1. What stick-and-ball sport has long been recognized as the national pastime of Ireland?

2. Which athletic contest originated in Scotland and includes events such as tossing the caber?

3. In traditional Spanish bullfighting, what is the name given to the performer who both works the capes and kills the bull?

4. Which is a court or lawn game played with lightweight rackets and a shuttlecock?

5. Which sport is considered the national summer sport of England?

6. In what sport is a scrum used after the referee halts play for a minor infringement of the rules?

7. Which sport evolved as a combination of tennis and squash?

8. What is the oldest professional sporting trophy in North America?

9. Which sport was directly influenced by the Marquess of Queensberry rules?

10. Which sport is thought to have developed from the 18th-century English game of rounders?

11. What game evolved from the now-obsolete French game of paille-maille?

12. Chukkers are associated with which sport?

13. The side horse is associated with which sport?

14. What sport is the Ryder Cup associated with?

15. What is the term for offsetting the varying abilities or characteristics of competitors in order to equalize their chances of winning?

16. The equipment for what sport was found in the tomb of an Egyptian child buried about 3200 BCE?

17. Which sport, developed from a game called indoor baseball and common in the United States, has been variously called diamond ball, kitten ball, and mushball?

18. Episkuros, calcio, and melees were early forms of which popular sport?

19. The term pugilism is synonymous with what sport?

20. Supercross is a form of what sport?

21. What game was invented for businessmen who found the new sport of basketball to be too vigorous?

22. In which major sport is substitution allowed while the game is in play?

23. Which of these sports features a contest called Puissance?

24. What sport were “bodyline” tactics associated with?

25. What sport is played on a level surface of sand or clay enclosed with boarded ends and sides?

26. Neurosurgeon Sir Ludwig Guttman introduced what sport as therapy for wounded World War II veterans?

27. Eunice Kennedy Shriver (sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy) was instrumental in the founding of what sporting event?

28. Yokuzuna is the highest ranking attainable in which sport?

29. What game, which has been particularly popular in retirement communities, involves shoving disks so that they stop on or within scoring areas on a board or court?

30. In which sport do players use a cesta to catch and throw a ball?

31. Birling, a sport developed by North American lumberjacks, is also known by what other name?