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S P O R T S E D I T I O N
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Table of Contents
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1. - Controls
2. - Introduction
3. - List of Questions
4. - Disclaimer
**Note - All of the Final Jeopardy questions are just repeats of the first two
rounds. It will always be the first question of a category. As a result, I will
not duplicate a second section for Final Jeopardy questions. You can simply
search for the question you have using your browser's search function.
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1. - Controls
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D-Pad - Move Cursor
A - Select
B - Backspace
X - No Use
Y - No Use
L - No Use
R - No Use
Start - Enter
Select - No Use
Jeopardy! Sports Edition can actually be played with 3 players using 2
controllers. If you are playing 2 player with 2 controllers, both players just
use their own controller. If you are playing 3 player, the first two players
will share the 1st controller. The first player will buzz in with the d-pad and
the second player will buzz in with any of the buttons on the right side of the
controller (A, B, X, Y.) The third player will solely control the second
controller. When either the first or second player buzzes in, they should gain
full control of the controller and answer normally.
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2. - Introduction
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I'm sure everybody reading this FAQ has at the very least, watched a game of
Jeopardy. It is a trivia game show where Alex Trebek gives you an answer for a
category and you have to give the question. The questions are given in the form
of "What is...", "Who is...", etc. The game will give you that part so all you
have to do is type out the correct answer, or for the sake of Jeopardy, the
correct question. When you are reading the answers in the next section, the
"A" is the answer, or the part that is given on the screen. The "Q" is the
question which is what you will have to type out.
The point of the game is obviously to get the questions correct, but also to
have the most money at the end of the game. If you answer a question correctly,
you will be awarded with that many dollars. However, if you answer
incorrrectly, you will be penalized that much! The first two rounds will
consist of six categories and five questions in each category. The first round
will have prizes worth $100, 200, 300, 400, and 500 respectively. The second
round will have prizes worth $200, 400, 600, 800, and 1000 respectively.
There is also a "Daily Double" question. It will be somewhere on the board
completely chosen at random. There is one "Daily Double" question in the first
round and two in the second. The contestant who picks the "Daily Double"
question is the only one allowed to answer that question and must wager how
much they are willing to bet on that question. In the first round, you can be
up to $500 even if you don't have any money or as much money as you have. In
the second round, you will be able to bet up to $1,000 even if you don't have
any money or as much money as you have. No matter what, you cannot bet $0, the
lowest amount you can bet is $5 on a question. You may want to do this if you
aren't confident in a category or you have such a large lead that there's no
need to risk losing it.
If you have a positive score above $0 after the second round, you will enter
the final jeopardy round. You will be shown the final jeopardy category and
have to wager whatever amount you want. You will not get to see the question
until after you wager so either use the answers in this guide or bet based on
how much you know in the category. After this final round, whoever has the most
money will be the winner.
To quickly find any answer you're looking for, you can search with your
browser's search function by hitting ctrl+f and typing in the question you're
looking for. Your browser will bring you right to that question! There are a
couple of typos and I included them as they were listed in the game. All
grammatical symbols are written just as they appear in game as well. For some
reason, the questions using quotation marks actually use apostraphes instead so
search for the questions that way. The daily double questions will always
include quotation marks as well for some reason. As daily double questions are
a lot less common, I wrote all the questions out in apostraphes instead of
quotations. Also note, all the final jeopardy questions are written with
quotation marks instead of apostraphes because all final jeopardy questions are
presented in that manner.
If you are looking for a whole category, you can search for just the category
name. I suggest checking off the "Match Case" function in the search box and
type it in all caps. If you search for football, for example, you will likely
go through several mentions of the word before you find the section. The boxes
at the top of each column are also usually abbreviated to make the word or
phrase fit. I titled every section based on the phrase at the bottom of the
screen.
**Note - All of the Final Jeopardy questions are just repeats of the first two
rounds. It will always be the first question of a category. As a result, I will
not duplicate a second section for Final Jeopardy questions. You can simply
search for the question you have using your browser's search function.
*PLEASE NOTE - The way I wrote this guide was to physically play it and write
down each and every question I got in game. I could have missed some questions.
I went through a hundred rounds without getting any new questions so I figured
I was done but if you find any questions that may have unfortunately slipped
by, I would greatly appreciate it if you e-mailed me the questions and answers
at
[email protected] Thank you for helping!
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3. - List of Questions
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**Note - All of the Final Jeopardy questions are just repeats of the first two
rounds. It will always be the first question of a category. As a result, I will
not duplicate a second section for Final Jeopardy questions. You can simply
search for the question you have using your browser's search function.
1987
A - This rookie NFL quarterback forked out $150,000 for a 34-foot motorboat in
1987
Q - Vinny Testaverde
A - This running back met with Pete Rozelle in 2987 to discuss becoming an NFL
owner
Q - Walter Payton
A - This hockey player won the NHL's MVP award for the eighth straight year in
1987
Q - Wayne Gretzky
A - In 1987, this placekicker was the NFL's only active player-lawyer
Q - Chris Bahr
A - This former Auburn forward was named the NBA Rookie-Of-The-Year in 1987
Q - Chuck Person
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1987 BASEBALL
A - This baseball star's aches and pains cost the New York Mets $5,000 in tape
in 1987
Q - Gary Carter
A - This school won its 9th straight southwest conference baseball championship
Q - Texas
A - This Reds player was the major leagues' oldest active shortstop in '87
Q - Dave Concepcion
A - His 1,999th, 2,000th and 2,001st major league hits were all homers in the
same game
Q - Mike Schmidt
A - This former Braves slugger played the '87 season for Japan's Yakult
Swallows
Q - Bob Horner
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1987 TRIVIA
A - This actor crashed his Nissan 300 Z Turbo at Riverside International
Raceway
Q - Paul Newman
A - She held every women's record between 800M and 10,000M in May
Q - Mary Decker Slaney
A - Boxing promoter Bob Arum wrestled with this promoter after the Leonard-
Hagler fight
Q - Don King
A - He pulled his team off the floor & forfeited an exihibition game with
Russia
Q - Bobby Knight
A - This fell from Joe Niekro's pocket after an umpire suspected him of
scuffing
Q - Emery Board
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1988
A - This AL East team had a 24-game home-winning streak in '88
Q - Boston Red Sox
A - This AL West team finished 33-1\2 games behind the Oakland A's in '88
Q - Texas Rangers
A - This minor league team set attendance records after a '88 movie
Q - Durham Bulls
A - The NFL's highest paid running back in 1988
Q - Eric Dickerson
A - He vetoed all of George Steinbrenner's efforts to trade him in '88
Q - Dave Winfield
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1992
A - This male tennis star finally got a grand slam final at Wikmbledon in '92
Q - Andre Agassi
A - The first US man to rank first in pro tennis since John Mcenroe in '85
Q - Jim Courier
A - This nation's little league World Series winner was stripped of its title
Q - The Philippines
A - He got only one serve per point in a match with MArtina Navratilova
Q - Jimmy Connors
A - This teenage tennis star won the Olympic gold medal for women's singles
Q - Jennifer Capriati
A - This country topped all countries in the winter Olympics with a total of 26
medals
Q - Germany
A - This NFL team announced plans to build a stadium in Alexandria, Virginia
Q - Washington Redskins
A - He scored a record 35 pts in one-half of game 1 of the NBA finals against
Portland
Q - Michael Jordan
A - They set an AL record with 31 hits in a 9-inning game against the Blue Jays
Q - Milwaukee Brewers
A - This Boston Red Sox 3rd baseman hit under .300 for the first time in '92
Q - Wade Boggs
A - This MLB team won the most games during the regular season
Q - Atlanta Braves
A - This governmental department spent $1 million on softballs in '92
Q - Department of Defense
A - He drove in his last stockcar race at the Atlanta Motor Speedway in 1992
Q - Richard Petty
A - This magazine devoted 3 straight covers to women for the 1st time in
history
Q - Sports Illustrated
A - This NL baseball team's last place finish was its first in 87 years
Q - Los Angeles Dodgers
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1992 Awards
A - This Seattle Mariners outfielder was named MVP of the all-star game
Q - Ken Griffey Jr
A - He won his third American League Manger of the Year Award
Q - Tony Larussa
A - He became the 7th player to win 3 NBA most valuable player awards
Q - Michael Jordan
A - This former Chicago Cubs pitcher won the NL Cy Young Award
Q - Greg Maddux
A - Fred Couples & Davis Love III teamed up to win this golf title in Madrid
Q - World Cup
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1992 OLYMPICS
A - This French skiing hero was co-president of the winter olympics
Q - Jean Claude Killy
A - She won the most medals at the summer olympics
Q - Shannon Miller
A - The entire US track and field team was contracted to wear this make of
shoes
Q - Nike
A - She becamse the 1st swimmer to repeat as champ in the 800M freestyle
Q - Janet Evans
A - This tiny African nation faced the dream team it the first game
Q - Angola
A - The 'Dream Team' played this sport in the '92 summer olympics
Q - Basketball
A - This former country saw its olympic athletes gather as the unified team
Q - Soviet Union
A - The Puerto Rican team stopped to take pictures of him at the opening
ceremonies
Q - Magic Johnson
A - This country's baseball team defeated the US twice at the Barcelona
olympics
Q - Japan
A - She became the 1st US female gold medalist in figure skating since Dorothy
Hamill
Q - Kristi Yamaguchi
A - This nation's speed-skater Ye Qiaobo won its 1st-ever winter olympics medal
Q - China
A - He and Patrick Ewing were the only two members of the dream team to foul
out
Q - Charles Barkley
A - This was the home state for 25% of the US summer olympics team
Q - California
A - He was the head coach of the dream team
Q - Chuck Daly
A - This country was welcomed back into the Olympic fold for the first time
since '60
Q - South Africa
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ABBREVIATION
A - In a baseball boxscore, PB stands for this
Q - Passed Ball
A - PPG atop a column of hockey statistics
Q - Power Play Goals
A - In auto racin circles, GT stands for this
Q - Grand Tour
A - TDP in football statistics stands for this
Q - Touchdowns Passing
A - PP on a racing form is this
Q - Post Position
A - PF atop a column in basketball stats stands for this
Q - Personal Fouls
A - TP in a boxscore is this
Q - Triple Plays
A - PB means this to a trackstar
Q - Personal Best
A - RB atop a column of basektball stats
Q - Rebounds
A - IP in a baseball boxscore is this
Q - Innings Pitched
A - A sign on a golf course reading 'GUR' stands for 'Ground under...' this
Q - Repair
A - A DH is this in baseball
Q - Designated Hitter
A - The extra point in football is referred to as this
Q - PAT
A - The national association for stock car racing is usually called this
Q - NASCAR
A - The international race of champions is known as this
Q - IROC
A - XPA in football scoring summaries
Q - Extra Points Attempted
A - GWG in hockey
Q - Game Winning Goals
A - FGA in basketball summaries
Q - Field Goals Attempted
A - GBL in the standings
Q - Games Behind Leader
A - SO in hockey statistics
Q - Shutouts
A - PIM in hockey stats stands for this
Q - Penalties in Minutes
A - The letters BJ on an NFL official's uniform stand for this
Q - Back Judge
A - The letters HL on an NFL official's uniform
Q - Head Linesman
A - FTM in a basketball boxscore
Q - Free Throws Made
A - SHG atop a column of hockey statistics
Q - Shorthanded Goals
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ACTING ATHLETES
A - This swimmer portrayed Tarzan
Q - Johnny Weissmuller
A - He played a security guard on the PBS show 'Ghostwriter' with his new hip
Q - Bo Jackson
A - This former Mets first baseman debuted as an actor on 'Seinfeld'
Q - Keith Hernandez
A - This QB was LT Maryk on Broadway in 'The Caine Mutniy Court Martial'
Q - Joe Namath
A - These 2 Yankees were featured in the '62 box-office bomb 'Safe at Home'
Q - Mantle & Maris
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AFFLICTIONS
A - This disease was common to Ty Cobb, Jackie Robinson and Catfish Hunter
Q - Diabetes
A - George Brett suffered from this affliction during the 1980 World Series
Q - Hemorrhoids
A - This Olympic track champion suffered from polio in her childhood
Q - Wilma Rudolph
A - This Wichita-born miler has asthmas & an ear infection that affected his
balance
Q - Jim Ryun
A - Swimmer Dawn Fraser suffered from this breathing problem
Q - Asthma
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AGES
A - Brian Piccolo's age when he died
Q - 26
A - The age of a horse classed as a juvenile
Q - 2
A - This baseball slugger celebrated his 100th birthday in 1984
Q - Louisville Slugger
A - The average age of female Olympic competitors
Q - 20
A - The average age of male Olympic competitors
Q - 24
A - In '87 this Houston Astros player was the oldest 2nd baseman in the Major
Leagues
Q - Davey Lopes
A - The age of tennis whiz Steffi Graf when she turned pro
Q - 13
A - The minimum age for golfers on the Senior PGA tour
Q - 50
A - Satchel Paige's age in his rookie season with the Cleveland Indians
Q - 42
A - He was the first MLB pitcher to throw over 138 innings in a season after
turning 46
Q - Phil Niekro
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ALL-STARS
A - This pro hockey player was the only grandfather to play in an all-star game
Q - Gordie Howe
A - Paul Molitor played this position but got over 847,000 all-star votes at
2nd base
Q - 3rd Base
A - This shortstop was the 1st player since Rod Carew to lead all-star voting 2
straight yrs
Q - Ozzie Smith
A - This sport made an all-star of Ray Bourque
Q - Hockey
A - This baseball brave played in every all-star game of the '60's
Q - Hank Aaron
A - This all-star game's motto is 'Their strong legs run that weak legs might
walk'
Q - East West Shrine Game
A - He was the first pitcher to win an all-star game
Q - Dizzy Dean
A - This Atlanta pitcher gave up 7 straight 1st-inning hits in the '92 all-star
game
Q - Tom Glavine
A - The first athlete picked for the all-star teams in two different sports
Q - Bo Jackson
A - This team provided the entire '64 national league all-star team infield
Q - St Louis Cardinals
A - This pitcher won 27 games for a last-place club
Q - Steve Carlton
A - He had exactly 3,000 career hits
Q - Roberto Clemente
A - He holds the NL record for walking the most times
Q - Joe Morgan
A - He was the first member of the Montreal Expos to suit up for an all-star
game
Q - Rusty Staub
A - He hit the first grand slam home run in major league all-star game history
in 1983
Q - Fred Lynn
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ALTERNATE LEAGUES
A - Lasted '67-'76 & featured a red, white & blue ball & a 3-point basket
Q - ABA
A - Existed '83-'86 & featured a spring schedule & an instant replay for
officiating
Q - USFL
A - The Birmingham Americans of this league had their uniforms taken after
becoming champs to pay off debts
Q - WFL
A - This hockey league, '72-'79, had no reserve or option clauses in players'
contracts
Q - World Hockey Association
A - The merger of the nat'l pro soccer league & the US soccer association '68-
'85
Q - North American Soccer League
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AMAZING FEATS
A - This Briton was the 1st to hold simultaneous world records in the mile,
800M & 1500M
Q - Sebastion Coe
A - He pitched seven opening day shutouts during his career
Q - Walter Johnson
A - This Illinois halfback rushed for 402 yards in 21 carriers against Michigan
in '24
Q - Red Grange
A - The only major league pitcher to pitch back-to-back, no-hit, no-run games
Q - Johnny Vander Meer
A - She won a gold medal 18 months after nearly having her feet amputated
Q - Gail Devers
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ANNOUNCERS
A - 'There never has been one like me before & there never will... again'
Q - Howard Cosell
A - The state that celebrated Harry Caray day on May 19, 1987
Q - Illinois
A - This football announcer hired Jerry Knock to drive his private bus
Q - John Madden
A - USA Today dubbed this NBC broadcaster a 'Seoul Man' after the '88 Olympics
Q - Bryant Gumbel
A - He won his 3rd straight Emmy for 'Outstanding TV Sports Analyst' in '88
Q - John Madden
A - This sports announcer boasted 'I made Muhammad Ali'
Q - Howard Cosell
A - This broadcaster spoke of a team being 'In the Catbird Seat'
Q - Red Barber
A - The voice of television's 'This Week in Baseball'
Q - Mel Allen
A - This baseball announcer is known for asking: 'How 'bout that, sports fans?'
Q - Mel Allen
A - Ralph Kiner once announced this former Mets baseball player as Gary Cooper
Q - Gary Carter
A - This football sportscaster has a half-million-dollar greyhound bus to
travel in
Q - John Madden
A - This NBC sports announcer hired Chubby Checker to sing at his wedding
Q - Bob Costas
A - This exclamation was Phil Rizzutto's trademark as a Yankee sportscaster
Q - Holy Cow
A - In '75 he bragged: 'Next to Sinatra, I have the most hostile press in
America'
Q - Howard Cosell
A - This ABC football announcer was named Sportscaster of the year '72-'76
Q - Keith Jackson
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APPROPRIATE NAMES
A - This racehorse's only loss was to the appropriately named 'Upset' in 1919
Q - Man O War
A - Jack Crouch played this baseball position in the 1930s
Q - Catcher
A - Willie Thrower was the first black in this NFL position in 1953
Q - Quarterback
A - Jeff Float participated in this Olympic sport
Q - Swimming
A - Largest Agbejemism played this basketball position
Q - Center
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ATHLETIC ACTORS
A - This Oscar-winning actor played in the 1950 British Amateur golf tournament
Q - Bing Crosby
A - This star of Brian's Song was once a professional rodeo rider
Q - James Caan
A - This western movie superstar was once a lineman at Southern Cal
Q - John Wayne
A - This 'Dallas' character turned down a chance to play pro football
Q - Bobby Ewing
A - This comedian once boxed under the name Packy East
Q - Bob Hope
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AUTO RACING
A - This is NASCAR's premiere event
Q - Dayona 500
A - In '86 he became the 1st driver to average over 170 MPH at the Indianapolis
500
Q - Bobby Rahal
A - This northern US state hosts the Marlboro 500 auto race
Q - Michigan
A - This US driver has won the Indianapolis 500 the most times
Q - AJ Foyt
A - The length, in hours, of the Grand Prix D'Endurance
Q - 24
A - The only NASCAR Winston Cup driver to have won 200 races
Q - Richard Petty
A - This NHRA Winston Cup drag racer was the first to break the 300 MPH mark
Q - Kenny Bernstein
A - The race won four times by A.J. Foyt, Al Unser and Rick Mears
Q - Indianapolis 500
A - This airplane term is used for the driver's compartment in a formula race
car
Q - Cockpit
A - In '65 he became the first Indy 500 winner to average 150 MPH
Q - Jim Clark
A - Emerson Fittipaldi drank this when he won the Indy 500 in 1993
Q - Orange Juice
A - A car that drives in front of the face cars to start a race
Q - Pace Car
A - When a car takes a break from the race for servicing and refueling
Q - Pit Stop
A - This Allison suffered a fatal crash at the Michigan International Speedway
in '92
Q - Clifford Allison
A - This Allison was hurt at the Miller 500 in '92 & died in a helicopter crash
in '93
Q - Davey Allison
A - In auto racing, this pattern on a flag indicated the end of the race
Q - Checkered
A - He tore to victory in the 1980 Indianapolis 500 in his yellow submarine
Q - Johnny Rutherford
A - He designed the controversial STP Turban racing car
Q - Andy Granatelli
A - This class of racing has all the cars at 1,290 or more pounds
Q - Formula One
A - This famed French racing circuit is 8.467 miles long
Q - Lemans
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BALLPARKS
A - The number of fair balls hit out of Yankee Stadium
Q - 0
A - This national league ballpark was once known as Weeghman Park
Q - Wrigley Field
A - This major league ballpark boasts a ball-snaring outfield wall covered in
ivy
Q - Wrigley Field
A - This city's major league baseball field is three hours from Cleveland by
Riverboat
Q - Pittsburgh
A - This was the last major league stadium to have lights installed
Q - Wrigley Field
A - This baseball field's infield dirt sold for $75 a vial at a Chicago charity
auction
Q - Comiskey Park
A - This MLB team is at home in Camden Yards
Q - Baltimore Orioles
A - This park is home to the Giants and the 49ers
Q - Candlestick
A - Baseball's first triple-decker stadium
Q - Yankee Stadium
A - This park had buttons with 'And God said 'Let there be light' August 8, '
'88'
Q - Wrigley Field
A - It's 'the house that Ruth built'
Q - Yankee Stadium
A - The Oakland Raiders played their home games here before Alameda County
Stadium
Q - Candlestick Park
A - This baseball team's stadium was formerly called Briggs Stadium
Q - Detroit Tigers
A - This baseball team plays in the 'friendly confines of Wrigley Field
Q - Chicago Cubs
A - The New York Giants baseball team played in this stadium
Q - Polo Grounds
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BASEBALL
A - The term 'Billy Ball' is attribited to this manager
Q - Billy Martin
A - When he hit his 100th home run, Jimmy Piersall did this backwards
Q - Ran around the bases
A - This major league player played in the most games
Q - Henry Aaron
A - A batter who hits a single, a double, a triple & a homer in 1 game has 'hit
for...' this
Q - Cycle
A - They shipped Frank Robinson to the Orioles '66 saying he was 'An Old
Thirty'
Q - Cincinnati Reds
A - He noted: 'I'm no different tha anybody else with 2 arms, 2 legs & 4,200
hits'
Q - Pete Rose
A - His '83 no-hitter was the 1st for a NY Yankee since Don Larsen's in '56
Q - Dave Righetti
A - Reggie Jackson was wearing this uniform when he hung up his bat in '87
Q - Oakland Athletics
A - The 1st abseball team to pay players an avg salary of over $700,000
Q - New York Yankees
A - A baseball player must have 40 of each of these to be a 40-40 man
Q - Homers & Stolen Bases
A - This American League baseball team cap sports a 'T'
Q - Texas Rangers
A - This 43-year-old baseball player became the oldest pitcher to hurl a no-
hitter
Q - Nolan Ryan
A - Both Bob Gibson & this pitcher made Cesar Geronimo their 3,000th strikeout
victim
Q - Nolan Ryan
A - This NY Yankee's 2,130th consectuive game in '39 was also his last
Q - Lou Gehrig
A - The price of admission to a Cincinnati Red Stockings game in 1869
Q - 10 cents
A - Jackie Robinson did this in his first at-bat for the Brooklyn Dodgers
Q - Struck Out
A - In 1984, this Boston slugger set the major league record for most grounding
into double plays with 36
Q - Jim Rice
A - This Expo was the first player to steal 70 bases & drive in 70 runs in a
season
Q - Tim Raines
A - He was major league baseball's only triple crown winner in the 1950s
Q - Mickey Mantle
A - This relief pitcher is credited with perfecting the knuckleball
Q - Hoyt Wilhelm
A - He holds the NL record for consecutive games played
Q - Steve Garvey
A - In 1990, they swept the Oakland Athletics to win the World Series
Q - Cincinnati Reds
A - He holds the major league record for stolen bases in a season
Q - Rickey Henderson
A - He was the only catcher to win a home run championship
Q - Johnny Bench
A - He holds the Toronto Blue Jay record for most career home runs
Q - George Bell
A - This league has won more all-star games
Q - National League
A - Major league lefthander Steve Trout was appropriately nicknamed this
Q - Rainbow
A - He was the first hispanic inducted into the hall of fame
Q - Roberto Clemente
A - Babe Ruth's body lay in state at this stadium
Q - Yankee Stadium
