SPEX 101 – MIDTERM QUESTIONS WITH 100%
ACCURATE ANSWERS
What is sport? - Accurate answers Sport is an embroided, structured, goal-oriented, competitive,
consent-based, ludic, physical activity - Loy & Coakley, 2006
Sports are games with the following criteria... - Accurate answers goal directed activity, accepted
rules, institutionalised, a required demonstration of physical skills and prowess
2021 Olympics - Accurate answers make it more youthful. new sports included surfing,
skateboarding & climbing
2024 Olympics - Accurate answers new sports include pole dancing and break dancing
E sports - Accurate answers 335 million global audience (2019), $1 billion revenue (2020), 80
American universities are involved
Contested terrain of sport - Accurate answers battlefield of ideas or contradictions within sport e.g.
rodeos is a sport/job but is also cruel to animals
Greyhound racing - Accurate answers 30,000 are killed because breeders don't want their DNA
spread
what is the meaning and role of sport and society? - Accurate answers exercise/physical activity
and health, escape, business/economy, contributes to community
cultural opposition/resistance - Accurate answers 'alternative sports' challenge societal norms e.g.
surfing. ESPN have the power to make a sport popular
opposition to colonial rule - Accurate answers Trobrian island cricket - adding culture to a normal
sport
self-conscious political protests - Accurate answers 1968 Mexico Olympics - black power salute -
using sport to get a political message across
2016 Rio Olympics - Accurate answers corrupt government spend so much money on a 20 day
event but have nothing to show for it
hegemony - Accurate answers a form of power that operates through consent vs coercion
when was the first cycling championship? - Accurate answers 1895
when was the treadmill invented? - Accurate answers 1818 - was used for torture
, training - Accurate answers to put the body with extreme and exceptional care under the influence
of all the agents which promote its health and strength, in order to enable it to meet the extreme and
exceptional demands upon its energies - Hoberman, 1992
Thomas Hicks - Accurate answers ran a marathon in 1904 in 3:28:53
Eliud Kipchoge - Accurate answers ran a marathon in 2018 in 2:01:39
sport matters to nations - Accurate answers improves the economy, shows off the country and
shows strength
how many sports schools are in China - Accurate answers 3000 which train 500,000 children for
10+ hours a day
early specialisation and early success leads to adult success are... - Accurate answers mentalities of
parents who want their children to succeed but often they have no educational skills and will get burnt
out
Jesse Owens - Accurate answers 100m in 10.2sec - 1936
Usain Bolt - Accurate answers 100m in 9.58sec - 2009
the denial of access to particular sports - Accurate answers Tiger Woods could not play on the
Masters Augusta golf course until 1997 because he was black
Stereotypes - Accurate answers black swimmers sink, white flight, black sprinters being compared
to cheetahs based off of their DNA
Stacking - Accurate answers when people of a particular race are put into a specific position to
have a positive impact on their career
black nfl players - Accurate answers they are more unlikely to find a job as a coach or manager
once 'retiring' than a white nfl player
race - Accurate answers classifying athletes by their physical characteristics that represent a form
of innate difference in terms of ability or disposition
biological determination - Accurate answers biology determines human behaviour and explains
complex psychological and social phenomena
social contructionism - Accurate answers where 'race' is a social and historical concept that serves
particular interests and reinforces power relations
who invented the panopticon prison? - Accurate answers Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
who applied the idea of prison surveillance to society? - Accurate answers Michel Foucalt (1926-
1984)
ACCURATE ANSWERS
What is sport? - Accurate answers Sport is an embroided, structured, goal-oriented, competitive,
consent-based, ludic, physical activity - Loy & Coakley, 2006
Sports are games with the following criteria... - Accurate answers goal directed activity, accepted
rules, institutionalised, a required demonstration of physical skills and prowess
2021 Olympics - Accurate answers make it more youthful. new sports included surfing,
skateboarding & climbing
2024 Olympics - Accurate answers new sports include pole dancing and break dancing
E sports - Accurate answers 335 million global audience (2019), $1 billion revenue (2020), 80
American universities are involved
Contested terrain of sport - Accurate answers battlefield of ideas or contradictions within sport e.g.
rodeos is a sport/job but is also cruel to animals
Greyhound racing - Accurate answers 30,000 are killed because breeders don't want their DNA
spread
what is the meaning and role of sport and society? - Accurate answers exercise/physical activity
and health, escape, business/economy, contributes to community
cultural opposition/resistance - Accurate answers 'alternative sports' challenge societal norms e.g.
surfing. ESPN have the power to make a sport popular
opposition to colonial rule - Accurate answers Trobrian island cricket - adding culture to a normal
sport
self-conscious political protests - Accurate answers 1968 Mexico Olympics - black power salute -
using sport to get a political message across
2016 Rio Olympics - Accurate answers corrupt government spend so much money on a 20 day
event but have nothing to show for it
hegemony - Accurate answers a form of power that operates through consent vs coercion
when was the first cycling championship? - Accurate answers 1895
when was the treadmill invented? - Accurate answers 1818 - was used for torture
, training - Accurate answers to put the body with extreme and exceptional care under the influence
of all the agents which promote its health and strength, in order to enable it to meet the extreme and
exceptional demands upon its energies - Hoberman, 1992
Thomas Hicks - Accurate answers ran a marathon in 1904 in 3:28:53
Eliud Kipchoge - Accurate answers ran a marathon in 2018 in 2:01:39
sport matters to nations - Accurate answers improves the economy, shows off the country and
shows strength
how many sports schools are in China - Accurate answers 3000 which train 500,000 children for
10+ hours a day
early specialisation and early success leads to adult success are... - Accurate answers mentalities of
parents who want their children to succeed but often they have no educational skills and will get burnt
out
Jesse Owens - Accurate answers 100m in 10.2sec - 1936
Usain Bolt - Accurate answers 100m in 9.58sec - 2009
the denial of access to particular sports - Accurate answers Tiger Woods could not play on the
Masters Augusta golf course until 1997 because he was black
Stereotypes - Accurate answers black swimmers sink, white flight, black sprinters being compared
to cheetahs based off of their DNA
Stacking - Accurate answers when people of a particular race are put into a specific position to
have a positive impact on their career
black nfl players - Accurate answers they are more unlikely to find a job as a coach or manager
once 'retiring' than a white nfl player
race - Accurate answers classifying athletes by their physical characteristics that represent a form
of innate difference in terms of ability or disposition
biological determination - Accurate answers biology determines human behaviour and explains
complex psychological and social phenomena
social contructionism - Accurate answers where 'race' is a social and historical concept that serves
particular interests and reinforces power relations
who invented the panopticon prison? - Accurate answers Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
who applied the idea of prison surveillance to society? - Accurate answers Michel Foucalt (1926-
1984)
