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Sports Team
Nickname Quiz

How well do YOU know professional teams and their nicknames?

The following Sports Challenge, pertains to nicknames of professional teams of Major League Baseball, National Football League, National Basketball League and the National Hockey League. 

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 Quiz I
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1. Name as many teams as you can where the mascot is a BIRD.                                                                                               
2. Name as many teams as you can where the team calls New York, HOME.
3. Name as many teams as you can where the mascot lives in or around the OCEAN.
5. Name as many teams as you can, where the team name refers to a COLOR.
6. Name as many teams as you can, where the nickname refers to a NATIVE AMERICAN.
7. Name as many teams as you can where the nickname is in the HORSE family.
8. Name as many teams as you can where the nickname refers to a "holy" or "unholy" mascot.
9. Name as many teams as you can where it has a reference in the mascots name to a HOT TEMPERATURE.
10. Name as many teams as you can where the mascot is in the FELINE family.
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Quiz II
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1. Name as many teams as you can where it's name is in NUMBERS.
2. Name the teams with the nickname of RANGERS.
3. What three team mascots appeared in the haunted forest in the movie, "The Wizard of Oz"?
4. Name as many mascots as you can that you might find while hunting in the American Woods.
5. Name as many mascots you find on a ship at sea.
6. Name the mascots that SOUND good.
7. Name the teams that have a logo with a design of what comes out of a "Thunderstorm".
8. Name the teams that don't have a plural name (name without an "s")
9. Name the mascots you will likely find in D.C.
10. Name the mascots that FLY, but are NOT birds.
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Quiz III
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1. Name as many STATES where they are the first name of the team, instead of a CITY as the first name.
2. Name as many teams as you can where the first name is NEITHER a state or a city.
3. Name the two sports that have had (at different times) a "Colorado Rockies" team.
4. What two sports in the SAME city, have had the same team mascot name?

5. Name as many team names that are associated with these HOROSCOPE SIGNS:

a) Taurus, b)Gemini, c) Aries, d) Leo, e) Pisces     


6. What is the alternative nickname of the New York Yankees?
7. Who are the NFL's "Monsters of the Midway." ?
8. What is the nickname of the University of Hawaii's teams?
9. Name the nicknames of teams that share the SAME nickname that are within the four major sports (hockey, baseball, football, basketball).
10. In which city, do all 3 professional sports teams have the same team colors?
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Quiz IV
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1. Which Professional Football team only has their logo on one side of their helmet?
2. Which Professional Football team has NO logo on their helmets?
3. What is the most common college football team nickname?

4. What is the original nickname of the New York Jets football team?

5. What articles of clothing and what colors for the clothing have teams used for nicknames?


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  Sports Players Nicknames Quiz

See if you can name each of the below sports athletes by their nicknames.
Quiz V
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Nickname
Real Name
1. The Splendid Splinter

2. The Sultan of Swat

3. Hammerin' Hank

4. The Big Unit

5. The Georgia Peach

6. The Yankee Clipper

7. The Say Hey Kid

8. Pops

9. The Rocket

10. Dr. K

11. Charlie Hustle

12. Stan the Man

13. Shoeless Joe

14.  Oil Can

15.  The Wizard of Oz

16. Mr. October

17. Sweetness

18. The Refrigerator

19. Too Tall

20. White Shoes

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Quiz VI
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1. Mean

2. The Freak

3. The Minister of Defense

4. Broadway Joe

5. Diesel

6. Prime Time

7. The Snake

8. Galloping Ghost

9. Bad Moon

10. Bambi

11. Night Train

12. The Nigerian Nightmare

13.  The Bus

14. Monsters of the Midway

15. G-Men

16. Purple People Eaters

17. The Steel Curtain

18. The Dawg Pound

19. Air Jordan

20. The Big Dipper

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Quiz VII
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1. Godzilla

2. Magic

3. The Mail Man

4. Tiny

5. Wilt the Stilt

6. The Worm

7. The Great One

8. The Admiral

9.  The Bash Brothers

10. The Big Hurt

11. Boom Boom

12. Campy

13. Catfish

14. Flo Jo

15. The Flying Dutchman

16. The Golden Bear

17. The Great White Shark

18. The Greatest

19. The Juice

20. The Kansas Comet

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Quiz VIII
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1. The Man in Black

2. Meadowlark

3. Mr. Cub

4. Pee Wee

5. Popeye

6.  Satchel

7.  Smokin' Joe

8. Spud

9. Sugar

10. Yogi

11. Thunderfoot

12. Double Duty


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