Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #125 - General Trivia Quiz Questions About Sports

Miscellaneous sports trivia questions and answers.
  1. What baseball team has a monthly newsletter called The Vineline?
     
  2. What are the only three European countries to have won
    soccer's World Cup?
     
  3. What heavyweight was Tony "Two Ton" Galento referring to when
    he said in 1939 "I'll molder de bum"?
     
  4. What sport did Herve Filion top with a record of 14,084 wins?
     
  5. What two continents fielded teams in the World League of
    American Football, in 1991?
     
  6. Who was able to set NFL rushing records because of his "big
    butt," according to Chicago Bears trainer Frank Caito?
     
  7. Who was the first U.S. volleyball player to win three Olympic
    gold medals?
     
  8. What movie did Michael Eisner say was his "market research"
    for Disney's NHL entry?
     
  9. What was the only team to win two World Series in the
    1980s?
     
  10. What league was Gino Cappelletti the top scorer of in the
    1960s, with 1,100 points?
     
  11. What position did Cal Ripkin Jr., start at for the first
    time since 1982, in a July, 1996 game?
     
  12. What decade saw the NFL ban blocking below the waist and
    head slapping?
     
  13. What Yankee pitcher holds World Series records for games won
    and games lost?
     
  14. What baseball announcer's 1996 funeral was attended by Joe
    DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford and Phil Rizzuto?
     
  15. What major leaguer hit 20 or more homers in 20 seasons?
     
  16. What baseballer said of Biloxi Blues: "It reminded me of being
    in the Army, even though I was in the Navy:?
     
  17. What South African has traveled more miles than any
    athlete in history?
     
  18. What team had a camp so grueling it was dubbed " Fort Landry"?
     
  19. What former Bruin defenseman was the first to skate on Boston's
    new Feet Center ice?
     
  20. What down-under sport is a cross between soccer and rugby?
     
  21. How long is the longest race on the NASCAR circuit?
     
  22. What U.S. college sport honors its best player with the Hobey Baker Award?

     
  23. What horse tied, but could not break, Citation's 16-race
    consecutive win streak?
     
  24. Who was the first major leaguer to hit home runs in his teens
    and n his forties?
     
  25. Who was the only soccer player to play on three World
    Cup-winning teams?
     
  26. What ballplayer was dubbed " The Iron Bird"?
     
  27. What does the Lindy Worm Blower allegedly enhance your chances
    of doing?
     
  28. What pro sport was played by Lu Blue, Pebbly
    Jack Glasscock and Mordecai Peter Centennial "Three Finger" Brown?
     
  29. What pro team made it to the playoffs a record 29 straight
    times, in 1996?
     
  30. What essential do track racing bicycles
    lack that a recreational rider wouldn't be caught dead without?
     
  31. What weighty Japanese sport has participants known as rikishi?
     
  32. What 28-year-old ice skater died of a sudden
    heart attack in November, 1995?
     
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 125 - General
Sports Trivia.

  1. The Chicago Cubs.
  2. England, Italy, West Germany.
  3. Joe Lewis.
  4. Harness racing.
  5. Europe  and North America.
  6. Walter Payton.
  7. Karch Kiraly.
  8. The Mighty Ducks.
  9. The Los Angeles Dodgers.
  10. The American Football League. 
  11. Third base. 
  12. The 1970s. 
  13. Whitey Ford. 
  14. Mel Allen's..
  15. Hank Aaron.
  16. Yogi Berra.
  17. Gary Player.
  18. The Dallas Cowboys.
  19. Bobby Orr.
  20. Australian Rules Football. 
  21. 600 miles 
  22. Hockey. 
  23. Cigar. 
  24. Ty Cobb.
  25. Pele. 
  26. Cal Ripken Jr. 
  27. Catching fish.
  28. Baseball. 
  29. The Boston Bruins.
  30. Brakes. 
  31. Sumo wrestling.
  32. Sergei Grinkov .