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Fortnight 13 – Day 8 Questions

Question #1

Name any one of the four NFL players who have shared an AP Most Valuable Player award in the Super Bowl era. (The ties occurred in 1997 and 2003.)

Peyton Manning, Steve McNair, Brett Favre, Barry Sanders

Football

Question #2

In 1994, four years after what would be her last grand slam singles win, Martina Navratilova reached the finals at Wimbledon. Name the player who beat her in three sets, winning the first and only singles slam of her career, and giving Spain its first women’s singles title at Wimbledon.

Conchita Martinez

Country Club

Question #3

When French stuntman David Belle showed one of his videos to the actor Hubert Kounde, Kounde advised him to replace the “c” with a “k” in the name of the activities he performed, and to drop the concluding “s.” Belle took his advice, and in time the discipline spread and became a global phenomenon (though, contrary to one American TV show, it’s not necessary to yell out the name of the activity on a regular basis). What was Belle’s discipline?

Parkour

Obscure

Question #4

The sixth-winningest women’s college basketball coach of all-time was born Ann O’Brien, but has legally changed her name twice; once because of marriage, and once, long before, for reasons relating to a nursery rhyme. Name her.

Muffet McGraw

Basketball

Question #5

What word most commonly describes the circular paceline cyclists form when riding against a crosswind, as seen in the diagram below? Like the word “peloton,” which describes the main body of riders, this word is seven letters long, ends with “on,” and is the name of a brand of exercise bike.

 

Echelon

Racing & Combat