• 1. 
    What stick-and-ball sport has long been recognized as the national pastime of Ireland?

  • lacrosse
  • hurling
  • curling
  • hockey
  • 2. 
    Which athletic contest originated in Scotland and includes events such as tossing the caber?

  • Highland Games
  • sculling
  • Paralympics
  • Gaelic Games
  • 3. 
    In traditional Spanish bullfighting, what is the name given to the performer who both works the capes and kills the bull?

  • troubadour
  • banderilla
  • matador
  • rejoneo
  • 4. 
    Which is a court or lawn game played with lightweight rackets and a shuttlecock?

  • tennis
  • badminton
  • cricket
  • baseball
  • 5. 
    Which sport is considered the national summer sport of England?

  • hockey
  • football (soccer)
  • rugby
  • cricket
  • 6. 
    In what sport is a scrum used after the referee halts play for a minor infringement of the rules?

  • hockey
  • rugby
  • lacrosse
  • gridiron football
  • 7. 
    Which sport evolved as a combination of tennis and squash?

  • table tennis
  • royal tennis
  • deck tennis
  • platform tennis
  • 8. 
    What is the oldest professional sporting trophy in North America?

  • Stanley Cup
  • Canadian-American Challenge Cup
  • Grey Cup
  • Walker Cup
  • 9. 
    Which sport was directly influenced by the Marquess of Queensberry rules?

  • boxing
  • fencing
  • billiards
  • chess
  • 10. 
    Which sport is thought to have developed from the 18th-century English game of rounders?

  • baseball
  • table tennis
  • football (soccer)
  • bowling
  • 11. 
    What game evolved from the now-obsolete French game of paille-maille?

  • billiards
  • croquet
  • volleyball
  • curling
  • 12. 
    Chukkers are associated with which sport?

  • horse racing
  • polo
  • rugby
  • squash
  • 13. 
    The side horse is associated with which sport?

  • gymnastics
  • volleyball
  • steeplechase
  • show jumping
  • 14. 
    What sport is the Ryder Cup associated with?

  • golf
  • trapshooting
  • archery
  • tennis
  • 15. 
    What is the term for offsetting the varying abilities or characteristics of competitors in order to equalize their chances of winning?

  • breaking even
  • equalizing
  • standardizing
  • handicapping
  • 16. 
    The equipment for what sport was found in the tomb of an Egyptian child buried about 3200 BCE?

  • billiards
  • croquet
  • boules
  • bowling
  • 17. 
    Which sport, developed from a game called indoor baseball and common in the United States, has been variously called diamond ball, kitten ball, and mushball?

  • stickball
  • volleyball
  • rounders
  • softball
  • 18. 
    Episkuros, calcio, and melees were early forms of which popular sport?

  • gymnastics
  • football (soccer)
  • boxing
  • fencing
  • 19. 
    The term pugilism is synonymous with what sport?

  • cockfighting
  • fencing
  • cricket
  • boxing
  • 20. 
    Supercross is a form of what sport?

  • mountain biking
  • skateboarding
  • skiing
  • motorcycle racing
  • 21. 
    What game was invented for businessmen who found the new sport of basketball to be too vigorous?

  • tetherball
  • badminton
  • volleyball
  • tennis
  • 22. 
    In which major sport is substitution allowed while the game is in play?

  • cricket
  • ice hockey
  • volleyball
  • football (soccer)
  • 23. 
    Which of these sports features a contest called Puissance?

  • synchronized swimming
  • polo
  • show jumping
  • dressage
  • 24. 
    What sport were “bodyline” tactics associated with?

  • skiing
  • baseball
  • cricket
  • curling
  • 25. 
    What sport is played on a level surface of sand or clay enclosed with boarded ends and sides?

  • bocce
  • curling
  • badminton
  • croquet
  • 26. 
    Neurosurgeon Sir Ludwig Guttman introduced what sport as therapy for wounded World War II veterans?

  • buzkashi
  • snowboarding
  • wheelchair fencing
  • curling
  • 27. 
    Eunice Kennedy Shriver (sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy) was instrumental in the founding of what sporting event?

  • Commonwealth Games
  • Goodwill Games
  • Special Olympics
  • Paralympics
  • 28. 
    Yokuzuna is the highest ranking attainable in which sport?

  • buzkashi
  • chess
  • sumo
  • judo
  • 29. 
    What game, which has been particularly popular in retirement communities, involves shoving disks so that they stop on or within scoring areas on a board or court?

  • skat
  • bocce
  • shuffleboard
  • curling
  • 30. 
    In which sport do players use a cesta to catch and throw a ball?

  • Jai alai
  • rounders
  • buzkashi
  • lacrosse
  • 31. 
    Birling, a sport developed by North American lumberjacks, is also known by what other name?

  • tree topping
  • logrolling
  • boom run
  • springboard
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