Unusual Sports
This once fictional, now real sport was created in a famous book series about wizards.
What is quidditch?
"The happiest place on Earth."
What is Disney World?
Dogs have the same 5 senses as humans, but this sense is the most highly developed.
What is the sense of smell?
This television game show created by Mark Goodson has two families compete to name the most popular responses to survey questions in order to win cash and prizes.
What is Family Feud?
Popular in Canada and the United States, this sport is essentially hockey but instead of wearing skates, you run around on the ice in street shoes. Rec Well even had an intramural league of it pre-pandemic.
What is broomball?
"Leave the driving to us."
What is Greyhound?
This dog breed is the smallest of them all and even has a movie franchise dedicated to it?
What is a chihuahua?
This show debuted in 1975, featuring a competition in which contestants solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a giant carnival wheel.
What is Wheel of Fortune?
Dominated by women, this sport has witnessed a resurgence in the past 10 years. It is played by two teams, each of which are skating around a single track. One member of each team is called a “jammer,” and it is their job to lap the players on the other team in order to score points. And yes, injuries are common.
What is a roller derby?
"Believe in your smellf"
What is Old Spice?
This is the most popular dog breed in the United States, beating out Beagles, German Shepherds, and Huskys.
What is a Labrador Retriever?
This quiz game show pulls their quiz questions from elementary school textbooks and has contestants compete against school-age children to win cash prizes.
What is Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
This sport is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the center of which is a 22-yard pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.
What is cricket?
"Let your fingers do the walking."
What is Yellow Pages?
This is the Queen of England's favorite dog breed.
What is a corgi?
This American television game show pits newly married couples against each other in a series of revealing question rounds to determine how well the spouses know or do not know each other.
What is The Newlywed Game?
Originating in Finland, this sport is a contest in which male competitors race while each carrying a female teammate. The objective is for the male to carry the female through a special obstacle track in the fastest time.
What is wife-carrying?
"Behold the power of cheese."
What is the American Dairy Association and Dairy Council?
Normal adult dogs have this many teeth.
What is 42?
The game features contestants collecting spins by answering trivia questions, and then later using the spins on an 18-space gameboard to win cash and prizes. The show is also known for a red cartoon creature with a high-pitched, raspy voice can cause a contestant to go bankrupt and start over from $0
What is Whammy (Press your luck)?