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This NHL player is known as Mr. Hockey
Who is Gordie Howe
100
Baseball fans watched this team finish a consecutive streak of 5 World Series titles, ending in 1953. Which powerhouse team was this?
What is the New York Yankees
100
This alpine skier was voted Canada's Female Athlete of the 20th century.
Who is Nancy Greene
100
At age 29, this woman won the "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match against 55 year old Bobby Riggs.
Who is Billie Jean King
100
At the end of the 1954-55 NHL season, this player was suspended for an on-ice incident and his suspension caused a riot in his hometown?
Who is Maurice Richard
200
This New York Yankee was nicknamed "Joltin Joe" and the "Yankee Clipper"
Who is Joe DiMaggio
200
In 1950, the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats amalgamated to for which football team?
What is the Hamilton Tigercats
200
In 1957, a many many consider to be the finest athlete of the century retired. Who was this?
Who is Jackie Robinson
200
Which tennis player (born in New Jersey) became the youngest male winner of a Grand Slam event when he won the 1989 French Open at the age of 17?
Who is Michael Chang
200
Jackie Robinson played his first professional baseball in this city.
What is Montreal Quebec
300
This woman known as "Canada's Sweetheart" is the only Canadian to have won an Olympic gold medal in women's figure skating.
Who is Barbara Anne Scott
300
This Canadian city hosted the largest multi-sport competition in Canadian history.
What is Toronto (2015 Pan Am Games)
300
What was the "Gordie Howe Hat Trick"?
What is a goal, an assist and a fight all in one game.
300
Which equestrian set a record by becoming the first athlete in any sport, from any nation to compete in 10 Olympic Games? Bonus: What was the name of his trust horse?
Who is Ian Millar. Bonus: Who is Big Ben. Ian Miller began his Olympic career in the 1972 games and won his first medal in 2008 in Beijing at the age of 61.
300
This Canadian was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario.
Who is Marilyn Bell
400
This group of Canadian, fast and reckless downhill skiers became famous in the 1970's and 80's and earned this special nickname.
What is The Crazy Canucks
400
Pele the Brazilian Soccer King, joined which North American Soccer League team in 1975?
What is the New York Cosmos
400
In 1953 Maureen Connolly made the sports record books by becoming the first woman to do what?
What is winning all 4 grand slam tennis matches in a calendar year.
400
This legendary New York Yankee was one of the first 5 people to be inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He broke baseball's most important slugging records and played major league baseball until the age of 40.
Who is Babe Ruth.
400
This American track and field athlete stunned the world and embarrassed Hitler at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 by winning gold in the 100 metre, 200 metre, long jump and 4x100 metre relay.
Who is Jesse Owens
500
Which sports icon, who entered professional sports in the 1979-80 season is nicknamed "The Great One"?
Who is Willie Stargell
500
In 1952, the first zamboni to be used in an NHL game was used at a game between which two teams?
What is the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadians.
500
In 1967, as the reigning world heavy weight champion, this boxer nicknamed "The Greatest" refused to be drafted into the US Army.
Who is Muhammad Ali
500
"The Great One" started skating at the age of 2, and was playing professional hockey by the age of 17. In which league did he begin his career?
What is the WHA World Hockey Association