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Fortnight 3 – Day 1 Questions
Question #1
In 2012, Miguel Cabrera won a batting triple crown by leading the American League in home runs, RBI, and batting average. It was the first time any player had won the award, in either league, in 45 years. Name EITHER the left fielder who last won the award in 1967, or the right fielder who won it a year earlier in 1966.
Question #2
In the final seconds of game seven of the 1965 NBA finals, radio announcer Johnny Most gleefully shouted four words that described the championship-clinching play. Most’s call was later called “the greatest broadcasting moment in basketball history” by the New England Historical Society. What were those four words?
Question #3
Tiger Woods won multiple major championships in the same season for the first time in 2000, when he won the U.S. Open, Open Championship, and PGA Championship (before going on to complete the “Tiger Slam” at the 2001 Masters). Three men had managed to win two majors in the same season during the 1990s. Name TWO of those men.
Question #4
In the current version of the game Battleship, the battleship itself is only the second-largest ship. What is the largest, which requires five hits to sink?
Question #5
Name the striker from Almansa, Spain who played 16 years for the same club and rose to the rank of captain, but whose biggest contribution to that club came after his service with Franco’s nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, when he served as club president for 35 years. Today, he is the namesake of the club’s stadium.