Unique Trophy Facts and Cup-Shape Call-Outs

A handful of trophies are worth remembering specifically for a distinctive physical feature or quirky fact — these make excellent "which of these statements about X is true" question fodder.

• The Ashes urn is genuinely tiny — small enough to fit in one hand — a deliberate contrast to nearly every other major trophy in world sport, which tend to be large, ornate, and imposing. Its size is inseparable from its origin story (see the Trophy Name Origins section).
• The FIFA World Cup trophy depicts two human figures holding up the Earth, and — unlike many trophies — the actual trophy is never permanently kept by any winning nation; winners receive a gold-plated replica, while the original stays with FIFA. This detail is a favourite "did you know" fact and a useful contrast with cricket's World Cup trophy, which nations similarly do not keep permanently.
• The Wimbledon trophies are different for men and women, and, distinctively, Wimbledon singles champions do not get to keep the actual trophy permanently either — they receive a smaller replica, following the same "original stays with the organiser" logic as several other major trophies in this list.
• The UEFA Champions League trophy, nicknamed "Old Big Ears" because of its unusually large handles, is retained permanently only by a club that wins it five times (or three times running) — a rule most fans and even some administrators only vaguely remember, making it a sharp, specific exam detail.
• The Ryder Cup (a biennial men's golf team event between teams representing Europe and the United States, not covered in the main Golf section above since it isn't a "major," but worth knowing as a trophy-shape and structure fact) is one of the few major trophies contested by a continental team (Europe) rather than a single country.
• The Vince Lombardi Trophy (American football's Super Bowl trophy, included here purely as a "global sport" cross-reference) is remade fresh every year rather than being passed on or replicated — the winning team keeps the actual trophy given to them that year, unlike almost every trophy in this book.
• The IPL trophy is a golden trophy shaped somewhat like a stylised sphere held aloft by curved supports, and — again following the widespread "you get a replica, the real one stays with the organiser" convention — the champion franchise typically receives a smaller replica for permanent display while ceremonial handovers use the master trophy.

Memory hook — "Small versus giant, kept versus borrowed": sort every unique trophy fact into two axes — is it unusually small (the Ashes) or unusually large/ornate (Champions League, football World Cup)? And do winners keep the original (rare — American sports leagues tend to do this) or only get a replica while the real one stays with the organiser (the much more common pattern, true of football's World Cup, Wimbledon, and IPL)?