ONE Trivia Quiz

Answer: Billy Martin

The Yankees have retired more than any other MLB franchise. The first number retired by the Yankees was Lou Gehrig's #4, on Independence Day 1939. Nearly a decade later, in 1948, Babe Ruth's #3 was added to the wall behind the left field fence in the old Yankee Stadium. Joe DiMaggio's #5 joined the collection in 1952 and Mickey Mantle's #7 was added in 1969.

The Yankees retired the #8 shirt in 1972 in honour of two former catchers and managers, Yogi Berra and Bill Dickey. The Yankees retired the #1 shirt in 1986 in honour of former second baseman and manager Billy Martin.

Answer: Peter Shilton

England legend Peter Shilton retired in 1997 having played more competitive games than any player in the history of the game -- a remarkable 1,390 matches. Shilton also finished his career with more caps for England than any player in history -- 125 appearances for his country.

The alternatives are three more goalkeepers who also played in over 1,000 competitive matches -- Pat Jennings 1096 (retired 1986), Ray Clemence 1118 (retired 1988) and David Seaman 1047 (retired 2004). The only non-goalkeeper in the top five when Seaman retired was Alan Ball (retired 1983), who played 1,054 matches.

Answer: Never Say Die

American-bred Never Say Die won just once in his first nine races, but he carried Lester Piggott to his first Derby success in 1954 and then followed that by winning the St Leger by a record 12 lengths later that same year. The alternatives were also all winners of the Derby: Teenoso provided Piggott with his last Derby win (in 1983), Pinza was the mount of Sir Gordon Richards when he scored his only Derby win (in 1953), and Diomed was the winner of the first ever Derby (in 1780).

Answer: Detroit Red Wings

From the beginning of the modern era in 1915, the Montreal Canadiens won their 20th Stanley Cup Final in 1977.
The #1 American franchise is the Detroit Red Wings, who won their 10th title in 2002. Their closest contenders were the Bruins, who had won five titles (their 5th came in 1972) when the Red Wings won their tenth; the Blackhawks had won three (their third was in 1961) and the New York Rangers had four victories (their fourth was in 1994).

Answer: South Africa

Born Donald George Bradman in Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia in 1908, his 99.94 runs/inning test batting average is a record that is unlikely ever to be broken. In that respect, it is on a par with Cy Young's 511 wins (baseball) and Brett Favre's 297 consecutive regular season starts (321 if you count playoff games) at quarterback.
Bradman averaged a remarkable 201.50 runs in the one and only series (five macthes) he played against South Africa, with four centuries and a 299*. He averaged 178.75 against India, 89.78 against England and 74.50 against the West Indies, for a career test average of 99.94.
Bradman's first-class average wasn't exactly shabby either -- 95.14 (110.19 in the Sheffield Shield) with a highest score of 452*. He was even a reasonable bowler -- he took 36 first-class wickets at an average of 37.97.

Answer: St. Leo

Born Usain St.Leo Bolt in Trelawny, Jamaica in 1986, he is arguably the greatest exponent of track & field ever. At the 2012 London Olympics he was the first athlete to win both the 100m and 200m sprints at consecutive Olympics (the "double double"). There is little doubt that he would be in the mix along with the likes of Sir Steve Redgrave, Nadia Comaneci and Paavo Nurmi in a poll to find the greatest ever Olympian.
The alternatives answers, by the way, are all Jamaican parishes.

Answer: Os du Randt

Os du Randt was the most-capped Springbok forward in history when he retired in 2007 with 80 caps. He had not yet retired by 2003 when the other three were admitted into one of the Halls of Fame.
-- England's Jason Leonard OBE, retired in 2001 with a world record 119 test caps (114 for England and 5 for the British & Irish Lions), although Australia's George Gregan has since surpassed that total. Leonard became only the fourth English player in the International Hall of Fame in 2007.
-- The late Sir Wilson Whineray is the all-time longest-serving captain of the All Blacks, playing 77 times between 1957 and 1965, the last 67 as captain. He joined the International Hall in 1999 and was the first New Zealander inducted into the IRB HoF in 2007.
-- Between 1958 and 1970, Syd Millar CBE MBE played 37 tests for Ireland and 9 for the Lions. He was also the coach of the winning 1974 Lions in South Africa. He was the fifth of his countrymen inducted into the International HoF in 2003 and one of three Irishmen to join the IRB Hall in 2009.

Answer: Warren Moon

All four of these quarterbacks had their number retired and were elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The only one to have worn the #1 shirt, though, was Warren Moon (played in the NFL from 1984 to 2000). Steve Young's #8 is on the wall at the 49ers' Candlestick Park. John Elway's #7 has pride of place at Mile High Stadium in Denver. Joe Namath's #12 has a permanent place at the Jets' home ground in East Rutherford NJ. The first #1 retired by and NFL team belongs to Hall of Famer Ray Flaherty, who played for the New York Giants from 1928-35. For the record, four NFL teams (the Oakland Raiders, Atlanta Falcons, Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins) do not retire jersey numbers.

Answer: Benetton

Michael Schumacher took part in five races in the 1991 season driving for Camel Benetton Ford. In the next two seasons, he completed a full 16-race season and finished third and fourth respectively in the Drivers Championship. The team name changed to Mild Seven Benetton Ford in 1994 and to Mild Seven Benetton Renault in 1995, but it was still essentially a Benetton team, and it was in these two years that he won the first two of his seven titles.
Schumacher moved to Ferrari in 1996, but it was not until 2000 that he won again. Once he started winning, though, no one could stop him and he recorded five consecutive World Championship victories 2000-01-02-03-04 in Ferrari red.
After retiring following the 2006 season, Schumacher returned in 2010 driving for the Mercedes GP Petronas team.

Answer: Brooklyn NY

Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born in 1963 in Brooklyn NY. His family moved to Wilmington NC when he was still in diapers and that is where he went to High School. He then went on to college in his home state before the Chicago Bulls selected him with the THIRD (yes, 3rd) pick of the 1984 draft -- the Rockets took Hakeem Olajuwon and the Trailblazers picked Sam Bowie before Jordan went!