Once again the Crimson Sports Department reaches back for some sporting news during exam period, and once again the only thing we can come up with is a second annual sports quiz which is more subjective and less enlightening than last year's fiasco.
The examination is divided into eight parts. Each section is designed to test a different area of you sports recollection. Part 1: Identification of key sports names:
a. Purple Gang
b. Doomsday Defense
c. No-Name defense
d. Luther Rackley
e. Ed Kranepool
f. Jersey knights
g. Lou Silver
h. Boom-Boom
i. Woo-Woo
j. Pee-Wee
Part 2: Franchise shifts: Where did the following originate?
a. Milwaukee Brewers
b. Los Angeles Lakers
c. Golden State Warriors
d. Vancouver Blazers
e. Minnesota Twins
Part 3: Cliched team owner nicknames
Fill in the blank
a. ---- ---- Joseph Danzansky
b. -------- C. Arnholt Smith
c. The -------- Charlie Finley
Part 4: College Sports
Which of the following graduated from college:
a. Johnny Neuman
b. Bob McAdoo
c. Spencer Haywood
d. Brian Taylor
e. Dr. J.
f. Bill Walton
Part 5: Baseball Trivia
a. What team will Ron Swoboda strike out for this year?
b. Name five capitalist oriented ball players.
c. Who was Throneberry?
d. Who has the worst arm on the Yankees?
e. How old is Satchel Paige?
f. What is the original name of the Houston Astros?
g. Who was the MVP the year that Ted Williams hit .406?
Part 6: Ice Hockey
a. Name more than one club in the WHA.
b. What is the traditional term in use to describe the WHA?
Part 7: Ivy League
a. What former Princeton basketball coach was fired from the Phoenix Sun last year?
b. Name the Rhodes Scholar from Columbia's 1970 basketball team.
Part 8: General Sports Knowledge
a. What excuse did Tim Rossovich give when he lost a 60 yd. dash race to Bob Hayes?
b. Name two players on the 76ers.
c. What did Reynaud Robinson and Eddie hart forget to do?
d. Who was the sherpa that accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on the first ascent of Mt. Everest?
e. Where were the 1932 Winter Olympics?
f. Who teamed up with Dandy Don the Howard in Monday Night Football's first season?
g. When did Good Friday fall on a Tuesday?
h. Name a center in the NFL, not including Forest Blue.
i. Give the nickname for the following ABA teams:
1. Memphis 2. Indiana 3. Virginia 4. San Diego
j. Who won the world surfing championship in 1968?
k. Where did Digger Phelps coach before Notre, Dame, before that?
Sports Quizzer Answers
1. a: Vikings b. Cowboys c. Dolphins d. ill-fated knick e. Original Met f. Hockey team g. Harvard B-Ball star h. Geoffrion i. Steve Wooster-Texas football player j. Reese.
2. a. Seattle Pilots b. Minneapolis c. Phila. d. Phila. e. Wash. Senators.
3. a. Millionaire Grocer b. Financier c. Controversial
4. None
b. Don Money, Norm Cash, Dave Cash, Ernie Banks, Bobby Bonds.
c. 1st baseman, Mets
d. Roy White e. c.65 f. Colt 45's g. DiMaggio
6. a. See Globe b. fledging
7. a. Bill van Breda Kolff b. Heyward Dotson
8. a. The STP he drank before the race clogged his valves
b. Unknown c. sign-in at the Olympics d. Tenzing Norkhay e. Lake Placid f. Kyle rote
g. Good Friday, a horse, fell in a race in England in the 1920's
h.Mark Evans i.1Tams 2.Pacers 3.Squires 4.Conquistadors j.Fred Hemings Jr. k. Fordham, asst. Penn.
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