The Greatest Sports Quiz 2

Answer: 9 minutes

Bouts were limited to 30 minutes from the early 1930s after a Masters Championship game in New York went for around seven hours (unverified). Bouts were previously played with no time limit. The time limits are now 3 minutes for 5-touch bouts and 9 minutes for 15 touches.

Answer: 1992

Kelly Slater won a total of 11 WSL Championships from 1992-2011. He had also won the Triple Crown in 1992, 1996 and 2011.

Answer: 6

Tiger Woods (born on December 30, 1975), got his first hole-in-one on May 12, 1982 at Heartwell Golf Course in Long Beach, California at the ripe old age of 6. He appears to have misremembered this because he once told an audience that he was eight years old.

Answer: largemouth bass

For sport anglers, largemouth bass and smallmouth bass are two of the most prized catches. They're found in lakes and rivers with plentiful fresh water.

Answer: Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali was famous for his colorful quotations. He also said, "I'm so mean, I make medicine sick." and, amongst many others: "I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world."

Answer: Portland Trail Blazers

That particular game took place on December 6, 1985, with Portland defeating Boston with a score of 121-103. However, the Celtics ended up achieving the best record in the league (67-15) and went on to win the championship.

Answer: Homer

Chariot racing was a feature of the heroes' seasonal games in Homer and the ancient Olympic Games. The Romans took this and turned it into the most popular of the mass entertainment staged spectacles in ancient Rome. Historical accounts state that the city was virtually deserted when they took place. Generally, the format had 12 chariots racing in teams.

There were four teams, often called factions, which were identified by their colors: blue, green, red, and white. The fans followed the team color more than they followed the individual drivers or horses, similar to modern sports.

Answer: Mike Mentzer

Mike Mentzer started bodybuilding at the age of 11 and entered his first contest in 1969 at the age of 18. In 1978 he won the Mr. Universe in Acapulco, Mexico with the first perfect 300 score. In 1979, he won the heavyweight class of Mr. Olympia, with another perfect score.

Answer: Buck Baker

Baker won in 1956 driving a Chrysler for team owner Carl Kiekhaefer and again in 1957 driving his own Chevrolet, a replica of which appeared on the Glory Road exhibit in the early 2020s.

Answer: Pentathlon

The Ancient Olympic pentathlon was an athletic contest at the Ancient Olympic Games. Five events were contested over one day, ending with wrestling. The other events included a foot race, the javelin throw, discus throw and long jump.

Answer: 31

His record-breaking victory in the Belmont Stakes, which he won by 31 lengths, is widely regarded as one of the greatest races of all time. He had also won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes that year making him the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.

Answer: turkey

According to the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame, a British anthropologist discovered in the 1930s evidence of bowling items in an Egyptian grave. Evidence suggests that bowling dates back as far as 3200 BC - around the same time that some of the first forms of the written word were discovered on cuneiform tablets.

Modern bowling is only a few thousand years younger: indoor bowling lanes made their debut in 1840 in New York City.

Answer: 1903

The first patent for a coin-operated billiard table was issued in 1903. The cost of a game was one penny.

Answer: thumb wrestling

In thumb wresting two people using their thumbs to simulate fighting. It's the "miniature golf of martial sports" (per the "San Francisco Chronicle").

Answer: Argentina

Argentina has competed at every Rugby World Cup since the first tournament of 1987. Their colors are sky blue and white. They played their first rugby international in 1910.