World renowned US Olympic water polo team member who was recently all over the news for heroically helping a girl who had gotten her hands cut off in a car accident.
Who is Jim Bailey?
100
This is the first international water polo league, in which the best national teams compete against one another in an annual season format with nearly half a million dollar purse.
What is the FINA Water Polo World League?
100
As the national governing body for water polo in America, USA Water Polo enforces these standards.
What are FINA standards?
100
This is held every 2 to 4 years since 1973, and played together with the World Swimming Championship, under the auspices of FINA.
What is the men's Water Polo World Championship?
200
The man who single-handily developed the rules of water polo in Great Britain.
Who is William Wilson?
200
American player who made a play that led the United States to its first Olympic silver medals in 1984 and 1988.
Who is Terry Schroeder?
200
An international water polo committee formed in 1929, consisting of representatives from Great America and the International Amateur Swimming Federation.
What is FINA?
200
This is the color of the goal line in a standard game of water polo
What is white?
200
This is the Prince of Wales who was the captain of his collegiate water polo team at St Andrew's University, Scotland.
Who is Prince William?
300
This is where the game of water polo was developed.
What is England and Scotland?
300
Player from Hungary who won water polo medals at five successive Olympic Games (gold 1952, 1956, 1964; silver 1948; bronze 1960), a record in the sport.
Who is Dezső Gyarmati?
300
This is the amount of active annual participants in the USA Water Polo organization
What is 37,000?
300
This is where the play is restarted after a goal is scored
What is mid-pool?
300
This is the Balti word for "ball" that based on English pronunciation, changed the name of water polo
What is pulu?
400
This is the sport that water polo originated from that is played in rivers and lakes in England and Scotland with a ball constructed of Indian rubber.
What is rugby?
400
Player from Spain who currently holds the record of 6 Olympic games and led in scoring for 4 of them.
Who is Manuel Estiarte?
400
This is the year that USA Water Polo moved to a more formal executive model by hiring a staff instead of just having volunteers
What is 2006?
400
This is what the opposing team receives if a defensive player commits a foul inside of the 5-meter line, which prevents a "probable goal"
What is a penalty throw (a "5-meter")?
400
This is the sport's longest running rivalry, first played in 1891
What is the annual Varsity Match between Oxford and Cambridge Universities?
500
At the 1900 Summer Olympics, the first water polo tournament was contested of 7 participating teams. This is the team that won the gold.
What is the Osborne Swimming Club of Great Britain?
500
This is the Hungarian water polo coach that invented the "air pass" or "dry pass", a technique in which a player directly passes the ball through the air to another player, who receives it without the ball hitting the water.
Who is Béla Komjádi?
500
This is the number of directors that come together to form The Board of Directors of USA Water Polo.
What is 13?
500
The referees blow their whistle for these two different types of fouls
What are ordinary and personal fouls?
500
Known as being one of the most famous water polo matches of all time, this match occurred in the 1956 Summer Olympics when a player split another's eye open and consisted of these two teams