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CELEBRITY TRIVIA

SPORTS TRIVIA

(27 ENTRIES)

1)
In Houston, Texas, USA, in 1992, 53 year old Terry Wilson, a ten pin bowling champion was charged with murder after he payed a hitman to break the arms and legs of of his wife's lover.
Things went wrong, however, when the assassin hired to do the job accidentally killed the love rival.

2)
In Chicago, USA, John Mcenroe, the tennis superstar, was playing in a seniors tournament when he lost his temper during the changeover. In a rage he threw a half empty water bottle behind him, which then sailed over a wall hitting a 10 year old boy in the stomach.
Mcenroe attempted to apologise, but the traumatised boy continued sobbing and he and his family left the match.
Later on Mcenroe stated, "To see a kid upset is upsetting. I feel bad."

3)
In Detroit, USA, in 1997, basketball player, Jalen Rose, was thrown off a plane after he spat a piece of chewing gum at an Airport security officer while going through a checkpoint.
He was annoyed that he hadn't been recognised.

4)
In Snow Valley, California, USA, in February 1992, David James Erikson, aged 24, was speed skiing at over 85 miles per hour, when he crashed head on into a snowmaking machine.
Erikson sustained serious head and chest injuries and died one hour after the accident.
Mr. Benno Nager, the Snow Valley manager later stated, "It's a big, eight foot, large object that you cannot miss, with bright orange stripes. There are 300 of these things on the mountains. He clearly knew it was there!"

5)
In Sweden, in October 1995, Mr. Bengt Akerblom, aged 28, was playing ice hockey for his team, Mora, when a fellow player slipped on the ice in front of him, his legs flying, and a skate blade flashed through the air, cutting Akerblom's carotid artery, causing blood to spurt a great distance onto the ice.
Akerblom later died in hospital.

6)
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1991, World Class 10,000 metre runner, Carl Thackery, from England, missed out on the chance of running in the World Championships when he ran into a six foot cactus.
Pulling the cactus needles out of his legs, he carried on running, but after a few days his legs ballooned up so much that he couldn't run anymore.

7)
In New York, USA, in January, 1992, amateur boxer, Daniel Caruso, was psyching himself up for his match in the Golden Gloves Championship when he began punching himself in the face.
Unfortunately for Caruso, he ended up breaking his own nose and the fight doctors pronounced him unfit to fight.

8)
In South Africa, a rugby match between the New Waves and the Early Stars had to be abandoned after a shootout left one player dead, one critically injured and six others with flesh wounds.
After the New Waves took the lead at half time, fans began throwing guns to the home side and bombarded the visiting fans with rocks.
Later Police Detective Andre van Zyl, an avid rugby fan, stated, "Some do not play the game the way we understand it should be played!"

9)
Heavyweight boxing champions Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield never knew who their fathers were.

10)
The only football club in the British League that you cannot fill any of the letters in with a pen is Hull City.

11)
Tennis star Anna Kournikova has a computer virus named after her.

12)
The very first cricket match to be played between two countries was in 1884 between the USA and Canada.

13)
The 19th century bullfighter Lagartijo slaughtered over 4,500 bulls in the ring during his career.

14)
American football players put on about 13 pounds of protective clothing before going onto the field.

15)
During the 1930 Mille Miglia car race Tadzio Nuvolari drove in the dark with his lights out so that the race leader could not see him coming up from behind.
This allowed Nuvolari to overtake the leader and win the race.

16)
During the very first modern Olympic Games in Greece in 1896 a runner in the marathon competition was disqualified after he was caught using a horse and carriage to take a short cut.

17)
The very first floodlit football league game to be played was in 1956.

18)
Billiards was first played in Italy in 1550.

19)
The earliest form of tennis was first played by French monks.

20)
When men competed in the ancient Olympic games they were normally totally naked and women were banned from the stadium.
Many women, however, managed to sneak in disguised as men!

21)
In 1908 a horse that normally just pulled a plough on a farm won the Grand National horserace.

22)
The very first football club to win both the FA Cup and the League Cup was Preston North End.

23)
British football player Michael Owen was nicknamed "Mincer" when he was at school.

24)
British football star Glenn Hoddle was named after US musician Glenn Miller.

25)
US boxer Sugar Ray Leonard was named after US musician Ray Charles.

26)
Tennis Star Martina Hingis was named after Tennis star Martina Navratilova.

27)
Football player Dennis Bergkamp was named after British footballer Dennis Law.