Sports Quiz – Jan. 17, 2020

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Questions

1. True or false: Boston Red Sox great Ted Williams is not in the top 20 for highest slugging percentage in a single season.
2. In 2018, Ronald Acuna Jr. set an Atlanta Braves single-season record of eight leadoff homers. Who had held the team mark?
3. Place-kickers Adam Vinatieri (599) and Morten Andersen (565) are 1-2 in career NFL field goals made. Who is No. 3?
4. When was the last time before 2019 that Auburn’s men’s basketball team made it as far in the NCAA Tournament as the Elite Eight?
5. Who scored the overtime goal against New Jersey to send the New York Rangers to the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals?
6. Mikaela Shiffrin set a record in 2019 for most career World Cup slalom wins by any skier. Who had held the mark?
7. In 2019, golfer Viktor Hovland set a new mark for lowest total score by an amateur (280) at the U.S. Open. Who had the previous record?

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1. False. He holds the 17th (.7346 in 1941) and 19th (.7310 in 1957) spots.
2. Marquis Grissom had seven leadoff homers in 1996.
3. Gary Anderson, with 538 field goals made.
4. It was 1986.
5. Stephane Matteau
6. Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark, with 40 World Cup slalom wins (1974-87).
7. Jack Nicklaus had a 282 score as a U.S. Open amateur in 1960.

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