The following is the graph of 3 point attempts being taken in basketball over the years.
Which 6ft 3in & 4 times NBA champion is credited with changing the sport, and increasing this trend?
Category: Sports
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X is a group started in 2009, and has 5 members, a bearded guy, a tall guy, purple hoser & two twins. The group is mostly active in sports-adjacent content & holds 17 Guinness World Records.
Their website says “Five ____, a camera & a friends bet. That’s how X was born”.
Can you identify the group?
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The practice of distributing condoms at this sports event started in 1988 to raise awareness for HIV & AIDS. The practice was halted in the 2020/21 edition due to the ban on intimacy laws during the pandemic.
The practice has been resumed from this year’s event, where 300,000 condoms would be distributed for about 14,000 participants.
Which event am I talking about?
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The following is a picture taken from a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball match on October 2, 1977. This is widely recorded as the first instance of which event?
Show AnswerThis is considered to the the first 'High Five' in recorded history. The team even established that a High Five should be given after each home run. From here the gestured became popular & entered mainstream media.
Watch an Interesting Video on the history behind the event.
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Connect the following companies to the world of sports. Also can you identify the missing company?
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This product was invented in 1874 by CF Bennett for protecting private parts of male cyclists, while he was working for a company now known as Bike Athletic.
Over the years, this product has broken out of its niche usage & has become a sex symbol of sorts.
Which product am I talking about?
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One sponsor of this team went to jail for failing to appear before a court.
The next sponsor is merging its business with a competitor after losing market share.
The one after that had to break its business due to geo-political reasons.
Another sponsor has lost its valuation by 90%.
Which sports team have all these businesses sponsored?
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Los Angeles Lakers are one of the most celebrated basketball teams in NBA. However my question is, why is the team called Lakers, when Los Angeles area is not known for its lakes.
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Who recently ended their multi-decade partnership with a major sports company, to launched their own brand called – Sun Day Red?
Show Answer Tiger Woods.
Woods ended his partnership with Nike of 27 years, to launch his own brand called Sun Day Red, inspired by his clothing at Golf events. The logo is a tiger with 15 stripes for his 15 major championships, with the provision to add more stripes to count future wins.
Read More.
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Connect the following clues from a non-exhaustive list:
1988 – a dove carrying a laurel branch
2000 – Sydney Opera House
2008 – Jade ring
2012 – Thames river
2024 – scrap of iron from the Eiffel Tower
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Prior to his most famous match, X announced that he would win by a margin of 5-0, or 4-1, in the 5 game series. The match did end up with a 4-1 result, only it was in favour of X’s opponent. He later said of the match (after his win in game 4)
“I don’t think I’ve ever felt so good after winning just one match. I remember when I said I will win all or lose just one game in the beginning. If this had really happened ― I won 3 rounds and lost this round ― it would have had a great bearing on my reputation. However, since I won after losing 3 games in a row, I am so happy. I will never exchange this win for anything in the world. I, X, lost, but mankind did not.”
Id X.
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This athlete’s signature move was born when his younger brother dared him to perform a Tony Yayo/50 Cent dance move on stage infront of spectators.
The athlete added a line along with the move and both because hugely popular.
Name the athlete & the move.
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The Scientific Revolution is commonly regarded to have been in full swing at the turn of the 17th century, and it was right around this time that a German scientist came up with a quick and easy (for the time, at least) nomenclature system for his particular field of study. This system, named after the scientist himself, originally consisted of a lowercase Greek or Latin letter that (loosely) pinpointed a particular attribute, coupled with a specific set of Latin words that worked to swiftly assign names to what he was working on.
The system has since been tweaked and expanded by other scientists building off of his work, but is still very much recognizable and in use today.
What is this naming system called, and what does it classify?
(Bonus: In an interesting overlap, one of the subjects of study under this classification indirectly inspired the name of a former Formula 1 team.)
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Which sport are these 4 trophies connected to? Can you name all of them?