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Another Sportscocktail Trivia Quiz

There are more sports between heaven and earth than can get dealt with in just a couple of quizzes. So here's more of the same.

A multiple-choice quiz by flem-ish. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
flem-ish

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
38,666

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

Plays
762

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Question 1 of 10

1. The sport of 'lawn tennis' in fact derives from 'real' or 'royal tennis'. Also called jeu de paume in the Middle Ages. Which of these is NOT a characteristic difference with present-day lawn tennis? Hint

balls are softer

clothballs are used

the net is one metre and a half high but lower at its sides than in the middle

rackets are lopsided

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Question 2 of 10

2. What sport had to be made more acceptable to civilised people by the introduction of the so-called Queensberry rules? Hint

angling

wrestling

fox-hunting

boxing

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who was the longest reigning chess world champion until now? Hint

Bobby Fisher, USA

Michael Botwinnik, USSR

Emmanuel Lasker, Germany

Vassily Smyslov, USSR

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Question 4 of 10

4. What sport got its name from the French way of warning your opponent he should be ready to catch the ball? Hint

badminton

petanque

tennis

volleyball

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Question 5 of 10

5. What sport derives its name from its being played with a hooked stick? Hint

polo

hooky

fencing

hockey

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which ex-GDR woman athlete won the same Olympic event TWICE for (reunited) Germany a.first in 1992 b.then in 2000 ? Hint

Heike Drechsler

Katharina Witt

Ulrike Meyfahrt

Gertrude Baumann

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Question 7 of 10

7. What in boxing was once the absolutely lowest 'weight category'? Hint

flyweight

strawweight

bantamweight

junior flyweight

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Question 8 of 10

8. How often did the USA cycler Greg Lemond become the world champion in his sport? Hint

4 times

once

twice

3 times

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Question 9 of 10

9. Where in Europe did the catastrophic car-racing accident take place that killed 82 spectators in 1955? Hint

Nurburgring

Monza

Le Mans

Francorchamps

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Question 10 of 10

10. When in the early 'French-speaking' days of tennis they required a neutral third person to supervise the game, they called him the 'non-pair' or the outsider who is not one of the opposing pair of players. What is the modern English word for that function?

Answer: (One Word)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: balls are softer

Real tennis (also called court tennis) is now played at fewer than 30 courts. One of them is the court once used by King Henry VIII in his palace at Hampton.

2. What sport had to be made more acceptable to civilised people by the introduction of the so-called Queensberry rules?

Answer: boxing

Marquess of Queensberry was the one Oscar Wilde got into trouble with. Anyway, Mr Wilde would probably agree that in spite of those softening rules and even without taking Mike Tyson's cannibalistic practices into account, boxing is still today not a sport for sissies.

3. Who was the longest reigning chess world champion until now?

Answer: Emmanuel Lasker, Germany

Lasker's reign lasted from 1894 till 1921. Botwinnik was world champion 1948-1957, 1958-60 and 1961-63. Smyslov ruled for a very brief period, from 1957-58. Bobby Fisher felt he had had enough of the burden of his crown after being world champion from 1969 till 1972.

4. What sport got its name from the French way of warning your opponent he should be ready to catch the ball?

Answer: tennis

Tennis has been said to derive from: Tenez, or 'take this'.

5. What sport derives its name from its being played with a hooked stick?

Answer: hockey

One can play hooky (to play truant), but that's not considered a regular sport. The name Polo comes from Tibetan 'pholo' which literally means: ball game. Hockey: played with a stick hooked at one end. Galway Statutes of 1527 mentions 'hockie stickes or staves', which has been read as hooky sticks.

6. Which ex-GDR woman athlete won the same Olympic event TWICE for (reunited) Germany a.first in 1992 b.then in 2000 ?

Answer: Heike Drechsler

Drechsler had won the longjump for the Democratic Republic of Germany in 1992 (East Germany), and won it again for the German Federal Republic in 2000. Ulrike Meyfahrt was a highjumper for the GFR, Katharina Witt was an artistic iceskater. And Gertrude Baumann?? Well Heike Drechsler's coach was a Mr Baumann, but there is no news yet of a Gertrude Baumann winning gold medals.

7. What in boxing was once the absolutely lowest 'weight category'?

Answer: strawweight

Strawweight is used by "Ring" magazine (the WBA call it Minimumweight and WBC and others Mini Flyweight). It's the under 48 kgm (105 lb) class. Straweight is a maximum of 49 kgm (108 lb), junior flyweight is a maximum of 51 kgm (112 lb), and flyweight is a maximum of 52 kgm (115 lb). The next class is bantamweight.

The WBO and IBF introduced Atomweight in 2007 at 46.3kgm (102lb). The WBA call it Light Minimumweight.

8. How often did the USA cycler Greg Lemond become the world champion in his sport?

Answer: twice

In 1983 and 1989.

9. Where in Europe did the catastrophic car-racing accident take place that killed 82 spectators in 1955?

Answer: Le Mans

Answer: umpire

Source: Author flem-ish

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