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Sample Questions

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Fortnight 15 – Day 10 Questions

Question #1

The Milwaukee Admirals, Bakersfield Condors, Charlotte Checkers, and Cleveland Monsters are all franchises in what league?

American Hockey League (AHL)

Hockey

Question #2

The man pictured here, with longer and more unkempt hair than usual—and missing his suit and microphone—is most closely associated with what competition?

 

The Scripps National Spelling Bee

Obscure

Question #3

In 1971 and 1979, the same two teams met in the World Series, resulting in the same winner in the same number of games (7). Players who appeared in both Game 7s include Willie Stargell and Manny Sanguillen for the NL team and Mark Belanger for the AL team. Name both teams.

Pittsburgh Pirates, Baltimore Orioles

Baseball

Question #4

Name the speaker of the quote commemorated on the plaque pictured here.

 

Tim Tebow

Football

Question #5

A Moroccan waiter named Ahmed Bouchiki—wrongly believed to be a different man named Ali Hassan Salameh—was killed in July 1973 by foreign agents in a European town with a population of less than 30,000 people. This assassination came in response to events that took place the previous September in a European city with a population of more than a million people. In 1994, these two locations would become permanently linked in history by sports alone. Name both locations. 

(Note: It’s not necessary to name the country in either case.)

Lillehammer, Munich

Olympics