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1. Where is squash's Tournament of Champions held annually?

From Quiz The Greatest Sports Quiz 6

Answer: New York City

Previously known as the US Professional Championships, the Tournament of Champions was first held in New York City 1930, making it the oldest squash tournament. It was originally open to men only; however, in 2001 a separate division was incorporated to allow women to compete.

From Quiz 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.

From Quiz The Greatest Sports Quiz 4

Answer: 3 seconds

In handball, players can only hold the ball for three seconds and take no more than three steps while in possession of it. In the USA, players can only take one step before passing the ball to another player -- this keeps the game fast-paced, as players must quickly pass the ball or shoot to score.

From Quiz The Greatest Sports Quiz 3

Answer: Colorado

Howelsen Hill is the oldest continually-operating ski area in North America. It has produced over 100 Olympians, 22 Colorado Ski Hall of Famers, and 13 National Ski Hall of Fame inductees.

From Quiz 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.

From Quiz The Greatest Sports Quiz 1

Answer: Menominee North End A.C.

The Green Bay Packers first started playing competitively in 1919, two years before joining the NFL. Their first game took place on September 14, 1919 where they defeated Menominee North End A.C. with a score of 53-0. They finished the season with a record of 10-1.

From Quiz FunTrivia Sports Mix: Vol 1

Answer: Miami Dolphins

Dan Marino was the quarterback for the Miami Dolphins from 1983 to 1999. Question by player TheAnswerIs9

From Quiz A Feast Of Football

Answer: Dockers

The Fremantle Dockers joined the AFL in 1994, being the second team from Western Australia after the West Coast Eagles. They have unfortunately been playing catch up to the Eagles ever since, as the Eagles won the AFL Grand Final in 2006 and 2018 while the Dockers best finish in that time was runners up in 2013. Dockers fans can take heart though as their Cincinnati namesakes of the USAFL are winners, having won the inaugural USAFL Division 1 Grand Final in 1997 when they defeated the Nashville Kangaroos.

From Quiz Outlast the Competition

Answer: Seabiscuit

Seabiscuit was a thoroughbred racehorse in the 1930s and 1940s. Seabiscuit was voted American Horse of the Year for 1938 by "The Daily Racing Form" newspaper. In 1938, Seabiscuit defeated the 1937 Triple-Crown winner, War Admiral, at the two horse Pimlico Special race in Baltimore, Maryland.

From Quiz Multi-Sport Athletes

Answer: Chuck Connors

Chuck Connors played "The Rifleman" on TV (1958-1963). Prior to this and other acting roles, he played for the Boston Celtics (1946-47), and the Dodgers (1949), and the Cubs (1951). He stood 6 ft. 6 in (198cm). Before "The Rifleman" he played minor roles in many TV shows. He also spoke Yiddish from his early days in Brooklyn.

From Quiz Sports Variety

Answer: Red Rum

Red Rum won the Grand National in 1973, 1974 and 1977, becoming the first horse to win this steeplechase three times. He finished second in between those wins, in 1975 and 1976. He is buried at the winning post at Aintree.

From Quiz The Who, What, When, Where, & Why Sports Quiz

Answer: Nadia Comaneci

Nadia Comaneci, from Romania, recorded that achievement in the uneven bars at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. That eventuality had been considered so improbable that the official scoreboard was not capable of recording 10.0, showing 1.0 instead. Nadia Comaneci was just 14 at the time and went on to win five Olympic gold medals in all at the 1976 and 1980 games.

From Quiz Super Mario World

Answer: 3

Mario Andretti was the first driver to win the award, as it happens, in 1967. He also won it in three different decades, with the other two awards being in 1978 and 1984. He was also the first racing driver to win IndyCar races in four decades, his last win being in 1993. He has competed in and won various types of motor race, including NASCAR, IndyCar, Formula One (for Parnelli, Lotus and Alfa Romeo) and the World Sportscar Championship. His sons Michael and Jeff are also racing drivers, as is his nephew John.

From Quiz The Great White Part 5: Bleached Bleachers

Answer: France

The Olympique Lyonnais Féminin plays in Lyon, France. The team was formed in 1970 as part of the FC Lyon and in 2004 it became part of Olympique Lyonnais. The team won the Division 1 Championship title 13 years in a row (2007 to 2019), as well as five UEFA Women's Champions League titles in 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2018. They are considered to be one of the strongest women's teams in the world. Question submitted by pitegny.

