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Sample Questions

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Fortnight 8 – Day 9 Questions

Question #1

According to a 2015 statistical analysis of roughly 447,000 frames from over a decade of play in the PBA, what shot was actually only the third-most difficult, with a success rate of 0.7 percent?

The 7-10 Split

Obscure

Question #2

In the selection below, three of MLB’s “home run decade kings”—the men who hit more home runs than any other player in that span—are listed by their initials and the decade they reigned. Name all three.

 

1960-69: HK
1970-79: WS
1980-89: MS

 

Harmon Killebrew, Willie Stargell, Mike Schmidt

Baseball

Question #3

In a 2001 New York Times feature, the popularity of a certain game among the city’s Caribbean enclaves is depicted in scenes of Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Jamaicans, Guyanans, Dominicans, and Trinidadans gathering in parks, sidewalks, and clubs to play. What is the game? (Disappointingly, the writer does not posit any grand theory for the game’s popularity among these ex-pats.)

Dominoes

Games

Question #4

In hockey parlance, a two-and-ten refers to two concurrent penalties assessed at the same time, and the numbers refer to minutes. Give the one-word classification for the two-minute penalty and the one-word classification for the ten-minute penalty. (Note: Your answer should consist of two words.)

Minor, Misconduct

Hockey

Question #5

“______ ______ on the shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped us dreaming…”

 

These lyrics come from a song released in 1996, and while the singers expressed optimism, the “thirty years” could now be accurately changed to “fifty years”...and then some. Fill in the blanks with the two words missing from the line quoted above.

 

Three Lions

Soccer