Olympic Sports
Fitness & Wellness
Muscles of the Body
Scholastic Sports at Niskayuna
Class "Favorites"
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These Olympic Games are designated by sports such as luge, skeleton, and slalom

What are the Winter Olympic Games?

200

Annually, students are required to have this completed so that they are allowed to participate in scholastic sports

What is a yearly physical?

200

Muscles located on the back of the upper arm are grouped into this

What is the Tricep?

200

The last time this sport won a sectional title was also the last time it won a state title in the same sport ...in 1978

What is Boys Basketball?

200

This game features 6 pins that each have to be acquired by the other team.  If you get all 6, you have 3 seconds to keep them up (together) to win the game. A throwing game.

What is Battleship?

400

The 2020 Olympics were postposed because of this worldwide issue

What is the Covid-19 Pandemic?

400

This class also teaches fitness and wellness

What is Health Class?

400

These muscles are the primary movers when you exercise a squat motion

What are the Quadriceps?

400

This is the first level of sports offerings in Niskayuna (middle schoolers only!)

What are "Modified" Sports?

400

This game is played with a "step and second" rule, and includes a live ball throughout play, the only time the action stopping when the ball leaves the gym or falls outside the boundary lines

What is Team Hand Ball?

600

This activity is one of the throwing portions of the decathlon, involving a long 'spear-like" object

What is javelin?

600

It is suggested that a human being over the age of 14 drink this much water -in ounces- every day

What is 64 ounces?

600

Some of the strongest muscles in your body are located here, but we'd prefer you didn't use them for chewing gum in class!

What is the jaw?

600

This sport has won over 75% of its contests for the most recent 7 years, consecutively

What is Boys Golf?

600

5 players on a side, small goal, and no "high-sticking'

What is Floor Hockey?

800

Blue, Yellow, Black, Green, Red 

What are the olympic ring colors?

800

Its the abdominal fitness portion of the exam

What are the curl-ups?

800

This muscle group spans from the top of the neck to the lower back, and stretches width wise across the shoulders as well

What is the Trapezius Muscle?

800

Coach Grastorf of the High School, the current Football Coach for the district, also excelled in these two sports for the Silver Warriors

What are Basketball & Baseball?

800

This game is played with 40 dodgeballs and one basic rule, get people out and send them to jail.

What is jailbreak?

1000

This men's swimming competitor is the world-record holder for many events, and also holds the record for most gold medals won in a single Olympic Games.

Who is Michael Phelps?

1000

10 times around the inside of the tennis courts (red paint only!) at VA OR Iroquois will get you this far

What is 1 Mile?

1000

Muscle located on the front of the upper arm

What is the Bicep?

1000

These two sports, which include long-distance running, are the only sports that are sponsored by the school year-round

What are cross-country and track and field (XC, Indoor, Outdoor)?

1000

4 bases, as many players on a base as you want, kick the ball - but keep it out of the ceiling!

What is Mat Ball?