Q 01/05
A) Every year
B) Every three years
C) Every two years
D) Every four years
Answer · why
Every two years is the schedule, though World War II halted the matches, with none played from 1939 to 1945.
Q 02/05
A) Woollen cloth
B) Garden seeds
C) Golf balls
D) Bicycles
Answer · why
Garden seeds made his fortune: he sold them by post in penny packets that working people could afford.
Q 03/05
A) Ted Ray
B) George Duncan
C) Harry Vardon
D) Abe Mitchell
Answer · why
Abe Mitchell was picked to captain Britain in the first official match in 1927, but appendicitis kept him from making the trip.
Q 04/05
A) Worcester Country Club, Massachusetts
B) Moortown Golf Club, England
C) Merion Golf Club, Pennsylvania
D) Pinehurst Resort, North Carolina
Answer · why
Worcester Country Club, Massachusetts hosted it, after Britain's team crossed the Atlantic on the liner Aquitania, a six-day voyage.
Q 05/05
A) Sunningdale
B) Wentworth
C) Walton Heath
D) Moortown
Answer · why
Wentworth staged it, and Samuel Ryder had meant it as the first Ryder Cup, but no cup was awarded there.
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