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Sports Fun Facts Quiz
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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