Sports Quiz – Aug. 17, 2018

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Questions

1. Four times a conference has had four teams in a College World Series. How many times did a team from that group go on to win the championship?
2. In 2017, Joe West became the third umpire to have worked at least 5,000 major-league games. Name either of the other two.
3. When was the last time before the 2016 season (Denver and Carolina) that both Super Bowl teams from one season failed to make the playoffs the next season?
4. How many times has the Baylor men’s basketball team reached the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four?
5. In 2018, Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin and Brian Dumoulin scored goals five seconds apart to tie an NHL playoff record for fastest two goals. Who had held the mark?
6. When was the last time before 2018 (Clint Bowyer, Kevin Harvick and Kurt Busch) that a NASCAR team’s drivers swept the top three spots in a Cup race?
7. Name two of the three male tennis players who have won the Australian Open singles title six times.

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1. Once – LSU of the SEC, in 1997.
2. Bill Klem and Bruce Froemming.
3. The 2003 season, when Oakland and Tampa Bay did not qualify for the playoffs after playing in Super Bowl 37.
4. Twice – 1948 and 1950.
5. Norm Ullman of the Detroit Red Wings scored both goals in 1965.
6. In 2008, Roush Fenway Racing’s Greg Biffle, Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards did it.
7. Roy Emerson, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.

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