Quiz #2: Answers and Explanations
There were several hundred entries to Quiz #2, and not many had a perfect score. As with Quiz #1, our officials -- not surprisingly -- had much higher scores on average. The winners in each category, randomly selected from all entries with the most answers correct received as of midnight EST on Sunday, are shown below. (Note that each of these "handles" or front portions of e-mail addresses was supplied by a single entrant, so if one of them belongs to you, you're a winner. We're still just not sure yet what you've won, as we're working on it.)If you didn't hit the 100% mark, don't despair! There were LOTS of people with 7 or 8 items correct (and many others not far behind), and the overall contest involves total scores across the five installments of the quiz. Scroll down to read the answers and explanations for Quiz #2, or use the link below to take Quiz No. 3.
Answers and explanations for the questions on Quiz #2 appear in the table below. Please do not send questions and complaints unless you are an official and are certain you have a well-founded point to make. It's not a matter of lack of interest on our part; we simply don't have the person-power to handle it. Please recognize, as do we, that one can easily quibble with the meanings of, and hence the answers to, "objective" questions. If you happen to have interpreted a question in a manner different than we intended, that is unfortunate, but it almost inevitably happens with this type of quiz. |
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Men's Rules Quiz: Installment #2 Answers and Explanations |
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| Quiz Item | Correct | Explanation |
1. If a player is warned to "get stick," it means that
A. unless he stops beating on the opponent's arm or off hand, a slashing penalty will result. |
A | When this situation occurs, the player needs to heed the warning "immediately." If not, the next thing he may hear is "Flag's down!" |
| 2. After an out of bounds with no horn, the official delays resuming play in order to allow the goalie time to return to the crease. Did the official make a mistake? | No | This is a normal situation. It often occurs when the goalie attempts to win possession on a shot going out of bounds at the end line, but the offense wins possession. |
3. In which of the following circumstances is regular substitution prohibited?
A. When the ball has gone out of bounds along either end line. |
D | All three of these substitution prohibitions are stated in the rule book much as they are stated in the question. |
| 4. A missed shot heads over the end line. A player from Team A is closest to the end line, while a player from Team B is closest to where the ball went out of bounds. Who is supposed to get the ball? | Team B | This situation is one about which fans often scream, because they believe that "closest to the line" (here Team A) wins possession. In fact, the rules clearly state that the ball is awarded to the team that "had the nearest in-bounds player to the ball when it became an out-of-bounds ball." So, it's closest to the ball rather than closest to the line. |
5. Consider the following three situations and determine which players should be credited with an assist.
Situation 1: Player A makes a nice pass to Player B, who dodges a defender and then shoots and scores.Which of these players gets an assist? Check all that apply. |
K and Y | If the player taking the shot dodges in any way after receiving the pass, then no assist should be awarded. Hence, there aren't many assists in lacrosse, and one would not be awarded to Player A. Despite the greater distance and time involved in Situation 2, an assist would be awarded because no dodging was involved. In Situation 3, only Player Y gets an assist for the simple reason that only one assist may be awarded on a goal. |
| 6. No part of the crosse can legally be used when setting a pick. | True | One instance of illegal screening occurs when the offensive player "holds his crosse rigid or extends his crosse rigidly in order to impede the normal movements of the defensive man." |
| 7. On a face-off, the clock is started once a team gains possession and the official makes the "start the clock" signal. | False | The clock starts immediately (with the face-off official's whistle) when the face-off begins. The official's subsequent winding of the arm, which looks like the "start the clock" signal in football, occurs once a team gains possession of the ball. |
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8. In which order will the following rules be implemented to award the ball in the event that there are simultaneous fouls?
1. The ball is awarded according to the alternate possession rule.
2. The ball is awarded to the team that had possession or was entitled to possession at the time of the flag or whistle. 3. The ball is awarded to the team that incurs less total penalty time than its opponent when the penalty time is awarded. A. #1 is used in all cases of simultaneous fouls. |
C | In the event of simultaneous fouls, the ball is awarded first to the team had the least amount of penalty time. If the penalty times are equal, then the ball is awarded to the team that had possession or was entitled to possession when the simultaneous fouls occurred. Finally, if penalty times are equal and neither team is entitled to the ball, only then is the alternate possession rule used. |
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Dr. Laurence Feldman, Executive Director Dr. Robert Kroshefsky, Director of Men's Lacrosse Dr. Daniel Larsen, Director of Women's Lacrosse |
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