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Can you guess the sport that is depicted in each pair of movies?
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
The sport is NOT necessarily central to the point of the movie
The sport MUST appear in both movies of the pair
Remember: Whiners never win and winners never whine
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First submittedAugust 13, 2010
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Movie
Sport
Rocky | Raging Bull
Boxing
Hoosiers | Space Jam
Basketball
Kingpin | The Big Lebowski
Bowling
The Mighty Ducks | Slap Shot
Ice hockey
Friday Night Lights | Rudy
American football
Seabiscuit | Secretariat
Horse racing
Senna | Days of Thunder
Auto racing
Blades of Glory | I, Tonya
Figure skating
Forrest Gump | Marty Supreme
Table tennis
Tin Cup | Happy Gilmore
Golf
Prefontaine | Chariots of Fire
Running
King Richard | Battle of the Sexes
Tennis
The Iron Claw | Nacho Libre
Wrestling
The Princess Bride | The Three Musketeers
Fencing
The Hustler | The Color of Money
Billiards
Breaking Away | The Triplets of Belleville
Cycling
Point Break | The Endless Summer
Surfing
Dallas Buyers Club | Brokeback Mountain
Rodeo
Bull Durham | The Sand Lot
Baseball
Top Gun | Cast Away
Volleyball
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49 Comments
Quizmaster
+14
Level ∞
Mar 21, 2020
I changed this quiz to feature a pair of movies instead of just one and to add the yellow box.
Cooldrive
+4
Level 64
Mar 22, 2020
Nice move, Quizzie.
Algernon
+2
Level 74
Mar 21, 2020
NFL as a type in for American football?
Djilas
+3
Level 86
Mar 21, 2020
nah, too many leagues all sports combined
Quizmaster
+13
Level ∞
Mar 22, 2020
Neither Rudy nor Friday Night Lights was about the NFL.
Cooldrive
+3
Level 64
Mar 22, 2020
And the answer wasn't NFL either.
Yanni47
+3
Level 80
May 13, 2020
Well, you could say Friday Night Lights was about FNL. :)
Algernon
+2
Level 74
Apr 7, 2026
I THINK my logic was that in Britain we only get bits of NFL, and as such the terms are reasonably interchangeable over here. I haven't seen either movie.

It looks like you allowed it as a type in anyway, so fair play.

FurSeal
+3
Level 78
Apr 7, 2026
Yes, in Australia it's the same - we would say NFL, American football or gridiron to distinguish from the ~4 other types of football that are played here.
CliveDexter
+2
Level 73
Mar 22, 2020
bull riding for rodeo?
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Mar 22, 2020
Sure, why not.
mf3
+1
Level 90
Mar 22, 2020
Yes, but are ping pong and table tennis really the same thing?
blizzrd33
+1
Level 81
Mar 24, 2020
They were until 2011 according to my google search. Now there are apparently some (minor) differences.
Sifhraven
+2
Level 76
Apr 3, 2020
What are they then? New rules or versions were made up?
rbezar
+1
Level 43
May 12, 2020
@Sifhraven

Table Tennis is the Olympic sport, with rubber paddles and fast gameplay and a lot of spin.

Ping Pong is just a game, with sandpaper paddles and a slow pace.

Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Apr 7, 2026
Yes, they are the same thing.
DonTheLamplighter
+3
Level 87
Mar 26, 2020
Still waiting for a movie about buzkashi. A gold mine just waiting to be struck.

(If you've never heard of it, you have no idea what you are missing. There is a 2-minute video on YouTube that gives possibly the most perfect explanation of the game. You'll never look at goats the same way again.)

Stiner
+2
Level 95
Apr 8, 2026
I vaguely remember a James Bond movie from the 80s that included a buzkashi scene, but a whole movie about it? Why has this not been done?
FootballTop15
+5
Level 21
May 5, 2020
I also guessed football and running for Forrest Gump.
Brollface
+1
Level 66
May 12, 2020
Please count "Box" as an answer.
Dimby
+3
Level 83
May 6, 2022
You played on the "box team" in highschool, hm?
Tibman
+3
Level 61
May 12, 2020
I should have guessed Horse Racing for Secreteriat, BoJack Horseman's main model
wassallthatabout
+3
Level 65
May 12, 2020
What, no films on Cricket?
Kalleanon
+4
Level 66
May 12, 2020
Off the top of my head there's probably only "Fire in Babylon" that non cricket fans might have heard of. Maybe "Lagaan", it's a big maybe though.

