llanelli lost against which team during extra-time in the final of the 2008Welsh Cup at Latham Park, Newtown?
51)Where was the 2008 Champions League final between Manchester United and Chelsea played?
52)Who was the first manager to lose his job during September 2008?
53)Who was the first Premier League manager to leave his post this season?
54)Which Arsenal player scored a hat-trick in England'sWorld Cup qualifying 4-1 win over Croatia in Zagreb during September?
55)Whom did John Toshack's young Wales side beat 1-0 away with a goal fromWest Ham striker Craig Bellamy in a friendly during November?
EURO 2008 56)Who scored the opening goal of Euro 2008, when the Czech Republic beat joint-hosts Switzerland in Basel?
57) Name the player who finished top scorer in the competition.
58)Where was the final played between Spain and Germany?
59)Which Premier League player netted the winning goal for the Spaniards?
60) Name the striker who scored a dramatic late double as 10-man Turkey came from behind to beat the Czech Republic 3-2 in Geneva and progress to the quarter-finals.
RUGBY UNION
61) ShaneWilliams became Wales' record Test match try-scorer in 2008.Whose record did he break?
62) How many tries did the New Zealand All Blacks concede during their November victories over Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England - one, two or none?
63)Where in the Far East did Australia and New Zealand stage a Bledisloe Cup match during November?
64)Which team claimed the Grand Slam with five straight wins in the 2008 RBS 6 Nations Championship?
65) Name the winners of the 2008 Heineken Cup.
RUGBY LEAGUE
66) Name the 2008 Man of Steel.
67)Who won the Harry Sunderland Trophy as the man of the match in the Super League Grand Final?
68)Who takes over from Daniel Anderson as St Helens coach for the 2009 season?
69)Which Australian was named player of the tournament despite a horrendous error in the World Cup final that allowed eventual winners New Zealand to score a crucial try?
70) Name the other two semi-finalists in the 2008 Rugby LeagueWorld Cup.
CRICKET
71) Name the venue for the rearranged second Test between India and England following the terror attacks in Mumbai.
72)Who captained Durham to their first County Championship title this year?
73)Which New Zealand batsman had two teeth knocked out by a James Anderson bouncer in the Old Trafford Test?
74) Name the Australian off-spinner who took 12 wickets on his Test debut at Nagpur during November.
75)Who scored a half-century for winners Rajasthan Royals in the inaugural Indian Premier League final?
GOLF
76) Name the winners of the four Majors in 2008.
77)What record did Lee Westwood equal on the opening day of the Ryder Cup at Valhalla?
78)What made OliverWilson unique when he made his Ryder Cup debut?
79) Name the golfer who became the first non-British or Irish winner of the European Order of Merit this year since 2004.
80)Why did a Tennis legend have a special interest in at The Open at Royal Birkdale?
81)Who beat Britain's Andy Murray in the final of his first Grand Slam at the US Open in New York.
82) How many ATP titles did Murray win this year - two, three or five?
83)Which other Grand Slam did Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal also win?
84)Which two countries contested the final of the 2008 Davis Cup ?
85) Name the winner of the season-ending WTA Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha.
FORMULA ONE
86) How many races did Britain's Lewis Hamilton win on his way to claiming the 2008World Drivers Championship - four, five or six?
87)Which driver scored his maiden grand prix win in Canada this year?
88)Which driver won F1's inaugural night race in Singapore?
89) Name the Ferrari driver who clocked up the most fastest laps over the season, 10 in total.
90) Scotland racer David Coulthard retired from the sport at the end of 2008 having amassed how many F1 wins - 10, 13 or 15?
GENERAL
91)Which horse won the Epsom Derby in June?
92) Name the Colombian boxer who stunned Britain's Amir Khan with a 51-second knockout in their fight in September?
93)Which rider won the 2008 British Superbike title?
94) Name the 2008 NBA champions, who beat Los Angeles Lakers to claim their first title since 1986.
95)Which teams played a regular season NFL game at Wembley during October?
96) The 2008 BDO Embassy World Darts Championship, held at Lakeside, Frimley Green, was won by whichWelshman?
97) Carl Froch won the WBC super-middleweight title to join which other fighter as Britain's only two official world champions?
