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Fortnight 2 – Day 1 Questions
Question #1
“He was like a little boy. He was so scared to be even answering the question, he couldn’t answer the question, he was shaking, ‘ohhhhh I don’t know, I don’t know.’ He didn’t know how to answer the question, and yet he’ll talk about the United States very badly.” Who was the target of this diatribe from mid-October 2019?
Question #2
When the L.A. Rams won the coin toss in Super Bowl LIII, the New England Patriots’ all-time Super Bowl coin toss record fell to an abysmal 3-8. Which team has won the most Super Bowl coin tosses, boasting a 6-2 record that began with a win on tails in Super Bowl V?
Question #3
“I come not, friends, to steal away your ____.” This quote, delivered by Mark Antony in Act III, Scene II of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, also appeared in a game offered on early versions of Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Fill in the blank with the missing word, which is also the name of the game itself.
Question #4
Karl Emil Julius Ulrich Salchow, a Swedish man born in 1877, is today most closely associated with what sport?
Question #5
Which player set the record for the most expensive transfer in soccer history when he was transferred from Ajax Amsterdam to Barcelona for six million guilders (approx. £922,000) in 1973? By contemporary exchange rates, this was the last world record-setting transfer fee below £1,000,000.