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