50 Question Sports Quiz

Round 1: Sport - Ball Sports

10 question all about sports involving ball(s).

Played by millions of recreational players and also popular with spectators, in which sport can someone achieve a "Grand Slam"?

What team sport that originated in Spain is played on an inflatable court featuring a trampoline on each side of the net?

A variation of baseball, which game is played using a perforated, light-weight, resilient plastic ball and a long, typically yellow, plastic bat?

What competitive team sport is played in water between two teams of 7 players trying to throw a ball into the opposing team's goal?

In what team sport, with two teams of six players separated by a net, does each team try to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court?

In which sport may the term "diamond" refer to the square area defined by the four bases, or to the entire playing field?

What sport is a racket and ball sport (not racquetball) played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball?

In which sport might you hear about Duckworth–Lewis in a limited overs match interrupted by weather or other circumstances?

In the second half of the 19th century, which sport originated from the combined rules of two pool games: pyramid pool and black pool?

What sport originated in 15th century Scotland, with the 18-hole round created at the Old Course at St Andrews in 1764?

Round 2: Sport - Athletics

10 questions on the subject of Athletics.

Which women's world record of 10.49 seconds in athletics, set by American Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988, remains unbroken as of 2023?

It has become a tradition for the men's Olympic version of which sport to be the last event of the athletics calendar, on the final day of the Olympics?

What is the style used in the athletics event of high jump which was popularized and perfected by an American athlete in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City?

With an international distance of approximately 6.2137 miles (or approximately 32,808.4 feet), what is the longest standard track event?

What has been contested by female athletes since the early 1980s, when it replaced the pentathlon as the primary women's combined event contest?

The Ancient Olympic pentathlon started with the stadion (foot race), followed by the javelin throw, discus throw, and long jump. It ended with what event?

What is one of the four throwing events in regular track and field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and javelin?

What, along with the triple jump, is one of two events that measure jumping for distance as a group are referred to as the "horizontal jumps"?

What is the most common distance in meters for the steeplechase (an obstacle race) in track and field?

As of February 2021, in which event does Armand Duplantis hold the record with a height of 6.18 m (20 ft 3 in)?

Round 3: Sport - History

10 questions all about sporting history.

On the Last kick of the game at the 2003 Rugby World Cup, who became the first northern-hemisphere team to win the Webb Ellis Cup?

Winning in both 1957 And 1958, who was the first African-American woman to win a Wimbledon Tennis event?

With the capital city Montevideo, where was the first football (soccer) world cup held?

Which sporting event was BBC2's first ever colour transmission in 1967?

In 1983, which Canadian made the first 147 break at The Snooker World Championships?

In Paris in 1900 what became the first Olympic sport to include women?

In Atlanta in 1996 the Olympic torch was lit by which boxing legend, sadly suffering from Parkinsons?

Who won the Golf Masters in 1997, the tournament's youngest winner, and would go on to win 14 Major tournaments?

Set in Berlin with Hitler watching, at the 1936 Games who won gold medals in the 100 and 200-meter sprints, the long jump and the relay team?

On October 6th, 1993, Michael Jordan retired from basketball for the first time, which sport did he play instead?

Round 4: Sport - Sporting Terms

10 questions on the subject of sporting terms.

What sport has terms such as 'Screwballs', 'Bunt' and 'Flies', 'Knuckleball', and 'Cycle'?

In which sport are terms such as 'Spare', 'Gutter', and 'Railroad split' used?

The terms 'Acid', 'Blunt', 'Casper', and 'Spine', are all associated with which sport?

In which sport might you hear terms such as 'Chin', 'Hook', and 'Orthodox'?

'Silly point', 'Googley', 'Yorker', and 'Followthrough' are all terms used in which sport?

Which sport uses the terms 'Spikers', 'Booster', 'Deuce', and 'Smash'?

Terms such as 'Bed and Breakfast', 'Ton', 'Leg', and 'Double top', are used in which sport?

'Spanish walk', 'On the bit', and 'Haunches-in' are all terms used in which sport?

'Deep rough', 'Pitch And Run', 'Gilligan', and 'Mulligan' are all terms used in which sport?

'Anti-Sicilian', 'Skewer', 'Long diagonal', and 'Fingerfehler', are all terms from which sport?

Round 5: Sport - Venues

10 questions on the subject of sporting venues.

Which stadium hosts major football matches including home matches of the England national football team, and the FA Cup Final?

What baseball park located in Boston, Massachusetts, near Kenmore Square, has since 1912 been the home for the Boston Red Sox?

What multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City, located in Midtown Manhattan, often hosts top tier boxing events?

Several well known races, including the Indianapolis 500 are held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, what is the name of the track that the Indy 500 takes place on?

Best known as a college football venue, what is the outdoor athletic stadium, located in the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena?

The Kentucky Derby horse race held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, takes place at which track?

Regarded as the "Home of Golf", where is one of the oldest courses in the world, where the game has been played since the 15th century?

Which baseball park located on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois is the home of the Chicago Cubs?

The largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere, located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victorian, what stadium is known locally as "The G"?

The National Stadium is situated in Olympic Green Village of Beijing City for the 2008 Olympic Games became known as what?

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