SUPER QUIZ

Take this Super Quiz to a Ph. D. Score. 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph. D. Level.

Subject: SPORTING FIRSTS

(e.g., Which race is first in horse-racing’s Triple Crown? Answer: The Kentucky Derby.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. Which city was the first to host the Summer Olympic Games in the Southern Hemisphere? Answer________

2. Which country won football’s first World Cup?

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3. He was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era.

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4. In which city was the first baseball World Series game played outside the U.S.?

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5. In which city were the first modern Olympic Games held? Answer________

GRADUATE LEVEL

6. Who ran the first sub-4-minute mile? Answer________

7. Who was the first female gymnast to score a perfect 10 in the Olympic Games?

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8. Who was first African American world heavyweight boxing champion? Answer________

9. Jacques Plante was the first NHL goaltender to wear what? Answer________

10. What were used as baskets for the first basketball game? Answer________

PH.D. LEVEL

11. Which team won the first ever Super Bowl?

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12. In 1938, he became the first tennis player to win the four major championships in one year. Answer________

13. Who was the first woman to swim the English Channel? Answer________

14. Name the first horse to win all three races of the Triple Crown. Answer________

15. A team from which city won the first modern World Series of Major League Baseball?

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