Boxers or Briefs? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Michael Jordan

During the time he helped take the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships (1991-92-93 and 1996-97-98), Jordan always wore his shorts from the University of North Carolina underneath his team uniform. He believed these brought him luck (UNC won the NCAA championship in 1982).

He also won two basketball gold medals at the Olympics (1984 Los Angeles and 1992 Barcelona). Born in 1963, Michael Jordan is described on the NBA website as the greatest basketball ever to take the court.

Answer: Grew a beard

Borg also liked to wear the same shirt when he played. His belief in his beard and shirt enabled the icy cool court player to win five Wimbledon titles in five consecutive years (1976-80. Born in 1956, Bjorn Borg won an amazing eleven Grand Slam singles titles in seven years during his career (six Wimbledon titles and five French Open titles).

Answer: He had to touch anyone who touched him

Born in 1955, Major League Baseball player Rhomberg was known for his many superstitions associated with playing. His most notable habit was that he believed he had to touch anyone who touched him. Unfortunately when word of this compulsion spread to opposing teams, Rhomberg's playing life was made decidedly unpleasant.

The opposing players took to touching him all the time to throw him off his game. He was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in 1977 and retired in 1984. His team-mates gave him the nickname "Touch Me, Touch Me".

Answer: Serena Williams

Serena had a whole swathe of superstitions she believes she had to carry out when playing competitive tennis. She also believes she has to take her shower sandals with her onto the court. Ball bouncing is another superstition she carries out on court. Serena always bounces the ball five times before serving. If a second serve is called for, she only bounces the ball twice.
She became the fifth woman to hold all four grand slam singles titles, simultaneously, when she won the Australian Open in 2003. The first four womwen to do so were:

1953 Maureen Connelly (grand slam)
1970 Margaret Court (grand slam)
1985 Martina Navratilova (when she won the '85 Australian Open)
1988 Steffi Graff (grand slam)
1994 Steffi Graff (when she won the '94 Australian Open).

Answer: Sleeping in a pair of the opposing team's shorts

Jason, born 1977, is considered to be the one of the fastest players on court and is noted for his three-point shooting in particular. As far as his superstitions go, he also believes he has to wear five pair of socks when he's playing competitively. He made his NBA debut with the Atlanta Hawks in 1999, and moved to the Dallas Mavericks in 2004.

Answer: Chicken

Boggs' habit of refusing to eat anything but chicken before each game has led people to refer to him as the Chicken Man. He also believed he had to practice batting at 5:17 precisely and start running sprints when the clock hit 7:17. Not only that, but Boggs, born 1958, and considered one of the best players of all time, believed he had to draw a Hebrew symbol on the ground before he commenced batting in any game.

He played for the Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees and Tampa Bay Devil Rays between 1982 and 1999.

Answer: The posts

Patrick also believed he had to touch the posts whenever a puck was deflected off them. In addition to this, he believed that if he skated backwards towards the net before any game began, the net area grew smaller. This would enable him to protect it more easily.

Born in 1965 and now retired from playing competitively, Patrick is still involved in the game as a coach (he played for the Montreal Candiens and Colorado Avalanche from 1984 to 2003). His peculiarities during play earned him the nickname of Saint Patrick with the players.

Answer: A gold thong

Giambi weighed 240 lbs when playing professionally, and he was also six foot three inches tall. If his game began to fall off, this giant of a man invariably got himself into a gold thong to improve it. Champion player Giambi, who was born in 1971, ruined his fine championship reputation by admitting to using performance enhancing drugs.

He made his MLB debut in 1995 for Oakland Athletics.

Answer: His own urine

Machida, who was born in Salvador in 1978, began his professional career in Japan. He had a unique style of competing, backpedaling and winning on points rather than on aggression, something that didn't please the fans. He had a total belief in drinking his own urine before any match as he believed it cleansed his system.

Answer: Cleaning his teeth

Between 1993 and 2004, Turk Wendell played for the Chicago Cubs, NY Mets, Philadelphia Phillies and Colorado Rockies. Born in 1967, he is described in the magazine "Men's Fitness" as the most superstitious player of all time. Amond his many superstitions, he believed he had to leap across the base lines on the way to the mound, believed he had to chew licorice whenever he was pitching, and believed he had to clean his teeth between innings.

Then he would commence chewing licorice again. He also believed that he should always wear his necklace of teeth from animals that he had hunted and killed.