Today's Quiz - FINISHED

Slightly different than the usual footy one's.

1. Which sport is played on the largest pitch?
-Polo

2. In 1950, India withdrew from the World Cup because FIFA refused to let them do what?
-not allowed to play barefoot

3. What is the connection between Volleyball, Squash and Badminton? Clue: This connection is not shared with tennis or table tennis.
-You can only win the point on your serve.

4. In darts, what is the lowest score that CANNOT be scored with a single dart?
-23

5. Which sports playing area is 2.7 metres by 1.5 metres?
-Table Tennis

6. Which sport do the Oklahoma City Thunder play?
-Basketball

7. In Athletics, what is the last event of the Decathlon?
-1500m

8. What is the only sport to have been played on the surface of the moon?
-Golf

9. Who was the first cricketer to achieve 10,000 runs in test cricket?
-Gavaskar

10. Who were the runners up in the Europa League Final of 2010?
-Fulham

11. James Naismith invented which sport?
-Basketball

12. Who scored the winning goal for Romania when they beat England in the 1998 World Cup?
-Petrescu

13. What significant sporting event took place on November 22nd 2003?
-Rugby WC

14. 8 minutes and 47.8 seconds is the fastest ever winning time for what race?
-Grand National

15. What is the highest possible break in snooker?
-155

1. Earth hockey

15. 155

2. wear turbans

4.23

7. 1500m

8. golf

14. grand national

13. england win rugby world cup

well done Dawg.

1. Polo

5. Table Tennis

6 Ice Hockey

9. Sunil Gavaskar

12. Petresku

4/5...not bad.

6. basketball, baseball, soccer

2. play barefoot

11. lacrosse

10. benfica, sporting lisbon, napoli

6 & 2....

10. lille, montpelllier, monaco, maribor, boavista, zenith, ajax, hamburg

10 is Fulham. I remember watching it and wanting them to win. And they could've been playing the dippers if they'd not been such chokers

leopold wrote:10 is Fulham. I remember watching it and wanting them to win. And they could've been playing the dippers if they'd not been such chokers

3. you don't get a 'set' number of serves in badminton, squash and volleyball. Win the point and it's your serve. In tennis you serve for a game. In table tennis you get 5 serves before switching.

Nearly...but not correct.

3.  Is it that you don't play sets in badminton, squash and volleyball?  Just a number of games?

Isn't my connection valid?

Yours is Dawg......it's something to do with serves. CLUE!!!

It's not about where you serve...tennis is a zone that isn't the whole court. That's the same as squash, but badminton depends on if it's singles or doubles. table tennis is the whole area. volleyball too. It's not about who serves as you've slapped me down for that too. Tennis is an overhead serve. Badminton isn't, neither is squash, but volleyball is. Squash isn't overhead either.

I'm buggered if I know.

I never slapped you down....I just said you were on the right track, but wrong.

Think of what can be achieved if you serve?

You're so close to the correct answer from before...but you probably added too much info.

Volleyball, you need to serve to win a point.

Badminton, anyone can win, but it used to be only when you serve.

Squash, anyone can win, but it used to be only when you serve.

Tennis, anyone can win the point.

Table tennis, anyone can win the point.

If volleyball has changed the scoring system recently, then is that it? Squash, badminton and volleyball have changed their scoring systems recently?

Having said that, it might well depend where you got this question from and how old it is because those scoring systems changed within the last 10 years.

Dawg.. your first 3 answers were correct.

Didn't know if the rules have changed...I don't play any of them.

So what's the official answer?

see post

Read my long winded answer. Badminton (which I am a qualified coach) changed the scoring system several years ago (around 2006) so that anyone can win the point on the serve.

Squash - anyone can win the point. They changed the scoring system like they did with badminton.

11. Basketball or Baseball

well done MCM

Topdawg wrote:Read my long winded answer. Badminton (which I am a qualified coach) changed the scoring system several years ago (around 2006) so that anyone can win the point on the serve.

Squash - anyone can win the point. They changed the scoring system like they did with badminton.

Don't play either Dawg....so you were right first time around.

Badminton Coach? Is that a 'pulling' thing?

There's absolutely no-one worth pulling. Even the women are dog ugly.