Sports Quiz – April 16, 2021

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Questions

1. What Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender set an NHL record for the longest unbeaten streak to begin a career, going 14-0-2 in his first 16 games during the 1996-97 season?
2. Left-handed pitcher Vida Blue won the AL Cy Young Award and was named AL MVP in 1971 as a member of what team?
3. What 7-foot 7-inch Romanian-born center played with the Washington Bullets (1993-97) and the New Jersey Nets (1998-2000)?
4. What boxer, known as the “Cincinnati Cobra,” amassed a 95-25-1 record in a pro career spanning 1940-59?
5. What three New York Yankees became the first players in MLB history to hit back-to-back-to-back home runs in the postseason when they did it versus the Cleveland Indians in Game 1 of the 1997 AL Division Series?
6. Cornelius “Dutch” Warmerdam held the world record in what athletic sport from 1940-57?
7. In 1975, who became the first African-American golfer to play in Masters tournament?

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1. Patrick Lalime.
2. The Oakland A’s.
3. Gheorghe Muresan.
4. Ezzard Charles.
5. Tim Raines, Derek Jeter and Paul O’Neill.
6. Pole vault.
7. Lee Elder.

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