Sports by Athlete Quiz

Not upset about missing the ones that I did (Snooker, Curling, Surfing, Parkour).

Snooker shouldn't be considered a sport? What a strange thing to say

What the heck is parkour?

And 'sports'? For every answer?

Football. Ball Foot. Simples.

I disagree whole-heartedly Quizmaster. 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.

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.

Even Beckham wouldn't call what he plays as soccer!

If we’re gonna call soccer football, then what are we gonna call football?

no

He hosts the World's Stongest Man competition and he's a big name even now, even though he's retired from lifting

You should add Ultimate and put Brodie Smith as the famous Ultimate player!!

Either change the "excelled at" part or change Lance Armstrong...

I don't know which part was the "non-serious" in your reply, but you do have a point. I can tell you though that the "by far" part is a big misconception. Lance participated on at the Tour every year (because that's the only race Americans know and care about) and did not run any other race of the season (thus minimizing the chances of getting caught). My comment wan not meant to be very serious either, but I can assure you that, outside of this country (and I am a fan of cycling) no one ever considered him to be "by far the best" or much less a hero. How about this: change the sport from cycling to "anabolic use", haha!

That's a bit easy, isn't it, to dismiss the guy's faults because some others probably have used drugs as well. He was convincted of organising and masterminding a coherent system of substance abuse, of threatening and bullying his teammates to use as well. You really shouldn't have that asshole under "sports".

A non-doped Lance Armstrong wouldn't even have finished any race, because everyone else (who seriously WAS doped) would have been 2hrs faster each stage. In my opinion, cycling should just be kicked out of this quiz, as in the last 20 years, it was more a contest of medical experiments than a sport.

Because some people don't know who he is

wouldn't they all be labeled as athletics (besides the snooker guy)? Usain Bolt is a sprinter. He doesn't do anything else.

Bill Kazmaier is well known for strongman, not necessarily powerlifting?

The definition of a sport is not "something that is difficult to do".

Parkour is not a sport...sorry.

You should change speed skating for short track.

In English we say athletics for track and field. 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.

Speed skating has been in the winter olympics from the beginning.

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?

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 think the English words should be accepted as well as American...

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.

What amazes me is how more people guessed tiger woods than michael jordan. And woods being at the very top doesn't make a difference

David Beckham plays football with his feet hence the name FOOTball not soccer you American idiots.

This should be a yellow field type of quiz because after one goes through all the players, it becomes listing of different sports.

only 18% know Ed MOses ?!

didn't read Michael Phelps so I didn't answer it... feel so stupid right now

You should totally add bowling to this list. Maybe lacrosse too.

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.

It's a room you use to socialise in

No motorsport? F1, motoGP, dakar. Names like Schumacher, Loeb, Rossi. And I miss darts; Van Barneveld, Taylor.

to be fair, there's a relatively well-known professional basketball player named Kevin Martin...

Didn't know a lot of the people on the list, but faired well enough just going through different sports.

Parkour a sport?????

Ahahaha gymnastics is spelt with a "y"