Sports Trivia Questions Answers
What sport used the term "home run" long before baseball?
Answer: Cricket.
Who was the first U.S. volleyball player to win three Olympic gold
medals?
Answer: Karch Kiraly.
What was the only team to win two World Series in the 1980's?
Answer: The Los Angeles Dodgers.
What NFL team is known as the "ain'ts" when on a losing
streak?
Answer: The New Orleans Saints.
What's an NBA player deemed to be if he's received the Maurice
Podoloff Trophy?
Answer: The most valuable player.
What Washington Capitals goalie earned the nicknames
"Ace" and "Net Detective"?
Answer: Jim Carey. Sports trivia questions answers.
What NBA team plays home games in the Alamo dome?
Answer: The San Antonio Spurs.
Who graciously switched to number 77 so Phil Esposito's number 7
could be retired in Boston Garden?
Answer: Raymond Bourque
What company's logo is called the "swoosh"?
Answer: Nike's
What Red Sox catcher's erect posture earned him the clubhouse
nickname "Frankenstein"?
Answer: Carlton Fisk's
What sport did Herve Filion top with a record of 14,084 wins?
Answer: Harness racing.
What team hired the NFL's first professional cheerleading squad, in
1972?
Answer: The Dallas Cowboys.
Funny sports pictures of animals doing competitive sports and
printed on mugs, t shirts and other products.
Amazingly Funny
Animals! Cat Wrestling, Dogs arm wrestling, Elephants on
Tightropes and more incredible animal antics!
What Native American language was Super Bowl XXX the first to be
broadcast in?
Answer: Navajo.
What nickname do boxing fans call 300-pound Eric Esch, King of the
Four-Rounders?
Answer: Butterbean.
What 1995 World Series teams were both picketed by the American
Indian Movement?
Answer: The Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians.
What diet drink was hyped by Coca-Cola for having only only
calorie, in 1963?
Answer: Tab.
What comic actor scored huge sales with his Bad Golf Made Easy
instructional videos?
Answer: Leslie Nielsen
What country fielded 1996 Olympic women's teams that won gold in
basketball, soccer and softball?
Answer: The U.S.
What Grand Slam golf tournament has the most clubhousers sipping
mint juleps?
Answer: The Masters.
Who is the only tennis player to have won each of the four grand
slam events at least four times?
Answer: Steffi Graf.
What decade saw names first appear on the backs of NFL jerseys?
Answer: The 1960's.
Who was able to set NFL rushing records because of his "big
but" according to Chicago Bears trainer Frank Caito?
Answer: Walter Payton.
What position must college footballers play to receive the Davey
O'Brien Award?
Answer: Quarterback.
What disorder did Muhammad Ali develop after years of catching
blows?
Answer: Parkinson's syndrome.
What are the only three European countries to have won soccer's
World Cup?
Answer: England, Italy, West Germany.
What is the common term for the tennis ailment "lateral
humeral epicondylitis"?
Answer: Tennis Elbow.
What racing competition became a best-of-nine series in 1995?
Answer: The America's Cup.
Who was the first athlete to rap at a Pro Bowl musical gala in
1995?
Answer: Deion Sanders.
What woman won five U.S. figure skating titles from 6 to 173, but
never an Olympic gold medal?
Answer: Janet Lynn.
Who was the first female jockey to win five races in one day at a
New York track?
Answer: Julie Krone
What teams played in the first all-California Super Bowl?
Answer: The San Francisco 49ers and the San Diego Chargers.
What two players are tied for second behind Ty Cobb in total career
runs?
Answer: Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth.
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