Boxing trivia questions and answers.
- What boxing class is heaviest - flyweight, bantam weight or
feather weight?
- What nickname do boxing fans call 300 pound Eric Esch, King of
the Four-Rounders?
- Who beat Michael Moorer in a 1994 heavyweight title fight
hyped as " One for the Ages"?
- What boxer made his first title defense in 21 years, in 1995?
- Who did Joe Frazier say he wanted "like a hog wants slop"?
- What percentage of Mike Tyson's 1995 earnings came from
endorsements?
- What boxer answers to the nickname "Sweet Pea"?
- What heavyweight champion was nicknamed "Real Deal"?
- Who received a reported $25 million for a 1995 boxing
match that lasted 89 seconds?
- How old was George Foreman when he became the oldest
heavyweight champ in history?
- What pro sport gives its participants an 87 percent
chance of suffering brain damage?
- What boxing weight class is limited to 190 pounds?
- What Mexican boxing champ lost for the first time to little
known Frankie Randall?
- What had to occur for a round to end when John L. Sullivan
beat Jake Killrain in 75 rounds, in 1889?
- Who was the first sports announcer to address Muhammad Ali by
his Muslim name?
- What year in the 1970s was Muhammad Ali's last as heavyweight
champ?
- What boxing promoter was indicted for filing a false
insurance claim with Lloyds of London?
- What boxer successfully defended his title against George
Foreman and Larry Holmes?
- Who reigned as heavyweight boxing champ of Uganda from
1951-1960?
- What did boxer Nelson Azumah change his name to?
- What boxing promoter's favorite expression is "Only in
America"?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 120 - Boxing Trivia.
- Feather weight.
- Butter Bean.
- George Foreman.
- George Foreman.
- Muhammad Ali.
- Zero.
- Pernell Whitaker
- Evander Holyfield
- Mike Tyson.
- Forty-five.
- Boxing.
- Cruiserweight.
- Julio Cesar Chavez.
- A knockdown.
- Howard Cosell.
- 1979.
- Don King.
- Evander Holyfield.
- Idi Amin.
- Azumah Nelson.
- Don King's.
Golf trivia questions and answers.
- What two golfers led the PGA in earnings three seasons each in
the 1960s?
- What's a scratch golfer's handicap?
- What's a golfer said to have if he is entitled to tee off
first?
- What comic actor scored huge sales with his Bad Golf Made
Easy instructional videos?
- What Grand Slam golf tournament has the most club housers
sipping mint juleps?
- Who's second to Sam Snead in PGA Tour wins?
- What tournament did Arnold Palmer say he would play in as long
as he could walk?
- Who won a record six PGA Player of the Year Awards-Jack
Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer or Tom Watson?
- Who summed up a playoff loss to Jack Nicklaus at the
1991 U. S. Senior Open with "the Bear crushed the Mouse"?
- What golfer bid a tearful farewell to fans after playing his
last U.S. Open, in 1994?
- Who became the youngest and oldest player to win the
Masters, in 1963 and 1986?
- What golfer's worst finish at the British Open from 1966
to 1980 was sixth?
- What's the only Grand Slam event Lee Trevino never won?
- Who was the first Swedish golfer to win the U.S. Women's Open
two straight times?
- Who's the most successful Zimbabwean golfer of all time?
- How many rounds must a golfer have have played to be eligible
for a handicap?
- What female golfer's high school nickname was "Taco"?
- Who was the first golfer since Jack Nicklaus to win eight PGA
events his first six years on tour?
- What did John Daly number the new iron he began teeing off
with in 1996, because it had virtually no loft?
- What golfer hit Ben Crenshaw in the head with his putter in
1986, forcing Crenshaw to head for the hospital?
- What Japanese golfer is the only player to have won events on
the PGA tour, Senior Tour, Japanese, European, and Australian Tours?
- What golfer won nine tournaments during her 1978 rookie
year on the LPGA Tour?
- What golfer ended nine years of final-round frustration
by winning the 1996 Memorial Tournament?
- What golfer had played 87 straight Grand Slam tournaments
until a shoulder injury forded him to miss the 1996 British Open?
- Who followed his first winless season by winning the U.S. Open
and PGA Championship in 1980?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 119 - Golf Trivia.
- Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer.
- Zero.
- The Honor.
- Leslie Nielsen.
- The Masters.
- Jack Nicklaus
- The Masters.
- Tom Watson.
- Chi Chi Rodriguez.
- Arnold Palmer.
- Jack Nicklaus.
- Jack Nicklaus.
- The Masters.
- Annika Sorenstam.
- Nick Price.
- Ten.
- Nancy Lopez's.
- Phil Mickelson.
- Zero.
- Ben Crenshaw.
- Isao Aoki .
- Nancy Lopez.
- Tom Watson.
- Tom Watson.
- Jack Nicklaus.
