WORLD OF SPORT
3 "I"s
(Alex: ...in each correct response.)
I COULD LIVE IN THAT FOOD
(Alex: Each correct response will be a food with a domicile in its name.)
NOBODY EXPECTS
HOMOPHONIC VERBS
100

In 1877 Australia beat England by 45 runs in the first test match played by international teams in this sport

What is Cricket?

100

Discovered by accident in 1928, it was the world's first true antibiotic

What is Penicilin?

100

This food for the calorie-conscious is also called Dutch cheese

What is Cottage Cheese?

100

It's a hoot the first time a kid gets surprised by the clown emerging from this windup toy

What is a Jack-in-the-box?

100

Cease to be / change the color

What is Die/Dye?

200

Fans at U.S. Bank Stadium got thrills when ESPN brought these games to Minnesota from Austin in 2017

What is The X Games?

200

Ripped ab muscles are said to have this, the state of being clearly outlined

What is Definition?

200

Take home a tapioca pudding from Kozy this dwelling

What is Shack?

200

Surprise is key in this baseball play with a deadly name that aims to score a runner from third

What is Suicide Squeeze?

200

Reveal one's soul / endure hardship

What is Bare/Bear?

300

In August 2018 a Hawaiian squad beat the team of youngsters from South Korea to take this championship

What is the Little League Championship?

300

To start something, or to ceremonially make someone a new member of a society

What is Initiate?

300

This brand of pancake topping that's been around for 120 years was named for a residence of Abraham Lincoln

What is Log Cabin Syrup?

300


David Niven & the audience were taken unawares when one of these rushed the Oscars stage in 1974

300

Make into sets of 2 / remove an apple peel

What is Pair/Pear?

400

 

The 2018-19 season of auto racing's World Endurance Championship concludes with the 87th running of this event

400

A government's formal approval of a treaty

What is a Ratification?

400

Nestle suggests using brown & white sugar to make these cookies named for a Massachusetts inn

What is Toll House?

400

People were surprised when Kadovar volcano erupted in 2018, as it was considered this, from the Latin for "sleep"

What is Dormant?

400

Listened to / assemble the flock

What is Heard/Herd?

500

Pioneered by the Gracie family, BJJ is short for Brazilian this

What is Jiujitsu?

500

A Latin term used by Freud gives us this adjective meaning "lustful"

What is Libidinous?

500

Reverse 2 letters in what a soldier's family is supposed to keep burning & you get these taters (don't keep them burning)

What is Home Fries?

500

This head of state was surprised to receive a back rub from George W. Bush at the 2006 G8 summit

What is Merkel?

500

To lament one's fate / taken care of, as the lawn

What is Moan/Mown?