Questions tagged [trivia]
For questions generally relating to small, specific facts regarding a player, team, or game that are not common knowledge and can be answered with fact-based answers. Questions should also be tagged with the sport referenced.
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What is the biggest sports stadium in the world?
Which sports stadium (meaning any building designed to host sporting events) in the world, is the largest and who plays there? I'm thinking the largest as in the amount of people it can hold, but if ...
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Football Goal Records
What is the world record for:
Most goals scored by one team in a game?
Most combined goals in a game?
Most goals scored by a team in a season?
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Collegiate walk-on becoming a statistical all-time leader
In 2012, quarterback Matt McGloin became the all-time leader in career passing touchdowns, with 45, at Penn State University(1). McGloin started his college career as a walk-on(2).
In collegiate ...
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Was Zinedine Zidane ever caught offside?
Many sources claim that Zinedine Zidane was never caught offside in his professional career.
Is this true? Because, I found two links that says: "Zidane was offside."
http://youtu.be/...
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Most number of extra-time Goals
On 30-Oct-2012, Arsenal defeated Reading with an incredible score of 7-5. A more astonishing fact is that 4 goals were scored in Extra-time.
Is this the record for the most number of goals in extra-...
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What is the biggest comeback recorded in competitive international soccer matches?
On October 16, 2012, Sweden came back from 4-0 down to draw 4-4 with Germany in a World Cup qualifier. Purely in terms of goals, is this the record for the biggest comeback in a competitive ...
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Has the MLB Division Series Ever had all 4 Series go 5 games prior to 2012?
This year all 4 Division Series Games have gone the distance has that ever happened before?
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Has there been an "eventless" English Premier League game?
Has there ever been a game in the English Premier League during which no goals were scored and no cards were shown?
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Has there been an NBA player who won triple MVP in one season?
Has there been an NBA player who won the all 3 NBA MVP awards?
this includes Regular Season MVP, Finals MVP and All-Star MVP award in the same season?
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NBA MVP, Finals MVP and Champion
So LeBron just won the title, the NBA MVP and NBA Finals MVP. Who else has done that?
Also, I know that generally the NBA Finals MVP belongs to the team that won the title, but I believe there was an ...
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Winning despite walking
What is the MLB record for the most walks (bases on balls) allowed in a single game (9 inning game) by a pitcher who ultimately still recorded the win?
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MLB near perfect game
To throw a perfect game a pitcher would have to get 27 batters out in a row.
How many times in MLB history has a pitcher had 26 strait outs only to allow the would be final batter to reach base?
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MLB no-hitter resulting in loss
According to Major League Baseball an official no-hitter consists of a pitcher having pitched at least 9 innings while allowing 0 hits.
In MLB history has a team lost while having a pitcher throw an ...
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Expo who remained longest with the Nationals
Which Expo player who moved to the Nationals in 2005 remained longest (continuously) with the Nationals?
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Lowest average to bowl a 300 game?
What is the lowest sanctioned average to bowl a perfect 300 game?
I'm sure someone who is not a really good bowler got lucky and threw 12 strikes in a game. I wonder how bad that bowler was. I looked ...
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What is the origin of the specific distances in Ironman triathlon?
Triathlon is the sport (three sports, typically swim - bike - run, though Winterlude in Ottawa does Ice Skate, Cross Country Ski, Run).
Ironman is the distance. 2.4 Mile (3.8K) swim, 112 mile (180....
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