Sports Quiz – Nov. 30, 2018

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Questions

1. Name the two major-league teams that have won 116 games in a regular season.
2. Which two former major-league pitchers won league pennants as managers during the 1970s?
3. When Penn State and Southern Cal’s football teams scored the most combined points (101) in a Rose Bowl game on Jan. 2, 2017, whose mark did they shatter?
4. LeBron James holds the record for most times on the All-NBA First Team (12). Who are the players tied at 11?
5. Name the last NHL team to lose the Stanley Cup after having a 3-1 series lead.
6. When Tony Stewart won his last NASCAR season championship in 2011, how many of the final 10 races of the season did he capture?
7. Before she won her first French Open women’s singles title in 2018, how many times had Simona Halep lost in the finals of the tournament?

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1. The 1906 Chicago Cubs and the 2001 Seattle Mariners.
2. Bob Lemon of the New York Yankees (1978) and Tommy Lasorda of the Los Angeles Dodgers (’77, ’78).
3. Oregon and Wisconsin combined for 83 points on Jan. 2, 2012. Oklahoma and Georgia set a new record with 102 combined points on Jan. 1, 2018.
4. Kobe Bryant and Karl Malone.
5. The Detroit Red Wings, in 1942.
6. Five.
7. Twice – 2014 and 2017.

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