Sports Quiz – May 3, 2019

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Questions

1. In 2017, Washington’s Max Scherzer became the 10th pitcher with at least three Cy Young Awards. Name two of the four pitchers to win more than three.
2. The Seattle Mariners played their first major-league season in 1977. In what year did they record their first winning season?
3. Name the last time before 2017-18 that the Army football team had back-to-back undefeated seasons at home.
4. Tim Duncan retired in 2016 as one of three players to be named college basketball player of the year, NBA Rookie of the Year and MVP of both the All-Star Game and the NBA Finals. Name one of the other two.
5. Which of these franchises was the first to win a Stanley Cup – the Boston Bruins or the Chicago Blackhawks?
6. Name the last country before Russia in 2018 to host the men’s World Cup soccer event and score at least eight goals in the first two games.
7. Who was the first woman to earn the chess title of grandmaster in tournament play?

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1. Roger Clemens (seven Cy Youngs), Randy Johnson (five), Steve Carlton (four) and Greg Maddux (four).
2. It was 1991, when the Mariners were 83-79.
3. It was 1984-85.
4. Larry Bird and Michael Jordan.
5. The Bruins won a Stanley Cup in 1929, five seasons before the Blackhawks did it.
6. Italy, in 1934.
7. Susan Polgar, in 1991.

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