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1. We'll start you off with a marathon question. Name the first man to win back-to-back Olympic marathons.
2. Moving on to college bowl games. In what city is the Humanitarian Bowl held?
3. Staying with college sports, I need you to tell me Southern Illinois' team name. I'm going to leave this one open-ended, so you don't accidentally stumble upon it or get it by process of elimination. Need you to do some work and not get lucky once in a while.
4. Proceeding to bowling. In its early days, what was considered a perfect game?
5. Many New York Yankees have had their numbers retired. But who was the first?
6. We'll stay with retiring numbers. Why not? It's my quiz, I'll do whatever I want. Imagine for a moment that only 6 players in the NBA have ever had their numbers retired. Those six are the only 6 to have their numbers retired by two different teams. Following? Following or not, here's your question: In this fantasy, what team has retired the most numbers?
7. I'll move on to auto racing now. Tell me the first Formula 1 track ever raced on.
8. My America's Cup question nobody got (The cup is bottomless. Can't hold anything.) So we'll switch the question. Who was the first baseball player to earn {$3} million a year?
9. Back to college football. Remember Pearl Harbor? The year Japan pulled the attack, NCAA feared Pasadena may be attacked as well, so it was moved for the 1942 Duke-Oregon St. Rose Bowl. My question is, who, if anyone, had home-field advantage as a result?
10. Did you know the International Skating Union recognizes more than 1 figure 8? Care to guess how many they recognize?
11. Halfway home. In craps (somebody at the site where I'm getting this info considers craps a sport), if you rolled 'Little Phoebe', what did you roll?
12. In the Olympics' Parade Of Nations in the Opening Ceremony, who usually marches first?
13. Sticking with the Games, tell me the name of the mascot for the 1984 Los Angeles Games.
14. More useless knowledge. You've put up with 13 questions worth of it so far, so what's 1 or 7 more? Tell me which is the only major league ballpark that faces directly north?
15. 6 to go... How long is a pro golfer allowed before he or she has to hit the ball?
16. Mind telling me the only city with more than one pro team in which every team wears the same colors? You'd go through all 4 choices easily with multiple choice, so I'm not going to give you that. You're on your own with this one. Spell the city right. Also capitalize.
17. My incomplete pass question nobody scored upon, and I've come to think of it as unfair, so I'll switch it to hockey. Which Original 6 team was the first and only to come back from a 3-0 deficit to win the Stanley Cup?
18. Back to the Games: You are to tell me the only host country of the Summer Olympics that failed to win a gold medal in said games.
19. How many days out of the year are there no games in the Big 4 leagues (NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB)? There is a set number. But I'm gonna make you find it yourself.
20. Last question. You may know who the silouhette on the NBA logo is: Jerry West. Now how about MLB's logo? It ain't Babe.
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