Sports Quiz – September 4, 2020

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Questions

1. What right-handed submarine-style relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals led the AL in saves in 1980 and 1982-85?
2. Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, former UCLA Bruins basketball star and 2008 NBA Draft pick of the Milwaukee Bucks, hails from what African nation?
3. Name the Arizona Cardinals head coach who ranted “[The Bears] are who we thought they were! And we let ’em off the hook!” in a 2006 postgame press conference after his team’s late collapse vs. the Chicago Bears on “Monday Night Football.”
4. Stomper, an elephant, is the official mascot of what Major League Baseball team?
5. Through the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics, China dominated the table tennis event with 28 total gold medals won. What country ranks a distant second with three gold medals?
6. What Swiss tennis star won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open women’s singles titles in 1997 at age 16?
7.  What quarterback did the New York Giants’ Michael Strahan tackle on the final game of the 2001 NFL regular season to break Mark Gastineau’s single-season sack record?

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1. Dan Quisenberry.
2. Cameroon.
3. Dennis Green.
4. The Oakland A’s.
5. South Korea.
6. Martina Hingis.
7. Brett Favre, Green Bay Packers.

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