Sports Quiz – May 7, 2021

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Questions

1. What South African golfer completed the second-place career Grand Slam – finishing second in all four majors – with his runner-up finish at the 2017 PGA Championship?
2. National Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Early Wynn Jr. retired in 1963 with how many career wins?
3. In 1991, Los Angeles Kings owner Bruce McNall, hockey great Wayne Gretzky and actor/comedian John Candy jointly purchased what pro football team?
4. A motorsport circuit named after Formula One driver Carlos Pace, who died in a 1977 plane crash, is located in what country?
5. Name the starting quarterback for the 1964 NFL champion Cleveland Browns who also produced a doctoral dissertation titled “A Characterization of the Set of Asymptotic Values of a Function Holomorphic in the Unit Disc.”
6. In 2020, what team hired Kim Ng as the first female general manager in Major League Baseball history?
7. What famous Seattle rock band was originally named after NBA player Mookie Blaylock?

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1. Louis Oosthuizen.
2. 300.
3. The CFL’s Toronto Argonauts.
4. Brazil.
5. Frank Ryan.
6. The Miami Marlins.
7. Pearl Jam.

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