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Sports Quiz

Provide an interesting indoor game that could be played under artificial light to keep kids exercising in winter because they were bored with plain old gymnasium work and as a result were being a pain the butt in class.

Bit stiff not to give it to TC.
 
He played a child's game called duck in a rock, where he would attempt to knock a duck off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it?
 
Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith. He set out to invent a game to occupy students between the football and baseball seasons.
 
mainlandy said:
He played a child's game called duck in a rock, where he would attempt to knock a duck off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it?

Read the question properly Mainlandy. He was under orders from Luther Gulick to create an indoor game.
 
jb03 said:
Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith. He set out to invent a game to occupy students between the football and baseball seasons.

you and i must have read the same website.

unusual sports trivia. :clap :clap

fire away jo blow
 
LeboTiger77 said:
thats right

it was meant to be a trick question
Sorry about that :)
The record for most first class hundreds in consecutive innings is six. 3 players have achieved the feat. Bradman was one, who were the other two and who did they play for?
 
[The record for most  first class hundreds in consecutive innings is six. 3 players have achieved the feat. Bradman was one, who were the other two and who did they play for?

ONE: CB Fry
"In 1901 Fry scored six centuries in six consecutive innings (for Sussex?), an achievement equalled by Bradman..."

TWO: Mike Proctor.
"At home, playing for Rhodesia, he hit six consecutive centuries, the first five coming in the Currie Cup, the sixth arriving in a friendly match arranged against Western Province at the end of the season... to equal the record of Bradman and Fry in scoring six consecutive centuries."
 
Sticking with cricket and sixes...
Who, other than Gary Sobers, contributed to his six sixes in six balls?

Looking for a bowler, and...?