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• Table Tennis

Which player is the only non-Asian man to win Olympic table tennis singles gold?

Answer

Jan-Ove Waldner

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Table Tennis

Who was the first woman to win a table tennis world singles championship?

Answer

Maria Mednyanszky

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Table Tennis

How high is the net above the playing surface in table tennis?

Answer

15.25 centimetres

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Surfing

Which surfer is credited with pioneering solo surfing at California’s Mavericks break?

Answer

Jeff Clark

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Surfing

Who directed the 2002 surfing film Blue Crush?

Answer

John Stockwell

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Surfing

On which Hawaiian island is Waimea Bay, a landmark big-wave surfing location?

Answer

Oahu

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Surfing

Which California beach city uses the official surfing nickname “Surf City USA”?

Answer

Huntington Beach

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• Surfing

In what year was the surfing magazine Surfer first published?

Answer

1960

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Surfing

What species of shark bit surfer Bethany Hamilton in Hawaii in 2003?

Answer

Tiger shark

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• Surfing

Which surfing term describes a wave that breaks in both left and right directions from one peak?

Answer

A-frame

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Surfing

In surfing, what is the name for the area where surfers wait for incoming waves?

Answer

Lineup

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• Surfing

In surfing, what is the name for a wave that breaks over a sandy seabed?

Answer

Beach break

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