A - This exotic dancer is baseball's kissing bandit
Q - Morganna King
A - He was the home run king before Babe Ruth
Q - Edward Williamson
A - They are the only MLB team to pitch a no-hitter using 3 pitchers
Q - Atlanta Braves
A - Of second base or homeplate, this base is closer to the pitcher's rubber
Q - Home Plate
A - This pitcher became baseball's all-time save leader in '92
Q - Jeff Reardon
A - Bernice Gera was the first female to take up this position in pro baseball
Q - Umpire
A - The last year that fans were treated to 2 all-star games in a single
season
Q - 1962
A - Of 275, 375 or 475, Roger Maris had this number of career homers
Q - 275
A - This Giant won no Cy Young awards despite 3 years with 25 or more wins
Q - Juan Marichal
A - Ernie Banks played this infield position his last 10 seasons with the Cubs
Q - 1st Base
A - This vehicle's blades helped dry a soaked Candlestick Park in '62
Q - Helicopter
A - Of 120, 320 or 520, the number of homers the Babe had to hit to be all-time
leader
Q - 120
A - Their infield consisted of Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey & Bill
Russell
Q - Los Angeles Dodgers
A - This brand of baseball is used in major league games
Q - Rawlings
A - He lamented 'It's deja vu all over again'
Q - Yogi Berra
A - Pitcher Timothy Fortugno did this after serving up George Bret's 3,000th
hit
Q - Picked Him Off First
A - This Cuban-born baseball player was named manager of the Cincinnati Reds in
'92
Q - Tony Perez
A - Baseball honchos decided not to have his name stamped on World Series balls
Q - Fay Vincent
A - Blue Jays relief pitchers donned this gear to show support for teammate
David Cone
Q - Coneheads
A - The first team to sue Fay Vincent after he realigned the National League
Q - Chicago Cubs
A - This duoo became the 1st father & son to hit home runs in an all-star game
Q - Ken Griffey Jr and Sr
A - This baseball philosopher has the most World Series hits with 71
Q - Yogi Berra
A - He played the most games for the Yankees
Q - Mickey Mantle
A - He is the first 40-40 man in baseball
Q - Jose Canseco
A - He has won 363 games, the most for a left-hander
Q - Warren Spahn
A - He won the first Cy Young award in 1956
Q - Don Newcombe
A - This St Louis player won all of the NL batting titles from '20-'25
Q - Rogers Hornsby
A - The only ML pitcher to have more than 500 wins in his career
Q - Cy Young
A - T-Shirts sold outside Fenway gave this as the troubled Red Sox's magic
number
Q - 911
A - This catcher decided to retire in 1 at-bat when he forgot the count & the
score
Q - Johnny Bench
A - Nolan Ryan began pitching for the New York Mets in this decade
Q - 1960s
A - A major league baseball pitcher can't step on the rubber atop the mound
without this
Q - Ball
A - This hitter got his start with the Indianapolis Clowns of the negro league
Q - Henry Aaron
A - This legendary black baseballer is credited with creating the hesitation
pitch
Q - Satchel Paige
A - He was the second player in major league baseball history to amass 4,000
hits
Q - Pete Rose
A - His home run won the first major league baseball all-star game
Q - Babe Ruth
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BASEBALL AWARDS
A - The 1st relief pitcher since Willie Hernandez to win the AL Cy Young Award
Q - Dennis Eckersley
A - He was the last switch hitter to win the AL MVP award
Q - Vida Blue
A - This southpaw refused delivery of 4 Cy Young Awards for fear of complacency
Q - Steve Carlton
A - The number of Cy Young Awards that Nolan Ryan won
Q - 0
A - This annual award was given to only one pitcher a year until '67
Q - Cy Young Award
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BASEBALL BOOKS
A - This baseball buffoon titled his book 'Catcher in the Wry'
Q - Bob Uecker
A - This baseball player titled his book 'If at First... A Season With the
Mets'
Q - Keith Hernandez
A - This former New York Mets manager wrote the book 'Bats'
Q - Davey Johnson
A - He's the subject of 'Born to Play Ball' & 'Willie's Time: A Memoir'
Q - Willie Mays
A - He hit the Majors at 42 & titled his story 'Maybe I'll Pitch Forever'
Q - Satchel Paige
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BASEBALL EQUIPMENT
A - Arthur Irwin added this bruise-beater to the standard baseball glove of his
day
Q - Padding
A - The tiny ball in the center of a baseball is made of this
Q - Cork
A - Charlie Waitt was the first to wear this baseball accessory in 1875
Q - Baseball Glove
A - A baseball pitcher's rubber was made of this this in 1894
Q - Wood
A - They lasted an average of 5 pitches during the 1987 MLB season
Q - Baseballs
A - A baseball player puts his donut on this
Q - His Bat
A - It was worn by catcher John Montgomery Ward for the first time in 1875
Q - Catcher's Mask
A - The Brooklyn Dodgers introduced these to the Major Leagues in 1941
Q - Batting Helmets
A - Frederick Winthrop Thayer developed this safety device for baseball
catchers
Q - Mask
A - This player's baseball glove can be no more than 38 inches in circumference
Q - Catcher
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BASEBALL FACTS
A - This team won a world series the last year they had Babe Ruth, but not
since
Q - Boston Red Sox
A - This NL team's 106 losses in '88 were the most in their 53-yr history
Q - Atlanta Braves
A - The 1st Yankee since Joe Dimaggio to drive in 100 runs in 5 straight
seasons
Q - Dave Winfield
A - He led the NL in '87 in strikeouts & ERA, but had an 8-16 record
Q - Nolan Ryan
A - This Red Sox 1st baseman hit under .300 for the first time in 1992
Q - Wade Boggs
A - Of Joe Dimaggio or Stan Musial, he posted the higher lifetime batting
average
Q - Stan Musial
A - He compiled baseball's highest lifetime batting average of .424
Q - Rogers Hornsby
A - They failed to win a pennant '82-'91 despite posting the best won-lost
record
Q - Toronto Blue Jays
A - In '60 Yankee Stadium let this type of sportswriter into the athletic press
room
Q - Woman
A - The direction that most baseball fields face
Q - East
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BASEBALL FIRSTS
A - The first player to hit 500 home runs and get 3,000 hits
Q - Hank Henry Aaron
A - During the 70's, this major league team wore short pants
Q - Chicago White Sox
A - Ed Cuthbert of the Keystones was the first to steal one in 1865
Q - Base
A - He was the first lefthanded pitcher to amass 3,000 career major league
strikeouts
Q - Steve Carlton
A - This west coast team had the first physical therapist ejected from a game
Q - Los Angeles Dodgers
A - He was the first major league baseball player to strike out 2,000 times
Q - Reggie Jackson
A - They were the first baseball team to travel by plane to all road games
Q - New York Yankees
A - He was the first player to pitch for both leagues in all-star competition
Q - Jim Bunning
A - This was the first professional baseball team
Q - Cincinnati Red Stockings
A - He becamse the first black ML manager when he managed the Indians in '75
Q - Frank Robinson
A - Brooklyn player Dickey Pierce was the 1st batter to do this intentionally
in 1866
Q - Bunt
A - The 1st pitcher to strike out 300 or more batters in 3 different seasons
Q - Sandy Koufax
A - The 1st ML player in the '60s to hit 4 homers in a game
Q - Willie Mays
A - This Cardinals base stealer was the 1st player to bat in a MLB game in
Canada
Q - Lou Brock
A - In '64 Houston's Ken Johnson becamse the first to lose one of these
Q - No Hitter
A - He was the first baseball player permanently banned because of drugs
Q - Steve Howe
A - This A's player became the 1st relief pitcher to have 3 seasons of 40-plus
saves
Q - Dennis Eckersley
A - The 1st player to hit the 1st pitch of the 1st game of the season for a
homer
Q - Dwight Evans
A - The last name of the 1st father & son in ML history to play on the same
team
Q - Griffey
A - This NL team won the 1st world series played at night in '71
Q - Pittsburgh Pirates
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BASEBALL GREATS
A - This hall-of-famer is the all-time slugging percentage leader
Q - Babe Ruth
A - This Ranger claimed the only thing he hadn't done was 'get an intentional
walk'
Q - Nolan Ryan
A - The 1st of the 8 White Sox players banned in the '19 scandal to die
Q - Shoeless Joe Jackson
A - The only active player named to the Cardinals' 100th anniversary dream team
in '92
Q - Ozzie Smith
A - He got his 1,000th hit in '68, 2000th in '73, 3000th in '78 & 4000th in '84
Q - Pete Rose
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BASEBALL HODGEPODGE
A - His 1927 New York Yankees jersey garnered a record $363,000
Q - Lou Gehrig
A - This first lady threw out the first ball for her favorite Cubs
Q - Hillary Clinton
A - The only MLB team whose name consists entirely of Non-English words
Q - San Diego Padres
A - This break in the baseball action was instituted in 1880
Q - 7th Inning Stretch
A - When one person tosses up a ball and swings at it
Q - Fungo
A - Hank Aaron played his final major league game with this team
Q - Milwaukee Brewers
A - This annual baseball game was 1st played during the '33 Chicago World's
Fair
Q - All Star Game
A - This baseball poem was first recited in public by Dewolf Hopper in 1888
Q - Casey at the Bat
A - A 91-yr-old Chicago fan turned these on for the 1st time in 1988
Q - Lights
A - This Met had Hotstuff the Lab, Slider the Poodles & Ferguson the Cat
Q - Tom Seaver
A - He was the first black man to play in the majors
Q - Jackie Robinson
A - During the 60's, this team swept a four game World Series and was swept in
another
Q - Los Angeles Dodgers
A - He was the first major leaguer to have his number retired
Q - Lou Gehrig
A - This baseball feature dropped six inches for the 1969 season
Q - Pitchers Mound
A - He was the first million dollar man in baseball
Q - Nolan Ryan
A - He's the only baseball player to win the MVP award in both leagues
Q - Frank Robinson
A - He holds the AL career record for homers in a season by a switcher hitter
with 54
Q - Mickey Mantle
A - The New York Yankees used to be this
Q - New York Highlanders
A - In '72 he led the majors in wins with 27; in '73 he led the MLS in losses
with 20
Q - Steve Carlton
A - He has an expressway named for him running by the Rangers' ballpark
Q - Nolan Ryan
A - This pitch by Nolan Ryan has been dubbed 'Ryan's Express'
Q - His Fastball
A - This novelist led the group that purchased the Baltimore Orioles in '93
Q - Tom Clancy
A - This MLB team once hired actor Clayton Moore to make promotional
appearances
Q - Texas Rangers
A - The longest legal one in baseball is 42"
Q - Bat
A - He made the third out in the bottom of the ninth one fateful day
Q - Casey
A - Emmett Kelly once served as the hobo mascot for this New York-based
baseball team
Q - Brooklyn Dodgers
A - Baseball's umpire-in-chief stands behind this base
Q - Home
A - The shape of a baseball infield
Q - Square
A - In a pro baseball organization, this is referred to as an 'Ivory-Hunter'
Q - Scout
A - Its 'Beisuboro' to a Japanese sports fan
Q - Baseball
A - Major league baseball's all-star game is played in this month
Q - July
A - They are called the firemen on a baseball team
Q - Relief Pitchers
A - This home town provided Casey Stengel with his nickname
Q - Kansas City
A - A baseball 'junkman' rarely throws this pitch
Q - Fastball
A - Insurance companies say this baseball position carries the longest life
expectancy
Q - Third Base
A - A Japanese baseball umpire means this when he yells 'auto'
Q - Out
A - A Japanese baseball umpire means this when he yells 'seifu'
Q - Safe
A - The hand that Babe Ruth threw with
Q - Left Hand
A - Willie Mays said that this street game gave him his athletic skills
Q - Stickball
A - He won the American League batting title in 1992 & 1993
Q - Juan Gonzalez
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BASEBALL LEADERS
A - This pitcher led the AL in strikeouts for 7 years during the '70s
Q - Nolan Ryan
A - He is baseball's all-time leader in career RBIs
Q - Hank Aaron
A - This former NY Yankee is baseball's all-time leader in career grand slams
Q - Lou Gehrig
A - The only baseball player to lead his league in homers for 3 different teams
Q - Reggie Jackson
A - He led the major leagues with 45 saves during the '88 baseball season
Q - Dennis Eckersley
A - In 1876, George Hall hit five of these to lead the national league
Q - Home Runs
A - This major league pitcher hurled four 19-strikeout games in the 1970s
Q - Nolan Ryan
A - This St. Louis Cardinal stole 50 or more bases for 12 straight seasons
Q - Lou Brock
A - He holds the MLB record for most home runs hit on the road in one season
with 32
Q - Babe Ruth
A - This pitcher led the NL in strikeouts five years during the '70s
Q - Tom Seaver
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BASEBALL LEGENDS
A - He swatted 54 homers the first year the splitball was banned
Q - Babe Ruth
A - He pitched over 200 games in which he struck out at least 10 batters
Q - Nolan Ryan
A - This baseball pitcher won at least 20 games every year from 1891 to 1904
Q - Cy Young
A - He held 43 baseball records when he retired in 1928
Q - Ty Cobb
A - He asked managers Stengel & Houk to let him show off his knuckeball in a
blowout
Q - Mickey Mantle
A - This legendary baseball righthander out of St. Paul, Nebraska was known as
Old Pete
Q - Grover Cleveland Alexander
A - He holds the record for pitching the longest winning World Series game
Q - Babe Ruth
A - This team sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 on January 5,
1920
Q - Boston Red Sox
A - Willie Mays always gave the boot to this on the way to the outfield
Q - Second Base
A - This player posted a .300-plus batting average for 23 consecutive years
Q - Ty Cobb
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BASEBALL LINGO
A - In baseball lingo, this is called a tater
Q - Home Run
A - What baseballers mean by a gopher ball
Q - Home Run Pitch
A - The number of hits a horse-collared baseball batter collected in a game
Q - 0
A - It's baseball's hot corner
Q - Third Base
A - A Ribby
Q - Run Batted In
A - Baseballers call this the horse and buggy league
Q - Minors
A - In baseball parlance, this is a 'keystone hit'
Q - Double
A - This kind of animanl is mentioned when referring to lively baseball
Q - Rabbit
A - The 'cleanup hitter' in a baseball batting order occupies this spot
Q - 4
A - It is 'the hill' to a baseball player
Q - Pitcher's Mound
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BASEBALL MOSTS
A - This major league pitcher won the most games in his career
Q - Cy Young
A - This Cub great holds the record for most grand slams in a season
Q - Ernie Banks
A - This pitcher had started games in 35 ML parks by the end of the '92 season
Q - Nolan Ryan
A - This Tiger set more records than anyone in MLB history
Q - Ty Cobb
A - He holds the record for most strikeouts in a 9 inning game
Q - Roger Clemens
A - This catcher has won the most gold gloves
Q - Johnny Bench
A - This New York Yankees hurler has been with tagged the most World Series
losses
Q - Whitey Ford
A - He holds the AL record for RBI in a season
Q - Lou Gehrig
A - This Dodgers hurler hit 154 batters in 3,432 innings pitched
Q - Don Drysdale
A - This major league pitcher appeared in the most games
Q - Hoyt Wilhelm
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BASEBALL MOVIES
A - He played a baseball player dying of Hodgkin's diseas in 'Bang the Drum
Slowly'
Q - Robert De Niro
A - This 1988 movie told of the infamous 1919 'Black Sox' scandal
Q - Eight Men Out
A - Robert Redford starred in this 1984 baseball fable
Q - The Natural
A - The Clevelan Indians went from worst to first in this 1989 comedy
Q - Major League
A - Gary Cooper played baseball legend Lou Gehrig in this movie
Q - Pride of the Yankees
A - Dan Dailey starred as this baseball pitcher in 'The Pride of St. Louis'
Q - Dizzy Dean
A - He played Babe Ruth in the 1992 biography 'The Babe'
Q - John Goodman
A - Walter Matthau coached Tatum O'Neal in this 1976 baseball comedy
Q - Bad News Bears
A - This comedy about a minor league catcher starred Susan Sarandon & Kevin
Costner
Q - Bull Durham
A - In this movie Mark Harmon as an ex-player reminisced about a babysitter
who changed his life
Q - Stealing Home
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BASEBALL NICKNAMES
A - Lawrence Peter Berra is better known by this nickname
Q - Yogi
A - Edward Ford is also known by this colorful nickname
Q - Whitey
A - He's also known as the 'Yankee Clipper'
Q - Joe Dimaggio
A - He's also known as 'Joltin' Joe'
Q - Joe Dimaggio
A - He was known as the 'Iron Horse'
Q - Lou Gehrig
A - This baseball manager was nicknamed 'The White Rat'
Q - Whitey Herzog
A - This pitcher is known as 'The Rocket' in Boston
Q - Roger Clemens
A - This baseball player's nickname is 'Eck'
Q - Dennis Eckersley
A - This NY Mets player was nicknamed 'Mr. Long Ball'
Q - Daryl Strawberry
A - This Dodgers base-stealer was dubbed the 'Diamond Burglar'
Q - Maury Wills
A - Chicago Black Sox player Joe Jackson's nickname
Q - Shoeless Joe
A - This opinionated baseball owner has been dubbed Terrible Ted
Q - Ted Turner
A - Baseball player Saturnino Orestes Minosa's nickname
Q - Minnie
A - This nickname reflects Reggie Jackson's World Series heroics
Q - Mr October
A - This former Cincinnati Reds player was nicknamed 'The Blazer'
Q - Don Blasingame
A - This national league third baseman received the nickname 'The Penguin' for
his walk
Q - Ron Cey
A - Jay Hanna Dean answered to this moniker
Q - Dizzy
A - The nickname of Harold Reese sometimes known as the Little Colonel
Q - Peewee
A - This Kansas City Royals' reliever is dubbed The Quiz
Q - Dan Quisenberry
A - This expensive baseball sluger immodestly nicknamed himself Dave the Rave
Q - Dave Winfield
A - He was 'Stan the Man'
Q - Stan Musial
A - He was the 'Sultan of Swat'
Q - Babe Ruth
A - He's 'Mr. Cub'
Q - Ernie Banks
A - 'Charlie Hustle'
Q - Pete Rose
A - 'Say Hey'
Q - Willie Mays
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BASEBALL NUMBERS
A - The number of outs in an inning
Q - 6
A - The number of major league baseball teams who play home games in California
Q - 5
A - The number of days in baseball's all-star break
Q - 3
A - The number of fingers a catcher often flashes before the pitcher delivers a
curveball
Q - 2
A - The number of baseball players aboard if 'the sacks are packed'
Q - 3
A - In July '32 Johnny Burnett got this number of hits to break the single-
game record
Q - 9
A - The number of major league games that inventor Abner Doubleday attended
Q - 0
A - The number of light towers that shine on Wrigley Field
Q - 6
A - The number of games in the '87 World Series when Twins beat the Cards
Q - 7
A - Bob Buhl rapped this many record-breaking hits in 70 at-bats in 1962
Q - 0
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BASEBALL ONLYS
A - The only man to play 500 games with 4 teams: the Astros, Expos, Mets &
Tigers
Q - Rusty Staub
A - The only major league player to serve in both World War I & World War II
Q - Hank Gowdy
A - This Yankee was the only AL player to hit 50 home runs in a season in the
'50s
Q - Mickey Mantle
A - This Giant was the only NL player to hit 50 homers in 1 season in the '60s
Q - Willie Mays
A - This Giant was the only NL player to hit 50 homers in a season in the '50s
Q - Willie Mays
A - The only manager to win World Series in both the American & National
Leagues
Q - Sparky Andersen
A - The only player with only one leg to play in the major leagues
Q - Monty Stratton
A - The only MLB team to turn two triple plays in one game
Q - Minnesota Twins
A - The only MLB player to play for a team in each of the four divisions
Q - Dave Kingman
A - The only baseball player to play at least 500 games at 5 different
positions
Q - Pete Rose
A - The only pitcher to strike out 10 or more batters in a game over 100 times
Q - Nolan Ryan
A - He's the only MLB player to have hit 30 or more home runs in each of 15
season
Q - Henry Aaron
A - They are the only AL east team with a hand-operated scoreboard
Q - Boston Red Sox
A - He was the only player to play for the Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves
Q - Eddie Matthews
A - The only player to appear in the NY Giants' last game & the NY Mets' first
game
Q - Frank Thomas
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BASEBALL PLAYERS
A - This shortstop once hit 47 home runs in a season
Q - Ernie Banks
A - This player led the NL in triples with Atlanta & the AL with Cleveland
Q - Brett Butler
A - He didn't like being in the World Series because he couldn't watch himself
play
Q - Reggie Jackson
A - This Cincinnati Reds' star was Morganna King's first victim in 1969
Q - Pete Rose
A - He was the only man ever to pinch hit for Babe Ruth
Q - Duffy Lewis
A - The person to pinch hit for Ted Williams
Q - Carroll Hardy
A - This former Cincinnati catcher's dream is to join the senior PGA tour in
'98
Q - Johnny Bench
A - He won 30 games in '34; his brother and teammate, Daffy, won 19
Q - Dizzy Dean
A - This player's lifetime sluggin percentage is second only to Babe Ruth's
Q - Lou Gehrig
A - He was celebrated on '87 posters reading 'Kirby for president'
Q - Kirby Puckitt
A - The 1st player since '85 to switch leagues when he went to the Yankees
Q - Jack Clark
A - This former NY Mets player's intials were M.E.T.
Q - Marvin Eugene Throneberry
A - The only man to play in the 1st 5 World Series for the Baltimore Orioles
Q - Jim Palmer
A - After leading the ML in errors for 7 seasons, his license plates read 'E-3'
Q - Dick Stuart
A - This Houston outfielder finished his only season with a 1.000 batting
average in 1963
Q - John Paciorek
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BASEBALL POSITIONS
A - This position was called the 'Pecker' in the 1830s when baseball was 'Town
Ball'
Q - Pitcher
A - This baseball position wears padding and a face mask
Q - Catcher
A - Oakland's Bert Campaneris played this many positions in a game in '65
Q - 9
A - Rod Carew played this position upon joining the Twins in '67
Q - 2nd Base
A - Ernie Banks played this infield position his first 9 seasons with the Cubs
Q - Shortstop
A - This baseball position is sometimes referred to as the short field
Q - Shortstop
A - This member of a baseball team is allowed to wear the longest glove
Q - First Baseman
A - The position that Geena Davis played in 'A League of Their Own'
Q - Catcher
A - Lou Gehrig played this position
Q - First Base
A - Jackie Robinson played this infield position the day he broke the color
barrier
Q - 1st Base
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BASEBALL POTPOURRI
A - This team signed Jackie Robinson to baseball's major leagues
Q - Brooklyn Dodgers
A - This Cardinals' star went to bat 600 times in 1986 without hitting a homer
Q - Vince Coleman
A - He had the trophy room walls of his DAllas home covered in pinstripe
wallpaper
Q - Mickey Mantle
A - This baseball position and the first baseman wear a mitt instead of a glove
Q - Catcher
A - This novelist said: 'Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons'
Q - F Scott Fitzgerald
A - As of 1993, he's ESPN's baseabll analyst & the premier baseball journalist
in the U.S.
Q - Peter Gammons
A - Catchers Carlton Fisk and Ivan Rodriguez share this nickname
Q - Pudge
A - The jury verdict of the 1919 Black Sox case
Q - Not Guilty
A - This Blue Jays slugger became the 1st 40-year-old to knock in 100 runs in a
season
Q - Dave Winfield
A - Hank Aaron's age when he broke Babe Ruth's home run record
Q - 40
A - Ronald Reagan once served as a broadcaster for this major league baseball
team
Q - Chicago Cubs
A - Rawlings and the Sporting News established this award in 1957
Q - Gold Glove
A - The umpires rub these down with Baltimore clay before each game
Q - Balls
A - The award that goes to the top-fielding major leaguer at his position each
year
Q - Gold Glove
A - There is no joy in this mythical baseball town
Q - Mudville
A - This baseball owner appeared in a '93 Sports Illustrated dressed as
Napoleon
Q - George Steinbrenner
A - In a '92 poll MLB players chose this '39 movie as their favorite
Q - Gone With The Wind
A - He made the NY Yankees the first team in any sport to draw a million fans
in '20
Q - Babe Ruth
A - The number of strikes needed for a strikeout in 1887
Q - 4
A - This Red Sox pitcher earned an estimated $20,400 per strikeout in '91
Q - Roger Clemens
A - This baseball field fixture was required to have five sides after a 1900
ruling
Q - Home Plate
A - The combination of a curve ball and a slider is known as this
Q - Slurve
A - The second basebamn in Abbott & Costello's famed 'Who's on first' routine
Q - What
A - The 1st foreign country to win the little league baseball world crown
Q - Taiwan
A - Cal Ripken did this in his 1st at-bat after becoming Morganna's victim
Q - Hit a Home Run
A - This was Abner Doubleday's home town
Q - Cooperstown New York
A - This is the brand of briefs that pitcher Jim Palmer flogs
Q - Jockey
A - St Louis Cardinals' ace Bob Gibson usually lost this after throwing the
ball
Q - His Hat
A - This ML baseball club flies W or L pennants atop its scoreboard to show the
game's outcome
Q - Chicago Cubs
A - This city's abseball club was nicknamed the Beaneaters between 1891 and
1906
Q - Boston
A - The number of career home runs that Hank Aaron hit
Q - 755
A - He holds the NL career record for homers in a season by a switch hitter
with 38
Q - Howard Johnson
A - He holds the AL career record for home runs by a switch hitter with 536
Q - Mickey Mantle
A - In '83 he led the majors in wins with 24; in '84 he tied for the ML lead in
losses
Q - Lamarr Hoyt
A - The only position not referred to in Abbott & Costello's 'Who's on first?'
