Language of Sports
Indiana University
"Skip" Class
Apps & Websites
Between 10 and 20
100


In boxing, K.O. is short for this




What is a knockout?



100

IU students are called this

What are Hoosiers?

100

There's not just "one" strategy for this game, but a few, like discarding "wild draw 4" cards & using "reverse" & "skip" adeptly

What is Uno?

100

Pay or get paid with this app whose name comes partly from the Latin for "to sell"

What is Venmo?


100

The number of sides on a decagon

What is 10?

200


In football, you'd better pray to a higher power to complete one of these last-minute near-impossible passes




What is a Hail Mary?



200

This notable IU alumni is a regular on Shark Tank and is the founder of a pharmaceutical company CostPlusDrugs

Who is Mark Cuban?

200

A "skip" lines up a shot in this icy sport


What is curling?

200

Jerry Seinfeld & Tim Berners-Lee have done AMAs for this app/website

Hint: AMAs are "Ask me Anything's", where people will offer to answer any other question that is asked of them

What is reddit?

200

The amount represented by a baker's dozen

What is 13?

300


In bowling, roll triple strikes and it's called this




What is a turkey?



300

How many NCAA championships has the IU men's basketball team won?

Daily Double!


What is 5? (first in 1940, most recent in 1987)

1940. 1953. 1976. 1981. 1987.

300

Skippy is a brand of this, available in Creamy & Super Chunk

What is peanut butter?

300

Carnegie Mellon professor Luis von Ahn was part of the team behind this app for learning a foreign language or 2, represented by a famous green bird mascot

What is Duolingo?

300

It's the smallest 2-digit prime number

What is 11?

400


When a pitcher strikes out all 3 batters in an inning using 9 total pitches


What is an immaculate inning?

400

When was IU founded?


What is the year 1820?

400

To survive outside of water, the fish called a mudskipper traps air in the chambers of these organs

What are gills?

400

You can upload your own music with this website whose logo is seen here

What is SoundCloud?

400

When writing a haiku, you must use this many syllables

What is 17

(5, 7, 5)

500


At this 2-word command at the start of a fencing match, raise your sword toward your opponent




What is "en garde"?



500

What was the first school established at IU?

(School of Law, of Education, of Business, of Arts and Sciences, of Medicine, etc.)

What is the School of Law?

(Later called the IU Maurer School of Law)

500

If it feels as if your heart has skipped a beat, you might have heart __________, from the Latin for "throbbing"

Daily Double!

Choose how many points to wager

what are palpitations?

500

Amazon owns this livestreaming service that hosts gamers like SypherPK

What is Twitch?

500

This number becomes palindromic when written with 3 letters in Roman numerals

Hint:

X = 10

I = 1

What is 19

XIX

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