Old Sports Trivia
Originally, only team that could score points in volleyball.
What is the serving team?
Oddity shared by the ostrich, kiwi & penguin.
What is that they can’t fly?
Various sources say it’s named for one of Popeye’s pals, or for initials of “general purpose”, G.P.
What is Jeep?
5600-year-old samples of this “movie treat” have been found in New Mexico caves.
What is popcorn?
In spite of its name, this brightly colored beetle can be male or female.
What is a ladybug?
Inventor of the boxing glove, English boxer Jack Broughton is commemorated in this regal resting place.
What is Westminster Abbey?
He shares his name & color with an ecclesiastic.
What is a cardinal?
In 1975, it was the Bee Gee’s way of talkin’.
What is jive?
Angel-food cake was supposedly created in this Missouri city.
What is St. Louis?
The bubonic plague of Medieval Europe was spread by these insects feeding on rats.
What are fleas?
Finishing the Channel swim in 1926, Gertrude Ederle was met on a beach by immigration officer demanding this.
What is a passport?
Most people at bars will shout to the band members to play this Lynard Skynyrd song.
What is Free Bird?
“If you shut up your mug, I’ll fill up” this with “good ol’ mountain dew”.
What is your jug?
Start by steeping, in a glass, crushed leaves in sugar syrup.
What is a mint julep?
Almost everything most insects do is related to these 2 survival activities.
What is eating & mating?
Year of 1st World Series telecast, which featured the Dodger’s Jackie Robinson, Rookie of the Year.
What is 1947?
A baby goose.
What is a gosling?
Alaska’s is Juneau, Missouri’s is Jefferson City, and Mississippi’s is this.
What is Jackson?
Small cornmeal fritters supposedly tossed to dogs to make them quiet.
What are hush puppies?
Though voracious, locusts do not migrate for food, but after an enormous increase in this.
What is population?
Of all his achievements, this pediatrician was most proud of his 1924 Olympic gold medal for rowing.
Who is Benjamin Spock?
The Terrytoon’s Heckle & Jeckle are this type of chattering bird.
What are magpies?
To place side by side, as in an unexpected combination of colors or ideas.
What is a juxtaposition?
Y’all can have these ground kernels boiled, baked, or fried for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
What are grits?
From Greek “chrysos”, meaning gold, it’s the gold-colored pupa of a butterfly.
What is a chrysalis?