Sports Quiz – Nov. 15, 2019

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Questions

1. Tony La Russa is No. 1 on the St. Louis Cardinals’ list of managerial victories (1,408). Who is No. 2?
2. Name the only San Diego Padre to belt 50 or more home runs in a season.
3. When was the last time before the 2018 season that the University of Texas football team won 10 or more games in a season?
4. Name the last time before 2017-18 that the Boston Celtics made the NBA Eastern Conference Finals in consecutive years.
5. Who was the last NHL goaltender to win the Vezina Trophy (top regular-season goalie) in consecutive seasons?
6. Name the last French-born cyclist to win the Tour de France.
7. Phil Mickelson is one of two golfers who have won three of the four men’s majors at least once, but have never won the U.S. Open. Who is the other?

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1. Red Schoendienst, with 1,041 wins (1965-76, ’80, ’90).
2. Greg Vaughn hit 50 in 1998.
3. It was the 2009 season, when the Longhorns were 13-1.
4. It was 1987-88.
5. New Jersey’s Martin Brodeur, in 2007 and 2008.
6. Bernard Hinault, in 1985.
7. Sam Snead.

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