Free NFL football trivia questions with answers.
- What Native American language was Super Bowl XXX the first to be
broadcast in?
- What Cowboy's 99-yard run from scrimmage put him in the NFL
football record book in 1983?
- What team hired the NFL's first professional cheerleading squad,
in 1972?
- Who was the first athlete to rap at a Pro Bowl musical gala, in
1995?
- How many of the five Dallas teams Tom Landry took to Super Bowls
were victorious?
- What teams played in the first all-California Super Bowl?
- What team has been drubbed in Super Bowls by scores of 27-10,
39-20, 42-10, and 55-10?
- What NFL team introduced the no-huddle offense during the 1980s?
- What quarterback got stuck with the given names Yelberton
Abraham?
- What Baltimore Colts great led the NFL in passing in the 1960s,
with 26548 yards?
- What Pittsburgh Steelers great was the first wide receiver to be
named super Bowl MVP?
- What Division 1-A football team's fans cheer for the Yellow
Jackets?
- What Jets quarterback, asked if he preferred grass or Astroturf,
replied: "I don't know, I never smoked Astroturf"?
- What NFL team once had Bob Hope, Henry Mancini, Maureen Reagan
and Danny Thomas on its advisory board?
- What did a Buffalo fan hit Chuck Foreman in the eye with during a
game, ending his chance of winning the NFC rushing title in 1975?
- Who was involved as a player or coach in three Super Bowls with
the Cowboys, two with the Eagles and one with the Bears?
- How many football teams play in the Big Ten Conference?
- What Vikings quarterback has been called the NFL's "original
scrambler"?
- What nickname did NFL great Lance Alworth share with a Disney
movie title character?
- How many years must a player be retired to be eligible for the
Pro Football Hall of Fame?
- What was Miami quarterback Bob Griese the first NFL football
player to wear in a game, in 1977?
- What pro football franchise did Tim Mara buy in 1925 for $500?
- Who had the most rushing yards in the NFL for the 1980s?
- What record-setting quarterback was the NFL's 82nd draft pick in
1979?
- What elusive Detroit running back has been dubbed "the Lion
King"?
- Who did the New York Giants beat by a point in the closest Super
Bowl ever?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 118 - Football
Trivia.
- Navajo.
- Tony Dorsett's.
- The Dallas Cowboys.
- Deion Sanders.
- Two.
- The San Francisco 49ers and San Diego Chargers.
- The Denver Broncos.
- The Cincinnati Bengal's.
- Y.A. Tittle.
- Johnny Unitas.
- Lynn Swan.
- Georgia Tech's.
- Joe Namath.
- The Los Angeles Rams.
- A snowball.
- Mike Ditka.
- Eleven.
- Fran Tarkenton.
- Bambi.
- Five.
- Glasses.
- The New York Giants.
- Eric Dickerson.
- Joe Montana.
- Barry Sanders.
- The Buffalo Bills.
Fun Football trivia quiz questions with answers.
- What Native American was the NFL's first president?
- What color flags did NFL officials begin throwing after
abandoning white ones in 1965?
- What NFL footballer is one of Brigham Young's many
great-great-great grandsons?
- How many football teams from the troubled Southwest
Conference defected to the Big Eight?
- What Chicago Bears great ran six kickoffs back for touchdowns
over seven seasons?
- Who threw a record six touchdown passes in one Super Bowl, in
1995?
- Who became the NFL's all-time touchdown leader in 1994?
- What football defensive position is dubbed a "rover" or
"monster"?
- What letter begins the moniker of the most AFC football
teams?
- What position was played by NFL footballers Alan, Joaquin,
Luis, Max and Tony Zedejas?
- What NFL team was second to the 49ers in wins during the
1980s?
- What NFL team was the first to win the Vince Lombardi
trophy five times?
- What NFL team won the most games in the 1960s?
- Who was the second head coach in the history of the Dallas
Cowboys?
- What Buffalo star rushed for 13,19, and 37 yards in Super
Bowls XXVI, XXVII and XXVIII?
- What Dallas Cowboys running back was dubbed "Little Big Man"?
- What footballer, after running 64 yards in the wrong
direction, was re-oriented by teammate Benny Lom?
- What Chicago Bears Coach learned you could break your hand by
putting a fist through a metal locker?
- What team was led to Super Bowls VII, and VIII by their
"no-name defense"?
- What Division 1-A coach took teams to a record 29 bowl games?
- What quarterback spent 46 days in 1996 at the Menninger Clinic
to kick an addiction to the pain killer Vicodin?
- What West Coast NFL team still sports the motto:
"Commitment to Excellence"?
- What Dallas star was the NFL's tallest player during the
1980s, at six-foot-nine?
- What did Dolphins receiver Mark Duper legally change his name
to in 1985?
- What Big Eight football team's fans cheer for the Cyclones?
