SPORTS QUIZ

1. Since the major leagues expanded to 162 games in 1961, what was the earliest date that a team clinched a playoff spot?

2. Name the last Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher before Clayton Kershaw in 2011 to lead the N.L. in strikeouts for a season.

3. When was the last time before the 2010 season that Syracuse’s football team won a bowl game?

4. Name the only NBA team to improve on its record at least six consecutive years?

5. When tennis returned to the Olympics in 1988, how long had it been absent?

Answers

1. The New York Yankees clinched their division Aug. 29, 1998.

2. Hideo Nomo had 236 strikeo...