Sports Quiz – March 22, 2019

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Questions

1. When was the last time before 2017-18 that the Colorado Rockies reached the postseason in consecutive years?
2. Name the player who hit the most home runs in a season for the Chicago White Sox.
3. When was the last time before 2017 that Penn State’s football team was ranked as high as No. 2 in The Associated Press poll?
4. Who was the last player before Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid in 2017 to have at least 40 points, seven assists and seven blocked shots in a game?
5. In 2018, David Quinn became the fifth head coach to go directly from an NCAA Division I team to an NHL team (New York Rangers). Name two of the other four to do it.
6. When was the last time before 2018 that England’s men’s soccer team reached the semifinals of the World Cup?
7. Who was the last American male chess player before Fabiano Caruana to compete for the World Chess Championship?

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1. It was the first time. The Rockies also made the postseason in 1995, 2007 and 2009.
2. Albert Belle belted 49 home runs for the White Sox in 1998.
3. It was October of 1999.
4. Philadelphia’s Julius Erving, in 1982.
5. Jim Montgomery (Dallas, 2018), Dave Hakstol (Philadelphia, 2015), Bob Johnson (Calgary, 1982) and Ned Harkness (Detroit, 1970).
6. It was 1990.
7. Gata Kamsky, in 1996.

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