Sports Quiz – Nov. 9, 2018

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Questions

1. In 2017, three Oakland A’s hit their first major-league home run in the same game. Name two of the three players.
2. Which two teams played in the first World Series?
3. Five NFL players have scored three touchdowns in a Super Bowl. Name three of them.
4. When was the last time before 2018 that the University of Virginia men’s basketball team was ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press poll?
5. Winnipeg Jets forward Mark Scheifele set an NHL single-year playoff record in 2018 for most goals as a visitor (11). Who had held the mark?
6. When was the last time before 2018 (Brad Keselowski) that a Ford driver won NASCAR’s Brickyard 400?
7. Rafael Nadal set a men’s tennis record in 2018 for most consecutive sets won (50) on the same surface (clay). Who had held the record?

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1. Matt Olson, Jaycob Brugman and Franklin Barreto.
2. The Boston Americans and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
3. Roger Craig, Jerry Rice (twice), Ricky Watters, Terrell Davis and James White.
4. It was December of 1982.
5. Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby (2009) and Calgary’s Joe Mullen (1989), with 10 each.
6. It was Dale Jarrett, in 1999.
7. John McEnroe won 49 straight sets on carpet in 1984.

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