Sports Quiz – May 10, 2019

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Questions

1. Six pitchers have won an MVP Award in major-league baseball since 1972. Name three of them.
2. Barry Bonds (762), Babe Ruth (714) and Ken Griffey Jr. (630) are the top three left-handed hitters on the career home run list in major-league baseball. Who is No. 4?
3. When was the last time before 2015-16 that the Washington Redskins had back-to-back winning seasons?
4. Name the first player in Kansas State men’s basketball history to have at least 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 300 assists and 100 steals for a career.
5. In 2019, Colorado’s Gabriel Landeskog became the second player in the 2011 NHL draft class to reach the 400-point mark for his career. Who was the first from that class to do it?
6. Gwen Jorgensen, in 2016, became the first U.S. woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the triathlon. Who was the only other U.S. female athlete to win a medal in the triathlon?
7. Which two golfers have won the PGA’s Pebble Beach Pro-Am the most times?

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1. Rollie Fingers (1981), Willie Hernandez (’84), Roger Clemens (’86), Dennis Eckersley (’92), Justin Verlander (2011) and Clayton Kershaw (’14).
2. Jim Thome, with 612 home runs.
3. It was 1996-97.
4. Wes Iwundu (2013-17).
5. Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov.
6. Susan Williams won a bronze medal in 2004.
7. Mark O’Meara and Phil Mickelson each won it five times.

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