From Quiz Color Me Purple Part 10: Purple Reigns

Answer: Art Modell

Modell purchased the Cleveland Browns in 1961, but changes were needed to the stadium three decades later. Originally he had planned to move the Browns franchise to Maryland, but after some legal maneuvering, that brand remained with Cleveland. Instead a new franchise was started in 1996. The name Ravens was selected after much polling of fans. The team colors are black, purple and metallic gold. (mlcmlc)

From Quiz In the Red: Competing

Answer: Gloucester

Founded in 1873, the 'Cherry and Whites' are so called because of the colours the team wears. It was never an official nickname but from around the mid-1950s, that name became an affectionate form of address. There was an attempt at re-branding the team nickname as the 'Lions' in the early 2000s, but this was largely unsuccessful. This question was hand-balled by Team Red member VegemiteKid.

From Quiz The Gay Games

Answer: San Francisco

As with the Olympic games on which they are based, the Gay Games are held every four years. They were originally billed as the Gay Olympics but a threat of legal action forced the organisers to drop the word "olympic". Interestingly, as was noted at the time, the Olympic committee had never objected to events such as the Police Olympics or the Nebraska Rat Olympics.

From Quiz Mixed Bag Of Sports

Answer: 14

Rule 4.4 of the Royal and Ancient Rules of Golf state "The player must not start a stipulated round with more than fourteen clubs. He is limited to the clubs thus selected for that round, except that if he started with fewer than fourteen clubs, he may add any number, provided his total number does not exceed fourteen." At the 2001 Open Championships, Ian Woosnam had just moved into a share of the lead when he realised he had 15 clubs in his bag, thereby incurring a two stroke penalty. At the end of the competition, those two strokes had cost Woosnam second place.

From Quiz Big Star In The Big House Vol. 2

Answer: Clifford Etienne

Etienne is no stranger to the big house, having taken up boxing while serving ten years of a 40 year sentence for attempted armed robbery. He was paroled in 1998, and fought his first professional bout in December that year. His career record stands at 29 wins, four losses and two draws. In 2013, due to a technicality, his sentence was reduced from 160 years to 105, but even with this reduction he is unlikely to fight professionally again.

From Quiz Devious Demons at Play

Answer: Shaun White

Well-known professional skateboarder Tony Hawk befriended nine-year-old Shaun White after meeting him at a local skate park and mentored him for several years. After winning Olympic gold in 2006 and 2010, White placed fourth at the 2014 Olympics half-pipe before redeeming himself with a third gold in 2018. At the Winter X Games in 2012, White became the first person in the history of the competition to score a perfect 100 in the men's Snowboard Superpipe. He is also the first snowboarder to win back-to-back gold medals in the Winter X-Games Superpipe. -LBaggins

From Quiz I Am the Resurrection

Answer: Wizards

Jordan played 13 seasons with the Bulls and 15 seasons overall. He was an All-Star in every season that he played, except for the 1994-95 season where he didn't come back from his retirement until after the all-star break. He retired after the 1992-93 season. Returned for 17 games in 1995 and three full seasons with the Bulls before retiring again in 1998. In 2001 he came back and played two seasons with the Wizards, including coming off the bench for the first time in his career.

From Quiz Par For The Course

Answer: 72

Par is usually determined by distance. Most golf holes are usually a par-four with some having pars of three and five. A par-six is rare and a seven even rarer. Most professional golf courses are designed around a par of 72, consisting of four par-threes, ten par-fours, and four par-fives. Pars of 69-73 are acceptable. There is no absolute standard or requirement. Where there is a shortage of land, courses will be labelled as "three-par" where the majority of holes, if not all have a par of three making a course with a par as low as 54 possible.

From Quiz Mixed Sports Medley

Answer: Germany

The harsh terms that the Treaty of Versailles imposed on Germany following that country's defeat in World War I ironically led to Germany developing and manufacturing state-of-the-art gliders. This was because the treaty imposed very stringent guidelines on Germany's manufacture of powered heavier than air machines. So while the rest of the world concentrated on developing powered craft, the Germans powered ahead with developing gliders. Gliding, which is also known as soaring, is the skill of directing completely unpowered aircraft by using currents of air to stay aloft for as long as desired. Gliders are usually launched initially though by being towed up to the heavens by a powered craft and then released when the desired height has been reached. How serene and quiet it must be to be floating through the skies after that disconnection. Skilled pilots are known for staying up there like birds for over 1,000 kilometres. Quite amazing.

