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Fortnight 9 – Day 5 Questions

Question #1

Of the 300+ schools with a men's Division 1 college basketball program, only two don’t field a woman’s team at any level. Name both. (As it happens, the men's teams play in the same conference.)

The Citadel, Virginia Military Institute

Basketball

Question #2

“Sure, I got my face blasted off by the bone hydra and I’m still mad about the butterfly balls of Elysium, but I always had a soft place to land. The game removes the traditional barriers of a roguelike, easily giving the thrill of the genre to new players.” —Polygon

 

What game—which Polygon, the Washington Post, and Paste Magazine (among others) all chose as their no. 1 video game of 2020—is described in the excerpt above?

 

Hades

Games

Question #3

Name the alliterative American man whose Olympic resume includes two gold medals in indoor team volleyball (‘84 and ‘88), the first ever men’s gold in beach volleyball (‘96, with Kent Steffes), and a bronze medal as a coach (2016 U.S. women’s indoor team). Interestingly, he babysat Misty May-Treanor when she was young.

Karch Kiraly

Olympics

Question #4

The Brazilian soccer star Manuel Francisco dos Santos, a.k.a. Garrincha, had a nickname that is most often translated in English as “the ___ of the people” or, sometimes, “the people’s ____.” Fill in the blank with the correct word.

Joy

Soccer

Question #5

What word, which comes from the French for “fishing out” or “rescuing,” is used to describe a process by which athletes or teams may continue to compete in a tournament despite losing or narrowly failing to qualify traditionally. A consolation bracket is one example, and MLB’s wild card games are another.

 

Repechage

Obscure