Sports Can you roll a strike in this Trivia Nut Sports Trivia? Test your skills here! Published 1 year ago on February 23, 2023 By Mike Peck 0% Sports Vol. 11 When was the "high five" invented? 1776 1977 Mid-1600s 300 AD Next Question Wrong! Correct! It seems like the simple gesture of one person slapping another's palm in victory must have been around forever, but in truth, it may even be younger than you are. At a pro baseball game in 1977, Dodger player Dusty Baker hit his 30th home run of the season. As he rounded home and passed his teammate Glenn Burke in the on-deck circle, Burke raised his hand in excited greeting. On instinct, Baker reached up and slapped it because, he said, "it seemed like the thing to do." Thus the high-five was born. Who holds the MLS record for goals scored? Jaime Moreno Chris Wondolowski David Beckham Landon Donovan Next Question Wrong! Correct! The most goals scored in a Major League Soccer career is 171, record set by Chris Wondolowski playing for Houston Dynamo and the San Jose Earthquakes between 30 August 2006 and 7 November 2021. Why did the Russians arrive 12 days late to the 1908 Olympics? They were using the wrong calendar They were boycotting They overslept Bus travel issues Next Question Wrong! Correct! Over 2,000 years ago, Julius Caesar promoted the use of the Julian calendar, a 365-day calendar that didn't account for leap years. Eventually, the calendar fell out of sync with the seasonal equinoxes, and holidays — like Easter — didn't land where they should. Finally, in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII mandated that Catholic nations switch to a new Gregorian calendar that solved the problem. But for many countries, the switch from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian took centuries. As a result, in 1908, the Russians missed the first 12 days of the Olympics, which was hosted in London, because they were still using the Julian calendar. The country finally changed over in 1918 after the Bolsheviks took control. Fun bonus fact: Greece, the country where the Olympics were born, was the last nation to make the switch in 1923. How many yards is the penalty in the NFL for a chop block? 20 5 15 10 Next Question Wrong! Correct! A NFL chop block is called on an offensive player when they block a defensive player below the thigh, who is already engaged with another offensive player. In which year was the first Super Bowl played? 1970 1967 1965 1969 Wrong! Correct! The first AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, known retroactively as Super Bowl I and referred to in contemporaneous reports, including the game's radio broadcast, as the Super Bowl, was played on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. Next Trivia Did You Know? In the game of bowling there is a name for when you bowl three consecutive strikes in a row. It is called a turkey or sizzling turkey. Then any additional strike after this is referred to as a bagger. Related Topics: Advertisement
