General Flashcards
The Houston Comets are the only team to ever win the first four championships of their league. What league were/are they a part of?
WNBA
What organization holds its world championship every August in Williamsport, Pennsylvania?
Little League
One of the events in the World’s Strongest Man competition is to pull this truck company’s titan 25 meters.
Mack
Mark Rypien and Hines Ward are the only two non-American-born people ever to win what award?
Super Bowl MVP
Whose professional career is shown here?
Deion Sanders
Eddy Merckx capped off the decade by winning what turned out to be the first of five victories in what event?
Tour De France
Wally the Green Monster is this team’s mascot.
Boston Red Sox
Curling originated in this nation.
Scotland
Dating back to the 19th century, it’s a variation of volleyball where you catch the ball
Newcomb Ball
With the help of Trey Rogers, a professor of crop and soil sciences at Michigan State University, the Pontiac Silverdome became, on June 18, 1994, the first indoor facility to host a match for what tournament?
World Cup
What is the sartorial term used in college athletics for a player who is held out of competition for a year, though continuing to attend practices and classes, and thus is granted an extra year of playing eligibility? The term in question can be used in this noun form, and also as a verb or an adjective.
Redshirt
This British athlete became the first person to run a sub-four-minute mile.
Roger Bannister
Two giants of beach volleyball—UCLA graduates and former teammates-turned-rivals who dominated the sport in the ’80s and ’90s—had the last names of Smith and Kiraly. Their given first names were Christopher and Charles, but they were better known by other names. Give either one.
Sinjin, Karch
This major league team has no mascot today, but from 1979 to 1981 used a mustachioed fella named Dandy.
New York Yankees
Tennis great Althea Gibson was also the first African American on the tour of this association in another sport.
LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association)
The USA’s first intercollegiate athletic event was in 1852 in this, which as a sport goes back to at least the Middle Ages.
Rowing
Jimmy Cannon said this “Brown Bomber” was “a credit to his race– “the human race”
Joe Louis (Boxer)
Although lacrosse since 2004 has been the state’s official TEAM sport, in 1962 Maryland became the first state to designate a state sport, selecting what antiquated martial activity? Modern contests retain some of the original pageantry, however have eliminated the potentially dangerous contact.
Jousting
Both the New York Yankees (in 1903) and the current iteration of Montreal Alouettes of the CFL (in 1996) relocated from what city?
Baltimore
What is the national sport of Turkey?
Oil Wrestling
The Harry Vardon Trophy, Claret Jug, Wanamaker Trophy, and Bob Jones Award are all honors earned through excellence in what sport?
Golf
To set a record for longest solo journey by kayak, 2,010 miles, Helen Skelton traveled through this nation for a month
Brazil
Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway are best known for pacing whom on May 6, 1954?
They were the fellow Oxford students who traded off pacing Roger Bannister on his historic four-minute mile.
What Pennsylvania sports stadium, which shares its name with an animal (an animal which is not the mascot of the team that plays there), has an official seating capacity of 106,572, making it the second largest-capacity stadium in the Western Hemisphere?
Beaver Stadium
Within the four major North American sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL), two teams’ current primary logo visibly displays a tongue. Both franchises began play in the 1990s. One team has a stylized and forked tongue that serves as the crossbar for a capital A. The other team has featured a tongue in both iterations of their primary logo since 1995. Name both franchises.
Arizona Diamondbacks, Jacksonville Jaguars
The personal logo for which athlete – who was #20 on Forbes’ 2018 list of highest paid athletes – is shown here?
Rafael Nadal
Former MLB pitcher Randy Moffitt, who played for the Giants, Astros, and Blue Jays during his 12-year career that began in 1972, is the younger brother of what trailblazing sports legend?
Billie Jean King
The formal name of the club known colloquially as the All England Club, located in the Wimbledon district in London, references two lawn sports, with one being tennis. What is the other—a game for which the club was founded in 1868 (though tournaments are no longer hosted there)?
Croquet
What was first dubbed “the most exciting two minutes in sports” in a 1940 newspaper article?
The Kentucky Derby
In 1903 Maurice Garin was its first winner in 94 hours, 33 minutes, 14 seconds.
Tour de France
What woman was named by Sporting News publication in 2009 as the 11th greatest coach of all time across all American sports, the only woman in their top 50?
Pat Summitt
Plugs, spoons, jigs, spinners, and bugs are all related items used during what outdoor activity?
Fishing
Among the franchises of the “big four” American professional sports leagues (MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL), what are the only two teams that are named after the official state birds of their respective home states?
Pelicans, Orioles
Identify either one of the professional sports teams currently in any of the four major professional North American sports leagues—MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL—whose name (e.g. “Yankees”, “Cowboys”) is also a book of the Old Testament. Both city and team name are required.
Los Angeles Kings, Sacramento Kings
High ball, middle (or two), quick (or one), shoot, and red are all sets (or “plays”) commonly used in what sport?
Volleyball
The Wade Trophy, which was first awarded in 1978 (to Carol Blazejowski), is given annually to a woman deemed the best collegiate player in what sport?
Basketball
While free throws are most associated in the world of sports with basketball, they are also a component in handball and in what other Olympic sport, whose rules include various other throws as well (e.g., goal throw, corner throw, neutral throw, penalty throw)?
Water Polo
What term describes all of the following?
- a cycling term for a single rider or group of riders detaching from the peloton to advance their position in front of it
- a situation in hockey in which there are no defenders (except for the goaltender) between an attacking player and the goal
- a position in rugby union also known as a flanker
- a basketball rim that contains a hinge and a spring at the point where it attaches to the backboard
Breakaway
With an estimated total income of ₹162.87 Crores (the equivalent of US$24 million) in 2020, Virat Kohli is the world’s highest-paid athlete in what sport? Kohli is often dubbed as one of the greatest players of all-time in his sport and is also the only active athlete in his sport to have more than 25 million Twitter followers.
Cricket
What German became the world’s first billionaire athlete in 2005?
Michael Schumacher
Twenty20 is the name of a novel format that was developed in 2003, and since then has become by some measures the most popular format, for what sport?
Cricket
For being the best American athlete in her sport, who won six straight Golden Goggle awards between 2013 and 2018?
The Golden Goggles are given by the USA Swimming Foundation, and Katie Ledecky has won more than any other woman (and more than any other swimmer except for Michael Phelps).
Which team has the only logo in North American pro sports where the mascot is depicted smoking?
Begorra, the Boston Celtics’ leprechaun is still smoking a pipe in 2021!
The bar must be laid horizontally in front of the lifter’s feet, gripped with an optional grip in both hands and lifted upward until the lifter is standing erect and with knees locked. This is an excerpt from the International Powerlifting Federation’s Rules of Performance for which of the “Big Three” powerlifts?
Deadlift
Of all the teams in the “Big Four” North American pro sports leagues (MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL) whose team names include an animal, only one was named after an animal that is extinct. What is that team name (both location and animal required)?
Toronto Raptors
American Flo Hyman was considered one of the greatest players in the world in what sport when she was tragically felled by a ruptured aorta caused by Marfan Syndrome, during a match in Japan in January 1986?
Volleyball
“You’re being extremely truculent.” “Whatever truculent means, if it’s good, I’m that.” This exchange occurred during an interview in February 1966 between two legendary sports personalities. Name either of the two individuals, who—though very different (they could hardly be more different)—were often associated with each other.
Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell
