Olympics
What are you watching?
NCAA
GOATS
100
What country has the most women's Olympic medals?
What is the USA?
American men have not won more medals than women since the 2010 Winter Olympics
100
Soul Surfer (2011)
What is Surfing? (duh)
Based on Bethany Hamilton. Hamilton, a pro surfer, loses her left arm in a shark attack. She decides to get back into the ocean and surf again.
100
What is the only school in the Hockey East league without a women's D1 hockey team?
What is UMass?
100
Who holds the record for most career individual swimming world championship titles?
Who is Katie Ledecky?
She has 16 titles and is one of the most decorated swimmers of all time.
200
What Winter Olympic Sport still doesn't allow women?
What is Nordic Combined?
It is the only sport at the Olympics that women still cannot compete in. Paralympic Hockey also lacks a women's competition.
200
A League of Their Own (1982)
What is Baseball?
Based on the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The league was founded in 1943 to maintain baseball during WWII.
200
What sport was lost at UMass in the 70's?
What is bowling? The expansion of collegiate women's and co-rec sports undermined the popularity of already outdated intramural bowling
200
Who has the most medals ever earned by a U.S. gymnast (male or female)?
Who is Simone Biles?
She is the most decorated female gymnast in history.
300
Women competed for the first time at the 1900 Paris Olympics. Of a total of 997 total athletes, how many were women?
22
300
I, Tonya (2018)
What is Figure Skating?
In 1991, Tonya Harding was the first American woman to triple axel during a competition. In 1994, her competitor was assaulted by Harding's ex-husband.
300
In 1896, Stanford and Berkely competed in the first intercollegiate women's sports matchup. What sport was played?
What is Basketball?
Women's college basketball was first developed at Smith College in 1893 by Senda Berenson (Image is Smith College team)
300
Who won the famous Battle of the sexes tennis match? (Billie Jean King vs Bobby Riggs)
Who is Billie Jean King?
Billie Jean King won 39 Grand Slam titles and beat Bobby Riggs. She is a proud advocate for equal pay in sports.
400
What was the last Summer Olympic sport to allow women's competition?
What is Boxing?
At the 2012 London games, women competed in every sport for the first time.
400
She's The Man (2006)
What is soccer?
When a high school cuts the girls' soccer team and refuses to let her join the boys' side. Viola Johnson disguises herself as a boy and joins a rival team.
400
In what sport did UMass win its first women's national championship in 1973?
What is Gymnastics?
The team surpassed all previous records and placed four of its members on the All-America team
400
Who is the most decorated track and field athlete in Olympic and World Championship history?
Who is Allyson Felix?
She earned 11 Olympic medals over the course of 5 Olympic Games. She also holds the record for the medals at the World Athletics Championships (20)
500
Women competed for the first time at the 1900 Paris Olympics. What 5 Sports were available to women at these games? (100 pts each)
What are tennis, croquet, sailing, equestrian, and golf?
500
Nyad (2023)
What is open water swimming?
Sixty-four-year-old marathon swimmer Diana Nyad attempts to become the first person ever to swim from Cuba to Florida.
500
What are the top 5 schools for women's sports? (100pts each)
1. Stanford
2. University of Florida
3. University of Texas Austin
4. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
5. University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
500
FINAL JEOPARDY
Teams name as many female athletes as you can in 2 minutes. Previously mentioned athletes are fair game, but overlapping athletes don't count for points.