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Quiz about Officiation Fiascoes Fear The Zebra

Officiation Fiascoes: Fear The Zebra! Quiz

This quiz concerns, mostly, Washington, D.C. area teams.

A multiple-choice quiz by Boromir_Jagr. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
Boromir_Jagr

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
73,657

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

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243

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Question 1 of 10

1. In the American League Championship Series of 1996, which umpire ruled a home run a fly ball? It had been snatched from airspace directly above the outfield by an over-zealous boy?

Answer: (Two words, or just surname ... not related to Jerry)

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Question 2 of 10

2. How many times did the NFL apologize to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2000 season for game-breaking referee errors that eventually caused them to miss the playoffs? Hint

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Question 3 of 10

3. In the famous 'Long Count' fight of 1927, what was the stated reason the referee delayed starting the ten-count on Gene Tunney, allowing him to recover from a knockout? Hint

Tunney was not lying down, only seated

Opponent Jack Dempsey refused to go to his corner

Foreign objects had been thrown into the ring

He forgot what came after zero

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Question 4 of 10

4. The 1999 Stanley Cup Finals were won with a Game 6 goal by Brett Hull (Dallas Stars). Why was this goal illegal? Hint

Hull had entered the zone offside

Hull had received a two-line pass from Mike Modano

Hull's skate was in the goalie crease

A penalty was pending against Dallas

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which of these statements regarding the NCAA men's basketball Final Four of 2001 is false? Hint

All of these are true

It was University of Maryland's first trip to the Final Four

CBS stayed mum on the problematic officiation

It was won by a team from the East region

6. In a New York Rangers game in the 2000-2001 season, Sandy McCarthy received penalties that eventually grew to an ejection for his continued participation in an altercation. What Pittsburgh Penguin, his counterpart, was not penalized? Hint

Steve McKenna

Darius Kasparaitis

Krysztof Oliwa

Ian Moran

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Question 7 of 10

7. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, the Soviet Union beat the United States in the men's basketball gold-medal game. How many times was time added to the end of the game clock? Hint

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Question 8 of 10

8. In the 1997 American League Championship series, what Cleveland Indian freely admitted that his team had used spitballs to beat the Baltimore Orioles? Hint

Orel Hershiser

Albert Belle

Mike Hargrove

Chad Ogea

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Question 9 of 10

9. What two players scored illegal goals against the Washington Capitals in March 2002, causing them to lose the standings points they needed to make the playoffs? Hint

Ron Francis and Teemu Selanne

Bret Hedican and Owen Nolan

Rod Brind'Amour and Vincent Damphousse

Martin Gelinas and Bryan Marchment

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Question 10 of 10

10. In a Cleveland Browns game in 2001, a pivotal miscall led fans to take matters into their own hands. What did the assembled crowd do? Hint

Filed a class-action suit

Threw bottles onto the field

Stormed the field (some naked)

Sold back their season tickets

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. In the American League Championship Series of 1996, which umpire ruled a home run a fly ball? It had been snatched from airspace directly above the outfield by an over-zealous boy?

Answer: Richie Garcia

Garcia was later investigated and slapped on the wrist for his involvement in gambling on sports 'other than baseball.' I'm sure.

2. How many times did the NFL apologize to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2000 season for game-breaking referee errors that eventually caused them to miss the playoffs?

Answer: 3

In successive weeks, if I'm not mistaken. Unconscionably, NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue 'caved to the powerful officials' union' in its demands for a new contract the following season.

3. In the famous 'Long Count' fight of 1927, what was the stated reason the referee delayed starting the ten-count on Gene Tunney, allowing him to recover from a knockout?

Answer: Opponent Jack Dempsey refused to go to his corner

This is considered 'not legal' by many.

4. The 1999 Stanley Cup Finals were won with a Game 6 goal by Brett Hull (Dallas Stars). Why was this goal illegal?

Answer: Hull's skate was in the goalie crease

Following the stink over this goal, the crease rule was changed: while a player can now have a skate in the crease, he cannot kick the puck into the net.

5. Which of these statements regarding the NCAA men's basketball Final Four of 2001 is false?

Answer: CBS stayed mum on the problematic officiation

Yes, even Greg Gumbel himself came down from the ivory tower of the broadcast booth and soundly criticized the referees, guilty of shamelessly spoon-feeding Maryland and Arizona to the Duke Blue Devils (e.g. Duke players shouted 'No foul' and no foul was called.)

Answer: Krysztof Oliwa

Oliwa continued to goad McCarthy throughout the entire debacle, from the ice and the bench. He even waved good-bye as Snady was escorted - dragged, really - to the locker room.

7. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, the Soviet Union beat the United States in the men's basketball gold-medal game. How many times was time added to the end of the game clock?

Answer: 2

A clock that loses twelve seconds over a period of forty-eight minutes (a basketball game) is expected to lose one two-hundred-fortieth of a second over a twelve-second interval. This would not be measured on the clocks used to time basketball.

8. In the 1997 American League Championship series, what Cleveland Indian freely admitted that his team had used spitballs to beat the Baltimore Orioles?

Answer: Chad Ogea

Hershiser, of course, was the pitcher who was doing the throwing. He pitched a game after the admission, and again was permitted to throw spitballs. Both games, started by Mike Mussina of Baltimore, went to extra innings in which reliever Armando Benitez gave up both winning runs.

9. What two players scored illegal goals against the Washington Capitals in March 2002, causing them to lose the standings points they needed to make the playoffs?

Answer: Ron Francis and Teemu Selanne

Tricky question! I did ask who *scored* the goals. Francis punched a puck out of midair and into the net on March 10th, followed on St. Paddy's Day by a goal on which Damphousse made a hand pass to Selanne, who scored.

10. In a Cleveland Browns game in 2001, a pivotal miscall led fans to take matters into their own hands. What did the assembled crowd do?

Answer: Threw bottles onto the field

Sadly, either of these three alternatives would have been a great deal more acceptable than chucking bottles half-full of beer from several stories up. What would have been best, of course, would be if the call had been made correctly in the first place.

Source: Author Boromir_Jagr

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