Free Trivia Quiz #11 - Miscellaneous Sports Questions

Sports trivia questions and answers about baseball, football, boxing, the Olympics, NBA, NFL,  Deion Sanders...

Fun Trivia questions and answers - Questions about the Boston Marathon, the Baseball Hall of Fame, the National Football League, Steve Young, the Houston Astros and more.

1. What Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher hit a home run in his first major league at-bat--and never hit another?
    
2. What baseball player hit the only home run of his 212-year major league career off his own brother?
    
3. What 1921 sporting event took up all of the first 13 pages of The New York Times --except for a little space on the front page devoted to the formal end of World War I?
    
4. In the National Football League, how many footballs is the home team required to provide for each game?
    
5. Brooks Robinson and Carl Yastrzemski hold the major league baseball record for playing the greatest number of seasons with the same team.  How many years did they play-- and with what teams?
    
6. Why is the site of a boxing match called a ring when it's square?
    
7. In the very first Boston Marathon, 15 runners competed.  How many finished?
    
8. How long is the average pool cue?
    
9. Under the rules outlined in the charter of the International Olympic Committee, how much pure gold must there be in each gold medal awarded to first-place winners?
    
10. What professional ice hockey star didn't hang up his skates until he was 52?
     
11. What is the state sport of Alaska?
     
12. Who was the first athlete to hit a major league home run and make a professional football touchdown in the same week?
     
13. Who was the famous great-great-grandfather of San Francisco 49er quarterback Steve Young?
     
14. Who was the first professional athlete to win championship rings in two major sports?
     
15. How long and wide is the balance beam used in Olympic gymnastic competition?
     
16. What sport besides football did famed fullback Jim Brown compete and excel in while he attended Syracuse University in the mid 1950s?
     
17. How much did a one-minute TV spot cost advertisers on the first Super Bowl broadcast in 1967?
     
18. How many of the four Grand Slam trophies in tennis are gold; how many are silver?