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Fortnight 15 – Day 1 Questions

Question #1

The New England Patriots have won six Super Bowls with Robert Kraft as owner, and Kraft is still in possession of five his six original Super Bowl rings. According to a story he told at an awards gala in 2013, who has the sixth?

Vladimir Putin/Russia/Kremlin Library

Football

Question #2

In boxing, what word is added before “knockout” to indicate a fight that was stopped when a referee judged that a fighter could no longer defend himself or was too injured to safely continue, but wasn’t actually on the canvas and unable to rise as in a true knockout.

Technical

Racing & Combat

Question #3

In men’s Division 1 college basketball, there are currently three conferences with the standalone word “West” in the title (“western” and other variants don’t count). In one of those conferences, a member school has appeared in each of the last ten conference tournament championship games, winning nine. In another, a member school has appeared in six of the last nine championship games, winning two. In the third, a member school has appeared in eight of the last nine championship games, winning two. Name two of these three schools.

Gonzaga, San Diego State, UC-Irvine

Basketball

Question #4

Name the athlete referenced by former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley in the following quote from mid-February: “Every athlete needs to know when they put their flag on, you’re standing for freedom or you’re standing for human rights abuses. There is no in between.”

Eileen Gu

Olympics

Question #5

What is the last name of the Welsh software engineer who reportedly made a profit in the “low seven figures” from a sale to the New York Times on Jan. 31, 2022? For this question, exact spelling is required, and note that if you had to solve this question by a different method, the letter “o” would be gray, as opposed to yellow or green.

Wardle

Games