The Simpsons and Sport by BarkerC

Champion(s):

BurgerM
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Runner(s)-Up:

DaviesML


Quiz Description

Given clues, name these things about sports and athletes, both real and fictional, from the first 11 seasons of ~The Simpsons~ (1989-2000).

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Questions:

In ~Lisa's First Word~, during a flashback to the 1984 Summer Olympics, Homer celebrates when this boxer defeats a "supine Swede" to win a boxing gold medal, which, in turn, earns Homer a Krusty Burger.

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Drederick Tatum

In ~Lisa on Ice~, Bart and Lisa play on separate youth hockey teams, one coached by Chief Wiggum, one coached by Apu. Give the complete name of either of the teams.

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The Mighty Pigs or the Kwik-E-Mart Gougers

In ~Homer Defined~, what Hall of Fame announcer who helped popularize phrases such as "slam dunk", "air ball", and "no harm, no foul" provides a guest voice explaining a sequence where Magic Johnson "pulls a Homer."

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Chick Hearn

In ~Lisa the Greek~, on ~Inside Football Today~, this prognosticator explains "Well, folks, when you're right 52% of the time, you're wrong 48% of the time." before picking Miami as his "Lock of the Week".

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"Smooth" Jimmy Apollo

In ~Marge Be Not Proud~, Bart wants the videogame "Bonestorm~. Marge gets him what golfer's "Putting Challenge" instead?

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Lee Carvallo

In ~The Cartridge Family~, the family attends a Continental Soccer Association match. Homer goes on record by saying that he will kill himself if this nation's team does not win.

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Portugal

In ~Saturdays of Thunder~, While watching "Football's Greatest Injuries", Marge's request to Homer to turn the TV to take a little test makes him miss this real NFL's player's brutal career-ending injury, much to Homer's disappointment.

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Joe Theismann

In ~Sunday, Cruddy Sunday~, Ned is worried because he has not been to church. Wally happily points him in the direction of the Porta-Chapel of this NFL Hall of Fame lineman turned Bobby Kennedy bodyguard turned needlepoint aficionado turned Christian minister.

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Rosey Grier

In ~Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield~, this 1992 U.S. Open champion praises Homer's golf game before angrily telling him to stay out of his locker.

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Tom Kite

In ~Homer vs. Patty and Selma~, Bart and Milhouse skip class on the day to sign up for new gym classes, which are first come, first serve. Lisa is worried she hasn't seen them, at which point Lewis says "If they don't show up soon, it will be T.S. for them." In this case, what is T.S.?

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tethered swimming

In ~Blood Feud~, one of the ways in which we see that Mr. Burns is reinvigorated by his transfusion of Bart's blood is his victory in this sport, a variation of Basque pelota.

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jai alai

In ~Faith Off~, we see the game between the Snortin' Swine of Springfield A&M and this uniquely nicknamed team from Springfield U. (As a hint, the team nickname combines two Power Five conference team nicknames in to one nonsensical one.)

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Nittany Tide