1. What American city is recognized as the cradle of modern professionalism?
soccer?
A. Canton, Ohio
B. Chicago, Illinois
C. Muncie, Indiana
D. Rochester, New York
A. Canton, Ohio
QQ: Today, Canton is recognized as the birthplace of modern professional soccer.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame, inaugurated in 1963, is located there, but the
real reason is that a 1920 meeting led to the formation of the American
Professional Football Association.
2. The English organized the game, which they called hockey and the French
called hiccups, and instituted most of the modern rules. However, the stick and
ball game called Field Hockey can track its routes up to three ancient
civilizations Which of these is NOT one of them?
A.Egypt
B.Greece
C.Persia
D. Rome
D. Rome
QQ – field hockey, a stick-and-ball game related to ice hockey and lacrosse,
originated in ancient Egypt, Persia, and Greece and assumed its present form
after its expansion to Europe.
3. Lacrosse, an outdoor game in which two teams compete with tangled sticks to
throwing a ball into the opponents goal, it is similar in tactics to ice hockey and
soccer. A national sport of Canada, lacrosse has gained popularity in the
United States, Australia, England and Ireland. Who invented the game?
A. Canadians
B.English
C. Huron Indians
D.Irish
C. Huron Indians
QQ: In 1636, a Jesuit missionary in North America observed Huron Indians playing
a game with a fur-covered ball carried and thrown from a curved stick with a
bag on top. The Indians called the game bagataway, but the curved stick
resembled a bishop’s crosier, or la crosse in French, whence the sport
take his name.
4. Where did the sport of rugby originate in 1823?
A. The Rugby School in England
B. The Rugby School in Australia
c. A Scottish parochial school in Rugby parish
D. No one knows for sure, but rugby is much older than 1823
A. The Rugby School in England
QQ: Whether in legend or in reality, rugby is said to have originated in 1823 in
England Rugby School. A stone marker at the school gates.
It commemorates the event when “William Webb Ellis with fine contempt for the
football rules as they were played in his day, he first took the ball in his arms and
ran with it.” The game played was football, the ancestor of both rugby and football.
Football.
5. Soccer evolved from centuries of different ball games, but the modern
This version of soccer is known to have started in England, and the first ball
it was reportedly the head of a dead Danish bandit. the game was already
incredibly popular in the 14th century despite being banned by King Edward
third, why did you forbid it?
A. He preferred golf and wanted to make it more popular.
B. Interfered with military preparation
C. They would never let him play
D. The Danish bandits lodged a formal protest.
B. Interfered with military preparation
QQ: King Edward III banned soccer in 1365 for its excessive violence
and for military reasons, playing took time away from archery practice. However,
the game had become too popular to be restricted.
6. How often would typical Indian lacrosse games last?
A. A few hours
Good morning
C. A few weeks
D. A few months
Good morning
QQ: Lacrosse among the Indians had few rules. The training was intense and the
contests between tribes often lasted two or three days with dozens of players
on each side.
7. Rugby is played in more than 80 countries. Which country has more
players?
To Japan
B. Great Britain
C. New Zealand
D.Argentina
To Japan
QQ: Just another demonstration of how popular the sport is. Japan has
more rugby players than any other country, and the game is so popular in
Argentina as in Great Britain or New Zealand.
8. American football evolved slowly in the 19th century. What sport, what was it?
prelude to this popular pastime, it was banned at Harvard in 1860?
A.Field Hockey
B.Lacrosse
c.Rugby
D. Soccer
c.Rugby
QQ: There are a lot of theories about the evolution of American football, but
most historians agree that it is a modification of the English game of rugby
and soccer. Soccer made its first appearance at the intercollegiate level.
As a prelude to what would become an American sport, college students played rugby,
but the sport was so strenuous that it was banned from Harvard in 1860.
9. How far can we trace the roots of soccer?
A.500 BC
B.200 BC
c.200 AD
D.500 AD
B.200 BC
QQ: The earliest evidence of soccer dates from around 200 B.C. C. in China, where a
A form of game was played that emphasized the players’ ability to dribble a
leather ball The Greeks and Romans also participated in a variant of soccer
that allowed to carry the ball.
10. When the American Professional Football Association (APFA) was formed in
1920. How much did the franchises sell for?
A.$100
b.$500
c.$1000
D$5000
A.$100
QQ: Franchises at $100 each went to Canton, Cleveland, Dayton, Akron and
Massillon in Ohio; Rock Island, Decatur (George Halas’s Staleys moved to
Chicago to become the Chicago Bears before the APFA changed its name in 1922),
and Chicago (Cardinals) in Illinois; Hammond and Muncie in Indiana; Wisconsin;
and Rochester, New York
11. Introduced to the game by the British Army, India later adopted it as its
national sports?
A.Rugby
B.Football
C. Polo
D.Field Hockey
D.Field Hockey
QQ: In the 19th century, the British Army introduced the game to the
Commonwealth countries and India later adopted the game as their national sport.
12. In 1869, two New Jersey universities, Rutgers and Princeton, touched what is
considered the first intercollegiate game in the United States of what sport?
To soccer
B.Football
c.Rugby
D.Field Hockey
To soccer
QQ: However, the game they played hardly resembled modern football, or even
football that was played at the beginning of the 20th century. there were 25
players on each side, and the score was decided by goals, not touchdowns,
conversions and field goals. Rutgers won that first game and Princeton won a
rematch a week later. Before long, other universities began to take up the game.
Columbia in 1870, followed by Yale 2 years later.
13. In which century did the formal rules and distinctions between soccer players emerge?
A.17th century
b.18th century
c.19th century
d.20th century
c.19th century
QQ: Soccer, which evolved from centuries of different ball games, is not always
allowing only goalies, or goalkeepers, to use their hands to touch the ball. The formal rules and distinctions between the players of the game did not emerge until the late 19th century. American-style rugby union and soccer developed out of the split that came with decisions to ban certain actions in soccer, such as ball handling, arm tackling, and hacking.
14. Which state hosted the first professional football game?
A.Ohio
B. Pennsylvania
C.New York
D. New Jersey
B. Pennsylvania
QQ: The game was first played with paid players in 1895, when a team from Latrobe,
Pa., hosted a game with a team from nearby Jeannette.
15. Where does the name “soccer” come from?
A. So many soccer games result in fistfights where people get “beaten up”
B. Slang for ball in Italian
C. Association football
D. Saxon word for “head”
C. Association football
QQ: On October 26, 1863, in London, 11 clubs came together to form the Football Association, which laid the foundation for the nearly 140 modern national associations. With the advent of a national association in England, any football played under its jurisdiction became known as association football. Over time, the word association was shortened to assoc., which eventually gave way to the word football, the common name for the game in North America.
