Sports trivia!

[Detritus]

Of course, the internet can make these questions extremely trivial, so no fair looking up the answers, or at least looking them up and then answering.

1. Four non-Boston players have been part of 6 NBA championship teams. Name them.

2. Wilt Chamberlain holds the NBA single-game scoring record with 100 points. Name the other four players to score at least 70 points in a single NBA game.

3. Five players have rushed for at least 2,000 yards in a single NFL season. Name them.

4. Dan Marino holds the NFL record for 48 TD passes in a single season. Who is the only other player to throw at least 40 TD passes in a single season?

5. For each of the American and National Leagues, name the last player to win the Triple Crown (most home runs, runs batted in, and highest batting average).

6. Ted Williams (Boston Red Sox, 1946) is the last player to hit for at least a .400 batting average in a single major league season. Name the last player to achieve this feat in the National League, the year, and the player's final average.

7. Name the player who has led a league (or shared for the lead) in home runs for the most consecutive seasons.

8. Five men won at least one Wimbledon singles title in during the 1990s. Name them.

9. Five professional tennis players have earned a singles Grand Slam by winning all four major tournaments in the same calendar year. Name them.

10. Name the three horses who won the Triple Crown during the 1970s. Another horse was a three-time runner-up in the three Triple Crown races during one year in the 1970s. Name it.

[Dr. Mercury]

1. Four non-Boston players have been part of 6 NBA championship teams. Name them.

Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Steve Kerr (Chicago and San Antonio), Robert Horry (LA, San Antonio, Houston).

2. Wilt Chamberlain holds the NBA single-game scoring record with 100 points. Name the other four players to score at least 70 points in a single NBA game.

Are you sure it's just four? While Kobe Bryant lit up Toronto for 81 last year, I could have sworn Freeman Williams and Pistol Pete Maravich scored at least into the high 70s a quarter-century ago (or did they do that in college?). I know Elgin Baylor, David Thompson and David Robinson were the other three.

3. Five players have rushed for at least 2,000 yards in a single NFL season. Name them.

OJ Simpson (faster without cops chasing him), Eric Dickerson, Barry Sanders, Terrell Davis and Jamal Lewis.

5. For each of the American and National Leagues, name the last player to win the Triple Crown (most home runs, runs batted in, and highest batting average).

Joe Medwick, St. Louis Cardinals, NL, 1937.
Car Yazstrzemski, Bosox, AL, 1967.
Last undisputed Triple Crown (led all cetagories, both leagues) was Mickey Mantle in 1956.

6. Ted Williams (Boston Red Sox, 1946) is the last player to hit for at least a .400 batting average in a single major league season. Name the last player to achieve this feat in the National League, the year, and the player's final average.

While Tony Gwynn hit .402 during a 162-game stretch spanning the strike-shortened 1994 season and the first third of '95, prompting Teddy Ballgame to urge recognition of the feat, I believe the answer you seek is Bill Terry of the NY Giants. His 254 base hits (1930, for a .401 AVG) were second to George Sisler's total until, oh, 2004. :D

7. Name the player who has led a league (or shared for the lead) in home runs for the most consecutive seasons.

Ralph Kiner, Pittsburgh Pirates, seven-year stretch just after WW2

10. Name the three horses who won the Triple Crown during the 1970s. Another horse was a three-time runner-up in the three Triple Crown races during one year in the 1970s. Name it.

Scretariat, Affirmed, Seattle Slew. Alydar ran second to Affirmed in all three races in 1978.

[Detritus]

1. Four non-Boston players have been part of 6 NBA championship teams. Name them.

Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Steve Kerr (Chicago and San Antonio), Robert Horry (LA, San Antonio, Houston).
Kerr has 5 rings, as he retired after the 2002-03 season, and wasn't on the '04-'05 Spurs team that won it all. The other three are correct.

2. Wilt Chamberlain holds the NBA single-game scoring record with 100 points. Name the other four players to score at least 70 points in a single NBA game.

Are you sure it's just four? While Kobe Bryant lit up Toronto for 81 last year, I could have sworn Freeman Williams and Pistol Pete Maravich scored at least into the high 70s a quarter-century ago (or did they do that in college?). I know Elgin Baylor, David Thompson and David Robinson were the other three.
It's just the four. Maravich's career high is 68 points. I don't know about Freeman Williams, but I checked NBA.com and he doesn't seem to have scored more than 63 in a single game, as their list cuts off at 64-point games. The list is out-of-date in that it doesn't have Bryant's 81-point game on it.

