Sport in Kentucky Trivia Quiz

Answer: Adolph Rupp

The University of Kentucky was founded in Lexington in 1865. The Wildcats men's basketball team have set all sorts of records down the years, with Adolph Rupp leading them to five NCAA national titles during a career that lasted from 1930 until 1972. The team's home court, opened in 1976, was named Rupp Arena in his honour.

Answer: Paul Hornung

Paul Hornung was born in Louisville in 1935 and was an all-round sports star in high school before attending college at Notre Dame. He won the 1956 Heisman Trophy before being selected first overall by the Packers in the 1957 NFL draft. Playing at both the halfback and kicker positions, he won league titles with the Packers in 1961, 62, 65 and 66.

He won a Super Bowl I ring despite injury keeping him out of the game.

Answer: Valhalla

Valhalla Golf Club was designed by Jack Nicklaus and opened in 1986. It hosted its first major in 1986 when Mark Brooks won the PGA Championship. Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy also won that particular tournament there, whilst, in 2008, the USA, captained by Paul Azinger, defeated Europe to win the Ryder Cup.

Answer: Darrell Waltrip

Darrell Waltrip was born in Owensboro in 1947 and made his NASCAR debut in 1972 at Talladega. Driving for the Junior Johnson team, he won the 1981 Winston Cup Series and successfully defended his title the following year. A third and final championship followed in 1985. He took part in his final race at Atlanta in 2000. Darrell's younger bother Michael was also a NASCAR driver.

Answer: Churchill Downs

Churchill Downs opened in 1875, and hosted the inaugural Kentucky Derby that same year. It is held on the first Saturday in May, and is known colloquially as both "The Run for the Roses" and "The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports".

Answer: Golf

J.B. Holmes was born in Campbellsville in 1982 and played collegiate golf at the University of Kentucky. Turning pro in 2005, he won his maiden tour title at the Phoenix Open the following year. In 2016, he finished third at the (British) Open Championship and tied for fourth at The Masters.

Answer: Light heavyweight

Ali began boxing at the age of 12 and was still a teenager when he boxed at the 1960 Rome Olympics. Boxing in the Light heavyweight division, he defeated Poland's Zbigniew Pietrzykowski in the final to win the gold medal. He turned pro later the same year, and, moving up to the Heavyweight division, he won the world title for the first time in 1964, defeating Sonny Liston.

Answer: Marquette

The University of Louisville was founded in 1798, the first city-owned public university in the USA. Under head coach Denny Crum, their men's basketball team defeated UCLA to win the 1980 national title, and repeated the feat six years later with a win over Duke.

In 2013, with Rick Pitino as head coach, they defeated Michigan to win a third crown, but were later forced to vacate it due to recruitment violations.

Answer: Dodgers

Harold "Pee Wee" Reese was born in Ekron in 1918 and made his MLB debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1940. Playing shortstop, he was selected to ten All-Star games and helped Brooklyn to its only World Series crown in 1955. When the Dodgers relocated to Los Angeles in 1958, he retired from playing at the end of the season but then took up a coaching role with the team, earning a second World Series ring in 1959.

Answer: Basketball

Based in Louisville, the Kentucky Colonels were one of the original members of the American Basketball Association which began play in 1967. During the nine years of the league's existence, the Colonels made the play-offs every year and won the title in 1975, beating the Indiana Pacers in the finals.

When the league folded in 1976, the Colonels were not one of the four teams accepted into the NBA, and they ceased to exist.