Little Known Sports Mix Trivia Quiz

Answer: Vitali Klitschko

Dr. Vitali Vladimirovich Klitschko (known as "Dr. Iron Fist") was originally a professional kickboxer, who won the Super Heavyweight Championship at the first World Military Games in Italy in 1995.

He was became the first professional boxing world champion to hold a Phd (in sports medicine and philosophy) when he defeated South African Corrie Sanders on April 24, 2004, to capture the World Boxing Council world Heavyweight Championship (which had been vacated by Lewis), in Los Angeles

Answer: Josiah Thugwane

Josiah Thugwane shocked the world when he won the marathon at the 1996 Olympics to become the first Black South African to win an Olympic gold medal. He had recently recovered from gunshot wounds he suffered when he was carjacked near his South Africa home.

Answer: Gary Player

In 1961, Gary Player became the first non-American Masters champion. Player, widely recognised as one of the greatest golfers of all time, is a successful businessman, an acclaimed thoroughbred racehorse breeder, and a philanthropist. His "Ten Commandments of Life" sum up his character:

1. Change is the price of survival
2. Everything in business is negotiable except quality
3. A promise made is a debt incurred
4. For all we take in life we must pay
5. Persistence and common sense are more important than intelligence
6. The fox fears not the man who boasts by night, but the man who rises early in the morning
7. Accept the advice of the man who loves you, though you like it not at present
8. Trust instinct to the end, though you cannot render any reason
9. The heights of great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but that while their companions slept were toiling upward in the night
10. There is no substitute for personal contact

Answer: Brazil vs Uruguay

Uruguay won the match, 2-1.

Answer: 1200 A.D.

Skis were first used in warfare in 1200 AD during the battle of Oslo, in Norway, when King Sverre of Sweden sent scouts out reconnoiter the enemy, who was encamped in deep snow.

Answer: True

Mountaineer Christopher Timms, of New Zealand, survived the longest recorded fall in history. On December 7, 1966, Timms slid down an ice face of Mt. Elie de Beaumont, 7,500', into a crevasse. His companion was killed, but Timms came out of the fall with only a concussion, cuts, and bruises.

Answer: True

In 1884, Tanneguy DeWogan built a boat out of compressed paper. The Parisian traveled 2,500 mi. in the craft without a single leak.

Answer: 1 to 3 miles

Players in championship games walk from one to 3 mi. while circling the table, and moving from the table to their chairs.

Answer: 14

Olympic badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers.

Answer: Stella Walsh (Poland)

Poland's Stella Walsh (Stanislawa Walasiewicz)-won the women's 100-meter race at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, becoming the first woman to break the 12-second barrier. When she was killed in 1980 as an innocent victim in a robbery attempt, an autopsy declared her to be a male.