2020 sports quiz: Brady to Bundesliga, Big Ten to Brooklyn

Updated Dec. 30, 2020 11:04 a.m. ET

Associated Press

You’ve had time to shelter at home and bone up. Your 2020 year-end sports quiz awaits. Like much else these days, quizzes will be graded on the curve:

January

The IOC sets

a. Therapy pets at the Athletes Village, such as pythons and parrots.

b. Political messages and gestures on the medal stand.

c. Bitcoin deposits to Thomas Bach’s offshore account.

February

again asks to be reinstated to baseball. His latest reason?

a. The Houston Astros drew more lenient treatment for sign stealing.

b. Gambling, like baseball, is now a national pastime.

c. He is approaching 80, and enough is enough.

March

Tom Brady writes in an Instagram post that his

a. “mean farewell to Foxborough.”

b. “take place elsewhere.”

c. “move the chains.”

April

is canceled because of the new coronavirus. When was the Grand Slam tournament last called off?

a. 1945 -- World War II.

b. 1918 -- World War I.

c. 1066 -- Norman conquest of England.

May

The Bundesliga is the first major soccer league to return during the pandemic. In connection to German soccer, what does the term

a. a defensive soccer tactic.

b. a popular stadium sausage.

c. a ghost game in an empty stadium.

June

The phrase

a. a statement by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on the need to transform social justice.

b. the words on the car hood of Black NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace.

c. the title of a new memoir by UFC star Conor McGregor.

July

The renamed

a. The Washington Red Tails; a propeller plane celebrating the famed Tuskegee Airmen.

b. The Washington Red Wolves; a fierce wolf looking up against a silhouette of the Capitol.

c. The Washington Skins; a board-certified dermatologist giving a high-five.

August

San Diego Padres star

a. hitting a grand slam on a 3-0 pitch with his team way ahead late in the game.

b. calling players who run to first base “lame, sorry losers.”

c. laying down a bunt to break up a no-hitter.

September

The

a. it is now assured of daily COVID-19 testing and safety protocols.

b. it feared “withering litigation” from parents and alumni.

c. it would lose streams of recruits to the SEC and ACC.

October

Which traditional school

a. University of Florida — “We Are the Boys from Old Florida.”

b. University of Texas — “The Eyes of Texas.”

c. Columbia University — “Roar, Lion, Roar.”

November

Who is

a. a sidelined Vanderbilt kicker whose absence allowed Sarah Fuller to play in a Power Five football game.

b. a practice squad receiver pressed into service as the Denver Broncos’ quarterback.

c. the amateur golfer with the best score at the Masters.

December

The NBA fines

a. for making a tampering overture to Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo.

b. for saying Knicks owner James Dolan has made an “unconscionable mockery” of New York basketball.

c. for not speaking to the media during the preseason.

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Answers: January (b); February (a); March (b); April (a); May (c); June (b); July (c); August (a); September (a); October (b); November (b); December (c).