Sports Quiz – January 10, 2025

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Questions

1. Rik Smits, known as “The Dunking Dutchman,” spent his entire NBA career from 1988 to 2000 with what team?
2. Geoff Capes, World’s Strongest Man champion in 1983 and 1985, competed for Great Britain at the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games in what athletics event?
3. What Dominican infielder, whose career spanned 1982-2007, was the last active Major League Baseball player to have been born in the 1950s?
4. Golfer Peter Thomson, who won the Open Championship five times from 1954-1965, hailed from what country?
5. He played tight end for 11 NFL seasons, most notably for the New York Jets from 2000-2004. His son, Rocco, threw 23 touchdown passes for the 2023 Iowa State Cyclones. Who is he?
6. What American figure skater, 1995 U.S. women’s singles champion, overcame drug addiction and later became a circus performer?
7. “Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate” is the name of the college athletics rivalry between what two teams?

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1. The Indiana Pacers.
2. The shot put.
3. Julio Franco.
4. Australia.
5. Anthony Becht.
6. Nicole Bobek.
7. The University of Georgia Bulldogs and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

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