Sports quiz

1. When was the last time a World Series featured two franchises that had never won a championship?

2. Three major-league players with more than 4,000 at-bats have batted right-handed but thrown left-handed. Name two of them.

3. Name the last time before the 2006 season that both home teams won NFL conference championship games in the same year?

4. Who was the SEC men’s basketball player before Florida’s Nick Calathes in 2008-09 to have at least two triple-doubles for his career?

5. How many times in Dany Heatley’s seven NHL seasons has he tallied 30 goals?

6. Name the first driver to win two NASCAR national touring series races on the same day.

Answers

1. It was 1980, with Philadelphia facing Kansas City.

2. Hal Chase, Rickey Henderson and Cleon Jones.

3. In the 1996 season, hosts New England and Green Bay won.

4. Alabama’s Roy Rogers had two triple-doubles in 1996.

5. Five times, with a high of 50 goals twice.

6. Kyle Busch in 2009 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. (Camping World Truck Series, Nationwide Series).