routine
Q - Right Field
A - The little league world series is played in this city
Q - Williamsport Pennsylvania
A - This is the town where 'Casey at Bat' took place
Q - Mudville
A - He was the first black pitcher to appear in a world series game
Q - Satchel Paige
A - This free-swinger struck out more than any other batter
Q - Reggie Jackson
A - He was the first black to win a batting title
Q - Jackie Robinson
A - Eric Davis was the 1st NL player to do this 3 times in one month
Q - Hit Grand Slam Home Runs
A - They hit more homers than 4 ML teams in '61
Q - Maris & Mantle
A - Jim Bunning pitched his historic perfect game on this holiday
Q - Fathers Day
A - This NY team nixed Charley Pride's dream of playing baseball in '64
Q - New York Mets
A - Stan Musial became an executive with this team after retiring in '63
Q - St Louis Cardinals
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BASEBALL RECORDS
A - He set a major league record with 27 straight losses in '93
Q - Anthony Young
A - This Brave knocked in a record 2,297 runs in his major league career
Q - Hank Aaron
A - He had the asterisk by his home run mark removed from the record books in
1991
Q - Roger Maris
A - This fireballer tied Cy Young by winning 100 games on 2 different teams
Q - Nolan Ryan
A - He became the national leagues all-time hit collector in '61
Q - Stan Musial
A - He had the most hits in his last season
Q - Shoeless Joe Jackson
A - He holds the record for home runs by a catcher
Q - Carlton Fisk
A - This pitcher holds the major league record for best season strikeout ratio
Q - Nolan Ryan
A - This player knocked in the most runs in a season his rookie year
Q - Ted Williams
A - He scored major league baseball's one-millionth run on May 6, 1975
Q - Bob Watson
A - He holds the record for most home runs hit in Tiger Stadium by a visiting
player
Q - Babe Ruth
A - She holds the women's record for the longest baseball throw
Q - Babe Didrikson
A - He has the best career home-run ratio, hitting one every 11.76 times at bat
Q - Babe Ruth
A - This hall of fame slugger has grounded into the most double plays
Q - Henry Aaron
A - This 300-game winner holds the career AL record for home runs by a pitcher
Q - Warren Spahn
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BASEBALL RULES
A - Two regularly scheduled games, played in immediate succession
Q - Double Header
A - Declaration that the runner is entitled to the base for which he was trying
Q - Safe
A - The area within which the batter shall stand during his time at bat
Q - Batter's Box
A - A batted ball sharp & direct from the bat to a fielder without touching the
ground
Q - Line Drive
A - Baseball pitchers were finally allowed to deliver their pitches this way in
1884
Q - Overhand
A - A batted ball not swung at, but intentionally met with the bat
Q - Bunt
A - This base coach usually gives the signals to the batter
Q - 3rd
A - In 1973, this made its debut in baseball's American League
Q - Designated Hitter
A - This baseball league was the first to adopt a helmet rule
Q - National League
A - A play in which 2 offensive players are put out as a result of continuous
action
Q - Double Play
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BASEBALL TEAMS
A - Father Guido Sarducci told fans to head out to watch this west coast
baseball team
Q - San Francisco Giants
A - The only team not to have posted a winning record against the 1962 NY Mets
Q - Chicago Cubs
A - They were renamed to this after stealing players from a rival in the 1890s
Q - Pirates
A - This team went 15 years without a winning season after selling Babe Ruth
Q - Boston Red Sox
A - After Maris went to NY they were dubed 'The Yankees' unofficial ML farm
team
Q - Kansas City Athletics
A - This NL team had an 8 member 'college of coaches' between '61-'65
Q - Chicago Cubs
A - The team the Yankees were playing when Roger Maris hit his 61st homer
Q - Boston Red Sox
A - This NL team won 38 of its last 49 games in the '69 season
Q - New York Mets
A - This west coast baseball team joined the American League in '61
Q - California Angels
A - This New York baseball team scored a 'miracle' win in 1969
Q - Mets
A - This team won its first World Series in 1923
Q - New York Yankees
A - George Bell played for them when voted the dirtiest player by Toronto media
Q - Toronto Blue Jays
A - This team won a World Series in the '80s despite a 29-52 road record
Q - Minnesota Twins
A - Their troubled players took a course in 'the art of dealing with media' in
'86
Q - New York Mets
A - This AL team was purchased in '79 for $12, '87 for $70 & '93 for $173
million
Q - Baltimore Orioles
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BASEBALL TERMS
A - If a pitcher keeps all batters from reaching base
Q - Perfect Game
A - This was known as a round in baseball games of the 19th century
Q - Inning
A - This term was borrowed from a telegraphy term for transmitter & receiver
Q - Battery
A - The baseball term for a home run with the bases loaded
Q - Grand Slam
A - It was coined in 1880 after a writer witnessed several balls hit sharply to
3rd
Q - Hot Corner
A - This baseball play attempts to score a runner on third base with a bunt
Q - Squeeze
A - It's when a baseball player known as a 'Two o'clock hitter' performs best
Q - Batting Practice
A - In baseball, this is called a 'Twin killing'
Q - Double Play
A - The pitcher & the player in this position comprise the battery in baseball
Q - Catcher
A - If the pitcher is standing on the rubber, moves towards the hitter & fails
to throw
Q - Balk
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BASKETBALL
A - In '80 he became the youngest to win the NBA playoff MVP award
Q - Magic Johnson
A - In '50, they were 1 & lost the NIT & NCAA championships to the Beavers of
CCNY
Q - Bradley
A - This basketball player said in j1960: 'Nobody roots for Goliath'
Q - Wilt Chamberlain
A - He defended his title in the '93 NBA 3-pt shootout despite not being in the
NBA
Q - Craig Hodges
A - This basketball player's home video was titled 'Come Fly With Me'
Q - Michael Jordan
A - This '60s & '70s great has the record for consecutive missed free throws
with 10
Q - Wilt Chamberlain
A - The basketball term for 10 or more points, rebounds & assists in 1 game
Q - Triple Double
A - The number of goals scored in the 1st basketball game ever played
Q - 1
A - This NBA team had to cancel a home game due to rioting in '89
Q - Miami Heat
A - This NBA team has the record for most consecutive losses to start a season
Q - Miami Heat
A - The Harlem Globetrotters regularly beat them
Q - Washington Generals
A - Oscar Robertson played ball at this college
Q - University of Cincinnati
A - Larry Bird played basketball at this college
Q - Indiana State
A - In '50 Red Auerbach passed up the chance to draft this Holy Cross Star
Q - Bob Cousy
A - They posted the worst record in NBA history with only nine wins
Q - Philadelphia 76ers
A - An NBA referee signals this by raising both arms over his head
Q - 3 Point Goal
A - Bob Lanier's shoe size
Q - 22
A - An NBA referee signals this with a downward-pointing rotating index finger
Q - Basket Interference
A - The Golden State Warriors call this city home
Q - Oakland
A - This NBA player frequently shattered the backboard with his slam dunk
Q - Darryl Dawkins
A - The number of times Wilt Chamerblain fouled out of an NBA game
Q - 0
A - At 6'5; he's the shortest man to win an NBA rebounding title
Q - Charles Barkley
A - This player led the NBA in rebounding five consecutive times in the 1980s
Q - Moses Malone
A - This center was named to the all-NBA team a record 15 times
Q - Kareem Abdul Jabbar
A - Red Auerbach called him 'The greatest backcourt man who ever played'
Q - Bob Cousy
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BASKETBALL ARENAS
A - This NBA team plays its home games in Anaheim
Q - Los Angeles Lakers
A - They play home games at the Miami Arena
Q - Miami Heat
A - They play their home games at the Spectrum
Q - Philadelphia 76ers
A - They play their home games at Madison Square Garden
Q - New York Knicks
A - They play their home games at the Summit
Q - Houston Rockets
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BASKETBALL COACHES
A - This man coached his team to two NBA titles in his last two years as a
player
Q - Bill Russell
A - His style was described as 'a cross between Simon Legree & Father Flanagan'
Q - Bobby Knight
A - He is the only pro basketball coach to win more than 1,000 games
Q - Red Auerbach
A - Chuck Daly left the Pistons to become the coach for this NBA team
Q - New Jersey Nets
A - Pat Riley became the coach of this team after the Lakers & a stint with NBC
Sports
Q - New York Knicks
A - The first NBA coach to head up an Olympic basketball team
Q - Chuck Daly
A - Former UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian used to bite one of these during games
Q - Towel
A - The head coach of the '88 US men's Olympic basketball team
Q - John Thompson
A - This college coach's suspension was upheld by the Supreme Court in '88
Q - Jerry Tarkanian
A - He coached the Celtics during Bill Russell's last 3 seasons with the team
Q - Bill Russell
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BASKETBALL FIRSTS
A - He was the NBA's first black coach
Q - Bill Russell
A - This Kentucky school's teams were the first to win NAIA, NIT and NCAA
tournaments
Q - Louisville
A - Nat 'Sweetwater' Clifton left this team to be the NBA's 1st black player
Q - Harlem Globetrotters
A - The 1st NBA player to have over 200 steals & 100 blocked shots in a season
Q - Michael Jordan
A - The 1st non-guard to lead the NBA in assists
Q - Wilt Chamberlain
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BASKETBALL HISTORY
A - This colorful coach holds the record for most NBA career victories
Q - Red Auerbach
A - This player scored 100 points in an NBA game
Q - Wilt Chamberlain
A - Until a 1915 rule change, a basketball player couldn't do this after
dribbling
Q - Shoot
A - Balls from this sport were first used to play basketball
Q - Soccer
A - In '84 he became the first black to coach an NCAA basketball champion
Q - John Thompson
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BASKETBALL HODGEPODGE
A - The number of seconds a pro basketball shot clock runs
Q - 24
A - Wilt Chamberlain finished his career with this pro basketball team
Q - Los Angeles Lakers
A - Basketball player Eric Floyd shares this nickname with 1 of the 7 dwarfs
Q - Sleepy
A - This NBA position's players went 23 years without earning an MVP award
Q - Guard
A - This thirst-quenching drink sponsors the NBA's slam dunk championship
Q - Gatorade
A - He was the NBA MVP in '81-'92 with Houston then traded, & won the award in
'82-'83
Q - Moses Malone
A - This basketball player asked the media to cease using the moniker mountain
man
Q - Bill Walton
A - He holds the record for the most unsuccessful free throws in a game with 10
Q - Wilt Chamberlain
A - This team's world championship video was called 'Untoucha-Bulls'
Q - Chicago Bulls
A - This basketball player had a role in the movie 'Airplane'
Q - Kareem Abdul Jabbar
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BASKETBALL MOMENTS
A - The only basketball player to lead the NCAA, ABA & NBA in scoring
Q - Rick Barry
A - This Bucks guard was called for delay of game in '88 at the free throw line
Q - Ricky Pierce
A - The only NBA rookie of the year to become an NBA coach of the year
Q - Tommy Heinsohn
A - The only NBA player to average double figures in points, rebounds & assists
Q - Oscar Robertson
A - These 2 players surprised fans at the '88 NBA finals with pre-game
smoochies
Q - Johnson & Thomas
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BASKETBALL NICKNAMES
A - This Boston Celtic was nicknamed 'Secretary of the Defense'
Q - Bill Russell
A - He was Basketball's 'Iceman'
Q - George Gervin
A - This basketball player was known as the 'Big Dipper'
Q - Wilt Chamberlain
A - This basketball player was nicknamed 'Hondo'
Q - John Havlicek
A - He was the 'Baron of Basketball'
Q - Adolph Rupp
A - He's called 'The Mailman'
Q - Karl Malone
A - They call him 'The Dream'
Q - Hakeem Olkajuwon
A - He's also called 'Air'
Q - Michael Jordan
A - You can address him as 'Sir Charles'
Q - Charles Barkley
A - He's been called 'Magic' more than his real name
Q - Earvin Magic Johnson
A - The nickname of the North Carolina state basketball team
Q - Wolfpack
A - This 1982-83 NBA rookie is known as Lester the Molester
Q - Lester Conner
A - This Los Angeles Laker's guard was known as 'The Man of a Thousan Moves'
Q - Elgin Baylor
A - This Boston Celtic's center was dubbed The Chief
Q - Robert Parrish
A - This Atlanta Hawks NBA marvel was dubbed the Human Highlight Film
Q - Dominique Wilkins
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BASKETBALL NUMBERS
A - The number of basketballs available to each team for pre-game warmups
Q - 6
A - An NBA player is kicked out of the game after he has committed this many
fouls
Q - 6
A - The number of blacks that held down jobs on NBA rosters in the 1949-50
season
Q - 0
A - The number of years that Larry Bird played in the NBA
Q - 13
A - The number of times the Celtics won their division during Larry Bird's
tenure
Q - 10
A - The number of players taken before Michael Jordan in the 1984 NBA draft
Q - 2
A - The number of teams that played in the 1st NCAA basketball tournament in
'39
Q - 8
A - The number of teams that have won the NCAA & NIT basketball crowns in 1
year
Q - 1
A - The number of points that Dr. J scored on thje last shot he sank in his NBA
career
Q - 3
A - The number of NCAA titles that UCLA won during Lew Alcindor's 3 yrs
Q - 3
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BASKETBALL PLAYERS
A - He was the shortest player in the NBA until Muggsy Bogues arrived on the
scene
Q - Spud Webb
A - This aggressive 76er was cited for 30 technicals in the 1987-88 season
Q - Charles Barkley
A - His last game in Madison Square Garden had Dr Ruth & Dr Joyce brothers in
attendeance
Q - Julius Erving
A - This LA Laker finally sank the 1st 3 pointer of his long career in '87
Q - Kareem Abdul Jabbar
A - He went from Philly to Frisco to Philly to L.A. to Frisco to Philly & back
to L.A.
Q - Wilt Chamberlain
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BASKETBALL POTPOURRI
A - This part of Larry Bird's anatomy caused him to quit basketball
Q - His Back
A - The NBA coach of the year award is named after this Boston Celtics fixture
Q - Red Auerbach
A - This Lakers guard broke the NBA record for career assists in April '91
Q - Earvin Magic Johnson
A - The name of Orlando's NBA franchise
Q - Magic
A - Abe Saperstein's heirs sold this sports team for over $3 million
Q - Harlem Globetrotters
A - This NBA team won 33 consecutive games in the early '70s
Q - Los Angeles Lakers
A - This court's standard dimensions are 94 feet by 50 feet
Q - Basketball Court
A - This man played on championship teams in Milwaukee and Los Angeles
Q - Kareem Abdul Jabbar
A - Mike Krzyzewski coaches this eastern school's basketball team
Q - Duke
A - He struck down & seriously injured Rudy Tomjanovich of the Houston Rockets
Q - Kermit Washington
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BASKETBALL TEAMS
A - This NBA team went 40-1 at home during the '85-'86 season
Q - Boston Celtics
A - They play their home games at the Omni
Q - Atlanta Hawks
A - This state's ABA team was the Muskies
Q - Minnesota
A - This basketball team missed the NBA finals for the 1st time in 8 yrs in '67
Q - Boston Celtics
A - This exhibition team is known for their funny routines and expert
ball-handling
Q - Harlem Globetrotters
A - This team became the second NBA squad to win 5 titles in a decade
Q - Los Angeles Lakers
A - This west coast NBA team only won 12 games in the '86-'87 season
Q - Los Angeles Clippers
A - They ended the Celtics' run of 8 consecutive NBA titles in '67
Q - Philadelphia 76ers
A - This team lost 6 NBA championships to the Boston Celtics in the late '60s
Q - Los Angeles Lakers
A - The Cavaliers beat them in '91 by 68 for the biggest winning margin in an
NBA game
Q - Miami Heat
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BATTING TITLES
A - The number of AL batting titles that Ty Cobb didn't win between 1907 and
1919
Q - 1
A - This Bostonian won 3 AL batting titles during the 1960s
Q - Carl Yastrzemski
A - The only player in baseball history to hold batting titles in 3 different
decades
Q - George Brett
A - He won five American League batting titles in the 1980s
Q - Wade Boggs
A - This Kansas City Royal was the 1st player to win batting titles in 3
decades
Q - George Brett
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BETTING
A - This method of betting was introduced by Paris businessman Pierre Oller
Q - Pari Mutuel Betting
A - This was the first US state to legalize off-track betting on horse races
Q - New York
A - Gamblers bet the most money on this sport
Q - Football
A - He claims to have made America 'Odds Conscious'
Q - Jimmy the Greek
A - This team was a 100-1 longshot to win the '69 World Series
Q - New York Mets
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BIRTHPLACES
A - He's the most famous boxer born in Louisville
Q - Muhammad Ali
A - This Pennsylvania town is the birthplace of professional football
Q - Latrobe
A - Jose Canseco was born in this Caribbean country
Q - Cuba
A - This state gave birth to over half the members of the '80 US hockey team
Q - Minnesota
A - Patrick Ewing was born on this island
Q - Jamaica
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BO JACKSON
A - In 1990, Bo hit a ground ball and busted the lip of this famous pitcher
Q - Nolan Ryan
A - This White Sox teammate blocked for Bo in college
Q - Frank Thomas
A - Bo attended this Alabama University
Q - Auburn
A - Bo won this award his senior year of college
Q - Heisman Trophy
A - Bo played baseball for the Royals whilte playing for this NFL team
Q - Los Angeles Raiders
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BODY PARTS
A - A baseball pitcher is only allowed to rub the ball with these
Q - His hands
A - These are a boxer's 'Meat-Hooks'
Q - His fists
A - A tug-of-war member must keep these in front of his knees during
competition
Q - His Feet
A - A boxer would sport a 'mouse' on this
Q - His eye
A - The only part of his body a man can use to lift his partner in pairs
skating
Q - His hands
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BOOKS
A - Pete Hamill, Edward Hoagland & Norman Mailer have written books on this
sport
Q - Boxing
A - This New York Knick wrote 'Rockin' Steady'
Q - Walt Frazier
A - This basketball player penned the book 'What You can do to Avoid Aids'
Q - Earvin Magic Johnson
A - This diminutive basketball player titled his autobiography 'Flying High'
Q - Spud Webb
A - This team was subject of 'Can't Anybody Here Play This Game'
Q - New York Mets
A - This black tennis great penned the 1958 book 'I Always Wanted to be
Somebody'
Q - Althea Gibson
A - The AL baseball team that author John Cheever said all literary men are
fans of
Q - Boston Red Sox
A - William F. Buckley Jr. wrote his third book in 1987 about this aquatic
sport
Q - Sailing
A - He knocked out 'How to Hit a Golf Ball' in '40 & 'Golf Begins at Forty' in
'78
Q - Sam Snead
A - This Chicago Bears enforcer penned the book 'Calling the Shots'
Q - Mike Singletary
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BOWL GAMES
A - The oldest college bowl game
Q - Rose Bowl
A - This football bowl game's 1946 theme was 'Victory, Unity and Peace in
Flowers'
Q - Rose Bowl
A - Of the Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl and Sugar Bowl, this one was played first
Q - Orange Bowl
A - This college football team has appeared in the most bowl games
Q - University of Alabam
A - The champs of the Big 10 & Pac 10 conferences play in this bowl game
Q - Rose Bowl
A - This college bowl game is played in Hawaii
Q - Hula Bowl
A - This bowl game was first won by TCU in 1937
Q - Cotton Bowl
A - Bear Bryant won this bowl game eight times as a coach
Q - Sugar Bowl
A - The most college football bowl games are played on this date
Q - January 1
A - It's played annually in Nova Scotia between the Plungers & the Flushers
Q - Sewer Bowl
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BOWL LOCATIONS
A - It is played in New Orleans, Louisiana
Q - Sugar Bowl
A - It is played in Dallas, Texas
Q - Cotton Bowl
A - This fruity bowl is played in Miami Florida,
Q - Orange Bowl
A - It is played in Pasadena, California
Q - Rose Bowl
A - It is played in Tempe, Arizona
Q - Fiesta Bowl
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BOWLING
A - What a righthanded bowler calls a strike made by catching the head pin's
left side
Q - Brooklyn
A - This score is a CC in tenpin bowling
Q - 200
A - In tenpin bowling, this pin is nicknamed the widow
Q - Ten Pin
A - On a bowling alley, this is 60 feet from the foul line
Q - Head pin
A - The number of rows of pins in tenpin bowling
Q - 4
A - The number of strikes in a perfect game of bowling
Q - 12
A - The steps that are taken before releasing a bowling ball are called this
Q - Approach
A - The highest bowling score possible without throwing any strikes
Q - 190
A - Avid bowlers refer to this pin as 'Mother-in-Law'
Q - 7
A - When this pin and the 7 are left standing they are referred to as 'mule
ears'
Q - 10
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BOXERS
A - In '21 this US heavyweight fought George Caprentier in the 1st $1 million
gate
Q - Jack Dempsey
A - Joe Louis defeated him to win his first heavyweight title
Q - Jim Braddock
A - An injured rib cage forced him out of a fight against Evander Holyfield in
'91
Q - Mike Tyson
A - This boxer was tried and acquitted of draft evasion in 1920
Q - Jack Dempsey
A - This boxer called it quites in 1955 with a 49-0 record
Q - Rocky Marciano
A - This heavyweight's career began with a 107-second knockout of Hector
Mercedes
Q - Mike Tyson
A - He had not fought for five years when he upset Marvin Hagler in '87
Q - Sugar Ray Leonard
A - The first fighter to knock out Roberto Duran
Q - Thomas Hearns
A - He strengthened his 17-1/2'neck by standing on his head 2 hrs a day
Q - Sonny Liston
A - His wife was planning his 46th birthday party when his plane crashed
Q - Rocky Marciano
A - This heavyweight boxing champion is buried in Arlington National Cemetery
Q - Joe Louis
A - This boxer boasted manos de piedra or hands of stone
Q - Roberto Duran
A - In 1980, this boxer told Martin Scorsese 'you've made me champ again'
Q - Jake Lamotta
A - He broke Muhammad Ali's jaw
Q - Ken Norton
A - He fought Muhammad Ali in Zaire
Q - George Foreman
A - This boxer was a paratrooper in Hitler's army
Q - Max Schmelling
A - He was anything but macho while being beaten by Julio Cesar Chavez
Q - Hector Camacho
A - He was the recipient of 357 Riddick Bowe punches in 12 rounds
Q - Evander Holyfield
A - The last bareknuckle, London rules heavyweight champ contested in America
Q - John Sullivan
A - His biggest decisions were whether to visit Mcdonald's, Burger King or
Wendy's
Q - George Foreman
A - He traveled in a bus emblazoned with 'Sonny Liston is great, but he'll fall
in 8'
Q - Muhammad Ali
A - He duked it out with Muhammad Ali three times
Q - Joe Frazier
A - This Bronx-born heavyweight champ had an Amazonian fish named after him
Q - Jack Dempsey
A - He suffered losses to Frazier, Norton, Spinks, Holmes & Berbick
Q - Muhammad Ali
A - In '57 he lost his title to Gene Fullmer, regained it & lost it to Carmen
Basilio
Q - Sugar Ray Robinson
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BOXING
A - It's the lightest division in Olympic boxing
Q - Light flyweight
A - Bob Dylan sang about this boxer's death
Q - Davey Moore
A - This boxer retired with the all-time best winning percentage
Q - Rocky Marciano
A - The weight class that Cassius Clay fought in as an olympian
Q - Light heavyweight
A - He lost his title because of his resistance to the draft
Q - Muhammad Ali
A - The only boxer to have held the heavy, light-heavy & middleweight titles
Q - Bob Fitzsimmons
A - He beat Jack Dempsey twice
Q - Gene Tunney
A - His statue was moved from the Philly Museum of Art to the west end RR
tracks
Q - Rocky
A - Thieves removed gold from here from the Leon Spinks when he was mugged in
'82
Q - His Teeth
A - This boxing accessory was perfected by fight fan & dentist Brad Levin in
'12
Q - Mouthpiece
A - Amateur boxers with this, but pro boxers don't
Q - Headgear
A - This heavyweight said of Billy Conn: 'He can run, but he can't hide'
Q - Joe Louis
A - He told a '60 Senate panel he'd thrown a '47 fight to get a shot at the
title
Q - Jake Lamotta
A - Tony 'TNT' Tubbs is in this boxing class
Q - Heavyweight
A - This was Sonny Liston's best punch
Q - Left hook
A - During his pro career, he was knocked down only by Kevin (The Spoiler)
Howard
Q - Sugar Ray Leonard
A - Leotis Martin and Cassius Clay were the only ones to knock this boxer out
Q - Sonny Liston
A - A boxer must immediately retire to here after knocking down his opponent
Q - Neutral Corner
A - Along with 'box' & 'stop,' boxing referees are also allowed to give this
command
Q - Break
A - This future White House employee won the '67 147-lb title at the US Naval
Academy
Q - Oliver North
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BOXING CHAMPS
A - This heavyweight boxing champion had the longest reign
Q - Joe Louis
A - He defeated Jersey Joe Walcott to become the heavyweight boxing champion
Q - Rocky Marciano
A - This boxing great was the second black to become world heavyweight champion
Q - Joe Louis
A - He was the only boxer to win a world title five times at one weight
Q - Sugar Ray Robinson
A - He won the first heavyweight title fight
Q - Gentleman Jim Corbett
A - These heavyweights fought on March 8, 1971 in the most hyped fight in
boxing history
Q - Ali & Frazier
A - This 21 yr old KO'd 42 yr old Archie Moore for the world heavyweight title
in '56
Q - Floyd Patterson
A - He brought the heavyweight boxing title back to Brooklyn in '92
Q - Riddick Bowe
A - He was the first undisputed heavyweight boxing champ since Leon Spinks
Q - Mike Tyson
A - The only boxer to have been heavyweight champ longer than Larry Holmes
Q - Joe Louis
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BOXING FIRSTS
A - He won the first world heavyweight title fight scheduled for 12 rounds
Q - Larry Holmes
A - He won the 1st heavyweight championship bout on TV, KO'ing Billy Conn in
the 8th
Q - Joe Louis
A - He was the first boxer to defeat Muhhammad Ali in a professional bout
Q - Joe Frazier
A - He won the first million-dollar boxing championship
Q - Jack Dempsey
A - The 1st boxer to hit his way to titles in 4 weight categories
Q - Tommy Hearns
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BOXING HISTORY
A - The number of southpaws to punch their way to the world heavyweight boxing
title
Q - 0
A - This future oil tycoon once served as a sparring partner for boxer Jack
Dempsey
Q - John Paul Getty
A - He spoiled Joe Louis' boxing comeback bid in 1951
Q - Rocky Marciano
A - Cassius Clay's poems predicted this
Q - Knockouts
A - John L. Sullivan knocked out most of his opponents with this hand
Q - His Right
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BOXING HODGEPODGE
A - Boxer Leon Spinks gained fame for driving without this
Q - His license
A - Boxer Kid Mccoy inspired this term meaning 'The Genuine Article'
Q - Real Mccoy
A - This New York newspaper sponsors boxing's annual golden golve championship
