SPORTS QUIZ

1. Since 1988, only two players have stolen as many as 78 bases in a season. Name either one.

2. Who was the last player before Toronto’s Jose Bautista in 2011 to have the most home runs in a month for five consecutive months?

3. Name the last year before 2011 in which there were fewer than two running backs selected in the first round of the NFL Draft.

4. Three men’s basketball players have been named to the NCAA Final Four All-Tournament team three times each. Name two of them.

5. The Detroit Red Wings set an NHL record in 2011-12 with a 23-game home winning streak. Who had held the mark?

6. Who was the oldest driver to win a season championship in NASCAR’s Cup series?

7. Between 1978 and 1987, a total of three men won 10 U.S. Open singles tennis titles. Name two of them.

Answers

1. Montreal’s Marquis Grissom in 1992 and Jose Reyes of the New York Mets in 2007.

2. Philadelphia’s Jimmie Foxx in 1933-34.

3. It was 1984.

4. Lew Alcindor, Bill Walton and Patrick Ewing.

5. The 1975-76 Philadelphia Flyers and the 1929-30 Boston Bruins each had a 20-game home winning streak.

6. Bobby Allison was 45 when he won the title in 1983.

7. Jimmy Connors (1978, ‘82, ‘83), John McEnroe (1979-81, ‘84) and Ivan Lendl (1985-87).

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