Sports Quiz – August 7, 2020

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Questions

1. In 2001, what Arizona Cardinals placekicker suffered a season-ending knee injury caused by celebrating a successful 42-yard field goal?
2. What kind of bird did New York Yankees outfielder Dave Winfield strike and kill with an errant warm-up throw in Toronto in 1983?
3. What boxer achieved one of the sport’s greatest upsets by beating Muhammad Ali to win the undisputed world heavyweight championship in 1978?
4. The Sid Waddell Trophy, named after the legendary English sportscaster, is presented to the world champion in what sport?
5. What player, nicknamed “Mr. White Sox,” became the second player in major-league baseball history to play in five decades (1940s-80s)?
6. Where did Tony Mandarich, the Green Bay Packers’ first-round pick in the 1989 NFL Draft, play college football?
7. Boston Red Sox great Wade Boggs made a guest appearance as himself in a 1988 episode of what TV sitcom?

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1. Bill Gramatica.
2. A ring-billed gull.
3. Leon Spinks.
4. Darts.
5. Minnie Minoso.
6. Michigan State University.
7. “Cheers.”

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