Statistics for Legends of Australian Sport

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Sport	Hint	Answer	% Correct
Tennis	14 Grand Slam titles (7 singles, 6 doubles, 1 mixed doubles) between 1971 & 1980	Evonne Cawley	82%
Tennis	A record 62 Grand Slam titles (24 singles, 19 doubles, 19 mixed doubles) between 1960 & 1975	Margaret Court	82%
Tennis	The only player in tennis history to have twice won all Grand Slam singles titles in the same year (1962 & 1969)	Rod Laver	82%
Motor Racing	F1 world champion in 1959, 1960 & 1966	Jack Brabham	73%
Athletics	Gold in the 400m at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney	Cathy Freeman	64%
Cricket	Widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time	Donald Bradman	64%
Golf	Spent 331 weeks as World Number 1 in the 1980s and 1990s, winning the British Open in 1986 & 1993	Greg Norman	55%
Tennis	26 Grand Slam titles (7 singles, 17 doubles, 2 mixed doubles) and 5x Davis Cup titles	John Newcombe	55%
AFL	4x VFL premierships as a player & 4x AFL premierships as a coach (including 3 consecutive flags with the Brisbane Lions)	Leigh Matthews	55%
Cricket	Australian captain between 1958-1964 and a highly regarded commentator	Richie Benaud	55%
Cricket	Transformed and popularised the art of leg spin and became the most prolific wicket-taker in Australian Test cricket history with 708 wickets	Shane Warne	55%
Horse Racing	12x Melbourne Cup winning trainer	Bart Cummings	45%
Athletics	Four Olympic gold medals: 3 in Melbourne in 1956 & the fourth (eight years later) in Tokyo in 1964	Betty Cuthbert	45%
Swimming	Won the Olympic 100m freestyle title at three successive Olympics (Melbourne 1956, Rome 1960 & Tokyo 1964)	Dawn Fraser	45%
Cricket	Regarded as the most accomplished and consistently hostile fast bowler of his time, by his career's end had claimed a world record 355 Test wickets	Dennis Lillee	45%
Swimming	Five Olympic gold medals (2000, 2004), nine Commonwealth gold, 13 World Championships and set 23 world records	Ian Thorpe	45%
Sailing	Skippered Australia II to victory in the America's Cup in 1983	John Bertrand	45%
Surfing	First woman in history to win 7 World Championships, and only surfer, to win six consecutive world titles (1998-2003)	Layne Beachley	45%
Swimming	Three Olympic gold medals at Melbourne 1956 and one gold, one silver & one bronze at Rome 1960	Murray Rose	45%
Athletics	Three Olympic silver medals: 200m in Mexico City in 1968 and 100m & 200m in Munich in 1972	Raelene Boyle	45%
AFL	6x VFL Premierships as a player with Melbourne between 1955 & 1964	Ronald 'Ron' Barassi	45%
Swimming	Three gold, one silver & one bronze in her only Olympics, the 1972 Munich Games, at age 15	Shane Gould	45%
AFL	Kicked 360 goals in 321 games for Footscray between 1951 & 1970	E J 'Ted' Whitten	36%
Athletics	Gold in the 1500m at the 1960 Olympics in Rome	Herb Elliott	36%
Rugby Union	The most successful captain in the history of Australian rugby, winning the Rugby World Cup for a second time in 1999	John Eales	36%
Athletics	The first great Australian distance runner and the second man in the world to break four minutes for the mile	John Landy	36%
Rugby Union	The first indigenous Australian to captain a national sports team, captaining the Wallabies 10 times in his 25 caps	Mark Ella	36%
Golf	Won the British Open in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958 & 1965	Peter Thomson	36%
Swimming	Butterfly specialist with two gold, four silver & two bronze medals from three Olympics (Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000)	Susie O'Neill	36%
AFL	Played 237 games for South Melbourne (1956-1971), winning the Brownlow Medal on three occasions (1959, 1964 & 1968)	Bob Skilton	27%
Athletics	Australia's first Olympian, winning Gold in the 800m and 1500m in Athens in 1896	Edwin Flack	27%
Squash	16 consecutive British Open titles between 1962 and 1977	Heather McKay	27%
Tennis	18 Grand Slam titles (8 singles, 9 doubles, 1 mixed doubles) between 1953 & 1972, and 4x Davis Cup titles	Ken Rosewall	27%
Athletics	Olympics bronze in the 10,000m in Tokyo (1964); broke 17 official world records throughout his career	Ron Clarke	27%
Athletics	Three Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver & three Olympic bronze across three Olympic games (1948, 1952, 1956)	Shirley Strickland	27%
Rugby League	Represented Queensland in thirty-one State of Origin games from 1980 to 1991	Wally Lewis	27%
Billiards	Often considered to be the greatest player ever seen in the sport of billiards, with some 57 world records to his credit	Walter Lindrum	27%
Cycling	4x Australian national road race titles between 1924 & 1929, and winner of the world's greatest endurance cyling race in 1931	Hubert Opperman	18%
Rugby League	Played in eight consecutive Grand final wins with St George between 1959 & 1966 and captained Australia from 1967-68	John Raper	18%
Cricket	Considered Australia's greatest ever all-rounder, played 168 test matches between 1946 & 1956	Keith Miller	18%
Horse Racing	Jockey who won the Caulfield Cup five times between 1942 & 1952	Arthur 'Scobie' Breasley	9%
Equestrian	Competed in five Olympic Games, winning gold in Rome 1960, bronze in Mexico City 1968 & bronze in Montreal 1976	Bill Roycroft	9%
Athletics (Para)	Nine gold and four silver medals from four Paralympic Games between 1992 and 2004 in the sport of wheelchair racing	Louise Sauvage	9%
Athletics	Gold in both the 100m and 200m at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki	Marjorie Jackson Nelson	9%
Rugby League	6x championships with St George, 8-time captain of Australia, and described by many as the ultimate all-round rugby league player	Reg Gasnier	9%
Sailing	Won over four hundred international, national, state and club championship yachting races, including a bronze medal at the Melbourne 1956 Olympics	Alexander 'Jock' Sturrock	0%
Netball	Represented Australia from 1978-1988, captaining the side for six years and playing in three World Championships	Anne Sargeant	0%
Cycling	Gold in the 1000m time trial at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles	Edgar 'Dunc' Gray	0%
Boxing	One of the greatest Australian boxers never to win a world championship; held numerous Australian titles but WW2 prevented him from competing overseas	Vic Patrick	0%