Sports Cliche Quiz (from SportsCliche.com)

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Think you know your sports cliches?  Take our 20-question challenge to see if you've got what it takes.  This is one of those fill-in-the-blank tests, so you'll need pencil and paper. Simply provide one word that best completes the sentence to make a sports cliche.   Some are easy, some a bit harder, but that's how we separate the real sports fans from the wannabes.  And just in case you've forgotten how to do these tests, here's a sample question:

Sample question:   He always gives 110 ______.    The answer is, of course, percent. So you'd write percent on your answer sheet. Got it? OK, put on your thinking cap and let's go!

1)  You can feel the ______ swinging.

2)  You can't stop him, you can only hope to ______ him.

3)  They have to take it one game at a ______.

4)  He's really coming into his ______.

5)  Records are made to be ______.

6)  He's really been in the ______.

7)  The players have bought into the ______.

8)  This team must ______ to the occasion.

9)  He always comes through in the ______.

10)  They have to ignore the off-field ______.

11)  They have to stay ______.

12)  He thrives under ______.

13)  This team must step up to the next ______.

14)  This team has tremendous mental ______.

15)  They have to turn up the ______.

16)  They need a win to ______ off elimination.

17)  This team has overcome a lot of ______.

18)  They control their own ______.

19)  This team sent a ______ today.

20)  This win was a ______ team effort.


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Re: Sports Cliche Quiz (from SportsCliche.com)

Think you know your sports cliches?  Take our 20-question challenge to see if you've got what it takes.  This is one of those fill-in-the-blank tests, so you'll need pencil and paper. Simply provide one word that best completes the sentence to make a sports cliche.   Some are easy, some a bit harder, but that's how we separate the real sports fans from the wannabes.  And just in case you've forgotten how to do these tests, here's a sample question:

Sample question:   He always gives 110 ______.    The answer is, of course, percent. So you'd write percent on your answer sheet. Got it? OK, put on your thinking cap and let's go!

1)  You can feel the ___momentum___ swinging.

2)  You can't stop him, you can only hope to ___contain___ him.

3)  They have to take it one game at a ___time___.

4)  He's really coming into his _own_____.

5)  Records are made to be __broken____.

6)  He's really been in the __groove____.

7)  The players have bought into the _system_____.

8)  This team must _rise_____ to the occasion.

9)  He always comes through in the __clutch____.

10)  They have to ignore the off-field _problems_____.

11)  They have to stay _calm_____.

12)  He thrives under __pressure____.

13)  This team must step up to the next _level_____.

14)  This team has tremendous mental _capacity_____.

15)  They have to turn up the _heat/defense_____.

16)  They need a win to _stave off elimination.

17)  This team has overcome a lot of _obstacles_____.

18)  They control their own _destiny_____.

19)  This team sent a _message_____ today.

20)  This win was a _total_____ team effort.


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Analysis:



Less than 12 correct: Pretty clueless. Your primary exposure to sports cliches is the Sunday morning political talk shows.

12-13 correct: You're obviously not much of a sports fan. You only watch the Super Bowl for the commercials.

14-15 correct: You know enough not to embarrass yourself in a Monday morning conversation, but you hit the TV mute button whenever you hear Dick Vitale.

16-17 correct:  You're a casual sports fan, often guilty of channel surfing at halftime.

18-19 correct:  You spend most of the weekend in front of the television. You listen to sports radio exclusively when in your car.  You like starting the argument that golfers are athletes.

20 correct:  Hardcore.  You need to get off the couch and out of the house!