Sports Quiz – July 6, 2018

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Questions

1. Who was the last World Series winner before the Chicago Cubs in 2016 to reach the playoffs in the next season?
2. When was the last time before 2017 that the University of Miami, Fla., failed to make the NCAA postseason in baseball?
3. Name the only NFL defensive player to win the Pro Football Writers of America’s regular-season MVP Award.
4. St. Mary’s men’s basketball team has retired the numbers of three players who went on to NBA careers. Name two of them.
5. Through the 2017-18 season, how many consecutive seasons had the Pittsburgh Penguins reached the NHL playoffs?
6. Entering 2018, who was the last NASCAR Cup driver to win four races in a row?
7. When was the last time before 2017 that the U.S. won the Fed Cup in women’s tennis?

Scroll Down for Answers

1. The 2011 St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series and made the playoffs in 2012.
2. It was 1972.
3. Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants, in 1986.
4. Tom Meschery, Matthew Dellavedova and Patty Mills.
5. Twelve straight seasons (2007-2018).
6. Jimmie Johnson, in 2007.
7. It was 2000.

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