BLASTERMIND

A sport quiz! Don’t be scared…

question 1

Which Doctor Who star played for the youth teams of Northampton Town, Nottingham Forest and Leicester City?

question 2

In the Star Trek universe, which potentially dangerous contact sport involves an Ion Mallet?

question 3

In which television series did the Son of God perform a miracle at Manchester City’s old Maine Road stadium?

question 4

Who wrote the X-Files episode “The Unnatural”, which centres on a baseball player who’s actually an alien?

question 5

In which ’80s Doctor Who story do we see people playing “non-gravity squash”?

question 6

Which dystopian film from 1975 ends with Houston beating New York 1-0?

question 7

Which young boy was the first human to win the annual Boonta Eve Classic?

question 8

Which Enterprise crew member called water polo “the best sport in the world”?

question 9 picture question

What word has been redacted from this 1978 movie poster? (It’s the title of the film.)

question 10

In which classic dystopian novel would you find mention of the sports Escalator Squash, ElectroMagnetic Golf and Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy?

question 11

Where could you read all about the rules of Brockian UltraCricket?

question 12

Which TV series features Kosho, a martial art that involves bouncing up and down on two trampolines on either side of a tank full of water?

question 13 picture question

What’s the name of this baseball player, a hero of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Benjamin Sisko?

question 14

In which sport does each team have three Chasers, two Beaters, one Keeper and one Seeker?

question 15

In Buffy, which English football team does Spike mention as one good reason why not to destroy the world? (Remember: he’s evil.)

question 16

Which Batman film features the collapse of Gotham City Stadium?

question 17 picture question

What’s the name of this sport, from the original 1978 version of Battlestar Galactica?

question 18

What sport does the Doctor play in 1982 Who story “Black Orchid”?

question 19

In the Twilight Zone episode “Steel”, written by Richard Matheson, which sport is now performed only by robots?

question 20

Soccer team DC United’s Robert F Kennedy Memorial Stadium was an important location for which superhero movie?