Sports Quiz – May 25, 2018

#Middlebury #SportsQuiz

Questions

1. When was the last time before 2017 that the Philadelphia Phillies hit three consecutive homers in a game?
2. Name the last major-league player before Colorado’s Charlie Blackmon in 2017 to lead off two consecutive games with a triple.
3. Before 2016, when was the last time the Oakland Raiders had a winning record for an NFL season?
4. When was the last time a men’s college basketball team west of the Mississippi won the NCAA Tournament?
5. Name three of the four NHL players to have scored 600 or more career goals in fewer than 1,000 games.
6. Who are the only three drivers to have won a NASCAR Cup championship at age 43 or older?
7. In 2017, Venus Williams became the oldest finalist (37) at the year-end WTA Finals. Who had been the oldest?

Scroll Down for Answers

1. It was 2008, when Chase Utley, Ryan Howard and Pat Burrell did it.
2. Miami’s Jose Reyes, in 2012.
3. It was 2002.
4. Kansas, in 2008.
5. Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Brett Hull and Alex Ovechkin.
6. Bobby Allison (age 45 in 1983), Dale Earnhardt (43 in 1994) and Lee Petty (45 in 1959).
7. Martina Navratilova was 36 when she reached the championship of the WTA Finals in 1992.

(c) 2018 King Features Syndicate, Inc.