- What NFL team won the most games in the 1970s?
- How many Super Bowl MVP awards does Terry Bradshaw have?
- What city was known to NFL fans as Titletown, USA in the
1960s?
- What future NFL quarterback wore sunglasses for his 1977 Utah
high school yearbook photo?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 117 - Football
Trivia.
- Jim Thorpe.
- Gold.
- Steve Young.
- Four.
- Gale Sayers.
- Steve Young.
- Jerry Rice
- Safety.
- B
- Kicker.
- The Washington Redskins.
- The San Francisco 49ers.
- The Green Bay Packers.
- Jimmy Johnson.
- Thurman Thomas.
- Tony Dorsett.
- Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels.
- Mike Ditka.
- The Miami Dolphins.
- Bear Bryant
- Brett Farve.
- The Oakland Raiders.
- Ed "Too Tall" Jones.
- Mark Super Duper.
- Iowa State's
- The Dallas Cowboys.
- Two.
- Green Bay.
- Jim McMahon.
Fun Football trivia quiz questions with answers.
- What Steelers quarterback, according to Hollywood Henderson,
"couldn't spell cat if you spotted him the 'C' and the 'A' "?
- What Ivy League football team once lost an NCAA record 44
straight games?
- What yard line must a football team drive to, to reach the
"red zone"?
- What budding politician led the AFL in passing yards for the
1960s?
- What NFL footballer saw his weight reach a league-leading 340
pounds in 1988?
- Who played defensive back for the New York Giants before he
coached the Cowboys?
- What football league had expansion teams in Baltimore,
Las Vegas and Shreveport for the 1994 season?
- How many points was a touchdown worth in 1911?
- What university's football team played in the first
seven Holiday Bowls?
- What NFL team did Rafael Septien boot balls for from
1978 to 1986?
- What National Football Conference division do the Lions,
Bears and Packers play in?
- What Dallas quarterback fumbled a record five times in
four Super Bowl games?
- Whose NFL playing career began in 1949 and ended in 1975?
- Who said life's three important things were "family, religion
and the Green Bay Packers"?
- What sportscaster posted an NFL coaching record of 103-22-7?
- What "winning" slogan credited to Vince Lombardi was uttered
first by UCLA coach Red Sanders?"
- What three NFL teams had lost four Super Bowls each,
through 1996?
- What former Chicago Bears star was known as "the Enforcer,"
"the Animal" and "Paddles"?
- What were NFL players required to wear in games for the first
time in 1943?
- How many teams graced the NFL after the AFL officially joined
the told in 1970?
- What NFL footballer saw his weight reach a league-leading 340
pounds in 1988?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 116 - Football Trivia.
- Terry Bradshaw.
- Columbia.
- The twenty.
- Jack Kemp.
- William "The Refrigerator" Perry.
- Tom Landry.
- The Canadian Football League
- Five.
- Brigham Young's.
- The Dallas Cowboys.
- The Central Division
- Roger Staubach.
- George Blanda's.
- Vince Lombardi.
- John Madden.
- Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing
- Buffalo Bills, Denver Broncos, Minnesota Vikings.
- Dick Butkus.
- Helmets.
- Twenty-six.
- William "The Refrigerator" Perry.
Fun basketball trivia quiz questions with answers.
- What hoopster scored in double figures in 787 straight games,
from December 4, 1977 to December 4, 1987?
- What NBA team retired jersey numbers 3, 33, 32, and 35 in the
1990s?
- What NBA team plays home games in an arena located at Two
Pennsylvania Plaza?
- What NBA hoopster averaged an amazing 48.5 minutes per game,
including overtime, in the 1961-62 season?
- What NBA hoopster is known as "The Worm"?
- What NBA star retired for the third time on May 14, 1996?
- How many rules did James Naismith originally write to define
basketball --13, 33, or 53?
- Who led the NBA in hair colors in 1995?
- What seven-foot-one NBA center's first name translates
as "little one"?
- What do you have to be in the NBA to win the Eddie Gottlieb
Trophy?
- Whose all-time NBA assists record was broken by John
Stockton in 1995?
- What basketball team had drubbed the New Jersey Reds
2,495 times straight before losing to them 100-99 in 1971?
- What city decided to call its new NBA team the Grizzlies,
after much debate?
- Whose 1996 return to the NBA earned him simultaneous Time,
Newsweek, U.S. News and Sports Illustrated covers?
- What Celtics star of the 1980s did the Boston Globe say looked
like Herman Munster?
- What was the first NBA team to win 70 games or more in the
regular season?
- Who holds the NBA scoring mark for a single half, with
59 points?
- What nickname did NBA star Karl Malone earn for his ability to
deliver in the clutch?
- How many NBA titles did Magic Johnson help the Lakers win as a
player?
- What former L.A. Lakers guard became the team's general
manger?
