Reach Facts 7
Number of points a table tennis player must typically score to win in Olympic competition
11
Number of players on a team in rugby league play
13
Maximum number of golf clubs that a player may use in a game
14
Weight of the men's shot-put in the decathlon
16 pounds
Year of the first FIFA World Cup
1930
Year in which the space shuttle Challenger broke up 73 seconds after launch, killing all 7 onboard
1986
Distance from the pitcher's mound to home plate in baseball
60 feet, 6 inches
Fill in the two numbers from this line of a song from "The Music Man": "______ trombones led the big parade, with ______ cornets close at hand."
76 110
Distance in feet between bases in baseball
90 feet
Texan who in 1977 became the first driver to win the Indy 500 a fourth time
AJ Foyt
1950s computer language that shares its name with an eclipsing binary star in the constellation Perseus
ALGOL
British racecourse at which the Grand National is held each year
Aintree (in Liverpool)
"Father of Baseball" who in 1845 set out the rules of baseball as the game is played today
Alexander Cartwright
Russian cosmonaut who in 1965 became the first person ever to conduct a spacewalk
Alexey Leonov
Most prestigious award in yachting
America's Cup
NHL trophy awarded to player who leads the league in scoring points
Art Ross Trophy
First African-American man to win the singles title at Wimbledon
Arthur Ashe
Sports star of the 1930s (track, golf, & basketball) considered the best female athlete of the 20th century
Babe Zaharias
Oldest (and longest) race in the U.S. Triple Crown of thoroughbread racing
Belmont Stakes
Hockey player who in 1952 got the fastest hat trick in NHL history: 3 goals in 21 seconds
Bill Mosienko
Jockey who, in 1985, became the first to win over $100 million in career purses
Bill Shoemaker
New York Giant who hit the home run termed "The Shot Heard Round the World" to win the 1951 World Series
Bobby Thompson
Youngest-ever Wimbledon men's singles champion, at age 17
Boris Becker
NHL trophy awarded to most outstanding rookie
Calder Trophy
Louisville racetrack at which horse racing's Kentucky Derby takes place each May
Churchill Downs
NHL trophy awarded to the MVP in the Stanley Cup playoffs
Conn Smythe Trophy
Longest-serving MLB manager who holds the record for most wins
Connie Mack
Playwright who wrote "Glengarry Glen Ross"
David Mamet
Only jockey to have won the U.S. Triple Crown twice (1941 & 1948)
Eddie Arcaro
Canadian hockey player known as "The Entertainer" and "The Nose"
Eddie Shack
French dramatist who wrote the 1897 play "Cyrano de Bergerac"
Edmond Rostand
Playwright who wrote "Ah, Wilderness!" (a comedy)
Eugene O'Neill
Playwright who wrote "Anna Christie"
Eugene O'Neill
Playwright who wrote "Beyond the Horizon"
Eugene O'Neill
Playwright who wrote "Desire Under the Elms"
Eugene O'Neill
Chicago Cub from Chatham, Ontario who won the Cy Young Award in 1971
Fergie Jenkins
Canadian Formula One race car driver who died in a car crash in 1982
Gilles Villeneuve
Owner of the Maple Leafs and Maple Leaf Gardens for most of the 60s, 70s & 80s
Harold Ballard
NHL trophy awarded to league's MVP
Hart Trophy
Playwright who wrote "A Doll's House"
Henrik Ibsen
Playwright who wrote "An Enemy of the People"
Henrik Ibsen
Playwright who wrote "Ghosts"
Henrik Ibsen
Playwright who wrote "Hedda Gabler"
Henrik Ibsen
Only Canadian race car driver to win the Indy 500 or the Formula One drivers' title
Jacques Villeneuve
Man with a feminine-sounding name who dominated Canadian cycling in the 1960s and 1970s, but became a quadriplegic after a road accident while training
Jocelyn Lovell
Baseball player who hit a walk-off home run to win the 1993 World Series for the Blue Jays
Joe Carter
Canadian hockey player who was the only member of the Quebec Nordiques to stay with the team when it became the Colorado Avalanche
Joe Sakic
NHL trophy awarded to most sportsmanlike player
Lady Byng Trophy
Mexican-American golfer known as the Merry Mex who won the Canadin Open three times
