It’s time for a short quiz to challenge all of you sports fanatics on sports other than the big three, NFL, NBA, and MLB. These questions are extremely random but I still found them interesting. Maybe you will as well. As always the answers will be listed below.

1. What card game gave us the term bilk?

2. What popular sport did Joe Sobek invent at the Greenwich, Connecticut, YMCA in 1950?

3. How many world records did swimmer Mark Spitz set when he won seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympics?

4. In cross-country bike racing, what the initials BMX represent?

5. Who was the first Olympic gold medalist to win a professional world boxing title?

6. In the very first Boston Marathon, 15 runners competed. How many finished?

7. What professional ice hockey star didn’t hang up his skates until he was 52?

8. What was a fitting name of the first miniature golf course in the United States?

9. What popular sport was known in ancient Germany as Heidenwerfen?

10. In what sport is a stimpmeter used, and what does it measure?

Answers

Cribbage, Racquetball, 7, Bicycle Moto X, Floyd Patterson, 10, Gordy Howe, The Tom Thumb Golf Course, Bowling, Green Speed in Golf.