Rhyme Time with Sports Guys Trivia Quiz

Answer: Rice

Jerry Rice played for the San Francisco 49ers from 1985 to 2000. Many people feel he is the greatest wide receiver of all-time. At the time of his retirement, he held practically every receiving record. Those records included most receiving yards with 22,895, and most touchdown receptions with 197. Jerry was elected to the football Hall of Fame in 2010.

Answer: Bonds

Barry Bonds started his career in 1986 with the Pittsburgh Pirates and moved on to play for the San Francisco Giants in 1993. He had a fairly successful and respectable career until he became the poster boy for baseball's steroid era. He finished his playing days holding the single season home run record with 73, and the career home run record with 762.

Answer: Gretzky

Wayne Gretzky was possibly the greatest hockey player ever. His professional career spanned from 1978 to 1999. In a rare event, the mandatory three year wait to become eligible for the Hockey Hall of Fame was bypassed for Gretzky. He was inducted shortly after his retirement in 1999.

Afterward, the Hall of Fame announced he would be the last player for this exception to be made. In 2000, the NHL retired the number 99 jersey league wide in honor of Gretzky.

Answer: Maris

Roger Maris is best known for breaking Babe Ruth's single season home run record. He did so in 1961, hitting 61 round trippers, besting Ruth's high mark of 60. A controversy occurred because Ruth set his record in 1927 when the season was only 154 games long.

In 1961, the season had already been extended to 162 games. By the 154th game in 1961, Maris had hit 59 homers. He hit two more before the season would end, breaking the record. People argued that he shouldn't hold the record because he had more games than Ruth to accomplish his feat. Maris' record would stand until 1998, when Mark McGwire hit 70.

Answer: Bourque

Ray Bourque was traded to the Colorado Avalanche at the tail end of the 1999-2000 season after playing for the Boston Bruins since 1979. He requested the trade so he could have a chance to win the Stanley Cup, which would have been very unlikely if he remained with the Bruins.

In the end, Bourque's dream became reality when the Avalanche won the Cup for the 2000-2001 season. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2004.

Answer: Ewing

Patrick Ewing had himself a stellar basketball career. Even in college, he proved himself as a standout player, leading Georgetown to the championship game in the NCAA tournament three times in the early 1980s. He went on to star in the NBA for the New York Knicks.

He led them to the NBA Championship in 1994, but fell just short, losing the finals to the Houston Rockets. The NBA Championship victory is probably the only thing lacking on Patrick Ewing's resume. He even won the Gold medal as a member of the United States Olympic basketball teams in 1984 and 1992.

He would cap it off by being enshrined into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008.

Answer: Pele

Pele, real name Edison Arantes do Nascimento, is regarded as one of the best to ever play the game of soccer. He led his Brazilian club, Santos, to several tournament wins spanning three decades, the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He played briefly in the U.S. for the New York Cosmos of the now defunct North American Soccer League. Pele may be best known for leading Brazil to victory in three World Cup tournaments, in 1958, 1962, and 1970.

Answer: Singh

Vijay Singh may be the best golfer of his era not named Tiger Woods. He held the number one spot on the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 to 2005. Notable Majors wins to Singh's credit include The Masters, in 2000, and two PGA Championships, in 1998 and 2004.

Answer: Hoad

Lew Hoad singles Grand Slams were the 1956 Australian Open, the 1956 French Open, the 1956 Wimbledon, and the 1957 Wimbledon. He finished runner-up in the 1956 U.S. Open. In addition to his singles accolades, Hoad was a well established doubles player.

In 1953 and 1956, he teamed with Ken Rosewall to win at the Australian Open and Wimbledon. Hoad and Rosewall also won the U.S. Open in 1956. In 1957, Neale Fraser was Hoad's partner to win in Melbourne. In 1980, Lew Hoad was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Answer: Clemens

Roger Clemens was one of the most dominate pitchers to ever step foot on a baseball field. He won the Cy Young Award for best pitcher in 1986, 1987, and 1991 while with the Boston Red Sox. He won it again in 1997 and 1998 as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays.

He won his final AL Cy Young Award in 2001 pitching for the New York Yankees. Clemens finished his Cy Young collection in 2004 as a member of the Houston Astros. His career numbers speak for themselves: 354 wins, 4672 strikeouts, and a 3.12 ERA.