What makes this the best sports trivia book? There are 1,500 questions organized into 6 wide-ranging categories: miscellaneous, baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and Olympics. To make it quick and easy to test yourself without seeing the answers first, the categories are broken into short 10 question quizzes followed immediately by their answers, and additional details are frequently included to expand on the basic answer and add even more to your knowledge. For example: In what country did volleyball originate? Who was the first pitcher to win a Cy Young Award in both leagues? Who holds the NBA record for most career fouls? Who was the first NCAA Division I player to rush for 2,000 yards in a season? What two teammates finished one and two in the NHL scoring race five times? Who was the first American to win the Olympic marathon gold medal? How many players are there on a cricket side? Who was the first player with 3,000 hits and 500 home runs in their MLB career? Who are the only two NBA players with more than 50 rebounds in a game? Who is the only person to win the Heisman Trophy twice? Who was the first woman to have her name engraved on the Stanley Cup? What famous U.S. general placed fifth in the pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics? Who is the only male or female six-time winner of the Associated Press Athlete of the year? Who is the only MLB player to hit a home run in every inning from the first to the sixteenth in their career? Who is the only coach to win both an NCAA Division I basketball championship and an NBA title? Who was the first NFL player who wasn't a kicker to score 1,000 career points? Who was the first NHL player with 500 career goals? What country did the U.S. defeat in the men's hockey gold medal game in Lake Placid in 1980? What sport originated the term southpaw? What MLB pitcher led his league the most times in strikeouts? Who holds the NBA record for most career free throws made? Who was the first NFL player to intercept 80 passes in their career? What is the only jersey number retired league wide by the NHL? Who was the first person to win a gold medal in three different Olympics? Who was the first driver in NASCAR history to win 20 races in a season? Horse racing's Triple Crown has only been won once in consecutive years; what years? What male or female singles figure skater has won the most U.S. Championships? What golfer holds the record for most PGA tour wins in a season? Who was the last man to win a calendar year tennis Grand Slam? Who is the first world boxing champion to hold a PhD degree? Who is the only person to be number one in the world in both table tennis and tennis? Of all the players in North American men's professional sports, who has won the most MVP awards? Who was the first driver to win two consecutive Indianapolis 500 races? In darts, what is the highest score possible with three darts? What is the only sport where you can see teams defending goals of different sizes? What is the fastest racquet sport? Who was the 20-year-old amateur American golfer who won the U.S. Open in 1913 and started a boom in golf in the U.S.? This is book 3 of the What's the Best Trivia? series; look for other books in the series covering a variety of trivia topics.

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