Sports Quiz – Sept. 3, 2016

By Chris Richcreek

Questions

  1. In 2015, Alex Rodriguez became the fourth major-league player to hit a home run as a teenager and as a 40-year-old. Name two of the other three to do it.
  2. Name four of the six starting pitchers that the Pittsburgh Pirates used to win the 1971 World Series.
  3. How many people have coached the Notre Dame football team for at least six seasons?
  4. Five centers have averaged at least 12 points, 11 rebounds and five assists per game for an NBA season. Name four of them.
  5. How many NHL All-Star Games has Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby played in?
  6. Who holds the record for most stages won in cycling’s Tour de France?
  7. In 2015, Lydia Ko became the youngest player (18 years, 4 months) in women’s golf to win an LPGA major. Who had been the youngest?

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  1. Ty Cobb, Gary Sheffield and Rusty Staub.
  2. Dock Ellis, Bob Johnson, Steve Blass, Luke Walker, Nelson Briles and Bob Moose.
  3. Seven – Knute Rockne (13 seasons), Lou Holtz (11), Frank Leahy (11), Ara Parseghian (11), Elmer Layden (seven), Dan Devine (six) and Brian Kelly (entering his seventh season).
  4. Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Joakim Noah, Bill Russell and Bill Walton.
  5. One, in 2007.
  6. Belgium’s Eddy Merckx, with 34.
  7. Morgan Pressel was 18 years, 10 months old when she won a major in 2007.

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