Sports Quiz – October 30, 2020

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Questions

1. An ancient Grecian messenger named Pheidippides is believed to be the progenitor of what modern Olympic sport?
2. What Pro Football Hall of Famer and Chicago Bears great was known as the “Kansas Comet” for compiling 4,020 all-purpose yards while playing for the Kansas Jayhawks?
3. Name the Oklahoma State Cowboys football coach who blasted the media in a 2007 press conference, declaring, “Come after me! I’m a man! I’m 40!”
4. What combat sport was developed in the 1920s by brothers Carlos, Oswaldo, Gastao Jr., George and Helio Gracie?
5. University of Maryland basketball standout Len Bias was selected by what team in the 1986 NBA Draft?
6. Name the IndyCar driver who won the Indianapolis 500 in 2017 and 2020.
7. Who scored the winning touchdown for the Baltimore Colts in overtime of the 1958 NFL Championship Game (a.k.a. “The Greatest Game Ever Played”) vs. the New York Giants?

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1. The marathon.
2. Gale Sayers.
3. Mike Gundy.
4. Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
5. The Boston Celtics.
6. Takuma Sato.
7. Alan Ameche.

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