Quiz
1. Which of the following backyard sports is an official event at the Olympic Summer Games?
2. The wire arches used in croquet are called what?
3. In horseshoe pitching, if you've just thrown a hobber where is your horseshoe likely to be?
4. Which of the following United States' lawn sport organizations was founded first?
6. What sport are you playing if immediately after the opening pull you've got a marker barking out the stall count in your face and six teammates waiting for a pass?
7. Which of the following countries banned the sale of lawn darts in 1988?
8. Once known as battledore and shuttlecock, this backyard sport dates back to Ancient Greece, China, and India. However, once it became popular in England it borrowed its current name from somebody's house. What is it?
9. Quoits is another form of what popular backyard sport?
10. David Mullany got the inspiration for this backyard toy while watching his son play stickball with a broomstick handle and plastic golf ball in the backyard of their Fairfield, Conn., home.
1. Which of the following backyard sports is an official event at the Olympic Summer Games?
badminton
2. The wire arches used in croquet are called what?
wickets
3. In horseshoe pitching, if you've just thrown a hobber where is your horseshoe likely to be?
Leaning on the post
4. Which of the following United States' lawn sport organizations was founded first?
National Horseshoe Pitchers Association
5. Hoping to cash in on the country's UFO hysteria of the 1950s, the inventor of the first plastic Frisbee marketed his new invention under what name?
Pluto Platter
6. What sport are you playing if immediately after the opening pull you've got a marker barking out the stall count in your face and six teammates waiting for a pass?
Ultimate Frisbee
7. Which of the following countries banned the sale of lawn darts in 1988?
United States
8. Once known as battledore and shuttlecock, this backyard sport dates back to Ancient Greece, China, and India. However, once it became popular in England it borrowed its current name from somebody's house. What is it?
badminton
9. Quoits is another form of what popular backyard sport?
horseshoe pitching
10. David Mullany got the inspiration for this backyard toy while watching his son play stickball with a broomstick handle and plastic golf ball in the backyard of their Fairfield, Conn., home.
Wiffle Ball