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Below you will find four trivia questions. You can answer in the comments or via email or quietly to the nurse tickling your brain with a COVID swab or silently to yourself while you’re showering. Try not to “cheat” by looking things up, because, as every teacher ever has said at some point, you’re only cheating yourself. Answers will come next issue.
Four NBA teams have retired numbers for players who died while still active with the team. Who are the players?
Patrick Mahomes just had his fifth-ever 400-yard passing game, the only QB to achieve this in their first 42 NFL contests. Three quarterbacks — a Dolphin, a Lion, and a Ram — did this four times in the same span. Who are they?
Of all #1 overall picks in the NHL draft history, who has the most career assists?
Who holds the all-time AL-only record for GIDP (double plays grounded into)?
Answers from last week’s issue
After Joe Montana and Steve Young, which quarterback threw the most touchdown passes to Jerry Rice?
Remember how Rich Gannon was a journeyman forever and then he ended up in Oakland and was really good all of a sudden? Oddball does. Anyway, Gannon threw 16 touchdown passes to Rice while they were both Raiders.
There have only been 562 players in MLB history who bat lefthanded and throw righthanded, the vast majority of them being pitchers. Among RHPs who bat lefthanded, who has the most home runs?
The original text here was: “With 19 home runs, Madison Bumgarner leads all pitchers who are listed as B: L/T: R on their baseball cards.” Then we realized the question was fucked up because MadBum is a lefty. Oddball regrets the error.
Name the three current NBA players who played college basketball at the University of Utah. (No, Keith Van Horn isn’t playing anymore, and Heath Van Korn played at Duke.)
With apologies to Joe Pesci, the three Utes who are currently in the NBA are Kyle Kuzma, Jakob Pöltl, and Delon Wright.
#postscript
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