7. Which novel utilizes Bobby Thomson’s last-minute home run, which sent the NY Giants into the World Series, as the pivotal point for an exploration of the last 50 years of American cultural history?



8. Frank Machin of Yorkshire transforms from a coal miner into a professional celebrity...

a. rugby player
b. football goalie
c. cricket batter
d. tennis champ


9. In what novel does the sport of canoeing leave its participants either dead, butt naked or up shit creek without a paddle?



10. Name the Christian athlete in the biography (and later famous film) who went to the 1924 Olympics, but refused to run on Sunday . . .



11. "You don't never show disrespect to ______________!

               Keith Talent in London Fields



12. Name the novel, based on real-life events, which tells the story of how one man in 1946 set out to establish a third, fully integrated major baseball league in Mexico.



13. Which British author wrote a memoir consisting of a series of football match reports falling into three different time frames?



14. David Foster Wallace begins his collection of essays, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, with a reminiscence on the subject of what sport from his teens?

a. soccer
b. tennis
c. long-distance running
d. squash

15. In Haruki Mukarami’s Kafka on the Shore, Kafka spends his free time . . .

a. at the pool
b. at the gym
c. playing billiards
d. practicing karate

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