QUIZ ANSWERS

Here are the answwers to the Sports Quiz questions in 1944.

1. Q. In 1927 Babe Ruth set an all-time major league record by whacking out sixty home runs in one season. What is thenearest that any other player has come to that record?
    A. Fifty-eight. In 1932, Jimmie Foxx of Philadelphia, slapped out fifty-eight homers, and in 1938, Hank Greenburg of the Detroit Tigers rapped out fifty-eight round-trippers.

2. Q. What is the most touchdown passes ever caught by one player in one game in the National Professional Football League?
    A. Four. In 1934, in a game against Cincinnati, Joe Carter of Philadelphia snagged four touchdown passes. Don Hutson... Green Bay's great end... has caught three touchdown passes in six different games, but he's never been able to snag the fourth pass to equal Carter's record.

3. Q. Baseball has its flies and football has its tackles. But what sport has them both?
    A. Fishing. The fisherman's fly is part of his tackle. The tackle, of course, includes all of his gear. The fly is the lure he uses.

4. Q. Can you name at least three major league baseball players whose name is Bucky?
    A. Well, there's Bucky Walters, one of the crack pitchers of the Cincionnati Reds... there's Bucky Harris, former manager of the Philadelphia Phillies and other teams... Bucky Weaver, third baseman for the famous Black Sox... and of course, there's Bucky Newsom, the talkative pitcher for the Detroit Tigers.

5. Q. The Western Intercollegiate Conference is often known as the Big Ten. What is the popular name for the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association?
    A. The Big Six.

6. Q. Who was the last fighter to meet Joe Louis for the world"s heavyweight championship?
    A. Abe Simon. The last heavyweight championship fight was held in New York in March, 1942, when Joe Louis knocked out Abe Simon in six rounds.

7. Q. The St. Louis Browns recently bought outfielder Pete Gray from the Memphis Chicks. What makes Pete Gray such an unusual player?
    A. Pete Gray has only one arm! But despite the loss of his left arm, Pete Gray has become one of the outstanding players in the Southern Association. His season's batting average is generally mighty close to the three-hundred mark, and he hets more than his share of extra-base wallops. When it comes to fielding, he's a perfect ball hawk. He has perfected an amazing technique of catching the ball... whipping off his glove... and pegging in the ball all in one split-second movement.

8. Q. According to the official collegiate football rules, how high must the crossbar of the goalpost be? How many feet off the ground is the crossbar of the goalpost?
    A. Ten feet.

9. Q. In baseball, if a pitched ball strikes the ground before reaching home plate... goes past the catcher... and allows runners to advance, is it scored as a wild pitch?... a passed ball?... a balk?... or simply a ball?
    A. It's a wild pitch. Any pitched ball that strikes the ground before passing the plate and then slips by the catcher, is a wild pitch.

10. Q. In what college athletic conference would you expect to find teams from Alabama... Auburn... and Kentucky?
      A. The Southeastern Conference.

11. Q. For some reason or other, heavyweight fighters are frequently given rhythmic nicknames. Can you name the heavyweight champions or heavyweight contenders who were nicknamed The Manassa Mauler... The Wild Bull of the Pampas?... and The Cinderella Man?
      A. The Manassa Mauler was Jack Dempsey... the Wild Bull of the Pampas was Luis Firpo... and the Cinderella Man was James Braddock.

12. Q. How many personal fouls is a college basketball player allowed per game?
      A. Four.


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