It's in other films, but I doubt cricket is anyone's first thought when they hear something like "Bend if Like Beckham", although it's a major sub-plot.

There's also apparently an Indian film called "Victory" about cricket, which technically makes it one of the answers here.

Djilas
+1
Level 86
Apr 7, 2026
It's in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
buck1017
+1
Level 78
Apr 15, 2026
Million Dollar Arm was a baseball movie but heavily featured cricket. The entire premise was turning a cricket bowler into a baseball pitcher.
MovieQuizGuy
+3
Level 64
Jan 16, 2025
Pinocchio?
ballabrand
+2
Level 52
May 14, 2020
Wheres the karate kid
rocamorar
+4
Level 80
Apr 7, 2026
Wouldn't the name give it away far too easily?
richiesyxx
+2
Level 74
Oct 2, 2020
So annoyed I didn’t get Chariots of Fire, great film, but didn’t try running. I tried track, athletics, racing, 400m, 200m, 100m. Should have gone simple. Good quiz tho :-)
barmanitan
+1
Level 84
Apr 8, 2026
I also tried athletics and sprinting (didn't know Prefontaine wasn't a sprinter so that's kinda fair, but I feel like athletics should be accepted)
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Apr 8, 2026
Athletics was supposed to work. It will now.
grahamok
+1
Level 24
Oct 16, 2020
Nice quiz! 10/10 with 15 seconds left, not my best, but still got it done!
WWEFan619
+1
Level 60
Sep 1, 2022
Alexa, remind me to watch Senna this weekend.

I may or may not be a huge fan of his

PivotQueen
+2
Level 19
Nov 5, 2022
It should take Motor Racing also. Auto racing isn't exactly how it's called in Europe.
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Aug 23, 2023
Let's go just go 15/20 and reached level 66
MovieQuizGuy
+1
Level 64
Jan 16, 2025
19/20 - finally some sports questions I know about. I'm still not used to calling the film Belleville Rendevous, the UK title, The Triplets of Belleville, its US title. It's not even about them!
Djilas
+1
Level 86
Apr 7, 2026
The triplets are from the French title, complain to them
coolboyAarav
+3
Level 37
Jun 25, 2025
Add a movie for cricket.
overtired
+1
Level 88
Apr 7, 2026
Gleaming The Cube | Lords of Dogtown
rocamorar
+5
Level 80
Apr 7, 2026
I tried horse riding, equitation, equestrian sports,... perhaps some of those could be allowed.
Stiner
+2
Level 95
Apr 8, 2026
Imho, none of these captures what the films are about - not just dressage, but the actual racing of the horses. It's like the difference between a kennel club dog show and a greyhound race.
loganite
+3
Level 93
Apr 7, 2026
Definitely not whining ;) but did volleyball (the sport) appear in Castaway? I remember 'a' volleyball (Wilson), but I don't remember anyone playing the sport in the movie. Maybe change the clue to Sideout or The Miracle Season?
bacongravy
+4
Level 73
Apr 8, 2026
Nope. Doesn't matter. The reference is obvious and hilarious, and I will defend it to my dying day :)
SeanSmithereens
+2
Level 97
Apr 19, 2026
Thing is, the third caveat specifies that "the sport MUST appear" in the film. So yeah, according to the rules set out by QM himself, loganite is right to point this out.
ANNES
+4
Level 63
Apr 7, 2026
Racecar driving, driving, cars, racing, racecars, stock car racing...augh.
OfficerDibble
+4
Level 86
Apr 7, 2026
Billiards and pool are two different games. Those movies are both about pool.
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Apr 8, 2026
Buy a Premium subscription already if you're going to whine on every quiz.
EcceHomo
+1
Level 86
Apr 28, 2026
Are there any movies about billiards?
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