Answers to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame All-Star Classic Trivia Challenge

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Jairus K. Hammond (www.wrestlingstats.com)
11/30/2005


1. Which wrestler has participated in the most Classics?
a. Lee Kemp - Wisconsin
b. Mark Churella - Michigan
c. Cael Sanderson - Iowa State
d. Ed Banach - Iowa
 c - Cael Sanderson wrestled in four Classics

2. Which wrestler scored the fastest fall in a Classic?
a. Stephen Neal - Cal-State Bakersfield
b. Mark Churella - Michigan
c. Cael Sanderson - Iowa State
d. Wade Schalles - Clarion
 a - Stephen Neal pinned John Henry Ward of Oklahoma in 0:25 in 1999 at 285 pounds

3. A father - son combination has never participated in the Classic.
a. True
b. False
 False - Jack Spates wrestled for Slippery Rock in 1974 and 1975 and his son Jeremy wrestled an exhibition match in 2002 and an official match in 2004

4. What school has hosted the most Classics?
a. Lehigh
b. Iowa
c. Oklahoma State
d. Penn State
 c - Oklahoma State six times prior to this year's Classic, including three times in the first five years

5. What school has had the most participants in the Classic?
a. Oklahoma State
b. Iowa
c. Iowa State
d. Michigan
 a - Oklahoma State with 72 versus 66 for Iowa

6. What school has won the most bouts in the Classic?
a. Oklahoma
b. Oklahoma State
c. Iowa
d. Michigan State
 c - Iowa with 47 wins, six more than Iowa State

7. What season did the Classic change from a post-season event to one during the regular season?
a. 1977
b. 1981
c. 1969
d. 1973
 d - 1973

8. What host set the record for Classic attendance?
a. Oklahoma State
b. Iowa
c. Oregon State
d. Lehigh
 b - Iowa with 8,849 in 1992

9. What set of brothers have won the most bouts in the Classic?
a. Brands brothers
b. Smith brothers
c. Sanderson brothers
d. Carr brothers
 b - Smith brothers won five and were undefeated with a 5-0-1 record

10. Every wrestler who has wrestled in an official bout in the Classic has also wrestled in the NCAA Division I tournament.
a. True
b. False
 False - Emmett Willson of NAIA school Montana-State Northern wrestled is the most recent (2004) non-NCAA tournament participant

11. Who was the first true freshman to participate in the Classic?
a. Darryl Burley - Lehigh
b. Pat Milkovich - Michigan State
c. Lee Kemp - Wisconsin
d. Jimmy Carr - Kentucky
 b - Pat Milkovich

12. Who was the first wrestler to avenge a loss in the NCAA finals at the Classic?
a. Dave Porter - Michigan
b. Dan Gable - Iowa State
c. Stan Dziedzic - Slippery Rock
d. Masaru Yatabe - Portland State
 d - Masaru Yatabe defeated Dale Anderson of Michigan State 7-6 in the 1968 Classic

13. What school won the most bouts in a single Classic?
a. Oklahoma State
b. Iowa State
c. Iowa
d. Michigan State
 c - Iowa won five on two occasions, in 1992 and 1996

14. What set of brothers were the first to wrestle together in a Classic?
a. Dwayne and Darrell Keller - Oklahoma State
b. Ed and Lou Banach - Iowa
c. Jimmy and Joe Carr - Kentucky
d. Pat and Tom Milkovich - Michigan State
 a - the Keller brothers in 1971, both winning

15. Who was the first wrestler to represent more than one school in the Classic?
a. Dave Schultz
b. David Lee
c. Kevin Jackson
d. Steve Mocco
 a - Dave Schultz (Oklahoma and Oklahoma State)

16. How many wrestlers have represented more than one school in the Classic?
a. 1
b. 3
c. 4
d. 6
 d - six, Dave Schultz (Oklahoma and Oklahoma State), Kevin Jackson (Louisiana State and Iowa State), Cary Kolat (Penn State and Lock Haven), Joe Gonzales (Oklahoma and Cal-State Bakersfield), Rex Holman (Arizona State and Ohio State) and Steve Mocco (Iowa and Oklahoma State)

17. Who was the first Olympic champion to participate in the Classic?
a. Yojiro Uetake - Oklahoma State
b. Dan Gable - Iowa
c. Ben Petersons - Iowa State
d. Wayne Wells - Oklahoma
 d - Wayne Wells

18. How many meetings have there been in the Classic between Distinguished Members of the Hall of Fame?
a. 0
b. 2
c. 3
d. 5
 c - three, Ed Banach versus Steve Fraser in 1980, Gene Davis versus Don Behm in 1967, Mark Churella versus Dave Schultz in 1978

19. No wrestler has scored more than one fall in the Classic.
a. True
b. False
 True

20. How many NCAA champions have been pinned in a match in the Classic?
a. 0
b. 2
c. 4
d. 5
 c - Four, Curley Culp in 1967, Mike Grant in 1970, Darryl Burley in 1980 and Sheldon Thomas in 1996

21. There has never been more than one set of twins participating in a single Classic.
a. True
b. False
 False - in 1992 the Brands and Steiner twins all wrestled in the Classic

22. Who was the first wrestler to score a fall in the Classic?
a. Dan Gable - Iowa State
b. Randy Berg - Washington
c. Rick Sanders - Portland State
d. Dave Porter - Michigan
 d - Dave Porter pinned Curly Culp of Arizona State in the first Classic

23. Which coach of an NCAA team champion did not wrestle in the Classic?
a. John Smith
b. Jim Gibbons
c. Dan Gable
d. J Robinson
d - J Robinson

24. Which Distinguished Member of the Hall of Fame avenged a loss in the Classic in an NCAA final?
a. Gene Mills - Syracuse
b. Nate Carr - Iowa State
c. Jim Scherr - Nebraska
d. Kendall Cross - Oklahoma State
 a - Gene Mills lost to Joe Gonzales of Cal-State Bakersfield 9-8 in the 1979 Classic and won 16-13 in the 1979 NCAA finals

25. Which member of the Smith brothers of Oklahoma State did not win a bout in the Classic (all four wrestled in at least one)?
a. Pat
b. John
c. Lee Roy
d. Mark
 c - Lee Roy Smith drew with Jim Martinez of Minnesota 7-7 in the 1980 Classic

26. How many Distinguished Members of the Hall of Fame who wrestled in the Classic did not win an NCAA championship?
a. 0
b. 2
c. 4
d. 6
 d - Six, Don Behm, Jeff Blatnick, Steve Fraser, Kevin Jackson, Zeke Jones and Lloyd Keaser

27. How many sets of twins have wrestled in the Classic?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 6
d. 7
 d - Seven, the Kellers, Brands, Banachs, Steiners, Moores, Scherrs and Bonomos

28. What set of twins wrestled for different schools in the Classic.
a. Purlers
b. Moores
c. Carrs
d. Hansens
a or b -  Tony Purler wrestled for Nebraska in 1963 and Nick Purler wrestled for Oklahoma State in 1994. Josh Moore wrestled for Penn State in 2003 and Scott Moore for Virginia in 2004

29. How many NCAA champions lost in the first Classic?
a. 0
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
 d - Four. NCAA champs Jim Kamman of Michigan, Vic Marcucci of Iowa State, Fred Fozzard of Oklahoma State and Curley Culp of Arizona State. Marcucci and Fozzard wrestled up a weight

30. A non-NCAA place winner won a bout in the first Classic.
a. True
b. False
 True, Joe Domko of SIU-Carbondale upset Vic Marcucci of Iowa State, NCAA champion at 160, 3-2 at 167