Sports Quiz – Jan. 4, 2019

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Questions

1. How many major-league teams have won 20 or more consecutive games in a season?
2. Name the last team to win back-to-back World Series.
3. In 2017, Le’Veon Bell set a Pittsburgh Steelers record for most rushing yards in a playoff game (167). Who had held the mark?
4. When was the last time before 2018 that the Loyola (Ill.) men’s basketball team made the NCAA Tournament?
5. How many consecutive playoff series did the New York Islanders win in the 1980s before Edmonton beat them in the 1984 Stanley Cup Finals?
6. When was the last time before 2018 that a U.S. female speed skater won a medal at the Winter Olympics?
7. Golfer Phil Mickelson holds the record for competing in the most Ryder Cups. How many?

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1. The 1916 New York Giants (26); the 2017 Cleveland Indians (22); the 1935 Chicago Cubs (21); and the 2002 Oakland A’s (20).
2. The New York Yankees, in 1999 and 2000.
3. Franco Harris, with 158 yards in 1975.
4. It was 1985.
5. Nineteen series.
6. In 2002, both Christine Witty and Jennifer Rodriguez won medals.
7. Twelve.

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