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Pop Quiz: All About Sports and Athletes

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1.

The National Football League was founded in this century:

1700s
1800s
1900s

2.

This professional baseball player was recently accused of enhancing his performance with steroids:

Mark McGuire
Mark Spitz
Mark Wallberg

3.

The National Hockey League includes hockey teams from the following country(ies):

The United States only
The United States and Canada
The United States, Canada, and Latin America

4.

Which professional sports league has the highest average player salaries?

NHL
NFL
NBA

5.

The average price for a ticket to an NFL game in 2004 was

Less than $20
More than $50
More than $100

6.

The most common type of football injury is:

Bruised ego
Sprain or strain
Concussion

7.

In 1992, Joyce Carol Oates said of this professional sport: “[It} is the only major American sport whose primary, and often murderous, energies are not coyly defected by such artifacts as balls and pucks.”

Wrestling
Swimming
Boxing

8.

Which president once lost consciousness while watching a pro football game and choking on a pretzel?

Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
George W. Bush

9.

Which president once played college football for Michigan?

Gerald Ford
William Taft
Woodrow Wilson