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Today’s Geo Quiz is for winners. The UCONN Huskies are at the top of their game. This week the women’s collegiate basketball team set a sports record of 89 wins in a row. The US record was 88 wins, set by UCLA’s men’s basketball team. We wish the Huskies continued success.

Now for the quiz: we’re searching for a country that’s produced another one of the longest winning streaks – in any sport. Not Brazil with its 19 FIFA World Cup appearances or South Korea whose women archers won 6 consecutive Olympic golds.

But a South Asian country whose athlete nicknamed The Conqueror went unbeaten for 5 years. He won 555 consecutive matches…on the squash court. And get this! He once won the International Squash Championship – without losing a single point.

So, name the world’s sixth most populous country – or its world-class squash player…

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Geo Answer:

The sport is squash and the country is Pakistan.

Jahangir Khan was born in Karachi and at the age 17 began an an incredible 555-match winning streak that lasted 5 years. He’s considered the Muhammed Ali of squash, the Lance Armstrong of the court…

His secret? He says he trained 6 days a week and drank 2 glasses of milk everyday, among other things. Time Magazine named Jahangir one of Asia’s Heroes. Try beating that!