Question 50
MediumOriginal questionThe term 'love', meaning a score of zero, is used in
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CorrectNot quiteAnswer B
Correct answer: B
Explanation
Love is tennis's word for a score of zero.
Cricket's word for a batter dismissed without scoring is a duck.
Golf scores relative to par and has no equivalent term.
Worth noting
Every sport has its own vocabulary for nothing, and those words are favourite question material precisely because they are not interchangeable.
- Concept
- Terms belonging to more than one sport
- Typical timeTypical
- 45 s
- Your timeYours
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