I drew a blank on Kevin Martin, could only think of the timberwolves basket ball player and edwin moses I just kept trying track and field, track, athletics and so on. Annoyed as I should have got 30
Parkour is a sport now? I gave up after getting curling on a random guess. That was as obscure as I was willing to go. You couldn't find any famous players from the annals of Bowling, Croquet, or Ultimate Frisbee?
I'm really sorry, this must become very boring, but David Beckham played football, Joe Montana played a game not concerning the combination of foot and a (round (sic!)) ball. (Most of the) rest of the world seems to agree.
I wouldn't mind if they changed the name of American Football to handegg. But until they do, JetPunk will call it football and we will call the other sport soccer. Why? Because 70% of the users of this site are American.
Once again: this is a US-hostet quizpage and we all have to deal with the fact, that most of the quizzes (especially in english language) are focussed on american topics, expressions, persons, etc.....
That's 30% that are not American. That's still a huge proportion of your user base. Therefore you should accept both football and soccer as valid answers. This is not a test of what's the American word for football!
The site is American. It's called soccer here, ergo, Beckham played soccer. Asking Americans to refer to football as American Football is the same as going to India and asking everyone to call it Indian Food. It's just food there.
In the Netherlands field hockey is a populair sport, where in Finland ice hockey is the national favourite. Both refer to their version as "hockey", the other one is simply irrelevant.
Or at least a different curling person should be chosen. If we're going to quibble about what is/isn't a sport, then I feel like snooker could be up for debate as well.
Wouldn't it be better to make you answer for each specific person? Otherwise you can get a few points just by typing every sport you can think of, even if you have no idea who plays it.
Sprinting and hurdling are not sports. Track and field (or athletics) is. Both Usain Bolt and Edwin Moses competed in the same sport, albeit different events.
I'd like to see all the people complaining that Parkour isn't a sport give it a shot. It's actually very difficult. I've tried it and I respect anyone who's able to do that for a living.
There's a far more famous (at least to mainstream sports fans) Kevin Martin who's an NBA player...surely there's another curler or a different sport to use instead of this Kevin Martin?
Came to post this. I don't know anything at all about curling, but surely there's someone who can represent the sport in this quiz that doesn't share a name with someone in another sport?
ugh! I can never remember the american name for football! I should be able to get football for david beckham, come on dudes. he's a british guy who plays the sport internationally known as football. it's sincerely irritating not being able to get full marks because of this.
i'm not saying you shouldn't call your version football, clearly you can do whatever you want, but at least make football an option for david beckham, come on...
I typed in 'Worlds Strongest Man' for Bill Kazmeier, i didn't know him before he appeared on the show a couple of years ago in the U.K., I remember his eyes almost bulging out of his head when taking part, seriously strong guy !
Yeah, after getting the roughly 15 I knew I typed in random sports. However, I am quite stunned and proud of not needing to guess Sachin Tendulkar, says an American.
Can't believe that Quizmaster has left the Cheater Lance Armstrong in on this list of SPORTS. I feel ashamed just writing his name down, it's a wonder Maradona isn't on the list along with Johnson and a few other drug taking cheats.
He's also left Kevin Martin, even though numerous people have pointed out that there is another Kevin Martin that plays basketball in the NBA, who is at least as well known if not moreso than the one in curling.
Kevin Martin is a well known Basketball player that played in the NBA for 12 seasons. You google that name that is what comes up i was trying to your find your answer and could not.
Again football is american, and as this is an American website, Quizmaster has done it correct. However, maybe add football as an acceptable response for David Beckham? If you can't you are still right. An for all those haters out there, this is an American hosted website, so if you don't like it, don't use it...
It's so funny how angry people get about the soccer/football thing even though everyone already knows both words. Just like I know that most of the world calls football "American football" because to them futbol/football means something else.
It's. just. not. that. hard.
Also, for the cycling purists ... the cheater you know is no different than the cheater you don't know. Both are cheaters. Therefore, you have to be careful in holding anyone in high esteem in the sports world...odds are way too good that they're a cheater who just hasn't gotten caught.
Damn americans are ignorant. It is not to hard to search for most popular sports in the world and create a list of those sports with some world stars. Not to mention that football is Beckham sport not soccer.
Athletics or track and field should be accepted for both Bolt and Moses (btw he was also very successful in bobsled, so I would consider that, too). Hurdling and sprinting are neither sports nor events or disciplines, e.g. on Wikipedia they are considered acts or methods of running.
I think this quiz has the same couple of comments repeated more times than any other quiz I have seen on this site, possibly with the exception of the April Fools quizzes.
Oh, how I wish people would read at least a few comments before posting their own
Should accept gridiron for football. And while your add it can you put in a different representative for football...er, I mean soccer. Other than whatshisface...
Firstly, would it be better to have a yellow box for each clue, I ignored the clues and just started naming every sport I could think of and managed to get a lot of sports who i'd never heard of the athletes.
Secondly, surely we can change Lance Armstrong to another cyclist who isnt a liar, cheat and a complete disgrace to the sport!?
Any activity where the outcome or result is decided SOLELY on the opinion of judges, instead of measureable differences in performance, are NOT a sport in my opinion. Gymnastics, diving, figure skating etc are little more than novelty acts while others, such as boxing or judo which have more than one way if deciding a winner, should be regarded as sports.
About football and soccer... I live in america but am chinese and so when I visited china once I started talking to some people about sports, and I mentioned this game called soccer, everyone else was utterly confused and that's how they found out I wasn't actually from china
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/fun/news/a440423/sports-popularity-shown-on-colour-coded-world-map-picture.html
Or whatever..
This is an English Quiz site, and in the English language, the sport in question is in fact called "Association football"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football
Type "Soccer" into Wikipedia, and you will be redirected here.
The sport is NICKNAMED "Football", or "Soccer" depending on the part of the world you are from.
Therefore, "Football" should 100% logically be a correct solution just as much as, if not more so than "Soccer" is.
especially since Kevin Martin is a well known basketball player, obviously not the same guy but you get my point
Beckham plays Soccer.
I typed it and it didn't register so I typed track.
Please with all due respect for USA's track and field athletes
over the years do you mind including athletics or running for sprinting
when you allow track.
No big deal if you do mind.
Marc Marquez, Valentino Rossi, or Jorge Lorenzo for MotoGP!
i'm not saying you shouldn't call your version football, clearly you can do whatever you want, but at least make football an option for david beckham, come on...
Whether this is an American Quiz or not, you should have football as an option along with soccer.
There are 196 countries who play football, but only a few (mainly USA, Australia and South Africa) who call it soccer
considering I'm 11, not bad.
Maybe pick a different name in curling
It's. just. not. that. hard.
Also, for the cycling purists ... the cheater you know is no different than the cheater you don't know. Both are cheaters. Therefore, you have to be careful in holding anyone in high esteem in the sports world...odds are way too good that they're a cheater who just hasn't gotten caught.
Oh, how I wish people would read at least a few comments before posting their own
Secondly, surely we can change Lance Armstrong to another cyclist who isnt a liar, cheat and a complete disgrace to the sport!?