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Fortnight 4 – Day 8 Questions
Question #1
Start with a list of every nickname of every university with an active Division 1 FBS football program. Next, throw out all nicknames that end in the letter “s.” Then toss every nickname that contains a color or an adjective derived from a color (i.e. "green-ish"), keeping in mind that the word “Cardinal” is a reference to a school color and not a weird lumbering tree. Third, lose all “fighting” nicknames, and then chuck all nicknames that end with “men.” Fifth, and finally, toss out any remaining schools that hail from states which begin with the letter "N." Which team are you left with?
Question #2
“Each side [of a raised metal platform] houses a set of four acrylic glass pads arranged and pointing in the orthogonal directions (left, up, down and right), separated by metal squares. Each pad sits atop four pressure activated switches, one at each edge of each pad, and a software-controlled cold cathode lamp illuminating the translucent pad…” This partial description, from Wikipedia, refers to the hardware of what game?
Question #3
Name the only goaltender to win the NHL’s Hart Memorial Trophy—awarded to the league’s most valuable player—twice.
Question #4
What *traffic term* is also used in fencing to determine which swordsman had priority in case of a double touch situation?
Question #5
The Copa Libertadores is the South American equivalent of Europe’s Champions League—a continent-wide club competition—and in its 60+ years of existence, four clubs from Argentina have won at least four titles. Name *any two* of those clubs.