Sports Quiz – January 5, 2024

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Questions

1. What Pro Football Hall of Famer and TV personality was on board a Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital spaceflight mission in December 2021?
2. NASCAR driver Glenn Roberts got what nickname from his days as a pitcher for an American Legion baseball team?
3. Boxer Azumah Nelson, a former featherweight and super-featherweight champion, is a native of what African country?
4. What Basketball Hall of Famer and former University of Georgia Bulldogs women’s basketball star won Olympic gold medals with Team USA in 1988 and ’96?
5. Israeli athlete Moshe Weinberg, who was killed in the terrorist attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics, was a coach in what sport?
6. In a 1980 NFL season playoff game known as “Red Right 88,” what team lost to the Oakland Raiders 14-12 after an ill-advised pass that led to an interception in the end zone?
7. What Japanese martial art, often translated as “the way of harmonious spirit,” emphasizes the safety and well-being of one’s attacker?

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1. Michael Strahan.
2. Fireball.
3. Ghana.
4. Katrina McClain.
5. Wrestling.
6. The Cleveland Browns.
7. Aikido.

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