Thursday Trivia

1. Alberto Callaspo is the first Kansas City Royals switch-hitter with more than 100 hits in a single season since ....
ANSWER: Carlos Beltran it is.

2. He was the first player to strike out four times in a game seven times in a season.

3. What single was named Billboard's "Number One Record of the Year" for 1965?
ANSWER: "Wooly Buly" is correct.

4. Who is the only player to represent the Toronto Blue Jays and Montreal Expos in an MLB All-Star game?
ANSWER: Ron Fairly it is.

5. Utah has won eight consecutive bowl games. Who was the last team to defeat the Utes in a postseason football game?
ANSWER: Wisconsin it is, in the 1996 Copper Bowl.

MUSICAL BONUS: In the Tom Petty song, "Free-Falling," his voice is double-tracked for two words, and two words only. What are those words?
ANSWER: Elwood gets it. "Ventura Boulevard."

 

Is the musical bonus Ventura Boulevard?

 

Yes it is.

Slow response tonight. Either the questions are hard, or everybody is watching the final chapters of the Dan Hawkins' era at Colorado.

 

No. 5 -- Should be a trick question, but the answer is Wisconsin.

 

This Jays fan will have a crack at 4 and say it was their first-ever All Star, Ron Fairly.

 

Updated with several more correct answers

 

As I recall Fairly was also the first guy to play for both the Jays and Expos.

 

3. Something by the Rolling Stones

 

3. "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs. A trick question, because the record never actually hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 (it peaked at No. 2) but still managed to top the year-end list.

Huggy, you're right again about Ron Fairly, who was an expansion Expo as well as a first-year Blue Jay.

 

Is No. 1 Carlos Beltran?

And I'll guess Bobby Bonds for No. 2.

 

One more quesiton out there.

 

Mark Reynolds?