Sporting Animals Trivia Quiz

Answer: Found the stolen football World Cup in London

Pickles was a 4 year old mongrel, given to David Corbett by his brother John as a puppy. The World Cup was due to be played in London in the summer of 1966, but somehow the trophy had been stolen when on display in the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster in March.

A few weeks later, Pickles saw a package covered in newspaper lying in the street, and sniffed around it a bit. David Corbett went to see what Pickles was making such a fuss of, and lo and behold, he found the missing trophy! Pickles went down in history as the hero who saved a nation's blushes.

As it turned out, he found the trophy which was won a couple of months later by the home nation - the first time in England's history that they won the World Cup.

Answer: Walrus

It is rumoured - though never empirically proven - that Hughes had his mustache insured for a significant sum of money. Strange, as a mustache is not something you can easily steal and use elsewhere when you think about it.

Answer: "Chariots of Fire"

The plot of MVP: Most Valuable Primate revolves around the premise that there is no ice hockey rule which says chimpanzees can't participate in the sport. It sort of ignores the premise that chimpanzees are highly unlikely to be adept at any sort of hockey, let alone one which involves strapping skates to their feet, and screaming around an ice rink chasing a small vulcanized rubber disc.
Apparently there were three more films in the franchise where Jack shows tremendous abilities at other sports as well. Maybe if Smorgasbording really was a sport, that could have been one which he feasibly might have been able to compete in?
"Ed" is a 1996 film starring Matt LeBlanc and an ape called Ed who play Major League Baseball. It won three Razzie Award nominations - for Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Screen Couple - for LeBlanc and his pri-mate.
"Seabiscuit" was released in 2003, starring Tobey Maguire and is based on the amazing story of a Post-Depression race horse in the USA. It received 7 Oscar nominations, but didn't win any.
"Chariots of Fire" is a 1981 film about two British sprinters aiming for Gold medals in the 1924 Olympics. No non human sporting animals play any substantive
role in the plot.

Answer: Beat a giraffe, lost to a zebra

Zebras - will run at a speed of 35- 55kph - they can keep going at this top speed for some time due to their stamina.
Giraffe - can run at 55kph over short distances (20-50m) but its gait slows it down over longer distances.
Cheetahs - the fastest animals on land - can reach top speeds of between 90 - 110kph.
Anaconda - an interesting one. No scientific evidence for the speed of anacondas over land exists. Some anecdotal evidence of them out "running" (or out slithering?) humans exists and some footage of them reaching speeds in excess of 50kph in water. Anyway as far as this question is concerned Shawn Crawford didn't race against one!
Tortoise - There are all sorts of "records" for the fastest pace achieved by all sorts of tortoises over land. As none of them come remotely close to exceeding 1kph, I won't begin listing them!
Man - a human being running the 100 meters in just under 10 seconds is likely to reach a top speed of 36kph - just enough to pip a giraffe with an unsteady gait, on a bad day, over 100 meters.

Answer: Polar Bear

Horses and cows will be seen in action at all sorts of rodeo events. Many rodeos feature goat rounding, or goat herding, usually as an activity for kids, or beginners. There is no known evidence of Polar Bears playing any part in rodeo activities.

Answer: Coarse Fishing

Bullard suffered a horrendous knee injury in 2006 dislocating his patella and damaging three of the four major knee ligaments. He was out of the game for almost 18 months in total. To satisfy his competitive instincts he spent most Saturdays match fishing and won numerous competitions.

He returned to football in the Spring of 2007 - much to the delight of the match fishermen of Southeast England.

Answer: A sparrow, killed by a ball

In 1936, playing for Cambridge University against the MCC, Jehangir Khan bowled a ball to Tom Pierce. Before reaching the batsmen, it hit a sparrow in mid flight, killing the hapless bird. The sparrow is one of the centre piece exhibits in the excellent cricket museum at Lord's. Dr Mohammed Jehangir Khan played 4 tests for India in the 1930's.

He became one of the leading lights of Pakistani cricket after the partition of India. He is the uncle of Pakistani Test cricketers Imran Khan and Javed Burki, and the father of former Pakistan (and Glamorgan!) great Majid Khan. Majid's son Bazid, has also represented Pakistan, thus making the Khan's only the second family to have three generations of international cricketers.

The other family are the Headleys - grandfather George and father Ron playing 22 and 2 tests respectively for the West Indies, whilst grandson Dean played 15 Test matches for England in the 1990s.

Answer: Cockroaches

Leicester Tigers and Sale Sharks are two of England's leading club sides whilst the Swansea/Neath Ospreys are one of the four Welsh regions - the others being the Llanelli Scarlets, the Cardiff Blues and the Newport/ Gwent Dragons.
To the best of my knowledge and research, the only sports team in the world which uses the scary appendage of "Cockroaches" to strike fear into their opponents' souls are the NSW State of Origin rugby league team.

Answer: Polo

What do you mean you haven't heard of Swedish Nut Racing? It's easy - all you need are a couple of Norse Chestnuts - as opposed to Chestnut Horses. Poor jokes apart, Polo was the King's chosen sport for almost 40 years despite numerous mishaps along the way.

He was once quoted as saying that he'd carry on playing Polo for "as long as I bounce when I fall off". Over the years, this falling off had led to numerous broken limbs, countless stitches and various concussions and other assorted operations.

After breaking his arm again in a Charity game in 2005, he finally called a day on his Polo playing career at the age of 57.

Answer: The Pumas

The Puma is also known as the cougar, the panther or the mountain lion. It can be found anywhere from the Yukon in Canada, to the Southern Andes in Argentina.
The Argentinian rugby team known as "Los Pumas" played their first ever game against the British Isles touring side in 1910. They finished third in the Rugby World Cup of 2007 held in France.