Q - New York Daily News
A - Muhammad Ali KO'd sonny Liston in this round
Q - 1st
A - He reigned as heavyweight champ for 258 days in '90
Q - James Buster Douglas
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BOXING NICKNAMES
A - Featherweight boxing great known as 'The Will O' The Wisp'
Q - Willie Pep
A - This boxer was known as the 'Brown Bomber'
Q - Joe Louis
A - This boxer is also known as the 'Louisville Lip'
Q - Muhamad Ali
A - This '80s boxing champ was nicknamed 'Marvelous'
Q - Marvin Hagler
A - He was boxing's first 'Great White Hope'
Q - Jim Jeffries
A - This pride of German pugilism was dubbed the Black Uhlan
Q - Max Schmeling
A - The nickname of boxer Ray Mancini
Q - Boom Boom
A - This storied boxer was dubbed 'The Bronx Bull'
Q - Jake Lamotta
A - Muhhammad Ali dubbed this bald boxer the Acorn
Q - Earnie Shavers
A - This former heavyweight boxing champion's CB handle is the Big Popper
Q - Muhammad Ali
A - This future heavyweight champion entered the ring at age 18 as Kid Blackie
Q - Jack Dempsey
A - Rocco Barbella became this name for his ring career
Q - Rocky Graziano
A - He was Smokin' Joe
Q - Joe Frazier
A - This heavyweight boxer has been dubbed Neon
Q - Leon Spinks
A - This heavyweight boxing hopeful was dubbed Gentleman Gerry
Q - Gerry Cooney
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BOXING TERMS
A - Jack Broughton invented this for sparring boxers to use
Q - Boxing gloves
A - A boxer who 'kisses the canvas' has had this happen to him
Q - Knocked Down
A - It's a 'coup de poing' to a French boxer
Q - Punch
A - This term was coined in 1909 for a boxer's ear that received too many blows
Q - Cauliflower ear
A - In 1755 Samuel Johnson said this type athlete 'fights publicly for a
reward'
Q - Prizefighter
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BRITISH ROYALTY
A - The number of holes-in-one King Edward VIII scored on the golf course
Q - 1
A - The team that Princess Diana captained at west health school
Q - Field Hockey Team
A - He fell off his horse three times in a week in 1981
Q - Prince Charles
A - This member of British royalty owns London's oval cricket grounds
Q - Prince Charles
A - Mary, Queen of Scots was the first to employ this on a golf course
Q - Caddie
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BROKEN RECORDS
A - Rickey Henderson brok his stolen-base record
Q - Lou Brock
A - He broke Babe Ruth's single-season home run record
Q - Roger Maris
A - He broke Don Drysdale's 58-inning scoreless streak with 59
Q - Orel Hershiser
A - He broke Gordie Howe's NHL career scoring record in his 11th season
Q - Wayne Gretzky
A - In 7 yrs he broke the QB career rushing record that Fran Tarkenton set in
18 yrs
Q - Randall Cunningham
A - He hauled in 55 rebounds in November '60 to break Bil Russell's record
Q - Wilt Chamberlain
A - This Orioles junior passed Stan Musial in consecutive games played in '87
Q - Cal Ripken Jr
A - Cardinal Bob Gibson broke his record in '68 when he posted a 1.12 ERA
Q - Grover Cleveland Alexander
A - Maury Wills broke his base stealing record when he swiped 104 in '62
Q - Ty Cobb
A - Wilt Chamberlain broke this St. Louis Hawk's career scoring record
Q - Bob Pettit
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BUMPS & BRUISES
A - This hurdler competed at the '88 Olympic trails despite a broken arm
Q - Greg Foster
A - Over 175,000 softball players were doing this when they were injured in '87
Q - Sliding
A - He bounced his head off the diving board in the '88 Olympics
Q - Greg Louganis
A - A sprain of the metatarsophala ngeal joint of the big toe is called this
Q - Turf Toe
A - An injury to this body part plagued the careers of Joe Namath & Bobby Orr
Q - Knee
A - This LA Kings hockey star was de-iced with a herniated thoracic disk in '92
Q - Wayne Gretzky
A - This hurdler's injuries kept him from trying out for his 5th Olympic team
in '92
Q - Edwin Moses
A - This hall of fame jockey was paralyzed in a '91 traffic accident
Q - Wilie Shoemaker
A - This US skier broke a leg during a '74 avalanche & on a slide in '75
Q - Phil Mahre
A - This sport is the greatest cause of eye injuries in the US
Q - Baseball
A - Sandy Koufax was afflicted with this and quit baseball at the age of 31
Q - Arthritis
A - This gave rise to the football injury known as 'turf toe'
Q - Artificial turf
A - A 'banjoed' soccer player has been kicked her
Q - Groin
A - This injury-plagued pro sport's average playing career is about 3.6 years
Q - Football
A - Dizzy Dean injured this appendage during an all-star game
Q - His Big Toe
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CARTOONS
A - This cartoonist noted: 'Nobody remembers who came in second'
Q - Charles Schulz
A - It's where Snoopy plays hockey when the urge strikes him
Q - Frozen Bird Bath
A - Number of wins Charlie Brown's team has
Q - 0
A - Hockey player Nick Vukota sports a tattoo of this Disney character
Q - Mickey Mouse
A - Clint Malarchuk does impressions of this Disney cahracter to calm down
Q - Goofy
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CFL Cities
A - The Rough Riders are from this city
Q - Ottawa
A - The Eskimos hail from here
Q - Edmonton
A - This city is represented by the Argonauts
Q - Toronto
A - The Blue Bomers are from this city
Q - Winnipeg
A - The Tigercats represent this city
Q - Hamilton
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CHAMPIONSHIP
A - Since World War II, this college has won the most team championships
Q - University of Houston
A - This sport is contested in the ATP Championships
Q - Tennis
A - The only team besides the Yankees to win an AL pennant between '49 & '58
Q - Cleveland Indians
A - She was the US women's figure skating champion in 1976
Q - Peggy Fleming
A - She was the US women's figure skating champion in 1980
Q - Dorothy Hamill
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CHANGED NAMES
A - In '85 when Jose Gonzalez was traded from the cards of the Giants, he
became this
Q - Jose Uribe
A - The California Angels used to be this
Q - Los Angeles Angels
A - In 1903 the New York Highlanders became this
Q - New York Yankees
A - The Cincinnati Reds officially changed their name to this during the
Mccarthy Era
Q - Cincinnati Redlegs
A - In 1901 a British manufacturer renamed this table sport 'Gossima'
Q - Ping pong
A - This tennis player's original name was Richard Raskind
Q - Renee Richards
A - Lloyd Free was known as this after he went global
Q - World B Free
A - This boxer changed his name to Marvelous in 1982
Q - Marvin Hagler
A - Cassius Clay changed his name to this before he changed it to Muhammad Ali
Q - Cassius X
A - This Los Angeles Laker legally changed the spelling of his first name
Q - Mychal Thompson
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CITIES
A - This city opened the $100 million Alamodome in 1993
Q - San Antonio
A - The 500 stock car race called the 'Grandaddy of 'em all' is held here
Q - Darlington South Carolina
A - Their fans cheered for the Pilgrims during the 1903 World Series
Q - Boston
A - This city's symphony played the wedding march at Wayne Gretzky's wedding
Q - Edmonton
A - This eastern US city made a pitch to the NCAA to host the 'Crab Bowl'
Q - Baltimore
A - Rocky Balboa trained in this city
Q - Philadelphia
A - This city's NHL team is nicknamed the Penguins
Q - Pittsburgh
A - Minneapolis and this, its twin city, love the Minnesota Twins
Q - St Paul
A - This city's team decided to call its American Basketball Association team
The Oaks
Q - Oakland
A - They lost an NL team in '66 & got an AL team when the Seattle Pilots moved
east
Q - Milwaukee
A - This city hosts the famous annual army-navy football game
Q - Philadelphia
A - This city fielded an NFL team nicknamed the Reds in 1933 and 1934
Q - Cincinnati
A - The Texas Rangers moved from this city
Q - Washington DC
A - The Minnesota Twins play their home games in this city
Q - Minneapolis
A - This city is the home of the Kentucky Derby
Q - Louisville
A - This Alabam city hosts the All-American Bowl
Q - Birmingham
A - Andre Dawson fled this Canadian city to play for the Cubs at half the
salary
Q - Montreal
A - Baseball's champs paraded through Minneapolis & this city in October '87
Q - St Paul
A - Reggie Jackson broke into the major leagues in '67 with this city's
athletics
Q - Kansas City
A - This southern city got the NFL's 16th team in '67
Q - New Orleans
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COACHES
A - This renowned college coach was named for an ancient Armenian king
Q - Ara Parseghian
A - This former NFL coach took to pacing the sidelines in a 7-1\4 inch long
oval hat
Q - Tom Landry
A - He says that he bleeds Dodger blue
Q - Tommy Lasorda
A - He coached Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci & American Mary Lou Retton
Q - Bela Karolyi
A - Paul Brown, Weeb Eubank & Bo Schembechler played for this Ohio college
Q - Miami of Ohio
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COINCIDENCES
A - During his 56-game hitting streak in '41, he also had 56 singles & scored
56 runs
Q - Joe Dimaggio
A - As a QB he threw 4 interceptions in one game; as a DB he caught 4 in one
game
Q - Sammy Baugh
A - This Royal got his 3,000th hit 20 yrs to the day after Roberto Clemente
got his
Q - George Brett
A - The only Atlanta pitcher to win 20, lose 20 & have 20 complete games in 1
season
Q - Phil Niekro
A - He was the only MLB player to play in 3 World Series with 3 teams in 3
decades
Q - Earl Torgeson
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COLLEGE COACHES
A - He was the head coach of the Notre Dame football team in 1918
Q - Knute Rockne
A - Joe Paterno tied his record in '86 with his sixth undefeated regular season
Q - Paul Bear Bryant
A - This Tennesse football coach resigned in '92 after 16 years at the helm
Q - Johnny Majors
A - Despite acknowledging that Auburn broke NCAA rules, he refused to step down
Q - Pat Dye
A - This 3-tim Super Bowl winner decided to become Stanford's head coach
Q - Bill Walsh
A - This Notre Dame coach died in a plane crash in 1931
Q - Knute Rockne
A - This college football coach holds the record for most wins with over 315
Q - Paul Bear Bryant
A - He led Ohio State to national titles in 1954, '57 and '68
Q - Woody Hayes
A - This college basketball coach has the highest winning percentage
Q - Jerry Tarkanian
A - The all-time winningest coach in college basketball history
Q - Adolph Rupp
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COLLEGE CONFERENCES
A - The college football conference that Missouri plays in
Q - Big Eight
A - This college football conference used to be called the eastern league
Q - Ivy League
A - Michingan, Indiana and this state represent the Big 10
Q - Illinois
A - Arkansas & South Carolina defected to this football conference
Q - Southeastern conference
A - It included Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, BYU & New Mexico in '62
Q - WAC
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL
A - Brown, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Princeton & Yale belong to this football
conference
Q - Ivy League
A - California beat this school with the help of a five-lateral kickoff in 1982
Q - Stanford
A - It was known as the tournament of roses association game until 1923
Q - Rose Bowl
A - Rutgers & this team play in the oldest collegiate football match
Q - Princeton
A - This Ivy League school's 1878 football team was captained by Walter Camp
Q - Yale University
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COLLEGES
A - This college coach said 'A tie is like kissing your sister'
Q - Paul Bear Bryant
A - The first college player to gain 6,000 yards rushing
Q - Tony Dorsett
A - This college has won the most NCAA division I team golf championships with
21
Q - Yale
A - Quarterback Jim Plunkett played college ball here
Q - Stanford
A - The nickname of South Carolina's football squad
Q - Gamecocks
A - The nickname of big ten back Howard Cassady
Q - Hopalong
A - Of coaches, players or sportswriters, they vote the UPI top 20 college poll
Q - Coaches
A - The air force football team plays home games in this community
Q - Colorado Springs
A - This southern school's football team plays home games at Bryant-Denny
Stadium
Q - Alabama
A - This blessed college football team did not lose a home game between '06 &
'27
Q - Notre Dame
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COLORS
A - This NBA club lists its colors as blue and green
Q - Dallas Mavericks
A - This NBA club's colors are wine and gold
Q - Cleveland Cavaliers
A - Other than white, this is the most popular color on NBA uniforms
Q - Red
A - This NBA club's colors are purple, orange, copper and white
Q - Phoenix Suns
A - The color of a first-place ribbon in a horse show
Q - Blue
A - An official lacrosse ball can only be orange or this color
Q - White
A - This color of shirt is prohibited in official table tennis competition
Q - White
A - The color of the bull's-eye in a competition archery target
Q - Yellow
A - The color of most racquetballs
Q - Blue
A - The color of the hull of the 'stars and stripes'
Q - Blue
A - This color stripe crosses a red flag to indicate that suba divers are below
Q - White
A - This color armband distinguishes the speed skater in the outer lane
Q - Red
A - The overall leader of the Tour de France wears this color jersey
Q - Yellow
A - These two colors are the direction markers on a downhill ski course
Q - Green & Red
A - The hitting surface of gloves used in international amateur boxing is this
color
Q - White
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COMEBACKS
A - This former Wimbledon champ's comeback attempt featured 7 straight 1st
round losses
Q - Bjorn Borg
A - This QB holds the record for the biggest comebacks in college & NFL history
Q - Frank Reich
A - He came out of a 6 yr retirement in '43 to lead the Bears to an NFL
championship
Q - Bronco Nagurski
A - He re-retired in '91 after yielding 5 hits in 2 innings in exhibition play
Q - Jim Palmer
A - He preceded Guy Lafleur as the 1st hall of famer to make a comeback in the
NHL
Q - Gordie Howe
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COMMISSIONER
A - He was a descendent of Alamo defender Jim Bowie
Q - Bowie Kuhn
A - He replaced Peter Ueberroth as commissioner of baseball
Q - A Bartlett Giamatti
A - This former sports commissioner's real first name is Alvin
Q - Pete Rozelle
A - William Eckert replaced him as commissioner of baseball
Q - Ford Frick
A - This wall street lawyer was named commissioner of baseball in '69
Q - Bowie Kuhn
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CONTRACTS
A - This Pirate became a Giant for $43 million over six years
Q - Barry Bonds
A - This former Cubs pitcher snubbed a $2.75 million per year 5-year contract
offer in 1992
Q - Greg Maddux
A - This Penguins' puckster inked the richest contract in NHL history in '92
Q - Mario Lemieux
A - He earned $7 a game ass a semi-pro QB before trying out for the Colts in
the '50s
Q - Johnny Unitas
A - This former Bengal was prohibited from doing a TV show or writing a book
Q - Boomer Esiason
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COUNTRIES
A - This country won tennis' Davis Cup the most times
Q - United States
A - Chi Chi Rodriguez played for this country in golf's 1987 Chrysler Cup
Q - United States
A - This country hosted the '44 football game dubbed the Potato Bowl
Q - Ireland
A - Handball was invented in this country as 'fives' because all the fingers of
the hand were used
Q - Ireland
A - This country won 14 little league World Series championships in its 1st 17
tries
Q - Taiwan
A - This Scandinavian country's version of football is called 'Pesapallo'
Q - Finland
A - Their female caddies wore helmets after 500 were hit in the head
Q - Japan
A - This country's skiers have included Anton Steiner, Franz Gruber & Hans Enn
Q - Austria
A - Mid-east nation who 1st saw golf in '61 with Sam Snead & Harry Weetman
Q - Israel
A - This European nation saw an avalanche kill US ski champ Buddy Warner
Q - Switzerland
A - This alpine country was birthplace of bobsledding
Q - Switzerland
A - This country's international yachting designation is KC
Q - Canada
A - This country boasted more than 600 professional table tennis players in
1985
Q - China
A - This defunct country won the most world hockey championships
Q - The Soviet Union
A - This country has mounted the most challenges for the America's Cup
Q - Great Britain
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COVERS
A - The first female to appear on the cover of the Wheaties box
Q - Mary Lou Retton
A - He 'floated' on to the cover of Sports Illustrated more than anyone else
Q - Muhammad Ali
A - In June '88 this boxer was on the cover of Time, Life, People & Sports
Illustrated
Q - Mike Tyson
A - Sports Illustrated's 'Sportsman of the Year' in '88, he's also been on the
cover
Q - Orel Hershiser
A - This Heisman winner was slated for the cover of 'Life' until JFK's
assassination
Q - Roger Staubach
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DEFEATS
A - The Redskins beat this southern team to win their 1st Super Bowl
Q - Miami Dolphins
A - The Bears defeated this team to win their 1st Super Bowl in 1986
Q - New England Patriots
A - The San Francisco '49ers defeated them to win their 1st Super Bowl
Q - Cincinnati Bengals
A - The number of times during the '60s that the Lakers lost in the NBA finals
Q - 7
A - Green Bay beat them in the NFL title games to get to the 1st 2 Super Bowls
Q - Dallas Cowboys
A - This man lost two Masters playoffs
Q - Ben Hogan
A - He threw 42 interceptions while quarterbacking the Houston Oilers in 1962
Q - George Blanda
A - This '13 football team upset Army 35-13 when Gus Norais threw to end Knute
Rockne
Q - Notre Dame
A - This team lost the coin flip that allowed Houston to draft Ralph Sampson
Q - Indiana Pacers
A - The LA Lakers lost to this team in 6 NBA finals in the '60s
Q - Boston Celtics
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DEFUNCT OLYMPIC EVTS
A - This lawn game was an Olympic event in 1900
Q - Croquet
A - This event was held in 1900 and involved shooting these live birds
Q - Pigeons
A - A dueling competition using this type of weapon was held in 1906 only
Q - Pistol
A - In 1908 the US said the British had used illegal spiked boots in this
competition
Q - Tug of War
A - This 100m freestyle event was only open to members of the Greek Navy in
1896
Q - Swimming
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DELAY OF GAME
A - In '89 Northeastern canceled a game because of this virus
Q - Measles
A - A minnesota Twins-Washington Senators game in 1963 was called off because
of this
Q - Civil Rights March
A - A Cubs-Braves game in '60 was called because of this atmospheric condition
Q - Fog
A - The '89 World Series was delayed because of the worst one of these since
'06
Q - Earthquake
A - This caused the Clippers, Dodgers & Lakers games to be postponed on April
29, '92
Q - Los Angeles Riots
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DOMINANT ATHLETES
A - This country's women's gymnastics team were the only ones to win gold '52-
'80
Q - The Soviet Union
A - The PGA named him golfer of the century in 1988
Q - Jack Nicklaus
A - The first golfer to amass $8 million in career earnings
Q - Tom Kite
A - This golfer won his eight Masters tournaments between '46 & '53
Q - Ben Hogan
A - This favorite British sport was dominated in the '80s by Eric Bristow
Q - Darts
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DOMINANT TEAMS
A - This renowned baseball team won 19 World Series from '27-'62, including 5
in a row
Q - New York Yankees
A - This country's hockey team went straight to the finals in the Olympics in
'28
Q - Canada
A - Until '83 this nation had kept the America's Cup for 132 years
Q - US
A - Between '69 and '88 this nation won the little league world series 13 times
Q - Taiwan
A - This baseball team won the AL east 4 times between '85 and '92
Q - Toronto Blue Jays
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DRAFT PICKS
A - This '92 NBA 1 draft pick's age was less than his size 21 shoes
Q - Shaquille Oneal
A - This Bull was chosen after Hakeem Olajuwon & Sam Bowie in the '84 NBA draft
Q - Michael Jordan
A - He was the New York Giants' 1st choice in the '81 NFL draft
Q - Lawrence Taylor
A - The first player ever selected in an AFL collegiate draft in '59
Q - Don Meredith
A - This Pittsburgh Penguin was the 1 draft choice in '84
Q - Mario Lemieux
A - The first draft choice in the USFL, but never played in the league
Q - Dan Marino
A - The 1st player taken in the AFL-NFL draft in 1967, he was also in 'Police
Academy'
Q - Bubba Smith
A - He was the first player taken in the 1979 NBA draft
Q - Magic Johnson
A - He was the rookie-of-the-year in MAgic Johnson's first NBA season
Q - Larry Bird
A - This LA Rams rookie led the NFL with 1,808 rushing yards in '83
Q - Eric Dickerson
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DUAL SPORTS
A - This former Steeler QB held a national schoolboy record in the javelin
Q - Terry Bradshaw
A - This sprinter & future Cowboy great only lost 2 races in his career
Q - Bob Hayes
A - John Havlicek also played this sport at Ohio State before pro basketball
Q - Football
A - This Knick signed a $160,000 bonus contract with the Chicago White Sox
Q - Dave Debusschere
A - This Viking coach was receiver in the NFL & CFL & a forward in the NBA
Q - Bud Grant
A - He played football for the Atlanta Falcons and baseball for the Atlanta
Braves
Q - Deion Sanders
A - This former NFL player held the world record for the 100-yard dash
Q - Bob Hayes
A - He won Olympic gold and played in Cowboy silver
Q - Bob Hayes
A - This NFL defensive end fought an 8-round exhibition match against Muhammad
Ali
Q - Lyle Alzado
A - Baseball pitcher Ferguson Jenkins suited up for this fabled basketball team
Q - Harlem Globetrotters
A - He ran back a kickoff 99-yards while his Braves teammates won their 9th
straight game
Q - Deion Sanders
A - This NFL QB struggled for 7 yrs before winning a pro tournament on the
seniors tour
Q - John Brodie
A - Former Jets linebacker who suffered his 1st boxing loss to heavyweight Tim
Anderson
Q - Mark Gastineau
A - This former heavyweight ran the '83 NY City Marathon in 3-1\2 hours
Q - Floyd Patterson
A - Michael Carter was on this Super Bowl winner 6 months after his '84 silver
medal
Q - San Francisco 49ers
A - Dallas Cowboys running back Preston Pearson played this sport at Illinois
Q - Basketball
A - The number of professional sports teams that drafted Dave Winfield
Q - 4
A - He's been called 'the best runing back in major league baseball'
Q - Bo Jackson
A - This pro football team drafted John Havlicek
Q - Cleveland Browns
A - All-pro nose guard for the 49ers who also won the silver in the '84 olympic
shotput
Q - Michael Carter
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EMBARASSING MOMENTS
A - This NFL team went 1-15-0 in 1980
Q - New Orlean Saints
A - This Red Sox player literally let the World Series roll through his legs
Q - Bill Buckner
A - The number of points Cumberland scored against the 222 that George Tech
scored
Q - 0
A - He banged his head on the diving board en route to a '88 Olympic gold medal
Q - Greg Louganis
A - This part of Claude Raymond's uniform was open on his '66 & '67 baseball
cards
Q - His fly
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END OF CAREER
A - Joe Namath ended his career with this NFL team
Q - Los Angeles Rams
A - O.J. Simpson ended his career with this NFL team
Q - San Francisco 49ers
A - Franco Harris finished pro football with this team
Q - Seattle Seahawks
A - Vince Lombardi last coached this team
Q - Washington Redskins
A - Former Phillies pitcher Robin Roberts ended his career with this hapless
NL team
Q - Chicago Cubs
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ENDORSEMENTS
A - This brand paid to be the official film of the '88 Olympics
Q - Kodak
A - This hockey team test-marketed a brand of cologne called Bully in '89
Q - Philadelphia Flyers
A - This QB had '87 contracts with Taco Bell, Kraft foods & Honda
Q - Jim Mcmahon
A - This basketball player signed a $19 million deal with Nike shoes
Q - Michael Jordan
A - He was featured in an American Express commercial with a toy yacht.
Q - Dennis Conner
A - This NBA star felt better with a Ben-Gay rub before each game
Q - Larry Bird
A - The brand of footwear that John Mcenroe stomped through temper tantrums in
Q - Nike
A - Magic Johnson performed his tricks in this brand of shoes
Q - Converse
A - This movie star got a job as team manager for veteran auto racer Mario
Andretti
Q - Paul Newman
A - This Athletes' drink claims that it 'gives your body what it's thristy for'
Q - Gatorade
A - Charles Barkley battled this movie monster in TV commercials
Q - Godzilla
A - The first names of the decathlon athletes that Reebok hyped in an ad
campaign
Q - Dan & Dave
A - His statue & photos are displayed in a room at Nike headquarters
Q - Michael Jordan
A - This Celtic draft pick died a day after signing a big deal with Reebok in
'86
Q - Len Bias
A - This coach lent his name to a Miami golf course, hotel & steak house
Q - Don Shula
A - Nolan Ryan advertises for this headache remedy
Q - Advil
A - Babe Ruth was the first to endorse this brand of underwear
Q - Jockey
A - The first female athlete to have a perfume named after her
Q - Gabriela Sabatini
A - She dashed into a 7-Up commercial aired after her '88 Olympics win
Q - Florence Griffith Joyner
A - This aquatic athlete was pictured in a loincloth in American Express ads
Q - Greg Louganis
A - He was named the official hair care consultant to the 1984 Los Angeles
Olympics
Q - Vidal Sassoon
A - This product lends its name to an award for relief pitchers
Q - Rolaids
A - TWA paid this basketball player to look comfortable in one of their
airplane seats
Q - Wilt Chamberlain
A - This pitcher was in an ad headlined: 'He runs like he's on Duracell'
Q - Nolan Ryan
A - This East German Olympian advertised Diet Coke & covered figured skating f
for CBS
Q - Katarina Witt
A - Australian Greg Norman had an endorsement contract with this airline in '87
Q - Quantas
A - NBA hoopster 'Slick' Watts shaved his head with this brand of shaving gel
Q - Edge
A - This yachtman had '87 contracts with Ray-Ban, Wrigley's & Topsider
Q - Dennis Conner
A - This boxer was pictured in '88 ads for right guard 'sports stick'
Q - Marvelous Marvin Hagler
A - Gary Carter admitted to pouring this brand syrup on pancakes
Q - Aunt Jemima
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EQUIPMENT
A - This US professional sport's ball weighs a maximum of 15 ounces
Q - Football
A - Of baseball and softball, this one boasts the wider bat
Q - Baseball
A - Olympic runners pass this to each other with either an upward or a downward
swing
Q - Baton
A - This piece of gymnastics equipment has a top bar, low bar and guy brace
Q - Uneven Parallel Bars
A - A gymnast is on this apparatus if he performs a crucifix
Q - Rings
A - This sport uses a side horse
Q - Gymnastics
A - It's what the ball used in jai alai is called
Q - Pelota
A - The basket-like container used in jai alai
Q - Cesta
A - This object is thrown in curling
Q - Stone
A - An 'Iron Cross' is performed on this piece of equipment
Q - The Rings
A - This ball has 108 stitches
Q - Baseball
A - This sport provides a machine to pick up what competitors knock over
Q - Bowling
A - This sport boasts a racket with outward pointing pimples
Q - Table Tennis
A - This stationary aid to sprinters was invented in 1927
