Hockey Trivia Quiz # 32
This is Hockey Quiz # 32, GOOD LUCK! You can head back to the main Hockey Quiz index, or try your luck at a random quiz.Hockey Question 1
General Hockey Information - What team won the Stanley Cup in the 2000-01 season?
The correct answer is 'Colorado Avalanche'
The Avalanche beat the defending champions the Devils.
Hockey Question 2
In Honour Of: Hockey Players - Which of the following players had an ailing heart condition that would take his life prematurely in 2005?
The correct answer is 'Sergei Zholtok'
Sergei Zholtok was a Latvian hockey player that spent 10 seasons in the National Hockey League. He played 588 career hockey games and tallied up 111 goals and 147 assists during his career. When the NHL went on strike in 2004-05, Zholtok chose to travel back to Europe and played hockey in Latvia. In 2003, Zholtok discovered that he suffered from heart arrhythmia, was hospitalized, and left the following morning. A second incident occurred during a game in Belarus, however, Zholtok left the game with approximately five minutes left, collapsed, and died in his teams dressing room. An autopsy revealed that heart failure was his official cause of death. He was 31 years old when he died.
Hockey Question 3
Hockey Scoring Kings - Which player scored 17 goals, had 45 assists for 62 points to lead the league in 1940-41?
The correct answer is 'Bill Cowley'
The 17 goals is the lowest output by a scoring champion in history.
Hockey Question 4
Hockey Awards - What member of Philadelphia's 'Broad Street Bullies' was awarded the Bill Masterton Trophy (awarded to the NHL player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to hockey)?
The correct answer is 'Bobby Clarke'
Hockey Question 5
Hockey's Best Part 2 - When a player in the NHL refused to give the referee the puck in a game, the referee skated off and awarded the game to the opposing team?
The correct answer is 'true'
On February 27, 1926, Toronto's Babe Dye refused to give Bobby Hewitson the puck to resume play after a fight on the ice. So Hewitson awarded the game to Montreal and skated off.
Hockey Question 6
Hockey Goons - In the 1987 playoffs between Philadelphia and Montreal, a fight occurred before the game even started. Who were the main combatants?
The correct answer is 'Claude Lemieux (Mon) - Ed Hospodar (Phila)'
Lemieux had an end-of-warmup ritual of shooting the puck into the opposing net. So Phila turned the net around before skating off. The Canadians turned it back so Lemieux could shoot. Then all hell broke loose. Ed "Boxcar" Hospodar and others came running onto the ice from the dressing room, some just in shorts and socks.
Hockey Question 7
NHL Hockey - In the early 1990s a record was set for most short-handed goals in a game, by one player: how many?
The correct answer is '3'
Theoren Fleury did it on March 9th, 1991 in an 8-4 victory for Calgary over St. Louis.
Hockey Question 8
Jeremy Shockey - With which actress had Jeremy Shockey been frequently seen with in the New York City clubs in 2003?
The correct answer is 'Tara Reid'
Although nothing really serious has come out of it, the nosy New York tabloids always seem to catch them together. Who knows what will happen.
Hockey Question 9
A Hockey Player Playing Golf? - Who was Happy's boss at his old construction job?
The correct answer is 'Mr. Larson'
Mr. Larson got in Happy's way one day and got hit with the nail gun! But all is forgiven, he becomes Happy's biggest fan!
Hockey Question 10
AFI's Greatest Love Stories of All Time - Oliver Barrett, a wealthy college hockey player, and Jennifer Cavalleri, a poor music student from the other side of the track fell in love in which 1970, number nine ranked film, that coined a 70's cliche?
The correct answer is 'Love Story'
Based on Erich Segal's bestseller, "Love Story" was 1971's number one box office money maker. Surprisingly, several young actors, including Beau Bridges, Jon Voight, Michael Sarrazin, Michael Douglas, Michael York, Peter Fonda, Jeff Bridges and Keith Carradine, turned down the role of Oliver and the opportunity to say the famous line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." Instead, Ryan O'Neal of television's "Peyton Place" was cast opposite Ali MacGraw.