Friday, March 22, 2013

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1)  Tiger Woods, competing in town right now at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and his new girlfriend, Lindsey Vonn, have gone public with their romance this week. They deliberately released pictures to the press in order to devalue paparazzi photos. Lindsey is also an athlete. What is her sport?

2)  Oryza sativa is the botanical name for this food.

3)  Where are the parotid glands located?

Answers:

1)  Lindsey is an accomplished skier. She has won four overall World Cup championships – one of only two female skiers to do so, along with Annemarie Moser-Pröll – with three consecutive titles in 2008, 2009, and 2010,plus another in 2012.Vonn also won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first ever in the event for an American woman. She has also won six consecutive World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline (2008-2013), four consecutive titles in Super G (2009-2012), and three consecutive titles in the combined (2010-2012).
Vonn is one of six women to have won World Cup races in all five disciplines of alpine skiing – downhill, super G, giant slalom, slalom, and super combined – and has won 59 World Cup races in her career through January 26, 2013. Only two ski racers have more World Cup victories in their careers, Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria with 62 and Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden with 86. With her Olympic gold and bronze medals, two World Championship gold medals in 2009 (plus three silver medals in 2007 / 2011), and four overall World Cup titles, Vonn has become the most successful American skier in history.
Vonn received the Laureus World Sports Awards Sportswoman of the Year for 2010. She was also honored again as the USOC's sportswoman of the year for 2010 (courtesy Wikipedia)



 2)  Oryza sativa is rice.

3)  The parotid glands are in your mouth.

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