Sports Quiz – January 26, 2024

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Questions

1. What American tennis player beat France’s Nicolas Mahut in the longest match ever played – lasting 11 hours and five minutes and played over three days – at Wimbledon in 2010?
2. What award, presented annually since 2009, honors the male or female soccer player judged to have scored the most “aesthetically significant” goal?
3. What American track and field athlete – who appeared on Season 17 of the CBS reality series “Survivor” – was stripped of her 2004 Athens Summer Olympics gold medal after admitting to using anabolic steroids?
4. Name the Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher – regarded as the best knuckleballer in Major League Baseball history – who played 24 seasons from 1964-87.
5. In April 2001, Australia defeated what national soccer team 31-0 in a FIFA World Cup qualifying match?
6. In the 1973 season, what NFL team activated offensive coordinator Zeke Bratkowski to be the emergency backup quarterback (though he did not play)?
7. Who did boxer Chuck “The Bayonne Bleeder” Wepner fight in a boxing/wrestling match at Shea Stadium in 1976?

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1. John Isner.
2. The FIFA Puskas Award.
3. Crystal Cox.
4. Phil Niekro.
5. American Samoa.
6. The Chicago Bears.
7. Andre the Giant.

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