Can you name the sport by their notable athletes? by jonesjeffum

Athletes	Sport
Brett Favre, Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Jerry Rice, Emmitt Smith
Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds, Mickey Mantle, Ty Cobb, Jackie Robinson
Gary Gait, Mikey Powell, John Grant, Tom Marechek, John Tavares
Ronaldo, David Beckham, Diego Maradona, Pele
Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Sydney Barnes, Muttiah Muralitharan, Kumar Sangakkara
Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kjetil Andre Aamodt, Hermann Maier, Bode Miller, Jean Claude Killy, Benjamin Raich
Wang Liqin, Jan-Ove Waldner, Wang Nan, Jiang Jialiang, Deng Yaping
Karch Kiraly, Ricardo Santos, Emanuel Rego, Kerri Walsh, Misty May-Treanor
Nadia Comaneci, Ecaterina Szabo, Vitaly Scherbo, Sawao Kato, Larisa Latynina
Shaun White, Seth Wescott, Hannah Teter, Torah Bright, Ross Powers
Alexander Medved, Bruce Baumgartner, Rulon Gardner, Alexander Karelin, Buvaysa Saytiev
Dan O'Keeffe, Sean Murphy, Tommy Langan, Mikey Sheehy, Sean O'Neil
Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt, Jesse Owens, Jackie Joyner Kersee, Michael Johnson
Tony Hawk, Bucky Lasek, Bob Burnquist, Ryan Sheckler, Pierre-Luc Gagnon

Athletes	Sport
Igor Milanović, Norbert Madaras, Ervin Zádor, Péter Biros, Aleksandr Kabanov
Katarina Witt, Sonja Henie, Evgeni Plushenko, Elvis Stojko, Dick Button
Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Bobby Orr, Steve Yzerman, Jaromir Jagr
Roger Federer, Pete Sampras, Bjorn Borg, Serena Williams, Steffi Graf
Ken Shamrock, Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell, Georges St-Pierre, Anderson Silva
Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson, Gary Player
Kim Andersson, Olivier Girault, Christian Schwarzer, David Barrufet, Andrey Lavrov
Lance Armstrong, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, Miguel Indurain, Greg LeMond, Mark Cavendish
Adam Goodes, Mark Ricciuto, Robert Harvey, Wayne Carey, Leigh Matthews
Manny Pacquiao, Vitali Klitschko, Lennox Lewis, Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson
Gao Ling, Kim Dong-moon, Gil Young-ah, Gu Jun, Ge Fei
Shani Davis, Apollo Anton Ohno, Eric Heiden, Bonnie Blair, Ahn Hyun-Soo
Jamie Dwyer, Luciana Aymar, Teun de Nooijer, Stephan Veen, Tobias Hauke
Andrew Johns, Darren Lockyer, Wally Lewis, Richie McCaw, Shane Williams
Michael Phelps, Ian Thorpe, Mark Spitz, Matt Biondi, Jenny Thompson

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Sport by Athletes Quiz

by jonesjeffum

Created Apr 29, 2011 in Sports
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	sindri:	Apr 30th, 2011 at 06:12 GMT		28 points
	The most famous and successful Ronaldo isnt Cristiano Ronaldo but Ronaldo Luis Nazário de Lima, more commonly now as just Ronaldo. So its fine the way it is.

	Danyell:	Apr 30th, 2011 at 07:43 GMT		20 points
	Andrew Johns, Darren Lockyer and Wally Lewis play Rugby League, while Richie McCaw and Shane Williams play Rugby Union. They are 2 different sports.

	skittles:	Apr 30th, 2011 at 10:34 GMT		4 points
	Opened up the comment section just to say what Danyell said. =P

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	sbshuffler85:	Apr 30th, 2011 at 13:04 GMT		50 points
	Is it racist that I never heard of any of the ping pong people but I got it on the first guess?

	vikingsfan28:	Apr 30th, 2011 at 15:25 GMT		1 point
	@sbshuffler85: lol same for me. And i'm loving the inclusion of badminton, although i didn't get it right. Also, you should include polo, that would throw some people off.

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	BamaGuy:	Apr 30th, 2011 at 21:43 GMT		8 points
	wait a second, did you really just call out golf when TABLE TENNIS is on the list as well?

	teh_DR:	Apr 30th, 2011 at 22:09 GMT		6 points
	Ronaldo also goes by the name "Fat Ronaldo". ok, i may make fun of his weight, but i feel honored to have been able to watch him in his prime. In 2002, i wasn't a soccer fan but i still watched the World Cup and Ronaldo absolutely tore up the tournament.

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	Killa_Sin:	May 1st, 2011 at 02:00 GMT		-3 points
	how you gonna throw soccer in that list p00p king

	Enigma9994:	May 1st, 2011 at 05:41 GMT		4 points
	Maybe accept biking for cycling. Great quiz, though.

	gttrsnp:	May 1st, 2011 at 08:26 GMT		0 points
	golf is the only sport listed where you dont have to move faster than walking pace (bar your arms i suppose). i'm not saying it is or it isn't, but i imagine that is the main reason why some dont take it too seriously.