98) Name the two players to score 147 breaks at this year's World Snooker Championship in Sheffield.
99)Who claimed the 2008 Ladbrokes PDCWorld Darts Championship during January?
100) Name the 7-1 joint-favourite which won the Grand National at Aintree?
OLYMPICS: 1) Nicole Cooke, 2) Team Sprint, Keirin & Individual Sprint, 3) 400 metres freestyle, 4) 47, 5) Tom James, Steve Williams, Pete Reed & Andrew Triggs Hodge, 6) Usain Bolt, 7) Favourite Liu Xiang had to withdraw because of injury, 8) Finn, 9) 400m, 10) James Degale, 11) Canoeing, K1 1,000m, 12) Equestrian, 13) Nelson Evora, 14) Rebecca Romero (individual pursuit) & Victoria Pendleton (sprint), 15) Yngling, 16) Zac Purchase & Mark Hunter, 17) Individual & team pursuit, 18) Paul Goodison, 19) Jamie Staff & Jason Kenny, 20) 800m freestyle, 21) Paul Manning, Bradley Wiggins, Ed Clancy & Geraint Thomas, 22) Silver. 23) Jason Kenny, 24) Germaine Mason, 25) Star, 26) Open Water Swimming, 27) Team Eventing, 28) Pommel horse, 29) Heather Fell, 30) 400m hurdles, 31) Sarah Stevenson, 32) Second, 33) Swimming, 100m & 400m freestyle (S6), 34) 800m & 1500m (T54), 35) London Mayor Boris Johnson. SOCCER: 36) Manchester United, West Brom, Swansea & Milton Keynes Dons, 37) Derby, Colchester, Luton & Wrexham, 38) Hull, Doncaster & Stockport, 39) Bristol City, Leeds & Rochdale, 40) Forfar, 41) Celtic, Hamilton, Ross County, East Fife, 42) Liverpool's Steven Gerrard, with 21 in total, 43) Barnsley & West Brom, 44) Bohemians, 45) Rangers & Zenit St Petersburg, 46) Martin Taylor, 47) Milton Keynes Dons, 48) Cristiano Ronaldo (PFA Players' Player of the Year) & Cesc Fabregas (Young Player of Year), 49) Aldershot, 50) Bangor City, 51) Moscow, 52) Kevin Bond, at Bournemouth, 53) Alan Curbishley, at West Ham, 54) Theo Walcott, 55) Denmark, EURO 2008, 56) Vaclav Sverkos, 57) David Villa, of Spain, 58) Ernst Happel Stadion, Vienna, 59) Fernando Torres, 60) Nihat Kahveci, their captain. RUGBY UNION: 61) Gareth Thomas, 62) None, 63) Hong Kong, 64) Wales, 65) Munster.
RUGBY LEAGUE: 66) James Graham (St Helens), 67) Lee Smith (Leeds), 68) Mick Potter, 69) Billy Slater, 70) England & Fiji. CRICKET: 71) Mohali, 72) Dale Benkenstein, 73) Daniel Flynn, 74) Jason Krejza, 75) Yusuf Pathan. GOLF: 76) Padraig Harrington (Open & USPGA), Trevor Immelman (Masters), Tiger Woods ( US Open ), 77) 12 consecutive games unbeaten, previously achieved only by Arnold Palmer, 78) He was the first player to represent Europe without winning a tournament in his professional career, 79) Robert Karlsson of Sweden, 80) Chris Evert had married Greg Norman less than a month earlier.
Norman finished third. Tennis: 81) Roger Federer, 82) Five (Doha, Marseille, Cincinnati, Madrid & St Petersburg), 83) French Open , 84) Spain & Argentina, 85) Venus Williams. FORMULA ONE: 86) Five (Australia, Monaco, Britain, Germany & China), 87) Robert Kubica, 88) Fernando Alonso, 89) Kimi Raikkonen, 90) 13. GENERAL: 91) New Approach, 92) Breidis Prescott, 93) Shane Byrne, 94) Boston Celtics, 95) New Orleans Saints & San Diego Chargers, 96) Mark Webster, 97) Nicky Cook, WBO super-featherweight champion, 98) Ronnie O'Sullivan & Ali Carter, 99) John Part, 100) Comply or Die.
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