Team Names: New South Wales Trivia Quiz

Answer: Swans

The South Melbourne Football Club was born on 15th July 1874. They started playing their home games at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1982. The Swans set a record for Brownlow Medals in 2006, with 13 medals won by 11 players.

Answer: 1

The Newcastle Knights are the only NRL team from New South Wales without an animal mascot. The other teams were:

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
Sydney Roosters
Parramatta Eels
Penrith Panthers
St. George-Illawarra Dragons
South Sydney Rabbitohs
Wests Tigers

The mascot for South Sydney is a white rabbit. Wests Tigers is a joint venture between Balmain Tigers and Western Suburbs Magpies, and St George-Illawarra is a joint venture between St George Dragons and Illawarra Steelers.

Answer: Waratahs

The Super 12 competition became the Super 14 competiton in 2006 upon the admission of Western Force (from Western Australia) and Central Cheetahs (from South Africa), and is the biggest rugby union club/provincial championship in the southern hemisphere. The competition consists of four teams from Australia, and five teams each from New Zealand and South Africa.
The Kangaroo Paw is the floral emblem of Western Australia, the Sturt's Desert Rose is the emblem for the Northern Territory, and the Golden Wattle is the emblem of the Commonwealth of Australia.
The 'Waratah' name is also used by the NSW men's hockey team.

Answer: Sheffield Shield

The Sheffield Shield is the five-day cricket competition in Australia, previously known as the Pura Cup. Consisting of 6 teams nationally, and sponsored by Weetbix from 2008.
New South Wales Blues were one of the first three teams to join the competition in the 1892-93 season, and have finished the competition in first place 45 times since its inception, a whopping 18 times more than the Victorian Bushrangers (second on the list of total season wins). The Ford Ranger Cup was the One-Day competition, and the Twenty20 cricket competition is known as the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash.

Answer: NSW Breakers

The NSW Breakers have won 11 titles in 13 seasons, making them the most successful team in the WNCL. Many of their players have gone on to represent Australia at an international level.

Answer: Swifts

The colour red represents the waratah, an emblem which has been synonymous with elite netball in NSW. The blue is for New South Wales, and accordingly is reflected in netball element, a descriptor of our sport. The red swoosh demonstrates the fast, rising stars of the team. Within the blue netball, the stylised outline of the state in red encapsulates the swift letter "S", symbolising the SWIFTS brand within the heart of NSW. The word 'NSW' is positioned within the core of the logo, showing that representing the state of NSW is central to all that the team wants to achieve - one team, for one state. The word 'SWIFTS' is coloured red to signify success.

The Sydney Swifts merged with the Hunter Jaegers to form the NSW Swifts.

Answer: Arrows

The Arrows finished 4th in 2008, and 1st in the 2009 Australian Hockey League (AHL) competition. Of the 24 women in the 2010 squad, more than half of them have a commitment to either the Australian or Australian junior team.

Answer: Baseball

The New South Wales Patriots won the Claxton Shield competition in both 2004 and 2005. Previous NSW teams (in the various incarnations of the Australian domestic baseball competition) have been 'New South Wales' and 'Sydney Blues', both performing well since 1934 when the first Claxton Shield season was played.

Answer: Jets

Newcastle KB United entered the national football (soccer) competition in 1978. Over time, they became the Newcastle Rosebuds, Newcastle Breakers, Newcastle Australia, and Newcastle United to eventually become the Newcastle United Jets FC. The 2006-07 season saw a new attendance record set when 24,338 people watched the semi-final between the Jets and Sydney FC.

Answer: Wollongong Hawks

The Wollongong Hawks entered the NBL as the Illawarra Hawks in 1979, being one of ten foundation clubs. They changed their name to the Wollongong Hawks in 1998 along with a move to a new stadium. In 2001, the Wollongong Hawks became the first NSW-based team to win the NBA title.

They were nearly disbanded in 2009 except for a 'Save the Hawks' campaign which enabled the club to stay in the national competition. The Falcons were disbanded in 1999, the Sydney Kings in 2008, and West Sydney Razorbacks in 2009 (they renamed themselves Sydney Spirit in 2008 when The Kings folded).