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Fortnight 3 – Day 9 Questions
Question #1
Name the basketball player who tops the French national team’s career scoring list, ahead of second place by almost 1,000 points. This player’s nephew was a member of the victorious European Ryder Cup team in 2014.
Question #2
In 1927, the year Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs, he was paid $70,000 in base salary. That was $30,000 less than the total earned from a 40-stop U.S. tour concluding that same year by the first woman to turn professional in tennis. Today, this woman’s name lives on in a trophy and a show court at a grand slam venue. Who is she?
Question #3
The Austrian luger Markus Prock won seven straight World Cup championships between 1990 and 1997, and ten overall, but was routinely frustrated at the Olympics by a rival who won gold to his silver in 1992 and 1994, silver to his bronze in 2002, and who knocked him off the podium with a gold medal in 1998. Who was Prock’s rival?
Question #4
As a show of appreciation to a man named Gastão for helping him get settled in a foreign country, the famous Japanese judoka Mitsuyo Maeda agreed to teach the man’s 14-year-old son Carlos. Carlos and his brother Hélio, along with other members of the family, later spread an adapted version of his teachings throughout their country and are today considered the founders of a distinct martial arts discipline. What surname did Gastão, Carlos, and Hélio share?
Question #5
Only two clubs have played in all 29 seasons of the Ukrainian Premier League (originally known as the Vyschcha Liha, or “top league,” when it was formed in 1991). They have combined for 27 of the 28 championships, and are the only two clubs from Ukraine to have won a major European competition. One of those teams is FC Dynamo Kyiv—name the other.