The four major championship tournaments are made up of The Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and _____________.
What is the PGA Championship?
Known as "The Yankee Clipper," he was also married to Marilyn Monroe for about 9 months.
Who is Joe DiMaggio?
Location of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Where is Canton, Ohio?
Two franchises that are tied for the most NBA championships.
Who are the L.A. Lakers and the Boston Celtics? Both have 17 championships.
Dr. J (Julius Erving) played in this league as a pro.
What is the ABA (American Basketball Association)?
The movie, "The Greatest Game Ever Played," highlights the amazing 1913 U.S. Open victory of this player, also known as the "father of amateur golf."
BONUS: This was the last movie directed by ______.
Who is Francis Ouimet? Francis DeSales Ouimet (May 8, 1893 – September 2, 1967) He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.
BONUS: Who was Bill Paxton?
Team with the longest drought between winning the World Series.
Who are the Chicago Cubs? (108 years and 19 days) The won in 1908 and again in 2016.
In the first year of the Super Bowl in 1967, the NFL Champions, the Green Bay Packers, played the AFL Champions the _________________.
Who are the Kansas City Chiefs?
The number of seconds on the NBA shot clock.
What is 24 seconds?
Most valuable valuable baseball card produced as by the American Tobacco Co. from 1909-1911 depicts this player.
Who is Honus Wagner? Worth $3M is one of the rarest and most expensive baseball cards in the world, as only 57 copies are known to exist.
The oldest style of courses is used in the British Open It's called _______.
What are "links?" A links golf course is the oldest style of golf course, first developed in Scotland. The word comes from the Scots language and refers to an area of coastal sand dunes, and also sometimes to open parkland.
The pitcher can commit a number of illegal motions/actions that constitute a ___________.
What is a "balk?" In the event a balk is enforced, the pitch is generally (but not always) nullified, each runner is awarded one base, and the batter (generally) remains at bat, and with the previous count.
The top vote getter in college football gets the Heismann Trophy. The top lineman gets the _________ Trophy.
What is the Outland Trophy? Awarded to the best interior lineman.
Michael Jordan starred in this popular movie with Billy Murray and Danny DeVito.
What is Space Jam?
A sequel, titled Space Jam: A New Legacy and starring LeBron James, is scheduled for release on July 16, 2021.
This movie is the story of James J. Braddock, a supposedly washed up boxer who came back to challenge for the 1935 heavyweight championship of the world.
What is the "Cinderella Man?"
Two golfers are tied for the most wins on the PGA Tour. One is Tiger Woods, the other is ___________.
Who is Sam Snead? (May 27, 1912 – May 23, 2002) Winning a record 82 PGA Tour events, including seven majors. He never won the U.S. Open, though he was runner-up four times.
The accomplishment of one batter hitting a single, double, triple, and homerun in one game.
What is "hitting for the cycle?" Cycles are semi-rare in Major League Baseball (MLB), having occurred only 330 times, starting with Curry Foley in 1882. The most recent cycle was accomplished by Cavan Biggio of the Toronto Blue Jays on September 17, 2019, against the Baltimore Orioles.
This Ohio State player is the only one to win the Heismann Trophy twice.
Who is Archie Griffin?
Archie Mason Griffin (born August 21, 1954) is a former American football running back. Griffin played seven seasons in the NFL with the Cincinnati Bengals. He is college football's only two-time Heisman Trophy winner, and is considered to be one of the greatest college football players of all time.
Player with the highest scoring record of 100pts in one game in the NBA.
Who is Wilt Chamberlain? (August 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999)
The U.S. men's national soccer team have never won the Men's World Cup. The U.S. women's national soccer team (USWNT) have won the Women's World Cup this many times.
What is four? Winning four Women's World Cup titles (in 1991 [the first Women's World Cup], 1999, 2015, and 2019
One of the original golf balls was made from a gutta-percha, a kind of ______.
What is tree? The "guttie" was made from dried sap of the gutta-percha (Malaysian sapodilla tree). The sap had a rubber-like feel and could be made spherical by heating and shaping it in a mold.
Scenario: No outs (or one out), man on base, batter pops the ball up in the infield, umpire calls the batter out based on the _________ rule.
What is the "infield fly rule?" The rule exists solely to prevent the defense from executing a double play or triple play by deliberately failing to catch a ball that an infielder could catch with ordinary effort.
The newest NFL expansion team accepted into the league.
Who are the Houston Texans? The club first played in 2002 as an expansion team, making them the youngest franchise currently competing in the NFL.
All time leading scorer in college basketball history, known for his floppy gray socks.
Who is Pete Maravich? (1915–1987) In high school, from his habit of shooting the ball from his side, as if holding a revolver, Maravich became known as "Pistol" Pete Maravich.
Serena Williams has been chasing this player's number of grand slam singles tennis titles.
Who is Margaret Court? She won 24 Grand Slam women's singles titles in her career, 19 Grand Slam doubles titles, and 21 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles.