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1 What were the odds at the beginning of the 2015/16 season that Leicester City FC would win the Premier League?
A 5,000 to 1 (for perspective, the chances of Kim Kardashian becoming US president was rated at 2,000 to 1)
2 What is the national sport of New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa and Wales?
A Rugby Union – the Cook Islands can make a similar claim
3 In which country did the International Olympic Committee announce London as host of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games?
A Singapore (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad)
4 Who captained the England rugby union team 59 times between 1988 and 1996?
A Will Carling
5 In cricket, how many balls are there in an over?
A Six – This is a standard convention in the sport, and it applies to most formats of the game, including Test matches, One-Day Internationals (ODIs), and Twenty20 (T20) matches.
6 What is the only sport where you play on one surface but stand on another?
A Table tennis – and now Teqball, a football-based sport, played on a specially-curved table
7 Which golf trophy is contested biennially between teams of leading amateur golfers from the US, and Britain and Ireland?
A Walker Cup (named in honour of George Herbert Walker, grandfather and namesake of George H. W. Bush)
8 Which Premiership Rugby Union club play home games at Sandy Park?
A Exeter Chiefs (officially Exeter Rugby Club)
9 Inspirational muscleman Angelo Siciliano changed his name to what when he went into business in 1922?
A Charles Atlas (known for his body-building dynamic tension techniques)
10 What video game developer created the action-adventure Grand Theft Auto series of games?
A Rockstar Games (Rockstar North (formerly DMA Design)) – the name of the series is a term for motor vehicle theft in the United States