Sports Quiz – December 27, 2024

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Questions

1. What Swedish tennis player won the Australian Open, French Open and U.S. Open singles titles in 1988?
2. At the 2024 Paris Games, Greco-Roman wrestler Mijain Lopez became the first Olympic athlete in any sport to win five gold medals in the same individual event. For what country did he compete?
3. Name the goalkeeper who started for Brazil in its 1958 and ’62 FIFA World Cup championships and was awarded with the FIFA Order of Merit in 1998.
4. What bowler was the first to complete the PBA career triple crown – winning the U.S. Open, PBA National Championship and Tournament of Champions – when he accomplished the feat between 1963-69? (Hint: His son is a comedian and TV personality.)
5. Since 2008, the college football rivalry game between the Ole Miss Rebels and the LSU Tigers has been known as what?
6. Bananas T. Bear is the mascot of what university’s athletic teams?
7. In August 2022, New York Yankees pitcher Aroldis Chapman was placed on the injured list for an infection in his leg caused by what?

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1. Mats Wilander.
2. Cuba.
3. Gilmar.
4. Billy Hardwick (his son is Chris Hardwick).
5. The Magnolia Bowl.
6. The University of Maine Black Bears.
7. A recent tattoo.

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