[Mick]

Oddball sports trivia:

1) What is the etymology behind the phrase "won hands down."
2) How many times was Roger Maris intentionally walked the year he hit 61 home runs?
3) How many times has the men's long jump record been broken since 1969?
4) What's the highest score on a par 4 during a PGA tour event?
5) What is the strangest rule about umpire clothing?
6) Four NBA players hold the career record of playing with the most teams (12).  Three of them had the same college coach.  Who was that coach?
7) In a fan vote, "Sharks" was not the winning name voted by the fans of the new San Jose NHL team.  What was the winning name?
8) From 1918 to 1949, how many winning seasons did the Philadelphia Phillies have?
9) What is the only NFL team to neither host nor play in a Super Bowl?
10) Which city has won more Big Four professional sports titles than Dallas, Washington, San Francisco, Baltimore, Denver or Houston?
11) Olympic trivia, part 1: What percentage of a gold medal is actually gold?
12) Olympic trivia, part 2: When was the last Olympics to use 24 karat gold medals?
13) What is the oldest continually run sporting event in the United States?
14) Who was Jeanne-Genevieve Garnerin?
15) What are the only two days per year in which there are no professional sports contests played in America?
16) What is the score of an automatically forfeited baseball game?

And a non-sports trivia question for Phogge (or anyone else).  Bruce Willis played John McClane in the Die Hard series.  Which actor had the contractual first right of refusal to play McClane because of a clause in a contract from a prior role?

[Mick]

Oddball sports trivia:

1) What is the etymology behind the phrase "won hands down."
2) How many times was Roger Maris intentionally walked the year he hit 61 home runs?
3) How many times has the men's long jump record been broken since 1969?
4) What's the highest score on a par 4 during a PGA tour event?
5) What is the strangest rule about umpire clothing?
6) Four NBA players hold the career record of playing with the most teams (12).  Three of them had the same college coach.  Who was that coach?
7) In a fan vote, "Sharks" was not the winning name voted by the fans of the new San Jose NHL team.  What was the winning name?
8) From 1918 to 1949, how many winning seasons did the Philadelphia Phillies have?
9) What is the only NFL team to neither host nor play in a Super Bowl?
10) Which city has won more Big Four professional sports titles than Dallas, Washington, San Francisco, Baltimore, Denver or Houston?
11) Olympic trivia, part 1: What percentage of a gold medal is actually gold?
12) Olympic trivia, part 2: When was the last Olympics to use 24 karat gold medals?
13) What is the oldest continually run sporting event in the United States?
14) Who was Jeanne-Genevieve Garnerin?
15) What are the only two days per year in which there are no professional sports contests played in America?
16) What is the score of an automatically forfeited baseball game?

And a non-sports trivia question for Phogge (or anyone else).  Bruce Willis played John McClane in the Die Hard series.  Which actor had the contractual first right of refusal to play McClane because of a clause in a contract from a prior role?