Test your trivia skill

1. Arizona’s Brandon Webb set a record in 2006 for the lowest total of victories by a starting pitcher for a Cy Young Award winner in a full season (16). Who had held the mark?

2. Who was the last New York Yankee before Alex Rodriguez (2005, ’07) to be named the American League Most Valuable Player?

3. Name the head coach the last time the Buffalo Bills made the NFL playoffs.

4. In 2007, Eastern Washington’s Rodney Stuckey became the second Big Sky Conference player to be taken in the first round of the NBA Draft. Who was the first?

5. Who won the first Lester B. Pearson Award as the most outstanding player in the NHL in 1971?

6. How long was the reign of Russian chess champions before U.S. star Bobby Fischer won the world title in 1972?

Answers

1. Pedro Martinez in 1997 and Randy Johnson in 1999, each with 17 victories. Rick Sutcliffe had 16 wins for the Chicago Cubs in 1984, but also had four wins for Cleveland that year.

2. Don Mattingly in 1985.

3. Wade Phillips in the 1999 season.

4. Montana’s Micheal Ray Richardson in 1978.

5. Boston’s Phil Esposito.

6. Twenty-four years (1948-1972).