Questions tagged [trivia]
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How was the legend of 7th game in tennis born?
Watching tennis on TV, it often happens that the commentator talks about the importance of the 7th game of the set; the player who wins that game has more probability to win the set.
This theory ...
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Is there a bowler without a wide or no-ball in their international career?
Is there any bowler with a minimum of 5000 delivieries in international cricket who has never bowled a wide or no-ball in their entire career?
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Has any player beat both of the Williams sisters in singles games within a week?
Victoria Azaranka beat Serena Williams 2-1 on September 10th, 2020 at the US Open semis. She went on to beat Venus Williams 2-0 on September 16th, 2020 at the Italian Open.
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What is the longest additional time ever added in Europe's top five leagues?
What is the longest additional time ever used in Europe's top five leagues? Please mention the details of the match.
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What's the highest percentage of a team's goals in one season to have been scored by one player?
This question was prompted by me watching Ted Lasso. I'm four episodes into Season 3 and it's strongly implied that new signing Zava has scored all of Richmond's goals up to this point. It occurred to ...
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How many times has Shoaib Akhtar bowled 160 kmph or faster?
How many times has Shoaib Akhtar bowled faster than 160 kmph?
During the England vs Pakistan match in the 2003 World Cup, he delivered at the speed of 161.3kmph. Is this the only occasion?
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What is the most match points saved by a tournament winner?
Recently Martin Kližan won ATP tournament in Rotterdam. On the way to the final he saved 8 match points (5 against Batistuta Agut and 3 against Mahut).
What is the record for the most match points ...
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Who took the most wickets in 1 over in cricket?
Who took the most wickets in 1 over in cricket? I got to know that Muhammad Aamir is not the right answer; there is someone else who took more wickets than him.
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Footballers with most free kicks scored
Who are the footballers with most free kicks scored? We all remember Juninho Pernambucano, but who else?
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Most hat-tricks in a single gameweek
During Gameweek 4 of the 2023/4 Premier League season, there were 3 separate hat-trick scorers:
Son Heung-Min (Burnley vs Tottenham Hotspur)
Erling Haaland (Manchester City vs Fulham)
Evan Ferguson (...
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Has there ever been a zero-pitch save?
It occasionally happens that a pitcher will earn a save by throwing one pitch. For example, he is brought in with two outs in the ninth and a two-run lead, and his first pitch is popped up.
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Has there ever been a Euros or World Cup champion that never conceded a goal?
Going in to their Euro 2020's semifinal match against Denmark, England haven't conceded a goal. Jordan Pickford, the goalie, has had 5 clean sheets in the tournament so far.
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When has a driver been penalised for deliberately driving into another?
I know of two cases:
In the 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, on June 25, it appears that Sebastien Vettel deliberately drove into Lewis Hamilton while they were behind the safety car. Vettel was ...
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When has the driver who won most races in a season not been champion?
This season could be interesting if Hamilton wins the final race of the season and Rosberg finishes 2nd or 3rd as you would have the unusual situation where the driver with most wins during the season ...
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Home runs on back to back pitches
Related to this question, I'm wondering how many times in MLB history a team has hit home runs on consecutive pitches. That is 2, 3, or 4 home runs in as many pitches.
Please provide the team, date ...
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Who are the football players that have scored in every minute of a football match?
Who are the footballers that have scored at least one goal in each minute from the first to 90th?
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How many football teams have won the treble?
Winning the "treble" means winning the three main titles of the season:
Continental championship (e.g. Champions League)
National league championship
National cup title
How many teams in ...
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Players with 300 or more goals for a single team in all competitions (European clubs)
Having already started a discussion for the players that has 300 or more goals in top flight domestic league for an European club let's distinguish a question for players with more than 400 goals in ...
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When did each MLB team officially beat all the other teams in the regular season?
I would assume, after 25+ years of inter-league play with 30 teams, pretty much every team has beaten every single other MLB team. To take a sample pairing, Cubs vs. Blue Jays, we have 16 games, which ...
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Players with 300 or more goals in top flight domestic league (European clubs)
Who are the players that has more than 300 goals in top flight domestic league, combined for all the teams that they have played.
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Which players won both FIFA U-20 World Cup and FIFA World Cup?
Which players won both FIFA U-20 World Cup (until 2005 known as the FIFA World Youth Championship) and FIFA World Cup?
This would show players who excelled both in the young age and in their later ...
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How often has a team beaten another team from the same league four times in a season?
Manchester United have beaten Nottingham Forest four times in the 2022/2023 season. Twice in the League Cup Semifinal and twice in the league.
I was wondering how often something like this has ...
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Are women technically allowed to compete in the "men's" division in the Olympic Games? [closed]
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Are women allowed to compete in men's division in the Olympic Games? So, how is the "men's division" officially defined by the IOC? Is it explicitly for men only or is it an "open division" ...
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Are there any sports for which the world's best player is female?
For this question I'm referring to sports in which men and women can compete together on equal terms (even if they often don't). For example, rock climbing would count (if they climb the same rock and ...
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Player with debut match perfect Hat-trick?
Over the years in football there have been many players who have scored hat-tricks in their clubs in their international debut matches.
For example: Serge Gnabry and Dieter Müller scored hat-tricks ...
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Has a ATP / WTA / Grand slam ever been rained out?
If during a ATP / WTA / Grand slam tennis tournament, rain falls consistently for the entire 2 weeks, would the tournament just be cancelled? Has this ever happened in a grand slam? Is there an actual ...
