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Sport

93 questions in this category

Q: Which US sports team fell under the 'Curse of the Bambino' causing it to have an 86 year drought of championship trophies after its star player was sold in 1919 to its major rival?
A: The Boston Red Sox

Q: Who is the only professional heavyweight boxer to have retired undefeated?
A: Rocky Marciano

Q: Which sport was founded by Japanese master Kano Jigoro?
A: Judo

Q: In which football competition is the Henri Delaunay trophy awarded?
A: The UEFA European Football Championship

Q: Which martial art, when translated, originally meant 'Chinese hand' and now means 'empty hand'?
A: Karate

Q: Which former Olympic sport required the athletes to move backwards to win?
A: Tug of War (Olympic sport from 1900 to 1920)

Q: Which baseball team has won the World Series most often?
A: The New York Yankees have won 27 times (to 2010)

Q: Which sport has the highest ratio of officials to players?
A: Tennis

Q: Which sport invented at the Outrigger Canoe Club in Waikiki, Hawaii, and popularised in Santa Monica, California, since the 1920s became an Olympic sport in 1996?
A: Beach volleyball

Q: In which Olympic sport do players slide stones to houses?
A: Curling

Q: In Judo, what is a judogi?
A: The traditional uniform

Q: Which NBA player, son of an NBA player, was named after a steak his parents saw on a restaurant menu just before he was born?
A: Kobe Bryant (LA Lakers)

Q: In Mogul skiing, what are moguls?
A: Bumps or hills

Q: At the 'Parade of Nations' of the opening ceremony of the modern Olympic Games, which countries march first and last?
A: Greece always marches first and the host nation last

Q: Whose ears did Mike Tyson bite in 'The Sound and the Fury' fight held in Las Vegas in 1997?
A: Evander Holyfield

Q: Where were the Harlem Globetrotters formed?
A: Chicago in 1926

From which city is the Gimnastic football (soccer) team?
A: Tarragona

Q: Who are the two racers to have won the most Grand Prix motorcycling titles in history?
A: Giacomo Agostini and Angel Nieto

Q: Since 1975, what sport must be played right-handed even if you are left-handed?
A: Polo

Q: Besides baseball, which other popular American game will be an Olympic sport in Beijing 2008?
A: Softball

Q: When New Zealand won the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987, who did they defeat?
A: France

Q: Which country won the first FIFA World Cup held in 1930?
A: Uruguay

Q: The tennis record of 46 successive wins is held by Argentinean Guillermo Vilas. Who recently wrecked Federer's chance of surpassing it?
A: Guillermo Cañas (Argentinean)

Q: Who irritated Hitler by winning four gold medals in the Olympics?
A: Jesse Owens

Q: The 1000 Lakes Rally was held in which country?
A: Finland (called the Neste Oil Finland Rally since 1994)

Who won the Príncipe de Asturias prize in sports in 2007?
A: The Spanish Basketball team

Q: Vijay Singh, US Masters champion, comes from where?
A: Fiji

Q: Where do Portuguese Formula 1 Grand Prix races take place (at least since 1984 and when they happen)?
A: Autodromo de Estoril

Q: Who is the youngest winner of a Formula 1 Grand Prix?
A: Sebastian Vettel, who was 20 years old when he won the Italian grand prix on September 14th, 2008
With thanks to Billy Painter and Richard Painter for updating the answer to this question

Q: Which swimmer won six gold medals at the Athens Olympics in 2004?
A: Michael Phelps

Q: Which two English golfers won the 2004 Golf World Cup in Seville?
A: Paul Casey and Luke Donald

Q: Which is always the third grand slam event in the tennis calendar?
A: Wimbledon

Q: Brazil have been world football champions more times than any other nation. Whom did they beat to become World Champions the first time?
A: Sweden, in Sweden, 1958.
With thanks to Karim Nanji, Entertainments Officer, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, for correcting this question

Q: How many pockets does a snooker table have?
A: Six

Q: In American Football, where would you find the Orange Bowl?
A: Miami

Q: In which sport do neither the participants nor the spectators know the score until the end?
A: Boxing

Q: In which sport would you see a "Tsukahara"?
A: Gymnastics; it's a type of vault
With thanks to Kirsty Taylor for correcting this question

Q: What are the only two colours allowed for the ball in Table Tennis competitions?
A: White and orange
With thanks to Ted Bollard from Dublin for updating the answer to this question

Q: What is James Naismith best known for?
A: Inventing basketball

Q: What is the difference between a men's and a women's lacrosse team?
A: A men's team has ten players, a women's has twelve.
With thanks to Diane Peake for her assistance in correcting this question

Q: What are the two main distinguishing features of Speedway motorbikes?
A: No brakes and only one gear
With thanks to Mike Jones for amending the answer to this question

Q: Which team defeated the world champions Argentina in the opening game of 1990 World Championship?
A: Cameroon

Q: Which weapons are used in Women's fencing?
A: Foil, epee and sabre, although until 1989 only the foil was used in world championships
With thanks to Susanne for correcting this question

Q: Who was Formula One World Champion first: Graham Hill or Jim Clark?
A: Graham Hill in 1962 and 1968. Jim Clark in 1963 and 1965.

