Increasingly Obscure Sports Questions
Which team from the "Big Four" North American sports leagues (MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL) has won the most championships?
The New York Yankees
What writer and artist are credited as the creators of the X-Men? (Name both.)
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
What word represents wrestling's most famous principle -- the presentation of staged matches as legitimate and the insistence to all outsiders that the unreal is real?
Kayfabe
What element is the sun primarily composed of?
Hydrogen
Bob Hope has hosted the most Oscar ceremonies -- 18, twice as many as any other host. Who is second?
Billy Crystal
What golfer has won the most Major tournaments?
Jack Nicklaus
Kitty Pryde -- one of the most beloved X-Men of all-time -- was one of the first major Marvel characters to practice what religion?
Judaism
WWF/WWE has ruled the wrestling landscape for most of the last 40 years. Who owned their most notable competitor, WCW?
Ted Turner
Of 78.82%, 87.21% and 99.86%, what represents the percentage of total mass in the solar system accounted for by the sun?
99.86%
What film won the first Best Picture award?
Wings
What ABA team briefly made Wilt Chamberlain its head coach?
The San Diego Conquistadors
Which member of Alpha Flight, who later joined the X-Men, was the first openly gay hero in a Marvel comic book?
Northstar
What was the name of the 1980s Saturday morning cartoon starring Hulk Hogan and several other wrestlers?
Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling
About how long does it take for the light from the sun to reach Earth?
8 minutes
What is the only foreign language film to win Best Animated Feature?
Spirited Away
Which country has won the most Rugby World Cups?
New Zealand
What is Wolverine's birth name?
James Howlett
In 2007, in an infamous storyline, Vince McMahon was shown getting into a limo just before the limo exploded. Who called WWE headquarters the next day to offer condolences, thinking it was real?
Donald Trump
Within half a billion years, how old is the sun?
About 4.6 billion years
Citizen Kane was famously snubbed for Best Picture. What film beat it out for Best Picture of 1941?
How Green Was My Valley
Of "leg before wicket," "ungentlemanly language," and "obstructing the field," what is NOT a real way for a batsman to be dismissed?
Ungentlemanly language
Writer Chris Claremont, largely credited with breathing life into the new X-Men, took over the series with X-Men #94. Within 5 issues, what was the last issue of his original run?
X-Men #279
What was the name of the ridiculous heel dentist of the early 1990s (portrayed by the wrestler who later portrayed Kane)?
Isaac Yankem, DDS
The Sun is classified as a G-type main-sequence star, also known as what?
A yellow dwarf
Only two winners in the four acting categories have ever refused their award. Name both of them.
George C. Scott and Marlon Brando