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Fortnight 12 – Day 5 Questions

Question #1

Name the future White Sock/Met/Yankee/Dodger who completed a 58-game hit streak at Oklahoma State in 1987, beating the team record (33), the NCAA record (47), and, incidentally, Joe DiMaggio’s MLB record (56).

Robin Ventura

Baseball

Question #2

What future two-sport hall-of-famer was selected in the ninth round of the 1957 NBA draft by the Syracuse Nationals...despite the fact that he had stopped playing basketball after his junior season, and would never play a game in the NBA?

Jim Brown

Football

Question #3

What was the last name of the Hungarian-American physics profssor who designed what became the most common rating system in chess, which is currently used by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) to divide its tournaments into relative skill levels?

Elo

Games

Question #4

In the 2020-21 season, the leading goal-scorers in the “big five” European soccer leagues were Kylian Mbappe (Paris Saint-Germain), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich), Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus), and Harry Kane (Tottenham). Pick any TWO of the TEAMS represented by these players, and give the name of that team's second-leading goal-scorer for the 2020-21 season.


(Note: Your answer should consist of two names, and again, you should be answering with two of the second-highest scorers of the teams listed above, not the second-leading scorer in the league.)

Moise Kean (Paris Saint-Germain), Antoine Griezmann (Barcelona), Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich), Alvaro Morata (Juventus), Son Heung-Min (Tottenham)

Soccer

Question #5

The geographical landform shown in the photo below is named after what man?

 

Tim Henman

Country Club