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John Shuster famously won Olympic Gold skipping the United States rink in 2018, but he also won a bronze medal in 2006 in Torino playing lead for which US skip, who still holds the record for most US Men’s National Titles as a skip with 6?

Pete Fenson

Games

From grandeur and heroism to cruelty and social distraction, many features of contemporary sport can be traced back to the staging by ancient Roman emperors of multi-day events that combined gladiatorial battles, chariot races, and athletic contests on an epic scale. What English word most commonly and accurately translates the Latin word for these types of events? If you have trouble seeing it, go back and read the first letter of each answer in this quiz.

SPECTACLES

Soccer

The United States did not enjoy much any success in France, losing its opening game 2-0 to Germany in Paris and its last game 1-0 to Yugoslavia in Nantes.

But it was the Americans’ second game, a 2-1 loss in Lyon on June 21, that drew the most headlines. In a retrospective on the match 20 years later, The Guardian referred to it as “the most politically charged match in World Cup history” given the fraught relationship between the two countries’ governments over the previous two decades. Fortunately, the match went off without incident, with the Americans’ opponents presenting each player with a white rose before kickoff in a gesture of peace.

Name the Americans’ opponents that day.

Iran