Q 01/05

How many players does each water polo team have in the water at one time?

A) 3

B) 7

C) 14

D) 28

Answer · why

B) 7

7 is a full side, six field players and a goalkeeper, but a major foul sends the offender out of play for a spell, so teams often have to defend a pla...

Q 02/05

Water polo grew out of 'aquatic football', whose rules William Wilson drew up in 1877 in which country?

A) Australia

B) Hungary

C) Scotland

D) United States

Answer · why

C) Scotland

Scotland was where he wrote them, for a match between the banks of the River Dee, and when the first international was played in London in 1890 the Sc...

Q 03/05

In some early versions of water polo, players carried sticks and rode across the water on what?

A) Ponies

B) Barrels

C) Rafts

D) Logs

Answer · why

B) Barrels

Barrels, painted like horses in one account, are said to be why a game played in the water was named after polo; the sticks and mounts soon went, leav...

Q 04/05

The 'polo' in water polo comes from a Balti word meaning what?

A) Ball

B) Horse

C) Goal

D) Fight

Answer · why

A) Ball

Ball is what 'polo' means in Balti, a Tibetan language, so 'water polo' is literally 'water ball', which is exactly what Germans (Wasserball) and Hung...

Q 05/05

At water polo's 1900 Olympic debut, teams played for what rather than their countries?

A) Army regiments

B) Sports clubs

C) Universities

D) Police forces

Answer · why

B) Sports clubs

Sports clubs filled the draw, and the best of them was so far ahead that it is said to have eased off in the final so as not to embarrass its opponent...