This Day in Sports (August 7)

Can you answer these multiple choice questions about sports events that happened on August 7th?
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1. 1915: Dario Resta wins the first Champ Car race ever to average over 100mph in what Midwest city?
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Chicago
Sioux Falls
2. 1921: Cyclist Piets Moeskops wins the first of his five world sprint titles. What was his nationality?
Scottish
French
Dutch
Danish
3. 1929: This legendary Yankees slugger hits grand slams in consecutive innings.
Babe Ruth
Derek Jeter
Pablo Escobar
Cy Young
4. 1936: This Olympic event, where France beat Estonia in the final, is introduced.
Shot-Put
Basketball
Baseball
Hurdles
5. 1948: This country wins every swimming gold medal at the Olympics.
Korea
China
UK
USA
6. 1960: This legendary golfer wins his 20th PGA Tour.
Arnold Palmer
Tiger Woods
Jack Nicklaus
Phil Mickelson
7. 1988: Eddie Delahoussaye wins his 4,000th race in what sport?
Cycling
Horse racing
NASCAR
Track
8. 1992: The Orlando Magic officially sign this first overall pick and future Hall-of-Fame big man.
Patrick Ewing
Lionel Messi
Dwight Howard
Shaquille O’Neal
9. 2007: This MLB player, who was later busted for PED use, breaks Hank Aaron’s career home run record.
Clayton Kershaw
Ichiro Suzuki
Derek Jeter
Barry Bonds
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