- What hoopsters did major league pitches Bob Gibson and
Ferguson Jenkins once play for?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 115 - Basketball Trivia.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
- The Boston Celtics.
- The New York Knicks.
- Wilt Chamberlin.
- Dennis Rodman.
- Magic Johnson.
- Thirteen.
- Dennis Rodman.
- Shaquille O'Neal's.
- Rookie of the year.
- Magic Johnson's.
- The Harlem Globetrotters.
- Vancouver.
- Magic Johnson.
- Kevin McHale.
- The Chicago Bulls.
- Wilt Chamberlin.
- The Mailman.
- Five.
- Jerry West.
- The Harlem Globetrotters.
Free basketball trivia questions with answers.
- What Indiana Pacer did Knicks fan Spike Lee anger during the
1994 playoffs by calling him "Cheryl"?
- What franchise has played in the most NBA finals since 1947?
- What two NBA players won the MVP trophy three times each from
1986 through 1992?
- What player did the Boston Celtics draft between won-lost
seasons of 29-53 and 61-21?
- What Baltic country did Portland Trail Blazer Arvydas Sabonis
play for at the 1996 Olympics?
- What NBA team became the first to defeat the Boston Celtics in
12 straight games, in 1995?
- Who was the first hoopster to win eight NBA scoring titles?
- What NBA team is know in China as "the Red Oxen"?
- Who was the last Boston Celtics coach to lead the team
to two straight NBA titles?
- What two NBA stars did Forbes list as the highest paid
athletes for 1994?
- What NBA coach got cosmic by penning the Zen book Sacred
Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior?
- Who earned $32 million of his $36 million 1993 earnings
from endorsements?
- What 20th-century decade saw the NBA adopt the 24-second shot
clock?
- What 1960 rookie bested the league's "triple double" record of
two during his first week in the NBA?
- What seven-foot-two Chicago Bulls hoopster was the first
Australian to lay in the NBA?
- What future NBA star was dubbed "Boy Gorge" when his weight
passed 300 pounds in college?
- What Lakers coach had been an 11th-round pick in the
1967 NFL draft?
- What NBA team plays home games at a facility nicknamed "The O-rena"?
- Who became the NBA's winningest coach ever on January 6, 1995?
- Who netted an NBA record 72.7 field goal percentage in the
1972-73 season?
- What sports team got its name because its owners wanted to
"set the pace" in the NBA?
- What NBA star attempted a record 28,307 field goals in
regular season games?
- What NBA team started out in 1948 as the Tri-Cities
Blackhawks?
- What NBA team failed to make the playoffs in 1994 for the
first time since 1976?
- What basketball team was the first in major league sports to
be named for an insect?
- What L.A. Lakers great might have played for Chicago if the
Bulls had called "tails" in a 1979 NBA coin toss?
- What Chicago Bulls coach has checked into hotels under the
pseudonym "Mr. Red Cloud"?
- What NBA team is named after a car part?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 114 - Basketball
Trivia.
- Reggie Miller.
- The Lakers.
- Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan.
- Larry Bird.
- Lithuania.
- The New York Knicks.
- Michael Jordan.
- The Chicago Bulls.
- Bill Russell.
- Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal
- Phil Jackson
- Michael Jordan.
- The 1950s.
- Oscar Robertson.
- Lue Longley
- Charles Barkley.
- Pat Riley.
- The Orlando Magic
- Lenny Wilkins
- Wilt Chamberlain.
- The Indiana Pacers.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- The Atlanta Hawks.
- The Los Angeles Lakers.
- The Charlotte Hornets.
- Magic Johnson
- Phil Jackson.
- The Detroit Pistons.
Baseball trivia quiz questions with answers.
- What slugger did Boston name its third harbor tunnel after?
- What moniker did relief pitcher Jeff Reardon share with an
Arnold Schwarzenegger movie?
- What punctuation mark did baseball clown Max Patkin wear on
the back of his jersey?
- Whose record of 59 did Babe Ruth break when he hit 60 homers
in one season?
- What National League ballpark is known as the "Friendly
Confines"?
- What strikeout artist is nicknamed "The Big Unit"?
- Who was Joe DiMaggio nearly traded to the Red Sox for in 1976?
- What two Players led the National League in stolen bases every
year from 1981 to 1990?
- What left-handed baseball legend's statue in Baltimore
mistakenly depicted him with a right-handed fielder's glove?
- What does Yogi Berra advise you to do when you come to a fork
in the road?
- What was installed in front of major league baseball
fences in 1950?
- Whose number 4 was the first number ever retired in
major league baseball, in 1939?
- How many career grand slams did Frank Robinson swat besides
the two he hit in consecutive at bats in 1970?
- What baseball team retired the jerseys of Ken Boyer, Lou Brock
and Dizzy Dean?
- What sports figure, when asked if he'd seen Dr. Zhivago,
allegedly said: "No I feel fine"?
