ROUND 2: Sports - Coaches
1. Rafail Ishmatov was the coach of which Russian team, which won a
world championship in Halifax, Nova Scotia in January, 2003?
A. Junior (men's) hockey
2. Luiz Felipe Scolari was the head coach of which team, which won
a record fifth world championship in Yokohama, Japan, in June,
2002? We need the country and sport this time.
A. Brazil; (men's) soccer
3. Lynne Beecroft coached this school's "Vikes" to the Canadian
Interuniversity Sport (women's) field hockey championship
in 2002.
A. University of Victoria
4. Pete Belliveau started coaching this Canadian school's
Thunderwolves in 2001-2002, ending an eighteen year hiatus for
men's university hockey in their community.
A. Lakehead University
5. Ryan Davenport of Calgary was the head coach of the U.S. Men's
and Women's teams in which Olympic sport in Salt Lake City in
2002? The sport is very similar to cresta, which was contested
at the 1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz.
A. Skeleton
6. Lindsay Sparkes (born Lindsay Davies) was head coach of Canada's
women's national team in which sport at the Salt Lake City
Olympics? Her team finished first in Calgary in 1988, when her
sport was a demonstration event.
A. Curling
7. Name the only coach to win the Annis Stukus Trophy for CFL Coach
of the Year five times. In 2002, he coached the Grey Cup
champion Montreal Alouettes.
A. Don Matthews
8. Name the only coach to win the Jack Adams Award for NHL coach of
the year three times. He won it with three different teams:
Montreal, Toronto and Boston.
A. Pat Burns (1989, Montreal; 1993, Toronto; 1998, Boston)
9. Which track coach was played by Donald Sutherland in "Without
Limits" and by R. Lee Ermey in "Prefontaine"? He was a
co-founder of Nike.
A. Bill Bowerman
10. Who played Notre Dame football coach Knute (ka-noot) Rockne in
the 1940 movie "Knute Rockne - All American"?
A. Pat O'Brien