3. Five players have rushed for at least 2,000 yards in a single NFL season. Name them.

OJ Simpson (faster without cops chasing him), Eric Dickerson, Barry Sanders, Terrell Davis and Jamal Lewis.

5. For each of the American and National Leagues, name the last player to win the Triple Crown (most home runs, runs batted in, and highest batting average).

Joe Medwick, St. Louis Cardinals, NL, 1937.
Car Yazstrzemski, Bosox, AL, 1967.
Last undisputed Triple Crown (led all cetagories, both leagues) was Mickey Mantle in 1956.

6. Ted Williams (Boston Red Sox, 1946) is the last player to hit for at least a .400 batting average in a single major league season. Name the last player to achieve this feat in the National League, the year, and the player's final average.

While Tony Gwynn hit .402 during a 162-game stretch spanning the strike-shortened 1994 season and the first third of '95, prompting Teddy Ballgame to urge recognition of the feat, I believe the answer you seek is Bill Terry of the NY Giants. His 254 base hits (1930, for a .401 AVG) were second to George Sisler's total until, oh, 2004. :D

7. Name the player who has led a league (or shared for the lead) in home runs for the most consecutive seasons.

Ralph Kiner, Pittsburgh Pirates, seven-year stretch just after WW2

10. Name the three horses who won the Triple Crown during the 1970s. Another horse was a three-time runner-up in the three Triple Crown races during one year in the 1970s. Name it.

Scretariat, Affirmed, Seattle Slew. Alydar ran second to Affirmed in all three races in 1978.
These are all correct. I might have to try harder on baseball next time around...

[Wook]

I believe the other name you seek in basketball terms is Horace Grant...

[Detritus]

I believe the other name you seek in basketball terms is Horace Grant...
Ho only has 3 rings. Dennis Rodman was the Bulls' power forward for their second three-peat.

And, just to take him out of the running, Rodman has 5 rings (2 with Detroit, 3 with Chicago).

EDIT -- Ron Harper also only has 5 rings, so he's out, too.

No tennis fans out there?

[Dr. Mercury]

I almost answered Bill Cartwright instead of Kerr, but half of Cartwright's six rings came as an assistant to Phil Jackson.

I checked on Maravich and Williams; the latter's NBA career high was 61. Neither got higher than the 60s as a pro, but Maravich had some spectacular scoring streaks in the years after Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor retired.

The NCAA didn't incorporate the three-point field goal until the late '80s, which makes Williams' 38.8 ppg in 1978 and Pistol Pete's 44.5 in 1970 all the more impressive. Maravich's collegiate career high was 69 against 'Bama. Williams, a standout at Portland's Benson Polytechnic High School and Portland State University, once scored 81 against San Jose State.

Williams played hoops at PSU at the same time Neil Lomax QB'ed the Vikings on the gridiron. Both teams boasted explosive run-and-gun offenses, with Williams lethal from any range (half-court shots for psychological impact) and Lomax gunning for a half-dozen TD's a quarter on multiple occasions.

[Kalzazz]

Id like to say Michael Jordan got 70 pts vs the Cleveland Cavaliers, I do rather recall him leading an outright massacre of them at one point

[Detritus]

Id like to say Michael Jordan got 70 pts vs the Cleveland Cavaliers, I do rather recall him leading an outright massacre of them at one point
He scored 69 on them in an OT game, in 1990, I think.

[Detritus]

I almost answered Bill Cartwright instead of Kerr, but half of Cartwright's six rings came as an assistant to Phil Jackson.
Thinking tall is a step in the right direction.

For the tennis questions, I'll get the ball rolling on the Wimbledon one -- Pete Sampras won Men's singles 6 times in the '90s. A big help there, eh? You're on your own for the other four, but I will say that Boris Becker is not one of the other four, his last Wimbledon title was in '89. When he was 21, I might add.

[Kalzazz]

Oh well, I was close. To bad its not horseshoes or hand grenades

[Dr. Mercury]

Thinking tall is a step in the right direction.

You mean, like, prototypically tall?

OH, DUH!

George Mikan--the man with the longest-standing record in NBA history!! IIRC, he scored something like 15 of Minneapolis' 18 points in the lowest-scoring game in league history (and the impetus behind the shot clock), the record being his percentage of the scoring. That was, what, 1951 or '52?

[Detritus]

Mikan has 7 professional rings (http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/Mikan.htm) but only four of them are NBA titles. You are, however, getting closer...

