Sports Quiz – June 21, 2024

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Questions

1. For what college team did actor Tom Selleck play basketball from 1965-67?
2. What power-hitting member of the 1995 World Series champion Atlanta Braves was nicknamed “Crime Dog”?
3. Name the soccer great, nicknamed “The Hurricane,” who scored in all six games (and twice in one game) en route to Brazil winning the 1970 FIFA World Cup.
4. What Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher threw a no-hitter on June 12, 1970, and later revealed that he’d accomplished the feat while under the influence of LSD?
5. Who won more head-to-head matches in the epic tennis rivalry between Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert from 1973-88?
6. From 1997-2008, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Ronde Barber played against his twin brother, the New York Giants’ Tiki Barber, a total of eight times. Who won more games in the series?
7. As of the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, who leads all U.S. women in Olympic medals won in alpine skiing with one gold (2006), two silver (2010), and one bronze (2014)?

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1. The USC Trojans.
2. Fred McGriff.
3. Jairzinho.
4. Dock Ellis.
5. Navratilova, 43-37.
6. Tiki Barber’s Giants, 5-3.
7. Julia Mancuso.

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