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Fortnight 13 – Day 7 Questions
Question #1
PRE-QUESTION NOTE: Today is a Theme Day. Theme days can be overt, or they can be subtle and connected, in such a way that figuring out the theme may help you answer the questions. Good luck.
Give the first name of the 27-year-old Swiss Alpine skier who entered a whole new world, competitively, when she won her first—and to date only—World Cup victory in 2017 at St. Moritz in the Super-G.
Question #2
Give the last name of the first MLB player to make $10 million in a single season, and the only player to ever hit 50 doubles and 50 home runs in the same season.
Question #3
Give the first name of the soccer player (last name Ortega) who wore the no. 10 jersey for Argentina in the 1998 World Cup. His most infamous moments in that competition came in the quarterfinals, when he received a yellow card for diving in the penalty area and, seconds later, was sent off for headbutting Edwin van der Sar.
Question #4
Give the first name of the child from Horizontina, Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil who aspired to be a professional volleyball player, but whose career wound up taking a different (though still very successful) path, and whose most famous sports moment arguably came later in life in the form of a not-so-private diatribe about players from a different sport.
Question #5
What word was reportedly first used in a sporting context in 1939, in reference to a high school football team, but received its first known usage in the sport where it’s most commonly seen today in 1950, in reference to the City College of New York?