Sports Quiz – April 19, 2019

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Questions

1. Name the last World Series before 2017 featuring two teams that each won 100 or more games during the regular season.
2. Which Yankees player hit the most home runs in his first three full years (at least 100 games per year) in the majors: Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig or Mickey Mantle?
3. In 2017, South Florida’s Quinton Flowers became the sixth player in Football Bowl Subdivision history to record 60-plus passing touchdowns and 40-plus rushing TDs during his career. Name two of the other five.
4. Name the top three coaches in terms of wins in Miami Heat history.
5. In 2019, Nikita Kucherov became the fastest Tampa Bay Lightning player to reach 100 points in a season (62 games). Who had been the fastest?
6. Who was the only Olympian to win five medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics?
7. Sergio Garcia set a Ryder Cup record in 2018 for most career points (25.5). Who had held the mark?

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1. It was 1970 (Baltimore versus Cincinnati).
2. DiMaggio had 107 home runs; Gehrig, 83; Mantle, 71.
3. Dan LeFevour, Tim Tebow, Colin Kaepernick, Lamar Jackson and Dak Prescott.
4. Erik Spoelstra, Pat Riley and Kevin Loughery.
5. Vinny Lecavalier, in 78 games in 2006-07.
6. Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjoergen.
7. Nick Faldo, with 25 points.

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