- What former L.A. Dodgers southpaw autographed yarmulkes that
fetched $75 each in 1995?
- Whose single-season strikeout record did Nolan Ryan beat
by one?
- What 1995 change to Kansas City's stadium "smells like
baseball" to Cal Ripken?
- Who did the Boston Bruins lose 18 straight playoff series to,
form 1946 to 1987?
- What did Phil Niekro throw six times in one 1979 game,
including four in one inning, typing per game and per inning
records?
- Who was baseball's acting commissioner during the infamous
1994-95 strike?
- What Baltimore hurler claimed the only thing manager
Earl Weaver knew about pitching was that "he couldn't hit it"?
- What Yankee pitcher threw his first no-hitter the night
before hid dad had open-heart surgery, in 1996?
- What relief pitcher was nicknamed for the pet he kept while
playing for the Pirates?
- What major league baseball team started playing in Coors
Stadium in 1995?
- Who was the first Baltimore Oriole to be named American League
MVP
- What Atlanta Braves slugger do fans call "Crime Dog"?
- What base did Babe Ruth touch for luck while running
form the outfield between innings?
- What Negro League home run king died less than three months
before Jack?
- What Cleveland Indians slugger nixed a five-year, $43-million
contract offer in 1996?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 113 - Baseball
Trivia.
- Ted Williams.
- The Terminator.
- "?".
- Babe Ruth's.
- Wrigley Field.
- Randy Johnson.
- Ted Williams.
- Vince Coleman and Tim Raines.
- Babe Ruth's.
- Take it.
- A warning track.
- Lou Gerhig's.
- Zero.
- The Saint Louis Cardinals.
- Yogi Berra.
- Sandy Koufax.
- Sandy Koufax's
- Natural grass.
- The Montreal Canadians.
- Wild pitches.
- Bud Selig.
- Jim Palmer.
- Dwight Gooden.
- "Goose" Gossage.
- The Colorado Rockies.
- Brooks Robinson.
- Fred McGriff.
- Second base.
- Josh Gibson.
- Albert Belle.
Major league baseball trivia questions and answers.
- What song do baseball fans break into when Mitch Williams steps
out of the bullpen?
- Whose 1996 single to center, in his first regular season
at-bat, was the first hit by a Red Sox pitcher in 24 years?
- Who was the American League base-stealing champ for nine years
in the 1980s?
- Who was the winningest active major league baseball manager
before he retired in 1996?
- Which finger on a pitcher's throwing hand controls a curve
ball and slider?
- What former Negro League player is the only pitcher in the
Hall of Fame with a losing major league record?
- Who was the only pitcher to lead the National League in
strikeouts three times during the 1980s?
- What clan consisting of Ray, Bob and Bret became the first
three-generation family to play major league baseball?
- Who set a major league record for the fewest errors by a
shortstop, with three in 1990?
- Who was the only major leaguer to play at least 500 games with
each of four teams - Houston, Montréal, New York and Detroit?
Which two cities have ballparks honoring Number 44 above
the outfield fence?
- Who returned from a stint in Japan to pound 51 home runs
in 1990?
- Who was the only baseballer to lay over 500 games at each of
five different positions?
- What former Yankee southpaw explained how to doctor a baseball
in the 1977 article "Confessions of a Gunkball Artist"?
- Who has the most wins in Dodgers history-- Don Drysdale, Sandy
Koufax or Don Sutton?
- Who led the National League in ERA in each of his last five
seasons, ending in 1966?
- What two Yankees were nearly traded to Milwaukee for
pitcher Warren Spahn and slugger Hank Aaron in 1960?
- What late, great Dodgers pitcher was known to fans as "Double
D"?
- What pitch does a batter face when Dwight Gooden throws his "yacker"?
- What 50-year old minor league pitcher did 57,000 fans crowd
the Orange Bowl to watch in 1956?
- What Nicaraguan-born baseballer was known as "Arriba!" to
adoring Latin fans?
- What commissioner of baseball was named after a Civil
War battle fought in Georgia?
- What homer hitter is known as "The Big Hurt"?
- Who was the last graduate of the Negro Leagues to retire from
major league baseball?
- What 1995 World Series teams were both picketed by the
American Indian Movement?
- How many home run titles did Roger Maris win?
- What catcher replaced Mel Allen as TV announcer for the
Yankees in 1964?
- What two players are tied for second behind Ty Cobb in total
career runs?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 112 - Baseball
Trivia
Major league baseball trivia questions and
answers.
- Wild Thing
- Roger Clemens.
- Rickey Henderson
- Tommy Lasorda.
- The middle.
- Satchel Page
- Steve Carlton
- The Boone Family.
- Cal Ripkin Jr.
- Rusty Staub
- Atlanta and Milwaukee.
- Cecil Fielder
- Pete Rose.
