Sports Quiz – March 7, 2025

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Questions

1. Name the San Francisco 49ers tight end who caught a 14-yard touchdown pass with 9 seconds left to beat the New Orleans Saints 36-32 in a divisional playoff game for the 2011 NFL season.
   
2. Not to be confused with the NFL’s Lombardi Trophy award, the Lombardia Trophy in Italy is a competition in what sport?
   
3. In the final round of the PGA Tour’s 2014 Puerto Rico Open, what creature attempted to steal golfer Andrew Loupe’s ball from the green on the 16th hole?
   
4. Name the 1980s Houston Oilers head coach who berated an official by telling him, “This isn’t college. You’re not at a homecoming. This is N-F-L, which stands for ‘not for long’ when you make them [expletive] calls.”
   
5. What sport, originating in the Netherlands in the early 1900s, is similar to netball and has four male players and four female players per team?
   
6. Left-handed pitcher Mel Parnell played his entire Major League Baseball career from 1947-56 with what team?
   
7. What one-mile oval racetrack opened near Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1997 and last hosted a major pro motorsports race in 2005?

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1. Vernon Davis.
2. Figure skating.
3. An iguana.
4. Jerry Glanville.
5. Korfball.
6. The Boston Red Sox.
7. Pikes Peak International Raceway.

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