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