- Whitey Ford
- Don Sutton.
- Sandy Koufax.
- Whity Ford and Mickey Mantle.
- Don Drysdale.
- A curve ball.
- Satchel Page.
- Roberto Clemente.
- Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
- Frank Thomas.
- Hank Aaron.
- The Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians.
- One
- Joe Garagiola.
- Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth.
Olympics trivia questions and answers.
- What year was the first summer Olympiad televised live?
- What procedure did the IOC begin after a Danish cyclist died
during the 1960 Summer Olympics?
- How many minutes does an Olympic basketball game last?
- What Olympic event is about to start when a jury director
orders, "En garde"?
- What track favorite donned golden shoes to capture gold in
both 200- and 400-meter 1996 Olympic sprints?
- What country's Olympic basketball team does Chicago Bulls star
Toni Kukoc play for?
- What part of their vehicle's equipment are bobsledders only
allowed to use after crossing the finish line?
- Who was unable to run the 200-meter final at the 1992 Olympics
due to food poisoning?
- How many times did the Summer Olympics feature the sport
of Live Pigeon Shooting?
- How many continents must a sport be played on before the IOC
will consider making it an Olympic event for men?
- What athlete was protected by seven security guards at
the 1994 Winter Olympics?
- What country competed alone in Athens' 1996 Olympic
100-meter Freestyle for Sailors?
- What Olympic athlete dated the son of Romanian dictator
Nicolae Ceausescu?
- What walking sport should be added to the Olympics, according
to 42 percent of U.S. sports editors, sportscasters and columnists?
- What Olympic event has runners wearing shoes with perforations
to allow for drainage?
- How many seconds are there on an Olympic basketball shot
clock?
- What Olympic field event consists of a crouch, shift,
thrust, and release?
- What general stormed into the boxing ring at the 1928 Olympics
to protest judges ruling for a South African over an American?
- What woman won five U.S. figure skating titles from 1969 to
1973, but never an Olympic gold medal?
- What country fielded 1996 Olympic women's teams that won gold
in basketball, soccer and softball?
- What 1996 Olympic event had two U.S. squads playing each other
for the gold medal?
- What U.S. Olympic city did the torch relay to Atlanta
start in?
- What Olympic event's winner is considered to be the
"world's greatest athlete"?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 111
- 1960.
- Drug testing..
- Forty.
- Fencing.
- Michael Johnson.
- Croatia's.
- Brakes.
- Michael Johnson.
- Once.
- Four.
- Nancy Kerrigan.
- Greece.
- Nadia Comaneci.
- Golf.
- Steeplechase.
- Thirty.
- The shot put.
- Douglas MacArthur.
- Janet Lynn
- The U.S.
- Beach volleyball.
- Los Angeles.
- The decathlon's.
Major league baseball trivia questions and answers.
- Whose ceremonial pitch to open the 1940 baseball season smashed
into the camera lens of a Washington Post photographer?
- Who homered in his third straight game on the day he beat Lou
Gehrig's record for consecutive games?
- What two Yankees did 17-year-old female Jackie Mitchell strike
out successively in 1931?
- What slow-footed catcher admitted he used to knock his hat off
while running to first base to make it appear he was "really
moving"?
- What pitcher was taken out of his major league debut in the
seventh inning for a pinch hitter named Duffy Lewis, in 1914?
- What did Chris Sabo shower the field with when his bat broke
in a July 31,1996 game?
- Whose record did Reggie Jackson tie when he spanked three home
runs in a World Series game?
- What major league baseball team is sometimes dubbed "The
Fish"?
- What American League baseball team plays home games in a
stadium nicknamed " the Big A"?
- What National Leaguer went longest between MVP seasons,
winning in 1954 and 1965?
- How many intentional walks did Roger Maris, batting
ahead of Micky Mantle, get in his 61 home run season in 1961?
- What Cy Young Award winner continued to hurl for a
prison team called the Detroit Dennys?
- What catcher, asked during spring training what his hat size
was, answered: "I don't know. I'm not in shape yet"?
- Who was the National League home run king in half the seeasons
of the 1980's?
- What Phillies slugger, upon seeing Lake Michigan for the firs
time, asked: "What ocean is that"?
- What Yankees manager explained: "In a short series good
itching will always beat good hitting -- and vice versa"?
- Who's major league baseball's career leader in total
bases?
- Who signed with the Yankees in 1980 for over twice the amount
George Steinbrenner paid for the franchise?
- What high-living Yankee slugger's roommate noted: "I don't
room with him. I room with his suitcase"?
- What slugger received 900,000 letters in the first six months
of 1974?
- What major league baseball team had an Internet home page in
English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin in 1996?
- What baseball team has lost the World Series a record 12
times?
- Who has the best won-lost percentage of any pitcher with
15 or more wins against the New York Yankees?