[Detritus]

I take it that there aren't going to be any guesses on the tennis questions, so I'll answer them now:

1990's Men's singles champions for Wimbledon
Stefan Edberg - 1990
Michael Stich - 1991
Andre Agassi - 1992
Pete Sampras - 1993-'95, '97-'99
Richard Krajicek - 1996

Grand Slam winners in professional singles' competition
Don Budge - 1938
Maureen Connolly - 1953
Rod Laver - 1962, '69
Margaret Court - 1970
Steffi Graf - 1988

Still looking for the 4th non-Celtic with 6 NBA rings, and the other guy besides Dan Marino to throw for 40+ TD passes in a single NFL season.

Hints - The hoops guy is even taller than Mikan was. The QB is still active as of the end of the 2006 NFL regular season.

[Dr. Mercury]

Still looking for the 4th non-Celtic with 6 NBA rings....
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I totally spaced his first ring with Milwaukee in '71.

[Detritus]

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I totally spaced his first ring with Milwaukee in '71.
Yep, none other than Mr. Skyhook himself.

Now we just need the gunslinger.

[Wook]

I thoguht I knew and was wrong. The answer is blindingly obvious though.

[Detritus]

I thoguht I knew and was wrong. The answer is blindingly obvious though.
Oh, son of a bitch, I forgot about the stupid obvious one. Hint -- Marino doesn't hold the single-season TD pass record any more.

There are actually three players who have 40+ TD passes in a single season. The other two besides Marino are both active as of the end of the 2006 NFL regular season.

[Wook]

Yeah I just went and looked up the other...

[Paulypalooza]

I know Payton Manning has the TD record with 49. Don't know who the other one is

[Wook]

I know Payton Manning has the TD record with 49. Don't know who the other one is

He was a 2 time MVP.

[Paulypalooza]

Carson Palmer?

[Detritus]

Palmer's only been a full-time starter the past two seasons, and the MVPs have been Alexander and Tomlinson those years. You're looking for someone from the NFC, anyways.

[Parzival]

Farve.
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[Detritus]

Favre's career high is 39. We're counting only regular season games. Someone else has thrown for 41 TDs in a regular season sometime in the past 10 years. I think this will be a giveaway hint, but he basically came from out of nowhere to do it.

[Parzival]

Warner, then.

[Parzival]

A softball to keep it rolling. Longest rush from scrimmage belongs to?

[Detritus]

Assuming we are talking about the NFL, it's Tony Dorsett. Did it with only 10 Cowboys on the field.

Name the five original members of the Baseball Hall of Fame that were elected in 1936.

[Dr. Mercury]

Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson.

[Wook]

Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson.

Nice.

Name the father/son combo's to play on the same field together in MLB.
(To my knowledge there's only 2 and one of them should be stupidly easy.)

[Dr. Mercury]

Nice.

Name the father/son combo's to play on the same field together in MLB.
(To my knowledge there's only 2 and one of them should be stupidly easy.)
Well, gee, that would be two guys from Donora, PA who played in the same outfield--and homered in the same game--in 1989. Griff-something....

Gimme a minute, it'll come to me. :D

[Detritus]

Didn't see the last line of the question, never mind....

[Dr. Mercury]

Name the two American League players tied for most consecutive games with a home run.

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Name the two American League players tied for most consecutive games with a home run.
Don Mattingly is one of them, he had an 8-game homer streak some time in the 1980s. I'll have to think about the other, it's not coming to me at the moment.

[Dr. Mercury]

Hint: I believe he's still active as of this offseason.

[Detritus]

Is it Junior?

[Dr. Mercury]

Yep. 1993, including a homestand against Donnie Baseball and the Yanks.

So, who was the National Leaguer whose record they tied?

[Detritus]

Yep. 1993, including a homestand against Donnie Baseball and the Yanks.

So, who was the National Leaguer whose record they tied?
Dale Long.

[Wook]

Well, gee, that would be two guys from Donora, PA who played in the same outfield--and homered in the same game--in 1989. Griff-something....

Gimme a minute, it'll come to me. :D

Ahh yes but there is another father son combo. (At least one that I am aware of.) :sawink2:

[Dr. Mercury]

Ahh yes but there is another father son combo. (At least one that I am aware of.) :sawink2:
If you're thinking of the Alous, Felipe was managing while Moises played for him. I don't think a father-son manager-player combo is unique, but the Griffeys are the only father-son teammates at the MLB level.

Tim Raines Sr. and Jr. were on the same Baltimore Orioles roster at the end of the '01 or '02 season, but I don't know whether they really count. IIRC, it was only for four games, one or two of which they played in different innings. The Griffeys played together for about a season and a half.

[Detritus]

So is the answer the Raineses?

[Dr. Mercury]

Yes. Bob and Bret Boone, and Buddy and David Bell, shared the same field, but as manager or coach and player.