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Fortnight 5 – Day 4 Questions

Question #1

As a teenager in the late 1930s, Walker Smith Jr. circumvented the AAU’s 18-year age restriction by borrowing a birth certificate from an older friend in order to enter his first boxing tournament. The name would stick with Smith for his entire legendary career, spanning 85 undefeated matches as an amateur and a professional record of 173-19-6. What was the name of Smith’s friend? First and last name are required, but note that Smith’s saccharine sobriquet surfaced separately.

Ray Robinson

Racing & Combat

Question #2

The Fremantle Dockers, Port Adelaide Power, Geelong Cats, Gold Coast Suns, and St. Kilda Saints are all teams associated with what sport?

Australian Rules Football

Obscure

Question #3

Name the only active player who is higher than Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby on the NHL career points list. This player recorded his 1,500th career point on Feb. 4, 2020 when the San Jose Sharks beat the Calgary Flames 3-1.

Joe Thornton

Hockey

Question #4

Since the first Division 1 College World Series Most Outstanding Player was awarded in 1949, six men have won that award and gone on to be named to at least one MLB all-star team as a player. The resumes of those players are listed below, starting with their university and the year they won the CWS MOP, followed by the years they made the All-Star Game and the team they represented. Name one of them.

Note: There is no need to delineate which player is which.

Player A - Arizona State University (1965) - Oakland Athletics (1969, '72, '73, '74)
Player B - University of Minnesota (1973) - San Diego Padres (1977, '78, '79, '80), New York Yankees (1981, '82, '83, '84, '85, '86, '87, '88)
Player C - Arizona State University (1977) - Atlanta Braves (1982)
Player D - Cal State Fullerton (1992) - San Diego Padres (2001)
Player E - University of Texas (2002) - San Diego Padres (2012, '14)
Player F - University of South Carolina (2010) - Boston Red Sox (2016)

Sal Bando, Dave Winfield, Bob Horner, Phil Nevin, Huston Street, Jackie Bradley Jr.

Baseball

Question #5

Among the NFL’s top 15 career passing yards leaders (regular season only), four quarterbacks played at least one NFL game in the 1980s. Name three of them.

Dan Marino, John Elway, Warren Moon, Vinny Testaverde

Football