Chapter Chronology

Quiz for the Past Living Now: The Commercialization of Sports

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1. Commercialized spectator sports first emerged in the

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Correct. The answer is c. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century entrepreneurs staged organized competitions between professional athletes for the entertainment of ticket-buying fans.
Incorrect. The answer is c. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century entrepreneurs staged organized competitions between professional athletes for the entertainment of ticket-buying fans.

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2. Which of these sports had its formal origins in an elite English boarding school?

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Correct. The answer is a. The Rugby School produced the first written rules of rugby in 1845.
Incorrect. The answer is a. The Rugby School produced the first written rules of rugby in 1845.

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3. How did horse racing change in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

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Correct. The answer is c. Owners had raced their horses for centuries, but it was only in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that owners began breeding horses specifically for racing.
Incorrect. The answer is c. Owners had raced their horses for centuries, but it was only in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that owners began breeding horses specifically for racing.