Sports Quiz – March 15, 2024

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Questions

1. Name the NHL team that played from 1976-82 before moving to New Jersey and becoming the Devils. (Hint: It shares a name with an MLB club.)
2. What Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver caught nine passes for 131 yards and a touchdown to be named MVP of Super Bowl XLIII?
3. Name the Basketball Hall of Famer and member of the 1981 Boston Celtics NBA championship team who was nicknamed “Tiny.”
4. What actor used a golf club to smash another driver’s windshield in a February 1994 road rage incident?
5. At the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, American Sage Kotsenburg won the first gold medal in what sport making its Olympic debut?
6. In what year did NBA greats Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain both have single games with 50-plus rebounds?
7. What youth-oriented gravity-racing event takes place every July in Akron, Ohio?

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1. The Colorado Rockies.
2. Santonio Holmes.
3. Nate Archibald.
4. Jack Nicholson.
5. Men’s snowboard slopestyle.
6. 1960 (Russell had 51 on Feb. 5; Chamberlain had 55 on Nov. 24).
7. The All-American Soap Box Derby World Championship.

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