Sports Quiz – Jan. 25, 2019

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Questions

1. Cody Bellinger of the Los Angeles Dodgers set a National League record in 2017 for most home runs by a rookie (39). Who had held the mark?
2. Who was the first New York Met to hit 40 or more home runs in a season?
3. Name the last repeat winner of the Davey O’Brien Award as the nation’s top college quarterback before Clemson’s Deshaun Watson did it in 2015-16.
4. How many times did Hall of Famer Allen Iverson lead the NBA in points per game for a season?
5. In 2018, Buffalo’s Casey Mittelstadt and Alexander Nylander each got their first NHL goal in the same game. When was the last time before 2018 that it happened for the Sabres?
6. Who was the last male figure skater to repeat as Olympic singles champion before Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu in 2014 and 2018?
7. When was the last time the U.S. men’s golf team won a Ryder Cup in Europe?

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1. Frank Robinson (1956) and Wally Berger (1930), with 38 each.
2. Todd Hundley had 41 home runs in 1996.
3. Oklahoma’s Jason White, in 2003-04.
4. Four times.
5. It was 1995, when Curtis Brown and Wayne Primeau did it.
6. Dick Button (1948 and 1952).
7. It was 1993.

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