diving
Diving may be recreational, competitive, or occupational. This topic is part of Water Sports within Sports. This page currently draws on 12 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
diving trivia questions
Diving involves entering what?
Answer: Water
Bonus fact: Diving may be recreational, competitive, or occupational.
In competitive platform diving, athletes perform what before entering the water?
Answer: Acrobatic maneuvers
Bonus fact: Divers are scored on takeoff, form, execution, and entry.
What breathing gas is carried in a standard scuba tank for most recreational diving?
Answer: Compressed air
Bonus fact: Most recreational scuba tanks contain compressed air or enriched air nitrox.
A diving board is used to launch a diver into what?
Answer: Water
Bonus fact: Springboards flex to help provide upward motion.
In Olympic diving, standard springboard events use what height board?
Answer: 3 meters
Bonus fact: Olympic springboard diving uses the 3-meter board.
Which bird is especially famous in falconry for high-speed diving?
Answer: Peregrine falcon
Bonus fact: Peregrines can exceed 300 km/h in hunting stoops.
Who won China's first Olympic diving gold medal, in the women's 10-meter platform at Los Angeles 1984?
Answer: Zhou Jihong
Bonus fact: Zhou's victory began China's Olympic diving gold-medal tradition.
Who became the first World Aquatics high diving world champion when the discipline entered the program in 2013?
Answer: Orlando Duque
Bonus fact: The Colombian later won the first two World Cup editions in high diving in 2014 and 2015.
A common loon is what type of animal?
Answer: Bird
Bonus fact: Loons are diving waterbirds.
What type of vehicle was Trieste when it descended into the Mariana Trench?
Answer: A bathyscaphe
Bonus fact: A bathyscaphe is a deep-diving submersible designed to withstand enormous underwater pressure.
Cormorants catch much of their food by doing what?
Answer: Diving
Bonus fact: They pursue fish underwater.
Bottlenose whales are especially adapted for what behavior?
Answer: Deep diving
Bonus fact: They can dive for long periods in search of squid and fish.