A short quiz I made on Racquet Sports - the point of this quiz was to set 5 questions on topics you are not familiar with. Not being a Sports Quizzer by any stretch of imagination, I had to stretch a bit to find relevant questions, as you will see

1. The Anti-Quiz presents
Five possible peters on
Racquet Sports
Kunal Sawardekar
18 July 2020

2. Question 1
Tennis polo is a sport that was invented by the Tennis
Director at a camp in Connecticut in the summer of 2004,
and involves two teams of 10 players on a football field
playing with a tennis ball. Since a rule change in 2010,
only the goalkeeper may use a racquet, and the other
players throw the ball with their hands. The sport remains
popular at summer camps (particularly tennis camps) in
the US. What was the purpose behind the invention of the
sport, that holds good both in the original version and after
the 2010 rule-change?

3. Question 1

5. Answer 1
Allowing children at camps to play something in the rain

6. Question 2
This game was developed in
Mexico in 1900 for play
using racquets on a Basque
pelota court. Initially mainly
played only in Mexico, Spain
and Argentina, it is now
played in 18 countries. The
name of the sport is a
portmanteau of the location
of games and the sport from
which the equipment was
taken. What is the name?

8. Answer 2
Frontenis (from Fronton, the name of the court used for
playing Basque pelota and Tennis)

9. Question 3
In its early days, when table tennis was “played almost
exclusively as a parlour game by people rich enough to
know was a parlour is” (as Cracked.com charmingly put it),
it was played with racquets made out of parchment made
out of wooden frames. In this time when the sport had
limited reach and mass-manufacturing was not yet a thing,
racquets could have different types of parchment, and
differently-shaped frames. What enduring impact has this
had on the sport, particularly in the US where it was helped
by the actions of the Parker Brothers company?

10. Question 3

12. Answer 3
The sport was known as Ping-pong, an onomatopoeia for
the sound made by balls hitting the parchment rackets

13. Question 4
In June 2005, New Zealand Badminton ran a competition
to choose a team nickname. The winning entry combined
the normal naming convention for NZ sports teams with an
element of the game (although possibly fans may have
been alluding to a different meaning). Unfortunately, while
NZB considered the name and claimed to be inundated
with sponsorship offers (from one particular type of
company) & public support, the IBF did not allow the name
to be adopted. As can be expected, Down Under sports
journalists had a field day with this entire thing, reporting
excitedly that the IBF had found the name hard to swallow
and would not take it lying down. What was the name?

15. Answer 4
The Black Cocks

16. Question 5
Rackleton is a sport where players play
one set (of 21 points) each of TT,
Badminton, Squash and Tennis, and the
winner is decided by the total of points
across all sets. In case of a tie, the
winner is decided by the Gummiarm,
which is one single point of tennis, with
the server decided by a toss. In order to
mitigate the fundamental unfairness of
this tiebreaker, what special rule is
applied to the Gummiarm that does not
normally apply in tennis (even in the one
tennis set in the regular game of
Rackleton)?

18. Answer 5
There is no second serve