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Who invented the ball?Popularity: 268
Is it true that Holy Cross is the only Division One team to win national championships in basketball baseball and football?
Popularity: 150
What is the history of fishing in Maine?
Popularity: 115
Where was the first ever firing range competition held in 1874 and who were the participants?
Popularity: 108
What do the Olympic ring colors symbolize?
Popularity: 88
Where was basketball invented?
Popularity: 72
What type of clothes did they wear in the ancient olympics?
Popularity: 68
What where the first surf boards made of?
Popularity: 65
What was the name of the horse that won the first ever Kentucky Derby?
Popularity: 64
What were the sports like in the United States during 1940 to 1943?
Popularity: 62
When was Walter Camp born?
Popularity: 62
What foreign country is credited for making the wave popular worldwide?
Popularity: 59
What is the job for the MLB position in football?
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What are the top ten sports in the world as played by people and professional competitors?
Popularity: 57
When were sports first shown on television?
Popularity: 55
What was the song for the Globetrotters called?
Popularity: 54
What were the first positions of lacrosse?
Popularity: 51
What sport originated in Spain?
Popularity: 49
In what year did Baron Davis of the Charlotte Hornets make the longest shot and how far did he shoot the ball?
Popularity: 48
When did James Naismith invent basketball?
Popularity: 45
Where did soccer originate?
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When was soccer discovered?
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What are the Greek basketball associations?
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Who is the last player to win a high school college and pro championship in the same sport?
Popularity: 42
When was the first Indianapolis 500?
Popularity: 40
Who has run the most sub-4-minute miles?
Popularity: 39
When was George Hancock inventor of softball born?
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Who is the most famous French hockey player?
Popularity: 39
Where does the name Olympic Games come from?
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How many events are in a pentathlon?
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Which basketball team was the first to win 1000 games?
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Does Jamaica play sports?
Popularity: 36
How can you obtain information about your grandfather who was known as 'Doc Bell' for the Jersey City football team?
Popularity: 36
What sports were played in the Middle Ages?
Popularity: 35
What is the history of hiking?
Popularity: 35
When did people start calling the neighborhood around Wrigley Field Wrigley ville?
Popularity: 33
Who invented swim goggles?
Popularity: 33
What major league baseball player holds the major league baseball single season homerun record?
Popularity: 33
What happened in horse racing from 1920 to 1930?
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What bull riding titles did Victor Beezley win?
Popularity: 31
Why do bullfighters have a red cape?
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What games and activities did the Maori introduce?
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Where is England's oldest racecourse?
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Did James Naismith have any brothers or sisters?
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When was the wiffle ball invented?
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What is Hungary's offical national sport?
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Which Asian countries have held the Olympic Games?
Popularity: 25
How does Mexico view Arab and Israeli conflict?
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Why did basketball come about?
Popularity: 25
What is the name of the horse that won the Kentucky Derby in 1981?
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Where did polo start?
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Was Muhammad Ali always a Heavyweight boxer?
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Who were the first players of volleyball?
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What are the names of the three lions on the England crest?
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How many famous sports announcers attended Syracuse?
Popularity: 21
What effect did sports have on history in the 1800s and early 1900s?
Popularity: 21
Did Sioux Indians invent racquetball?
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Who was the first president to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game?
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Why did John Elway retire?
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Where was Mia Hamm born?
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What Celtic player names ending with O?
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Was Ali always a heavey weight boxer?
Popularity: 19
Who were the tigers first lsu or auburn?
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Who first discovered the badminton game?
Popularity: 17
When did basketball start in India?
Popularity: 17
What effect did the 1980 Olympic men's hockey team have on the US during the Cold War?
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How many siblings did Chris Evert have?
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Since the Inception of the Olympic Games how many Olympic Games have been contested?
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Do the rocky movies take after the legend boxer Rocky Marciano?
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Before they were the Baltimore Orioles what were they called?
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