Sports Quiz – Aug. 23, 2019

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Questions

1. Entering 2019, who were the only two pitchers in the past 100 years to allow one hit and no walks with at least nine strikeouts in their major-league debut?
2. Who of these onetime Los Angeles Dodgers teammates pitched more major-league innings for their career: Tommy John or Don Sutton?
3. When was the last time before the 2017 season that New Mexico State’s football team won a bowl game?
4. Name the last season before 2018-19 in which the Milwaukee Bucks advanced to at least the second round of the NBA playoffs.
5. How many consecutive years has the U.S. team won the IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship?
6. In 2019, skier Mikaela Shiffrin became the third woman to win four discipline titles in a single year. Name either of the other two to do it.
7. Who was the last golfer before Brooks Koepka in 2019 (PGA Championship) to have at least a seven-shot lead at the halfway point of a men’s golf major?

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1. Cincinnati’s Johnny Cueto (2008) and Pittsburgh’s Nick Kingham (2018).
2. Don Sutton tallied 5,282 innings over 23 seasons, while Tommy John pitched 4,710 innings over 26 seasons.
3. It was 1960.
4. It was 2000-01, when the Bucks reached the Eastern Conference Finals.
5. Five consecutive years.
6. Lindsey Vonn (2010, 2012) and Tina Maze (2013).
7. Henry Cotton had a nine-stroke lead after 36 holes of the 1934 British Open.

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