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Quiz about Sport Not a Sport
Quiz about Sport Not a Sport

Sport/ Not a Sport Trivia Quiz


This quiz aims to have some fun with obscure sports, not solve a debate. Everything considered a real sport here meets the Oxford Dictionaries definition and has some organization connected to it. Don't take it too seriously!

A multiple-choice quiz by Nealzineatser. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
365,144
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
899
Last 3 plays: twlmy (9/10), Guest 199 (8/10), Guest 98 (8/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which of these is a "real" sport, a mainstay at competitions like the Pan American Games? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Basque pelota is a ball sport played primarily in Spain and France. The version played in the USA is seen mostly in Florida and attracts many fans as a gambling endeavor. What is the US version? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Three of the four have activities have rules, competitions and a governing organization. Pick the one that does not. (Hint: the answer's remote.) Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Pick out the sport which earned a berth at the Commonwealth Games in 1998. Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. One of these events is generally NOT contested at official track and field meets in the 21st century. Which one? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Six field (non-running) events are contested in the Olympic decathlon. Which set of three events are ALL decathlon events? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. In 2003, when a strip bar in Ontario, Canada persisted in holding a dwarf tossing event, a member of the Windsor parliament tried, unsuccessfully, to ban the activity.


Question 8 of 10
8. Three of these sports/competitions have a subjective, aesthetic component (judges) helping to decide the winner. Which one is decided only by a measurable, objective standard? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Pick out the real sport, with an international center, a museum and playing facilities, in Columbia County, Georgia. Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Pick out the one true statement from the four choices (think where the quiz has gone thus far) Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Which of these is a "real" sport, a mainstay at competitions like the Pan American Games?

Answer: racquetball

The invention of the modern sport of racquetball is credited to Joseph Sobeck, in Connecticut c. 1950. It was adapted from handball and paddleball and is similar to squash and handball, in that it's played on a court without a net to hit over.
2. Basque pelota is a ball sport played primarily in Spain and France. The version played in the USA is seen mostly in Florida and attracts many fans as a gambling endeavor. What is the US version?

Answer: jai alai

Basque pelota is definitely a sport, and along with jai alai, the US version, is billed as "the fastest sport in the world." One player slings a ball against a three walled space at high speed, then the opponent (using a curved basket) attemps to catch it and return the favor. Because of the court design, everyone must play right-handed! Basque pelota did originate in the basque region of Spain.
3. Three of the four have activities have rules, competitions and a governing organization. Pick the one that does not. (Hint: the answer's remote.)

Answer: channel surfing

Curling is an unusual winter sport, invented in Scotland, played somewhat like shuffleboard, where they slide the "stone" across the ice and sweep in front with brooms to direct it. There is evidence in painting and literature that it was played at least as far back as the early 16th century.

It's actually an Olympic sport. The World Clog Cobbing championship is held yearly in Lancashire, UK at Easter time. Participants throw shoes (clogs) from between their legs, believe it or not. Chess boxing is just what it sounds like. Extremely versatile individuals alternately box a few rounds, then play a few minutes of chess. Dudes, c'mon, no one can say channel surfing is a sport, although I know there are some fast thumbs on the remote out there.
4. Pick out the sport which earned a berth at the Commonwealth Games in 1998.

Answer: netball

If you've been playing Funtrivia at all, you probably know netball is a real sport, and one which is played throughout most of the Commonwealth, mostly by women. The object is to score the ball into a free standing basket (net). Unlike basketball, players are restricted to various segments of the court based on positional definitions. Tetris may be the most wide spread of the activities, but, it's a video game, not a sport. Does GPS even work in a tornado? Regardless, it has not been considered for the Commonwealth Games.
5. One of these events is generally NOT contested at official track and field meets in the 21st century. Which one?

Answer: standing long jump

In school, one of the fitness tests used to be the standing long jump (sometime referred to as the 'standing broad jump'). In this event, one stands with both feet behind a line, then jumps forward as far as possible. This event was in the Olympics until 1912, and is still used to determine athletic prowess of possible draft picks at the NFL scouting combine. Norway is the only country which still considers the broad jump a major event.

The world record is held by a Norwegian at 3.71 meters. The other three are staples at major track meets from high school through professional. All three are contested at the Olympics.
6. Six field (non-running) events are contested in the Olympic decathlon. Which set of three events are ALL decathlon events?

Answer: pole vault, shot put, discus throw

In addition to two running events each day, the field events contested on day one are: long jump, shot put and high jump; day two's field events are discus throw, pole vault and javelin throw. The hammer throw is a legitimate field event contested at meets, but it's not part of the decathlon.
7. In 2003, when a strip bar in Ontario, Canada persisted in holding a dwarf tossing event, a member of the Windsor parliament tried, unsuccessfully, to ban the activity.

Answer: True

This is true. Bill 97, An Act to ban dwarf tossing, was introduced by Sandra Pupatello in 2003. Evidently, it wasn't that effective, because the same bar did it again with the same dwarf being tossed in 2012. Patrons competed for prizes to see who could throw the little person the farthest onto a landing area of mattresses, so it looks like a sport, although not very PC. No one was hurt.
8. Three of these sports/competitions have a subjective, aesthetic component (judges) helping to decide the winner. Which one is decided only by a measurable, objective standard?

Answer: NASCAR racing

NASCAR racing is based on time, the others are all partly, if not mostly, judged subjectively on appearance and/or beauty in the final analysis. Although they all clearly involve great athletic prowess, this component leads some to question their status as sports.
9. Pick out the real sport, with an international center, a museum and playing facilities, in Columbia County, Georgia.

Answer: frisbee golf

I've played frisbee or disc golf. There are courses all over the pacific northwest, as well as the International Disc Golf Center in Wildwood Park, GA, 22 miles from Augusta, home of the Masters golf tournament. You throw the frisbee from the tee area, and eventually try to drop it in a basket some distance away, using as few tosses as possible. Low score wins, as in golf. None of the other options make much sense, or has a center.
10. Pick out the one true statement from the four choices (think where the quiz has gone thus far)

Answer: Goanna pulling is a real sport contested in Australia, similar to tug-of war.

Yes, Virginia, there is goanna pulling. A goanna is a kind of Aussie lizard, but the sport doesn't involve them, only that the two contestants look like lizards as they kneel facing each other, with leather straps around their heads, tied together, trying to pull the other person across a line....really. Men did compete nude in the early Olympic games, but women weren't allowed anywhere near it. MLB baseball covers have been made out of cowhide, not horsehide since 1974.

The center is a core of rubber or cork wrapped in yarn. And finally, no one seems able to agree definitively on what is or isn't a sport.
Source: Author Nealzineatser

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