Wanna Turn Up the Heat? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Maury Wills

Ty Cobb's mark was untouched for over forty years until the speedy shortstop, Maury Wills, of the Brooklyn Dodgers broke the 100 steal barrier with 104 steals that year. A stolen base occurs when a runner is on base and advances to the next base without the ball being hit in play. Rickey Henderson was the first major league player to surpass 1000 steals in his carer and retired with 1406.

Answer: USA

Florence Griffith-Joyner ran a 10.49 second race in the 100 meters at the 1988 U.S. Olympic trials. To put this in perspective, she broke fellow American Evelyn Ashford's record by an incredible 0.27 seconds.

Answer: 40 yards

The 40 yard dash has been a staple of the NFL combine held in April each year prior to the NFL draft. In 2024, Xavier Worthy, a wide receiver from the University of Texas ran 4.21 seconds. Players like running back Chris Johnson, Henry Ruggs III, and Matthew Golden all became highly sought after draft picks after excelling at the combine.

Answer: Maurice Richard

Maurice "The Rocket" Richard scored a record 50 goals in 50 games during the 1944-45 NHL season. To put this in perspective, the next player to accomplish 50 goals in a season was Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion sixteeen years later. Richard played for the Montreal Canadians and the NHL's leading scorer award is called the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy.

Answer: Joe Frazier

Mike Tyson was famous for his aggressive start to many of his heavyweight boxing matches. In 1986, Mike must have been in a big hurry as he earned a Technical Knockout Out (TKO) of Marvis Frazier in a half minute at the Glens Falls Civic Center, New York. Marvis is the son of "Smokin'" Joe Frazier, most famous for his legendary fights with Muhammad Ali.

Answer: Winning all four majors and Olympic gold

The Golden Slam can only be won during an Olympic year. In 1988, German superstar Steffi Graf accomplished the previous unthinkable accomplishment of winning each of the four majors and the Olympic gold medal. The four majors are the U.S. Open, Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the French Open. Interestingly, Pam Shriver accomplished the same feat at doubles that year.

Answer: Bench press

Gene Rychlak (USA) was founding member of the Revolution Powerlifting Syndicate. He was equipped with a special supportive bench shirt, but he was the first to reach the milestone of bench pressing a half a ton (455.9 kb) in 2004. In future years, other powerlifters have achieved this goal without equipped gear but Rychlak truly earned the nickname of "King Of The Bench".

Answer: 1974

While pitching for the California Angels, Nolan Ryan was clocked at 100.8 miles per hour using a radar gun. No other player had been officially registered at cracking that milestone prior to that. Some have argued that the method used even underestimated his throwing power that day. In future years, players like Aroldis Chapman have surpassed 105mph (169 kmh).

Answer: Wilt Chamberlain

When it comes to NBA records, Wilt Chamberlain has set marks that may never be reached. Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain surpassed 30,000 points in 1972 in just 940 games. Michael Jordan needed 960 games when he passed the mark in 2002. Both Kareem and LeBron took over 1,100 games to reach this milestone and reached the milestone well after Chamberlain retired.

Answer: 15 minutes

The men's and women's world records for swimming 1600 meters were just over a minute of each other in 2020:
Katy Ledecki (USA) swam it in 15 minutes and 20 seconds in 2018.
The men's record was set at 14 minutes and 12 seconds by Bobby Finke (USA) in 2020.