Sports Quiz – June 5, 2020

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Questions

1. Name the Boston Celtics’ “Big 3” players who helped the team beat the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2008 NBA Finals.
2. “Crash” Davis, “Nuke” Laloosh and “Skip” Riggins are all characters from what 1988 baseball comedy film?
3. What Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Michigan scored a 99-yard kickoff return touchdown for the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XXXI and was named the game’s MVP?
4. What hockey player defected from the Soviet Union and debuted with the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres in 1989?
5.  In 2001, a fastball from Arizona Diamondbacks hurler Randy Johnson struck and killed a bird in flight. According to ornithologists, what kind of bird was it?
6. The official football used by the NFL is named “The Duke” in honor of what pioneering New York Giants owner/executive?
7. A baseball player who has completed the “Olympics Rings” (aka “platinum sombrero”) has done what?

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1. Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett.
2.  “Bull Durham.”
3. Desmond Howard.
4. Alexander Mogilny.
5. A mourning dove.
6. Wellington Mara.
7. Struck out five times in one game.

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