Q - Starting Block
A - Of a field hockey ball or a baseball, this one is smaller
Q - Baseball
A - This sport's association scrutinizes its balls with an overall distance
standard
Q - Golf
A - Between a baseball and a cricket ball, this one is heavier
Q - Cricket Ball
A - It sported pimples before stitching to dimples
Q - Golf Ball
A - This sport sees a willow root ball smacked around a field
Q - Polo
A - The kind of tree that Hillerich & Bradsby get 60 baseball bats out of
Q - Ash
A - Marquis M. Converse started making these apparel items in 1909
Q - Sneakers
A - This ball's circumference measures between 9 & 9-1\4 inches
Q - Baseball
A - This sport's balls are rubbed down with Delaware river mud before being
used
Q - Baseball
A - This pro sport uses a ball with fake seams
Q - Basketball
A - This part of a football field has a gooseneck and a crossbar
Q - Goalpost
A - This sport's balls were originally stuffed with boiled feathers
Q - Golf
A - This piece of equipment for a field event is 8'6' long and weighs 1-3\4
pounds
Q - Javelin
A - This piece of track & field equipment is 8-5\8' in diameter
Q - Discus
A - The part of the fencing's foil referred to as the button
Q - Point
A - This Olympic projectile weighs 4 pounds, 6-1\2 ounces
Q - Discus
A - Of a polo ball or a softball, this one is bigger
Q - Softball
A - Of a soccer ball or a volleyball, this one is heavier
Q - Soccer Ball
A - This popular North American sport uses a prolate spheriod
Q - Football
A - This sport's bat has a maximum length of 34 inches
Q - Softball
A - The two highest pieces of apparatus that male olympic gymnasts perform on
Q - High Bar & Rings
A - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & James Worthy sported these on the court in '88
Q - Goggles
A - Martha Cruce made these for Kirk Gison & Jose Canseco
Q - Their Bats
A - The International Amateur Athletic Federation required these in the 100-M
in 1980
Q - Starting Blocks
A - A Swedish player hit Canada's coach over the head with this at the '64
Olympics
Q - Hockey Stick
A - This mechanic invented the 1st ice-resurfacing machine in 1949
Q - Frank Zamboni
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FAMOUS DUOS
A - These two Willies both blasted more than 500 homers in their MLB careers
Q - Mccovey & Mays
A - They combined to become the first 300-game winners to win & save a MLB
game
Q - Carlton & Niekro
A - These two Yankees were dubbed the 'M&M Boys'
Q - Mantle & Maris
A - This British ice dance duo holds the record for scoring the most 6's in a
career
Q - Torvill & Dean
A - He teamed with Arnold Palmer to win the World Cup Tournament in '67
Q - Jack Nicklaus
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FAMOUS OWNERS
A - This family owned a major league baseball team and a chewing gum company
Q - Wrigleys
A - This late night talk show host became a minority baseball owner in '89
Q - David Letterman
A - Bing Crosby was a minority owner of this baseball team from '46 until '77
Q - Pittsburgh Pirates
A - He is part-owner of the LA Aztecs & the Philadelphia Freedom
Q - Elton John
A - This 'Make Room for Daddy' star was once the majority owner of the Miami
Dolphins
Q - Danny Thomas
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FAMOUS YANKEES
A - This record-setting longtime NY Yankees stalwart attended Columbia
University
Q - Lou Gehrig
A - This Yankee hit the longest home run in a game
Q - Mickey Mantle
A - This slugger played himself in 'The Pride of the Yankees'
Q - Babe Ruth
A - He said the Yankees' fans 'ripped my spirit out of my body & stomped on it'
Q - Reggie Jackson
A - This former catcher managed the Yankees and Mets to Pennants
Q - Yogi Berra
A - This Yankee catcher said of Jackie Robinson: 'He was a hard out'
Q - Yogi Berra
A - This former NY Yankee sluger said he'd like Nick Nolte to play him in a
movie
Q - Mickey Mantle
A - This NY Yankee was the 1st pitcher to start a game as a DH
Q - Rick Rhoden
A - This Yankee slugger hit homers in 8 straight games in '87
Q - Don Mattingly
A - Charles Finley hired him as executive VP of the Athletics in '67
Q - Joe Dimaggio
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FAN CLUSTERS
A - This baseball team's fans used to be known as 'The Flatbush Faithful'
Q - Brooklyn Dodgers
A - This sports star's fans have been dubbed 'Mchale's Army'
Q - Kevin Mchale
A - This former east coast team's fans were called the 'Bleacher Bums'
Q - Brooklyn Dodgers
A - The Cleveland Browns' legion of fans are called this
Q - Dawg Pound
A - This NY Mets pitcher has fans gathered in the K Corner
Q - Dwight Gooden
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FANS
A - This baseball team's fans chanted 'stay' at the end of the last home game
in '92
Q - San Francisco Giants
A - Their fans hoisted banners reading: 'real men chop' at the '91 World Series
Q - Atlanta Braves
A - This late Cub fan's ashes are buried under home plate at Wrigley Field in
Chicago
Q - Steve Goodman
A - This basketball team reserves a sideline seat for actor Jack Nicholson
Q - Los Angeles Lakers
A - This team's fans pioneered the practice of waving 'homer hankies'
Q - Minnesota Twins
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FASHIONS
A - This US figure skating star of the 1976 Olympics sparked a hairstyling rage
Q - Dorothy Hamill
A - He wore a 'Grace Jones' hairdo at the '84 Summer Olympics
Q - Carl Lewis
A - This American tennis star wore stone-washed denim shorts during matches
Q - Andre Agassi
A - This dapper golfer signed a contract with NFL properties to wear NFL duds
Q - Payne Stewart
A - This tennis star shocked Wimbledon in '62 with a skirt with a hot pink
lining
Q - Maria Bueno
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FEMALE ATHLETES
A - This female tennis player won the most consecutive matches with 74
Q - Martina Navratalova
A - The 1st to win a major stables race; she later married an old 'Hoofer'
Q - Robyn Smith
A - She played basketball in the Olympics & with the Harlem Globetrotters
Q - Lynette Woodward
A - The AP named her 'Athlete of the Half Century' in 1950
Q - Babe Didrikson
A - This track star was the first to receive the Jesse Owens Award in '82
Q - Mary Decker
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FOODS
A - Trotting horse go get lost eats this Hostess snack before races
Q - Cupcakes
A - This NL stadium tried selling sushi for $4.50 in '88
Q - Dodger Stadium
A - This MLB team's home field sells the most taquitos
Q - San Diego Padres
A - De Rigueur was disqualified at Ascot in 1986 because this candy bar tainted
a urinalysis
Q - Mars Bar
A - This AL west team's fans gave a thumbs up to gardenburgers for vegetarians
Q - Seattle Mariners
A - This major league baseball team's fans down the most crabcakes at games
Q - Baltimore Orioles
A - This European brand of beer features Paris's 1889 grand prix on its label
Q - Heineken
A - The Pittsburgh Pirates eat an average of 40 bags of these per game
Q - Sunflower Seeds
A - This NY Yankees' slugger kept his strength up with 18-egg omeletes
Q - Babe Ruth
A - This MLB team's fans devour more chili than any other
Q - Cincinnati Reds
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FOOTBALL
A - This NFL team won a third straight divisional title in 1986
Q - Chicago Bears
A - The most common position of players who've won Super Bowl MVP Awards
Q - Quarterback
A - These were first added to a football for a Harvard & Mcgill game in 1874
Q - Goal Posts
A - This football player scored 25 touchdowns in 1912 for Carlisle Indian
School
Q - Jim Thorpe
A - The Beach Boys called this QB to the stage of Tampa Bay Stadium to sing
backup
Q - Vinny Testaverde
A - This type of defense inserts a fifth defensive back
Q - Nickel Defense
A - This type of defense inserts a sixth defensive back
Q - Dime Defense
A - This is when one or more linebackers or defensive backs rush the QB
Q - Blitz
A - This college offense has three backs in the backfield
Q - Wishbone
A - The most common set with a QB, 2 RBs split behind him, 1 TE & 2 WRs
Q - Pro Set
A - The only kind of foul that can get an NFL player tossed out of a game
Q - Personal foul
A - Pro football quarterback Joe Gerguson had only one of these in 1976 season
Q - Interception
A - Garo Yepremian is from this country
Q - Cyprus
A - The number of points given for a field goal
Q - 3
A - He once scored 40 points in a single NFL game with dropkicks
Q - Ernie Nevers
A - The NFL's 'in the grasp' rule was designed to protect this player
Q - Quarterback
A - In '92 this Washington Redskin broke the NFL career receiving record
Q - Art Monk
A - This six-year old innovation from the USFL was dropped by the NFL before
the '92-'93 season
Q - Instant Replay
A - His last-minute heroics inspired the headline 'Broncos' Miracle Worker'
Q - John Elway
A - This Jets QB once had his phone tapped by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI
Q - Joe Namath
A - If a ballcarrier on the offensive team is tackled in his own endzone
Q - Safety
A - Players in the defensive backfield are called this
Q - Secondary
A - The formation in which the QB takes a long snap 5-7 yards behind the line
Q - Shotgun
A - Prior to Phoenix and St Louis, the Cardinals played in this city
Q - Chicago
A - He has the record for most yards rushing in a Monday night game with 221
Q - Bo Jackson
A - They were the first team to qualify for a fourth Super Bowl appearance
Q - Minnesota Vikings
A - This war cost the lives of 21 NFL players
Q - World War II
A - This member of a football team aims the ball at the coffin corner
Q - Punter
A - This NFL team sponsored a US-wide contest to find a field goal kicker in
1967
Q - Dallas Cowboys
A - This birthright, Texas native was called the finest player Vince Lombardi
had ever seen
Q - Forrest Gregg
A - A 'quick kick' is tried on this down
Q - 3rd
A - The penalty, in yards, assessed for a flagrant roughing of the passer
Q - 15
A - In 1993, he became the all-time winningest NFL coach
Q - Don Shula
A - A block on a defensive player from his rear is called this
Q - Clip
A - If a blocked punt is recovered by the receiving team in the end zone
Q - Touchdown
A - He was the last coach of the Baltimore Colts
Q - Frank Kush
A - The last man to score six touchdowns in an NFL game in 1965
Q - Gayle Sayers
A - This NFL team revived the shotgun offense in 1975
Q - Dallas Cowboys
A - This great back fell eight yards short of rushing for seven miles
Q - Jim Brown
A - This Green Bay Packers coach was dubbed J.R. by players because of his
coldness
Q - Bart Starr
A - This president advised the Redskins coach which play to run in the Super
Bowl
Q - Richard Nixon
A - This Michigan Heisman Trophy winner was shot down 3 times during WWII
Q - Tom Harmon
A - The only part of a football field to have protective padding
Q - Goalposts
A - This Dallas Cowboys QB popularized the shotgun formation in '76
Q - Roger Staubach
A - They won 3 NCAA football championships between '83 & '89
Q - Miami University
A - He said 'there are 3 important things in life family, religion & the
Packers'
Q - Vince Lombardi
A - They have won Super Bowls over Miami, Denver and Buffalo
Q - Washington Redskins
A - Of 16, 36 or 56 the avg number of cleat-dents made per sq ft of turf in a
game
Q - 56
A - Twenty-one of agent Leigh Steinberg's clients play this NFL position
Q - QB
A - During World War II, the Eagles merged with this other NFL team to form the
Steagles
Q - Steelers
A - He was the first left-handed quarterback to lead his team to a Super Bowl
victory
Q - Ken Stabler
A - The longest field goal in NFL history
Q - 63 Yards
A - This Steelers' 'Immaculate Reception' in '72 was made in his 1st playoff
game
Q - Franco Harris
A - The USFL won an anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL & was awarded this
amount, in dollars
Q - 1
A - A wide open offensethat features 4 wide receivers and 1 running back
Q - Run and Shoot
A - Alan, Joaquin, Luis, Max & Tony Zendejas played this position in the NFL
Q - Placekicker
A - He won the Butkus Award & was 1st team academic All-American the same year
Q - Brian Bosworth
A - Vance Johnson wrote these 2 words on the back of his shoes for defenders
Q - Bye Bye
A - The hand that Boomer Esiason throws footballs with
Q - His Left
A - This legendary coach died 17 days after retiring
Q - Paul Bear Bryant
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FOOTBALL BOOKS
A - This NFL coach wrote 'The Winning Edge'
Q - Don Shula
A - This football player penned 'LT: Living on the Edge'
Q - Lawrence Taylor
A - George Plimpton played football for this team in 'Paper Lion'
Q - Detroit Lions
A - 'Everybody's All-American' was written by this sportwriter
Q - Frank Deford
A - This football player's stormy career is hashed out in the book 'Educating
Dexter'
Q - Dexter Manley
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FOOTBALL COACHES
A - He coached Notre Dame for 13 years, posting a 105-12-5 record
Q - Knute Rockne
A - This former Steelers coach played 7 seasons for the Archrival Cleveland
Browns
Q - Chuck Knoll
A - The Georgia head coach who shed a tear when Herschel Walker turned pro
Q - Vince Dooley
A - He succeeded John Madden as head coach for the Oakland Raiders
Q - Tom Flores
A - He coached the Chicago Bears for 40 seasons
Q - George Halas
A - This NFL head coach went to high school with Janis Joplin
Q - Jimmy Johnson
A - He coached the team that won the first Super Bowl in '67
Q - Vince Lombardi
A - Oiler coach Jerry Glanville left a ticket under the name 'The King' for
him in '88
Q - Elvis
A - He succeeded Tom Flores as coach of the Los Angeles Raiders
Q - Mike Shanahan
A - He coached the Redskins' 1st winning season in 14 years in '69
Q - Vince Lombardi
A - He gave the famous 'Win one for the gipper' speech
Q - Knute Rockne
A - This Ohio State coach threw a punch at Clemson's Charlie Williams
Q - Woody Hayes
A - This former 49er coach revived Stanford's football team with a 9-3 record
Q - Bill Walsh
A - He humiliated QB Jim Harbaugh on the sidelines after an ill-advised audible
Q - Mike Ditka
A - He was the 1st head football coach to win the NCAA championship & a Super
Bowl
Q - Jimmy Johnson
A - He assumed command of Notre Dame's football team in '64
Q - Ara Parseghian
A - The first NFL coach to utilize films of opponents' games for study
Q - George Halas
A - The first coach of the Minnesota Vikings
Q - Norm Van Broklin
A - He had his team witness a castration before their game with the Longhorns
Q - Jackie Sherrill
A - He has been in 8 Super Bowls as a player, assistant & head coach
Q - Dan Reeves
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FOOTBALL COLORS
A - Burgundy & gold are the club colors of this NFL team
Q - Washington Redskins
A - Billy Johnson wore this color of shoes
Q - White
A - This NFL team's colors are aqua, coral and white
Q - Miami Dolphins
A - This NFL team's colors are gold, black and white
Q - New Orleans Saints
A - This NFL team's colors are red, gold and white
Q - Kansas City Chiefs
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FOOTBALL FIRSTS
A - He was the first football player to rush for a mile in a season
Q - Jim Brown
A - This former Colt quarterback was the first football player to earn
$100,000 a year
Q - Johnny Unitas
A - In '78 he became the first black QB picked in the first round of the NFL
draft
Q - Doug Williams
A - Chicago Bears receiver Harlon Hill was the first to receive this annual NFL
award
Q - Most Valuable Player
A - This team played army in the first televised college football game
Q - Navy
A - He was the first black to win the Heisman Trophy
Q - Ernie Davis
A - He was the first Olympian to play pro football
Q - Jim Thorpe
A - This NFL team was the first to play its home games in a domed stadium
Q - Houston Oilers
A - He scrambled to become the first quarterback to score a Super Bowl
touchdown
Q - Fran Tarkenton
A - He was the first quarterback to guide his team to three Super Bowl
victories
Q - Terry Bradshaw
A - He was the first black NFL head coach
Q - Art Shell
A - This team won the 1st national college football championship
Q - Yale
A - The first Navy midshipman to score 3 touchdowns against Army
Q - Joe Bellino
A - This substitute split end scored the first Super Bowl TD
Q - Max Mcgee
A - In '75 they became the first wildcard team to reach the finals
Q - Dallas Cowboys
A - This was the first US university to build a football stadium
Q - Harvard
A - This southern school's coach was the 1st to take a team to all 4 major
college bowl
Q - Georgia Tech
A - This team won the first AFL championship
Q - Houston Oilers
A - The first NFL club to televise all of its games
Q - Los Angeles Rams
A - The first indoor football game was held here
Q - Madison Square Garden
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FOOTBALL HODGEPODGE
A - This Florida State running back starred in 'The Longest Yard'
Q - Burt Reynolds
A - The number of teams in the Canadian Football League
Q - 9
A - The Bible verse most often seen on banners at football stadiums
Q - John 3 16
A - Former Vikings placekicker Fred Cox invented this 'spongy' toy
Q - Nerf ball
A - Of Australian, NFL & CFL football, this field's dimensions are 110 yards by
65 yards
Q - CFL Field
A - He's the only player to win the Heisman trophy twice
Q - Archie Griffin
A - He played the 'Gipper' in 'Knute Rockne, All American'
Q - Ronald Reagan
A - Under Bear Bryant they were 0-7-1 in Bowls from '67-'74 and 7-1 in their
next 8
Q - University of Alabam
A - 'Bear' Bryant's given name
Q - Paul
A - This pro football team is named after a mode of travel
Q - New York Jets
A - This onetime Oakland Raiders coach penned 'One size doesn't fit all'
Q - John Madden
A - This part of Lou Groza was cast in bronze for the football hall of fame in
'66
Q - His Toe
A - They were termed the 'Team of the '70's'
Q - Pittsburgh Steelers
A - This Bear kicked field goals in a record 24 consecutive games
Q - Kevin Butler
A - This comedy starred Goldie Hawn as the coach of a football team
Q - Wildcats
A - The kind of coin most often used by NFL officials at the start of a game
Q - Silver Dollar
A - Joe Cribbs abandoned this NFL team for the USFL
Q - Buffalo Bills
A - The only NFC team that hasn't retired a number
Q - Dallas Cowboys
A - This TV movie dramatized the death of the Chicago Bears' Brian Piccolo
Q - Brian's Song
A - These two pro football teams regularly meet in games dubbed 'The Battle For
Ohio'
Q - Bengals & Browns
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FOOTBALL HOMES
A - The only NFL team that plays its home games in two different stadiums each
year
Q - Green Bay Packers
A - This NFL team plays its home games in Irving
Q - Dallas Cowboys
A - This NFL team plays its home games in Foxboro
Q - New England Patriots
A - This NFL team plays its home games in Pontiac
Q - Detroit Lions
A - This field is the oldest stadium in the NFL
Q - Soldier Field
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FOOTBALL INFRACTIONS
A - Movement by any player across the line of scrimmage before the ball is
snapped
Q - Offsides
A - The penalty an official has just called if he places his hands on his hips
Q - Offsides
A - The penalty if an official places his palms together above his head
Q - Safety
A - The penalty if an official extends his thumb & moves the arm in an upward
motion
Q - Player Ejected
A - An official repeatedly moves his right foot into the back of his left foot
Q - Tripping
A - The penalty a football official has just called if he stands with arms
akimbo
Q - Offsides
A - An NFL referee is signalling this when he touches both hands to his
shoulders
Q - Loss of Down
A - An NFL team is penalized this number of yards for delay of game
Q - 5
A - The penalty if the official waves one hand behind his back
Q - Illegal Forward Pass
A - The penalty if an interior lineman moves after assuming a 3-point stance
Q - False Start
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FOOTBALL INITIALS
A - The initials 'NT' represent this position
Q - Nose Tackle
A - The initials 'HB' represent this position
Q - Halfback
A - The initials 'FL' represent this position
Q - Flanker
A - The initials 'DB' represent this position
Q - Defensive Back
A - The initials 'MG' represent this position
Q - Middle Guard
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FOOTBALL JOHNS
A - He was drafted by the Colts in 1983, but refused to play for them
Q - John Elway
A - He holds the record for touchdowns in a season with 24
Q - John Riggins
A - He was nicknamed 'The Tooz'
Q - John Matuszak
A - He was the first head coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Q - John Mckay
A - He was football's 'father of the forward pass'
Q - John Heisman
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FOOTBALL LEADERS
A - He led the NFL player's association as president during the 1982 strike
Q - Gene Upshaw
A - He led his team in receiving for 6 years and picked up 4 Super Bowl titles
Q - Lynn Swann
A - This Packers' end led the NFL in receptions 8 times during the '30s & '40s
Q - Don Hutson
A - He gained his 12,312 yards in just nine seasons
Q - Jim Brown
A - He has the record for most consecutive years as leader in all-purpose yards
Q - Thurman Thomas
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FOOTBALL MOSTS
A - This Brown had 308 consecutive pass attempts without an interception
Q - Bernie Kosar
A - This former Colt had 47 consecutive games with a touchdown pass
Q - Johnny Unitas
A - In '83 this Cowboy had a 99 yd TD run, the longest run from scrimmage
Q - Tony Dorsett
A - In his 26 NFL seasons he played in a record 340 games
Q - George Blanda
A - In '69 this Jet kicked a 98 yd punt, the longest in NFL history
Q - Steve Oneal
A - This Green Bay QB had the most consecutive passing attempts with no
interceptions
Q - Bart Starr
A - This NFL team holds the record for the most consecutive losses
Q - Tampa Bay Buccaneers
A - He has the record for the most seasons with 1,000 or more yards rushing
Q - Walter Payton
A - He holds the NFL record for touchdowns scored
Q - Jim Brown
A - He spent his 19 yr career as a Viking, the most anyone has been with 1 team
Q - Jim Marshall
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FOOTBALL NICKNAMES
A - It was Red Grange's haunting nickname
Q - Galloping Ghost
A - He became known as 'the assassin' after his paralyzing tackle of Darryl
Stingley
Q - Jack Tatum
A - This Pittsburgh Steelers running back was dubbed Prune Juice by his
teammates
Q - Rocky Bleier
A - Grantland Rice nicknamed their 1924 backfield the Four Horsemen
Q - Notre Dame
A - This NFL team boasted the no-name defense
Q - Miami Dolphins
A - This smooth-running Chicago Bears football player was dubbed Sweetness
Q - Walter Payton
A - This storied New York Giants quarterback was dubbred 'The Bald Eagle'
Q - Y A Tittle
A - This Chicago Bear was called 'Whirlwind of the Plains'
Q - Gayle Sayers
A - He was the 'Father of American Football'
Q - Walter Camp
A - He was football's 'Slingin' Sam'
Q - Sammy Baugh
A - This New York Giants linebacker is known simply as LT
Q - Lawrence Taylor
A - This Cornell rushing great was dubbed the Big M
Q - Ed Marinaro
A - Dallas Cowboys star Quarterback Roger Staubach's nickname
Q - Dodger
A - This NFL quarterback was dubbed the snake
Q - Ken Stabler
A - New York Jets wide receiver Johnny Jones is better known as this
Q - Lam Jones
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FOOTBALL NUMBERS
A - The number of fingers Terry Bradshaw needs for his Super Bowl rings
Q - 4
A - The number of referees in a professional football game
Q - 1
A - The number of Super Bowls that the Cowboys won with Roger Staubach as
quarterback
Q - 2
A - Lawrence Taylor went to the Pro Bowl this many times in his 1st 8 seasons
Q - 8
A - The Redskins scored this many 2nd quarter TDs in the '88 Super Bowl
Q - 5
A - The number of footballs a home team supplies for an NFL game
Q - 24
A - The number of undefeated college teams that Bear Bryant directed as a head
coach
Q - 4
A - The number of time outs an NFL team can call per half
Q - 3
A - The number of points an NFL team scored if a referee high-fives himself
Q - 2
A - The number of two-minute warnings given in a regulation NFL game
Q - 2
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FOOTBALL ONLYS
A - This NFL player is the only one to have two TD runs over 90 yards in a
career
Q - Bo Jackson
A - He is the only NFL coach to lead two different teams to the Super Bowl
Q - Don Shula
A - The only NFL player to score over 2,000 points hi his career
Q - George Blanda
A - The only NFL back to carry over 1000 times & average over 5 yards a carry
Q - Jim Brown
A - The only NCAA division I-A football program to be given the death penalty
Q - Southern Methodist University
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FOOTBALL PLAYERS
A - He led the USFL in rushing yards in its inaugural 1983 season
Q - Herschel Walker
A - Bum Phillips once checked a football for helium after his punts
Q - Ray Guy
A - He had 8 carries for 0 yards in his 1st game & becamse the all-time NFL
rusher
Q - Walter Payton
A - The QB of this team predicted their upset of the Colts in the '69 Super
Bowl
Q - New York Jets
A - The Texas legislature declared him an official 'legend' along with Davy
Crockett
Q - Earl Campbell
A - This Kansas RB average 6.5 yards a carry over 3 seasons of college play
Q - Gale Sayers
A - He relieved Early Morral in Baltimore's loss to the Jets in Super Bowl III
Q - Johnny Unitas
A - He threw the famed 'hail mary' pass
Q - Roger Staubach
A - He became the starting QB for the Vikings after Fran Tarkenton retired
Q - Tommy Kramer
A - This Bengal performed the 'Ickey Shuffle'
Q - Ickey Woods
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FOOTBALL PLAYS
A - A trick play takes its name from this famous statue
Q - Statue of Liberty
A - The QB holds onto the ball then throws to a back surrounded by blockers
Q - Screen Pass
A - Of a field goal and a punt, this play is measured from the line of
scrimmage
Q - Punt
A - A delayed, fake pass by the quarterback is called this
Q - Draw Play
A - The play that begins in 1 direction but ends up going the opposite
direction
Q - Reverse
A - Football's red dog became this
Q - Blitz
A - The term for a play in which the QB hides the ball on his hip and skirts an
end
Q - Bootleg
A -This involves the QB acting as if he's going to pass, but handing off to an
RB
Q - Draw Play
A - This last-second long pass needs divine intervention in order to succeed
Q - Hail Mary Pass
A - A defensive player tackles the quarterback for a loss of yards
Q - Sack
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FOOTBALL POSITIONS
A - A football player plays this position if he's last in line in the I
formation
Q - Halfback
A - This NFL position commands the highest average salary
Q - Quarterback
A - He lines up behind and to one side of the QB
Q - Halfback
A - In a single wing formation, the back who is deepest in the offensive
backfield
Q - Tailback
A - The position an NFL offensive player would play if he was wearing number 48
Q - Running Back
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FOOTBALL POTPOURRI
A - In '48 Fred Gehrke painted the first helmet logos for this NFL team
Q - Los Angeles Rams
A - In the 1960's, NFL linebacker Mike Henry portrayed this swinging screen
character
Q - Tarzan
A - This NFL quarterback made Richard Nixon's White House enemies list
Q - Joe Namath
A - The completion of the football adage: 'A punt, a pass and ...'
