Sports Quiz – April 17, 2020

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Questions

1. What 1987 inductee into the Pro Football Hall of Fame served as executive director of the National Football League Players’ Association from 1983-2008?
2. A bronze statue of what Kentucky Derby-winning racehorse was unveiled in front of a Churchill Downs entrance in April 2009?
3. What 1990 book by author/journalist Buzz Bissinger documented a high-school football team in Odessa, Texas, and was the inspiration for two TV series and a feature film?
4. Kyle Orton, who played quarterback for five NFL teams from 2005-14, played football at what Big Ten university?
5. Born in Vienna in 1913, what pioneering athletic coach and trainer helped Roger Bannister run the first recorded sub-4-minute mile in May 1954?
6. What former Major League Baseball pitcher inspired the nickname for ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction surgery?
7. The city of Beaumont, Texas, is home to a museum and visitor center dedicated to what legendary female multisport athlete?

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1. Gene Upshaw.
2. Barbaro. After winning the 2006 Derby, he suffered a fractured leg at the Preakness Stakes and was euthanized in January 2007.
3. “Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream.”
4. Purdue.
5. Franz Stampfl.
6. Tommy John, who played with seven MLB teams from 1963-89.
7. Babe Didrikson Zaharias.

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