Soccer

With the win, France became just the seventh different country to win the World Cup. Since then, one more team has won its first World Cup. Of those eight champions (we’re counting Germany/West Germany as one country for the purposes of this question), name one of the two that has never won the World Cup on home soil.

Spain, Brazil

Olympics

Fill in the blank with the athlete described in this passage from Wikipedia:

In 1952, __________  was persuaded by Urho Kekkonen, Prime Minister of Finland and former chairman of the Finnish Athletics Federation, to carry the Olympic torch into the Olympic Stadium at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. His appearance astonished the spectators, and Sports Illustrated wrote that "his celebrated stride was unmistakable to the crowd. When he came into view, waves of sound began to build throughout the stadium, rising to a roar, then to a thunder. When the national teams, assembled in formation on the infield, saw the flowing figure of ______, they broke ranks like excited schoolchildren, dashing toward the edge of the track."

Paavo Nurmi

Obscure

Bhutan’s Gangkhar Puensum, which translates to “white peak of the three spirited brothers,” holds what widely claimed distinction (though the distinction is impossible to prove beyond doubt, due to the limits of recorded human history)?

Highest unclimbed mountain in the world