Sports Quiz – Aug. 5, 2016

By Chris Richcreek

Questions

1. Cincinnati pitcher Aroldis Chapman set a major-league record in 2015 for fastest to reach 500 career strikeouts (292 innings). Who had held the mark?
2. The 1954 World Series featured the batting-average champions for each league. Name them.
3. Florida State set a record in 2015 for most NFL draft picks in a three-year period (29). What two schools had held the record of 28?
4. Name the last NBA rookie before Orlando’s Elfrid Payton in 2015 to have back-to-back triple-doubles.
5. When was the last time before 2016 that the University of North Dakota won the Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Championship?
6. Name the last person other than Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo to win the FIFA Ballon d’Or (top male soccer player in the world).
7. When was the last Kentucky Derby in which every horse entered had won a race as a 2-year-old?

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1. San Diego’s Craig Kimbrel (305 innings).
2. The New York Giants’ Willie Mays (.345) and Cleveland’s Bobby Avila (.341).
3. Miami, Fla. (2002-04) and Southern Cal (2008-10).
4. Boston’s Antoine Walker, in 1997.
5. It was 2000.
6. Brazil’s Kaka, in 2007.
7. It was 1993.

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