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Fortnight 11 – Day 9 Questions
Question #1
Starting with Rod Laver, who won three grand slams in a single calendar year in 1969, there have been six men to accomplish the three-slams-in-one-year feat in the open era. Fill in the blank in the following list with the missing player. (Interestingly, the other slam winner in '88, at Wimbledon, was also a former world no. 1 from Sweden.)
1969: Rod Laver, Australia
1974: Jimmy Connors, U.S.
1988: __________, Sweden
2004, 2006, 2007: Roger Federer, Switzerland
2010: Rafael Nadal, Spain
2011, 2015: Novak Djokovic, Serbia
Question #2
Following a 1968 Olympic feat, Wales’ Lynn Davies—the defending gold medalist—approached his competitor, a South Jamaica, Queens native, and said, “you have destroyed this event.” Fifty-plus years later, that man still holds the Olympic record set on that day, though he was later passed by Mike Powell for the world record. Who was he?
Question #3
According to some historians, the first openly professional hockey team in Canada played from 1904 to 1907 as the lone Canadian team in the International Hockey League. Known informally as the “Canadian Soo,” which city did the team play in? (The American city of the same name, which lies on the opposite side of the city’s main river, has been immortalized in song by Sufjan Stevens.)
Question #4
On April 23, Anthony Rizzo hit his 232nd home run as a Chicago Cub, moving past Gabby Hartnett to seventh place on the all-time team list. Sammy Sosa leads that list with 545; name any two players between Sosa and Rizzo. (Note: these are home runs hit exclusively with the Cubs, not career home runs by any player who has played with the Cubs, and you must name two players.)
Question #5
Many of the exterior shots in the sitcom Coach were not of “Minnesota State,” but of what other university? This school was the alma mater of the show’s creator, and its football program influenced at least one other major element of the show.