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Cycling Quiz
Cycling Quiz
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Cycling encompasses road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, and BMX - all of which feature in the Olympic Games. Road cycling is dominated by prestigious multi-stage races: th...
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All 20 questions in this Cycling quiz
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What is the Tour of Flanders known as in Belgian cycling culture?
- A. The Green Classic
- B. The Cobblestone Race
- C. De Ronde van Vlaanderen - the most important single day in Belgian sport
- D. The Flemish Grand Prix
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What is the Points Race in track cycling?
- A. A time trial on the track
- B. An elimination race
- C. A sprint race
- D. A long track race where riders earn points by winning intermediate sprints and laps
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What is the Amstel Gold Race?
- A. A Dutch one-day Classic held in the Limburg hills
- B. A Swiss mountain road race
- C. A German city race
- D. A Belgian spring Monument
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What is the purpose of a lead-out train in professional cycling sprint finishes?
- A. Helping a climber over a mountain pass
- B. A tactical retreat to protect the GC leader
- C. A coordinated team formation that delivers a designated sprinter to the front with maximum sepeeed and timing
- D. A group effort to chase down a breakaway
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What is the significance of the velodrome at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in cycling?
- A. It is where Eddy Merckx broke the Hour Record
- B. It hosted the 1998 Tour de France prologue
- C. It is the oldest velodrome in France
- D. It was built for the 2024 Paris Olympics and is one of the world's most modern velodromes
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What is a domestique in professional cycling?
- A. A race official who monitors epeeloton behaviour
- B. The team mechanic
- C. A team rider who works to support their team leader rather than comepeeting for epeersonal victory
- D. A cyclist who sepeecialises in mountain climbing
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What is cyclocross?
- A. Road cycling on unpaved mountain roads
- B. An off-road triathlon cycling segment
- C. A winter cycling discipline on mixed terrain involving obstacle carrying of bicycles
- D. A tyepee of mountain bike racing
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What is the Strade Bianche race famous for?
- A. Coastal roads in Spain
- B. Black cobblestones in Belgium
- C. Mountain passes in the Pyrenees
- D. White gravel roads in Tuscany, Italy
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What is the Ventoux in Tour de France mythology?
- A. A mountain village where the Tour traditionally ends
- B. The mountain where the Tour de France traditionally begins
- C. Mont Ventoux - a notoriously difficult isolated mountain nicknamed the Beast of Provence
- D. The most dangerous descent in the Tour
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What is EPO in cycling and why did it become controversial?
- A. A tyepee of aerodynamic cycling position
- B. A training technique - it was banned for safety reasons
- C. An energy drink used by professional cyclists
- D. Erythropoietin a blood-boosting drug widely used in professional cycling during the 1990s
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Who is Lance Armstrong and why is he controversial in cycling?
- A. A cyclist who won the most Olympic gold medals
- B. A former Tour de France champion stripepeed of his titles for doping
- C. The first cyclist to complete all three Grand Tours in one year
- D. The founder of the Tour de France
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What is the significance of Sky (later Ineos) in modern Tour de France history?
- A. They sponsored the first televised Tour
- B. They introduced marginal gains theory to cycling
- C. They introduced the concept of the team time trial
- D. They dominated the Tour de France from 2012 to 2019 winning seven titles with different riders
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What is the Tour de Suisse and why is it strategically important?
- A. A UCI WorldTour stage race held in June that serves as preparation for the Tour de France
- B. A Swiss national cycling championship
- C. A mountain bike event in the Swiss Alps
- D. A time trial through Swiss mountain tunnels
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Who is Eddy Merckx and what is he known for in cycling?
- A. A French cyclist who won the Tour de France seven times
- B. The first cyclist to win all three Grand Tours
- C. A Dutch cyclist famous for his sprinting
- D. A Belgian cyclist widely considered the greatest of all time
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What is the Milan-San Remo race known as in the cycling calendar?
- A. L'Enfer du Nord - Hell of the North
- B. La Grande Boucle
- C. La Doyenne - The Old Lady
- D. La Primavera - The Spring Classic
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What is the Keirin event in track cycling?
- A. A points race over multiple laps
- B. A pursuit race against the clock
- C. A team relay event
- D. A sprint race where riders follow a motorised pacer before the final sprint
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What is the Classics season in professional road cycling?
- A. The Grand Tour racing season
- B. The autumn stage racing season
- C. The one-day spring races from March to April including the Monuments
- D. A winter training series
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What nationality is Bernard Hinault's successor as Tour de France champion in 1986?
- A. Irish
- B. Canadian
- C. Australian
- D. American
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What are the three Grand Tours in cycling?
- A. Tour de France, Giro, Vuelta
- B. Tour de France, Vuelta, Worlds
- C. Giro, Vuelta, Classics
- D. Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix, Giro
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What is a sprint in track cycling?
- A. A 1,000-metre individual time trial
- B. A team pursuit race
- C. A short race between two riders using tactics of positioning and acceleration
- D. An elimination event