Tuesday, July 03, 2018

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"Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Jul 02 08:03AM

Mark Brader wrote:
 
> his entire professional career with Barcelona. He is Argentina's
> all-time leading goal-scorer and has won the Ballon d'Or 5 times,
> including 4 years in a row.
Lionel Messi
> world. He too has won the Ballon d'Or 5 times, and he was
> named the best Portuguese player of all time by the Portuguese
> Football Federation in 2015.
Cristiano Ronaldo
> 3. This French player, nicknamed Zizou, won the Ballon d'Or in 1998.
> He infamously head-butted Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World
> Cup final.
Zinedine Zidane
 
> 4. Which country set the record for worst overall performance by
> a host team? They are the only host team to be eliminated in
> the first round.
South Africa
> 5. Which country set the record for most goals scored in one game
> by one team, with 10 goals against El Salvador in 1982?
Hungary
> 6. The record for attendance at a World Cup final was 114,600,
> when Argentina played West Germany in 1986. What was the host
> country that time?
Mexico
 
> * Canadian Freestyle Wrestlers
 
> * Canadian Baseball
 
> * Blue Jays Baseball Records
 
It started so well ...
 
Peter Smyth
Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Jul 01 11:50PM -0700

Mark Brader wrote:
> his entire professional career with Barcelona. He is Argentina's
> all-time leading goal-scorer and has won the Ballon d'Or 5 times,
> including 4 years in a row.
 
Messi
 
> world. He too has won the Ballon d'Or 5 times, and he was
> named the best Portuguese player of all time by the Portuguese
> Football Federation in 2015.
 
Christiano Ronaldo
 
 
> 3. This French player, nicknamed Zizou, won the Ballon d'Or in 1998.
> He infamously head-butted Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World
> Cup final.
 
Zidane
 
> the first round.
 
> 5. Which country set the record for most goals scored in one game
> by one team, with 10 goals against El Salvador in 1982?
 
Germany
 
 
> 6. The record for attendance at a World Cup final was 114,600,
> when Argentina played West Germany in 1986. What was the host
> country that time?
 
Argentina
 
 
--
Dan Tilque
Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Jul 02 08:53PM +0200


>> * Canadian Baseball
 
>> * Blue Jays Baseball Records
 
> It started so well ...
 
Exactly my thought too!
Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Jul 02 08:56PM

msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:sf-dnRC-iY51_aXGnZ2dnUU7-
> his entire professional career with Barcelona. He is Argentina's
> all-time leading goal-scorer and has won the Ballon d'Or 5 times,
> including 4 years in a row.
 
Messi
 
> world. He too has won the Ballon d'Or 5 times, and he was
> named the best Portuguese player of all time by the Portuguese
> Football Federation in 2015.
 
Cristiano Ronaldo
 
 
> 3. This French player, nicknamed Zizou, won the Ballon d'Or in 1998.
> He infamously head-butted Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World
> Cup final.
 
Zinedine Zidane
 
 
> 4. Which country set the record for worst overall performance by
> a host team? They are the only host team to be eliminated in
> the first round.
 
South Africa
 
 
> 5. Which country set the record for most goals scored in one game
> by one team, with 10 goals against El Salvador in 1982?
 
France
 
 
> 6. The record for attendance at a World Cup final was 114,600,
> when Argentina played West Germany in 1986. What was the host
> country that time?
 
Mexico
 
> However, what some historians now recognize as the first
> documented baseball game in North America took place in what
> Ontario town in 1838?
 
Ottawa; London
 
 
> 11. In 1991, with a 21-year professional career and more than
> 3,000 strikeouts, who was the first Canadian to be inducted
> into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown NY?
 
Phil Niekro
 
 
> 12. On 1914-09-05, Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run
> on the Toronto Islands playing for a team called the Providence
> Grays. What *minor league* was the team part of?
 
International League
 
 
> More Canadian baseball!
 
> Who holds the team record for...
 
> 13. Most hits as a Blue Jay, with 1,583?
 
Fernandes
 
> 14. Most home runs as a Blue Jay, with 336?
 
Carter
 
> 15. Most wins as a Blue Jay pitcher, with 175?
 
Stieb
 
 
> After completing the round, please decode the rot13: Ba gur frpbaq
> dhrfgvba, svefg naq ynfg anzr ner erdhverq. Vs lbh tnir bayl bar
> anzr, cyrnfr tb onpx naq nqq gur bgure.
 
Pete Gayde
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