Q - Prayer
A - This NFL quarterback earned the nickname Two-Minute Tommy for his late-game
heroics
Q - Tommy Kramer
A - This entertainer annually presents the All-American team
Q - Bob Hope
A - This onetime Oakland football coach penned 'Hey, wait a minute (I wrote
that book)'
Q - John Madden
A - Due to the '82 NFL strike, these 2 teams made the playoffs with 4-5 records
Q - Browns & Lions
A - The New England Patriots used to be called this
Q - Boston Patriots
A - In '39 they lost all conference games, but in '40 were unbeaten & won the
Rose Bowl
Q - Stanford
A - This was the only NFL team to go undefeated in a season
Q - Miami Dolphins
A - Until '89 he was the only coach the Dallas Cowboys ever had
Q - Tom Landry
A - The number of NFL games played in the strike-shortened season of 1982
Q - 9
A - He QBed the 1st AFL team to win a Super Bowl, & '85 he made the hall of
fame
Q - Joe Namath
A - This NFL stadium's artificial playing surface was dubbed 'Mardi Gras'
Q - Louisiana Superdome
A - This former Nebraska player sued his lawyer to try to regain his Heisman
Trophy
Q - Johnny Rodgers
A - Former Boston College QB who sounds like a musical instrument
Q - Doug Flutie
A - This American football league franchise was dubbed the Titans in '61
Q - New York
A - This Steelers' QB was voted MVP of Super Bowls XIII & XIV
Q - Terry Bradshaw
A - The color of all of the NFL goal posts
Q - Yellow
A - In the 1988 season they went 1-15; in the 1992 season they beat the Bulls
in the Super Bowls
Q - Dallas Cowboys
A - Both of these NFL teams lost their first four Super Bowls
Q - Vikings & Broncos
A - This NFL team won the AFC central title in '85 with an 8-8 record
Q - Cleveland Browns
A - This January sporting event is tagged with Roman Numerals
Q - Super Bowl
A - Pop Warner & Jim Thorpe put this school on the football map
Q - Carlisle Indian School
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FOOTBALL TEAMS
A - This NFL team won 17 consecutive opening day games between 1965 and 1981
Q - Dallas Cowboys
A - The Jills jiggle for this NFL team
Q - Buffalo Bills
A - This NFL team's defensive line was once known as the purple people eaters
Q - Minnesota Vikings
A - The Sea-gals cheer for this NFL team
Q - Seattle Seahawks
A - The Derrick Dolls cheer for this NFL team
Q - Houston Oilers
A - This NFL team's dismal record was two wins and 14 lossers in '83, '85 and
'86
Q - Tampa Bay Buccaneers
A - The original 'Fearsome Foursome' played for this pro football team
Q - Los Angeles Rams
A - This NFL team featured the Hogs, the Smurfs and the Fun Bunch
Q - Washington Redskins
A - The New York Jets used to be called this
Q - New York Titans
A - 49er Jerry Rice caught his 101st career touchdown pass against this team
Q - Miami Dolphins
A - They beat the AFC Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl I
Q - Green Bay Packers
A - This NFL team was the 1st to have professional cheerleaders
Q - Dallas Cowboys
A - These 2 '87 NFL teams' backfields each boasted 2 Heisman winners
Q - Cowboys & Raiders
A - This Super Bowl winner's poster had a tuxedoed offenisve line with a huge
hog
Q - Washington Redskins
A - The 1st NFL team to offer banned track star Ben Johnson a tryout
Q - Dallas Cowboys
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FOOTBALL TERMS
A - The name of the 10 yards between the goal line & the end line
Q - End Zone
A - A pass that is backward or parallel to the line of play
Q - Lateral
A - The area between the offensive & defensive lines on the line of scrimmage
Q - Neutral Zone
A - Releasing a player to be claimed by another club or to become a free agent
Q - Waivers
A - A player in the neutral zone makes contact with an opponent befor the snap
Q - Encroachment
A - A legal pass intercepted & downed in the end zone
Q - Touchback
A - The gap in the line between the weak-side tackle & the split end
Q - Slot
A - The spacing between the offensive linemen is referred to as this
Q - Split
A - A player in his 1st season of pro ball who has not been on any other roster
Q - Rookie
A - When a QB is brought down for a loss of yardage while attempting a pass
Q - Sack
A - The touching of a loose ball in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain
possession
Q - Muff
A - The side of the offensive formation without the tight end
Q - Weak Side
A - The term used to describe a player with at least one year of experience
Q - Veteran
A - The long, underhanded toss, usually from a QB to a running back
Q - Pitchout
A - Illegal grabbing or grasping of another player
Q - Holding
A - The term for a quarterback's change of play called over center
Q - Audible
A - The area behind the offensive lineman wher the QB stands to pass
Q - Pocket
A - This NFL coach first coined the phrase 'game plan'
Q - Vince Lombardi
A - This football term was coined in '62 to define a defensive halfback
Q - Corner Back
A - A kick that is intentionally kicked low & makes the ball difficult to
handle
Q - Squib Kick
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FORBES LISTINGS
A - According to Forbes, this senior was the world's highest-paid golfer in '92
Q - Arnold Palmer
A - Forbes magazine listed him as the world's highest-paid tennis player of '92
Q - Andre Agassi
A - According to Forbes magazine, he was the world's highest-paid athlete in
'92
Q - Michael Jordan
A - Forbes magazine listed this 49er as the highest-paid football player of '92
Q - Joe Montana
A - The '91 Forbes determined him to be the world's highest paid team athlete
Q - Michael Jordan
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FRANCHISE FIRSTS
A - They were the first team to sweep the NBA finals
Q - Boston Celtics
A - This NFL team made the playoffs for the 1st time in their 21-yr history in
'87
Q - New Orleans Saints
A - This pro football team had its first losing season in 22 yrs in '87
Q - Dallas Cowboys
A - The first batter in Wrigley Field's first nighttime game did this
Q - Home Run
A - The 1st Cub to hit a homer during a night game at Wrigley Field
Q - Ryne Sandberg
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GOLF
A - Lee Trevino's fans are collectively called this
Q - Lees Fleas
A - A score that equals the standard established for the hole
Q - Par
A - A strategically placed depression in the ground filled with sand
Q - Bunker
A - An undesirable part of the course where a shot although legal is very
difficult
Q - Hazard
A - This 45-year-old became the oldest golfer ever to win a US Open in '90
Q - Hale Irwin
A - In which major golf tournament is only one course ever used
Q - Masters
A - The amen corner is located on this golf course
Q - Augusta National
A - This golf course has the famous road hole as its 17th
Q - St Andrews
A - This golfer has played in the Masters 44 times, more than anyone else
Q - Sam Snead
A - He holds the PGA tour record for career wins with 84
Q - Sam Snead
A - Golfers are asked to replace these
Q - Divots
A - In the 1st year of the Skins game, he 'outskinned' Palmer, Watson &
Nicklaus for $170,000
Q - Gary Player
A - This is the third grand slam event on golf's calendar
Q - British Open
A - This feature on a golf course is referred to as Egyptian Bermuda
Q - Sand Trap
A - He won six titles in a row on the international golf circuit in 1986
Q - Greg Norman
A - This amateur won the most British Opens
Q - Bobby Jones
A - According to Golf Digest, the odds of the average golfer doing this are
10,738 to 1
Q - Hole in One
A - The lowest score ever shot over 18 holes by a golfer in a PGA tournament
Q - 59
A - The first golfer to win the Masters two years in a row
Q - Jack Nicklaus
A - Golf great Jack Nicklaus studied this in college
Q - Pharmacy
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GOLF CLUBS
A - This golf club was once referred to as a mashie
Q - 5 Iron
A - This golf club is called a driving iron
Q - 1 Iron
A - This club was once referred to as a spoon
Q - 3 Wood
A - This is called a driver
Q - 1 Wood
A - This club was once referred to as a baffy
Q - 5 Wood
A - This golf club was once referred to as a brassie
Q - 2 Wood
A - This was once referred to as a cleek
Q - 4 Wood
A - This club is called a lofter
Q - 8 Iron
A - This club is a jigger
Q - 4 Iron
A - This golf iron was once referred to as a mid-mashie
Q - 3 Iron
A - The most used club in golf
Q - Putter
A - This company manufactures pro staff golf clubs
Q - Wilson
A - This club is used by a golfer to 'hit the nickel'
Q - 5 Iron
A - Of a four wood and a one iron, this golf club has the greater angle of loft
Q - 4 Wood
A - Thif golf club is called a Texas wdge when used in an unusual situation
Q - Putter
A - This golf club is used to hit hte first shot on a long hole
Q - Driver
A - This golf club is used on the green
Q - Putter
A - This club was once called a 'niblick'
Q - 9 Iron
A - Gene Sarazen invented this golf club in 1930
Q - Sand Wedge
A - Golfer Ben Crenshaw refers to this club as 'Little Ben'
Q - His Putter
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GOLF FACTS
A - The number of amateurs to win the masters
Q - 0
A - This grand slam golf tournament wasn't held between 1940 and 1945
Q - British Open
A - It's the youngest of golf's four major tournaments
Q - Masters
A - It's the oldest golf championship still being played
Q - British Open
A - Sam Snead left this golf-related job at age 22 to become a pro golfer
Q - Caddy
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GOLF FIRSTS
A - He was the first to shoot a score lower than his age in a PGA tournament
round
Q - Sam Snead
A - She was the first woman to make $1 million on the LPGA Tour during her
career
Q - Kathy Whitworth
A - In 1988, he became the first man to make $1 million on the PGA Tour in one
year
Q - Curtis Strange
A - He was the first man to the win both the US Open and Senior Open
Q - Arnold Palmer
A - In 1961, he became the first foreign-born player to win the Masters
Q - Gary Player
A - In 1979, he won the first sudden-death playoff in Masters history
Q - Fuzzy Zoeller
A - In '47 she was the first American to win the British Women's Amateur
Championships
Q - Babe Didrikson
A - She was the first woman golfer to amass $2 million in earnings
Q - Pat Bradley
A - In '68 he became the 1st golfer to shoot under par for all 4 rounds of a US
Open
Q - Lee Trevino
A - He became the first British player to win the US Masters
Q - Sandy Lyle
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GOLF GREATS
A - In 1960, this player birdied six of the last seven holes to win at Cherry
Hills
Q - Arnold Palmer
A - He holds the record for most PGA tournaments won in a year with 18
Q - Byron Nelson
A - This golfer has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated most frequently
Q - Jack Nicklaus
A - He was the first man to make $1 million on the PGA Tour during his career
Q - Arnold Palmer
A - He was the first man to make $5 million on the PGA Tour during his career
Q - Jack Nicklaus
A - This golfer has won the Masters six times, more than anyone else
Q - Jack Nicklaus
A - This hall of fame LPGA golfer is married to a baseball world series MVP
winner
Q - Nancy Lopez
A - This 1932 gold medal winner at the Olympics later won three US women's
opens
Q - Babe Didrikson
A - He's the only man to win the US Open in three different decades
Q - Jack Nicklaus
A - He won the British Open golf title five of the nine years ending in 1983
Q - Tom Watson
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GOLF HISTORY
A - Before the invention of wooden tees, golfers used this to tee up a ball
Q - Sand
A - The first masters was held in this year
Q - 1934
A - The first PGA championship was held in this year
Q - 1916
A - This former president's father was president of the US golf association
Q - George Bush
A - He became the first native of Augusta, Georgia to win the Masters golf
tournament
Q - Larry Mize
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GOLF HODGEPODGE
A - The golf score referred to as a sunset strip
Q - 77
A - Meteorologist Nils Liedwas on this surface when he drove a golf ball 2,604
yards
Q - Ice
A - This 46-year-old became the oldest golfer to ever win the Masters
Q - Jack Nicklaus
A - The area from which a golfer hits his first shot on each hole
Q - Tee Box
A - This Christmas catalog had a golf cart with TV, CD, video camera & phone
Q - Neiman Marcus
A - This golfer won eleven consecutive tournaments
Q - Byron Nelson
A - This is Jack Nicklaus' nickname
Q - Golden Bear
A - He has a PGA tour event named after him & authored 'Confessions of a
Hooker'
Q - Bob Hope
A - Rudyard Kipling painted his golf balls this color to play winter golf
Q - Red
A - Golf's early birds are called 'Dew-...' what
Q - Sweepers
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GOLF LINGO
A - Golf's nickname for the second crack at a first-tee drive, beloved by
hackers
Q - Mulligan
A - The golfing term for a righthanded golfer's straight drive that tails to
the left
Q - Draw
A - Golf jargon calls it a banana ball
Q - Bad Slice
A - A golfer does this if he has whiffed his ball
Q - Missed it
A - The golf jargon for a fairway bending to either the left or right
Q - Dogleg
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GOLF LOCATIONS
A - The Masters golf tournament is played in this city
Q - Augusta Georgia
A - More British Opens have been held at this course than anywhere else
Q - St Andrews
A - This US state has the fewest golf courses
Q - Alaska
A - The US state that's home to thhe Baltusrol Country Club
Q - New Jersey
A - This Texas city hosts golf's colonial invitational
Q - Fort Worth
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GOLF NATIONALITIES
A - Seve Ballesteros was born in this country
Q - Spain
A - Nick Faldo was born in this country
Q - England
A - Bernhard Langer was born in this country
Q - Germany
A - Sandy Lyle was born in this country
Q - Scotland
A - Greg Norman was born in this country
Q - Australia
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GOLF NICKNAMES
A - He's known as 'The Walrus'
Q - Craig Stadler
A - He's 'The White Shark'
Q - Greg Norman
A - They call him 'The Merry Mex'
Q - Lee Trevino
A - He's known as 'Slammin''
Q - Sam Snead
A - He's called 'The Hawk'
Q - Ben Hogan
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GOLF NUMBERS
A - The number of holes played in the US Masters Tournament
Q - 72
A - An eagle is this number of strokes under par
Q - 2
A - The number of female members at Augusta National Golf Club
Q - 0
A - The handicap of a 'scractch' golfer
Q - 0
A - The number of pars Nick Faldo had in the final round to win the '87
British Open
Q - 18
A - The maximum number of clubs you are allowed to carry in a golf match
Q - 14
A - The number of Masters jackets won by Arnold Palmer
Q - 4
A - The number of tee boxes traditionally in each golf hole
Q - 3
A - The number of golfers on each team in Walker Cup play
Q - 10
A - The number of strokes a golfer is penalized for grounding his club in a
hazard
Q - 2
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GOLF POTPOURRI
A - He was out of this world when he used a six iron and drove a golf ball 400
yards
Q - Alan Shepard
A - Frank Urban Zoeller is better known by this nickname
Q - Fuzzy
A - The color caps that caddies wear for the Masters golf tournament
Q - Green
A - He won the Atlanta classic on mother's day & the US Open on father's day in
'92
Q - Tom Kite
A - He helicoptered to 1 hole on 18 different Florida courses in a day
Q - Jack Nicklaus
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GOLF SCORING
A - Scoring one over par on a hole
Q - Bogey
A - Scoring two under par on a hole
Q - Eagle
A - Scoring one under par on a hole is called this
Q - Birdie
A - Scoring three under par on a hole
Q - Albatross
A - This score is a birdie on a par-4 golf hole
Q - 3
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GOLF SHOTS
A - The term for a ball that travels far but curves sharply to the left
Q - Hook
A - This type of golf shot is used near the green
Q - Chip
A - A shot made with a greatly reduced swing less than that for a half shot
Q - Quarter shot
A - A well-hit ball that travels far but tails off right at the end
Q - Fade
A - A swing that completely misses the ball
Q - Whiff
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GOLF TERMS
A - This would be an eagle on a par three golf hole
Q - Hole in One
A - Lee Trevino called it 'the biggest mulligan in golf'
Q - Senior Tour
A - The number of golf holes played when the golfer is 'at the turn'
Q - 9
A - It's an 'ace' in golf
Q - Hole in one
A - Golfers yell this to warn people the ball is coming
Q - Fore
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GOLF TOURNAMENTS
A - This is the oldest event on the PGA Tour
Q - US Open
A - This golf tournament was originally named the national invitation
tournament
Q - Masters
A - This Australian won the 1981 US Open golf title
Q - David Graham
A - Nick Faldo was the 1st Englishman to win this since Tony Jacklin in '69
Q - British Open
A - The first grand slam golf title won by Arnold Palmer
Q - Masters
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GOLFERS
A - This British golfer won his third British Open in '92
Q - Nick Faldo
A - This golfer was the PGA Tour's leading money winner five times in the 1970s
Q - Jack Nicklaus
A - He defeated Arnold Palmer in a playoff to win his 1st major tournament in
'62
Q - Jack Nicklaus
A - He was the leading money winner on the PGA Tour 5 times during the '40s
Q - Ben Hogan
A - This colorful golfer wore red socks while winning the '68 US Open
Q - Lee Trevino
A - This pot-bellied veteran golfer is known as Mr. X
Q - Miller Barber
A - He was the only golfer to win consecutive US Opens between 1937 and 1986
Q - Ben Hogan
A - This golfer is said to have 'become a legend in his spare time'
Q - Jack Nicklaus
A - He's the only golfer to win all four majors and the US Amateur
Q - Jack Nicklaus
A - Before teeing off, he often asked 'well, who's going to be second?'
Q - Walter Hagen
A - This golfer's errant tee-shots inspired fellow pros to dub him 'Ben of the
Jungle'
Q - Ben Crenshaw
A - As a 12-year-old she won the New Mexico state women's golf championship
Q - Nancy Lopez
A - His plane crashed on the course he was set to play on the next day in '66
Q - Tony Lema
A - He turned pro after winning the '61 US amateur golf title
Q - Jack Nicklaus
A - The first non-resident of the US to win the PGA golf championship
Q - Gary Player
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GOVERNING BODIES
A - In this sport the union internationale de tir calls the shots
Q - Shooting
A - The federation internationale de tir a l'arc is the governing body for
this sport
Q - Archery
A - The international casting federation governs this sport
Q - Fishing
A - This country's golfing is governed by the royal and ancient golf club
Q - Britain
A - This sport is governed by the USGA
Q - Golf
A - This popular sport's international governing body is known as FIFA
Q - Soccer
A - This sport is governed by FINA, the Federation Internationale de Natation
Amateur
Q - Swimming
A - The Maryland cricket club governed the rules of this racket sport in 1880
Q - Tennis
A - This sport's fine points are ruled on by the Federation Internationale
D'Escrime
Q - Fencing
A - These Olympic athletes have to abide by the rules of the fig
Q - Gymnasts
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HALL OF FAME
A - The basketball hall of fame is located here
Q - Springfield
A - The pro hockey hall of fame is located here
Q - Toronto
A - The college football hall of fame is located here
Q - Kings Mill
A - This hall of fame pitcher played his entire career with the Yankees
Q - Whitey Ford
A - This game boasts the oldest sports hall of fame in the U.S.
Q - Baseball
A - Only two of the first 161 players elected to baseball's hallf of fame wore
these
Q - Glasses
A - This pro football team has the most hall-of-famers
Q - Chicago Bears
A - This city is home to the swimming hall of fame
Q - Fort Lauderdale
A - The only man in both the pro football and the basketball halls of fame
Q - Amos Alonzo Stagg
A - He broke Ty Cobb's record by winning 98.8% of the vote to enter the hall of
fame
Q - Tom Seaver
A - He got the most votes the first year of voting for the baseball hall of
fame
Q - Ty Cobb
A - He was the first Jewish baseball hall of famer
Q - Hank Greenberg
A - The only tight end in the pro hall of fame
Q - Mike Ditka
A - The only person in the NCAA basketball hall of fame as a player & a coach
Q - John Wooden
A - This Yankee has the largest display in the national baseball hall of fame
Q - Babe Ruth
A - The first black player elected to the baseball hall of fame in Cooperstown
Q - Jackie Robinson
A - She was the first gymnast elected to the Olympic hall of fame
Q - Mary Lou Retton
A - The 1st Latin player elected to the hall of fame in Cooperstown
Q - Roberto Clemente
A - This Pirates slugger was the only one inducted in the Hall of Fame in '88
Q - Willie Stargell
A - The sole inductee in the international tennis hall of fame in '88
Q - Evonne Goolagong
A - The national baseball hall of fame is located in this city
Q - Cooperstown New York
A - The NFL hall of fame is located in this city
Q - Canton Ohio
A - The minimum tour victories a golfer must win to enter the LPGA hall of fame
Q - 30
A - He was the youngest player elected to the baseball hall of fame
Q - Sandy Koufax
A - This US senator is a member of the basketball hall of fame
Q - Bill Bradley
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HEISMAN WINNERS
A - He delivered an emotional speech praising the courage of his dying brother
Joey
Q - John Cappelletti
A - Barry Sanders played football for this college
Q - OSU
A - 1981 winner George Rogers played for this college
Q - University of South Carolina
A - This Heisman trophy winner returned his first NFL kickoff for a TD
Q - Tim Brown
A - He struck out 21 times in a row playing for Auburn
Q - Bo Jackson
A - This quarterback was Navy's second Heisman Trophy winner
Q - Roger Staubach
A - He first played collegiate ball at San Francisco Junior College
Q - OJ Simpson
A - This Notre Dame QB won despite playing only 50 min his 1st 2 yrs
Q - John Huarte
A - This RB's wife gave birth the night before he won the Heisman Trophy
Q - OJ Simpson
A - This Oregon State winner was on the president's commission of campus unrest
Q - Terry Baker
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HIT MEN
A - This baseball slugger smacked 364 major league homers between '77 and '86
Q - Mike Schmidt
A - This major league baseball player posted the most seasons with 35 or more
homers
Q - Babe Ruth
A - This former baseball great once pointed his bat to where he would hit the
ball
Q - Babe Ruth
A - This A's hitter had as many homers as the Red Sox 2 months into the '92
season
Q - Mark Mcgwire
A - This Tigers slugger was the 1st major leaguer in 13 yrs to hit over 50
homers
Q - Cecil Fielder
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HOCKEY
A - Credited to the 1 or 2 players who touch the puck last before a 3rd player
scores
Q - Assist
A - The first female to get a tryout with an NHL team, tried out for this
position
Q - Goalie
A - He has the record for longest consectutive playoff point-scoring streak
Q - Bryan Trottier
A - He coached the 1980 Olympic hockey team to the gold
Q - Herb Brooks
A - The only goalie in the NHL whose last name includes all five vowels
Q - John Vanbiesbrouck
A - The two colors of the lines in hockey
Q - Red & Blue
A - This NHL club won the season title each year from 1949 through 1955
Q - Detroit Red Wings
A - The only player to win the Hart, Lady Byng & Art Ross trophies in the same
year
Q - Stan Mikita
A - Referees in professional hockey used these before whistles
Q - Bells
A - This hockey team holds the record for the most minutes of penalties
Q - Philadelphia Flyers
A - Goalie Jacques Plante was the first to don this protective gear
Q - Mask
A - This team won 4 consecutive Stanley Cups from '80-'83
Q - New York Islanders
A - This NHL team appeared in 31 Stanley Cup championships
Q - Montreal Canadiens
A - He's the all-time winningest coach in NHL history
Q - Scotty Bowman
A - This Flyer holds the record for most penalty minutes in a season
Q - Dave Schultz
A - The only US player on a gold medal & winning Stanley Cup team the same yr
Q - Ken Morrow
A - This hockey essential is made of vulcanized rubber
Q - Puck
A - Toe Blake won the Stanley Cup this many times in his 1st 5 yrs with the
Canadiens
Q - 5
A - This caused play to halt 5 times in the 2nd period of an '88 Stanley Cup
Final
Q - Fog
A - The only US-based team to win the Stanley Cu pin the '60s
Q - Chicago Black Hawks
A - The base color of the Philadelphia Flyers' NHL pants
Q - Black
A - This color light signals that time has expired in an NHL period
Q - Green
A - Hockey players call it the pond
Q - Ice Surface
A - The color of the center line on an NHL hockey rink
Q - Red
A - He was the only NHL player to score more goals than Tim Kerr in the '86-87
season
Q - Wayne Gretzky
A - This NHL player scored the most points in a season
Q - Wayne Gretzky
A - He was the first marksman to win four consecutive NHL scoring championships
Q - Gordie Howe
A - This is done to NHL pucks before a game
Q - Frozen
A - The number of NHL teams to qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs
Q - 16
A - The number of games in an NHL regular season
Q - 80
A - The number of goals that one player must score in one game to have a 'hat
trick'
Q - 3
A - The number of officials on the ice during a hockey game
Q - 3
A - The only NHL goalie to register a season goals-against average of under
1.00
Q - George Hainsworth
A - This hockey player called the 'Golden Jet'
Q - Bobby Hull
A - Bobby Orr ended his career as part of this team
Q - Chicago Black Hawks
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HOCKEY AWARDS
A - This huge silver trophy is awarded to the champion of hte NHL
Q - Stanley Cup
A - Given to the most valuable player in the League
Q - Hart Trophy
A - Won by the NHL scoring champion
Q - Art Ross Trophy
A - Given to the player who most epitomizes sportsmanship & gentlemanly conduct
Q - Lady Byng Memorial Trophy
A - Given to the best defenseman in the league
Q - Norris Trophy
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HOCKEY GREATS
A - This superstar was voted for NHL's top defenseman eight consecutive seasons
Q - Bobby Orr
A - This starry left winger was the first NHLer to earn $100,00 a season
Q - Bobby Hull
A - He holds the record for most NHL records
Q - Wayne Gretzky
A - This superstar stunned the hockey world in 1972 by switching to the WHL
Q - Bobby Hull
A - This puckmaster played pro as an Aero, Red Wing and Whaler
Q - Gordie Howe
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HOCKEY HODGEPODGE
A - This NHL player won eight straight MVP awards
Q - Wayne Gretzky
A - The number of minutes in a period in professional hockey
Q - 20
A - During the 1981-82 NHL season they went 33-3-4 in Nassau Coliseum
Q - New York Islanders
A - This cartoonist was inducted into the US hockey hall of fame in '93
Q - Charles Schulz
A - Guy Lafleur came back with this NY NHL team after a 4 yr retirement
Q - New York Rangers
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HOCKEY TERMS
A - A player raises his stick above his torso or menaces another player with an
upraised stick
Q - High Sticking
A - An area that players are sent to if they are called for an infraction
Q - Penalty Box
A - A special one-on-one situation between the shooter and a goalie
Q - Penalty Shot
A - A player winds up with a backswing & wallops the puck with a hard shot on
goal
Q - Slap Shot
A - It's the 'Sin Bin' in hockey
Q - Penalty Box
A - The red line that goes from board to board at each end of a hockey ring
Q - Goal Line
A - Also calledthe biscuit on a hockey rink
Q - Puck
A - When one hockey team has more players on the ice than the other team
Q - Power Play
A - To block an opponent into the boards or onto the ice
Q - Check
A - When the referee drops the puck between two players to start play
Q - Face Off
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HODGEPODGE
A - Oliver Cromwell was denounced for playing this 'disreputable game'
Q - Cricket
A - The color ribbon usually awarded for second place
Q - Red
A - This type of Olympic swimming races start in the water
Q - Backstroke Races
A - The number of bolwing pins that face you if you've left a 'bread line'
Q - 4
A - These are raced in Alaska's Iditarod
