Sports Quiz – March 16, 2018

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Questions

1. In 2017, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw made his seventh consecutive Opening Day start, tying a franchise record. Who else did it?
2. Who has led the American League in runs scored the most times?
3. Clemson’s Deshaun Watson set an ACC record in 2016 by throwing for 580 yards in a game. Who had held the record?
4. How many consecutive double-double seasons of points and rebounds did San Antonio Spurs great Tim Duncan have to start his NBA career?
5. Who was the last Edmonton Oilers player before Connor McDavid in 2017 to win the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL regular-season MVP?
6. How many consecutive years did Dale Earnhardt Jr. win NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver Award?
7. Name the last time before 2017 that four American women made up the semifinals of tennis’ U.S. Open?

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1. Don Sutton (1972-78).
2. Babe Ruth, eight times (1919, ’20, ’21, ’23, ’24, ’26, ’27 and ’28).
3. Stephen Morris of Miami, Fla., threw for 566 yards in a game in 2012.
4. Thirteen seasons (the 1997-98 season through the 2009-10 season).
5. Mark Messier, in 1990.
6. Fifteen years.
7. It was 1981 (Tracy Austin, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova and Barbara Potter).

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