Sports Movies Trivia Quiz

Answer: Nuke

The Durham Bulls is a minor league baseball team where washed up players come to end their career and up and coming stars come to shine. One such player is Ebby Calvin 'Nuke' LaLoosh, played by Tim Robbins. He is a pitcher who has some talent but justs act a little crazy on the playing field. To calm him down there is the catcher named Crash Davis, played by Kevin Costner.

He is at the end of his career, and is not afraid to push situations to the limit on and off the field. Question by TechHammer.

Answer: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Denzel Washington plays Coach Herman Boone from Alexandria, Virginia and T.C. Williams High School. To try and get his team together and help ease racial relations, the team was brought to Gettysburg College as a getaway from the problems they had lived in and would return to after camp.

As an example of how they could work their problems out, Boone took his team and coaching staff on a pre-dawn run through the woods with the destination being a battlefield from the Civil War. Part of his speech to the team included this quote "If we don't come together right now on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed, just like they were. I don't care if you like each other of not, but you will respect each other. And maybe... I don't know, maybe we'll learn to play this game like men". Question by Illini43.

Answer: Roy McAvoy

Kevin Costner plays Roy McAvoy, who is trying to win the U.S. Open. In all three opening rounds, Roy decides to go for it on the 18th hole instead of laying up for an easier shot. On the final day, and a win in sight, he again tries to shoot over the water and land the ball on the green. Ball after ball ends up rolling into the water hazard or going directly into it. With his final ball and a possible disqualification on the line. Roy finally shoots an immortal shot that rolls into the hole for a 12.

He feels bad about his 18th hole until Molly Played by Rene Russo, puts it into perspective. " No one's going to remember the Open years from now, who won...but they'll remember your 12. My, God, Roy, it was... Well, it's immortal! I am so proud of you!" Question by Illini43

Answer: Babe Ruth

Jake Taylor is played by Tom Berringer, who at the end of his career has badly injured knees. Taylor imitates Babe Ruth's famous supposed call of a home run at Wrigley Field in Chicago, when he points to the outfield. After a brushback pitch, Taylor then lays a bunt down the third base line. Wesley Snipes's character named Willie Mays Hayes rounds third and attempts to score as the Yankees are occupied with throwing out Taylor at first. Hayes slides safe at home and the Indians win the pennant. Question by Illini43.

Answer: because he likes radios

The football coaches are trying to find out his name and he won't answer, but he is constantly playing with the radio and they decide to call him Radio. The role of Radio is played by Cuba Gooding Jr. The person the movie is based on is shown during the credits with the South Carolina high school football team. Question by Illini43 and the Movie Buffs

Answer: Butkus

The breed of Butkus is a Bull Mastiff. Rocky would always go into the pet store that Adrian worked at and would play with Butkus. Eventually Adrian gave Rocky the dog as a gift to be his companion when he would go running. Butkus is shown in both the first and second Rocky movies. Question by Illini43 and the Movie Buffs

Answer: Slap Shot

Paul Newman played the player-coach of a motley crew of oddball hockey players, including Dave "Killer" Carlson and the notorious Hanson Brothers, whose violence is matched only by their childishness.

Submitted by KatieK54

Answer: The Natural

"The Natural" (1984), directed by Barry Levinson and co-starring Glenn Close, Kim Basinger and Barbara Hershey, is an adaptation of a novel of the same name (1952) written by Bernard Malamud. It's the story of a promising young baseball player who at the age of 19 gets shot and therefore cannot continue his aspiring Major League career, but accomplishes great success 16 years later when he leads the fictitious team of the New York Knights to victory. It was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Supporting Actress (Glenn Close) and Best Music: Original Score (by Randy Newman), but didn't win any.

Submitted by Picard25

Answer: Caddyshack

The film "Caddyshack", was a 1980 film following the antics of several golfers at Bushwood Golf Club. Judge Elihu Smails was a very cheap member of the club and was unaware of his low tipping to the caddies who helped him through his rounds of golf. The Judge helps out caddy Danny Noonan, played by Michael O'Keefe, to enter the caddy tournament and win a scholarship.

Besides playing in the television series "Too Close for Comfort", this would be Ted Knight's last movie role. Question by Illini43 and the Movie Buffs

Answer: Cutting Edge

"Prefontaine" details track-star Steve Prefontaine's competitiveness that got him into the 1972 Olympic games, but which tragically ended with the Olympian being killed in a car crash three years later. "Miracle" is all about the 'Miracle on the Ice' Russia v. USA hockey match in the 1980 Olympics. "Chariots of Fire" is based on the true story of two British athletes that were competing in track/running in the 1924 Summer Olympics. While the "Cutting Edge" does detail an Olympic story between a competitive ice-skater and a former hockey player, it is NOT based on a true story.

Submitted by KatieK54