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Fortnight 13 – Day 4 Questions

Question #1

When Patriots safety and Rutgers alum Devin McCourty traveled to face the New York Giants in a preseason game, he gave his postgame interviews wearing the no. 10 jersey of what superstar and fellow New Jersey native whose retirement had recently been announced? The two never crossed paths in college, but McCourty said that “it was a great time to come back to New Jersey and represent a Rutgers living legend.”

Carli Lloyd

Soccer

Question #2

Since 2000, there have been six NBA teams who placed two players on the All-Rookie 1st team in the same year. One team has done it twice, in 2002 and 2020, and the other teams managed the feat in 2005, 2007 (two teams), 2008 and 2017. Name any two of the six teams.

Memphis Grizzlies (twice), Chicago Bulls, Portland Trail Blazers, Toronto Raptors, Seattle SuperSonics, Philadelphia 76ers

Basketball

Question #3

There were nine Masters 1000 events held in the 2019 ATP season (pre-COVID). Name one of the three American cities that hosted one of these tournaments.

Miami (Key Biscayne), Indian Wells, Cincinnati

Country Club

Question #4

The author of 1977 Baseball Abstract, a former broadcaster who received less than 4% of the vote in a 2012 U.S. Senate primary, and the first American-born black player to play in the NHL all share what surname?

James

Obscure

Question #5

Name the 1992 Reebok Olympic ad campaign that became something of a joke when one of its two stars failed to qualify for the Barcelona games after missing three straight jumps on the pole vault at the U.S. Olympic trials. (Note: You’re naming the ad campaign.)

Dan & Dave

Olympics