Thursday Trivia

[micropolitan guy]

We're back, after a short break, with a mixture of teassers from sports, history, and the world of entertainment. You all know the rules. Play or don't.

1. Who is the only major-league player to strike out 100 times in a season where he hit no home runs?
ANSWER: Manny Lee, 1991 Toronto Blue Jays, 107 ks

2. Who is/was Martha Canary?
ANSWER: Calamity Jane is correct.

3. What major-league player with at least 2,000 career at-bats has the lowest career batting average in the live ball era?
ANSWER: Noted Yankee killer Jerry Kindal, .2134

4. Who is the most recent graduate of a current MAAC school to play on teams that won back-to-back NBA championships?
ANSWER: Mike Smrek of Canisius, on the 1987-88 Laker champs.

5. According to Billboard.com, what was the top-selling album of 1965, the first full year of the British Invasion?
ANSWER: Mary Poppins is right.

MUSICAL BONUS: The Los Lobos song, "One Time, One Night" was prominently used, but is not on the official soundtrack, of what controversial 1988 movie?
ANSWER: "Colors"

 

[Ben_Hecht]

(2) AKA Calamity Jane, for you Deadwood fans.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

I refuse to answer (5) on the grounds that the answer is simply too damn depressing for words.

 

[Pancamo]

3. Ozzie Smith

 

[mpcincal]

I thinking Ray Oyler for No. 3

 

[micropolitan guy]

Calamity Jane is correct. I knew the answer but that show made it a much easier question.
Incidentally, Jack McCall, the guy who shot Wild Bill, was the first person ever legally hanged in present-day South Dakota.

 

[BYH]

BONUS: "The Accused?"

 

[micropolitan guy]

Ray Oyler had only 1265 at-bats.

 

[zeke12]

Bonus: Based only on the phrase, "controversial 1988 movie," -- Last Temptation of Christ?

 

[Bullrog]

3. Pat Burrell

MUSICAL BONUS: The Pope Must Die(t)

 

[KevinmH9]

I refuse to answer (5) on the grounds that the answer is simply too damn depressing for words.

Hell, I'll say it.

5. Marry Poppins Soundtrack.

Depressing? Yes.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Updated with correct answers. Peolpe must be busy today, fewer responses than usual.

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

Mike Smrek had the biggest hands I've ever seen. Lakers loved him because he used to clobber Kareem in practice.

And thanks for bringing up Manny Lee. 21 years later, I can still see that grounder going through his legs.

 

[micropolitan guy]

One of several Canadian stars for the GGs. Michael Meeks could ball too.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Updated with correct answers. Peolpe must be busy today, fewer responses than usual.

Damn frickin' tough questions, mon.