Sports Quiz – August 28, 2020

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Questions

1. What caused Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa to spend time on the disabled list with a sprained lower back ligament in 2004?
2. What sports video game, published by Nintendo in 1987, included athletes named Glass Joe, Soda Popinski, Don Flamenco and King Hippo?
3. What sportscaster was “traded” from Disney’s ESPN/ABC to NBC Sports in 2003 for intellectual property rights to cartoon character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit?
4. In 2004, businessman Bill Davidson became the first owner in American sports history to have two championship teams in the same calendar year. What were they?
5. The 1988 NFC Divisional Playoff game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field is popularly known by what moniker?
6. What Miami Hurricanes defensive back broke up a Nebraska Cornhuskers two-point conversion pass attempt to seal the 31-30 upset win for Miami in the 1984 Orange Bowl?
7. What dominant Russian wrestler did American Rulon Gardner beat to win the Greco-Roman gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics?

Scroll Down for Answers

1. Violent sneezing.
2. “Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!”
3. Al Michaels.
4. The Detroit Pistons and Tampa Bay Lightning.
5. The Fog Bowl.
6. Kenny Calhoun.
7. Aleksandr Karelin.

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