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Fortnight 5 – Day 1 Questions
Question #1
Lucien Laurent was born in 1907 in the Paris suburb Saint-Maur-des-Fosses. What athletic feat, which has been duplicated more than 2,500 times since, did he accomplish for the first time approximately 10,700 kilometers southwest of his birthplace?
Question #2
In 1852, a German physicist with the first name Heinrich and the middle name Gustav investigated and described a phenomenon that explains the way airflow and resultant drag effects can deflect a spinning object in a way it would not if the object wasn’t spinning. What was Heinrich Gustav’s last name?
Question #3
At the 2016 summer Olympics, men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics shared two apparatuses, the vault and the floor exercise, while the women’s uneven bars are similar to the men’s horizontal bar and the women alone compete on the balance beam. Name ALL THREE remaining men’s apparatuses that are not shared with the women.
Question #4
Vuong Dang Phong was a colonel in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam who spent the entirety of the Vietnam War fighting against the Viet Cong and the NVA. After Saigon fell, he was placed in a re-education camp at Hoang Lien Son Province, where he died in 1976—a fact that one American friend who fought beside him wouldn’t discover until the late ‘90s. What was Col. Phong’s nickname?
Question #5
Fill in the blank with *EITHER ONE* of the two words that complete Chic Anderson’s call of the 1973 Belmont Stakes, when Secretariat decimated the field to win the Triple Crown: “They're on the turn, and Secretariat is blazing along! The first three-quarters of a mile in 1:09 and four fifths. Secretariat is widening now! He is moving like a ________ _______!”