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1. This college's athletes have been golden more often than any other NCAA school, with over 110 national championships. Possibly their best-known run was 10 basketball titles in 12 years between 1964 and 1975. But wait, they've also won 19 volleyball titles, 16 tennis championships and 11 national titles in softball. Which school is that?
2. Golden on the gridiron, this team won 11 National Football League titles, including the first two Super Bowls, prior to the completed merger between the NFL and AFL in 1970. Then the team won two more: XXXI and XLV in 1997 and 2011, respectively. Take a Lambeau Leap if you get the correct answer. Which team is it?
3. Golden on the wrestling mat, this college's grapplers have won more than 20 NCAA national team championships, including nine straight under Coach Dan Gable between 1978 and 1986, a streak which was only matched at the time by Yale's golf team from 1905 to 1913, and Southern Cal's track team from 1935 to 1943. Which college is this, who refers to the gold in its uniforms as "Old Gold"?
4. "We Are Family" was the theme song for this 1979 World Series Championship team. One of the National League's "Classic Eight," this team also won the 1960 World Series with the first walk-off home run in World Series history when Bill Mazeroski homered in the bottom of the ninth of the seventh game. Which team is it?
5. This college football team, which often sports gold helmets, had five undefeated seasons and three national titles under legendary coach Knute Rockne in the Twenties and Thirties. Which school is this, whose Main Administration Building is known as "the Golden Dome"?
6. Sticking with football, let's go north of the border. Which Canadian Football League team, with uniforms eerily similar to the Packers, won 13 Grey Cup titles between 1954 and 2005, more than any other CFL team in that time span, despite being the third-youngest franchise in the CFL?
7. OK, one more football question. After winning its first four Super Bowl appearances, this franchise finally lost to the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl XXX, the year after another franchise won its fifth Super Bowl in as many appearances. But in 2005 and 2008, this team would win two more to take over the NFL lead in Super Bowl wins, with 6. Which team, despite being in the NFL since 1933, did not win a title until winning its first Super Bowl in 1974?
8. On to the hardwood. This National Basketball Association team had its origins in the Midwest, thus explaining its nickname. It won more NBA titles during the Twentieth Century than any other franchise, except the Boston Celtics. Of its first 12 titles prior to 2001, eight came after the franchise moved from its original location in 1960. Which team is it, that began the 21st Century by accomplishing a three-peat from 2000 to 2002 under the Zen Master, Phil Jackson?
9. Let's cool off and go to the ice. Which of the "Original Six" National Hockey League franchises, sporting its black-and-gold logo, won Stanley Cups in 1929, 1939, 1941, 1970, 1972, and 2011?
10. Back to college for our final question. The College World Series crowned its first baseball champion in 1947. The next year a team with gold in their colors won its first College World Series. Led by Coach Rod Dedeaux, it would go on to win ten more championships between 1958 and 1978. In 1998, this school would win its twelfth National Collegiate Baseball Title. Which school is it?
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