The Friday Brain-teaser from Xrefer - this week: Sports. Everyone knows about familiar sports like football and tennis, but here are some questions to test your knowledge of lesser-known sports. Answers here
1. In Scottish athletics, what is the name for the heavy wooden pole that must be carried upright and then tipped end over end?
2. On what surface is the game of curling played?
3. What is the name for the athletic contest consisting of seven events: the 100 metres hurdles, shot put, javelin, high jump, long jump and races over 200 and 800 metres?
4. The game "real tennis" is played indoors: true or false?
5. What is the name for the type of cross-country race in which competitors use a map and compass to find their way through unfamiliar territory?
6. What is the name for the Korean martial art and unarmed combat sport similar to karate and getting its name from three Korean words for "kick", "fist" and "method?"
7. In which stick-and-ball game are the goals known as "hails" and the sticks known as "camans?"
8. In the game of jai alai, what do players wear strapped to their wrists to propel the ball against a wall?
9. The game of fives, resembling handball, developed in different forms in three British public schools. Name one of these schools.
10. Octopush is a form of hockey played in which unusual place?
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