Sports Quiz – Sept. 13, 2019

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Questions

1. In 2018, Boston’s Craig Kimbrel became the fastest pitcher to 300 career saves (330th opportunity). Who had held the mark?
2. Gleyber Torres, in 2018, became the youngest New York Yankee to hit a walk-off home run (21 years, 144 days). Which Yankee Hall of Famer had been the youngest?
3. In the highest-scoring playoff game in NFL history, was the point total over 100 or under it?
4. Since being in the NCAA championship game in 1998, how many games has Utah’s men’s basketball team won in the NCAA Tournament?
5. Name the last Calgary Flames player before Johnny Gaudreau in 2019 to have a six-point NHL game.
6. Sifan Hassan set a women’s record in 2019 for running the mile in 4 minutes, 12.33 seconds. How long had the previous world record stood?
7. Only three PGA golfers in the past 30 years have won at least one major three years in a row. Name two of them.

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1. Joe Nathan got his 300th save in his 335th save opportunity in 2013.
2. Mickey Mantle, who did it at 21 years, 185 days old.
3. Under; Arizona and Green Bay combined for 96 points in a playoff game in 2010.
4. Eight, the last coming in 2016.
5. Al MacInnis did it in 1994.
6. It stood for 23 years — Russia’s Svetlana Masterkova set the previous mark of 4:12.56 in 1996.
7. Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.

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