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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 01-27-2026

Congrats to both Mick who nailed it and Skip for post of the week

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 01-27-2026

The Sullivan Award is given each year to the nation’s top amateur athlete
Three from Stanford have won who are they ?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - PalmTree - 01-27-2026

(01-27-2026, 05:50 PM)BobK Wrote:  The Sullivan Award is given each year to the nation’s top amateur athlete
Three from Stanford have won  who are they ?

I think 4 Bob - Mathias, Heiden, Evans, Plummer - si?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 01-27-2026

Thank you I did miss Heiden you were perfect

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - PalmTree - 01-27-2026

(01-27-2026, 07:23 PM)BobK Wrote:  Thank you I did miss Heiden you were perfect

Some comments on the four.

Plummer was pretty recent, so not too hard to remember.

I was swimming laps at DeGuerre when Coach Quick asked a few of us if we'd mind moving over and sharing lanes so a recruit who was visiting  (Evans) could workout in a free lane. We were all floored when we saw who it was.

A lot of people never knew Heiden was a Tree but he used to show up to ride with the cycling team once in awhile back when I was working out with them too.

Mathias was <just> Mathias - legend!

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Giants - 01-28-2026

Name the five schools that have produced both a Super Bowl winning QB and a Best Actor/Actress Oscar winner.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 01-28-2026

Stanford of course is one

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Papa John - 01-28-2026

Wow, that's a tough one, since, with a few exceptions, I don't know where Oscar winners went to college.

Besides Stanford, I'm going to guess Michigan, Purdue, Alabama, Notre Dame and hope that at least one of them is correct.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 01-28-2026

Texas a guess.
Maybe late next Sunday USC

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - PalmTree - 01-28-2026

(01-28-2026, 10:59 AM)Papa John Wrote:  Wow, that's a tough one, since, with a few exceptions, I don't know where Oscar winners went to college.

Besides Stanford, I'm going to guess Michigan, Purdue, Alabama, Notre Dame and hope that at least one of them is correct.

I'll guess UCLA, mainly because of Aikman - surely there must've been a. Bruin Bestie?!?!?

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 01-28-2026

(01-28-2026, 10:59 AM)Papa John Wrote:  Wow, that's a tough one, since, with a few exceptions, I don't know where Oscar winners went to college.

Besides Stanford, I'm going to guess Michigan, Purdue, Alabama, Notre Dame and hope that at least one of them is correct.

I'd guess Stanford, UCLA, Cal, Notre Dame and Michigan.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - PalmTree - 01-28-2026

(01-28-2026, 11:25 AM)PalmTree Wrote:  

(01-28-2026, 10:59 AM)Papa John Wrote:  Wow, that's a tough one, since, with a few exceptions, I don't know where Oscar winners went to college.

Besides Stanford, I'm going to guess Michigan, Purdue, Alabama, Notre Dame and hope that at least one of them is correct.

I'll guess UCLA, mainly because of Aikman - surely there must've been a Bruin Bestie?!?!?

Edit: I just remembered - Gregory Peck (To Kill A Mockingbird) went to kal, so did Rodgers. After that ???....

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Papa John - 01-28-2026

UCLA is a good guess, but the only Bruin thespians I remember are Carol Burnett and Mark Harmon. I don't think either one has won an Oscar, though. Pretty sure that most of their work has been on TV. But like you said there must have been others.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Giants - 01-28-2026

To date, three identified

Stanford - Jim Plunkett/John Elway, Reese Witherspoon
Cal - Aaron Rodgers, Gregory Peck
UCLA - Troy Aikman, Helen Hunt/Nicolas Cage

Two to go - one from the Midwest, one from the South.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - PalmTree - 01-28-2026

(01-28-2026, 04:04 PM)Giants Wrote:  To date, three identified

Stanford - Jim Plunkett/John Elway, Reese Witherspoon
Cal - Aaron Rodgers, Gregory Peck
UCLA - Troy Aikman, Helen Hunt/Nicolas Cage

Two to go - one from the Midwest, one from the South.

Urghhh. South: Georgia, Miami. Midwest: Oklahoma, U of Wisconsin. NO clue on Best actors/actresses from any of these schools

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Papa John - 01-28-2026

Tennessee? Mississippi?

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For the Midwest, maybe wherever Ben Roethlisberger went to college? Somewhere in Ohio, I think, but not Ohio State.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - BobK - 01-28-2026

Wow Miami of Ohio. I looked up the actor

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - PalmTree - 01-28-2026

(01-28-2026, 05:54 PM)Papa John Wrote:  Tennessee? Mississippi?

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For the Midwest, maybe wherever Ben Roethlisberger went to college? Somewhere in Ohio, I think, but not Ohio State.

Hmm - good guess.  I was thinking Wisconsin because of Russell Wilson (as you may recall, Anna's brother - sure could use someone like her on the WBB team these days). But back to the matter at hand - Giants - do we have the right nominees? Envelope time? Bueller, Bueller??? This is a fun one.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 01-28-2026

(01-28-2026, 03:43 PM)Papa John Wrote:  UCLA is a good guess, but the only Bruin thespians I remember are Carol Burnett and Mark Harmon. I don't think either one has won an Oscar, though. Pretty sure that most of their work has been on TV. But like you said there must have been others.

I think Helen Hunt won Best Actress for "As Good As It Gets" with Nicholson. She attended UCLA for a month, then dropped out. Tim Robbins won Best Director and Best Supporting Actor...but not Best Actor.

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RE: Sports trivia thread 2025 - Mick - 01-28-2026

There are five NFL head coaches who were first-ballot NFL Hall of Fame members. Famously, six-time Super Bowl winner (most by two wins) Bill Belichick was not among them. 

Who are the five? Hint: They were the #8, #10, #18, #31, and #44 head coaches in terms of career winning percentage.

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