Thursday Trivia IX

[micropolitan guy]

Yes, it's time again. Play or don't. Google searches highly discouraged. We had a stumper last week (Cornell Green of the Dallas Cowboys). Shouldn't happen this week.

Here we go:

1. Who was the MVP of the 1998 Final Four?
ANSWER: Jeff Sheppard, Kentucky.

2. Who was the "one" in the only 7-for-1 trade in major-league baseball history?
ANSWER: Got this answer via IM, which is also acceptable. Vida Blue, from Oakland to San Francisco on March 15, 1978, for Gary Alexander, Gary Thomasson, Dave Heaverlo, Alan Wirth, John Henry Johnson, Phil Huffman and Mario Guerrero. Thomasson finished the season as a defensive replacement in left field and was on the field when the Yankees won the series in Game 6 over the Dodgers.

3. Who is the only major-league player to win the batting championship in his first two full years as a major-leaguer?
ANSWER: Pedro "Tony" Oliva is correct, for the Minnesota Twins in 1964 and 1965.

4. Who were the holder and the snapper on Tom Dempsey's NFL-record (at the time) 63-yard field goal?

5. Who is the only Triple-Crown winner (horse racing) to sire a Triple-Crown winner?
ANSWER: Gallant Fox (1930) is correct. He sired Omaha (1935).

BONUS: According to the historian Steven Ambrose, who did Dwight Eisenhower credit for the Allies' victory in World War II?

 

[Omar_dont_scare]

Is 3 Todd Helton?

 

[outofplace]

4. The holder was Joe Scarpati. No idea who the snapper was.

 

[Armchair_QB]

2 is Von Hayes I think

 

[micropolitan guy]

One-half of a correct answer. Scarpati was the holder. So far, no soup for anyone.

 

[Webster]

1. Scott Padgett? (And it is the MOP, not MVP)

Bonus -- Jim Thorpe for ending his football career?

 

[EE94]

5. Affirmed?

 

[Moderator1]

Affirmed is the last Triple Crown winner - in 1978. Haven't been once since so, uh, no?

 

[EE94]

BONUS: According to the historian Steven Ambrose, who did Dwight Eisenhower credit for the Allies' victory in World War II?

Chuck Norris?

 

[AgatePage]

1 is Jeff Sheppard

(and is 3 Jon Olerud??)

 

[EE94]

Affirmed is the last Triple Crown winner - in 1978. Haven't been once since so, uh, no?

maybe he was told to go **** himself

 

[Moderator1]

Naw. That woulda been in the news.

 

[Moderator1]

Von Hayes was the one in a one-for-five so for bonus points: Name the five.

Clueless on the 1-7 deal.

And I know the Triple Crown winner but I'll let others guess for a while. Omaha was the offspring.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

5. Gallant Fox

 

[Ben_Hecht]

BONUS: British nerve, Russian blood, and American money.

Have used this line, for YEARS.

 

[Moderator1]

OK, I had help from another member, not google: Vida Blue.
But Blue was traded for eight players and about 400 large. So is it him or is there ANOTHER big trade we're missing?
Gallant Fox is correct.

 

[Armchair_QB]

OK, I had help from another member, not google: Vida Blue.
But Blue was traded for eight players and about 400 large. So is it him or is there ANOTHER big trade we're missing?
Gallant Fox is correct.

Wasn't that trade voided though?

 

[Moderator1]

No, a sale was voided - to the Yanks? That trade went through. Name the eight (I can't).

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Gallant Fox . . . owned by the father of the guy who owned Nashua -- William Woodward Jr. -- whose inadvertent stoppage of a bullet was the cause celebre which was the centerpiece of The Two Mrs. Grenvilles.

 

[Moderator1]

Trade to the Reds was voided - I did look that up.