Q - Dogsleds
A - This city is home to Churchill Downs
Q - Louisville
A - This sports venue is located atop the Pennsylvania railroad system
Q - Madison Square Garden
A - A badminton shuttlecock is nicknamed after this animal
Q - Bird
A - He was convicted of making illegal contributions for Nixon's reelection in
'74
Q - George Steinbrenner
A - The first US vs Canada curling match was held on this great lake
Q - Lake Erie
A - Major league baseball's oldest lefthanded pitcher in 1987, when he was 42
Q - Steve Carlton
A - This Japanese art features contestants in protective armor wielding bamboo
swords
Q - Kendo
A - Roman Emperor Theodosius I banned these competitions
Q - Olympic Games
A - This US cyclist became the first non-European to win the Tour de France
Q - Greg Lemond
A - Bill Russell coached this NBA team
Q - Seattle Supersonics
A - These are raced at the Hollywood World Classic each year in Florida
Q - Dogs
A - The direction your sled dogs go when you shout 'gee'
Q - Right
A - This Colorado resort includes Northeast Bowl, Riva Ridge, Rick's Ridge &
Forever
Q - Vail
A - The Florida Citrus Bowl football game was previously named for this fruit
Q - Tangerine
A - Water-loving competitors in Australia's moomba masters sport these on their
feet
Q - Water Skis
A - This renowned marathon was first held in 1897
Q - Boston Marathon
A - He was the first black to play for the US Davis Cup team in 1963
Q - Arthur Ashe
A - This sport has been called 'A pile of riches guarded by a pair of very
sharp horns'
Q - Bullfighting
A - This US state is home to the dog mushers' hall of fame
Q - Alaska
A - This pen company sponsors the annual World Series championship of women's
softball
Q - Bic
A - Japan's Mrs. Junko Tabei was the first woman to climb this
Q - Mount Everest
A - The two major types of competitive ice skating
Q - Figure & Speed
A - The 3 basic bets in horse racing, in order
Q - Wine Place Show
A - One-on-one racing on a straight track with long, skinny dragsters or funny
cars
Q - Drag Racing
A - The device which holds the ski boot to the ski
Q - Binding
A - In the mid-1960s, 3.5 million Americans were racing this type of car
Q - Slot Car
A - This is held on the second Saturday of August at Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio
Q - Soap Box Derby
A - This country's soccer team scored its first goal against Italy in 58 years
in '92
Q - US
A - The 1st to say it's 'not that you won or lost but how you played the game'
Q - Grantland Rice
A - Of baseball and football, this '80s pro sport strike lasted longer
Q - Football
A - Matthew Webb was the first to swim this European body of water in 1875
Q - English Channel
A - The number of approach steps usually taken before a bowling ball is
delivered
Q - 4
A - The color of the felt on most pool tables
Q - Green
A - The only players eligible to score points in roller derby are called this
Q - Jammers
A - This British skating duo's first names are Jayne and Christopher
Q - Torvill & Dean
A - This Chicago Bulls star began donating his Nikes to kids with serious
illnesses
Q - Michael Jordan
A - Surfers term these ankle-snappers, creamers, foamies and grinders
Q - Waves
A - College freshmen were allowed to play varsity football & basketball this
decade
Q - 1970
A - The number of skaters needed for a roller derby team
Q - 5
A - This U.S. yacht won the hundred Guineas Cup in 1851
Q - America
A - It was the name of the 1983 America's Cup winner
Q - Australia II
A - This is the preferred sequence of shots in returning a volleyball
Q - Bump Set Spike
A - Joe Dimaggio smashed his record by hiting safely in 56 consecutive games
Q - George Sisler
A - The number of points needed to win a handball game
Q - 21
A - Robert Rhodes, William Rhodes and James Rhodes share this nickname
Q - Dusty
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HOME AWAY FROM HOME
A - Their quarantine laws forced Equestrian events in the '56 games to be in
Stockholm
Q - Melbourne
A - The Rose Bowl was in this city in '42 due to fears of Japanese attack in
the west
Q - Durham North Carolina
A - The NY Yankees used this stadium '74-'75 while Yankee Stadium was being
renovated
Q - Shea Stadium
A - They had NBA home games in Houston, San Antonio, Waco & El Paso the '71-'72
season
Q - Houston Rockets
A - In '68-'69 this AL team played 20 home games at Milwaukee's County Stadium
Q - Chicago White Sox
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HOME GAMES
A - This major league baseball team plays its home games in Flushing
Q - New York Mets
A - This NBA team plays home games at the Hemisfair Arena
Q - San Antonio Spurs
A - This NBA team plays home games in the Salt Palace
Q - Utah Jazz
A - This NFL team plays its home games in Riverfront Stadium
Q - Cincinnati Bengals
A - This team's home court was the venue for the first NBA all-star game in
1951
Q - Boston Celtics
A - This professional football team plays home games in Joe Robbie Stadium
Q - Miami Dolphins
A - This college basketball team plays its home games in the Rosemont Horizon
Q - Depaul
A - The Milwaukee Brewers play their home games in this stadium
Q - Milwaukee County Stadium
A - This NFL team plays its home games in the world's largest indoor stadium
Q - New Orleans Saints
A - This NBA team started playing home games in the Delta Center in 1991
Q - Utah Jazz
A - The California Angels play their home games in this county
Q - Orange County California
A - The Texas Rangers play their home games in this city
Q - Arlington Texas
A - This baseball team plays its home games in Municipal Stadium
Q - Cleveland Indians
A - This NFL team plays home games at Soldier Field
Q - Chicago Bears
A - This NFL team plays home games in the Kingdome
Q - Seattle Seahawks
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HORSE RACING
A - He is the only jockey to ride two Triple Crown winners, Whirlaway &
Citation
Q - Eddie Arcaro
A - The blanket presented to the Derby winners has been made of this since 1904
Q - American Beauty Roses
A - This horse won the '73 Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths in a record time of
2:24
Q - Secretariat
A - This Triple Crown horse race was first run on May 17, 1875
Q - Kentucky Derby
A - This horse was named athlete of the year after winning the Triple Crown in
'73
Q - Secretariat
A - This famed English race course was founded by Queen Anne in 1711
Q - Ascot
A - The term 'quarter' in quarterhorse is short for this
Q - Quarter Mile
A - A racehorse's official birthday is this date
Q - January 1
A - This racehorse won the triple crown the year after Seattle Slew
Q - Affirmed
A - The fastest gait of a horse
Q - Gallop
A - Of pacers and trotters, they normally run faster
Q - Pacers
A - This kind of harness racing horses move both right legs forward at the same
time
Q - Pacers
A - In '72 this thoroughbred awas the first two-year-old named horse of the
year
Q - Secretariat
A - These racing horses wear hopples
Q - Pacers
A - The first horse to win the triple crown
Q - Sir Barton
A - This was the only race that Broker's Tip ever won
Q - Kentucky Derby
A - This was the only undefeated horse to win the Kentucky Derby
Q - Seattle Slew
A - The Preakness, Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes comprise this
Q - Triple Crown
A - The term for a thoroughbred's daddy
Q - Sire
A - On May 2, 1970 Diane Crump was the first female to compete in this race
Q - Kentucky Derby
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HORSES
A - This racehorse sired Alysheba
Q - Alydar
A - This horse is buried in the infield at Belmont Park
Q - Ruffian
A - Alydar finished second to this horse in all three triplecrown races of '78
Q - Affirmed
A - This horse danced to Kentucky Derby and Preakness wins in '64
Q - Northern Dancer
A - This thoroughbred took horse of the year for the 3rd straight year in '62
Q - Kelso
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JERSEY NUMBERS
A - This was Wilt Chamberlain's jersey number
Q - 13
A - This was Oscar Robertson's jersey number
Q - 1
A - This was Magic Johnson's jersey number
Q - 32
A - The number bruising NFL runner Earl Campbell wore
Q - 34
A - The number Michael Jordan wore
Q - 23
A - He wore 2 at home & 4 on the road for the Rockets because 24 was issued
Q - Rick Barry
A - Brian Piccolo's jersey number with the Chicago Bears
Q - 41
A - Auburn University retired his 34 jersey
Q - Bo Jackson
A - This number was shared by the '63 MVP's of the NL, AL & NFL
Q - 32
A - The starring QB for every Super Bowl team from '72-80 wore this number
Q - 12
A - The number worn by ill-fated Pittsburgh Pirates great Roberto Clemente
Q - 21
A - Larry Bird's number
Q - 33
A - Willie Mccovey, John Riggins and Hank Aaron all wore this number
Q - 44
A - Elston Howard, Sandy Koufax, Jim Brown and Gale Sayers all wore this number
Q - 32
A - NY Mets pitcher Sid Fernandez wore this number in honor of his native
Hawaii
Q - 50
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JOCKEYS
A - He rode Alysheba to Derby and Preakness wins in 1987
Q - Chris Mccarron
A - This jockey won 17 Triple Crown Races
Q - Eddie Arcaro
A - He rode Sunday Silence to Derby and Preakness wins in 1989
Q - Pat Valenzuela
A - This teenager rode King of Swat to a last place finish in his 1st race
Q - Steve Cauthen
A - He notched his 4th Kentucky Derby win aboard Ferdinand
Q - Willie Shoemaker
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LEAGUES
A - This sports league signed a five-year, $2 billion TV contract in 1982
Q - NFL
A - Norris, Patrick, Adams and Smythe make up the four divisions in this league
Q - NHL
A - Campbell and Wales are conferences in this league
Q - NHL
A - This league once had the Providence Steam Roller & Duluth Eskimos
Q - NFL
A - This pro sports league competes every year for the Larry O'Brien trophy
Q - NBA
A - This league signed a $3.64 billion deal over 4 yrs with 5 networks in '90
Q - NFL
A - The only major US sports league to hold the all-star game after the season
Q - NFL
A - Their original teams included Hartford, Philadelphia, Boston, St Louis &
New York
Q - NL
A - The Pittsburgh Pipers played in this pro sports league
Q - American Basketball Association
A - This pro football league challenged the AFL and the NFL in '66
Q - Continental Football League
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LETTERS
A - This letter indicates a strikeout on a baseball scorecard
Q - K
A - This letter dontes the least-skilled classification in racquetball
tournament play
Q - C
A - This letter adorns the front of the Detroit Tigers home baseball uniforms
Q - D
A - This football formation aligns the RBs inn single formation behind the QB
Q - I Formation
A - The draft classification of the entire St Louis Browns infield in '44
Q - 4F
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LOCATIONS
A - The yard line where the ceremonial coin flip takes place before NFL games
Q - 50
A - This is the smallest city with a national football league franchise
Q - Green Bay
A - The college World Series is played in this city
Q - Omaha Nebraska
A - The world's largest rodeo is held here
Q - Calgary
A - The original site of the US Open Tennis Championships
Q - Forest Hills
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LOGOS
A - This NFL's team's helmets feature three hypocycloids in the logo
Q - Pittsburgh Steelers
A - The Indianapolis Colts sport this on the sides of their helmets
Q - Horseshoes
A - The wing in the Detroit Red Wings' NHL crest emanates from this
Q - Wheel
A - The color of the Maple Leaf on the Toronto Blue Jays' caps
Q - Red
A - These appear on a Minnesota Vikings helmet
Q - Horns
A - It's worn over the Raiders' Warrior's right eye on the team's helmets
Q - Patch
A - This is shown on each side of the Hoston Oilers' helmets
Q - Oil Derrick
A - This Irish symbol appears on the Boston Celtics' warmup jackets
Q - Shamrock
A - These two teams have helmets on their helmets
Q - Raiders & Dolphins
A - The object that appears on the Dallas Cowboys' helmets
Q - Star
A - This is the only NFL team without an emblem on its helmet
Q - Cleveland Browns
A - It is the name of the emblem on the New Orleans Saints' helmets
Q - Fleur de Lis
A - He was used as the model for the official NBA logo
Q - Jerry West
A - This sits atop the bat in the New York Yankees' crest
Q - Tophat
A - The birds on the front of the St. Louis Cardinals' shirt use one of these
as a perch
Q - Bat
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LONGEVITY
A - He played in his 36th US Open in '92
Q - Jack Nicklaus
A - His reign as heavyweight champ lasted from 1919 to 1926
Q - Jack Dempsey
A - This boxer fought a record 255 heavyweight championship rounds
Q - Muhammad Ali
A - Rogers Hornsby played this infield position for 23 years
Q - 2nd Base
A - He played 3rd base for the Baltimore Orioles for 23 years
Q - Brooks Robinson
A - This Los Angeles Raider played in Super Bowls in three different decades
Q - Gene Upshaw
A - This football player's career encompassed parts of four decades
Q - George Blanda
A - This pro hockey player's career spanned five decades
Q - Gordie Howe
A - He announced that he would play in '93 for a ML record 27th season
Q - Nolan Ryan
A - He began his 50th season as Grambling's football coach in '92
Q - Eddie Robinson
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MAGAZINES
A - This Olympic team copped Sports Illustrated's Sportsman-of-the-Year honor
for 1980
Q - US Hockey Team
A - This magazine spotlights trading cards for baseball, hockey, racing, and
football in the same issue
Q - Tuff Stuff
A - The company that publishes Sports Illustrated
Q - Time Warner
A - The magazine that Time-Life lost $26 million on for 10 years before '64
Q - Sports Illustrated
A - Their 3,000 slides of the '88 summer Olympics were stolen from a van
Q - Sports Illustrated
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MANAGERS
A - He was the first manager of the New York Mets
Q - Casey Stengel
A - This baseball legend was the first maanger of the Texas Rangers
Q - Ted Williams
A - The first major league team Billy Martin managed
Q - Minnesota Twins
A - This baseball manager won a $100 bet by eating an 84-pound watermelon
Q - Tommy Lasorda
A - THe became the first maanger of the Colorado Rockies
Q - Don Baylor
A - This hall of famer was the maanger of the last Washington Senators baseball
team
Q - Ted Williams
A - This future manager-of-the-year lost 24 games as a pitcher for the Mets in
'62
Q - Richard Craig
A - He's the only baseball manager top win divisional titles with four
different teams
Q - Billy Martin
A - This managerial genius slugged Dave Boswell, one of his own pitchers, in
'69
Q - Billy Martin
A - He managed major league baseball player Cal Ripken Jr from 1987 to 1992
Q - Cal Ripken Sr
A - This famed baseball manager began his playing career in 1910 in Kankakee,
Illinois
Q - Casey Stengel
A - Don Zimmer managed them in '78 when they lost a 14-game lead over the
Yankees
Q - Boston Red Sox
A - This managerial genius led the New York Mets to 4 consecutive last-place
finishes
Q - Casey Stengel
A - This major league baseball team used to be managed by a rotation of coaches
Q - Chicago Cubs
A - He managed the first baseball team to win five successive pennants
Q - Casey Stengel
A - This Philadelphia Athletics baseball manager always wore a business suit at
games
Q - Connie Mack
A - He submitted a lineup with Lou Gehrig & Ted Williams for the Brewers in '87
Q - Tom Trebelhorn
A - This future Cubs manager went hitless in his first 33 times at bat as a Met
Q - Don Zimmer
A - They hired Yogi Berra after he was fired from the Yankees in '64
Q - New York Mets
A - He led the Blue Jays to 2 consecutive World Series victories in 1992 & 1993
Q - Cito Gaston
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MANUFACTURER
A - This company manufactures Maxfli golf balls
Q - Dunlop
A - Hillerich & Bradsby manufacture this famed bat
Q - Louisville Slugger
A - This brand tells golfers it's 'The Longest Ball'
Q - Top Flight
A - Titleist increased these to 384 in 1982
Q - Dimples
A - This company supplies the hoops in the annual world hula hoop contest
Q - Wham O
A - Daiwa, Shakespeare and Stren make equipment for this sport
Q - Fishing
A - This make of car has won the French Grand Prix the most times
Q - Ferrari
A - They celebrated the 75th anniversary of their 'Chuck Taylor All-Star' shoe
model
Q - Converse
A - This brand passed Adidas in '90 to become the world's 1 sneaker
Q - Nike
A - This athletic shoe company advertises: 'List is short -- Play hard'
Q - Reebok
A - This company manufactures the official major league baseballs
Q - Rawlings
A - This brand of golf ball is used by more PGA Tour pros than any other
Q - Titleist
A - This company manufactured dot golf balls
Q - Spalding
A - This Ohio-based sporting goods manufacturer is the purveyor of balls to the
NFL
Q - Wilson
A - This company manufactures top-flight golf balls
Q - Spalding
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MARTIAL ARTS
A - This martial art's name is translated into English as 'Empty Hand'
Q - Karate
A - The color belt worn by a beginner in Judo
Q - White
A - In Judo, this is the color belt above brown
Q - Blue
A - In North American Judo, it's the color belt between orange and blue
Q - Green
A - The Chinese art of self-defense
Q - Kung Fu
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MASCOTS
A - Rice and Temple Universities share their nicknames with this nocturnal
predator
Q - Owl
A - This ferocious animal is the most popular nickname for college football
teams
Q - Tiger
A - Animal that was the 1st mascot ever, for the U.S. Military Academy, at the
1899 Army-Navy game
Q - Mule
A - This southeastern conference school's football team's mascot is a bengal
tiger
Q - LSU
A - Judge, the mascot of Baylor's football team, is this kind of animal
Q - Bear
A - This professional team's mascot is a chicken
Q - San Diego Padres
A - Ted Giannoulas portrays this famous 'Mascot'
Q - San Diego Chicken
A - This mythical creature is the mascot for the University of Kansas
Q - Jayhawk
A - The University of Alabama's mascot, 'Big Al' is this kind of animal
Q - Elephant
A - This Big 8 college football team has a 4-legged mascot named Ralphie
Q - University of Colorado
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MEMORABLE TRADES
A - They traded a minor league catcher to the Atlanta Crackers for an announcer
in '48
Q - Brooklyn Dodgers
A - In '89 the Dallas Cowboys traded this running back for up to 12 players
Q - Herschel Walker
A - He was traded from the Cubs to the Tigers & back in the '87 season
Q - Dickie Noles
A - In '60 the 4th-place Indians exchanged this team member with the 6th-place
Tigers
Q - Manager
A - Charles Barkley left this NBA team for the Phoenix Suns
Q - Philadelphia 76ers
A - His NBA trade inspired the Philadelphia headline: 'The Mouth Goes South'
Q - Charles Barkley
A - His trade was likened to the Red Sox dealing Babe Ruth to the Yankees
Q - Jose Canseco
A - The Orioles traded this perfect game pitcher to the Yankees when he was
3-21 in '54
Q - Don Larsen
A - The 76ers traded this center to the Lakers in '68 for three players & cash
Q - Wilt Chamberlain
A - Sports Illustrated referred to his trade in an article titled: 'Woe,
Canada'
Q - Wayne Gretzky
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MILITARY TIES
A - This US three-star general competed in the pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics
Q - George S Patton Jr
A - The US Navy announced that he could not play in the NBA until the '89-90
season
Q - David Robinson
A - This general earned letters at West Point for football, soccer & wrestling
Q - Norman Schwarzkopf
A - This Laker was drafted by the army in the '61 season but got leave for the
playoffs
Q - Elgin Baylor
A - This Packer was drafted into the army in the '61 season & played on Sundays
Q - Paul Hornung
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MONIES
A - In January '79 he signed a 7-yr contract with the Red Sox worth $5.4
million
Q - Jim Rice
A - This Washington Bullets star was basketball's highest-paid player in 1986-
87
Q - Moses Malone
A - This sport's highest paid female in '86 were Ok-Hee Ku & Muffin Spencer-
Devlin
Q - Golf
A - Of the three major pro sports, this had the lowest average salary by '93
Q - Football
A - This team sport's average salary rose from $90,000 in 1982 to $230,000 in
1987
Q - Football
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MOSTS IN A SEASON
A - This Redskin had the most receptions in a single season with 106 in '84
Q - Art Monk
A - This Giant kicked the most field goals in a season with 35 in '83
Q - Ali Haji Sheikh
A - He had the most sacks in a season with 22 as a Jet in '84
Q - Mark Gastineau
A - He completed the most passes in a season with 404 as an Oiler in 1991
Q - Warren Moon
A - This Ram caught the most interceptions in a season with 14 in '52
Q - Dick Night Train Lane
A - This Oiler QB had the most pass attempts in a single season with 655 in '91
Q - Warren Moon
A - This Packer scored the most points in a single season with 176 in '60
Q - Paul Hornung
A - This Redskin had the most touchdowns in a single season with 24 in '83
Q - John Riggins
A - He gained the most yards rushing in a season with 2,105 as a Ram in '84
Q - Eric Dickerson
A - This Dolphin passed for the most yards in a season with 5,084 in '84
Q - Dan Marino
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MOVIES
A - This boxer was originally slated to oppose Sylvester Stallone in 'Rocky'
Q - Joe Frazier
A - The gridiron warrior who was the subject of the movie 'Fighting Back'
Q - Rocky Bleier
A - He portrayed Alex Karras in the movie 'Paper Lion'
Q - Alex Karras
A - This movie was set against Super Bowl X
Q - Black Sunday
A - Tom Cruise tried to win a scholarship to escape his small town in this '83
movie
Q - All the Right Moves
A - Warren Beatty played a pro football player for this team in 'Heaven Can
Wait'
Q - Los Angeles Rams
A - A '77 movie starring Robby Benson about the hype & pressure of college
basektball
Q - One on One
A - Dr. J & Kareem Abdul-Jabbar appeared in 'The Fish That Saved...' this city
Q - Pittsburgh
A - Gene Hackman is the coach of a school in Indiana up against unbelievable
odds
Q - Hoosiers
A - This '80 movie was about a handicapped man & a volatile, ball-playing
dreamer
Q - Inside Moves
A - In this movie Kevin Costner was told 'If you build it they will come'
Q - Field of Dreams
A - Glenn Ford played this golf legend in "Follow the Sun' in 1951
Q - Ben Hogan
A - Alan Alda portrayed George Plimpton in this movie
Q - Paper Lion
A - This actor played Rocky Balboa's trainer
Q - Burgess Meredith
A - He played the title role in 'Knute Rockne, All American'
Q - Pat Obrien
A - They are Wayne and Garth's favorite hockey team in 'Wayne's World'
Q - Chicago Black Hawks
A - Billy Crystal wore this American League baseball team's cap in 'City
Slickers'
Q - New York Yankees
A - This '51 movie with Janet Leigh had Angels here
Q - In the Outfield
A - This movie location is found in Dyersville, Iowa
Q - Field of Dreams
A - Sport central to 'It Happens Every Spring,' 'Fear Strikes Out' & 'Eight Men
Out'
Q - Baseball
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MULTI-TEAMED CITIES
A - This city is home to the Mariners, Seahawks and Supersonics
Q - Seattle
A - This city is home to the Heat, the Hurricanes and the Marlins
Q - Miami
A - This city has the Bears, the White Sox and the Cubs
Q - Chicago
A - This city has the Rockets, the Owls, the Cougars and the Astros
Q - Houston
A - This city has the Hawks, the Falcons and the Braves
Q - Atlanta
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MUSIC
A - This Roman Emperor introduced music as a competition at the ancient
Olympics games
Q - Nero
A - Ice dancers Torvill & Dean skated to this ravel work at the '84 winter
games
Q - Bolero
A - New York Mets announcer Ralph Kiner once called this song the 'New York
Anthem'
Q - Star Spangled Banner
A - ABC used this Jerry Lee Lewis song on its closing highlights for pro
bowling
Q - Great Balls of Fire
A - It had the Beach Boys singing: 'Catch a wave & you're sitting on top if the
world'
Q - Surfing
A - This Tigers forced Jack Morris to turn off this Russian composer
Q - Tchaikovsky
A - Katarina Witt & Debi Thomas skated to this Bizet opera's music in '88
Q - Carmen
A - The '80 hockey team sang this patriotic song after beating the Soviets
Q - God Bless America
A - This L A Laker has scouted jazz bands for MCA Records
Q - Kareem Abdul Jabbar
A - The Mets sang this Irving Berlin song after taking the '69 world series
Q - God Bless America
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MUSICAL NAMES
A - Texas Rangers' pitcher and pop-country star
Q - Kenny Rogers
A - Journeyman infielder and Doors lead singer
Q - Jim Morrison
A - Georgetown basketball guard, Seahawk linebacker & single-gloved mega-star
Q - Michael Jackson
A - Sports announcers and 'The hardest-working man in show business'
Q - James Brown
A - Shoeless baseball legend and British singer
Q - Joe Jackson
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MVPS
A - This St Louis Cardinal baseball player earned MVP honors in '43, '46 & '48
Q - Stan Musial
A - He was MVP of the 1988 World Series
Q - Orel Hershiser
A - Of the first 6 Super Bowl MVP awards, this number went to QBs
Q - 5
A - This Florida QB was the 1st Sugar Bowl MVP from a losing team
Q - Steve Spurrier
A - This linebacker is the only member of a losing team to be Super Bowl MVP
Q - Chuck Howley
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NAME THE SPORT
A - The magazine 'Bird Chatter' is devoted to this sport
Q - Badminton
A - Cycling, running and swimming make up this type of competition
Q - Triathlon
A - This kind of court boasts a cut line, service box and telltale
Q - Squash Court
A - This sport lifted its skirts for the start of the 1983 season
Q - Formula One Auto Racing
A - These sportsmen wear chest-protecting plastrons under a jacket
Q - Fencers
A - This sport was banned in Florida after a Michigan man fell to his death
Q - Bungee Jumping
A - This sport is central in the 1970 movie 'The Endless Summer'
Q - Surfing
A - This is sometimes known as sidewalk surfing
Q - Skateboarding
A - This sport is the 'spiritual parent' of skateboarding & snowboarding
Q - Surfing
A - This sport's hall of fame is located in Newport, Rhode Island
Q - Tennis
A - This sport has been described as 'Lawn Bowling on Ice'
Q - Curling
A - This sport's races include the Tour of Italy, the Tour of Spain, and the
Milk Race
Q - Cycling
A - This sport's female professionals compete on the LPBT tour
Q - Bowling
A - This baseball-like game was described in Britain's 'The Boy's Own Book' in
1832
Q - Rounders
A - This event gives Picadors and Banderilleros the chance to do their thing
Q - Bullfighting
A - This sport has the most on sport magazine's 9 highest paid athletes of '90
Q - Boxing
A - This sport is played in Budweiser's three-on-three challenge
Q - Basketball
A - In '61 this sport became the first to benefit from instant replay
Q - Football
A - Billy Mills was training for this contact sport when he discovered running
Q - Boxing
A - The St Louis Stars & the California Clippers played this sport
Q - Soccer
A - This sport attracts the largest number of paying customers in the US
Q - Horse Racing
A - Bill James analyzes this sport yearly in excruciating stastical detail
Q - Baseball
A - This racket sport holds an annual singles championship for players over 80
Q - Squash
A - This sport has a jury director who warns 'en garde' at the start of a match
Q - Fencing
A - This sport's matches are divided into chukkers
Q - Polo
A - School or compuslory figures are used in this sport
Q - Ice Skating
A - Scott Hamilton is noted for this sport
Q - Ice Skating
A - It's the sport of descending a rock surface
Q - Rapelling
A - Eskimo rolls are performed in this sport
Q - Kayaking
A - Mary Decker, Evelyn Ashford & Renaldo Nehemiah are known for this sport
Q - Running
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NAMES
A - On the reservation back in Oklahoma, he was known as drag-his-root
Q - Jim Thorpe
A - This boxer's name translates as 'Praiseworthy, the Most High'
Q - Muhammad Ali
A - The unofficial name of the '66 season's NFL - AFL championship game
Q - Super Bowl
A - The most common last name among players selected for the NFL Pro Bowl
Q - Green
A - This 1966 Heisman Trophy winner's initials are S.O.S.
