American Patriot Quiz
Lou Gehrig Quiz
Lou Gehrig's Disease, or ALS, is in the headlines this week, as a video campaign called the "Ice Bucket Challenge," designed to raise awareness and funds to fight to the neurodegenerative disorder, has gone viral on social media. How much do you know about the baseball legend after whom the disease was named?
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1. Gehrig attended Columbia University on a football scholarship, but dropped out after getting signed to the Yankees. What type of degree was he pursuing?
2. What was so special about Gehrig's first career stolen base in 1925?
3. Who did the Yankees defeat to earn Gehrig his first of six World Series titles in 1927?
4. The Yankees' prolific batting lineup in 1927 was known as Murderers' Row. Who did Gehrig bat behind?
5. Against which team did Gehrig become the first player of the 20th century to hit four home runs in one game?
6. In 1938, Gehrig hit his record 23rd and final career grand slam. Who finally broke this long-standing record?
7. Gehrig was the first athlete to appear on what?
8. Which actor played Gehrig in the Oscar nominated film, The Pride of the Yankees?
9. Following Gehrig's ALS diagnosis and departure from baseball, the Yankees retired his number. In 2010, Major League Baseball took the unusual step of retiring which player's number for all teams?
10. Pete Frates, the Massachusetts man and ALS patient who started the Ice Bucket Challenge, set his video to which song?



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