Sporting Rosses Trivia Quiz

Answer: Aaron Ross

Aaron Ross joined the New York Giants through the 2007 NFL Draft and won Super Bowl XLII in his debut season when his team defeated the New England Patriots. He remained with the team for five seasons, winning his second - and final - Super Bowl title at the end of the 2011 season (also at the expense of the Patriots). After that win he left to join the Jacksonville Jaguars, before briefly returning to New York for the first few weeks of 2013 - games which proved to be his last NFL appearances.

Ross is also known for his marriage to the four-time Olympic gold medal-winning athlete, Sanya Richards.

Answer: Cody Ross

Cody Ross played Major League Baseball between 2003 and 2015 for eight different teams - the Detroit Tigers, LA Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, Florida Marlins, San Francisco Giants, Boston Red Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks and the Oakland Athletics. He was an outfielder who usually played as either the centre fielder or right fielder.

Also known as "Ross the Boss", he spent most of the 2010 season with the Florida Marlins but was signed by the San Francisco Giants on a waiver prior to the start of the playoffs. He was named as the MVP for the National League and scored a home run in the World Series where the Giants defeated the Texas Rangers 4-1.

Answer: Kyla Ross

Born in Hawaii in 1996, Kyla Ross was the youngest member of the US team that won the women's artistic team all-around competition at the 2012 Olympics. Her contribution to the team victory came on the asymmetric bars and the balance beam. Ross and her team-mates - Aly Raisman, Jordyn Wieber, McKayla Maroney and Gabby Douglas - were dubbed the "Fierce Five" by the US media, although they had originally been described as the "Fab Five".

Ross was also a member of the US team that won the team event at the 2014 World Championships.

Answer: Ross Taylor

Ross Taylor - whose full name is Luteru Ross Poutoa Lote Taylor - made his international debut for the New Zealand national cricket side in a One Day International (ODI) against the West Indies in 2006. His full Test match debut came the following year against South Africa. He is one of the country's most prolific batsmen, having scored numerous centuries and become the first New Zealand player to make 20 centuries in ODIs.

Taylor has also competed for domestic level clubs in a range of countries, including New Zealand, India, Australia and England.

Answer: April Ross

April Ross was one of the four American women who took part in the final of the 2012 Olympic women's beach volleyball competition held in London. She was teamed with Jennifer Kessy; the duo won silver medals as they were comprehensively defeated by their more experienced compatriots Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings, who won their third consecutive title.

Ross returned to compete in the 2016 Olympics where the beach volleyball competition was held on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach (a more natural location for the sport than Horse Guards Parade in Central London). On this occasion she teamed up with Kerri Walsh Jennings and the pair had to settle for bronze after being defeated at the semi-final stage by a pair from the home nation, Brazil.

Answer: Earl Ross

Earl Ross, who died in 2014 at the age of 73, was the first Canadian (and one of very few non-American drivers) to win a race in the prestigious NASCAR Winston Cup racing series. His sole victory came in a Junior Johnson & Associates Chevrolet at the 1974 Old Dominion 500, which was held at the Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.

He also finished that year's Daytona 500 in 11th place and took 8th place in the overall Cup standings. The significance of his achievement was underlined by the fact that in total only five drivers won races in that year's series and the others were all champions or future champions - Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough, David Pearson and Bobby Allison.

Answer: Victor Ross

Victor Ross (who had a particularly apt name for a lacrosse player) was a prominent college player in the early 1920s with the Syracuse Orange men's lacrosse team, a sports team from Syracuse University in New York State. Ross was also a member of the team when it won the International Lacrosse Trophy Championship in 1923 and selected three times as an 'All-American' - a member of hypothetical team made up of the best amateur players of the year.

Answer: Ross Rebagliati

The first Olympic snowboarding competitions - the men's and women's half-pipe and giant slalom - were held in 1998 at the Games in Nagano, Japan. Of the four events, the first to be concluded was the men's giant slalom event, which meant that its winner, Canada's Ross Rebagliati, became the first Olympic snowboarding champion and gold medallist.

His win was somewhat controversial as he was briefly stripped of his medal after a drugs test found evidence of the drug THC (an active ingredient of cannabis) in his bloodstream. His win was reinstated on appeal and Rebagliati became a campaigner for the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes and later went into business in this industry.

Answer: Ben Ross

Ben Ross made his Australian National Rugby League debut with the St George Illawarra Dragons in 2002 and moved to the Penrith Panthers for the following season. At the end of his first full season playing in one of the most popular Rugby leagues in the world, Ross was part of the Panthers team that won the NRL grand final against the Sydney Roosters. Ross, a prop, was one of the four players on the interchange bench for the game.

The later years of Ross' rugby career were less successful, he had two spells with the Cronulla Sharks and spent a couple of seasons playing for the South Sydney Rabbitohs. He retired from the sport at the end of the 2013 season, aged 33.

Answer: Ross Barkley

Football (soccer) player Ross Barkley was born in Liverpool in 1993 and started his career and made his Premier League debut with local side Everton in 2011. An attacking midfield player, he remained at Everton (with the exception of some periods out on loan) until his transfer to Chelsea in January 2018. While Chelsea went on to win the FA Cup that year, Ross Barkley was an unused substitute who did not actually play in the final at Wembley - although he was still able to collect a winner's medal as a member of the wider team.

Barkley made his senior international debut for England in 2013 and played in three matches at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. However, England finished bottom of their group with two losses and one draw to make an ignominiously early departure from the tournament.