Sports Trivia

17

The term Alpine skiing refers to downhill skiing. The term Nordic skiing refers to what?

16

Which two NFL teams met in Super Bowl XXX on January 28, 1996, and what was the score?

19

For the 1994 Winter Olympics an ice hockey arena was built entirely inside a mountain. Which city hosted those Games?

Source: en.wikipedia.org

17

Which country besides the United States produces the largest number of Major League baseball players?

20

What honor can be won by a great baseball player, or by a great race horse?

1

This baseball player was voted MVP in the National League in 1961, the MVP in the American League in 1966, and then went on to manage teams in both the National and American Leagues. Who was he?

9

Can you name the first black man to manage in the World Series?

13

Which European tennis star, in 1988, became only the 3rd woman ever to win the Grand Slam of tennis?

19

In the 1980 film Raging Bull, Robert DeNiro played the role of which boxer?

15

Possibly the most common last name in the Baseball Hall of Fame is Robinson: can you give the four first names of the people named Robinson?

9

Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, and Christy Mathewson were the first five ... what?

8

Which 15-year old American figure skater became Olympic champion in 1998, the youngest winner since Sonja Henie in 1928?

15

Which one of these college teams uses the Halloween color, orange, as its uniform color? Penn State, Alabama, or Syracuse University?

6

Can you name a sport in which the winner is usually, but not always, decided by score, and neither the players nor the fans know what the score is until they are finished playing it?

7

Born in 1964, this speed skater was the first American woman to win five gold medals in Olympic competition. Who is she?