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Fortnight 15 – Day 1 Questions
Question #1
The New England Patriots have won six Super Bowls with Robert Kraft as owner, and Kraft is still in possession of five his six original Super Bowl rings. According to a story he told at an awards gala in 2013, who has the sixth?
Question #2
In boxing, what word is added before “knockout” to indicate a fight that was stopped when a referee judged that a fighter could no longer defend himself or was too injured to safely continue, but wasn’t actually on the canvas and unable to rise as in a true knockout.
Question #3
In men’s Division 1 college basketball, there are currently three conferences with the standalone word “West” in the title (“western” and other variants don’t count). In one of those conferences, a member school has appeared in each of the last ten conference tournament championship games, winning nine. In another, a member school has appeared in six of the last nine championship games, winning two. In the third, a member school has appeared in eight of the last nine championship games, winning two. Name two of these three schools.
Question #4
Name the athlete referenced by former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley in the following quote from mid-February: “Every athlete needs to know when they put their flag on, you’re standing for freedom or you’re standing for human rights abuses. There is no in between.”
Question #5
What is the last name of the Welsh software engineer who reportedly made a profit in the “low seven figures” from a sale to the New York Times on Jan. 31, 2022? For this question, exact spelling is required, and note that if you had to solve this question by a different method, the letter “o” would be gray, as opposed to yellow or green.