Daily Trivia Quiz #51 - Sports and Athletes

Sports trivia about all aspects of sports including basketball, Golf,baseball, football, Tennis,  Horse Racing, the Olympics, and more.

1. Where did golfer Mark Calcavecchia win his only British Open?
    
2. What distance is the Breeder's Cup Juvenile?
    
3. Who came up with the name the Super Bowl?
    
4. Michael Jordan was a super scorer for which team?
    
5. Who was the USA's hockey coach at the 1980 Olympics?
    
6. Who was the only Chinese track and field athlete to win gold in
   Atlanta in 1996?
    
7. Who beat the Babe Ruth's record 714 home runs in 1974?
    
8. Which Major League baseball team signed Jackie Robinson in 1946?
    
9. Motor racing's Juan Manuel Fangio came from which country?
    
10. In which 90s year did none of the four golf majors go to an
    American?
     
11. Who fought the first world title fight between two undefeated
    world heavyweight champions?
     
12. Who, along with the Montreal Canadians, are the only founding
    members of the NHL remaining?
     
13. Who did Pete Sampras beat in the final to take his sixth
    Wimbledon singles title?
     
14. Who rode the first European-trained horse to win one of the
    Triple Crown races?
     
15. What is the lowest total for the British Open in the 20th
    century?
     
16. Who did Kareem Abdul-Jabbar play for before he joined the Los
    Angeles Lakers in 1976?
     
17. Who did Babe Ruth play for before joining the New York Yankees?
     
18. In which event in Atlanta in 1996 did Croatia win their first
    ever Olympic title?
     
19. Jon Juneau was world champion in which sport?
     
20. How many times did the Boston Celtics win the NBA championship
    between 1957 and 1969?
     
21. Which country did long distance runner Emil Zatopek come from?
     
22. What was Jack Dempsey's nickname?
     
23. Who was Pete Sampras's coach when he won his first US Open?
     
24. Which horse was Horse of the Year from 1960 to 1964?
     
25. Who was the first athlete to set six track and filed world
    records on the same day?
     
26. What breed of dog was Steffi Graf's Ben?
     
27. What was the first European-trained horse to win a Triple Crown
    race?
     
28. Which three events make up the Triathlon.
     
29. Apart from sprinting in which event did Carl Lewis twice take
    Olympic gold?
     
30. Who won the 1977 US Golf Open despite receiving a death threat
    beforehand?
     
31. Who scored the winner in the USA's ice hockey win over the USSR
    in the 1980 Olympics?
     
32. Where was Super Bowl I played?
     
33. Jo DiMaggio was known as what kind of Joe?
     
34. In the season Damon Hill was motor racing's Formula One world
    champion how many races did he win?
     
35. Who was the defending champion when Stefan Edberg first won the
    Wimbledon singles?
     
36. In 1941 Joe DiMaggio set a record of safe hits in how many
    consecutive games?
     
37. In which decade was Daley Thompson born?
     
38. At which formula 1 motor racing circuit did Ayrton Senna lose his
    life?

Daily Trivia Quiz #51 -  Sports
Trivia
Answers

1. Troon.
2. 1 mile.
3. Lamar Hunt.
4. Chicago Bulls.
5. Herb Brooks.
6. Wang Junxia.
7. Hank Aaron.
8. Brooklyn Dodgers.
9. Argentina.
10. 1993.
11. Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier (Frazier won on points).
12. Toronto Maple Leafs.
13. Andre Agassi.
14. A:  Michael Kinane.
15. 267.
16. Milwaukee Bucks.
17. Boston Red Sox.
18. Handball.
19. Tenpin bowling.
20. 11.
21. Czechoslovakia.
22. Manassa Mauler.
23. Joe Brandi.
24. Kelso.
25. Jesse Owens.
26. Boxer.
27. Go and Go.
28. Swimming, cycling, and running.
29. Long jump.
30. Hubert Green.
31. Mike Eruzione.
32. Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
33. A; Joltin'.
34. 8.
35. Pat Cash.
36. 56.
37. 1950s.
38. Imola (San Marino Grand Prix).

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