Lee Trevino
Brooklyn Dodgers baseball manager who reportedly said "Nice guys finish last"
Leo Durocher ("duh-ROW-sher")
Man voted Canada's top athlete of the first half of the 20th century
Lionel Conacher
Only athlete who has his name on both the Grey Cup and Stanley Cup
Lionel Conacher
Baseball player nicknamed "The Iron Horse"
Lou Gehrig (2130 consecutive games)
Title of the first-ever video uploaded to YouTube (in April 2005, featuring elephants with "really, really, really, long trunks")
Me at the Zoo
Montreal-born playwright whose first play was "Les Belles-Soeurs"
Michel Tremblay
Baseball team that moved from the American League to the National League at the start of the 1998 season
Milwaukee Brewers
Canadian rower nicknamed "The Boy in Blue"
Ned Hanlan
Canadian rower who was World Sculling Champion from 1880-84
Ned Hanlan
Canadian world champion rower born in Toronto in 1855
Ned Hanlan
NHL trophy awarded to best defenceman
Norris Trophy
Annual New Years' Day football game played in Miami
Orange Bowl
First expansion team to win the Stanley Cup, in 1974
Philadelphia Flyers
Baltimore racetrack at which horse racing's Preakness Stakes takes place each May
Pimlico
Space probe launched in 1972 that became the first man-made object to exit our solar system
Pioneer 10
NHL trophy awarded to the team with the best record in the regular season
Presidents' Trophy
Playwright who wrote "A Man for All Seasons" (about Thomas More)
Robert Bolt
"Canadian" but not Canadian-born singer/actor who originated the role of Lancelot in the 1960 Broadway musical "Camelot"
Robert Goulet
Baseball pitcher nicknamed "The Rocket" who won a record 7 Cy Young awards
Roger Clemens
Baseball player who hit 61 home runs in 1961, a record at the time
Roger Maris
Canadian jockey who rode the horse Secretariat to a Triple Crown win in 1973
Ron Turcotte
Company that designed, developed, tested, and built the Canadarm
SPAR Aerospace
Six NHL expansion teams of 1967
Seals, Kings, North Stars, Flyers, Penguins, Blues
Playwright who wrote "Juno and the Paycock"
Sean O'Casey
Horse that in 1919 became the very first winner of the U.S. Triple Crown
Sir Barton
Famous Ukrainian-Canadian NHL goalie who died at age 40 after a scuffle with a teammate
Terry Sawchuk
Nickname of golfer Jack Nicklaus
The Golden Bear
17th-century play by Francis Beaumont notable as the first parody play in English
The Knight of the Burning Pestle
1959 William Gibson play based on Hellen Keller's autobiography
The Miracle Worker
Winner of the first Grey Cup game in 1909
University of Toronto Varsity Blues
Country that host the first FIFA World Cup, and won it
Uruguay
NHL trophy awarded to the top goaltender
Vezina Trophy ("VEZ-een-uh")
Canadian woman who in 1988 became the first person to swim across all five Great Lakes
Vicki Keith
Escape velocity at the Earth's surface
about 11 km/s
Sport that is essentially soccer on ice-skates
bandy
National sport of Afghanistan played on horseback like polo, but using a headless goat carcass instead of a ball
buzkashi
Term for a period of play in polo
chukka
What the "com" in dot.com stands for
commercial
Term for a score of four-under-par on a golf hole
condor
Term for the sport of cross-country racing on bicycles
cyclo-cross
Two variants of lacrosse
field & box lacrosse
Style of sailing race in which the competitors sail against each other all at once
fleet racing
Sport that gives us the word stymie, meaning a discouraging problem
golf
Sport with an trophy called The Minto Cup
lacrosse (Cdn jr men's)
Name for the loincloth worn by a sumo wrestler
mawashi
Another name in English for the sport rugby
rugger
Type of horse race that the annual Grand National is
steeplechase
Name for the vehicle pulled by the horses in harness racing
sulky
Object carried in a baseball umpire's pocket and used to clean the bases
whisk broom
Substance from which golf balls were originally made
wood
Japanese archery performed on horseback
yabusame
