The Greatest Sports Quiz 5

Answer: hip

Unicycle hockey is a team sport that combines hockey and unicycling. Players use sticks to hit a ball into the opposing team's goal, while riding unicycles. There are three national leagues in Australia, Germany, and Switzerland, and clubs and teams in other countries, such as France, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Taiwan, Sweden, and Korea.

Answer: August 1

The Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) founded National Disc Golf Day to celebrate the growing popularity of the sport. They chose August 1st because August is a popular month for discing, and the day was officially approved as a national day in July 2016 by the Registrar at National Day Calendar.

Answer: Tuck

Cheerleading originated at Princeton University in 1880 and has since become closely associated with American football and basketball. Cheerleaders often use elements of tumbling and dancing in their routines, and many cheer squads also participate in cheerleading competitions.

Answer: 7 feet (2.1 meters)

Shot put is an track & field event in which athletes throw a heavy, spherical metal ball. The ball can be made of various materials, including iron, cast iron, solid or stainless steel, or brass.

Answer: 1996

The first World Cup of Sky Surfing was held in Eloy, Arizona USA. A team in sky surfing competitions consists of a skydiver who performs stunts while attached to a board, and a cameraperson who captures the aerial maneuvers. The team's performance is evaluated based on the creativity, difficulty, and execution of their moves.

Answer: automatic activation device

In the early 1990s, German skydiver Helmut Cloth designed the automatic activation device (AAD) after losing a friend who was unable to manually deploy his parachute in time. The AAD, also known as the "CYPRES," automatically deploys a skydiver's reserve parachute if they fail to do so themselves.

The CYPRES has saved many hundreds of skydivers' lives, and it is now a standard safety feature in skydiving.

Answer: 91 feet

Bocce ball is a game with simple rules. Two teams of four players each throw four larger balls, called bocci, at a smaller ball, called the pallino. The team with the bocci closest to the pallino after all the balls have been thrown scores one point for bocci closest to the pallino than the closest ball of the other team.

The regulation bocce court is 91 feet long by 13 feet wide (27.7m x 4m).

Answer: The Quarterly Skateboarder

The Quarterly Skateboarder was a California-based magazine launched in the mid-1960s. It was the first dedicated magazine for skateboarding, although Surf Guide had previously promoted the sport. The Quarterly Skateboarder only lasted for four issues.

Answer: Moreton-in-Marsh

The oldest document that describes the modern game of croquet is a set of rules registered by Isaac Spratt in 1856. This document is now in the Public Record Office. The first croquet all-comers meet was held in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire in 1868; the same year the All England Croquet Club was formed in London.

Answer: Cancellation

Horseshoes is a lawn game played between two people (or two teams of two people). Each player or team has two horseshoes, which are tossed at a stake from a distance of 40 feet (12.2m). The horseshoe has been replaced by a more stylized U-shaped bar (around twice as big as an actual horseshoe).

The goal of the game is to get your horseshoes as close to the stake as possible - if both of your horseshoes are closer, that 2 pts (one point each). A ringer is 3 pts instead of one. The player that's first to 40 pts wins the game.

Answer: Hayward, Wisconsin

The Lumberjack World Championships began in 1960 and is held at the Lumberjack Bowl in Hayward, Wisconsin. Events include men's and women's logrolling, underhand block chop and 90-foot speed climb.

Answer: Chichén Itzá

Ulama is a ball game that was played throughout Mesoamerica, the region now known as Mexico and Central America. It was not only a sport, but also had religious significance. Prisoners of war were forced to play ulama, and the losers may have been put to death.

The game was played on a large, open field with two teams of players. The goal of the game was to keep the ball in the air and to score points by hitting the ball through a stone hoop. The game was often played for high stakes, and the losers could be put to death. Ulama was a very important part of Mesoamerican culture, and it was often used to celebrate religious festivals.

Answer: St. Paul, Minnesota

Sled dogs were used by the native people of the Bering Strait to pull adapted kayaks over the snow. The teams were typically made up of three dogs, and the master ran ahead to guide them. The dogs were harnessed in a fan formation without a leader, unlike today's sled dogs, which are harnessed in a straight line with a leader in front. Today's racing sled dogs are smaller and sleeker than the original sled dogs, which weighed about 75 pounds.

They are also bred specifically for racing, whereas the original sled dogs were simply working dogs.

Answer: Dennis Priestley

Dennis "The Menace" Priestley has won over 40 tournaments in his career and was the first player to win both the British Darts Organization and World Darts Council (now Professional Darts Corporation) world championships in 1991 and 1994 respectively.

Answer: May Sutton

May Sutton of the United States won Wimbledon women's singles in 1905 when she defeated the reigning champion Dorothea Douglass 6-3, 6-4.

Answer: 2016

Para-canoeing made its debut at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. A total of 60 athletes (30 men and 30 women) competed in six sprint style events.

Gold medalists included Jakub Tokarz of Poland for Men's KL1, Curtis McGrath of Australia for Men's KL2, Serhii Yemelianov of Ukraine for Men's KL3, Jeanette Chippington of Great Britain for Women's KL1, Emma Wiggs of Great Britain for Women's KL2 and Anne Dickins of Great Britain for Women's KL3.

Answer: 1984

The Iron Dog is a long-distance snowmobile race across Alaska. It is the longest high-speed cross-country snowmachine race in the world, with a length of 2,031 miles (3,269 km). A record 42 teams entered the 2008 event. The winners of the inaugural race in 1984 were John Faeo and Rod Frank.

Answer: 6

Volleyball is a team sport where two teams of six players try to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court. The ball is volleyed (hit back and forth) over a net that divides the court. Volleyball has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964.

Answer: Don Frye

UFC 10 was held in Birmingham, Alabama, on July 12, 1996. The tournament featured eight fighters competing in a single-elimination format. In the finals, Mark Coleman defeated Don Frye by technical knockout in 11 minutes and 34 seconds to win the tournament.

Answer: Iroquois Steeplechase Race

The Iroquois Steeplechase has been held in Nashville, Tennessee since 1941. The race is held at Percy Warner Park on a course designed by William duPont and inspired by Marcellus Frost.