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Season 26, Day 1 - “Golden State”
[Q1] 2023 GOLDEN GLOVES WINNERS IN THIS SPORT INCLUDE ERIC ROSS, MALACHI GEORGES, AND FRANCIS STEWART
[Q2] IN 1960, THE CEO OF THIS COMPANY BASED IN GOLDEN, COLORADO WAS KIDNAPPED AND MURDERED IN A FAILED RANSOM ATTEMPT
[Q3] THE GOLDEN (A.K.A. SYRIAN) SPECIES OF THIS ANIMAL IS THE MOST COMMON BREED FOUND IN U.S. PET STORES — “YOUR MOTHER WAS A ______” IS USED AS AN INSULT IN “MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL”
[Q4] DAMAGED IN A 1984 RAID BY THE INDIAN ARMY, THE GOLDEN TEMPLE OF AMRITSAR IS THE HOLIEST SHRINE IN THIS RELIGION
[Q5] WITH A NAME INSPIRED BY AN 1883 NOVEL, THIS SAN FRANCISCO ISLAND WAS BUILT FOR THE 1939 GOLDEN GATE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION, A WORLD’S FAIR CELEBRATING THE OPENING OF THE BAY BRIDGE AND THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
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Answers
[Q1] BOXING. Not to be confused with Major League Baseball’s defensive award (the Gold Glove), the Golden Gloves is an amateur boxing tournament (you’re not expected to know the boxers named in the question).
[Q2] COORS. Grandson of the brewery’s founder Adolph Coors, Adolph Coors III was CEO of Coors and heir to the family fortune when he was killed in 1960.
[Q3] HAMSTER. The full line is “I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal-food-trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.”
[Q4] SIKHISM. Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards in retribution for the raid on the Golden Temple, in which hundreds of Sikhs were killed.
[Q5] TREASURE ISLAND. Author Robert Louis Stevenson spent some time in San Francisco and got married there in 1880; his former lodgings are marked with a bronze plaque and there’s an elementary school named in his honor.