Sports Quiz – April 11, 2025

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Questions

1. The NFL’s 1977 rule stating “any shoe that is worn by a player with an artificial limb on his kicking leg must have a kicking surface that conforms to that of a normal kicking shoe” was informally named after what placekicker?
2. What Chicago White Sox outfielder was accidentally doused with a cup of spilt beer while watching a Los Angeles Dodgers home run ball sail over his head in Game 2 of the 1959 World Series?
3. What Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker, nicknamed “Dr. Doom,” played his entire NFL career with the Houston Oilers from 1975-84?
4. What team selected the Duke Blue Devils’ Cherokee Parks in the first round of the 1995 NBA Draft?
5. What American swimmer won a gold medal at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and went on to play Tarzan, Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers roles in 1930s serial films?
6. If you’re in Germany and attending a game between the Iserlohn Roosters and the Schwenninger Wild Wings, what sport are you watching?
7. Name the 1986 NCAA regulation that set minimum high school academic requirements for students to be eligible to compete in college athletics.

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1. Tom Dempsey, who was born without toes on his right foot and wore a custom shoe.
2. Al “Fuzzy” Smith.
3. Robert Brazile.
4. The Dallas Mavericks.
5. Buster Crabbe.
6. Ice hockey in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).
7. Proposition 48.

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