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Volleyball, Handball and Hockey

Spikes, jump shots and slapshots: from a YMCA gym in 1895 to Portugal's roller rinks, how well do you know these fast team games?

⚽ Sports medium 20 questions ~6 min

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What this quiz asks

How many players does each team have on court at a time in indoor volleyball?
How many players make up a team on the sand in Olympic beach volleyball?
What is a standard ice hockey puck made of?
At which Summer Games did beach volleyball become a full Olympic medal sport?
In 1895, William G. Morgan invented volleyball in which US state?
In ice hockey, how long does a player sit out for a standard minor penalty?
In indoor volleyball, the libero wears a shirt of a different colour from the rest of the team.
In handball, may a player take more than three steps while holding the ball?
Roller hockey, a sport with a long tradition in Portugal, puts how many players per team on the rink, goalkeeper included?
Under the rally-point scoring used at the Olympics since Sydney 2000, a standard set of indoor volleyball goes to how many points?
How long is a regulation handball court?
Select ALL of these that are names for ways of playing the ball in volleyball.
In field hockey, where must an attacker play the ball for a goal to count?
Select ALL of these countries whose men have won Olympic gold in field hockey.
Indoor men's handball joined the Olympic programme at Munich 1972.
Lord Stanley of Preston, who donated the Stanley Cup in 1892, held which post at the time?
In 1898, the teacher Holger Nielsen drew up early rules for handball in which country?
How high is the top of the net in men's indoor volleyball, in centimetres?
Which country won the first Olympic ice hockey tournament, in 1920?
Order these by the year they first appeared at the Olympic Games, earliest first.