Sports Quiz – Dec. 14, 2018

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Questions

1. Who was the first African-American pitcher in the major leagues?
2. Name the last Texas Ranger before Neftali Feliz in 2010 to win the American League Rookie of the Year Award.
3. What was the last school outside a current Power Five conference to win a national championship in college football?
4. Who was the only person to win championships in his first two seasons as an NBA head coach?
5. Beginning in 1991, Pittsburgh and Washington have met 11 times in the NHL playoffs. How many times have the Penguins won the series?
6. In 2018, Italian speedskater Arianna Fontana became the second woman to win short-track medals in four Olympics. Who was the first?
7. How many consecutive men’s golf majors were won by Americans before Francesco Molinari won the British Open in 2018?

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1. Dan Bankhead of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
2. Mike Hargrove, in 1974.
3. BYU, in 1984.
4. John Kundla of the Minneapolis Lakers in 1949-50.
5. Nine times.
6. Canada’s Tania Vicent (1998-2010).
7. Five.

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