Sports Quiz – Jan. 24, 2020

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Questions

1. Who was the last Oakland A’s player before Khris Davis in 2018 to lead the American League in home runs for a season?
2. How many times has a Tampa Bay Rays pitcher won 20-plus games in a season?
3. Who scored the first rushing touchdown in Super Bowl history?
4. Name the last Division II men’s college basketball player to be selected in the NBA Draft.
5. Which player won the most Stanley Cups without ever playing for the Montreal Canadiens?
6. In 2019, the U.S. women’s national soccer team set a record for biggest margin of victory in a World Cup game (13 goals). Which country had held the mark?
7. Of WBC heavyweight boxing champion Deontay Wilder’s 43 pro bouts, how many have ended with Wilder recording a knockout?

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1. Mark McGwire hit 52 homers to lead the A.L. in 1996.
2. Twice – David Price won 20 in 2012, and Blake Snell won 21 in 2018.
3. Green Bay’s Jim Taylor, in the second quarter of Super Bowl I in 1967.
4. Robert Whaley of Walsh University was selected with the 51st pick in 2005.
5. Red Kelly won eight Stanley Cups, four with Detroit and four with Toronto, between 1950 and 1967.
6. Germany won a World Cup match by 11 goals in 2007.
7. Wilder has recorded 41 knockouts on his way to a 42-0-1 record.

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