Okay, here's the best question ever, and it will take some work and patience to get it.
You have to have some sports knowledge, but really more awareness of social stuff and current events over the years. Anyway, if you get the whole thing right, we will provide 5 different dinner dates at WOW plus a couple of tickets to a York Revolution Game for the ultimate winner. I will drop hints if needed, but for this group, I don't think that will be needed very often. I also will tell you up front, and again I might be wrong, I don't think these answers are collectively in any one place.
So, here we go with the Greatest Sports and Social Trivia Question of All Time:
Since 1954, there have been only 5 times (Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods cannot be given as answers) where the same people, animals or teams have appeared on the covers of both Sports Illustrated and Time magazines in the same week. Name those 5 people, animals, or teams.
Guess in "fives" rather than one at a time with your answers. I'll let you know what's right and what's not along the way. Good luck, and have fun!
Friday, April 25, 2008
The Greatest Sports and Social Trivia Question of All Time!
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first question:
By "same week", so you mean a seven day span of time or do you mean Monday through Sunday?
Since there were no actual magazines mentioned, I'll try TIME and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED:
11/8/2004 - Boston Red Sox
1/27/1986 - Chicago Bears
1/25/1982 - Joe Montana
6/11/1973 - Secretariat
6/27/1994 - O.J. Simpson
So far, Doug has two of five.
Okay, second try:
1. Secretariat (6/11/1973)
2. Joe Montana (1/25/1982)
3. O.J. Simpson (6/27/1994)
4. Michael Johnson (8/12/1996)
5. Nadia Comaneci (8/2/1976)
Doug,
3 of 5! GS You must be really hungry! GS
I had some of that WOW food and I went WOW! And I am always a sucker for Revs tickets.
Now, I am a little curious: the five that I just found, I can actually prove that those people appeared on BOTH magazines on the very same day. It seems that there have been more than five, if there are two that I am somehow missing!
Secretariat
Mary Lou Retton
1999 US Women's soccer team
O.J. Simpson
Joe Namath
Reggie Jackson
1980 Mens Hockey Team
7?
Now, I found those answers online too, but I've checked and only some of them are correct.
Reggie Jackson is wrong, and so is the 1980 U.S. Men's Hockey Team.
The 1999 U.S. Women's Soccer Team is kind of right...SI had a shot of Brandi Chastain, and Time had a shot of three other ladies on the team.
I don't think Namath is right either. His only Time cover was 10/16/72 and he appeared in SI on 10/9/72.
I did, however, find that BILL CLINTON appeared on covers on the same day! 3/21/1994.
Did I win?
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