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Players with 400 or more goals in all club competitions (European clubs)
Who are the players that has more than 400 goals in all club competitions, combined for all the teams that they have played. Excluding friendly matches and counting only domestic cups, the domestic ...
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Defensive touchdowns in two playoff games in a row
Baltimore ravens allowed a defensive touchdown in two play-off games in a row.
One in Jan 15th, 2023 and the other in Jan 16th, 2021
I wonder if there is another example of such a thing: allowing ...
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Nationalised players scoring against their country of birth
Diego Costa is making his debut for Spain tonight and he will almost certainly go to Brazil as their main striker considering his form this year. You could imagine the reception he would get playing ...
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Who is the best striker (best goals/appearances ratio) with 25/50/100+ national caps?
Zlatan Ibrahimovic recently had his 50 goals milestone (also a national record for Sweden) prior to with 100 appearance for the team. With 50 goals in 100 games he's averaging a goal in every second ...
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NFL players with multiple punt return touchdowns in a game
Nyheim hines of the Indianapolis Colts returned 2 punts for touchdowns in the week 16 game of the 2019-20 season against the Carolina Panthers.
How many players have returned multiple punts for ...
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Has any goalkeeper ever received a red card at the FIFA World cup?
I heard that in football, the referee can give red cards even to goalkeepers.
Are there any goalkeepers who have received a red card in FIFA World Cup matches?
If yes, please provide the details.
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Why do players cover their nose or chest when in a wall?
I see this a lot of time:
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Let's observe the defenders: some of the them put both of their hands to cover their genitals (understandable), but there's also someone who put one of ...
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Highest Win Over Reigning Champion In FIFA World Cup
After having seen the Dutch team win their first group B match in the FIFA World Cup 2014, against the reigning world champion (Spain),
I was wondering what the highest win was ever against a ...
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Have two teams ever played each other twice in the same world cup?
In FIFA World Cup 2014, if the United States and Germany had both advanced to the final, then they would have played each other twice. This didn't happen.
But has it ever happened, that in the same ...
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How many times have two teams from the same continent contested the World Cup Final?
There is a chance that Germany and the Netherlands will play in the 2014 World Cup Final, so here is a related question. How many times have two teams from the same continent contested the World Cup ...
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When was the last time no team won 3 games in a world cup group stage?
In the 2022 Qatar World Cup, not a single team managed to win their 3 games in the group stage and earn 9 points. Thinking back, I can't recall any world cup which I remember that this happened.
Since ...
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Fastest opening goal of a FIFA World Cup
What was the fastest opening goal of a FIFA World Cup?
This is not the fastest opening goal in a single match across tournaments, but fastest goal(the first goal of that particular World edition) of ...
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What is the sports bra looking thing soccer players wear?
I've seen many male soccer players - specially famous players who play for well-known teams - wear a piece of clothing that looks like a sports bra. They're usually worn during practice, and a few ...
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How many MLB players have hit 4 or more Home Runs in a game?
On June 6th, 2017, Scooter Gennett hit 4 home runs to become the first Cincinnati Red ever to do so.
Who are the other people who have hit at least 4 HRs in a single game? Please provide name and the ...
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Which sport has the most skewed gender ratio among its fanbase?
I'm looking for the sport where the male-to-female ratio among its fans is the highest. I can find some statistics for individual sports (e.g. Statista says the ratio for soccer fans is about 62%-38%) ...
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What's the worst defeat of a host nation in World Cup history?
Brazil, the host nation of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, lost to Germany 7-1. This seems like a very big defeat in term of goal difference. What is the worst defeat of a host nation in World Cup history in ...
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Has there ever been a sport where the world's best player won so much that sponsors and spectators started to lose interest?
Have there been any sports where the best player is so dominant and wins so many tournaments that sponsors and spectators stopped being interested in the sport?
I can't think of any examples. There ...
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What is the greatest number of field goals in an NFL game without any other scoring?
On 2022-10-06, the Colts defeated the Broncos 12-9 with all the scoring being via 7 field goals. Is this the greatest number of field goals in an NFL game without there being any other form of scoring?...
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Is Ajax the first team not to qualify for the next stage (because they ended up 3rd) with as much as 10 points?
Last Tuesday, group H of the Champions League 2019/20 was decided, and the Dutch football (soccer) club Ajax ended up third place with as many as 10 points, failing to qualify for the next round since ...
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Longest gap between Week 1 starts
In 2022, Geno Smith was the starting QB for the Seattle Seahawks Week 1. This is his first Week 1 start since 2014.
Is this the longest such gap in NFL history?
I searched for players who had long ...
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Last tennis players to win Grand Slam on home soil
Who are the last male and female singles' tennis players to win a grand slam on home soil?
In other words, which male and female Australian, French, British and American athletes most recently won ...
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What's the highest number of points without winning the Premier League?
In the 2018-19 Premier League season, Liverpool finished 2nd with 97 points. Has any team ever got more points than this without winning the league?
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NFL division with 3 teams in the playoffs
Under the current NFL playoffs format, each conference sends 6 teams to the postseason: the 4 division champions and 2 wild card teams. So the most teams a division can have in the playoffs is 3; the ...
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Has there ever been a sport where the world's best player won so much they got bored?
Per title. Are there any sports where the best player is so dominant and wins so many tournaments that they got bored and retired to do/play something else? I'm not asking about people who quit or ...
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