Deck 22: Sport, Gambling and Corruption

Question 1

What is courtsiding?

A) Illegal gambling taking place within a sporting arena
B) High-end ticket touting
C) The transmitting of information from sporting events for the purpose of gambling, or of placing bets directly from a sporting event
D) The action or practice of dishonestly determining the outcome of a match before it is played

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What has created what many consider the world's largest black market for sports betting

A) Sports gambling prohibtion in the US
B) Courtsiding
C) Deregulation of sports gambling in the EU

Answer 2

A

Question 3

In India, the call to legalise betting in cricket has grown. A panel appointed by India's Supreme Court doing so would…?

A) Help clamp down on corruption
B) Bring in tax revenues that could amount to $2 billion a year
C) Deliver both these things
D) Deliver neither of these things

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which is true in relation to gambling regulation in the US and UK?

A) UK central regulation is stronger`
B) US central regulation is stronger
C) Both have strong central regulation
D) Both have a weak, piecemeal regulation

Question 5

Nine senior officials from which sport were indicted by the US Department of Justice on charges of racketeering and money-laundering on 27 May 2015?

A) Cycling
B) Soccer
C) Ice-hockey
D) Baseball

Question 6

What is courtsiding

A) Rome
B) Moscow
C) Paris
D) Madrid

Question 7

What has casued the US to be the above?

A) Deregulation
B) Prohibtion