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This quiz was meant for the start of soccer season a couple of weeks ago, hence all the soccer-related questions. Guam isn't a soccer power, but made the news for the first time in many years this month when North Korea, well, threatened to blow it up. What did the people of Guam ever do to Kim Jong-Un? People of Guam? Isn't there a shorter way to say that? Keep quizzing and find out...
GUAM
GUAM
1. The United
States gained control of Guam during what conflict?
2. Who was the
first European explorer to visit Guam?
3. Formerly known
as Agana, what is the capitol city of Guam:
Agat, Barrigada, Dedeno, Hagatna?
4. The back of the
2009 Guam commemorative quarter shows a flying proa. What is that?
5. Which is the
proper term (demonym) used to describe a person from Guam:
Guamian, Guamese, Guamanian, Guamesian?
SOCCER
1. What Brazilian
star transferred from Barcelona to Paris-St. Germain before this
season for an all-time record 222 million Euros ($265 million)?
2. Which La Liga
club is currently the defending UEFA Champions League champion?
3. Which
now-Everton player is both the Premier League's active career leading
scorer and the England national team's all-time leading scorer?
4. What current
MLS player was the last player other than Cristiano Ronaldo (the
current holder) or Lionel Messi to win the Ballon D'Or honor as the
world's best soccer player?
5. Which country
won the CONCACAF Gold Cup in July?
DIRECTIONAL ANSWERS
Each answer
will contain one or more points of the compass
1. Who was born June 15, 2013, to Kanye and Kim Kardashian West?
2. Barack Obama and Joe Biden have both spoken at what annual Austin,
TX music/film/technology gathering?
3. The Perfect Storm tells of the 1991 sinking of the Andrea
Gail due to what weather phenomenon?
4. Which Steinbeck title comes from the fourth chapter of Genesis?
5. Alice Braga stars in what USA Network narco-thriller series that
first aired in 2016?
ALSO A SOCCER
TEAM
Each answer is
or includes the name of a Premier League team but you don't have to
know any soccer to get the answers. (Not that it hurts)
1. The Cavern Club is a favorite site for music fans visiting what
city on the Mersey River?
2. What verb can mean to shake up the coals of a fire?
3. Who did investment banker Mark Mezvinsky marry in December 2010?
4. What port did the Titanic depart on its only voyage?
5. What building was originally built in Hyde Park to host the Great
Exhibition of 1851?
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