Sunday, May 8, 2011

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #124 - Trivia Quiz Questions About Miscellaneous Sports

General sports trivia questions and answers.
  1. What racket sport can be played with four balls of differing
    bouncing qualities?
     
  2. What brilliant name did the Texas Rangers choose for their
    ballpark?
     
  3. What are sportsmen hoping to find in a creel?
     
  4. Who wore shoes labeled "Air Uta" during her 1995 Boston
    Marathon victory?
     
  5. Who usually finished last in Edmonton Oilers strength tests,
    in the 1980s?
     
  6. What pro athlete is nicknamed "The Dream"?
     
  7. What Giant's bone-crushing 1985 tackle ended Joe Theismann's
    career?
     
  8. What sport features strikers and sweepers?
     
  9. What Mariner's 15 homers in May of 1994 were more than
    the entire Montreal Expos team managed?
     
  10. How many of the five boroughs does the New York City marathon
    run through?
     
  11. What new pitch helped Carl Hubbell win 24 straight games
    in the 1930s?
     
  12. How many holes are in the original Wiffle ball?
     
  13. What sport accounted for five of the top ten highest grossing
    sports movies, through 1994?
     
  14. What pro sport tries to break ties with a sudden-death
    overtime period of five minutes?
     
  15. What do you call the stick you use to push a shuffleboard
    disc?
     
  16. What state is allowed to compete separately from the U.S. at
    international surfing meets.?
     
  17. What name did the athletic teams go by at Jack Nicklaus'
    high school?
     
  18. Who was the first African-American to win the U.S. and world
    figure skating singles titles?
     
  19. What U.S. track star did French writers dub La gazelle
    in 1960?
     
  20. What racket sport involves bashing a bird?
     
  21. How many of every ten pro athletes in the U.S. are African -
    American?
     
  22. What sport features such plays as the flare, fly,
    buttonhook and post?
     
  23. What Celtics announcer found he could hear much better
    after a doctor discovered a radio ear plug in his ear?
     
  24. What team sport was 1995's fastest-growing sport in the U.S.,
    up 43 percent since 1994?
     
  25. What nation's Black Magic I sailed away with a five-zero
    America's Cup win in 1995?
     
  26. What team has the highest Stanley Cup playoff winning
    percentage?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 124 - General
Sports Trivia.


  1. Squash.
  2. The Ballpark.
  3. Fish.
  4. Uta Pippig.
  5. Wayne Gretzky.
  6. Hakeem Olajuwon.
  7. Lawrence Taylor's.
  8. Soccer.
  9. Ken Griffey Jr.'s.
  10. Five. 
  11. The Screwball. 
  12. Eight. 
  13. Boxing. 
  14. Hockey.
  15. A cue.
  16. Hawaii.
  17. The Golden Bears.
  18. Debi Thomas.
  19. Wilma Rudoph.
  20. Badminton. 
  21. One.
  22. Football. 
  23. Johnny Most.
  24. Roller Hockey.
  25. New Zealand's
  26. The Edmonton Oilers.