oddball trivia 9/9/2025
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Today is Tuesday, September 9, 2025, i.e. 9/9/25. Below you will find some sports trivia questions about September 9, 99s, 1999, and 9,925.
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1οΈβ£ Four (4) MLB pitchers have won at least one game this season while wearing #99. Name two of them.
Answer
Spencer Strider (5 wins), Taijuan Walker (4), Cole Henry (1), Rafael Montero (1)
2οΈβ£ Seven (7) active NFL players have more than 9,925 career receiving yards but only two (2) of them have only played for one team over the course of their careers. Who are they?
Answer
Mike Evans (TB), Travis Kelce (KC)
3οΈβ£ Dan Majerle, whose birthday is today, set an NBA record for most three-pointers made (3PM) in a season when he hit 192 in 1993-94. Name either the player whose record Majerle broke or the player who broke Majerle's record a year later ββ both of whom were playable within the NBA Jam universe.
Answer
Majerle, who was also playable within the NBA Jam universe, broke Vernon Maxwell's 1990-91 record of 172, and John Starks broke Majerle's record in 1994-95 by making 217 threes.
4οΈβ£ Wilf Paiement, who wore #99 as a Toronto Maple Leaf from 1979-82, was drafted second overall in the 1974 NHL entry draft by a franchise that relocated a few years later, and then a few years after that. What current NHL franchise owes its existence to the second relocation?
Answer
The New Jersey Devils exist because the Kansas City Scouts relocated to Denver, CO and became the Colorado Rockies in 1976 and then left Denver for East Rutherford, NJ in 1982 to become the Devils.
5οΈβ£ Among MLB players born in 1999, who has the most career hits?
Answer
Vladimir Guerrero, Jr (1,060 and counting)
6οΈβ£ Among NBA players born in 1999, Luka DonΔiΔ has the most career points (12,878). Jaren Jackson, Jr. has the third-most with 7,518. Ja Morant and Jordan Poole are tied for fourth-most with 6,942. What 2018 first-round draft pick has the second-most points with 7,658?
Answer
Collin Sexton
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