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Sports Lit. Trivia Round 3: Historic Moments
Sports Lit. Trivia Round 3: Historic Moments
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What American gymnast became the first to score a perfect 10 in Olympic history?
Simone Biles
Nadia Comăneci
Mary Lou Retton
Gabby Douglas
2
Who won the first ever Olympic women's marathon in 1984, breaking barriers for female distance runners?
Kathrine Switzer
Joan Benoit Samuelson
Grete Waitz
Florence Griffith Joyner
3
What major sports event is chronicled in the book
The Boys in the Boat
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1948 Olympic rowing team
Harvard vs. Yale regatta
1920 Henley Royal Regatta
1936 University of Washington crew winning gold in Berlin
4
Which Major League Baseball team won the 2016 World Series, ending a 108-year championship drought?
Cleveland Indians
New York Mets
Boston Red Sox
Chicago Cubs
5
What controversial event occurred at the 1968 Olympics involving American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos?
Refused to run in protest
Protested Vietnam with armbands
Wore all black
Gave a black power salute on the podium
6
What skier won 82 World Cup races, tying for the most all-time by a female skier?
Janic Kostelic
Picabo Street
Mikaela Shiffrin
Lindsey Vonn
7
What NFL moment is famously known as “The Catch”?
Odell Beckham Jr.'s one-handed catch
Jerry Rice’s record-setting TD
Dwight Clark’s leaping grab in the 1981 NFC Championship
David Tyree’s helmet catch in the Super Bowl
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What made the 1936 Berlin Olympics historically significant in global politics and sport?
First time soccer was included
Jesse Owens' four gold medals challenged Nazi idology
First olympics with women in every sport
The debut of the Olympic torch relay
9
Which Brazilian soccer star is widely regarded as the greatest female player of all time?
Formiga
Cristiane
Sissi
Marta
10
What NFL team went undefeated in the 1972 season, including the Super Bowl?
Green Bay Packers
Dallas Cowboys
Pittsburgh Steelers
Miami Dolphins
11
Who was the first woman to dunk in a WNBA game?
Lisa Leslie
Sylvia Fowles
Brittney Griner
Candace Parker
12
Which underdog team did Texas Western defeat in 1966 to make NCAA basketball history with an all-Black starting lineup?
UCLA
North Carolina
Kentucky
Duke
13
What event is known as the “Miracle on Ice”?
U.S. Men's hockey team beating the Soviets in 1980
First five-goal hat trick in Olympic history
Soviet Union winning gold in gymnastics
U.S. defeating Canada in curling
14
What happened during Game 3 of the 1989 World Series that made headlines beyond sports?
The game was delayed by a major earthquake
An airplane crashed in the outfield
Massive Power Outage
The stadium caught on fire
15
Which legendary horse won the Triple Crown in 1973 and still holds the record for the Belmont Stakes?
Seabiscuit
Man o' War
American Pharoah
Secretariat
16
In 1992, what basketball team became a global phenomenon during the Olympics?
The Dream Team
The Fab Five
The All-Stars
Team Showtime
17
Which track and field star won gold in the heptathlon and long jump at the 1988 Olympics?
Florence Griffith Joyner
Marion Jones
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Gail Devers
18
What NBA player won 11 championships with the Boston Celtics, more than any other player in history?
Larry Bird
Kareem Abdule Jabbar
Bill Russell
Magic Johnson
19
Which tennis player held the World No. 1 ranking for 377 weeks, the most of any player in WTA history?
Martina Navratilova
Monica Seles
Steffi Graf
Serena Williams
20
What year did Jackie Robinson break the color barrier in Major League Baseball?
1947
1939
1955
1962
