Sports Quiz – August 19, 2022

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Questions

1. In 1903, what power hitter – elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945 – was kicked off a train for being drunk and disorderly and was found dead at the bottom of Niagara Falls two weeks later?
2. Name the two former NBA players who teamed up as contestants on Season 30 of the CBS reality competition series “The Amazing Race.”
3. What venue was home to both the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pittsburgh Pirates from 1970 to 2000?
4. Name the Ohio State Buckeyes running back who is the only player to win the Heisman Trophy twice.
5. What LPGA Tour player from Australia has seven career major championship titles and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2005?
6. Name the member of the 1976-77 Detroit Pistons, nicknamed “Bad News,” who responded to being benched by declaring, “News didn’t come here to sit on no wood.”
7. Who is the only player from the losing team to have been named Super Bowl MVP?

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1. Ed Delahanty.
2. Cedric Ceballos and Shawn Marion.
3. Three Rivers Stadium.
4. Archie Griffin (1974-75).
5. Karrie Webb.
6. Marvin Barnes.
7. Dallas Cowboys linebacker Chuck Howley, Super Bowl V.

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