41 questions
This test holds the same questions every time you take it.
This is one of the smaller themes and nearly all of it comes from a single short section of the handbook, so it is a track you can finish in one sitting.
The sports that began in Britain, among them cricket, golf, rugby, football and lawn tennis. The Olympic and Paralympic story, which is three London Games and the hospital in Buckinghamshire where the Paralympics started. A long roll call of athletes, from swimmers and cyclists to sailors and wheelchair racers. Then the events and the places, Wimbledon and the Ashes, the Six Nations, the Grand National and Royal Ascot, the university boat race and the sailing at Cowes.
Two things, mostly. Which sport did this person compete in, and how many of something did they win. Over half the theme is one athlete per question, so the fastest way through it is a single line for each name, with the figure attached.
Three sailors and three different firsts. Francis Chichester was first to sail round the world alone. Robin Knox-Johnston was first to do it without stopping. Ellen MacArthur did it solo quicker than anybody had before, in 2004. Read which first the question is asking for.
Two wheelchair racers with the same marathon record. The handbook says both Tanni Grey-Thompson and David Weir came first in the London Marathon six times, so the number does not tell them apart. Their Paralympic totals do.
2012 narrows nothing down. The London Games, a first British win at the Tour de France, a first Grand Slam singles title for a British man since 1936, and gold medals on the track and in the pool all belong to that one year.
The Cardiff stadium has a different name now. The handbook names it the Millennium Stadium and that is still the marked answer. It was renamed the Principality Stadium in 2016, and plenty of people still use the older name, so recognising both will not hurt you.
Names and titles have moved on. Jessica Ennis is now Jessica Ennis-Hill, Ian Botham sits in the House of Lords as Lord Botham, and Roger Bannister died in 2018. What each of them achieved is what the question wants, and none of that has changed.
One count has grown since the book was written. David Weir kept racing after the Games the handbook describes, so his real totals are higher than the figure the question marks correct. Answer the book, and a Worth knowing note appears beside the answer in practice with the current fact.
The reassuring part is that most of the medal totals in this theme really are final, and where a note appears on one of those it says the number is unchanged.
It is a short track, good for clearing early or for a confidence session between longer ones. The figures are the reason to come back to it. The wider track, if the whole of modern society needs work, is chapter 4.