From Quiz Getting Ahead of Time

Answer: Florence Griffith Joyner

Florence Griffith Joyner's record-setting time of 10.49 seconds was run in Indianapolis on July 16, 1988. Her time was .27 seconds faster than the prior world record holder, Evelyn Ashford. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will allow a world record to stand only if the wind speed is measured at less than 2.0 metres/second (m/s) as measured by an anemometer. Controversially Florence Griffith Joyner's anemometer registered a 0.0 m/s wind speed when a nearby event registered a 4.3 m/s wind speed. Even so, Florence Griffith Joyner ran two other times in 1988 that were well below the prior world record that were not controversial due to possible wind assistance.

From Quiz Why Me?

Answer: Herschel Walker

Walker, coming off the best season of his career, was traded by Dallas to Minnesota along with two third round draft picks, a fifth round pick and a 10th round pick. Minnesota sent back five players (David Howard, Jesse Soloman, Issiac Holt, Darrin Neslon and Alex Stewart) and eight draft picks. (Three first round picks, three second round picks, a third round pick and a sixth round pick.) One of those picks turned out to be Emmett Smith, who would go on to become the NFL's all-time leader rusher. To add insult to the trade, Walker would eventually return to Dallas as a free agent several years later.

From Quiz In The Middle

Answer: Italy

Born in Bologna, Italy in 1960, Pierluigi Collina began refereeing in the late 1970s after a short stint as a defender. His rise through the Italian domestic leagues was rapid and within a few years the man with the iconic bald head was regularly officiating difficult games in Serie A. His progression didn't stop at the top of the Italian game of course as he soon found himself in the European and international arenas, officiating at tournaments such as the UEFA Champions League and the FIFA World Cup. Collina reached the very top of the European club game in 1999 when he officiated at the incredibly memorable UEFA Champions League final in Barcelona featuring Manchester United and Bayern Munich. With the regular ninety minutes played, the German side were leading 1-0 and looked all but certain to lift the trophy; the next few minutes turned out to be the most incredible in the history of European football with Manchester United scoring not one but two goals. What made this event historic was that it was the first time that an English side had managed to complete the treble (winning the English Premier League, English FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League for a specified season). In 2002, Collina went as far as a football referee can go when he officiated at the FIFA World Cup final where Brazil defeated Germany by two goals to nil in Yokohama, Japan.

From Quiz Shut Out

Answer: when wagerer gets to the window too late to place a bet

Any horse player knows the sinking feeling of being "shut out" when standing in line as the bell sounds, the window slams down, and no more bets are allowed. Of course the degenerate gambler always tells the story of how he had the longshot in the race which would have paid off big, and couldn't get his bet down because some novice was fumbling around in front of him in the queue.

From Quiz The Son Also Rises

Answer: Doc/Austin Rivers

When Doc Rivers was coaching the Boston Celtics he faced off against his son Austin, who was playing for New Orleans. That game was played in Jan. 2013. Two years later the pair would unite with the Los Angeles Clippers. Doc was hired as the head coach, and in Jan. 2015 Austin was traded to the team. Jeffrey is Michael Jordan's middle name, not his son. The other's weren't basketball playing duos.

From Quiz In Flight

Answer: 800g

A spear has always been used by primeval hunters to catch food or as an offensive weapon in war, but the sport of throwing a javelin dates back to the ancient Olympic Games in Greece. The aim of winning at javelin is simple. The longest throw of the competition wins provided the tip of javelin lands first down into an allotted 29 degree sector. The men's javelin should weigh 800g and the women's 600g. It is part of the track and field event in modern sporting activities, either as a stand alone sport, or as part of the decathlon or heptathlon.

From Quiz In the Sports Closet: What Can be Done?

Answer: Martina Navratilova

Martina Navratilova defected to the U.S. from Czechoslovakia in 1981, and soon after came out. She was the ultimate outsider of the game: a foreigner, a lesbian, and a left-hander in a right-hander's game. When Billie Jean King was outed soon after, Navratilova was said to not be very supportive, which led to bad relations between the two in the tennis world.

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