Sports & Game Trivia

Sports and game trivia questions and answers.

What teams competed in the first football Super bowl in 1967?
A: The Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs. The Packers won the game, 35-10.

Who is the only man elected to both the Baseball and football Halls of Fame?
A: Cal Hubbard, the tackle for the Green Bay packers and New York Giants who became an American League umpire after his retirement form football.

Who was the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament?
A: Tiger Woods, at the age of 21 in 1997. He won by a margin of twelve strokes--another Master's record.

What does the small printed label on the back of all National Football League helmets say?
A: It warns players in 72 words, not to use the helmet "to butt, ram or spear an opposing player."

Where does catgut--used in stringed instruments, surgical sutures and tennis rackets--come from?
A: The intestines of sheep, horses and several other animals--but not from cats. Some believe the word is a shortened from of cattlegut.

Who said, "Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser"?
A: Former Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes, who was fired for being a bad loser and attacking a Clemson player who intercepted a pass in the closing moments of the 1978 Gator Bowl. Ohio lost, 17-15.

Who played basket ball with the Boston Celtics, hockey with the Boston Bruins, football with the Detroit Lions and soccer with the Tampa Bay Rowdies?
A: Amateur athlete and professional writer George Plimpton.

How high is a tennis ball supposed to bounce when it's dropped on on concrete from a height of 100 inches?
A: Between 53 and 58 inches, measured from the bottom of the ball, according to the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. The concrete surface should be a minimum of 4 inches thick.

What international sports competition is named for former president George Bush's grandfather?
A: Amateur golf's Walker Cup. It was named in honor of George Hebert Walker Bush's Grandfather, George Herbert Walker, after he donated the tournament trophy for the first competition in 1922.

What song did members of the "miracle" New York Mets baseball team sing on the Ed Sullivan TV show after they won the 1969 World Series?
A: "You've Gotta Have Heart" from the musical Damn Yankees.

In speed skating, what do the competitors wear to indicate which lane they start in?
A: Colored armbands. White is worn by the skater starting in the inner lane; red by the skater starting in the outer land. The skaters change lanes after each circuit of the track.

What popular sport does the Federation Internatinale des Quilleurs (FIQ) oversee?
A: Bowling.

What American baseball team introduced he "high five"?
A: the Los Angeles Dodgers. Outfielder Glenn Burke is credited with originating it in 1977.

What sport--in its primitive form--gave us the word melee?
A: Soccer. In French, melee means "a confused mass," which was what the playing field looked like in Europe in the middle Ages when towns competed using teams of up to a hundred player, with the goals a half-mile or so apart.