Games and Sports Quiz

In baseball, the pitcher is the player who pitches the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk.

Tiger Woods is an American professional golfer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time and one of the most famous athletes in history.

Water polo is a competitive team sport played in the water between two teams of 7 players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the two teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal.

LBW (Leg before wicket) is one of the ways in which a batsman can be out. The umpire may rule a batter out lbw if the ball would have struck the wicket, but was instead intercepted by any part of the batsman's body (except the hand holding the bat).

Naomi Osaka is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association and is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles. She is a four-time Grand Slam singles champion.

At present bull-fighting is not the national sport of any country. Bullfighting is illegal in most countries but remains legal in most areas of Spain and Portugal, as well as in some Hispanic American countries and some parts of southern France. Bullfighting has been banned in at least 100 towns in Spain.

Putting is a golf stroke used with a club called a putter when you are on or just off the green.

The biggest score in an international hockey match is the 24-1 victory of India over the USA, played on August 11, 1932. Roop Singh holds the record for the most goals scored in a single hockey game, with ten in a 24-1 defeat of the United States.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be the 23rd FIFA World Cup. It will be jointly hosted by three North American countries– the United States, Canada and Mexico. The tournament will be the first hosted by three nations.

The Commonwealth Games is an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 in Hamilton, and, with the exception of 1942 and 1946, has taken place every four years since then.