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  1. Which golf course in Scotland is known as the 'home of golf'?
  2. How many gold medals did Great Britain win at the Paris 2024 Olympics?
  3. In which sport is the Claret Jug presented to the winner of The Open Championship?
  4. What dress code must players follow at Wimbledon?
  5. Which British cyclist won his seventh Olympic gold medal and ninth medal overall in Tokyo and is described as the most successful British Olympian?
  6. Which Briton became the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France, in 2012?
  7. Which team did England defeat on penalties in the Euro 2025 final?
  8. Who became the youngest driver ever to win the Formula One Drivers' title, in 2008?
  9. Which tennis player became the first British winner of the men's Wimbledon singles title since Fred Perry in 1936?
  10. Which two clubs are tied on 20 English league titles each?
  11. Which British Formula One driver won the 2025 world championship?
  12. Which physicist won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances?
  13. Which country hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics in London?
  14. Which England cricketer overtook Sir Alastair Cook as England's highest Test run-scorer in 2024?
  15. Which Welsh rugby union player scored 58 tries, the most for any Wales international?
  16. Which England manager resigned two days after the Euro 2024 final, in which Spain won 2-1 in Berlin?
  17. Which early British computer, built by Maurice Wilkes at the University of Cambridge, ran its first programs on 6 May 1949?

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