What Sport Is It? Trivia

1. This sport is played with teams of six. The teams score points when they make the ball hit the ground on the other team's side of the net. Which game is this?

From Quiz Love You More Than Football

Answer: Volleyball

Volleyball can also be played indoors or on grass. The game starts when one player throws the ball in the air and then hits it with their hand or arm, which is known as a 'serve'. You can only hit the ball and are not allowed to throw and catch it, so understandably, there is a lot of jumping around involved.

From Quiz Pass Me the Ball

Answer: Baseball

Baseball has been an American pastime since the 1840s when it slowly started to gain popularity across the United States. Today, Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most popular league in North America. To play baseball, all you need is a bat, a ball, and a glove. The object of the game is to try and hit the ball and then run around the four bases. It is played over nine innings. The team to score the most runs at the end of the game will be declared the winner. If it is a tie at the end of the nine innings, extra innings will be played until someone comes out on top.

From Quiz Great Balls of Fire!

Answer: Baseball

Baseball is often called "the great American pastime." The ball is struck by a bat, and if the hit is good the batter attempts to run around the three bases and back to home plate where he started. The other team attempts to prevent the scoring run by getting the baseball back to the fielder at the base before the runner arrives. American children often learn the game by playing on community teams. This question was compiled by Phoenix Rising team player pusdoc.

From Quiz Winter Olympics Sports

Answer: Bobsleigh

Men's bobsleigh has been part of the Winter Olympics since 1924 and women's bobsleigh was introduced at the Winter Olympics in 2002. The bobsleigh travels very fast - it can reach speeds of 150km/h!

From Quiz Which Sport Is It?

Answer: Basketball

Basketball was invented by a coach named James Naismith. Since then, it has picked up popularity across the world. FIBA (International Basketball Federation) is the international association for basketball. The most known basketball league is the NBA (National Basketball Association) of the United States and Canada. This league has seen many famous players such as Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.

From Quiz Is This The Right Equipment?

Answer: basketball

In order to play basketball a person would need at least one hoop, a somewhat smooth playing surface and an actual basketball. There are many ways to play, including one-on-one and in teams of up to five on each side. Standard size basketballs are about 9.5 inches in diameter.

From Quiz Sports Down Under

Answer: Australian rules football

Australian rules football is one of the most popular sports in the country, with higher total attendance than any other sport. Points can either be scored with goals (worth 6 points) or behinds (worth 1 point). Whichever team has the most points and the end of the match wins the game.

From Quiz Wet Sports

Answer: Swimming

This very popular sport has been an Olympic sport since the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens. It is both an individual and a team sport and takes place in a 50-meter pool (when competing in the Olympic Games). Up to 2012, American swimmer Michael Phelps has won 22 medals in this sport, more than any other athlete in any sport of the Olympic Games.

From Quiz My Visit to the Summer Olympics

Answer: Archery

Archery first appeared in the Olympics of 1900, and have appeared consecutively since 1972. Since 1972, South Korea and the United States have won the majority of the gold medals.

From Quiz It's a New Ball Game

Answer: American football

While the football is called a pigskin it was never actually made out of pigskin; this is a myth that became widely accepted. On November 6, 1869, the first college football game was played. The two teams were Rutgers and Princeton. However, it wasn't until the 1880s that the game of American football evolved into what we know it as today.

From Quiz Name the Sport

Answer: Soccer (Football)

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world but is called football in many parts of the world. Since there is very little equipment needed, people can play without needing to spend a lot of money. Only the goalkeepers can use their hands in soccer.

From Quiz Take a Swing At It!

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.

From Quiz Guess the sport I am in!

Answer: Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a dangerous sport in which gymnasts take part in various different events. The women's events are bars, balance beam, floor and vault. Gymnasts are awarded with a score after each event. Gymnastics involves putting your body in uncomfortable positions.

From Quiz Name That Athletics Event

Answer: 100 metres race

The 100 metres is a very popular event which always attracts a lot of attention. In this event, you have to run as fast as you can from the start line to the finish line. In profesional races the runners usually wear spikes and use a starting block to make sure they can get the fastest possible time!

From Quiz What sport am I?

Answer: Ice Hockey

The Montreal Canadiens have won many Stanley Cups in ice hockey. Field hockey is another version of hockey, where the sticks are used to hit a ball instead of a puck.

From Quiz Oh, That's the Sport!

Answer: Basketball

James Naismith is known as the inventor of basketball. The first game was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets used as goals.

From Quiz Sports Terms for Kids

Answer: Tee

The golf tee is a small piece of wood or plastic with a broad top. The golfer rests the ball on top of the tee to play the first shot on every hole.

From Quiz Name That Sport!

Answer: Water polo

Water polo is an Olympic sport. It is a little like hockey but in a swimming pool!

From Quiz Play the Game!

Answer: Swimming

If you cannot swim, get someone you know to teach you. It is good exercise. It will help to keep you fit - and it is great fun too!

From Quiz Which Sport #2

Answer: Softball

In softball you pitch underhand rather than overhand.

From Quiz Which Sport #1

Answer: Basketball

Basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith.

From Quiz Love You More Than Football

Answer: Hockey

In field hockey, the kind you might play in high school, a ball is used, while in ice hockey, the players wear skates and lots of padding, and a puck is used instead of ball. In primary school, we played an indoor variety called unihoc (also known as floorball), with smaller teams and a plastic ball with holes in.

From Quiz Great Balls of Fire!

Answer: Football (Soccer ball)

The classic and probably most recognizable football (soccer ball) consists of white hexagons and black pentagons. This design was introduced at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico and featured in every World Cup through 2002 in South Korea-Japan. Other designs began to be favored starting with the 2006 World Cup in Germany. David Beckham was a star English footballer who famously played for Manchester United and the English national team. He was the first English player to win league titles in four different countries playing for Premier League side Manchester United (6), La Liga's Real Madrid (1), MLS club LA Galaxy (2), and Ligue 1's Paris Saint-Germain (1). Beckham was renowned for his ability to bend or curve the ball, and the phrase "bend it like Beckham" was recognized all around the world. This question was compiled by Phoenix Rising team player JCSon.

From Quiz Winter Olympics Sports

Answer: Alpine Skiing

Alpine skiing is skiing down a mountain. There are different alpine skiing competitions at the Winter Olympics, some involve making tight turns down a course that zig-zags while others are more about pure speed. International alpine skiers can go as fast as 130km/h!

From Quiz Is This The Right Equipment?

Answer: tennis

Equipment needed to play tennis includes at least two rackets, a tennis ball and a net to stretch across the playing surface. A standard tennis ball is about 2.5 inches in diameter.

From Quiz Wet Sports

Answer: Synchronized swimming

Present in the Olympic games since 1984 in Los Angeles, synchronized swimming has competitions for duets and teams. It is a combination of swimming, gymnastics and dancing in the water.

From Quiz Name the Sport

Answer: Basketball

Basketball was invented in Massachusetts as a game to play indoors on rainy and snowy days. When they used peach baskets, the game had to be stopped after every basket because someone had to climb a ladder to pull the ball out of the basket. Fortunately, the game goes a lot faster now and is more exciting for the fans.

From Quiz Take a Swing At It!

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.

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