SPORTS QUIZ

1. Name the last rookie manager before Don Mattingly of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2011 to beat the defending World Series champions on Opening Day.

2. Only two major-league teams since 1900 started a season 0-6 and made the playoffs. Name either one.

3. Name the last 11-win team to not make the NFL playoffs.

4. In 2011, Doc (1980) and Austin Rivers became the second father-son basketball duo to be named McDonald’s All-Americans. Who was the first?

5. When was the last time an NHL team won back-to-back Northeast Division titles?

6. Name the first Major League Soccer team to win consecutive U.S. Open Cups?

7. In 2011, Joseph O’Brien became the youngest jockey to win a Breeders’ Cup race. How old was he?

Answers

1. The New York Yankees’ Lou Piniella, in 1986.

2. The 1974 Pittsburgh Pirates and the 1995 Cincinnati Reds.

3. The New England Patriots, in 2008.

4. Milt (1981) and Dajuan (2001) Wagner.

5. Never since the division was formed before the 1993-94 season.

6. Seattle Sounders FC won three consecutive Cups (2009-11).

7. Eighteen.

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