Sports Rules and Landmark Feats

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1. In which racket sport do players strike a feathered or synthetic shuttlecock?

   • Squash
   • Table tennis
   • Badminton
   • Padel

2. Which chess piece normally moves in an L-shape: two squares one way and one square perpendicular?

   • Knight
   • Bishop
   • Rook
   • Queen

3. In which sport do players from both teams bind together in a scrum to restart play?

   • Baseball
   • Volleyball
   • Water polo
   • Rugby union

4. In ten-pin bowling, what is it called when the first delivery knocks down all ten pins?

   • Spare
   • Strike
   • Perfect frame
   • Break

5. Circles, scissors, and flairs are skills performed on which gymnastics apparatus?

   • Still rings
   • Parallel bars
   • Pommel horse
   • Vault

6. In snooker, how is the standard maximum break of 147 constructed?

   • Fifteen reds each followed by black, then all six colors
   • Every red followed by pink, then all colors
   • Only potting the six colors repeatedly
   • Winning 147 separate frames

7. The Fosbury Flop changed high jumping by having the athlete clear the bar in what orientation?

   • Feet-first facing downward
   • Head-first in a dive
   • Sideways with both feet together
   • Back-first

8. Who ran the first ratified mile under four minutes, recording 3:59.4 in 1954?

   • John Landy
   • Roger Bannister
   • Sebastian Coe
   • Paavo Nurmi

9. At the 1976 Montreal Olympics, who received the first score of 10.00 displayed in Olympic artistic gymnastics?

   • Olga Korbut
   • Nellie Kim
   • Nadia Comăneci
   • Ludmilla Tourischeva

10. Who reached Mount Everest’s summit together in the first ascent confirmed to have succeeded, in 1953?

    • George Mallory and Andrew Irvine
    • Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler
    • Junko Tabei and Ang Tshering
    • Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay