New sports trivia

[unassuming]

What MLB player is regarded to have played with the first coloured/muti-coloured glove?

Answered

 

[Adam_hadam]

Which Formula 1 World Champion contested the most Grands Prix before finally winning a race?

Jenson Button

 

[Adam_hadam]

Who was the last driver to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix for the Williams team?

Jacques Villeneuve

 

[onomatopoeia]

Which Formula 1 World Champion contested the most Grands Prix before finally winning a race?

Jenson Button

Nope.

 

[onomatopoeia]

Who was the last driver to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix for the Williams team?

Jacques Villeneuve

Nope.

 

[tml]

Which NHL goaltender retired while under suspension. I know of only one, however there may be more.

 

[tml]

3 players in NHL history were born in the former Yugoslavia. Stan Smrke and Goran Bezina are two. Who is the third?

 

[unassuming]

What MLB player is regarded to have played with the first coloured/muti-coloured glove?

Answer: Manny Trillo

 

[ICEDOG]

Which NHL goaltender retired while under suspension. I know of only one, however there may be more.

Ray Emery

 

[tml]

Ray Emery

I couldn't find anything that suggests he was suspended when he retired. If you have information regarding that please let me know.

 

[onomatopoeia]

Who is the only woman to have won a Formula 1 race?

Stump.

 

[Adam_hadam]

Who was the last driver to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix for the Williams team?

Pastore Maldonado

 

[onomatopoeia]

Who was the last driver to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix for the Williams team?

Pastore Maldonado

Correct!

 

[tml]

3 players in NHL history were born in the former Yugoslavia. Stan Smrke and Goran Bezina are two. Who is the third?

ANSWER: Ivan Boldirev.
You have to be an old fart like me to remember this guy. Although not a superstar, a very good and reliable player.

 

[tml]

Which NHL goaltender retired while under suspension. I know of only one, however there may be more.

ANSWER: Jamie "Noodles" Mclennan of Overdrive fame.

 

[unassuming]

What Blue Jay player played 6 innings wearing a jersey with Toronto mis-pelled as "Torotno" across the front?

Answered

 

[onomatopoeia]

Who is the only woman to have won a Formula 1 race?

Desiré Wilson.

Desiré Wilson won Round 2 of the 1980 British Formula One Championship (formally the 1980 Aurora AFX F1 Championship), at Brand's Hatch.

The British Formula One Championship featured lesser drivers in older Formula 1 cars. Wilson drove a 1978 Wolf WR4 for Theodore Racing, which may have been driven in a Grand Prix by one of the Wolf drivers, (Bobby Rahal, Keke Rosberg or Jody Scheckter).

All cars in the British F1 series had Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 engines, except for Tony Trimmer's BRM, (BRM P202 3.0 V12).

 

[onomatopoeia]

Which Formula 1 World Champion contested the most Grands Prix before finally winning a race?

Nico Rosberg, (110 races).

Jenson Button was second, (108).

 

[onomatopoeia]

Which Formula 1 driver contested the most Grands Prix without ever winning?

Andrea de Cesaris, (214 entries, 208 starts).

How does a guy race in F1 or 14 seasons, destroying God knows how many cars, without winning once? It helped that his family owned a Marlboro franchise in Italy.

Andrea at the 1985 Austrian Grand Prix:

 

[onomatopoeia]

Which Formula 1 driver was sentence to eighteen months in prison as a result of a road rage incident in which he sprayed tear gas at a taxi driver, following a minor collision?

Bertrand Gachot.

Bertrand drove for the Jordan F1 team in 1991. Gachot's trial began shortly before his home Grand Prix at Spa Francorchamps, and a replacement driver, backed with $150,000 sponsorship from Mercedes, made his F1 debut, in his only race for Jordan - Michael Schumacher.