Q: Who was the first American to win the Formula 1 World Championship?
A: Phil Hill in 1961

Q: Who was the first gymnast to score a maximum 10 points (seven 10s) in the Olympics?
A: Nadia Comaneci in 1976

Q: Who was the first non-European to win the Tour de France?.
A: Greg Lemond of USA in 1986

Q: Who was the first person to swim the English Channel?
A: Captain Matthew Webb in 1875

Q: With which game would you associate the names of Mikhail Botvinnik, Alexander Alekhine, and José Capablanca?
A: Chess

Q: In which alpine resort were the first ever Winter Olympics held in 1924?
A: Chamonix

Q: The duration of a game of Polo is measured in what?
A: Chukkas (or Chukkers)
With thanks to Dave Love and Andy Bell for correcting this question

Q: Only one modern olympic games was not named after the host city - the "Interim Olympic Games" of 1906. In which city were they held?
A: Athens 1906 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the modern games. (Not recognised by the IOC.)

Q: Which country has won the most medals in the Winter Olympics (to January 2010)?
A: Norway (280)

Q: Which sport cannot be played left handed since 1975, for safety reasons?
A: Polo

Q: The Fed (Federation) Cup is the most important women's team event in this sport. What is the equivalent male competition?
A: The Davis Cup

Q: The Web Ellis Cup is given to the winners of which tournament?
A: The Rugby World Cup

Q: In cross-country cycling, what do the initials BMX stand for?
A: Bicycle moto cross

Q: Which athlete scored the first perfect ten in Olympic history?
A: Nadia Comaneci for gymnastics in the 1976 Montreal games

Q: Which Olympic sport has a playing area that is 9 ft (2.74m) by 5 ft (1.525m)? (it's 30 inches / 76 cm high)
A: Table tennis

Q: In Golf, what is sometimes called a 10-iron?
A: A wedge (pitching wedge)

Q: The first long distance car race was held in 1907 and finished after nearly 10,000 miles in Paris. The winners were Prince Scipione Borghese and journalist Luigi Barzini, Sr. who claimed the prize of a bottle of Mumm champagne. Where did the race start?
A: Beijing

Q: How many balls are there on a snooker table at the start of a game?
A: 22 - Fifteen red balls and white, yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, and black.

Q: The Vince Lombardi Trophy is awarded at which event?
A: The Superbowl

Q: In which sport would you perform an Eskimo roll?
A: Kayaking

Q: The Marquis of Queensbury Rules are the accepted code of rules for which sport?
A: Boxing

Q: Where were the first winter Olympics held in 1924?
A: Chamonix (France)

Q: First seen internationally in the 1968 Olympics, most modern high jumpers use a back first technique developed by which American athlete?
A: Dick Fosbury developed what is now called the Fosbury Flop

Q: What's the name of the chess move in which a piece takes another but does not move into the square of the captured piece?
A: En passant (a special capture made immediately after a player moves a pawn two squares forward from its starting position, and an opposing pawn could have captured it if it had only moved one square forward)

Q: What is Tiger Woods' first name?
A: Eldrick

Q: What's the second largest multi-sport gathering after the Olympics?
A: The Commonwealth Games (5,000 athletes v 10,000 at the last Olympics)

Q: What's the longest distance race in Olympic athletics?
A: 50 Km walk

Q: If your balls are black and blue and your opponent's are red and yellow, what would you be playing?
A: Croquet

Q: Which sport or game consists of a pick, approach, plant, and toss?
A: Caber toss

Q: Who is the only Irish cyclist to win the Tour de France?
A: Stephen Roche

Q: Which race over 200 laps is started with the words, "Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines"?
A: The Indianapolis 500

Q: Who is the Greek goddess of Victory?
A: Nike

Q: Who bought the Benetton Formula 1 racing team in 2001?
A: Renault

Q: What is the most common distance of a drag race?
A: A quarter of a mile (or 1320ft or 402m)

Q: Which international sports competition started on June 17th, 1994, at Soldier Field in Chicago?
A: Football World Cup

Q: What swimming stroke is the first leg of the medley relay?
A: Backstroke

Q: In which sport would you go to a Basho?
A: Sumo wrestling

Q: How many hurdles are there in the men's 110m race?
A: 10

Q: Who was the first unseeded player to win the men's singles at Wimbledon?
A: Boris Becker in 1985

Q: Which two boxers fought the 'Rumble in the Jungle'?
A: George Foreman and Muhammad Ali

Q: What did football referees get in 1970 that they hadn't had before?
A: Red and yellow cards

Q: What colour jersey does the leader of the Giro d'Italia wear?
A: Pink

Q: One Soviet Bloc country participated in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Which one?
A: Romania

Q: Which is always the first event of the Men's Decathlon?
A: 100 metres

Q: How many rounds are there in an Olympic boxing match?
A: Four
With thanks to Dave Harrop for correcting this question

Q: Which cyclists have won the Tour de France five times?
A: Jacques Anquetil, Lance Armstrong, Bernard Hinault, Miguel Indurain, Eddie Merckx
With thanks to Lynne and Thierry in Paris, and Steve Hall in Angola for correcting this question

Q: What is South America's equivalent of the Champions League called?
A: Copa Libertadores

Q: Who became the youngest female champion of Wimbledon in the 20th century when she beat Jana Novotná in 1997?
A: Martina Hingis (Lottie Dod was a year younger when she won the Women's Singles in 1887. She remains the youngest player to win the women's singles tournament, though Martina Hingis was three days younger when she won the women's doubles title in 1996.)
With thanks to Andy Corder and Mick Watts for correcting and expanding the answer to this question

Q: Who was the last European golfer to win the US Open?
A: Tony Jacklin in 1970
With thanks to Chris James from Pittsburgh for correcting this question

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