Fact or Fiction

Fact or Fiction


How well do you know sports? Take the fact or fiction quiz to find out!
  1. Fact or Fiction: In the game of Tennis the shortest match in history was 23 minutes
  2. Fact or Fiction: American football sends athletes to college with a scholarship more then any other sport
  3. Fact or Fiction: Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 169.9 kilometers per hour
  4. Fact or Fiction: In football (soccer), goalies can always use their hands.
  5.  Fact or Fiction: Squash is an Olympic sport.
  6. Fact or Fiction: Eight ball pool is played with 15 balls
  7. Fact or Fiction: There are 25 players in the "active roster" in Major League Baseball
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RESULTS
  1. FACT: In the shortest match was in 1922 at Wimbledon.
  2. FICTION: Field hockey sends more athletes to college with scholarships then any other sport NOT American football. 
  3. FACT: Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 169.9 kilometres
  4. FICTION: By the back-pass rule, a goalkeeper cannot pick up a pass that came directly from one of his teammates. Instead, the goalkeeper must use his feet.
  5. FICTION: Despite much vigorous campaigning by the World Squash Federation (WSF), a bid to add the game to the Rio schedule was rejected by the International Olympic Committee
  6. FICTION: Eight Ball (pool) is played with cue sticks and 16 balls:
  7. FACT: There are 25 players on the “active roster” in Major League Baseball and 40 players on the expanded roster.


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By Deveree Correa

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