Sports Trivia

16

One of the baseball teams in the American league plays its home games in a stadium named after a political leader. Which team and which person?

11

Name three major sports figures with the same name as a fruit, vegetable or flower.

13

By the end of the most recent season (spring, 1996), which three NBA basketball players ranked tops in terms of product endorsement contracts?

2

The tennis star from 1961 to 1979 won a record twenty Wimbledon Tennis titles, including singles and doubles. Who is it?

10

Her name is Nancy Lieberman, and, in February, 1996 she gained admission to a place where no woman had gone before. What was it?

15

Michael Jordan is not the only athlete talented in different sports: can you name two people since the 1980's, who played NFL football and major league baseball, and one person who played major league baseball and NBA basketball?

9

In international basketball and in Olympic games, the free-throw or 3-second lane in basketball has what geometrical shape?

14

In 1936 Adolf Hitler's theory of Aryan supremacy was upset when a certain black American athlete defeated his German stars, winning four gold medals in running and long jump at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Who was he?

2

Which female runner lost her chance to win a gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics of 1984, when she fell down during the 3,000 meter race?

10

Can you name the world's northernmost, and southernmost, cities ever to host Olympic Games (summer or winter)?

1

What team in the National Football League was named after an 1845 poem by Edgar Allan Poe?

16

What is the world's most popular spectator sport?

9

Since the first world cup of soccer in 1930, which two European teams have been in the final game most frequently?

20

This NHL star, who plays on the Pittsburgh Penguins, signed an $11.3 million contract for this hockey season. Who is he?

9

In the list of all-time home-run hitters in the Major Leagues, of course the top two names are Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth, with 755 and 714 home runs, respectively. Which player comes next on the list?