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Sport

  1. That youngest person ever to have won a world boxing championship is Wilfred Benitez?
  2. The Scottish government banned golf in 1647?
  3. The cricket player Don Bradman got his nickname Goldie because of the colour of his hair?
  4. The first All-Star baseball game was held in Chicago, 1905?
  5. The tennis net is 36 inches high in the center?
  6. Tennis was originally played with bare hands?
  7. L. Sivaramakrishnan of India is the cricket player with the longest surname?
  8. In 1980 Ken Morro from New York Islanders became the first ever to win both an Olympic gold medal and a Stanley Cup title the same year?
  9. Between the year 1937 and 1958 there was no America's Cup?
  10. In 1979 Wayne Gretzky scored his first point in the NHL against the Chicago Blackhawks?
  11. A hockey puck is made of vulcanized rubber?
  12. The goaltender in water polo was at begining standing on the pool deck?
  13. Zola Budd, a South African long distance runner with a world record, trained and raced barefoot?
  14. The shortest game ending in checkmate is only two moves?
  15. A French climber, by the nickname Spiderman, has climbed the tallest building in the world?
  16. Climbing ropes are able to hold over 6000 Pounds?
  17. Vasaloppet in Sweden is the biggest Cross-Country Skirace in the world. The race is 90km long?
  18. Scuba diving was invented by Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1943?
  19. The longest hole on a golf course is the sixth hole at the Koolan Island Course in Australia. The hole measures 860 yards?
  20. China has their own Vasalopp and the first year only a few hundred participated in the race?
  21. The best badminton shuttles are made from the feathers taken from the left wing of a goose?
  22. Snowboarding was invented in the 1960s in Austria?
  23. New Zealand and Australia are the only countries south of the equator to won medals at the Olympic Winter Games?
  24. The Youngest winner of Tour de France was Henri Cornet at the age of 19?
  25. Norway has won more Winter Games gold medals than any other country?
  26. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball?
  27. Snowboarding was invented in the 1960s in Austria?
  28. New Zealand and Australia are the only countries south of the equator to won medals at the Olympic Winter Games?
  29. The Youngest winner of Tour de France was Henri Cornet at the age of 19?
  30. Norway has won more Winter Games gold medals than any other country?
  31. The first Grand Prix race ever was won at an average speed of 46 mph?
  32. NASCAR has by tradition only allowed American made cars to compete in the race?
  33. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is home to the first US long-distance auto race in 1911?
  34. The Olympic silver medal is made of 92.5% silver?
  35. The Olympic gold medal must contain at least six grams of gold?
  36. All Olympic medals must be minimum 60 millimeters in diameter?
  37. The Olympic motto is Citius, Altius, Fortius wich is Latin and means Faster, Higher, Braver?
  38. The Olympic flag was designed in 1913 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin?
  39. The Olympic Fire-tower in Turin is 57 metres high and that is the highest tower ever built for an Olympic Game?
  40. Ice hockey became an Olympic sport at a Summer Olympics in Antwerp in 1920?
  41. The total distance in Tour de France changes every year?
  42. John Pius Boland was the first Irish-born to win an Olympic gold medal?
  43. The first women's boxing match in the US took place in NYC, 1876?
  44. Everton have never won the League Cup?
  45. A linesman are estimate to run about 4 miles during a soccer game?
  46. Mexico was the first country to host the World Cup (soccer) twice?
  47. The biggest loss ever in a World Cup football match was between Zaire and Yugoslavia?
  48. The Olympic gold medal is mostly made of Silver?
  49. Snowboarding is the fastest growing sport in the world?
  50. The five interlocking rings of the Olympic flag symbolize a meeting of the athletes from five original continents, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and America?
  51. Wrestling is the oldest sport in the world?
  52. The origins of bowling is Germany?
  53. The first time a woman from Iran competed in the Olympics was in 1996?
  54. Manchester United were first known as Newton Heath. They changed their name in 1902?
  55. Pakistan's national sport is hockey?
  56. In Island boxing was not allowed before 2002?
  57. The first sport ever to be filmed was boxing, 1894?
  58. Only Greece and Australia have participated in every modern Olympics games since 1896?
  59. The term forward pass was first created by the football team at Saint Louis University?
  60. The only sport that has been played on the moon is golf. On the 6 of February 1971 Alan Shepard hit a golf ball?
  61. The largest amount of participant in a sport is sport fishing?
  62. Average life span of a major league baseball is 7 pitches?
  63. Before the year 1859 umpires sat in a rocking chair behind the catcher?
  64. Over 1800 medals are awarded at the Olympics?
  65. A bowling pin will fall down at a tilt of 7.5 degrees?
  66. The first puck ever to be used in a hockey game was a frozen piece of cow crap?
  67. Sweden's National Sauna Champion is Ari Petrof. He stayed in a sauna for five hours and 10 minutes with a temperature of 212 degrees F(100 degrees C)?
  68. The penalty kick in fotball was introduced to the Game in 1891?
  69. According to data published by FIFA 2001, over 240 million people worldwide play football?
  70. The baseball team New York Yankees have won the most World Series Championships. Their first title was won in 1923 and they have titles in total?
  71. The weight of a hockey puck is 0.38 lb?
  72. The first basketball league game was held between the Toronto Huskies and the New York Knickerbockers at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto Canada on November 1, 1946. New York won the game by 68-66?
  73. Triathlon is one of the fastest growing sports in the UK?
  74. Speaking of NBA Basketball, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the all-time leader in field goals made with 15,837.?
  75. The first African-American quarterback in the NFL was Willie Thrower. He played for the Chicago Bears in 1953?
  76. Hockey has been played for over three centuries?
  77. The first time a Rugby team from Wales toured in South Africa was in 1964?
  78. Golf was invented in Scotland. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden and that put the word GOLF into the vocabulary?
  79. The only team to ever win the Superbowl that plays it's home games in a domed stadium was in 1999 in St. Louis Rams?
  80. It takes about 3,000 cows to supply enough leather for a year's production of American footballs to be used by the NFL?
  81. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games in USA like the NFL,NBA, MLB, NHL or NFL are the day before and after the Major League all-stars Game?
  82. American football originate from English rugby in the early part of 1800. The first football was round. American students played a similar game called ballown?
  83. In tennis the work/rest ratiois is about 1:3?
  84. A golf balls can reach speeds up to about 170 miles an hour?
  85. A 16lb bowling ball hits the lane with a force of over 2000lb per square inch?
  86. Babe Ruth hit 113 home runs in only two seasons?
  87. The first bowling pins were so light that sometimes they flew out through the window of the bowling club?
  88. During a tennis match your shorts will gain weight?