The Giant Sports Scandals Picture Quiz - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Bit off part of his opponent's ear.	Mike Tyson	97%
American cyclist stripped off his 7 Tour de France wins because of doping.	Lance Armstrong	86%
Late Argentinian soccer great who scored a goal with his hand in the World Cup quarterfinal vs. England in 1986, later describing it as "the hand of God".	Diego Armando Maradona	84%
Super Bowl record winner involved in the deflategate affair.	Tom Brady	84%
French soccer great headbutting an opponent in the World Cup Final 2006.	Zinédine Zidane	74%
What is Uruguayan soccer player Luis Suarez infamous for?	Biting	72%
Successful sports nation from the 1960s throught the 1980s thanks to a huge state funded doping system.	East Germany	67%
Former Minister of Sport Vitaly Mutko has been identified by the World Anti Doping Agency as a key person in a wide-ranging doping scheme in this country.	Russia	65%
The Summer Olympics 2004 in this city are overshadowed by a doping affair involving sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou.	Athens	60%
Italian soccer club relegated for match-fixing	Juventus Turin	59%
American ice skater involved in an assault on her rival Nancy Kerrigan (first name, like in a 2017 biopic).	Tonya (Harding)	59%
Seven time formula 1 World Champion deliberately crashing into his rival Jacques Villeneuve in 1997 (but losing the title anyway).	Michael Schumacher	58%
Ten IOC members are suspended for accepting bribes in the 2002 Winter Olympics bid by this American city.	Salt Lake City	54%
Formula 1 team McLaren is stripped off all its points in the 2007 world championship and fined 100 million $ for spying on this rival.	Ferrari	53%
This Swiss FIFA president is banned from soccer for 12 years for dubious payments within a widespread corruption system ...	Joseph Blatter	53%
Russian tennis player banned for meldonium doping.	Maria Sharapova	53%
And in the 1990s he is banned for doping with this drug.	Cocaine	52%
French soccer player (then a striker for Manchester United, now actor), banned for 8 months and condemned to community service after a kung-fu style attack on a fan in 1995.	Eric Cantona	51%
New England Patriots head coach fined for spying on the New York Jets in 2007.	Bill Belichick	48%
Later to become a boxing legend and biting victim, this American is robbed of a probable gold medal at the 1984 Olympics by a highly controversial disqualification.	Evander Holyfield	48%
He hits a home run record but he most probably is a doper.	Barry Bonds	47%
... alongside with this French soccer great and Uefa president.	Michel Platini	46%
Infamous bench-clearing brawl between the national under-20 teams of Canada and this former country in the WC 1987 final. Officials tried in vain to stop it by turning off the lights.	Soviet Union	44%
Canadian sprinter found guilty of doping after his 1988 Olympic win in the 100 m race.	Ben Johnson	42%
Which country is “too small to make good doping”, according to its Ski federation president Schröcksnadel in the course of the 2006 Winter Olympics doping scandal?	Austria	41%
Late Bernard Tapie, controversial president of this soccer club in Southern France, is convicted for match-fixing in 1995. The club is relegated.	Olympique Marseille	41%
Corruption spreads within the IOC during the 21-year reign of president Juan Antonio Samaranch, citizen of this country.	Spain	40%
New York Yankees star suspended for 211 games (later reduced to 162 games) for doping.	Alex Rodriguez	38%
Former German World Cup winner and FIFA executive committee member who has “never seen a single slave” in Qatar.	Franz Beckenbauer	35%
What political system is best for big sports events because organizers don’t face protests by environmentalist, according to late Ski Federation President Gian Franco Kasper?	Dictatorship	33%
39 people die in 1985 when Liverpool soccer fans are causing a stampede by charging Juventus fans at Heysel stadium in this city.	Brussels	32%
Police and the yellow press blame the death of 96 Liverpool fans in a stampede in this Sheffield stadium on unappopriate fan behaviour when it was in reality caused by errors of organizers and security forces.	Hillsborough	32%
Nationality of Alex Zülle, one of the involved cyclists	Swiss	32%
In what sport did Wang Xiaoli and seven other players deliberately lose games at the 2012 Olympics in order to get a more favorable placement in the next round?	Badminton	30%
Swiss five-time grand slam winner banned for cocaine doping	Martina Hingis	30%
Sport of Alexandr Zubkov, who “won” the two-man and four-man race at the 2014 Olympics, but was later stripped off his two gold medals.	Bobsleigh	27%
Where did the US formula 1 Grand Prix of 2005 take place, with only 6 drivers competing due to a tyre scandal?	Indianapolis	27%
South African athlete banned from competing because the World Federation thinks her natural testosterone level does not make her a real woman.	Caster Semenya	25%
This American sprinter admits doping and is stripped off her 5 medals won at the 2000 Olympics.	Marion Jones	22%
The doping drug nandrolone is found in this hygiene product of German athlete Dieter Baumann.	Toothpaste	22%
Phrase coined by late IOC president Brundage after the deadly Munich attacks on Israeli athletes: “The games … “	must go on	17%
Sponsor of a cycling team in the center of a huge doping scandal in 1998	Festina	12%
This American cyclist "wins" the Tour de France 2006 thanks to an incredible solo but is convicted of doping shortly after.	Floyd Landis	12%
74 people die 2012 in massive fighting between fans of al-Masry and al-Ahly in this Egyptian city.	Port Said	12%
What is the fixing of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix by formula 1 manager Flavio Briatore often called?	Crashgate	11%
Spanish former cyclist involved in the “Fuentes” doping affair. A drug bag found at a razzia is labelled “Valv.Piti”, Piti being the name of his dog.	Alejandro Valverde	9%
Nickname of late Italian Tour de France winner Marco Pantani, disqualified at the Giro d’Italia in 1999 for alleged doping and dying in 2004 from a cocaine overdose.	Pirate / Little Elephant	9%
One of the first known doping fatalities, this British cyclist dies in 1967 in the Tour de France.	Tom Simpson	8%
Norwegian cross country skier banned for doping with anabol-androgenic steroid Clostebol.	Therese Johaug	7%
English translation of “Operation Aderlass”, a giant German-Austrian anti-doping investigation.	Operation Bloodletting	4%