Sports Trivia

SPORTS TRIVIA

1. ) The National game of the United States a popular in many other countries.  
2. ) A baseball player of the Los Angeles Dodgers who established a major league record by    stealing 104 bases during the 9162 season.
3. ) Joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 and became the first Negro to play in modern        organized baseball.
4. ) A Yankee pitcher who pitched the first perfect no-hit, no-run game in World Series History.
5. )  A fast, exciting game and being played by two teams of five players and each team consists of a center, two forwards and two guards.
6. ) Won all America and All-Time All - America honors at the University of Chicago in the 1930's and was one of the earliest one - hander shooters.
7. ) Won All - America honors and Sport writers voted Him "basket balls" greatest player of the half century in 1950.
8. ) The basketball largest professional league.
9. ) A popular indoor game played on a rectangular table with three invory balls.
10. ) Won the first Championship Billiards Match of the United States against  John Seecreiter.
11. ) The place and the complete date for the First Championship Billiard Match of the United States.
12. ) Is the sport of fighting skillfully with the fists.
13. ) The first Heavy Weight Champion in the year 1882-1892.
14. ) The first Middle Weight Champion in the year 1884-1891.
15. ) A popular team game that is simple enough to be played for general exercise, yet demanding enough to be played  as a competitive sport, either indoors or outdoors.
16. ) A physial director at the Holyoke who invented Volleyball in 1895.
17. ) Game in which a rubber, air-filled bladder, encased in leather, is kicked or carried.
18. ) A game played with rackets and a soft ball on a court divided by a net.

ANSWER

• Baseball
• Speedy Maury Hills
• Jackie Robinson
• Don Larsen
• Basketball
• Haarlow "Bill" A. William
• Mikan George
• National Basketball Association (NBC)
• Billiards
• Michael Phelan
• Detroit, April 12, 1859
• Boxing
• John L. Sullivan
• Jack Dempsey
• Volleyball
• William G. Morgan
• Football
• Tennis 

 Reference: 

The World Book Encyclopedia 1995.


Notre Dame of Polomolok Echo, March 1995. Notre Dame Siena College of Polomolok, Polomolok, South Cotabato, Philippines.