Question: Decorated swimmers Mary T. Meagher and Susie O'Neill who both specialized had what operatic nickname?
Answer: """Madam(e) Butterfly"""

Question: Bonspiel is a tournament of what Olympic sport that many people may not even consider a sport, at first glance?
Answer: Curling

Question: A memorial of running shoes in the public library of a particular American city commemorates what incident that occurred on April 15, 2013?
Answer: Boston Marathon bombing

Question: Sprint events at the Olympics are usually dominated by countries from the western hemisphere. As of 2012, Susanthika Jayasinghe is the first and only Asian to win an Olympic medal in any of 100 m, 200 m or 400 m sprint events. What country did she represent?
Answer: Sri Lanka

Question: In the Japanese fun-game of suikawari, which is similar to a piñata, what objects are typically smashed? (hint: fans of comedian Gallagher should know)
Answer: Watermelons

Question: Advertising that their bats are made of maple, the ad line of baseball bats producing company MaxBats goes "Our maple kicks ___" what?
Answer: Ash

Question: Achieving a score of 147 is equivalent to perfection in what sport?
Answer: Snooker

Question: What is the only sports team in the Big Four leagues of the US from the most religiously homogeneous state? You get one, you get the other!
Answer: Utah Jazz

Question: If the Eastbourne International serves as a warm-up event for women for Wimbledon, what is the equivalent tournament for the men?
Answer: Queen's Club

Question: Long suffering fans of what professional team trace their woes to a curse placed in 1945 by Billy Sianis when he was asked to leave the stadium because of his maladorous goat?
Answer: Chicago Cubs

Question: British politician Norman Tebbit created controversy in 1990 commenting on the perceived lack of loyalty of South Asian and Caribbean immigrants towards the English team playing which game?
Answer: Cricket

Question: In a children's board game, what type of creatures are Lizzie (purple), Henry (orange), Homer (green), and Harry (yellow) who chomp down marbles?
Answer: Hippos

Question: Losing her head aside, who has been called the Mother of Golf for her interest and her pioneering effort of sorts for the game?
Answer: Mary, Queen of Scots

Question: """You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world."" ""Thanks, King."" Which athlete?"
Answer: Jim Thorpe

Question: The strategy board game Reversi played on a 8*8 board is marketed under the name of which Shakespearean character?
Answer: Othello

Question: The Connecticut-based indie rock band The Zambonis write and sing exclusively about what?
Answer: (Ice) hockey

Question: What distinctive scoring pattern of a popular sport is possibly said to have emerged from the quarterly movement of hands on a clock?
Answer: 15-30-40 pattern of a tennis point

Question: What two countries engaged in what has been called the 'Blood in the Water' match in the 1956 Olympics with the backdrop of political tensions?
Answer: Hungary and USSR

Question: In a 1914 chess tournament in St. Petersburg, what did Tsar Nicholas II call the five finalists Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Frank Marshall?
Answer: """Grandmasters"""

Question: What word completes this unique and 'grand' list? Plexicushion, Clay, ___, Decoturf
Answer: Grass

Question: The Mexican sportscaster Angel Fernandez whose signature was later adopted by Andrés Cantor for American audiences is best remembered for what vocal contribution to sports lore?
Answer: """Goooooooool!"""

Question: The aquatics discipline at most Olympics and related events usually features diving, swimming, synchronized swimming and what other sport?
Answer: Water polo

Question: In sailing, if tacking is the maneuver by which the vessel turns its bow (front side) so that the direction from which the wind blows changes sides, what is the term for doing so by turning the stern (rear)?
Answer: Jibing

Question: For the 2003 NBA All-Star game, the league for the first time offered ballots in three languages of English, Spanish and what else keeping in mind a certain international star?
Answer: Chinese (Yao Ming)

Question: On April 30 1993, a knife wielding Günter Parche in Hamburg had a debilitating effect on the career of whom?
Answer: Monica Seles

Question: When ultra-marathoner Dean Karnazes ran across the entire United States in 2011, a blog headlined it by comparing him to what movie character?
Answer: Forrest Gump

Question: Commemorating the 50th anniversary of a certain event, in 2004 Britain released a 50-pence coin that showed a stop clock at at 3:59.4. Who was being honored?
Answer: Roger Bannister, best known for running the first mile in less than 4 minutes

Question: What fast paced sport(s) take place in a court called the fronton?
Answer: Jai alai or pelota

Question: After the Summer Olympics and the Soccer World Cup, what sport features an event that is third largest in terms of television audience?
Answer: Cricket (the World Cup)

Question: In 1899, four members of the Harvard University tennis team wished to challenge Britain to a tennis competition. Name the Harvard player who designed the tournament format.
Answer: Dwight F. Davis, after whom the Davis Cup is named

Question: In 1924, what did Grantland Rice collectively call Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley and Elmer Layden, the name now a part of American sports lore?
Answer: Four Horsemen

Question: The 1994 San Marino Grand Prix proved to be a watershed for the safety procedures of Formula One because of the death of Roland Ratzenberger and what other incident?
Answer: Death of Ayrton Senna

Question: What Asian country is the most populous country in the world never to have won an Olympic medal?
Answer: Bangladesh

Question: In 1992 British journalists Andrew Jennings and Vyv Simson wrote a controversial book about the International Olympic Committee chairman Juan Samaranch. Taking a cue from fantasy literature, what did they call it?
Answer: The Lord of the Rings

Question: The website of what annual sporting event sells an artifact called the Green/Purple Friendship Bracelet?
Answer: Wimbledon

Question: Which current day sports superstar is associated with the 'To Di World' pose that has one hand bent at the elbow, the other hand fully extended and both hands pointed in the same direction towards the sky at an inclined angle?
Answer: Usain Bolt

Question: Below is Rule 13 of a very distinctive sport. What is the missing word? Sugar cane or rice balls packed with vitamins (molasses and rock salt) shall be given to the ___s at the end of each match and a cold beer, or soft drink, to the ___ drivers and not vice versa.
Answer: Elephant (the sport is elephant polo)

Question: A one-hole course at Camp Bonifas that is surrounded by minefields prompting Sports Illustrated to call it 'the most dangerous hole in golf' is at what Asian location?
Answer: Korean Demilitarized Zone

Question: South Africa was ejected from the 1970 Davis Cup in part due to the campaigning of which male star to whom that country previously denied a visa on racial grounds?
Answer: Arthur Ashe

Question: The peloton from the French for 'little ball' is a term referring to the main group in what sport?
Answer: Road cycling

Question: The MacRobertson Shield is the premier tournament in what sport a surreal version of which was played with animals in a beloved 19th century classic?
Answer: Croquet

Question: The trainer Angelo Dundee who passed away in Feb 2012 and who worked with sixteen world champions is best associated with which sports icon?
Answer: Muhammad Ali (between 1960-1981)

Question: The national football team of which country is also known as 'The Eagles of Carthage'?
Answer: Tunisia

Question: In 2004, the Chinese government banned a Nike ad that depicted LeBron James defeating a martial-arts teacher, flying spirits and what other creature?
Answer: Dragon