Top sports fans will know the answers to this quiz
By Chris Richcreek

1. Name the last major-league position player to win a Rookie of the Year award without getting at least 300 at-bats for the season.

2. Between 2002 and 2005, there were only three majorleague players who hit 50 homers in a season. Name two of them.

3. When was the last time the top seed for each NFLconference met in the Super Bowl?

4. Name the first University of Illinois men's basketball player to top 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds for his career.

5. In 2006-07, Colorado's Paul Stastny set a rookie NHL mark for longest points-scoring stretch (20 games). Whose record did he break?

6. At which Olympics did Mike Conley Sr. win a gold medal, and in which event?

7. When Tiger Woods won the Buick Invitational in 2007 for the third consecutive time, it marked the fourth tournament he had won at least three consecutive years. Name two of the other tournaments.

Answers:

1. Willie McCovey had 192 atbats for San Francisco in 1959.

2. Alex Rodriguez of Texas (57 homers) in 2002, Jim Thome of Cleveland (53) in 2002 and Andruw Jones of Atlanta (51) in 2005.

3. It was the 1993 season, when Dallas and Buffalo met in Super Bowl XXVIII.

4. James Augustine tallied 1,383 points and 1,023 rebounds while at Illinois (2002-06).

5. Winnipeg's Teemu Selanne had a point in 17 consecutive games in 1992-93.

6. He won the triple jump at the 1992 Summer Olympics at Barcelona.

7. The Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill (2000-03), the Memorial Tournament (1999- 2001) and the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone (1999-2001).

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