ROUND 2: Sports - Sporting Lives

Identify the athlete from the biographical sketch.


1. This tennis player won a record total of 20 Wimbledon titles,
   including 6 ladies singles titles. In 1972 she was the first
   woman to be named Sports Illustrated "Sportsperson of the Year".

A. Billie Jean King


2. This left-handed batsman from Trinidad set world records for
   highest individual score in tests and first-class matches.  In
   their opening match at the 2003 Cricket World Cup, he led the
   West Indies team with a game-winning century against host nation
   South Africa.

A. Brian Lara


3. This runner won the gold medal in the women's 800 m races at the
   1963 and 1971 Pan American Games.  She was Canada's flag bearer
   at the opening ceremonies of the 1976 Montreal Olympics. 

A. Abigail (Abby) Hoffman


4. This left winger won four Stanley Cups with the Maple Leafs and
   two with the Canadiens.  He was appointed to the Senate in 1998
   and is one of six NHL All-Stars being honoured on stamps by
   Canada Post in 2003.

A. Frank Mahovlich


5. The first Chinese-Canadian CFL player, this fullback was
   nicknamed the "China Clipper", and was voted Canada's Athlete of
   the Year in 1955.  

A. Normie Kwong


6. This right-handed pitcher's birth date is listed as July 7,
   1906.  He joined the Cleveland Indians in 1948, making him the
   oldest ever rookie in Major League Baseball.

A. Leroy "Satchel" Paige 
 

7. He and John Wooden are the only two men enshrined in the
   Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a
   coach.  This year marks his record 30th season as an NBA head
   coach. Name him.

A. Lenny Wilkens


8. This jockey was the first woman to win a Triple Crown race when
   she captured the 1993 Belmont Stakes aboard Colonial Affair. She
   was the first woman elected to thoroughbred racing's hall of
   fame in 2000.

A. Julie Krone 


9. In 1965 she became the first woman Top Fuel drag racer in the
   National Hot Rod Association, known by the nickname "Cha-Cha".  

A. Shirley Muldowney


10. This 4 ft. 9 in. Japanese figure skater was the first woman to
    land a triple axel at a major international competition, the
    1989 World Championships in Paris, where she captured the gold
    medal.

A. Midori Ito