New Year's quiz: Sport in 2008

Challenge your friends or test yourself to see how much you can remember about a vintage year for British sport...

Football :

1) Who scored Hull's goal in the play-off final to send them into the Premier League?

2) How many points did Derby end the Premier League season with?

3) Which teams reached the FA Cup semi finals?

4) How many goals did Cristiano Ronaldo score for Manchester United last season?

5) Which players failed to score their penalties in the Champions League final shootout?

6) Who was the most expensive Premier League signing of the year?

7) How many Premier League managers have parted company with their club this year? Can you name them?

8) What colour is Stephen Ireland's Land Rover?

9) Name the champions of all four English divisions and the SPL.

10) Who won the Euro 2008 golden boot?

11) Which team won the Uefa Cup?

12) How many times did Joe Kinnear swear in his five minute rant at the Daily Mirror?

13) Who refused to shake Diego Maradona's hand?

14) Who scored in the Carling Cup final?

15) Which of the following has not been called up to an England squad: Michael Mancienne, David Wheater, Joe Hart, Robert Green or Jimmy Bullard?

Other sport:

16) Who was appointed England cricket captain?

17) Who is England's leading wicket taker in 2008? And run scorer?

18) Which World Cup-winning Wasps star retired from rugby this year?

19) Which British Lions player was named IRB player of the year?

20) Who was runner up to Lewis Hamilton in the F1 World Championship?

21) After Nick Faldo's Ryder Cup team pairings were photographed what excuse did he give?

22) Which European(s) won golfing Majors this year?

23) What was Ricky Hatton wearing when he entered the ring to fight Paulo Malignaggi in December this year? How about for the Jose Luis Castillo fight?

24) Name the horse and rider who won the Grand National.

25) What was the score in the final set of the Wimbledon men's final?

Olympics

26) Who won Great Britain's first gold medal?

27) Who won Great Britain's last gold medal?

28) Which sport did London mayor Boris Johnson claim the English had invented after the closing ceremony?

29) Who carried the Union flag at the opening ceremony? And the closing ceremony?

30) Which sport gave Britain the biggest medal haul?

31) Who won Britain's only athletics gold and in what event?

32) Rebecca Romero medalled in Athens and in Beijing in two different sports. What were they?

33) Why was Sarah Stevenson's medal controversial?

34) What position did Britain finish in the medal table? Who was above us?

35) Britain's medal haul was the team's best performance since which Games? And where was that Games held?

36-45) Name the sports which brought medal success for these 10 British stars?
Jason Kenny
Sarah Ayton
Andy Hodge
Germaine Mason
Heather Fell
Louis Smith
Tim Brabants
David Florence
Katherine Grainger
David Davies

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