oddball trivia 9/16/2025
๐๐ฝ๐๐ฝ๐๐ฝ Good day, reader. It's your rally cap-wearingest voice-losingest Jays fan friend combatdavey, coming at you from Toronto, where all the outfielders are smart, all the infielders are versatile, and all the fans have above average baseball IQs.
Today is Tuesday, September 16, 2025, i.e. 9/16/25. Later in this post you will find some sports trivia questions about September 16, 9s, 916, and 1,625s. If you instead find an angry minotaur, you are in the wrong place and whatever happens, happens.
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Anyway, I hope you stretched because it's goddamn go time.
1๏ธโฃ Today is Las Vegas Aces star and Notre Dame alum Jackie Young's 28th birthday. Among active WNBA players who played at Notre Dame, she is fifth in career WNBA scoring with 3,412 points. What four players โโ who have 22 All-Star Game appearances between them โโ are ahead of her?
Answer
Jewell Loyd (6,027 points, 6x ASG)
Skylar Diggins (5,489, 7x)
Kayla McBride (5,389, 5x)
Arike Ogunbowale (4,464, 4x)
2๏ธโฃ Today would have been NBA great Elgin Baylor's 91st birthday. As a rookie in 1958-59, Baylor averaged 24.9 points per game, an average topped by only eight rookies in NBA history. Name four of them.
Answer
Wilt Chamberlain (37.6)
Walt Bellamy (31.6)
Oscar Robertson (30.5)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (28.8)
Elvin Hayes (28.4)
Michael Jordan (28.2)
Rick Barry (25.7)
Terry Dischinger (25.5)
3๏ธโฃ Only 16 active MLB pitchers have 1,625 or more career strikeouts. Justin Verlander (42 years/208 days old) is the oldest pitcher on this list. Who is the youngest pitcher on this list?
Answer
Aaron Nola (1,863 Ks; 32 years/104 days old today)
4๏ธโฃ Only 16 active MLB pitchers have 1,625 or more career strikeouts. How many of the 16 have pitched for the Toronto Blue Jays at any point of their career?
Answer
Three:
Max Scherzer (3,482 Ks)
Kevin Gausman (1,936)
Robbie Ray (1,729)
5๏ธโฃ What player, who started his career wearing #9, has committed the most errors among active MLB players?
Answer
Three-time All-Star and 2020 Gold Glove recipient Javier Bรกez has committed 168 errors (and counting) over the course of his career.
6๏ธโฃ Only 17 active NHL players have 916 or more career points. How many of them are defencemen?
Answer
Zero. Brent Burns has 910 career points, though.
That's it, that's all, that's everything. I hope you had fun and didn't get too frustrated, but, if you did, the minotaur runs our complaints department you're welcome to take it up with him โโ though his office is notoriously hard to find.
๐๐ฝ Also: stay tuned for a QH post tomorrow in which I will most certainly talk about Trey Yesavage.
๐๐ฝ Also also: I have already posted about Trey Yesavage. ๐๐
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