- RQFTCI07 Final Rounds 7-8: history, sports - 1 Update
| Bruce Bowler <bruce.bowler@gmail.com>: Oct 26 12:26PM On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 15:35:23 -0500, Mark Brader wrote: > people attain freedom via the "Underground Railway", earning the > nickname "Moses of her people". She also served as a spy for the > Union forces during the US Civil War. Harriet Tubman > 3. This slave from Virginia led an 1831 rebellion in which > over 50 whites were killed. He was the subject of a 1968 > Pulitzer-prizewinning novel by William Styron. John Brown > when the Gilbert Islands became an independent country. Give the > present name of *either* the island or the country. Both names are > simply the old names as rendered in the local language. Kiribati > 13. It only lasted for a matter of weeks, but on 1858-08-05, the > company started by Cyrus Field completed the first transatlantic > what? cable > Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ, the Knickerbockers and New York played > the first game on record of what newly organized sport? By the way, > New York had a big win. baseball > 15. On 1840-05-06, the UK became the first country to issue what? > As nobody else was doing it, there was no need for the things to show > the name of the country, and British ones still don't. postage stamp > name. > 1. "The Dream". > 2. "The Mailman". Malone > 3. "The Worm". Rodman > 4. The pictures in A represent Olympic archery targets; the > right-hand one is for reference only. What is the total score for > the two arrows shown in the left picture? 18;19 > 5. Picture B represents a 10-pin bowling score sheet. What score > should be written in place of the question mark? 37;47 > 6. Picture C represents a curling club scoreboard. What is the > current score? (Use "Red" and "Yellow" to represent the team names.) red 2, yellow 8 > * Tennis Terms > 7. What is said to occur if the non-serving player ends up winning > the game? broken serve > 8. What term refers to the situation where the score is tied at > 40-40 and neither player has the advantage? deuce > 9. What name is given to a legal serve that is not touched by the > receiving player? ace > three players in a question were subsequently again based in the same > sity. > 10. Paul Pierce, Marc Savard, David Ortiz. Boston > 11. Ilya Kovalchuk, Chipper Jones, Michael Vick. Atlanta > 12. Tony Romo, Marty Turco, Dirk Nowitzki. Dallas |
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