QUESTIONS:
1- Name the only person ever to direct a first-place chorus in both our Society and Sweet Adelines International (SAI) international contests. For extra credit, identify the choruses and the years in which they won.
2- In a previous quiz it was noted that the oldest man ever to win a gold medal in an international quartet competition (Rod Nixon) was 61 years old at the time he triumphed. How old was the oldest man ever to compete in an international quartet contest, (who was not in the seniors division)?
3- What is noteworthy from a barbershop perspective about the Slamka family?
4- What is noteworthy about the ranking in the 2001 international quartet competitions in the Society, Sweet Adelines International and Harmony International?
5- Has a Society international competition ever taken place outside of North America?
ANSWERS:
1- Tom Gentil directed the Southern Gateway Chorus to the top spot in 1973 and the Seven Hills Chorus to the pinnacle on the gals side in 1981.
2- Keith Houts was one month shy of his 75th birthday when he competed in the 2004 international quartet contest. Go Keith - you're an inspiration!
3- The international quartet champs, Power Play, is comprised entirely of members of this family - a father, two sons, and a cousin. Probably an even tighter quartet from a genetics point of view is the Schmitt Brothers, quartet champs in 1951 and really brothers, all four of them.
4- All three 2001 silver medalists ( Uptown Sound, Brava and Diamond Girls ) in all three 2001 internationals repeated as the silver medalists again in 2002. What are the odds against that? Any statisticians out there?
5- No, but three have taken place outside of the USA, all in Canada - Toronto in 1963, Calgary in 1993 and Montreal in 2003.
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