- Many sports are televised in the United States. In 1996, the longest-running locally produced sports show went off the air in Boston. Which of the following sports was featured on this show?
- A. Basketball
- B. Baseball
- C. Candlepin bowling
- In the winter sport of curling, a stone weighing more than forty pounds is slid along the ice toward a target zone. Curling rivals ice hockey as the national sport of Canada. True or false: Canadians are credited with adding the use of brooms to curling.
- Participants in this Nordic sport must be able to cross-country ski and shoot a rifle. This Olympic sport is called:
- A. The mogul
- B. The biathlon
- C. The luge
- True or false: Legend says that the Italian pastime of boccie dates backabout 2,000 years.
- An Olympic bobsled team from a Caribbean country inspired the 1993 filmCool Runnings. Which country was this team from ?
- A. Aruba
- B. Bermuda
- C. Jamaica
- True or false: Cricket is a leading sport on all of the following Caribbean islands: Antigua, Babbados, and Trinidad.
- Precursors to the game of golf were played in many countries, including France, England, and the Netherlands. True or false: One of the first modern golf organizations was established in Scotland.
- In 1969, Honduras and El Salvador fought a brief war. What sporting eventled to the outbreak of this war?:
- A. Baseball
- B. Basketball
- C. Soccer
- D. Synchronized swimming
- Although the modern game of tennis was first played in Wales in 1873,precursors to the sport were around for centuries. True or false: Tennis wasmentioned in the plays of William Shakespeare.
- Australian Rules football is colloquially known down under as:
- A. Arvo
- B. Footy
- C. Two-up
Answers
- C. A variant of bowling indigenous to New England, candlepin had been featured on Boston's channel 5 for thirty-seven years.
- False. The Scots were the first to use a broom to sweep the ice clear of snow from the path of a curling stone. Canadians added many innovations, including bringing the game indoors onto specially prepared sheets of ice.
- B. The sport is believed to have evolved from hunting on skis.
- True. Roman legionnaires are said to have invented boccie during the Punic Wars.
- C.
- True. This is not surprising, since they are all former British colonies.
- True. The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers was established in Edinburgh in 1744.
- C. The five-day Soccer War ended when El Salvador withdrew from Honduran territory.
- True. Racket games are mentioned more than once, and the term tennis balls appears in the comedy Much Ado About Nothing.
- B. Arvo is Australian slang for "afternoon," whiletwo-up is a game played with two spinning coins.