Sports Quiz – Aug. 20, 2017

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By Chris Richcreek

1. In 2016, Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera became the fifth-youngest player (33 years old) to reach 2,400 career hits. Who was younger?
2. The New York Yankees set a major-league record in 2015 by having seven pitchers with at least 100 strikeouts. Name five of them.
3. Name the last time before the 2015 season (Carolina) that a team scored at least 49 points in an NFL conference title game.
4. In 2016, the ACC set a record by having six men’s basketball teams in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. Name them.
5. When was the last time before the 2016-17 NHL season that the Edmonton Oilers reached the Stanley Cup playoffs?
6. Name the first woman to drive in Formula One racing.
7. Who was the first back-to-back gold medalist in singles in Olympic men’s tennis history?

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1. Ty Cobb (31 years old), Rogers Hornsby (32), Hank Aaron (32) and Robin Yount (33).
2. Michael Pineda (156 strikeouts), Masahiro Tanaka (139), CC Sabathia (137), Dellin Betances (131), Nathan Eovaldi (121), Adam Warren (104) and Andrew Miller (100).
3. In the AFC Championship Game after the 1990 season, Buffalo scored 51 points against the Los Angeles Raiders.
4. Miami (Florida), Duke, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Virginia and Syracuse.
5. It was the 2005-06 season.
6. Maria Teresa de Filippis, in 1958.
7. Andy Murray of Great Britain.

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