✅✅ eight five trivia answers
Hey, hi, hello. It's your brother from another mother combatdavey comin' at you from deep within Silo #18 (I stand with Mechanical ✊🏽✊🏽) with the answers to Tuesday's trivia questions.
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If you haven't read Tuesday's questions and want to, go there now.
If you haven't read Tuesday's questions and want to, go there now.
If you haven't read Tuesday's questions and want to, go there now.
If you haven't read Tuesday's questions and want to, go there now.
If you haven't read Tuesday's questions and want to, go there now.
If you haven't read Tuesday's questions and want to, go there now.
If you haven't read Tuesday's questions and want to, go there now.
Sorry not sorry for the repetition.
Repetition.
Repetition.
Repetition.
Repetition.
Repetition.
It's all a device to make sure the answers are below the fold.
🧠 questions and answers
1️⃣ What MLB player —— a 2025 All-Star no less —— wore #85 at the beginning of his career before switching to a less unsightly number?
✅ Alejandro Kirk (who now wears #30)
2️⃣ Who is the only MLB player to wear #85 in a game this season?
✅ Dustin May (who just ported the number to Boston)
3️⃣ What former lottery pick is the only NBA player to ever wear #85? (Sidebar: he did so to honour his grandparents, who raised him in a house on... 85th St.)
4️⃣ Two NBA players who celebrate birthdays on August 5 were taken first overall in the draft. Name both players.
✅ Patrick Ewing (1.1 in 1985)
✅ Anthony Edwards (1.1 2020)
5️⃣ A retired first-overall NFL pick only wore #8 and #5 over the course of his career. His brother also played in the NFL, is also retired, and is the only player in history to lose to 31 different NFL franchises. Name both players.
✅ David Carr (1.1 in 2002)
✅ Derek Carr
6️⃣ Only four active NHL players have tallied 85 or more assists in a single season. Three of them have won the Hart Trophy. Two of them have won the Calder. Two of them have won the Stanley Cup. Only one of them has ever been traded. Name all four players.
✅ Nikita Kucherov (100 in 2023-24)
✅ Connor McDavid (100 in 2023-24)
✅ Nathan MacKinnon (89 in 2023-24)
✅ Jonathan Huberdeau (85 in 2021-22)
That's it that's all that's a wrap. If you killed it, bully to you. If you got killed, there will be more opportunities in the near future —— that much I can promise you.
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