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Wooden Spoons Trivia Quiz

The wooden spoon is known in Britain as the booby prize, it's what is given to the person or team who comes in last place.

A multiple-choice quiz by Shadowmyst2004. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Shadowmyst2004

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
377,280

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
269

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Question 1 of 10

1. The first Australian League Football Wooden Spoon was awarded in 1897 to the St Kilda Football Club.

True

False

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Question 2 of 10

2. In Australian League Football, the team with the second most Wooden Spoon victories in the in 20th century posted 13 of the worst seasons in the sport. What team was it? Hint

St Kilda Football Club

North Melbourne

Gold Coast

Brisbane Lions

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Question 3 of 10

3. The Sydney Thunder won the Wooden Spoon for the first three seasons of the Big Bash League from 2011 through 2014. What sport is played in the Big Bash League? Hint

Rugby

Australian Rules Football

Squash

Cricket

4. The County Championship is a cricket tournament that was played in England and Wales in the 19th and 20th centuries. The tournament consisted of 18 teams during most of that time frame. Among the options what team has "won" the most Wooden Spoons in the same span? Hint

Derbyshire

Kent

Yorkshire

Essex

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Question 5 of 10

5. The National Rugby League began play in 1998. What team "won" the inaugural Wooden Spoon? Hint

South Sydney

Western Suburbs

Brisbane

Melbourne

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Question 6 of 10

6. In Tennis the term Wooden Spoon means something a little different. It refers to the player who finishes second in four consecutive "major" tournaments.

True

False

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Question 7 of 10

7. In cycling, the term Wooden Spoon isn't used, but instead what phrase is used for this sport? Hint

lanterne rouge

golden lancer

dead last

flat tire

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Question 8 of 10

8. In Australian League Football, only two teams went the entire 20th century without earning a single Wooden Spoon. Both team names claim what city as their home? Hint

Adelaide

Sydney

Melbourne

New South Wales

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Question 9 of 10

9. While the Wooden Spoon isn't generally a part of the vernacular in the National Football League, which team hailing from Detroit would have received it for the 2008 season when they became the first team to post a win less 16 game record? Hint

Lions

Cowboys

Patriots

Browns

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Question 10 of 10

10. Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers put up one of the worst seasons in that sport's history with 150 losses in the 2003 season, winning the proverbial Wooden Spoon in grand fashion.

True

False

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. The first Australian League Football Wooden Spoon was awarded in 1897 to the St Kilda Football Club.

Answer: True

The team posted 14 losses and no wins that season. St Kilda Football Club would go on to "win" the wooden spoon six years in a row and seven times in eight seasons between 1897 and 1904. They posted a total of five wins in those "winning" seasons.

2. In Australian League Football, the team with the second most Wooden Spoon victories in the in 20th century posted 13 of the worst seasons in the sport. What team was it?

Answer: North Melbourne

Sticking with just the 20th century, North Melbourne "won" the distinction 13 times between 1926 and 1972. Post '72 the team didn't finish on the bottom again through the end of the century.
St Kilda won 22 wooden spoons in the 20th century.
Gold Coast and the Lions never won a Wooden Spoon in the 20th century.

3. The Sydney Thunder won the Wooden Spoon for the first three seasons of the Big Bash League from 2011 through 2014. What sport is played in the Big Bash League?

Answer: Cricket

The Big Bash League was founded in 2011 with eight cricket teams. The Thunder were the worst team in the league three years running until the Brisbane Heat earned the distinction in the 2014-15 season.

Answer: Derbyshire

Derbyshire "won" 18 Wooden Spoons from the tournament's inception through the end of the 20th century. In the same time frame the other three options "won" a combined total of five.The tournament started in 1890 and was played nearly every through the end of the 20th century.

5. The National Rugby League began play in 1998. What team "won" the inaugural Wooden Spoon?

Answer: Western Suburbs

The Western Suburbs and the Gold Coast team tied for the Wooden Spoon in 1998. Among the 20 teams in the first season of Australia's National Rugby League, they each won only four games out of a 24 games season.

The spoon officially went to the Western Suburbs team though, as they had a larger point differential, allowing 431 more points than they scored over the course of the season.

6. In Tennis the term Wooden Spoon means something a little different. It refers to the player who finishes second in four consecutive "major" tournaments.

Answer: False

The term refers to a player knocked out in the first round by a player knocked out in the second round and with that pattern continuing through all seven rounds. The Wooden Spoon is the player that the chain cycles back to after all seven rounds are finished in a major tournament.

7. In cycling, the term Wooden Spoon isn't used, but instead what phrase is used for this sport?

Answer: lanterne rouge

In cycling the term lanterne rouge is used for the rider who finishes last in each stage of the sport. The term draws its name from the red lantern hung on the caboose of a train to signify the end. The term is generally only used in large cycling races such as the Tour de France.

8. In Australian League Football, only two teams went the entire 20th century without earning a single Wooden Spoon. Both team names claim what city as their home?

Answer: Adelaide

Neither the Adelaide Crows nor the Port Adelaide Power finished in last place in the entire 20th century. Only one of the teams called the actual city of Adelaide home though. Port Adelaide actually played its home games in Alberton.

The reason for the lack of Wooden Spoons for both teams may not be how extremely good they were in the 20th century, but because both teams joined the Australian League very late in the century. Adelaide joined in 1991 and Port Adelaide joined in 1997.

Answer: Lions

After posting a perfect 4-0 preseason record, the team rarely even came close to a victory when the games started counting. The team gave up an average of almost 33 points a game on defense. The closest they came to victory was week six when they fell 12-10 to the Vikings. They also played within 27-23 of the Bears in Week nine and 20-16 with the Vikings in week 14.

10. Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers put up one of the worst seasons in that sport's history with 150 losses in the 2003 season, winning the proverbial Wooden Spoon in grand fashion.

Answer: False

The Detroit Tigers posted a 43-119 record in 2003. The worst record in American League history for a 162 game season up to that point. The Tigers would rebound just three years later and win the A.L. Pennant as the best team in the league before falling in the World Series to St. Louis.

Source: Author Shadowmyst2004

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