Monday, April 13, 2020

Which sport?

1.  It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins in a tribal game played by the indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands.  The game was extensively modified reducing the violence in it by European colonizers to create its current collegiate and professional form. At the Summer Olympics, it has been contested at two editions of the Summer Olympic Games, 1904 and 1908.  The men's outdoor version of the sport has ten players on each team: three attackmen, three midfielders, three defensemen, and one goalie. Which sports?

2. It differs from other team sports in that it is a mixed-gender game: a team consists of four men and four women. The objective is to throw a ball into a netless basket that is mounted on a 3.5 m (11.5 feet) high pole. The sport was invented by Dutch school teacher Nico Broekhuysen in 1902. In the Netherlands, there are approximately 500 clubs and more than 90,000 people playing this game. Which game?

3. Once a year, on the third Saturday in October ("Bridge Day"), permission to __________ has explicitly been granted at the New River Gorge Bridge in Fayetteville, West Virginia. The New River Gorge Bridge deck is 876 feet (267 m) above the river. An object dropped from the deck will hit the water in 8.8 seconds. This annual event attracts about 450 _______ ers, and nearly 200,000 spectators. If the conditions are good, in the six hours that it is legal, there may be over 800 jumps. Fill in the blanks. 

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