- Who was pitching when pitcher Joe Niekro smacked his only
homer, in 1976?
- What 60 year old gave up one hit in three innings of work
against the Red Sox in 1965?
- What pitcher set a record in 1977 for most walks in a post
World War II season, with 201?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 110 -
Baseball
- Franklin D. Roosevelt's.
- Cal Ripken Jr.
- Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
- Bob Uecker.
- Babe Ruth.
- Cork.
- Babe Ruth's.
- The Florida Marlins.
- The California Angels.
- Willie Mays.
- Zero.
- Denny McLain.
- Yogi Berra.
- Mike Schmidt.
- John Kruk
- Casey Stengel.
- Hank Aaron.
- Dave Winfield.
- Babe Ruth's.
- Hank Aaron.
- The Los Angeles Dodgers.
- The Dodgers.
- Babe Ruth.
- Phil Niekro.
- Satchel Paige.
- Nolan Ryan.
Major league baseball trivia questions and answers.
- What hide was first used to cover baseballs in 1975?
- What baseball announcer said Pope Paul VI's death "puts a
damper on even a Yankees win"?
- What country's first U.S. major league baseball player was
Chan-Ho Park?
- Which two cities have the oldest stadiums in major league
baseball?
- What baseball team's games are announced on TV by Skip Carey?
- What shortstop holds the major league records for games
played, assists and double plays?
- What pitcher's 1.12 ERA in 1968 is the lowest in the majors in
post-World War II play?
- Who was the last American League baseballer to win the Triple
Crown, in 1967?
- What Pittsburgh Pirate had exactly 3,000 career hits
before dying in a plane crash?
- What's the LCS to a baseball pennant winner?
- What was pitcher Dock Ellis the first major leaguer to
wear in his on the field?
- How many seasons did Lou Gehrig play every inning of
every game?
- What major league baseball team has fans dubbed "Cheese
Heads"?
- What ballpark was Pete Rose playing in when he broke Ty Cobb's
career hits record?
- What major league baseball team did the Walt Disney Company
assume operational control of in 1996?
- How many seasons saw Hank Aaron blast 50 or more homers?
- Who holds the record for most innings pitched in a major
league season?
- What legendary manager explained: "You have to have a catcher.
If you don't the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen"?
- What explosive base-stealer took a $2.75 million pay cut to
play for the Kansas City Royals, in 1995?
- What major league baseball team was forced to endure a 20-day
road trip in 1996?
- What Beantowner is second only to Pete Rose in total major
league baseball games played?
- What's the most home runs hit by one player in a single
major league game?
- What establishments were 90 percent of the viewers
watching the first televised World Series from?
- What did Babe Ruth, Rogers, Hornsby, Ted Williams and Willie
Mays all do in their first major league at-bats?
- What former Giants star is the godfather of Barry Bonds?
- What governor was on hand at home plate to greet Hank Aaron
when he broke Babes Ruth's home run record?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 109 - Professional Baseball
- Cowhide
- Phil Rizzuto
- South Korea's
- Boston and Detroit
- The Atlanta Braves.
- Ozzie Smith
- Bob Gibson's.
- Car Yastrzemski.
- Roberto Clemente.
- League Championship Series.
- Curlers.
- One
- The Milwaukee Brewers.
- Riverfront Stadium.
- The California Angels.
- Zero.
- Cy Young.
- Casey Stengel
- Vince Coleman.
- The Atlanta Braves.
- Carl Yastrzemski.
- Four.
- Bars.
- Strike out.
- Willie Mays.
- Jimmy Carter.
Major league baseball trivia questions and answers.
- What pitcher has the most World Series victories
- Who had the biggest drop in batting average from one season to the next?
- What were the only two pothers to win the Cy Young Award?
- Who is the only pitcher with over 3,000 strikeouts and fewer than 1,000 walks?
- Which pitcher has the most wins without ever appearing in a World Series?
- Who is the only pitcher to win the Rookie of the Year, Cy Young and MVP?
- Who had the most hits in the 1990's?
- Who is the only pitcher to win the MVP two years in a row?
- Who is the only pitcher to win six Cy Young Awards?
- What pitcher has won the ERA title the most times?
- Who has allowed the most walks in their career?
- Who has the most career home runs without ever being in a World Series?
- What father-and-son combo has the most career home runs?
- Who was the first National Leaguer to hit 50 home runs in two consecutive seasons?
- What was Babe Ruth's lifetime batting average?
- Who is the only person to win the batting title in his first two full major league seasons?
- Who is the only pitcher to save three consecutive All Star games?
- Who hit into the most double plays in their career?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 108 - Professional Baseball
- Whitey Ford with 10
- Norm Cash of the Tigers batted .361 in 1961 and .243 the next year.
- Jim Perry with the Twins, in 1970 and Gaylord Perry with the Indians in 1972.
