Sports Movies
This movie franchise underdog who stands iconically in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and shares a name with a US mountain range whose highest peak is Mount Elbert.
What is Rocky?
Despite being a soccer powerhouse, this European country has only made one World Cup finals.
Who is England?
This biblical prophet has a T stop in Newton.
Who is Ezekiel Elliot?
This country, which invented the term "soccer," banned the sport throughout the 1300s fearing the civil unrest it caused.
What is England?
In 1994, a scandal surrounded the women's Olympic figure skating team based on assault case between these two skaters.
Who are Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan?
This movie gave rise to the titular term for focusing on asset value relative to cost instead of asset quality in a vacuum.
What is Moneyball?
This team has the longest current championship drought across professional sports.
Who are the Arizona Cardinals? (79 years)
This former Patriots player involved in a murder scandal is one of the presidents.
Who is Aaron Donald?
This battle, fought on the coastal plain outside Athens, is honored in name by a distance race still run today.
What is Marathon?
In 1936, Jesse Owens' medals were a major moment for African American civil rights. In this later Olympics, American sprinters gave the black power salute in support of the Civil Rights Movement.
This controversial movie follows a future NFL player with a career -8 receiving yards as a family "saves" him from poverty and gets him drafted to the Ravens.
What is The Blindside?
This many NFL franchises have never made a Super Bowl.
What is 4? (Browns, Lions, Texans, Jaguars)
This NBA 10 year Clipper all-star center has 15 multi-platinum albums.
Who is D'Andre Swift?
In 1971, the US and China exchanged athletes when and American missed his bus and rode with the Chinese. This represented the thawing of US-China tensions, a process known as __ diplomacy.
What is ping-pong?
In the famous Battle of the Sexes, Billie Jean King legitimized female representation in sports by beating this male tennis player in straight sets.
Who is Bobby Riggs?
The name of the lifeguard in the Sandlot and the 10th largest fast food chain by revenue.
Who is Wendy?
This founder of the Boston Celtics had his name on the NBA Finals Championship trophy before it was replaced by its current name, the Larry O'Brien trophy.
Who was Walter A. Brown?
This football player with 14 kids is the inventor of the DeLorean.
Who is Antonio Brown?
This promise made by the Third Estate during the French Revolution was made not at Roland Garros but at Versailles.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
In OJ's 1995 murder trial, he was defended by a "Dream Team" of lawyers. Name any two of them.
Who are Alan Dershowitz, Johnnie Cochran, Robert Kardashian, Robert Shapiro, and others?
The name of the protagonist of Draft Day, played by Kevin Costner.
They share a first name with a current Red Sox starter and a last name with a star Angel's starter from 2006 to 2016.
Who is Sonny Weaver Jr.?
This prime number of MLB Hall of Famers never made the World Series (modern era only).
What is 31?
This 2007 Red Sox shortstop helped invent one of the most famous stock market indexes.
Who is Julio Jones?
This war, also called the 100 Hour War, was fought between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969 based on land disputes and migratory tensions.
What is The Football (Soccer) War?
This sport was played on the moon by astronauts of the Apollo 14 mission.
What is golf (and javelin throw)?