ROUND 9: Sports - Australia

To coincide with the Australian Open tennis championships, this round 
consists of questions about Australian athletes and sports.


1. Together they are called the two Pats.  Each of these Aussie tennis stars is a 
   Grand Slam singles champion; one at Wimbledon in 1987, the other at the 
   US Open in 1997 and 1998.  Give the last name of either of these players named Patrick.

A. Cash or Rafter


2. Name this part-Aboriginal tennis star who in 1971, at age 19, won the first 
   of her two women’s singles titles at Wimbledon, becoming the first 
   Indigenous Australian champion.

A. Evonne Goolagong Cawley (QM: accept Goolagong, Cawley, or Goolagong Cawley)


3. She opened the Sydney Olympic Games by lighting the cauldron atop 
   Olympic Stadium.  Name this runner who became the first Aborigine 
   to earn an individual Olympic gold medal by winning the 400-metre 
   women’s race in Sydney.

A. Cathy Freeman


4. Melbourne hosted the first Olympic games held in the Southern Hemisphere. 
   Name the year in which the Melbourne Olympics took place.

A. 1956


5. Australia won its first Winter Olympic medal, a bronze, at Lillehammer in 1994.  
   The medal was in which sport?

A. Short-track speed skating (QM: accept speed skating OR relay speed skating 
   OR men’s short-track relay speed skating. *Do NOT accept LONG-track speed skating*)


6. A member of the short-track relay team that won the bronze medal in Lillehammer 
   became Australia's first Winter Olympics gold medallist in Salt Lake City.  
   Four other skaters crashed in the final of the 1000-metre race to grant him the victory.

A. Steven Bradbury


7. In which year did skipper John Bertrand's yacht Australia II beat Dennis 
   Conners' Liberty to capture the America's Cup, which had been held by the 
   US for its first 132 years?

A. 1983


8. This trophy contains the burnt remains of either a cricket ball or 
   cricket bail inside a small urn, and is symbolic of the cricket 
   rivalry between Australia and England. By which name is this trophy known?

A. The Ashes


9. In Australian Rules Football, a goal, worth six points, is scored 
   when the ball is kicked completely over the goal line by an attacker, 
   without being touched by another player.  Name the other possible 
   scoring play, which is worth a single point.

A. A "behind"


10. The Canadian Australian Football Association, CAFA, was established 
    in 1989.  That year, the Toronto Panthers became the first winners 
    of the CAFA championship cup, named for an outstanding Canadian athlete.  
    Name the athlete.

A. Lionel "Big Train" Conacher (QM: accept Conacher)