Trivia Newsletter CCXII Submission Form

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Note: Some folks like to share their guesses for all of the questions, but in order to submit this form, only your initials (the first question) and a guess on the last question are necessary.

For purposes of the Question #6 Leaderboard, please write below a THREE-LETTER initialism you'd like me to use to track your entries. (You might choose your initials, but doing so is not necessary.) *

Question #1 - NAME the university that holds the active record for most consecutive Sweet Sixteen appearances in the men’s tournament, making the Sweet Sixteen each year since (and including) the 2014-15 season. This year, the school was knocked off in the Sweet Sixteen by Purdue.

(The school once tweeted that its motto is “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,” a phrase attributed to Saint Ignatius of Loyola, who founded the Jesuits.)

Question #2 - Several hours before publication, the University of Iowa defeated Louisiana State University in the women’s tournament in a rematch of last year’s championship game. Iowa was led by its star player Caitlin Clark, who scored 41 points. WHAT position, also played by Magic Johnson and Sue Bird, does Clark play?

(Both words of this two-word answer are worth the same value in a standard game of Scrabble.)

Question #3 - The first weekend of the men’s tournament was notably “chalky,” or relatively upset-free. The most dramatic upset (by seed) in the first round was Oakland’s win over Kentucky, but the second-most dramatic upset (by seed) was Auburn’s loss to the lovable and scrappy Yale Bulldogs. WHAT was Yale’s numeric seed in the bracket?

(The Great Seal of the United States has this many olive leaves, as well as this many stars and this many arrows.)

Question #4 - We earlier mentioned last year’s championship game in the women’s tournament. WHAT is the last name of the LSU player who was named Most Outstanding Player in that tourney? She put up seventeen points and twenty (!) rebounds against Iowa last night in LSU’s loss.

(The same name completes this quartet from a sitcom that aired from 2000 through 2006: Francis, BLANK, Malcolm, and Dewey.)

Question #5 - A few hours ago, the University of Connecticut defeated the University of Southern California in the women’s tournament. UConn also defeated the University of Illinois in the men’s tournament last Saturday. Thus, the UConn women’s win last night makes UConn the first school to have both its men’s and women’s teams make the Final Four in the same year since WHAT school last did so?

(This school’s men’s basketball team plays in the same stadium as the NHL’s Hurricanes.)

Question #6 - The sum of the seeds of the four teams currently in the men’s tournament’s Final Four continues today’s theme. Please provide BOTH that number, and WHAT today’s theme is.

(We don’t normally ask you to explicitly describe the theme, but don’t let that send you reeling! You can use a specific four-letter initialism or a generalized two-word phrase to describe today’s theme.)

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