Comments for
How Well Do You Know: 9/23/13-9/29/13
Email this quiz



Users are allowed and even encouraged to submit specific feedback about quizzes.
Please keep in mind that some of these comments may spoil individual quiz questions.

Looking for the quiz that goes along with these comments?
Find it here.


Comments are the sole responsibility of the person posting them.
By posting, you agree not to post comments that are off topic,
defamatory, obscene, abusive, threatening or an invasion of privacy.
Violators may be banned.
You must be logged in to post or rate comments.
Please log in or register.
Comments

Answers:

1. If you are a college football coach who was not fired in a decidedly humiliating manner after a loss on Saturday, please step forward. Not so fast there.....
Les Miles
Mike Leach
Lane Kiffin
Mike Gundy
 
2. Similarly, if you are a baseball team that will be playing in the post-season, please raise your hand. Hands down,
Boston Red Sox
Atlanta Braves
Arizona Diamondbacks
Pittsburgh Pirates
 
3. The final day of the MLB regular season saw a strangely-underreported no-hitter thrown. The woeful Miami Marlins won 1-0 when they scored on a _____________ in the bottom of the ninth:
Wild pitch
Walk-off home run
Suicide squeeze
Sacrifice bunt
 
4. A pair of really, really odd mid-week NFL stories made us laugh. Baltimore Raven Jacoby Jones was smacked upside the head by a bottle of champagne, wielded by a:
Policeman
Child
Retired NFL referee
Stripper
 
5. And the Lions' Nate Burleson went and broke his arm in an unusual car accident cause by this common foodstuff:
Peanut butter
Bananas
Bacon
Pizza
 
6. If you missed an attempt at a 71 yard field goal attempt this week, then you have a surprising amount in common with the kicker for this NFL team:
Denver
San Francisco
San Diego
Detroit
 
7. This SEC team emerged victorious in the weekend's only matchup of Top 10 teams:
Alabama
LSU
Georgia
Florida
 
8. We learned this week that, after the 2014 season, we won't have the commissioner of this sport to kick around any more, as he is retiring:
NASCAR
PGA
NHL
MLB
 
9. A team sponsored by Oracle executed an unlikely and stirring comeback to prevail in the signature event in this sport during the week:
Dogsled racing
Yacht racing
Polo
Australian rules football
 
10. In a sign that perhaps it is loosening up its straight-lacedness, the NBA announced the possibility of, in a few select games, letting players sport this on the backs of their uniforms:
Names of their favorite offspring
Nicknames
Name of their favorite charity
Favorite sneaker brand
 
11. Sticking with the roundball, we note that this NBA player went and pissed off Dwyane Wade when he opined that James Harden, not Wade, deserved a spot in Sports Illustrated's list of 10 Best NBA Players:
LeBron James
Kevin Durant
Kevin Garnett
Chris Paul
 
12. And get ready for The Big Ownership, as Shaquille O'Neal is exploring a venture to buy part of this Association team:
Boston
Atlanta
Sacramento
Oklahoma City
 
13. SI determined that the loudest football stadium in all the land is the one on the campus of:
LSU
Oregon
UCLA
Michigan State
 
14. It is hard, so damn hard, to win a game in the National Football Game when your team's quarterback throws three or more interceptions in a game. Which of these fellows avoided such an ignominious achievement on Sunday?
Joe Flacco
Matt Flynn
Blaine Gabbert
Jay Cutler
 
15. And in closing, as the NFL season hits the quarter pole, which does not correctly match a 4-0 team with one that is 0-4?
Denver & Pittsburgh
Kansas City & Jacksonville
New England & Washington
Seattle & Tampa Bay
 




Upcoming Quizzes:
Plus each Friday:
This is So Last Week
(Pop culture week in review)
...and each Monday:
Overpaid Jerks
(Sports week in review)


Advertisement