Sports Quiz – October 7, 2022

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Questions

1. Name the actor (“The Rifleman”) and writer who played basketball for the Boston Celtics and baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Chicago Cubs.
2. In January 2021, the University of South Carolina Gamecocks dedicated a statue of what women’s basketball star on the school’s campus?
3. At halftime of Super Bowl I, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson was photographed with a cigarette between his lips and a bottle of what soft drink at his feet?
4. Mark Philippoussis, a pro tennis player who reached the U.S. Open final in 1998 and the Wimbledon final in 2003, hailed from what country?
5. What TV sports reporter and personality was a member of the University of Florida Gators Dazzlers dance team from 1997-2000?
6. In boxing, which traditional weight class is heavier: bantamweight or welterweight?
7. Who invented the removable cleat for football shoes in 1922 and was founder of the company that created the first plastic football helmet in 1939?

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1. Chuck Connors.
2. A’ja Wilson.
3. Fresca.
4. Australia.
5. Erin Andrews.
6. Welterweight, at 140-147 pounds (bantamweight is 115-118 pounds).
7. John T. Riddell.

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