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IQuiz 5
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| French judoka, has won 10 World Championships and two Olympic gold (2012, 2016) | Teddy Riner |
| US female judoka, won 2010 World Championship and two Olympic gold (2012, 2016) | Kayla Harrison |
| French judoka and politician, won 4 World Championships in the 1990s, and two Olympic gold (1996, 2000) | David Douillet |
| Two disciplines of karate that will feature at 2020 Olympics | Kumite ("grappling hands") and Kata (form) |
| Largest town on Danish island of Bornholm | Ronne |
| Second-longest river within Poland (between Vistula and Oder) | Warta |
| Polish seaport and capital of West Pomeranian Voivodeship, near the end of the Oder river | Szczecin (Stettin) |
| Major shipbuilding town on the estuary of the Loire River near the Atlantic | Saint-Nazare |
| The two major French cities on the Garonne river (which starts in Spain and flows northwest) | Toulouse, Bordeaux |
| Pope that excommunicated Elizabeth I in 1570 | Pius V |
| Pope that excommunicated Henry VIII in 1538 | Paul III |
| Pope that excommunicated Martin Luther in 1521 | Leo X |
| Polish male hammer thrower who won World Championship gold in 2013, 2015 and 2017 | Pawel Fajdek |
| Russian male hammer thrower who won Olympic gold in 1976 and 1980, world champion in 1991 and holds world record | Yuriy Sedykh (86.74m) |
| Soviet female athlete who holds world record in shot put, won World Championship in 1987 and Olympic gold in 1988 | Natalya Lisovskaya |
| French decathlete who won the 2017 World Championship and holds the world record | Kevin Mayer |
| Slovak cyclist who has won the green points jersey six times (2012-16, 2018), tied with Erik Zabel for the record | Peter Sagan |
| Chinese liquor made from distilled sorghum, possibly the most drunk liquor in the world | Baijiu (aka shaojiu) |
| Korean spirit made by HiteJinro, biggest selling in the world | Soju |
| Japanese distilled rice beverage, far less fruity than sake | Shochu |
| Technique of decorating metalwork by using thin strips of soldered gold or silver along with inlays of small gems or glass - French for "compartments" | Cloisonne |
| Torte (cake) that has a lattice pastry design | Linzer torte (named for Linz) |
| Coastal town in Montenegro - area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site | Kotor |
| English fashion designer considered father of haute couture | Charles Frederick Worth |
| Paco is a nickname for this longer name | Francisco |
| A denier is the mass in grams per this number of metres of a fabric | 9000m |
| Spanish grape variety that means "a little early" as it tends to open earlier than other varieties | Tempranillo |
| Acclaimed Irish milliner who designed the famous pretzel hat worn by Princess Beatrice in 2011 | Philip Treacy |
| First codified set of laws (1512) about behaviour of Spaniards in the Americas | Laws of Burgos |
| Italian secret society from 1800 to 1831 who aimed for Italian independence | Carbonari |
| Chinese martial artist and folk hero who was subject of over 100 films | Wong Fei-Hung |
| French admiral who commanded the French and Spanish fleets at Battle of Trafalgar, lost to Nelson | Pierre-Charles Villeneuve |
| Ukranian easter egg | Pysanka |
| Foster mother of Zeus, suckled him in form of a goat | Amalthea |
| The two families of hadrons | Baryons and Mesons |
| Work by John Donne that includes "no man is an island" and "for whom the bell tolls" | Meditation XVII |
| 1926 novella and its author - became the film Eyes Wide Shut | Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler |
| Considered father of anarchism | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon |
| The genus for honeysuckle | Lonicera |
| French Socialist leader and co-founder of L'Humanite newspaper who was assassinated in 1914 | Jean Jaures |
| Founded in 2002, second most prestigious soccer competition in South America | Copa Sudamericana |
| Argentine club that has won the Copa Libertadores seven times - the most of any team | Independiente |
| Ecuadorian player who has scored 54 goals at the Copa Libertadores, easily the most of any player | Alberto Spencer |
| Most successful Uruguay club at the Copa Libertadores with five wins | Penarol |
| Only Chinese race on the UCI World Tour (since 2017) | Tour of Guangxi |
| The third lesser-known member of The Fugees | Pras Michel |
| Norwegian cross-country skier, won 13 World Championship gold - most of any male, and 2 Olympic gold (2010) | Petter Northug |
| Russian female cross-country skier, won 14 World Championship gold (second behind Marit Bjorgen), and 3 Olympic gold (1992, 1994, 1998) | Yelena Vyalbe |
| Scale that measures prejudice in a society | Allport's scale |
| Highest point in mainland Netherlands, also a tripoint between Netherlands, Germany and Belgium | Vaalserberg |
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