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1. What sport connects deuce, ace, Wimbledon, and love?

Answer: Tennis

Tennis is played across the world on different surfaces including carpet, grass, clay, cement, and hard-courts. The four big Open Championships include Wimbledon which is played in London, England, the Australian Open played in Melbourne, the French Open played in Paris and the U.S. Open played in New York City.

2. What sport connects shuttlecock, birdie, smash, and tumbling net returns?

Answer: Badminton

Badminton is thought to have been developed in the 1700s and was first called battledore. The name badminton is derived from Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the residence of the Duke of Beaufort who was an early patron of the game. It is a very fast game and participants burn more calories in one hour of badminton than in three hours of tennis.

3. What sport is played in a four-walled room with a racket and a small rubber ball?

Answer: Squash

Squash was first played in the early 1800s and was invented at Harrow Secondary School. It is now an international sport played on every continent and recently made the short list for consideration as an Olympic sport. Interesting fact, the Titanic had a squash court onboard for the first class passengers.

4. In which sport might you hear the terms wicketkeeper, stumps, googly, full toss, silly mid-off and bouncer?

Answer: Cricket

The game of cricket may well go back to the early 1500s. It was first played in England and slowly expanded to other British protectorates in the 1800s and 1900s. It is a popular sport in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the West Indies. Cricket was even an Olympic sport back in Paris in 1900.

It is played with two 11-player teams on a 22-yard long pitch with a large outfield. Bowlers pitch six balls in an over and each team tries to amass as many runs as possible without being caught, run-out, stumped, or out leg before wicket.

Incidentally, a googly is a delivery performed by a right arm leg spin bowler.

5. What popular swing and hit game can be found on many playgrounds in North America and involves a ball attached to a string that wraps around a pole when you hit it?

Answer: Tetherball

Tetherball is played using a metal pole that stands anywhere from 7 to 10 feet high. A volleyball is attached to the pole with a nylon rope that allows the ball to hang two feet from the ground. The two opponents then take turns in hitting the ball. One hits in a clockwise direction the other in a counter-clockwise fashion.

The winner is the player who manages to get the ball wrapped completely around the pole. In England and Australia there is a similar game played with rackets and a suspended tennis ball, this game is called swingball or totem tennis.

6. What popular school game played in England and Ireland most closely resembles the American game of baseball?

Answer: Rounders

Like baseball, rounders utilizes a small leather-covered ball, wooden bat, and four bases that are placed in a diamond shape in the middle of a field. It is believed that rounders has been played in England since Tudor times with the earliest written reference appearing in 1744. One of the major differences between rounders and baseball include the fact that batters only get one attempt to hit the ball and are called out if they run with the bat. Additionally, all pitches are made in an underarm fashion and the bases are generally upright poles instead of flat bases lain on the ground.

7. Across the American nation, many small children get their first experiences swinging a baseball bat playing what popular sport?

Answer: T-Ball

T-Ball or Tee Ball is a popular introductory baseball game that targets children between the ages of two and six. Players swing at a soft baseball that is mounted upon a plastic pole. The game was thought to have been invented in the 1950s but in the 1970s Dayton Hobbs trademarked the TeeBall name with the U.S. government.

8. In what sport, involving a small white ball, do you swing wedges, irons, and drivers?

Answer: Golf

Modern day golf has its roots in 15th century Scotland. It was an Olympic sport in 1900 and 1904 and returned to the Summer Olympic Games in 2016. Most rounds of golf are played on an 18-hole golf-course including fairways, bunkers, rough, and putting greens.

9. Which winter sport, that uses a puck, has the nickname of "the fastest game on earth"?

Answer: Ice Hockey

Ice hockey is played on an ice rink with six players on each team. The objective is to pass and shoot a small rubberized puck into the opponent's net. Ice hockey has been a Winter Olympic sport since 1924 and appeared at the Summer Olympic Games in 1920. The most dominant countries in the sport worldwide include the United States, Canada, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.

10. What sport is played traditionally using mallets on a grass field up to 300 yards long?

Answer: Polo

The game of polo is played on horseback and involves four-rider teams trying to hit a small white ball across the opponent's goal line. The game can last up to 2 hours and is split up into periods called chukkers (sometimes called chukkas). Polo has appeared in five different Summer Olympics (1900, 1908, 1920, 1924 and 1936). Great Britain has won the most medals in Olympic Polo with a total of nine including three gold medals.

Source: Author coachpauly

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