Sports Quiz – Oct. 5, 2018

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Questions

1. Entering 2018, when was the last time a pitcher started 36 or more games in a major-league season?
2. Which major-league team did Lou Piniella manage first, and which one did he manage the longest?
3. When was the last time before 2017 that the University of Miami, Fla., won a bowl game by more than one point?
4. In the 2016-17 NBA season, Elfrid Payton became the fifth player in Orlando Magic history to have at least 1,000 points and 500 assists in a season. Name two of the other four to do it.
5. Who were the last players before Pittsburgh’s Jake Guentzel in 2018 to reach 20 points in 10 or fewer NHL playoff games?
6. Name the last time before 2018 that Russia’s men’s soccer team advanced to the knockout stage of the World Cup.
7. When was the last time before 2018 that the U.S. won wrestling’s World Cup?

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1. In 2003, Atlanta’s Greg Maddux and Toronto’s Roy Halladay each started 36 games.
2. The New York Yankees (1986); the Seattle Mariners (1993-2002).
3. It was 2004 (the Hurricanes beat Florida, 27-10, in the Peach Bowl).
4. Penny Hardaway (three times), Scott Skiles (three), Darrell Armstrong (twice) and Steve Francis (once).
5. Mark Messier and Wayne Gretzky, in 1988.
6. It was 1986, when the team represented the Soviet Union.
7. It was 2003.

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