- Ferguson Jenkins
- Phil Niekro with 318 wins.
- Don Newcombe of the Dodgers
- Mark Grace of the Cubs
- Hal Newhouser of the Tigers in 1944-45
- Roger Clemens
- Lefty Grove with 9
- Nolan Ryan with 2,795.
- Ernie Banks, with 512 Home runs.
- Bobby and Barry Bonds, with 332 for Bobby and 650 and counting for Barry.
- Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa both did it in 1998-1999
- .342
- Tony Oliva of the Twins in 1964 and 1965
- Dennis Eckersley, 1989-91
- Hank Aaron, with 328.
Space science trivia questions - Scroll down for answers.
- Which planet has the most moons?
- Which planet is the hottest?
- Which planet is the coldest?
- How much would 100 pounds here on earth weigh on the moon?
- What is Titan's atmosphere made of?
- What is the diameter of the earth?
- What is the diameter of the moon?
- How fast is the speed of light?
- How many miles is one light year?
- What is a meteorite made of?
- How long is an astronomical unit?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 107 -
Space Science
- Jupiter has the most of any planet. Saturn is second.
- Venus is the hottest planet.
- Pluto is the coldest planet. It has an icy temperature of -400 F.
- If you weighed 100 pounds on earth, you would weigh only about 16
pounds on the moon.
- The atmosphere of Titan is made mostly of Nitrogen (80-90%), just like the Earth's atmosphere!
- The diameter of the earth at the equator is 7,926.41 miles (12,756.32 kilometers).
- The diameter of the Moon is 3,474 kilometers.
- In metric units, the speed of light is exactly 299,792,458 meters per second (or 1,079,252,848.8 km/h).
Approximately 186,000 miles per second.
- A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles.
- Most meteorites contain at least some iron metal (actually an alloy of iron and nickel). You can see the metal shining on a broken surface. Iron meteorites are all metal, stony iron meteorites are about half metal, half stone, and stone meteorites contain small flecks of metal.
- The Astronomical Unit is the average distance between the Sun and
Earth. Its value is 149,597,870 km (about 93 million miles).
Space facts trivia questions - Scroll down for answers.
- How old is the universe?
- What is a black hole?
- How far is the nearest black hole?
- What is a supernova?
- What is a quasar?
- What is a neutron star?
- What is a brown dwarf?
- What is a red giant?
- How hot is the sun?
- What is a solar flare?
- What are cosmic rays?
- What is the Van Allen belt?
- What is the most common element found in the universe?
- What is Jupiter made of?
- How many moons does Jupiter have?
- How long is a day on Mercury?
- How many stars are there in in the big dipper?
- How many stars are in the little dipper?
- What is a constellation?
- How many named constellations are there?
- What is the big red spot on Jupiter?
- Where is the element gold come from?
- What is a parsec?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 106 - Outer
Space
- In a study published in the journal Science, a team of
researchers says the universe is between 11.2 billion and 20 billion
years old.
- A black hole is a region of spacetime from which nothing can
escape, even light.
- As of now the closest known one is thought to lie at about 1,600
light years from Earth.
- A supernova is a stellar explosion which produces an extremely
bright object made of plasma that declines to invisibility over
weeks or months.
- The scientific consensus is that quasars are powered by material
falling into super massive black holes in the nuclei of distant
galaxies.
- Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of some massive stars.
- Brown dwarfs are sub-stellar objects with a mass below that
necessary to maintain hydrogen-burning nuclear fusion reactions in
their cores.
- They are stars of 0.4 - 10 times the mass of the Sun which have
exhausted their supply of hydrogen in their cores and switched to
fusing hydrogen in a shell outside the core.
- The core of the Sun is 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The
surface of the Sun, is only 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
- A solar flare is an explosion on the Sun that happens when
energy stored in twisted magnetic fields is suddenly released.
- Cosmic rays are high energy charged particles, originating in
outer space, that travel at nearly the speed of light and strike the
Earth from all directions.
- The Van Allen Radiation Belt is a torus of energetic charged
particles (plasma) around Earth, trapped by Earth's magnetic field.
- Hydrogen
- Jupiter is about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium (by numbers of
atoms, 75/25% by mass) with traces of methane, water, ammonia and
"rock"
- Jupiter has 63 known satellites (as of Feb 2004): the four large
Galilean moons plus many more small ones some of which have not yet
been named.
- Mercury rotates three times in two of its years.
- The Big Dipper is a group of seven bright stars, 3 which form a
handle and 4 which form a bowl.
- The little dipper has 6 stars.
- A constellation is a group of stars that, when seen from Earth,
form a pattern.
- There are 88 constellations.
- A: The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a hurricane-like storm
system. It is large enough that two Earths could fit across it.
- Gold only comes from Super Novae.
- The parsec is a unit of length used in astronomy, approximately
equal to 3.261 light years.
