Sports Quiz – April 18, 2025

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Questions

1. Dan Gable, a freestyle wrestler who won gold at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, hailed from what U.S. state?
2. Name the Major League Baseball first baseman/outfielder who wrote the 1994 book “I Ain’t an Athlete, Lady …” and penned an ESPN.com column titled “Chewing the Fat.”
3. Who was crew chief of the Hendrick Motorsports No. 48 car driven by Jimmie Johnson that won seven NASCAR Cup Series championships from 2006-16?
4. Before his careers playing in Major League Baseball (1942-49) and broadcasting, Buddy Blattner was a 1936-37 world champion in what sport?
5. Italian brothers Piero and Raimondo D’Inzeo competed in what sport in eight straight Olympics from 1948-76?
6. What is the name of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball Central League team based in Hiroshima?
7. Holly Manthei, the NCAA women’s soccer all-time assists leader with 129, played for what college team?

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1. Iowa.
2. John Kruk.
3. Chad Knaus.
4. Table tennis.
5. Equestrian show jumping.
6. The Hiroshima Toyo Carp.
7. The University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

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