TRIVIA - LESSER SPORTS

1. Originally called skurfing, this World Games water sport was invented in Australia about 30 years ago, and has an athlete score points by successfully manipulating turbulent disturbed flow.

2. There’s a ten-mile stretch of Connecticut’s Housatonic River that’s considered the best east of the Rocky Mountains to engage in this alliterative sport, but be sure to wear plenty of insect repellent.

3. This 19th century Basque sport is played on a court called a fronton. It’s still popular in Florida, but was once such a moneymaker in New England that Boston gangster Whitey Bulger skimmed $500,000-per-year from its high body.

4. Though this ancient sport is put in the works of Homer, its first verifiable instance was in Medieval Scotland by soldiers in the cannonball regiment.

5. This American sport was invented in 1917 by the supervisor of the Cincinnati Park Playgrounds, and it essentially mimics baseball but with a soccer approach.

6. Bob Costas once said this Olympic sport is like a competition over who can whisper the loudest. Still,