World Investigation sports

Sport Quiz

WORLD INVESTIGATIONCollège Joseph Calvet, Saint-Paul de Fenouillet , FRANCE

Question 1It is the original home of the ancient Olympic games

Italy

Croatia

Greece

Olympia Greece

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Question 2

It is an early form of football which was developed in the 16th century in Italy.

Panettone

Calcio fiorentino

Foccacia

CORRECT!

Calcio fiorentino (also known as calcio storico "historic football") is an early form of football and rugby that originated in 16th-century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in the Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. There it became known as the giuoco del calcio fiorentino ("Florentine kick game") or simply calcio; which is now also the name for association football in the Italian language. The game may have started as a revival of the Roman sport of harpastum. (sources wikipedia)

Question 3

Jokgu is a Korean sport which resembles a mix of .....

karate and yoga

taekwondo and baseball

Football and volleyball

CORRECT!

Jokgu is a Korean sport which resembles a mix of football and volleyball, was developed by Korean military as their pastime activity. The sport later became extremely popular in the entire country where it is played at professional, amateur and junior levels.

ources:https://www.topendsports.com/sport/list/jokgu.ht

Question 4

Jordan won their first official Olympic Games medal in 2016 in

Badminton

Table tennis

Taekwondo

CORRECT!

Ahmad Abughaush. Ahmad Abughaush (Arabic: أحمد أبو غوش; born 1 February 1996) is a Jordanian taekwondo athlete. He won the gold medal in the 68 kg category at the 2016 Olympics. This was Jordan's first Olympic medal in any sport, excluding a bronze in 1988 when taekwondo was a demonstration sport.

Question 5

There are beautiful mountains in Morocco where tourists and locals can go skiing.

RIGHT

WRONG

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Question 6

The Slovaks love football . But what is their number one sport?

Ice hockey

Water polo

Horse riding

CORRECT!

Ice Hockey

Question 7

This popular traditional team sport played in Romania has similarities to baseball. What is it ?

Moldova

Oină

ollină

Question 8

Ihor Belanov and Andriy Shevchenko.are great Ukrainian champions. But what is the sport they are famous for?

Basketball

Handball

Football

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Question 9

Picigin is a traditional sport that originated and is played in Split, Croatia. Its main objective is to prevent the ball from ....

going out of the pitch

touching the water

touching the ground

CORRECT!

Picigin (Croatian pronunciation: [pit͡sǐgiːn][1]) is traditional ball game from Split, Croatia that is played on the beach. It is an amateur sport played in shallow water consisting of players keeping a small ball from touching the water.source wikipedia

Question 10

To play Jeered , a traditional Turkish sport, you need a .....

a small ball

a cricket bat

javelin

CORRECT!

Jereed (also jerreed, jerid, or jerrid; Turkish: Cirit) is a traditional Turkish equestrian team sport played outdoors on horseback in which the objective is to score points by throwing a blunt wooden javelin at opposing team's horsemen. Played by Turkic peoples in Central Asia as the essential sporting and ceremonial game, it was brought to Anatolia during the westward migration in the beginning of the 11th century.

Question 11

Petanque is played in the south of

Italy

Croatia

France

CORRECT!

Pétanque is a boules sport . Players or teams play their boules/balls towards a target ball.In Pétanque the objective is to score points by having boules closer to the target than your opponent after all boules have been thrown. This is achieved by projecting boules closer to the small target ball, called a cochonnet, or by hitting the opponents' boules away from the target, while standing inside a circle with both feet on the ground.

Congratulations!

Follow the links to see what it looks like

olympia lands of gods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV2yrkh1Acalcio Fiorentino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obneC8zQNIQ JokgU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBybQ8n7Haw ahmad Abughaush https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP1aBtrzh5AMorocco ski resort https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nTVpvrmk24 Slovakia Ice Hockey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eh2EN1Ihoc Romania Oina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZA3bk2G688UKrainian Football Champ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWUI_i0rVoU