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Sample Questions

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Fortnight 10 – Day 4 Questions

Question #1

Name any team the division-leading Toronto Maple Leafs have defeated in the 2020-21 NHL regular season.

Any other Canadian team (Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Montreal Canadiens, Vancouver Canucks, Calgary Flames, Ottawa Senators)

Hockey

Question #2

In the history of Sweden’s Damallsvenskan, the leading scorer in the 1982 and 1983 seasons is the Swedish player who would be most familiar to a modern American sports fan, though that familiarity would have nothing to do with her playing career. Name the player.

Pia Sundhage

Soccer

Question #3

Name either one of the two related entities, one in 1992 and one in 2018, who competed under the flag below. Your answer must be specific and complete.

The Unified Team, Olympic Athletes from Russia

Olympics

Question #4

Great Britain nearly went the entire 20th century without a world heavyweight boxing champion, but that changed in 1992 when Riddick Bowe forfeited his belt. Name the drought-breaking British champion who succeeded him, and who held the WBC heavyweight belt off and on for the next decade while notching victories over the likes of Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, and Vitali Klitschko.

Lennox Lewis

Racing & Combat

Question #5

What chaotic, fictional “sport” was described in one academic paper as a "constant connecting and disconnecting of parts, the constant evasion of rules or guidelines based on collective creativity." It has included, per the sport's Wiki, the following elements: Soccer balls, flags, masks, numbered signs, songs, croquet mallets, an "invisible sector," a hobby horse, shuttlecocks, a volleyball, buckets, sacks, water balloons, "vortex spots," and "time-fracture wickets."

Calvinball

Obscure