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  • Should Universities award scholarship to athletes, like they do in the US?
  • If you always win when you play tennis with your friend it means you always ........ your opponent at tennis
    beat
  • Can e-sport be considered a sport?
  • What's the name of that sport?
    fishing
  • do/make sport
    do sport
  • If you were to try an extreme sport, which one would you try? Why? [paragliding, parachuting, skydiving, bungee-jumping, zip-lining, hang gliding, white-water rafting, extreme skiing…]
  • What fitness program is said to have originated in the 1990s when Colombian aerobics teacher Alberto Perez subbed salsa and merengue for his normal workout-class music?
    zumba
  • Can you explain the concept of "offside" in soccer to someone who has never watched the sport before?
  • Are you disappointed when the game ends in a draw?
  • How many players are there on a standard volleyball team?
    6
  • What is the only country to have played in every single soccer World Cup?
    Brazil
  • What do you need to play bowling?
    a bowling ball and pins
  • Which sport is played with this ball?
    Squash
  • What piece of equipment is essential for playing table tennis?
    paddle
  • What's that place called?
    a course
    a pitch
    a court
  • In which sport do you need an oar?
    rowing
  • My father bought a set of golf clubs / rackets but then he never used them.
    clubs
  • What's the name of that sport?
    water skiing
  • Which sport/game is played with a ball and pins?
    bowling
  • If you could have a one-on-one conversation with any sports legend, living or deceased, who would it be and what NOT sports-related questions would you ask them?
  • The referee blows the ......... if a player breaks rules on a pitch
    whistle
  • The National Sports Act of Canada granted two different sports as the official sports of Canada. One is, unsurprisingly, hockey. What is the other?
    lacrosse
  • Which 2 sports are played/perfomed 1) on a pitch 2) on a court 3) on a rink
  • What's the name of that sport?
    diving
  • A famous coach that was unlike the others
  • Have you watched any sports live at a sports ground or stadium? How was the experience? Was it better than watching on TV?
  • All professional athletes have terrible health when they retire. Agree or Disagree
  • If you were to invent a new sport, what would it be called, and what unique rules or equipment would it involve?
  • Which sport has the same name as an insect?
    cricket
  • In which sport would you have a touchdown?
    American football
  • How has technology impacted sports, both in terms of how they are played and how they are enjoyed by spectators? Can you think of any examples where technology has significantly changed the dynamics of a sport?
  • A sport/game that can be played alone
  • Athletes from which sports train the hardest?
  • This is a set of d.....
    dumbells
  • What's the name of that sport?
    fencing
  • A sport where most of sportsmen/sportswomen retire relatively young
  • What's the name of that sport? What do the athletes wear on their feet?
    ice skating, skates
  • Which sports is played on a ring?
    boxing
  • A game/ sport where it is more important the strategy you develop than the physical shape you are in
  • "It's not the winning that counts, it's the taking part." What are your thoughts on this?
  • An athlete whose reputation was ruined after some events
  • Which country won the World Cup 2018?
    France
  • What sports legend's autobiography, published in 1975, was titled "The Greatest: My Own Story?"
    Muhammad Ali
  • Why is football so attractive for men?
  • Why is modern society so obsessed with sports?
  • Which country is famous for its traditional martial art called Sumo wrestling?
    Japan
  • Which sports requires a shuttlecock?
    badmiton
  • Which term that starts with S describes your ability to do exercise for a long time?
    stamina
  • Hockey is played on a .....
    rink
  • This sport is called. .....
    rowing
    boating
    sailing
  • George Orwell said: "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting." Do
  • What is the player holding in his hands?
    a club
  • What is the term for a situation in chess where a player's king is in a position to be captured and there is no way to escape?
    Checkmate
  • In which country was curling invented?
    Scotland
    Estonia
    Norway
    Sweden
  • Which sport is played with a cue?
    pool
  • What's that place called?
    a stadium
  • An athlete who retired because of their injury
  • Can you see a true personality of the person through playing a match/game with them?
  • What is the objective in badminton?
    Hit the shuttlecock over the net
  • Who is this guy?
    coach
  • Do you like to wear clothes with a team's emblem or player's name?
  • Why not stop spending all this money in an unwinnable anti-doping war and let athletes do whatever they want to succeed?
  • What is your favorite sports-related anecdote or moment that you find particularly amusing or interesting?
  • Who's that guy in blue?
    a goalkeeper
  • Before you start to work out you have to...?
    warm up
  • What do you need to play badminton?
    a racket and a shuttlecock
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