Sports Quiz – July 26, 2019

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Questions

1. In 2018, New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge became the fastest major-leaguer to reach 60 career home runs (197 games). Who had been the fastest?
2. Combined, Barry Bonds and Babe Ruth hold seven of the top 10 spots in major-league history for single-season slugging percentage. Name any of the other three players in the top 10.
3. Oregon’s Royce Freeman set a Pac-12 record in 2017 with 60 career rushing TDs. Who had held the mark?
4. When was the last time before the 2017-18 NBA season that the Philadelphia 76ers won at least 14 consecutive games?
5. Name the last school before Minnesota-Duluth in 2018-19 to win consecutive NCAA Division I Frozen Four men’s hockey championships.
6. What was the name of the last men’s pro soccer team from Atlanta to win a league championship before Atlanta United did it in 2018?
7. Seven boxers have won pro titles at 135, 140 and 147 pounds. Name two of them.

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1. Oakland’s Mark McGwire needed 202 games to reach 60 career home runs in 1988.
2. Lou Gehrig (seventh at .7654), Rogers Hornsby (ninth at .7560) and Mark McGwire (10th at .7525).
3. Oregon State’s Ken Simonton had 59 career rushing TDs in 1998-2001.
4. It was 1982-83, when the 76ers won an NBA championship.
5. Denver, in 2004-05.
6. The Atlanta Chiefs won the NASL championship in 1968.
7. Terence Crawford, Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Pernell Whitaker, Barney Ross, Adrien Broner and Manny Pacquiao.

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