On March 4, 2021, Mark Pavelich was found dead at age 63 in a Minnesota treatment facility. Who was on the receiving end of Pavelich’s most famous assist?

In reverse chronological order, Zabivaka, Fuleco, and Zakumi are the three most recent examples of what? (At one point, an internet rumor claimed that the next version would be called ‘Waleed,' though this appears to be entirely unsourced.)

In the 2012 AL MVP race, Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera was the clear traditional favorite, and took the prize with 22 of 28 first-place votes. However, a heated debate played out in baseball media because another player—a rookie—led Cabrera by a significant margin in a comprehensive sabermetric stat recently implemented on sites like Fangraphs (2008) and Baseball-Reference (2010). Name the player AND the statistic.

On Feb. 12, 2021, LeBron James passed Karl Malone to become the NBA career leader in what statistical category?

One origin story of a game patented in 1891 makes the interesting claim that, essentially, the game named itself. An alternative explanation is that the name was an intentional combination of two foreign words from different languages with the same meaning. What’s the game?