Q - Steven Orr Spurrier
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NAMESAKES
A - Goodyear names its blimps for this sporting cup's winners
Q - America's Cup
A - This hockey team was named for a Disney movie
Q - Mighty Ducks
A - The only major league professional team named for an insect
Q - Charlotte Hornets
A - This NFL football team was named after its city's petroleum industry
Q - Houston Oilers
A - This football team was named after a wild west showman & buffalo hunter
Q - Buffalo Bills
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NBA COACHES
A - Fans dubbed this NBA coach 'Nellie'
Q - Don Nelson
A - He charged on the court in '91, knocked down a player, was ejected & fined
Q - Del Harris
A - This NBA coach trademarked the term 'Three-peat'
Q - Pat Riley
A - He had a doghouse in the locker room with little dolls for players in
trouble
Q - Bill Fitch
A - He grabbed a referee dummy from the chicken & began kicking & stomping on
it
Q - Dick Motta
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NEWSPAPERS
A - This tabloid is considered the bible of baseball
Q - Sporting News
A - This tennis star inspired two British tabloids to introduce a 'gruntometer'
Q - Monia Seles
A - This paper said the Mets were 'spoiled 20-year-old millionaires with good
throwing arms'
Q - New York Post
A - This sports daily called it quits after dropping $100 million its first 18
months
Q - National
A - This newspaper started publishing its own 'baseball weekly' in '90
Q - USA Today
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NICKNAMES
A - Felix Blanchard is more commonly known by this nickname
Q - Doc
A - The nickname of Olympic multi-gold medal winner Mildred Didrikson
Q - Babe
A - He got his nickname for the way he played a kind of street soccer called
'Pelada'
Q - Pele
A - This Italian skier was dubbed 'La Bomba'
Q - Alberto Tomba
A - The nickname of versatile sports star Vincent Edward Jackson
Q - Bo
A - This sportsman was nicknamed the Silent Shoe
Q - Willie Shoemaker
A - He was dubbed the Hitler of Chess
Q - Bobby Fischer
A - This figure skater was dubbed the Norwegian Doll
Q - Sonja Henie
A - Poolshark Rudolph Wanderon Jr is known by this nickname
Q - Minnesota Fats
A - This female drag racer was dubbed 'Cha-Cha'
Q - Shirley Muldowney
A - Juan Rodriguez is better known as this
Q - Chi Chi Rodriguez
A - The NFL coach was dubbed the Reverend TL by his congregation of athletes
Q - Tom Landry
A - This race car driver is known as the King of the Stockers
Q - Richard Petty
A - Swim sensation Clarence Crabbe answered to this nickname
Q - Buster
A - Basketball sharpshooter Pete Maravich's nickname
Q - Pistol Pete
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NO-HITTERS
A - He was the first pitcher to throw an opening day no-hitter
Q - Bob Feller
A - He threw the first no-hitter in World Series history
Q - Don Larsen
A - He pitched a no-hitter to clinc the '86 NL west title for the Houston
Astros
Q - Mike Scott
A - This one-armed pitcher threw a no-hitter in 1883
Q - Hugh Daily
A - This one-handed pitcher threw a no-hitter for the Yankees in '93
Q - Jim Abbott
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NOLAN RYAN
A - Nolan Ryan's 300th win was against this team
Q - Milwaukee Brewers
A - He was Nolan Ryan's 5,000th strikeout
Q - Rickey Henderson
A - He holds the record for most consecutive starts without this
Q - Relief
A - Former VP, called young at 44, who loved hearing of Nolan Ryan as 'mature &
well-seasoned' at that age
Q - Dan Quayle
A - He has hit the most homers off of Nolan with 6
Q - Will Clark
A - He charged Nolan after being hit by a pitch in 1993
Q - Robin Ventura
A - This Texas city is home to Nolan
Q - Alvin
A - The team that Nolan went to the World Series with
Q - New York Mets
A - After 8 years with the Angels this owner paid Ryan $1 million to be an
Astro
Q - John Mcmullen
A - Ryan has a career .110 batting average while hitting two of these
Q - Home Run
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NUMBER OF PLAYERS
A - The number of players on a rugby team
Q - 15
A - The number of players on a soccer team
Q - 11
A - The number of players on a lacrosse team
Q - 10
A - The number of players on a volleyball team
Q - 6
A - The number of players on a hockey team
Q - 6
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NUMBER OF TEAMS
A - The number of NHL teams in the league as of the 1993 season
Q - 26
A - The number of teams in the NBA in 1993
Q - 27
A - The number of teams in the NFL in the 1993 season
Q - 28
A - The number of major league baseball teams in the 1993 season
Q - 26
A - The number of teams the American Football League had in its 1st season
Q - 8
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NUMBERS
A - The number of major league baseball, NFL & NBA teams that play at home in
Texas
Q - 7
A - A doubles court is this many feet wider than a singles tennis court
Q - 9
A - This score in darts is dubbed sunset strip
Q - 77
A - Of 16, 20 or 24, this number makes up the maximum Kentucky Derby field
Q - 20
A - The number of attempts each Caber-Tosser makes to determine his best
distance
Q - 3
A - The number of members on a synchronized swimming team in major competitions
Q - 8
A - The number of points a goal is worhth in Australian rules football
Q - 6
A - The maximum number of sets it can take to decide a volleyball match
Q - 5
A - An end in archery is either 3 or this many shots
Q - 6
A - The number of circles of color in an archery target
Q - 5
A - The number of races run per year at the Indianapolis Speedway
Q - 1
A - The number of times St Louis pitcher Bob Gibson was World Series MVP
Q - 2
A - The number of darts thrown by each side in a turn of tournament darts
Q - 3
A - The highest possible score in figure skating
Q - 6
A - The number of stumps that a cricket wicket has
Q - 3
A - The number of walls that a good serve can hit before bouncing in
racquetball
Q - 2
A - The number of officials in a volleyball match
Q - 1
A - The number of games that must be won in a regulation set of tennis
Q - 6
A - As of '93, the number of Triple Crown winners in horse racing
Q - 11
A - The number of states that are home to more than one NFL football team
Q - 6
A - The maximum number of letters in a race horse's name
Q - 18
A - The number of players on a cricket team
Q - 11
A - The number of games in an NFL regular season
Q - 16
A - The number of games in a baseball season
Q - 162
A - The number of games in an NBA season
Q - 82
A - A player must strike out this many times in a game to win the 'Silver
Sombrero'
Q - 4
A - The number of hurdles a 400-meter hurdler has to contend with
Q - 10
A - The number of tosses a pitcher is given in each inning of horseshoes
Q - 2
A - The number of players on an arena football team on the field at one time
Q - 8
A - Dennis Conner had to win this many races in the finals of the '87 America's
Cup
Q - 5
A - The number of strikes each player gets per turn in a game of conkers
Q - 3
A - The number of points a leaner is worth in horseshoe pitching
Q - 2
A - The number of white balls used in a game of pocket billiards
Q - 1
A - The number of times the baton is passed by a relay team with four runners
Q - 3
A - The number of individual events in a heptathlon
Q - 7
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ODDITIES
A - Former Giant Johnny Lemaster heard this word so much he once wore it on his
jersey
Q - Boo
A - They hosted the only indoor rain-out in NBA history
Q - Seattle Supersonics
A - Puddles from an ice rink under the parquet here forced a timeout to last 25
days
Q - Boston Garden
A - Ursinus College has this unique item in its football endzone
Q - Tree
A - Midget Eddie Gaedal had this number of career at-bats
Q - 1
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OFFICIALS
A - This NFL official packs a .22 caliber pistol
Q - Field Judge
A - Of the head linesman, referee or field judge, he would call roughing the
passer
Q - Referee
A - Of the umpire, head linesman or referee he signals all fouls
Q - Referee
A - He monitors equipment, conduct & actions at the line of scrimmage
Q - Umpire
A - Of the referee, umpire or lineman, he is charged with recording the score
Q - Umpire
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OLDER ATHLETES
A - This 41-yr-old won the Wimbledon men's singles in 5 hours & 12 mins in '69
Q - Pancho Gonzales
A - This hockey great was 52 years young when he retired as a pro player
Q - Gordie Howe
A - This 40-year-old QB was released by the Los Angeles Raiders in '88
Q - Jim Plunkett
A - This bald 42-yr-old heavyweight un-retired in '87 to KO Larry Sims in the
2nd
Q - Ernie Shavers
A - This stock car driver became the first 50-year-old to win a 500-mile race
Q - Bobby Allison
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OLYMPIC ABBREVIATIONS
A - This country's official Olympic abbreviation was URS
Q - Soviet Union
A - This country's Olympic abbreviation is ESP
Q - Spain
A - This country's official Olympic abbreviation is BAR
Q - Barbardos
A - This country's official Olympic abbreviation is CAN
Q - Canada
A - This country's Olympic abbreviation is ISL
Q - Iceland
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OLYMPIC COLORS
A - The number of colors on an Olympic flag
Q - 6
A - The upper left Olympic ring is this color
Q - Blue
A - The color of the middle Olympic ring
Q - Black
A - The color flag that signifies an Olympic walker has been disqualified
Q - Red
A - The color of Carl Lewis' shoes when sprinting to victory at the '84
Olympics
Q - White
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OLYMPIC COUNTRIES
A - This South American country won the last two Olympic gold medals awarded in
polo
Q - Argentina
A - This country's team has won the Olympic water polo tournament the most
Q - Hungary
A - The only country to participate in every modern summer & winter Olympics
Q - England
A - They marched behind 12 separate flags at the '92 Summer Olympics' opening
ceremony
Q - Unified Team
A - The only non-communist nation to finish in the '80 summer top 8 medal count
Q - Italy
A - This country's '88 basketball squad was mummified by the US 102-35
Q - Egypt
A - The US men's squad upset this country's top-rated gymnastics team in '84
Q - China
A - This country's basketball team won the gold medal in '80 in Moscow
Q - Yugoslavia
A - This country won the most gold medals at the '84 winter Olympics
Q - East Germany
A - This country's '88 winter Olympics team included Prince Albert
Q - Monaco
A - The US defeated this country in baseball in the '88 Olympic finals
Q - Japan
A - Allen Wells won their 1st Olympic gold medal since Eric Liddell
Q - Scotland
A - Olympic gold medal distance runner Peter Snell called this country home
Q - New Zealand
A - After the '88 games the IOC gave $2 mil to this country to 'catch up'
competitively
Q - South Africa
A - This country won the gold medal in men's team gymnastics in '84
Q - United States
A - Of first, middle or last, it's where the host marches in the opening
ceremonies
Q - Last
A - This country's olympic abbreviation is SUI
Q - Switzerland
A - The Soviet Union won 10 medals in volleyball between 1964 & 1988; this
country won 10
Q - Japan
A - This country's olympic abbreviation is ARS
Q - Saudi Arabia
A - This Asian country won the demonstration baseball games at the '84 summer
olympics
Q - Japan
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OLYMPIC EVENTS
A - Bonnie Blair won two gold medals for this sport
Q - Speed Skating
A - This racket sport debuted at the Barcelona Olympics as a full-medal
competition
Q - Badminton
A - This Olympic event pitted Japan's Midori Ito against Kristi Yamaguchi of
the US
Q - Figure Skating
A - This event won Trent Dimas an Olympic gold medal
Q - High Bar
A - Wyomia Tyus won unprecedented back-to-back victories in this event
Q - 100 Yard Dash
A - Jim Thorpe won gold medals in the 1912 Olympics for the pentathlon and this
Q - Decathlon
A - This type of handball is an Olympic event
Q - Field handball
A - This Olympic event includes riding, fencing, shooting, swimming and running
Q - Modern Pentathlon
A - Greco-Roman is a type of this Olympic sport
Q - Wrestling
A - Platform and springboard are two types of competition in this olypic sport
Q - Diving
A - Competitors in this Olympic single event use equipment made by Anschutz &
Remington
Q - Shooting
A - This sport boasts the Olympic event held over the longest distance
Q - Cycling
A - This men's athetlic event was won at the 1984 Olympics with a result of
2.35 meters
Q - High Jump
A - These 2 single-event athletic competitions measure vertical distance
Q - Hi Jump & Pole Vault
A - This Olympic skiing event must be held on two different courses
Q - Slalom
A - The Olympic sport has been called 'Ballet in Water'
Q - Synchronized Swimming
A - This ball sport was dropped from the Olympics after the first seven modern
games
Q - Tennis
A - Considered the most physically-demanding Olympic event
Q - Decathlon
A - These Olympic competitors are protected by chestguards, armguards and
finger tabs
Q - Archers
A - This event and swimming requires competitors to travel backwards to win
Q - Rowing
A - This competition sees the use of a pommel horse, rings and parallely bars
Q - Gymnastics
A - Debi Thomas won this medal for figure skating at the '88 winter games
Q - Bronze
A - In this sport, athletes are required to mop up their sweat during games
Q - Volleyball
A - Kennedy Mckinney & Ray Mercer won gold medals in this sport in Seoul
Q - Boxing
A - This sport saw China's Ning Li Nimbly nab 5 medals at the '84 olympics
Q - Gymnastics
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OLYMPIC FIRSTS
A - He was the first US figure skater to win an olympic gold medal
Q - Dick Button
A - The winter olympics were held for the first time in this year
Q - 1924
A - She won the 1st women's marathon contested during olympic competition
Q - Joan Benoit
A - The first athlete to win 5 individual gold medals at one olympiad
Q - Eric Heiden
A - He was the 1st US athlete to make 4 Olympic diving teams
Q - Greg Louganis
A - She was the first gymnast to be awarded a score of 10 in the olympics
Q - Nadia Comaneci
A - This made the first appearance at the 1912 olympics
Q - Women's athletics
A - The first verified olympics in 776 BC were dedicated to this god
Q - Zeus
A - This was the first country to host the summer and winter olympics in the
same year
Q - France
A - She became the first woman to reach the finals in all four olympic
gymnastic events
Q - Mary Lou Retton
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OLYMPIC LOCATION
A - It's the smallest country to have hosted the summer olympics
Q - Finland
A - This country hosted the olympic games held at Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Q - Germany
A - This city hosted what were hyped as the 'Serenity Olympics'
Q - Munich
A - The 1932 summer olympics were held in this US city
Q - Los Angeles
A - This city will host the 1996 summer olympics
Q - Atlanta
A - The first US city to host a summer olypics
Q - St Louis
A - This European city hosted the '92 summer olympics
Q - Barcelona
A - This city hosted the olympics when the slalom was run on Mt. Bjelasnica
Q - Sarajevo
A - The first Latin American city to host an olympics competition
Q - Mexico City
A - This city's olympic games were officially opened by president Schaerf
Q - Innsbruck
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OLYMPIC MEDALS
A - The US hockey team defeated this team in 1980 to win the gold medal
Q - The Soviet Union
A - He was the winning pitcher in the 1988 Olympic gold medal baseball game
Q - Jim Abbott
A - Joan Benoit won this race at the 1984 summer Olympics
Q - Women's Marathon
A - This welterweight proclaimed after winning Olympic gold 'this is my last
fight'
Q - Sugar Ray Leonard
A - She was the youngest female gold medalist
Q - Barbara Jones
A - She won the heptathlon in the '92 olympics
Q - Jackie Joyner Kersee
A - She was the first African-American woman to win 3 olympic gold medals
Q - Wilma Rudolph
A - His swimming victory in Barcelona made him the oldest gold medalist at 27
Q - Pablo Morales
A - This female swimmer earned 3 individual gold medals in '88
Q - Janet Evans
A - This US long jumper won gold in two consecutive olympics
Q - Carl Lewis
A - The 1st African-American woman to win a medal in the winter Olympics
Q - Debi Thomas
A - The US female speed skater won gold at the '88 &'92 winter Olympics
Q - Bonnie Blair
A - The only American skier to medal at the 1980 Olympics
Q - Phil Mahre
A - This Britoon won the gold for the 1,500-meter race at the '80 & '84
Olympics
Q - Sebastian Coe
A - He won the gold medal for figure skating at the '88 Olympics
Q - Brian Boitano
A - This 17-year-old won the US and Olympic decathlon championship in '48
Q - Bob Mathias
A - This heavyweight champ won the bronze medal for the U.S. in 1984
Q - Evander Holyfield
A - This long jumper won medals at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics
Q - Ralph Boston
A - The only American man to win the Olympic gold medal in the marathon
Q - Frank Shorter
A - This former Soviet Olympian was hired to teach gymnastics in Norcross,
Georgia
Q - Olga Korbut
A - This figure skater received 35,000 love letters after the '84 olympics
Q - Katarina Witt
A - This American took the heptathlon & long jump gold medals in Seoul
Q - Jackie Joyner Kersee
A - The 1st olympic medal winner to win the world heavyweight title
Q - Floyd Patterson
A - His '36 olympic broad jump record lasted until '60
Q - Jesse Owens
A - Jeff Farrell had surgery for this 6 days before anchoring the gold team in
'60
Q - Appendectomy
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OLYMPIC MOMENTS
A - This swimmer won 7 gold medals in the 1972 Olympics
Q - Mark Spitz
A - This communist country battled with Russia in a vicious water polo match in
'56
Q - Hungary
A - This Olympic goalie wrapped himself in an American flag
Q - Jim Craig
A - This communist leader wore a tie at the Carcelona Olympics' opening
ceremony
Q - Fidel Castro
A - This nation won hockey gold at the 1960 winter Olympics
Q - The United States
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OLYMPIC NUMBERS
A - The number of fletchings on an Olympic arrow
Q - 3
A - The number of strides normally taken between hurdles in a 110-meter race
Q - 3
A - The number of times a runner has to jump water in an Olympic steeplechase
Q - 1
A - The number of laps in an Olympic 10,000 meter race
Q - 25
A - The number of gold medals the US took home from the '88 winter games
Q - 2
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OLYMPIC YEARS
A - After a 16-yr absence because of WWI, Germany returned in this year
Q - 1928
A - The 1st time the torch relay to bring the flame from the Temple of Zeus was
run
Q - 1936
A - Basketball & canoeing gained official status at the Berlin games in this
year
Q - 1936
A - The 1st year that microchips assisted in the judging & timing of events
Q - 1964
A - The last summer & winter games to be helld in a single year were held this
year
Q - 1992
A - The centenary modern Olympic games will be held in this year
Q - 1996
A - This year's Olympic boxing team included Sugar Ray Leonard & Leon Spinks
Q - 1976
A - This year's winter olympics introduced the Super giant slalom
Q - 1988
A - Table tennis was contested for the 1st year in this year's Olympics
Q - 1988
A - Oscar Robertson & Jerry West led the US to basketball gold in this Olympiad
Q - 1960
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OLYMPICS
A - The number of gold medals the US won in the 1980 summer olympics
Q - 0
A - He won the 100-meter in the 1936 Olympics
Q - Jesse Owens
A - In the Olympics' opening ceremonies, this country marches first
Q - Greece
A - This country won every Olympic men's springboard gold medal from 1920
through 1968
Q - US
A - Waldemer Cierpinski won this event in 1976 Olympics in Montreal
Q - Marathon
A - Winners of the 1st games in 1896 were given olive branches & this type of
medal
Q - Silver
A - The president of Panama's Olympic Committee was caught doing this at the
Olympics
Q - Scalping Tickets
A - The only American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the marathon
Q - Joan Benoit Samuelson
A - The only Warsaw pact country to send athletes to the '84 Olympics
Q - Romania
A - Dan O'Brien lost the trials of this decathlon event, halting the 'Dan &
Dave' showdown in Barcelona
Q - Pole Vault
A - This city's opening Olympic games ceremonies used 80 grand pianos
Q - Los Angeles
A - This former Celtics player & coach was also a member of the '56 US
basketball team
Q - K C Jones
A - This Olympic sport includes events in soling, star and tornado classes
Q - Yachting
A - He was the 1st president of the American professional football association
in '20
Q - Jim Thorpe
A - These Olympic contests used to be called the heel-and-toe events
Q - Walks
A - He got the spirit award as the top US athlete of the '88 summer games
Q - Greg Louganis
A - This American swimmer set or helped set 4 world records in '88
Q - Matt Biondi
A - The month that the '88 summer Olympics started
Q - September
A - The Olympic games took a back seat to the St Louis world's fair this year
Q - 1904
A - Joe Frazier won his Olympic gold medal in this year
Q - 1964
A - The music that Olympic ice dancers skate to may not contain these
Q - Vocals
A - The number of false starts that will disqualify an Olympic runner
Q - 2
A - After the result of an Olympic boxing contest, 'RSC' is 'Referee stop...'
Q - Contest
A - US olympics hockey teams won gold medals in these two years
Q - 1960 & 1980
A - Nadia Comaneci was born in this country
Q - Romania
A - This test was introduced at the 1972 Munich Olympics
Q - Sex Test
A - This is the slowest Olympic swimming stroke
Q - Breaststroke
A - These Olympians are expressly forbidden from twisting the toes of opponents
Q - Wrestlers
A - Until its demise, this defunct country boasted the most hockey player
Q - Soviet Union
A - All Olympic wrestlers are required to wear these protective devices
Q - Jockstraps
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OLYMPICS POTPOURRI
A - This woman champion first skated in the Olympics at age 11
Q - Sonja Henie
A - This movie star was scheduled to swim in the 1940 Olympics
Q - Esther Williams
A - He refused to shake Jesse Owens' hand after the 1936 Olympics
Q - Adolph Hitler
A - He withdrew from several events at the '24 Olympics & delivered a sermon
instead
Q - Eric Liddell
A - 'The other side of the mountain' was the real-life story of this skier
Q - Jill Kilmont
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ORIGINAL NAMES
A - This baseball team was once known as the Spiders before a fan poll named
them
Q - Clevelan Indians
A - This midwest university's athetlic teams were originally called the
Bugsters
Q - University of Nebraska
A - The sport of paddle racquets was renamed to this in '60
Q - Racquetball
A - This NY club was originally dubbed Pacesetters, Bankers, Farmers & Gold Sox
Q - New York Mets
A - In '23 this NFL team was known as the Frankford Yellow Jackets
Q - Pittsburgh Steelers
A - This sport began in India and was originally called 'poona'
Q - Badminton
A - In colonial days, this sport was called 'small bowls'
Q - Marbles
A - This firearm is also the original name for the Houston Astros
Q - Colt 45s
A - They used to be the Dallas Texans
Q - Kansas City Chiefs
A - Kitten ball became this
Q - Softball
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ORIGINS
A - This football team got their name from their meat-packing sponsor
Q - Green Bay Packers
A - This type of Japanese wrestling dates back to 23 B.C.
Q - Sumo Wrestling
A - This was water polo's original name
Q - Water soccer
A - This world-wide game was invented in a YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts
Q - Volleyball
A - This annual race started in '70 with 126 people running around Central Park
Q - New York Marathon
A - This football pioneer created the end-around, the tackling dummy, & the
huddle
Q - Amos Alonzo Stagg
A - This paddle sport was first played with balls made from champagne corks
Q - Ping pong
A - This sport's paddles were originally made from the tops of cigar-boxes
Q - Ping pong
A - This was sed in hockey before a flat puck
Q - Rubber ball
A - He founded the Green Bay Packers in 1919
Q - Curly Lambeau
A - Francisco Romero brought this distracting item to bullfighting in the 18th
century
Q - Cape
A - This bicycle race was first held in 1903 under the supervision of Henri
Desgrange
Q - Tour de France
A - Table tennis originated in this country
Q - England
A - This was the only event in the first Olympics held in 776 B.C.
Q - Foot Race
A - This University of Illinois coach helped invent the huddle and screen pass
Q - Robert Zuppke
A - Roque is derived from this game
Q - Croquet
A - This court game was first called fives, no dopubt with fingers in mind
Q - Handball
A - This sport was once referred to as outdoor roulette
Q - Dog Racing
A - This Czech tennis star defected to the US in 1975
Q - Martina Navratilova
A - Rough-and-tumble western sport first formalized in Prescott, Arizona
Q - Rodeo
A - A baseball's cover was made of this before the shift to cowhide in '74
Q - Horsehide
A - Hank Luisetti is credited with the creation of this basketball shot
Q - Jump shot
A - This was needed to retrieve balls from the 1st commercially-produced
baskets
Q - Ladder
A - This game began in 1875 when British officers in India got bored with
billiards
Q - Snooker
A - This kind of ball was used in the first volleyball games
Q - Basketball
A - Dr. James Naismith is credited with inventing this sport
Q - Basketball
A - The 'Hick from French Lick'
Q - Larry Bird
A - They were the Seattle Pilots until 1969
Q - Milwaukee Brewers
A - This sport borrowed terms from Axel Paulson's name
Q - Figure Skating
A - This major league club was named for Chief Luis Francis Sock Alexis
Q - Cleveland Indians
A - This court sport, created by William Morgan, was once known as mintonette
Q - Volleyball
A - George Ligowsky invented this soaring target for marksmen
Q - Clay pigeon
A - This target sport got its name from the Norweigan for 'shoot'
Q - Skeet
A - Damon Runyon suggested that this sports event started upriver from Niagra
Falls
Q - Americas Cup
A - This country's sailors introduced soccer to Brazil in the 1870s
Q - Great Britain
A - This Indian tribe originated the game of lacrosse
Q - Iroquois
A - Bullfighting originated in this country
Q - Spain
A - Scotland and Holland both claim invention of this sport 'lawn bowls played
on ice'
Q - Curling
A - This Irish lawn game was once known as crokey
Q - Croquet
A - Curt Flood's legal actions initiated this in baseball
Q - Free agency
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OTHER INTERESTS
A - This football player & decathlon champ won a college ballroom dancing title
in '12
Q - Jim Thorpe
A - This former 76er became President of the International Volleyball
Association
Q - Wilt Chamberlain
A - This former Knock took lessons in canoeing, french horn, piano, boxing &
typing
Q - Bill Bradley
A - This Cardinal became Director of the National Physical Fitness Program in
'64
Q - Stan Musial
A - This British mile runner gave up competitive running to teach neurology
Q - Roger Bannister
A - This baby doctor was on the U.S. rowing team in the 1924 Paris Olympic
games
Q - Dr. Benjamin Spock
A - This former Supreme Court Justice was once leading rusher in the NCAA &
the NFL
Q - Byron Whizzer White
A - This Princeton QB & author was named to the all-american football team in
1889
Q - Edgar Allan Poe
A - This car-collecting slugger was named the automotive editor of a Men's
magazine
Q - Reggie Jackson
A - This late great track and field star formed a tap-dancing duo with Bill
Robinson
Q - Jesse Owens
A - This former Dodger outfielder and announcer was also an avocado farmer
Q - Duke Snider
A - This former NBA player was also a baton twirler
Q - Calvin Murphy
A - This '32 Olympic medalist gained recognition as Tarzan, Flash Gordon &
Buck Rogers
Q - Buster Crabbe
A - This MLB pitcher owns 4 cattle ranchers & 2 banks in Texas
Q - Nolan Ryan
A - Heavyweight Joe Louis played this string instrument as a child
Q - Violin
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OWNERS
A - He bought the Houston Astros from John Mcmulen in 1992
Q - Drayton Mclane Jr
A - In 1935 the owner of this team called night baseball 'Just a fad, a passing
fancy'
Q - Chicago Cubs
A - He sent Fay Vincent a copy of 'Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun'
Q - George Steinbrenner
A - This baseball team's majority owner is Hiroshi Yamauchi
Q - Seattle Mariners
A - His suspension from baseball ended at 12:01 A.M. on March 1, 1993
Q - George Steinbrenner
A - Besides baseball, George Steinbrenner is also in this business
Q - Shipbuilding
A - This publishing company owned the 1986 World Series winning New York Mets
Q - Doubleday & Company
A - This baseball owner was dubbed Phineas T. Bluster by his players
Q - George Steinbrenner
A - This network once owned a majority of the New York Yankees
Q - CBS
A - He was known as 'Papa Bear'
Q - George Halas
A - Jerry Buss owns this NBA team
Q - Los Angeles Lakers
A - This football team lost its owner when Art Rooney died
Q - Pittsburgh Steelers
A - The owner of the ABA's NJ Americans forgot to order these for his team
Q - Uniforms
A - Charleys Finley wanted to move this team to Louisville in '64
Q - Kansas City Athletics
A - This baseball owner once forced his players to ride mules around the
stadium
Q - Charles Finley
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PAUL NEWMAN MOVIES
A - Slap Shot revolved around this sport
Q - Hockey
A - He played a pool shark in this 1961 movie with Jackie Gleason as Minnesota
Fats
Q - Hustler
A - He repirsed the role of Fast Eddie Felson in this 1986 sequel to 'The
Hustler'
Q - Color of Money
A - He starred in this 1969 drama about professional car racing
Q - Winning
A - He played this middle-weight champion in the 1956 movie 'Somebody Up There
Likes Me'
Q - Rocky Graziano
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POTPOURRI
A - This decade saw Sports Illustrated first hit the stands
Q - 1950s
A - He broke 93 bones trying to jump his Harley over 36 cars in the Astrodome
Q - Evel Knievel
A - This cyclist won his third Tour de France in '90
Q - Greg Lemond
A - This type of race announces results on a tote board
Q - Horse Racing
A - The first US man to win the all-around world speed skating championship
Q - Eric Heiden
A - These sportsmen make use of the Vardon Grip
Q - Golfers
A - This type of riding event is traditionally the first in a rodeo
Q - Bareback Riding
A - How the first pick in the NBA college draft is determined
Q - Coin Toss
A - The month the Boston Marathon is run
Q - April
A - The common name of athlete's above-the-head hand-slapping celebration
Q - High Five
A - The only racer to win Formula 1 and indy car championships back to back
Q - Nigel Mansell
A - This sport sometimes makes use of strutting 'round girls'
Q - Boxing
A - This horse racing betting vartiation is sometimes called a 'triple'
Q - Trifecta
A - This rugged ball sport features a loose head prop and a hooker
Q - Rugby
A - Columbia, Constellation and Intrepid all won this trophy
Q - America's Cup
A - He claimed: 'I'm not a stuntman; I'm not a daredevil... I'm an explorer'
Q - Evel Knievel
A - The completion of this sports adage: 'They put their pants on... at a time'
Q - One leg
A - Rodeo competitotrs informally call steer wrestling this
Q - Bulldogging
A - Sylvester Stallone wrote a screenplay for this 1976 academy award-winning
film
Q - Rocky
A - This rodeo event has competitors performing a hooey with a pigging string
Q - Calf Roping
A - It's how the starting team is decided in college volleyball
Q - Coin Toss
A - This sport's first game between two colleges in 1895 ended with a score of
9-3
Q - Basketball
A - The number of minutes in a men's official lacrosse game
Q - 60
A - This is the only nation to qualify for and take part in the first 14
World Cups
Q - Brazil
A - From '85-87 this NBA team was 79-3 in regular season home games
Q - Boston Celtics
A - This kind of table boasts levelers, rails and sights
Q - Pool Table
A - This sport is central to the books 'Man on Spikes' and 'Pride of the
Bimbos'
Q - Baseball
A - These two European countries ran the first international cross-country
foot race
Q - England & France
A - The only unbeaten, untied & unscored upon team to play in a Rose Bowl
Q - Duke University
A - This professional athlete won over $50 million in his sport
Q - Muhammad Ali
A - Americans call it field hockey; the British call it this
Q - Hockey
A - Athletes that compete in the heptathlon are this gender
Q - Female
A - This western city is lucky enough to host the national rodeo finals
Q - Las Vegas
A - This rugged field has pyramid-shaped netting attached to orange goal posts
Q - Lacrosse
A - This sport is played indoors by the Kansas City Comets & the Minnesota
Strikers
Q - Soccer
A - This archer's story was 1st recorded by the 16th century writer Aegidius
Tschudi
Q - William Tell
A - This NHL great began his pro hockey career with the Indianapolis Racers in
'78
Q - Wayne Gretzky
A - He is in 1st place in 'Ring' magazine's list of top 10 actor-boxers
Q - Ryan Oneal
A - It was put on swimmer Felipe Munoz's head when he won gold at Mexico City
Q - Sombrero
A - This host country received a scare at Olympic time from typhoon Wilma
Q - Japan
A - This basketball franchise was in New Orleans before moving for the '79-80
season
Q - Utah Jazz
A - A golf hole that is not straight
Q - Dogleg
A - This type of racing takes place on a winding track or through the streets
of a city
Q - Formula One
A - This league had its 75th birthday as players went on strike a week ebfore
playoffs
Q - NHL
A - He knocked out Joe Frazier to become heavyweight champ in January '73
Q - George Foreman
A - Although they are bright gold now, the NFL officials' flags used to be this
color
Q - White
A - The direction that speed-skaters race
Q - Counterclockwise
A - This daredevil cleared 16 automobiles on a motorcycle on May 30, 1967
Q - Evel Knievel
A - This NY comic habitually notes 'I went to the fights & a hockey game broke
out'
Q - Rodney Dangerfield
A - They won the first NFC championship
Q - Dallas Cowboys
A - This sport uses barrier stalls
Q - Horseracing
A - In 1954 he became the first bowler to roll a perfect game in a televised
match
Q - Steve Nagy
A - This event had its inaugural games scheduled for 450 yrs after Columbus'
1st voyage
Q - Pan American Games
A - This South American country hosted the 1978 World Cup Soccer finals
Q - Argentina
A - He became the first athlete to win diving titles at three Pan-American
games
Q - Greg Louganis
A - Aristides was the first to win this race
Q - Kentucky Derby
A - A volleyball game must be won by this number of points
Q - 2
A - The volleyball serving rotation goes in this direction
Q - Clockwise
A - This yacht club directs the america's cup competition
Q - New York Yacht Club
A - The Boston Marathon is traditionally held on this day
Q - April 19
A - He declared: 'I was born for soccer just as Beethoven was born for music'
Q - Pele
A - This game boasts the fastest-moving ball
Q - Jai Alai
A - This Japanese sport's name is translated into English as 'the gentle way'
Q - Judo
A - This kind of sport uses moss hoppers, flutter fins, crazy crawlers and
creepers
Q - Fishing
A - This kind of hunter yells 'yoicks!'
Q - Fox Hunter
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