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Fortnight 12 – Day 8 Questions

Question #1

Below is an incomplete list of the all-time records in a specific competition that has been held annually in the fall since 1984. Fill in the blank with the correct school:

 

Duke: 18-1
Syracuse: 10-0
Connecticut: 9-3
North Carolina: 22-4
____________: 8-95

 

Chaminade

Basketball

Question #2

In 2021, Novak Djokovic became the sixth man to win a grand slam singles final in the open era after trailing two sets to love when he defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas at the French Open. The five to accomplish that feat before him were Bjorn Borg, Ivan Lendl, Gaston Gaudio, Andre Agassi, and Dominic Thiem. Name any one of their finals opponents in those matches.

Manuel Orantes, John McEnroe, Andrei Medvedev, Guillermo Coria, Alexander Zverev

Country Club

Question #3

In June 2019, on NBC’s primetime schedule, 42-year-old Sandy Zimmerman of Spokane, WA became the first mother to achieve what athletic feat?

Complete the American Ninja Warrior course

Obscure

Question #4

Name the only player in NCAA history to gain 2,000 receiving yards in a single season. This player managed the feat for Nevada in 1999 (remarkably, he did it in 11 games to beat Troy Edwards' mark, set over 12 games, from the year before), but went undrafted and played just 11 games in the NFL for the Indianapolis Colts.

Trevor Insley

Football

Question #5

What alliterative phrase, coined by British sportswriter Pierce Egan in 1813 to describe boxing, was used by A.J. Liebling as a book title for his collection of boxing essays originally written for The New Yorker?

The Sweet Science

Racing & Combat