Trivia Questions and Answers about Sports
Q: What baseball team has a monthly newsletter called The Vineline?
A: The Chicago Cubs.
Q: What are the only three European countries to have won
soccer's World Cup?
A: England, Italy, West Germany.
Q: What heavyweight was Tony "Two Ton" Galento referring to when
he said in 1939 "I'll molder de bum"?
A: Joe Lewis.
Q: What sport did Herve Filion top with a record of 14,084 wins?
A: Harness racing.
Q: What two continents fielded teams in the
World League of
American
Football, in
1991?
A: Europe and North America.
Q: Who was able to set NFL rushing records because of his "big
butt," according to Chicago Bears trainer Frank Caito?
A: Walter Payton.
Q: Who was the first U.S. volleyball player to win three
Olympic
gold medals?
A: Karch Kiraly.
Q: What movie did Michael Eisner say was his "market research"
for Disney's NHL entry?
A: The Mighty Ducks.
Q: What was the only team to win two World Series in the
1980s?
A: The Los Angeles Dodgers.
Q: What league was Gino Cappelletti the top scorer of in the
1960s, with 1,100 points?
A: The American Football League.
Q: What position did Cal Ripkin Jr., start at for the first
time since 1982, in a July,
1996 game?
A: Third base.
Q: What decade saw the NFL ban blocking below the waist and
head slapping?
A: The 1970s.
Q: What Yankee pitcher holds World Series records for
games won
and games lost?
A: Whitey Ford.
Q: What baseball announcer's 1996 funeral was attended by Joe
DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford and Phil Rizzuto?
A: Mel Allen's..
Q: What major leaguer hit 20 or more homers in 20 seasons?
A: Hank Aaron.
Q: What baseballer said of Biloxi Blues: "It reminded me of being
in the Army, even though I was in the Navy?
A: Yogi Berra.
Q: What South African has traveled more miles than any
athlete in history?
A: Gary Player.
Q: What team had a camp so grueling it was dubbed " Fort Landry"?
A: The Dallas Cowboys.
Q: What former Bruin defenseman was the first to skate on
Boston's
new Feet Center ice?
A: Bobby Orr.
Q: What down-under sport is a cross between soccer and rugby?
A: Australian Rules Football.
Q: How long is the longest race on the NASCAR circuit?
A: 600 miles
Q: What U.S. college sport honors its best player with the
Hobey Baker Award?
A: Hockey.
Q: What horse tied, but could not break, Citation's 16-race
consecutive win streak?
A: Cigar.
Q: Who was the first major leaguer to hit home runs in his teens
and n his forties?
A: Ty Cobb.
Q: Who was the only soccer player to play on three World
Cup-winning teams?
A: Pele.
Q: What ballplayer was dubbed " The Iron
Bird"?
A: Cal Ripken Jr.
Q: What does the Lindy Worm Blower allegedly enhance your chances
of doing?
A: Catching fish.
Q: What pro sport was played by Lu Blue, Pebbly
Jack Glasscock and Mordecai Peter Centennial "Three Finger" Brown?
A: Baseball.
Q: What pro team made it to the playoffs a record 29 straight
times, in 1996?
A: The Boston Bruins.
Q: What essential do track racing bicycles
lack that a recreational rider wouldn't be caught dead without?
A: Brakes.
Q: What weighty Japanese sport has participants known as rikishi?
A: Sumo wrestling.
Q: What 28-year-old ice skater died of a sudden
heart attack in November,
1995?
A: Sergei Grinkov .
