Vocabulary Quiz (Sports)
- Question: Rule 46 is an important regulation in which sport?
- Answer: In the current National Hockey League rulebook, Rule 46 addresses fighting, a controversial aspect of the sport.
- Question: Who reportedly criticized golf as “a good walk spoiled”?
- Answer: This quote is commonly attributed to Mark Twain.
- Question: CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), a disease tied to several contact sports, affects which part of the body?
- Answer: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a degenerative brain disease typically associated with concussions and repetitive trauma to the head.
- Question: The Olympics derived its name from which of the following?
- Answer: The Olympic Games were first held at Olympia in Greece in 776 BCE as part of a religious festival to honor Zeus, the chief Greek god; the games and the location were named for Mount Olympus, considered the home of the Greek gods.
- Question: What are PEDs?
- Answer: PEDs (performance-enhancing drugs) have long created controversy in the sporting world.
- Question: Comedian Rodney Dangerfield joked, when “I went to a fight the other night,” something “broke out.” What “broke out”?
- Answer: “I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out” was comedian Rodney Dangerfield’s humorous take on the prevalence of fighting in the sport.
- Question: Which country is generally considered the inventor of modern golf?
- Answer: While early forms of the game were played in the Netherlands, France, and China, the invention of modern golf is generally attributed to Scotland.
- Question: Overtourism is a term commonly associated with cities not wanting to host which of the following sporting events?
- Answer: A common argument by cities not wanting to host the Olympics is that the extended event leads to overtourism, harming local culture.
- Question: STUNT is a competitive event in which sport?
- Answer: STUNT is a competitive sport in cheerleading, focusing on technical and athletic skills rather than cheers.
- Question: In England, Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras, or “Fat Tuesday,” celebrating the last day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday) is a holiday associated with a violent form of which sport?
- Answer: Since medieval times and continuing today in the English towns of Alnwick, Ashbourne, and Atherstone, a rough and bloody form of rugbylike football has been played annually during the festival of Shrove Tuesday.
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