Thursday Trivia V

[micropolitan guy]

Yes, it's that day again. Play if you wish, or don't. Google research is highly discouraged.

1. Michigan has won more college football games (869) than any other Division I-A team. Which team did the Wolverines defeat for their first victory over a current four-year university or college?
ANSWER: Albion, on Nov. 15, 1884, at Ann Arbor.

2. Before Tiger Woods, who was the last PGA golfer to be named the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year?
ANSWER: Lee Trevino is correct.

3. What was the site of the first televised football game?

4. Four No. 15 seeds have won opening-round games in an NCAA men's basketball tournament. Which schools are they?
ANSWER: Richmond (Indiana), Santa Clara (Arizona), Coppin State (South Carolina) and Hampton (Iowa State) are correct.

5. What is the name of the trophy awarded for winning the Indianapolis 500?
ANSWER: Borg Warner Trophy is correct.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

5. Borg Warner Trophy

4. Hampton, South Alabama

 

[AgatePage]

Yes, it's that day again. Play if you wish, or don't. Google research is highly discouraged.

4. Four No. 15 seeds have won opening-round games in an NCAA men's basketball tournament. Which schools are they?

Coppin State over South Carolina, 1997
Richmond over Syracuse, 1991
Hampton over Iowa State, 2001
Santa Clara over Arizona, 1993 (or 1994, I can't remember)

 

[KYSportsWriter]

1. Michigan has won more college football games (869) than any other Division I-A team. Which team did the Wolverines defeat for their first victory over a current four-year university or college?

Notre Dame

EDIT: Changed my answer.

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

1. The Ohio State University

 

[KYSportsWriter]

2. Before Tiger Woods, who was the last PGA golfer to be named the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year?

Lee Trevino -- 1971

 

[AgatePage]

Yes, it's that day again. Play if you wish, or don't. Google research is highly discouraged.

1. Michigan has won more college football games (869) than any other Division I-A team. Which team did the Wolverines defeat for their first victory over a current four-year university or college?

How about some Ivy League team? Like Harvard?

 

[Armchair_QB]

I'll say No. 1 is either Adrian or Albion

 

[Gold]

I believe the first televised college football game was in New York at Columbia University and I would say 1939. They did a couple of baseball games in 1939, and I think I remember reading about a football game. It was probably an Ivy League opponent, and I would guess Princeton.

 

[Pete Incaviglia]

Yes, it's that day again. Play if you wish, or don't. Google research is highly discouraged.

4. Four No. 15 seeds have won opening-round games in an NCAA men's basketball tournament. Which schools are they?

Coppin State over South Carolina, 1997
Richmond over Syracuse, 1991
Hampton over Iowa State, 2001
Santa Clara over Arizona, 1993 (or 1994, I can't remember)

I was in high school when Santa Clara pulled that off. I was at a friend's house, which didn't have cable. I watched it on a fuzzy TV signal we acheived through "rabbit ears."

I remember that night like it was yesterday.

I remember the day after, too - when all the TV stations were on Santa Clara campus and the surrounding area videotaping students who had slept drunk on their rooftops after partying. It was a hell of a scene.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Yes, it's that day again. Play if you wish, or don't. Google research is highly discouraged.

4. Four No. 15 seeds have won opening-round games in an NCAA men's basketball tournament. Which schools are they?

Coppin State over South Carolina, 1997
Richmond over Syracuse, 1991
Hampton over Iowa State, 2001
Santa Clara over Arizona, 1993 (or 1994, I can't remember)

I was in high school when Santa Clara pulled that off. I was at a friend's house, which didn't have cable. I watched it on a fuzzy TV signal we acheived through "rabbit ears."

I remember that night like it was yesterday.

I remember the day after, too - when all the TV stations were on Santa Clara campus and the surrounding area videotaping students who had slept drunk on their rooftops after partying. It was a hell of a scene.

I was in middle school when Coppin State beat South Carolina. The principal at the time was a graduate of Coppin and was the only one to call the upset, at least in my area.

 

[Chef]

3--Jack Nicklaus (1986)

 

[KYSportsWriter]

3--Jack Nicklaus (1986)

Not according to the list I'm looking at. Larry Bird won it that year.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Gold may be correct about answer 3. But if he's wrong, then I'll say the Fordham vs. Waynesburg game at Randalls Island in 1939 (credit to Maraniss' Lombardi book).

If you're referring to NFL games, then it was Brooklyn Dodgers vs. Philadelphia Eagles. 1939.

 

[BYH]

another question I knew (15 seeds) and I wasn't online to answer. Blast you Micro!

 

[micropolitan guy]

OK, some confusion on the TV game. The Columbia game was the first on TV. The game I'm thinking of was the first on commercial TV, and that indeed was Brooklyn-Philadelphia in 1939.

The correct answer was Ebbets Field, which nobody answered.



BYH, be on-line at about 2 p.m. EST on next Thursday, because that's when the questions usually go up.