FunTrivia Sports Mix: Vol 25 Trivia Quiz

Answer: wipe

The clean and jerk, and the snatch are the two basic lifts required during an official weightlifting competition in the sport (also known as "Olympic Weightlifting"). The clean and jerk is a composite of two lifts with the end result of having the barbell held above the head with arms straight and fully extended.

The clean brings the weight from the floor to chest level, then the jerk raises it overhead. The snatch brings the weight from floor to overhead in one continuous motion. The deadlift is a power training lift where weight is transferred only to waist level from the ground.

In all weightlifting, careful monitored, gradual weight increase and proper technique insure freedom from injury.

Question by player Nealzineatser

Answer: Bob McIntyre

Bob McIntyre did this in 1957 on a 500cc Gilera 4 cylinder. He was born in Glasgow , Scotland in Nov. 1928 (died in Aug. 1962). Geoff Duke came close in 1955 with a 99.97 mph lap.

Question by player frinkzappa

Answer: Curling

In curling the skip decides on strategy and holds the broom to show in which direction the stone should be aimed by other players. While the skip can play at any position, he typically throws the final two stones in the fourth position. And - by the way - the captain of the team in lawn bowling is also called a skip!

Question by player ponycargirl

Answer: Daytona Beach

The Daytona 500 was first held in 1959, and is part of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Daytona Beach carries a nickname "World Center of Racing" due to its heavy involvement with several motor racing events. The Bethune-Cookman Wildcats University teams are also successful in many different sports.

Question by player AlexxSchneider

Answer: Out

In a singles match, it would be called out. In doubles, it would be called in.

Question by player y2jbest

Answer: The short fringe grass around the green

Every golfer would love to be "on the green" as they attempt to make a par or better. However, the circumference of the green is surrounded by close-cut grasses or "frog hair". Landing there is the next best thing to landing on the green itself.

Question by player Kablooey1

Answer: Pole vault

Yelena Isinbayeva is the the greatest female pole-vaulter of all times, the holder of the present (2015) world record with 5.06 m achieved in 2009. She has been a gold medalist in the Olympic games of Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.
Sergey Bubka is an Ukrainian (former Soviet) athlete of pole vault, the greatest athlete ever in this sport and the first ever to reach 6.00 m.

Question by player tiye

Answer: China

Ma Long, undoubtedly one of the most famous and legendary athletes in the history of table tennis, comes from China. In fact, and apart from his two gold medals in the those two Olympic games (together with two more team gold medals) he was also the World Champion in men's singles in 2015, 2017 and 2019.

Question by player gkaz4

Answer: St George's Cricket Club, New York NY

The game was played between the USA and Canada. Scheduled for two days play, it extended into a third day after bad weather. The US batted first, scoring 64 runs, and Canada replied with 82 runs. The respective second innings scores were 58 and 62 runs, resulting in a win to Canada by 22 runs.

Question by player Dreamcoat

Answer: Paris-Dakar rally

Jutta Kleinschmidt was born in Cologne in 1962 and grew up in various towns of Upper Bavaria. She studied engineering physics in Isny before working in vehicle development at BMW. Her first rally was the Rallye des Pharaons ("Pharaoh's Rally") in Egypt in 1982 on a motorbike.

She began her first Paris-Dakar rally in 1988, also on a motorbike, but had to pull out. Her first racing win was the Paris-Cape Town Rally in 1992 and after switching to driving a car, in 1997 she was the first woman to win a stage of the Paris-Dakar rally.

Her Paris-Dakar win in 2001 was the first time a woman won the rally and she was also the first German to win driving a car (father and son team Karl-Friedrich and Jost Capito had won in 1985 but driving a truck). In 2019 she became the president of the Cross-Country Rally Commission of the Féderation Internationale de l'Automobile (International Automobile Federation).

Question by player reeshy