Sports quiz

Chris Richcreek
Posted 1/6/14

1) Rickey Henderson has recorded the most career major-league leadoff home runs (81), and Alfonso Soriano (54) is second. Who is third?2) Seven New York Yankee managers have won at least 500 games. Name four of them.3) Who was the last quarterback …

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Sports quiz

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1) Rickey Henderson has recorded the most career major-league leadoff home runs (81), and Alfonso Soriano (54) is second. Who is third?2) Seven New York Yankee managers have won at least 500 games. Name four of them.3) Who was the last quarterback before Atlanta’s Matt Ryan in 2012 to throw five interceptions and no TD passes in a game and have his team still win?4) In the past 15 seasons entering 2013-14, how many times was Michigan State’s men’s basketball team in the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four?5) Who was the last player before Phoenix’s Radim Vrbata to end one NHL season and begin the next with hat tricks?6) When was the last time a Ford driver won NASCAR’s Cup season championship?7) In 2013, tennis player Gilles Simon tied for the second-most-successful Frenchman in the ATP Tour’s Open era, with 11 titles. Who also is No. 2, and who is No. 1?

Answers1) Craig Biggio, with 53.2) Ralph Houk, Miller Huggins, Billy Martin, Joe McCarthy, Casey Stengel, Joe Torre and current Yankees manager Joe Girardi.3) Bart Starr, with Green Bay in 1967.4) Six times (1999, 2000, ‘01, ‘05, ‘09, ‘10).5) Luc Robitaille of the Los Angeles Kings, in 1988.6) Kurt Busch, in 2004.7). Guy Forget had 11, while Yannick Noah recorded 23 ATP victories.

2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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