Game, Set, Match Trivia Quiz

Answer: Tennis elbow

Tennis elbow is an injury when the outside of the elbow becomes tender and sore. Its proper name is lateral epicondylitis, but it is also known as tennis elbow, shooter's elbow or archer's elbow. It can strike anyone at any time for any reason, but it is commonly associated with tennis and other racquet sports. Everyday things, such as picking up heavy items, especially with the palm down, or just moving your elbow in general. Symptoms include pain in the elbow, tenderness in the bone on the outside of the elbow (the lateral epicondyle), pain when moving the wrist and pain while doing activities that extend the muscles in the arm and stiffness in the morning. Strengthening the muscles in the arm is the best way to prevent it, as well as decreasing time spent playing sports and staying in good physical shape.

Answer: Sea snail

The bursina borisbeckeri is a type of sea snail in the animal family bursidae. It lives in the seas along the Philippines. It is named after the German tennis player Boris Becker, who was a former world number 1 in the sport. He won 6 grand slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal throughout his career, which lasted from 1984 to 1999.

He won the Wimbledon men's singles tournament at the age of just 17!

Answer: Rod Laver

Rod Laver was an Australian tennis star born on the 9th of August 1938. He won 6 Grand Slam tournaments as an amateur and from when he turned pro in 1962 to when he retired in 1979 he won 5 men's singles Grand Slam tournaments and held the #1 world ranking for a whopping seven years (for four years of these seven rankings only referred to professionals)! When he turned pro after winning the 1962 Grand Slam, he was unable to compete in the Majors again until 1968, which was when they became open events rather than amateur ones.

The Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne was named in honour of this great man. It holds the Australian Open tournament each year.

Answer: Paul Bettany

"Wimbledon" received mixed to positive reviews with critics. Reviewer aggregate site "Rotten Tomatoes" gave it a 60% "fresh" ranking. It was dedicated to American lawyer Mark McCormack, who passed away on the 16th of May 2003. He had suffered a cardiac arrest four months prior to his death.

Answer: Cream

Cream were a British rock band popular in the '60s. They were made up of Jack Bruce on the bass and lead vocals, Eric Clapton on guitar and vocals and Ginger Baker on drums. Despite the name of the song, "Anyone for Tennis" Is not actually about tennis. Although nobody is sure, it is likely to be about the Vietnam War.

Answer: Britain

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, originated in Britain in the 1880s as an after-dinner parlour game for the upper class. At the time, it was commonly known as "wiff-waff" and a table with a row of books across it served as the table and net. Two more books were used as rackets, and a golf ball served as the ball.

The racket gradually evolved, it soon changed in to cigar box lids and corks, and then, when the game took off, pieces of parchment stretched across a frame. The noise these rackets made led to the names "wiff-waff" and "ping-pong".

The modern celluloid ball was introduced in 1901, as were the rackets, although the sponge layer wasn't introduced until the 1950s.

Answer: New York

The United States Open Tennis Championships, more commonly referred to as the US Open, is held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, New York City. It takes place on acrylic hard courts and is one of the four major Grand Slam tennis tournaments in the world, along with the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon.

The first men's singles competition took place in 1881 and takes place each year over two weeks in August and September, making it the last Grand Slam tournament of the year.

Answer: Hot dog

A hot dog is when a player runs back to hit the ball and hits it between his legs with his back turned to the net. It generally happens after the other player hit a lob over their head. It is an extremely difficult shot to master and is rarely seen, but it certainly brings the house down when it happens!

Answer: David Foster Wallace

The novel, first released in America in 1996, was mainly set in a drug rehabilitation centre in a future North America. It also takes place at the Enfield Tennis Academy, were many young tennis prodigies learn to enhance their tennis skills. It has many disturbing scenes, like when one of the characters commits suicide by putting his head in a microwave.

The author, David Foster Wallace, committed suicide on the 12th of September 2008 by hanging himself.

Answer: Pong

"Pong" was created as a training exercise by Allan Alcorn for Atari Inc., but quickly took off after its release in 1972. A player could control an in-game paddle as they tried to return a small ball to an opponent. The opponent could be controlled by another player or by the computer. You lost a point if you missed the ball and earned a point if the opponent missed the ball.

It was built to simulate tennis and table tennis.