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	diving:	May 1st, 2011 at 19:51 GMT		18 points
	bmo1616 - I look foolish & embarrassed when I try to sew, that's not an argument for classifying it as a sport

	EpicWinFTW:	May 1st, 2011 at 22:15 GMT		2 points
	Thank goodness you included Mark Cavendish.

	Saints09:	May 1st, 2011 at 22:26 GMT		4 points
	Dick Button has got to be the greatest name ever...no wait Anita Job is.

	eagle22:	May 1st, 2011 at 22:30 GMT		6 points
	I feel that when I got stuck, my first instinct shouldn't be to try chess for every one of them ...

	poiu:	May 2nd, 2011 at 00:58 GMT		-1 points
	I got cycling, but you might want to include biking. Good quiz, though.

	FisherCat:	May 2nd, 2011 at 12:53 GMT		0 points
	Props for including 2 New Hampshire natives as clues (Bode Miller & Jenny Thompson). I think anyone who got all of these either spends too much time watching ESPN8 the ocho or has taken the quiz a few times.

	Hooby:	May 2nd, 2011 at 18:13 GMT		-2 points
	@bmo1616 i never said i can play golf with the pros, but i also cant play chess with the pros, or even piano. just because someone makes money off something and its played on espn doesnt make it a sport. sports require rigorous physical conditioning, strength, coordination, and specialized training. now go take a look at john daly, a PROFESSIONAL golfer, and tell me that amorphous blob of an alcoholic person is an athlete.

	bmo1616:	May 2nd, 2011 at 22:36 GMT		0 points
	If you think professional golfers don't go through physical conditioning, strength, coordination, and specialized training, you clearly do not know sports. You're absolutely right, John Daly does not do those things, that's why he sucks at golf now! Yeah golfers don't need specialized training and strength, are you high???

	brodeur:	May 3rd, 2011 at 00:31 GMT		3 points
	great quiz... did anyone else get cricket from watching "Slumdog Millionaire"... the answer was "D: Ricky Ponting

	jonesjeffum:	May 3rd, 2011 at 01:38 GMT		4 points
	it might also be all the Indian names for cricket too

	kop:	May 3rd, 2011 at 18:15 GMT		1 point
	Everyone who got pingpong is racist

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	skittles:	May 4th, 2011 at 06:54 GMT		3 points
	Professional golfers walk the course. Four days in a row, most weeks of the year Whilst swinging clubs 70 or so times a day. You have to be fit to be a good professional golfer. I suggest you take a look at Vijay Singh's conditioning training before judging the sport.

	confused:	May 4th, 2011 at 07:19 GMT		4 points
	So delightful to have a sports quiz that ventures beyond the NFL, NBA, etc. Thanks!

	cnotts:	May 4th, 2011 at 16:07 GMT		5 points
	SPORT; noun 1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as in; racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc. If the dictionary says its a sport, thats good enough for me...

	bmo1616:	May 4th, 2011 at 17:08 GMT		0 points
	Golfers walk almost a marathon in distance over 4 days every week, yes it's walking, but you go for a 6 mile walk every day, take 3 days off, and do it again. And how in the world can you say golfers aren't conditioned for strength, are you serious?? Unless you want to drive the ball 150 yards you need to work out. You don't exactly need stamina to play baseball or even football really either, so are they not sports?

	boyzfootball4:	May 5th, 2011 at 21:07 GMT		1 point
	bmo1616... get em!

	Beatlezfann:	May 7th, 2011 at 23:16 GMT		0 points
	Is it racist for all the sports with asians you guessed sports like ping pong, kung fu, and karate?

	slippy66:	May 8th, 2011 at 13:01 GMT		0 points
	I love how you put sports that no one knows about.

	ColeStar:	May 8th, 2011 at 16:02 GMT		4 points
	I don't understand why joe545's plea for athletics to be accepted has been voted down. That is the name by which track is known in many countries, so why not accept it if football is too be accepted for soccer?

	nymets18:	May 10th, 2011 at 18:54 GMT		3 points
	There's another John Tavares who plays hockey. And he's not an unknown; he was the number 1 overall draft pick a couple of years ago.

	CraigBerger:	May 12th, 2011 at 08:27 GMT		4 points
	Good quiz for people who claim Sporcle quizzes are too American-Centric...

	ahh:	May 25th, 2011 at 21:48 GMT		1 point
	3 of the world's greatest + beckham (i kid, beckham is class)

	Khazar49:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 14:00 GMT		2 points
	How popular is handball in the US? So much that it was the only sport Americans (men or women) didn't participate in at the '08 Olympics. I'm quite surprised so few people know it, since it's one of the most popular sports here in Europe. But not in English speaking countries, so that probably explains the incredibly low score.