Point
This last-ditch attempt to score at the end of a game, where completion is considered unlikely is commonly called this.
What is a Hail Mary?
This earliest footballs were made from this material.
What is Pig Skin?
This sport is football without kickers.
Big in Finland, this sport has a males player running an obstacle course while carrying a female teammate.
What is Wife-Carrying?
BTW: This prize is his wife's weight in beer.
This sport uses this round fruit as a substitute for a bowling ball.
What is Watermelon Bowling?
Hitting the center of board is the aim of most games that are thrown, tossed, and shot and making this shot been known as this name since 1833.
What is the Bullseye?
Small enough to hold in one hand, these are also known as Chinese "balls for ball practice" practitioners repeatedly rotate two balls in their hands for meditation and stress relief.
What are Baoding balls?
This sport is a form of gymnastics using an exercise ball as the apparatus.
What is Ballnastics?
Sport-hocking is popular in this country where players flip, spin, and slide a brightly-colored plastic bar stool in a series of tricks and finish their routine by sitting back down on the stool like nothing happened.
What is Germany?
When players hear a musical cue, they run to crates, grabbing as many of this red vegetable as they could and chuck them at family, friends or complete strangers!
What is the tomato?
NOTE: This event is known as the Tomato Royale.
In golf, this occurs when a ball hit from a tee to start a hole finishes in the cup.
What is a Hole-in-One?
Enter Fireball Soccer that is played with a ball made from this tropical tree fruit and soaked in gasoline for almost a week before lighting it up for the match. Like this wasn’t adventurous enough, the game is played barefoot!
What is the Coconut?
This playground sport has players keeping a ball inside the four squares and in constant motion by continually passing.
What is 4-Squares?
This event has deep roots in Scottish culture and includes games such as the caper toss, stone put, and hammer throw.
What is the Highland Games?
In Delaware, you can launch these fall-favorite fruits from a catapult for charity.
What is the Pumpkin?
This is the name for a shot in which a basketball player thrusts the ball forcefully down through the basket.
What is a Slam Dunk?
Made with Brazilian rubber and two hand-sown goatskin covers, this ball is considered the most lethal ball of any sport, being 3/4 the size of a baseball and harder than a golf ball. The Guinness Book of World Records calls it "the world's fastest ball" clocking an excess speed of 180 mph.
What is the Pelota?
This sport is a blending of baseball and football.
What is Footbaseball?
Shin-kicking is a combat sport that began in the 1600s within this country.
What is England?
For the past 200 years, English players have rolled this popular food item down a hill and raced each other toward the bottom to win it.
What is Cheese?
In Baseball, all players can move forward on base if the ball happens to become stuck here.
What is in the umpire's face mask?
Zorbing is a sport that involves rolling down hill in a plastic orb resembling this popular rodent activity.
What is a Hamster Ball?
This non-contact team sport is played with a flying disc on a playing field of 60 trampolines.
What is Frisbee Trampoline?
Originating in the 19th century to honor the giant lizard native this continent, Goanna Pulling has contestants tie leather straps around their necks, mimic the reptile’s posture, and try to pull each other across the line.
What is Australia?
New York holds the International Curling World Championship where players have a chance to throw around this cruciferous root vegetable to win a gold medal.
What is the Rutabaga?