The Den of Geek Weekly Quiz! Movie & TV Sports

The Olympics are here and so is the Den of Geek Weekly Quiz. On your marks, set, go!

Den of Geek Weekly Quiz: Movie & TV Sports
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Wednesdays. The post-lunch slump of any working week. They’re too far from the weekend to taste the promised freedom, and too far from Mondays to kid yourself that a fresh start is still possible. What you need on Wednesdays, every Wednesday, at 12 o’clock BST and 7 o’clock ET, is a bit of distraction and a pat on the back. You need The Den of Geek Weekly Quiz.

12 original movie, TV and geeky questions, on a chosen theme, once a week, every week. Join us to test your trivia knowledge, have a bit of fun, compare results, let us know what you think (Too easy? Too long? Not enough questions about Police Academy?) and – when we eventually get leaderboards sorted – make others gasp at your trivia mastery. There may even be prizes in the pipeline…

Week three: seeing as the Olympics are here: sports in movies and TV shows. Ready, set, go!

Sports in Movies & TV

1. What popular retro toy, now with its own Dreamworks animated movie franchise, topped the Geller Cup touch football trophy in Friends?

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a) A Transformer
b) My Little Pony
c) Troll Doll
d) GI Joe

2. Reportedly the only breed of dog mentioned in the Bible, what is the nickname of AFC Richmond in Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso?

a) Beagles
b) Huskies
c) Greyhounds
d) Bulldogs

3. In The Karate Kid spin-off Cobra Kai on Netflix, which of the following is NOT a rival dojo in the San Fernando Valley?

a) Kreese’s Pieces
b) Eagle Fang Karate,
c) Miyagi-Do
d) Topanga Karate

4. The title of which US sports drama TV show was followed by the subtitle “A Town, a Team and a Dream” in the 1990 non-fiction book on which it was based?

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a) All American
b) One Tree Hill
c) Eastbound & Down
d) Friday Night Lights

5. 2014 biopic Unbroken, about the life of US Olympic distance runner Louis Zamperini, who survived a plane crash and a PoW camp, was directed by which Hollywood star?

a) Ben Affleck
b) Angelina Jolie
c) George Clooney
d) Jodie Foster

6. In US sitcom Cheers, which French-derived term was the nickname of Ted Danson’s character Sam Malone during his career as a relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox?

a) Matinee
b) Mayday
c) Millionaire
d) Menace

7. Which two-time Oscar-winning musician, the video for whose band’s 1992 single “Happiness in Slavery” was initially banned, co-wrote the score for 2024 tennis movie Challengers?

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a) Trent Reznor
b) Clint Mansell
c) Johnny Greenwood
d) Danny Elfman

8. Gurinder Chadha’s 2002 British film Bend It Like Beckham starred Parminder Nagra as a talented young soccer player. Which long-running US medical drama did Nagra go on to star in?

a) ER
b) Grey’s Anatomy
c) House
d) Nip/Tuck

9. Will Ferrell’s Ricky Bobby in NASCAR racing comedy movie Talladega Nights, names his two sons after which Chuck Norris character?

a) Sherriff and Norris
b) Colonel and Braddock
c) Sergeant and Major Phillips
d) Walker and Texas Ranger

10. The West Wing’s Alison Janney won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in which ice-skating movie?

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a) I, Tonya
b) Blades of Glory
c) The Cutting Edge
d) Ice Princess

11. FX American sports documentary series Welcome to Wrexham, following Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenny’s soccerteam, is set in which country of the United Kingdom?

a) England
b) Scotland
c) Wales
d) Northern Ireland

12. Madonna played “All the Way” Mae Mordabito in which 1990s US sports movie?

a) Jerry Maguire
b) A League of Their Own
c) Happy Gilmore
d) Cool Runnings

Answers!

1c, 2c, 3a, 4d, 5b, 6b, 7a, 8a, 9d, 10a, 11c, 12b

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