Fun sports Trivia Questions and Answers - Golf, Fishing, Olympic Games, Major League Baseball, Competitive Swimming, Ty Cobb, Boxing and More!

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Fun sports trivia questions and answers.

In the 1950s, grass on golf putting greens was generally mowed to a height of one-quarter inch. What is the average grass height today.
A: One-eight of an inch. The height has gotten progressively lower through the years.

Who was the only golfer to win three of the four major men's professional tournaments in the same year?
A: Ben Hogan, who won the U.S. Open, the Masters and the British Open in 1953.

What are Blue Professor, Bottle Imp, General Hooker, Tango Triumph, Walla Walls and Rat-Faced McDougal?
A: Flies used in trout fishing.

For what sport did baseball pitching great Sandy Koufax win a college athletic scholarship?
A: Basketball. He tried out for the University of Cincinnati baseball team only after he learned that it was going on a trip to New Orleans.

What did archers at the ancient Olympic Games use as targets?
A: Tethered doves.

What basketball great has been selected for more NBA All-Star teams than nay other player?
A: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The former Los Angeles Laker was named to 19 All-"Star teams."

Who was the first catcher in major league baseball history to win the Rookie of the Year award?
A: Johnny Bench of the Cincinnati Reds, in 1968.

With what sport did the word "stymie" originate?
A: Golf. To be stymied meant to find an opponent's ball between your ball and the hole on the green. Until 1952, when the rules of golf were changed, the ball had to remain where it was, blocking yours, so that you had to loft your ball to reach the hole.

To what section did the Hollywood Wax Museum move boxer Mike Tyson's figure after his infamous 1997 ear-biting attack on Evander Hollyfield?
A: The Chamber of Horrors--he was relocated alongside Hannibal Lecter. Tyson's figure was originally in the museum's Sports Hall of Fame.

Baseball fan Robert Heuer won $2,250,000 in the New York State Lottery in 1987 with the numbers of his favorite players--DiMaggio, Ford, Mays, Marichal, Stengel and McCovey. What were his winning numbers?
A: 5, 16, 24, 27, and 44, respectively.

To a competitive swimmer, what does the abbreviation d.p.s. mean?
A: Distance per stroke.

What nonstandard item of football clothing did on-time New York Jet  quarterback Joe Namath donate to Planet Hollywood?
A: The pantyhose he wore on the playing field on chilly days.

How many cows does it take to make the 22,000 footballs used per season by the teams in the National Football League?
A: 3,000.

What number did base ball legend Ty Cobb wear?
A: None. He played before numbers were used.

Where are all baseballs used in the U.S. major leagues manufactured?
A: In Haiti, where cheap labor is used to hand stitch the leather cover on each 369-yard roll of woolen yarn and cotton string. (The Rawlings Sporting Goods Co.'s exclusive contract expired in 1986.)

What two college teams played the first football game in the U.S.?
A: Princeton and Rutgers. Rutgers won the 1869 contest, 6 to 4.

What boxing champion-to-be was disqualified in the1952 Olympic heavyweight finals for "inactivity in the ring"?
A: Sweden's Ingemar Johansson. He was presented with the silver medal thirty year later.

Outfielder Pete Gray played with the St. Louis Browns in 1945 despite a serious handicap. What was it?
A: He had only one arm.

 

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