Hidden Sporting Terms Trivia Quiz

Answer: Scrum

If the packS CRUMble the referee will endeavor to restart the game.
Rugby Union tends to place more emphasis on the scrum as a way to re-start the game than Rugby League. The scrum itself is made up of three rows. The two 'props' and the 'hooker' are installed into the front row, two 'locks' make up the middle and the back row requires the team's two 'flankers' and the number '8'. Interestingly, the number '8' is called just that ... the number '8', it has no specific English name.

Answer: Ace

The frightening pACE of his serve makes it a winner. An ace is a serve that lands legally in the opponent's court, is untouched by that opponent's racquet and, as a result, does not get returned. Having the ability to serve aces on a regular basis is a decided advantage for players but a tennis player cannot rely on aces alone. Case in point is the first round at Wimbledon in 2005. Ivo Karlovic served, a then ATP tour record of 55 aces and still lost to Danielle Braciciali.

Answer: Goal

Points were awarded in the tanGO ALl-stars game. 'Goal' is also the name of a 2005 movie directed by Danny Cannon. Kuno Becker stars as Santiago Munez, a young Mexican lad dreaming of 'making it' in the world of professional football (soccer). FIFA (the Federation of International Football Associations) assisted in the movie by allowing the use of 'actual' teams in the film.

Answer: Par

For golfers, getting even is the hard PARt. Par in golf is generally a predetermined number of strokes that a 'scratch' player i.e. has a zero stroke handicap, should take to complete a hole. 'Par' is the major component of 'stroke' play, which is the most widely used format of tournament play in professional golf.

Answer: Freestyle

There was something in the careFREE STYLE of the swimmer's overhead stroke.
Freestyle is also known as the 'Front Crawl' and the 'Australian Crawl'. It is generally regarded as the fastest of the swimming strokes.

Answer: Race

Perfect gRACE gave rise to perfect competition. The marathon, which glorifies the run of Pheidippides, carrying news of the Persian landing at Marathon, to Sparta to enlist aid, was not a part of the Ancient Olympic Games. It was bought into the modern games at Athens in 1896.

The distance was standardised at the London Games in 1908. The twenty six (26) miles and three hundred and eighty five (385) yards (or 42.195 kilometres) was the distance between the starting point, Windsor Castle, and the finishing line at White City Stadium.

Answer: Starter

The STAR TERminates all chances of winning by firing the gun twice. The IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) has deemed that a false start will have occurred if an athlete moves off the blocks within one tenth of a second of the gun being fired. Why you may well ask, the figure is an arbitrary one.

It is based on evidence that the human brain takes at least one tenth of a second to process the command 'RUN' after hearing the sound of the starter's pistol.

Answer: Epee

Was hE PEEvish when he found the sword? Epee is the French word for 'sword'. Fencing generally uses three weapons; the epee, the foil, and the sabre. The epee is the heaviest of these and is the only fencing discipline that uses the entire body as a target scoring area.

Answer: Arrow

At the end of the feathered shaft is a point as sharp as a spARROW. An archery arrow is made up of a shaft, completed by an arrow head at the front, and fletchings and a nock at the rear.

Answer: Gloves

Despite covering his hands, in this form of clubbinG LOVE Sleeps. Boxing gloves serve two purposes. To protect the hands from blunt force injury and, ironically, to allow boxers to throw punches with more force than if they weren't using them. The weight and the brand of the gloves to be used are agreed to by the boxers before the bout.

Heavier punchers will tend to favour lighter gloves as they are likely to inflict the greater damage.