Sports Quiz – July 13, 2018

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Questions

1. Five pitchers have tossed a no-hitter in both the American League and the National League. Name three of them.
2. Dave McNally won 20-plus games for four consecutive years for Baltimore (1968-71). In how many of those years did at least one teammate also win 20 or more games?
3. When was the last time before 2016 that Penn State’s football team won an outright Big Ten championship?
4. In 2017, Chris Paul became the third-fastest NBA player (806 games) to reach 15,000 points and 8,000 assists for a career. Who was faster?
5. When was the last time the Carolina Hurricanes made the NHL playoffs?
6. In 2017, Christian Pulisic became the youngest winner (19) of the U.S. Soccer Federation’s Male Player of the Year award. Who had been the youngest?
7. When Manny Pacquiao became the first boxer to win world titles in eight weight divisions, how many of them were considered lineal titles?

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1. Jim Bunning, Randy Johnson, Hideo Nomo, Nolan Ryan and Cy Young.
2. Three – 1969 (Mike Cuellar), 1970 (Jim Palmer, Cuellar) and 1971 (Pat Dobson, Palmer and Cuellar).
3. It was 1994.
4. Magic Johnson (765 games) and Oscar Robertson (784).
5. It was the 2008-09 season, when Carolina lost in the conference finals.
6. Landon Donovan was 21 when he won the award in 2003.
7. Five (flyweight, featherweight, super featherweight, light welterweight, welterweight).

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