Oh, Yes I Did Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mike Stanley

On May 1, 1991, Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers threw his seventh no-hitter of his career against the Toronto Blue Jays. In that game, Mike Stanley was the catcher, Rafael Palmeiro was the first-baseman, Julio Franco was the second-baseman and Juan Gonzalez was the designated hitter for the Texas Rangers.

Answer: Margaret Court

On May 13, 1970 in Ramona, California, Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Court in a lopsided tennis match dubbed "The Battle of the Sexes I". Riggs began taunting female tennis players prompting Billie Jean King to accept a challenge to play Riggs in a nationally televised tennis match in Houston, Texas which the promoters dubbed the "Battle of the Sexes II".

Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in "The Battle of the Sexes II" tennis match on September 20, 1973 in the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The attendance in the Astrodome for the event was 30,472. This event had a worldwide television audience of an estimated at 50 million people in 37 countries.

Answer: Finland

The United States upset win against the heavily favored Soviet Union became known as the "Miracle on Ice". Yet, this upset was not the gold medal game. The United States defeated Finland by a score of 4-2 to win the gold medal. The Soviet Union national ice hockey team defeated the Sweden men's national ice hockey team by a score of 9-2 to win the bronze medal.

Answer: Cleveland Indians

On July 17, 1941, Cleveland Indians' pitchers Al Smith and Jim Bagby held Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees hitless in three official at-bats, ending DiMaggio's MLB record 56 consecutive game hitting streak. During the game, Cleveland Indians' third baseman Ken Keltner made two terrific back handed stops to rob DiMaggio of two hits. In the next game, DiMaggio started another 17 consecutive game hitting streak.
The previous record hitting streak was 44 games, set by Wee Willie Keeler in 1897.

Answer: 4×100m medley relay

Michael Phelps, Brendan Hansen, Aaron Peirsol and Jason Lezak won the gold medal for the men's 4×100m swimming medley relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. He swan the third leg, butterfly. This win marked the record eight gold medal won by Michael Phelps at the 2008 Summer Olympics eclipsing the mark set by Mark Spitz in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Answer: John Elway

With the Golden Bears leading 19-17 late in the fourth quarter, Cardinal quarterback John Elway led his team down the field to set up a 35 yard field goal by placekicker Mark Harmon to give the Cardinal a 20-19 lead. With 4 seconds left, the Cardinal executed a squib kick to the Golden Bears.

The Golden Bears used five lateral passes on a game ending kickoff return to score the game winning touchdown.

Answer: 4×100 meter relay

Jesse Owens won gold medals in the 100 meter sprint, the 200 meter sprint, the long jump and as part of the 4×100 meter relay team. Ralph Metcalfe and Jesse Owens replaced Jewish-Americans Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller on the 4x100m relay team at the last minute following a request by the Germans.

Answer: Chamberlain dunked the ball

With 46 seconds left in the game Joe Ruklick passed the ball to his teammate Wilt Chamberlain who completed an alley-oop slam dunk. That dunk was Chamberlain's 100th point of that game. Chamberlain became the first player in the history of the NBA to score 100 points in a game.

Answer: floor exercise and vault

At the the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, Mary Lou Retton scored a perfect 10 on her last two events, the on floor exercise and the vault, to win the Olympic gold medal. Retton defeated Ecaterina Szabó from Romania by just 0.05 points. Retton became the first female gymnast from outside eastern Europe to win the Olympic gold medal in the individual all-around gymnastics event.

Answer: Rickey Henderson

Nolan Ryan pitched in Major League Baseball for 27 seasons and collected a Major League Record 5,714 career strikeouts.