Sports Quiz – December 9, 2022

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Questions

1. What actor played crazed former football referee Stanley Craver in a series of Nike commercials in the 1990s?
2. What first-round NFL Draft pick for the Kansas City Chiefs in 1990 missed the entire 1991 season due to injuries sustained in a scooter accident?
3. Name the British driver who won six of the first seven races and went on to win the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship in the 2009 season?
4. Name the lawyer, college basketball analyst and former Duke basketball standout who successfully defended a costume company against a lawsuit by the creators of Barney the purple dinosaur in 1999?
5. What company introduced the pressurized can package for tennis balls in the 1920s?
6. What college football team’s dominant seven-man offensive line earned the nickname “The Seven Blocks of Granite” in the 1930s?
7. Name the Baseball Hall of Famer who was named NL Manager of the Year and led the St. Louis Cardinals to a World Series championship in 1967.

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1. Dennis Hopper.
2. Percy Snow.
3. Jenson Button.
4. Jay Bilas.
5. The Pennsylvania Rubber Company, which became Penn Racquet Sports.
6. The Fordham University Rams.
7. Red Schoendienst.

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