Quiz 66a - Sport - Questions
1 - What is an Olympiad?
2 - 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?
3 - Who is the only professional heavyweight boxer to have retired undefeated?
4 - Which sport was founded by Japanese master Kano Jigoro?
5 - In which football competition is the Henri Delaunay trophy awarded?
6 - Which martial art, when translated, originally meant 'Chinese hand' and now means 'empty hand'?
7 - Which former Olympic sport required the athletes to move backwards to win?
8 - Which baseball team has won the World Series most often?
9 - Which sport has the highest ratio of officials to players?
10 - 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?
11 - In which Olympic sport do players slide stones to houses? Curling
12 - In Judo, what is a judogi?
13 - 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?
14 - In Mogul skiing, what are moguls?
15 - At the 'Parade of Nations' of the opening ceremony of the modern Olympic Games, which countries march first and last?
16 - Whose ears did Mike Tyson bite in 'The Sound and the Fury' fight held in Las Vegas in 1997?
17 - Where were the Harlem Globetrotters formed?
18 - From which city is the Gimnastic football (soccer) team?
19 - Who are the two racers to have won the most Grand Prix motorcycling titles in history?
20 - Since 1975, what sport must be played right-handed even if you are left-handed?
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