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This week's quiz contains 20 questions on recreation
1. What is the popular name for the place where hockey players are sent for breaking the rules?
2. What popular game was invented by a Canadian Clergymen by using 2 peach baskets?
3. How many players are there on a netball team?
4. In what sport is a ball knocked back and forth across a court by hand?5. Joe DiMaggio was a legendary player of which sport?
6. Are aluminum baseball bats allowed in MLB?
7. In baseball, spiked boots are not allowed. What are used instead?
8. In cricket what is a sequence of six or eight balls called?
9. From what wood are cricket bats made out of?
10. What form of tennis was once the sport of kings?
11. Paume was the precursor of what modern sport?
12. In which century was lawn tennis first played?
13. Which top-class tennis players now use wooden rackets?
14. Which game began with Cambridge students using Cigar boxes and champagne corks?
15. Is it true that the Chinese name for Table Tennis is "ping pong"?
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What do tinted dots on the squash ball denote?17. In which sport would you "tee off"?
18. By what other name is Association Football commonly known?
19. By what geometrical-sounding name is fishing sometimes known?
20. Which ancient games were revived in Athens in 1896?
