SPORTS QUIZ

BQC OPEN

QUESTION

Wyndham Halswelle was a British Athlete who won the 400 m race at the 1908 Summer Olympic Games in London, in a time of 50.2 seconds.

The circumstances in which he won the race are unparalleled in the history of the Olympics games. How was his victory unique?

This event resulted in an immediate change to the rules of the 400 m race from the 1912 Olympics onwards. What?

This, and other incidents preceding this event in the 1908 Olympics, prompted the international athletics fraternity to form what organization?

ANSWER

Only athlete to win an event by a walkover – He was the only athlete to run that race as the others were disqualified (some story about how they attempted to intrude in his path)

Lanes were made compulsory for 400 m races from 1916 onwards

Given the fractious nature of the games, the IAAF was instituted to put standard rules in place and safeguard them.

QUESTION

Jackson Haines is widely considered the father of modern figure skating. Previous to him, figure skating was performed in the "English style", which was rigid and formal. Haines' style was a complete contrast to the English style; he used his ballet background to create graceful programs.

There were two major innovations that he is credited with :-

1. One that improved the aesthetics and increased the ‘Performance value’

2. The other was to do with the equipment that was used, which resulted in increased stability and provided scope for more athletic leaps

What were the innovations?

ANSWER

1. Introduced accompanying music

2. Screwed his figure skates directly onto his boots. Typical practice before was to strap the blades on to the boot

QUESTION

Which famous sporting nickname derives from the Italian for ‘Baby’?

ANSWER

Bambino – for George Herman ‘Babe’ Ruth

QUESTION

In October 2004, during qualification for the UK Championship, Jamie Burnett became the first snooker player to record what unique achievement in tournament play?

ANSWER

Break of greater than 147 (He recorded a break of 148)

QUESTION

What feat has been accomplished only 23 times in the history of major league baseball (21 times since the modern era began in 1900) and achieved most recently by Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners on August 15, 2012?

ANSWER

Perfect Game

QUESTION

ID the sport

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Disc Golf / Frisbee Golf

QUESTION

Ross Norman, a sportsperson from New Zealand had once vowed : “One day X will be slightly off his game and I will get him”. That day finally came in the final of the sport’s biggest tournament held in Toulouse , France in 1986.

X?

ANSWER

Jahangir Khan’s unbeaten run of over 5 years was ended that day by Norman

QUESTION

Connect

Field Hockey

Rugby Union

Real Tennis

ANSWER

Retronyms – Terms that have come into being because of another variant coming up later on

QUESTION

Margaret Ives Abbott was the first American woman to win a gold medal, in the 1900 Olympics. The event in which she won gold was so poorly organized, that she did not realize that she’d participated in the Olympics, and spent her whole life think she’d won a little tournament in Paris.

Which sport did she win her medal in, which is making a comeback in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics?

ANSWER

Golf

QUESTION

Solo synchronized swimming – Oxymoronic name. Olympic event

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Live pigeon shooting – 1900 Olympics

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Long jump for horses – in the 1900 Olympics

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Kinesio tapes

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Origin of Biathlon in Norwegian military

QUESTION

Skeet shooting was invented by Charles Davis of Andover, Massachusetts, an avid grouse hunter, in the 1920s as a sport called Clock Shooting. The original course was a circle with a radius of 25 yards with its circumference marked off like the face of a clock and a trap set at the 12 o’clock position. The practice of shooting from all directions had to cease, however, when a chicken farm started next door. The game evolved to its current setup by 1923 when one of the shooters, William Harnden Foster, solved the problem by placing a second trap at the 6 o’clock position and cutting the course in half. Foster quickly noticed the appeal of this kind of competition shooting, and set out to make it a national sport. The game was introduced in the February 1926 issue of National Sportsman and Hunting and Fishing magazines, and a prize of 100 dollars was offered to anyone who could come up with a name for the new sport. The winning entry was "skeet" chosen by Gertrude Hurlbutt.The word "skeet" was said to be derived from the Norwegian word for "shoot" (skyte). During World War II, skeet was used in the American military to teach gunners the principle of leading and timing on a flying target