Sport during the 20th Century

Who has been the most successful disabled athlete in the UK?

Which statement isn't true about discrimination in cricket between amateurs and professionals. 

Which sport was popular with both rich and poor communities?

What did the football pools allow people to do?

When did international cricket reach the height of its popularity during the twentieth century?

Which exMerthyr football player was signed by Arsenal for the record amount of £14,000 in 1938?

Which athlete was banned for 2 years in 1988 after taking steroids to boost their performance?

Approximately how many people paid to watch First Division football in Wales in early 1900?

Who won the Wimbledon singles in the years 1934-1936 and boosted the popularity of tennis?

What issue led to the split of Rugby Union and the setting up of Rugby League?

Football had ‘salary caps’ placed on players up until the early 1960s.

What year did Cardiff City win the FA Cup?

Which sport was largely played and supported by working people?

In the early twentieth century, who was the best-known football team in Wales?

Spectator sport grew in the early 20th century for many reasons; which reason is not correct?

Which cricket trophy do England and Australia play for?

Which of the following schools did not help to promote rugby in the nineteenth century?

What happened in the 1986 Mexico Olympic Games?

Which sport spread from English public schools anduniversities in the mid-nineteenth century?

Rugby League was popular as a working mans game in the industrial towns of the north of England

During which Olympic Games did Hitler show the world the ‘superiority’ of his Aryan Race?

In which decade did the BBC and ITV begin to broadcast Saturday afternoon sport programmes?

Where could ordinary men take on a professional boxer in afighting booth?

Which sport saw a surge in women playing in the 1920s?

What decade was described as a ‘golden age’ for Welsh football?

Which statement is untrue... Rugby League...

Which is incorrect regarding increased leisure time and sport?

Which statement is not accurate?... Sponsorship in sport...

Which sport payed players but had the distinction between amateur and professional players?

What year did Wales beat the All Blacks?

Which sport was regarded as the national sport of England in the early twentieth century?

Which Olympic event saw the killing of Israeli athletes by a Palestinian terrorist group?

What was the score in that game?

Opportunities for participation in sport in the late 20th century increased because... Choose 3