Re: More Quiz Questions PART 3

["Nashinokawa" <nashinokawa@parbrook.free-online.co.uk>]

>Q1. Reorder the following list of heya, which the first heya being the one
>that produced the most yokozuna, followed by the next most yokozuna, etc.
>
>Kokonoe
>Tatsunami
>Futagoyama
>Dewanoumi
>Takasago
>

Dewanoumi - 9
Takasogo - 6
Futagoyama - 4
Tastunami, Kokonoe - 3each


>Q2. Who was the youngest man promoted to yokozuna?


Kitanoumi 21,2mo; next Taiho 21,3mo

>Q3. Who was the oldest man ever to perform yokozuna dohyoiri (he is one of
>the top 10 yokozuna of all time!)?


there appear to be a couple of the original yokozuna who competed to around
45. Tanikaze is the most famous (born 1750, died "in harness" 1795). The
other was Inazuma Raigoro ( born 1795, quit sumo 1840)

Of course this assumes active rikishi.  A number of former Yokozuna have in
more recent times performed a 60th birthday "dohyo-iri" using a red rope
(hawser) flanked by a couple of their most successful deshi.
Wakanohana I did this flanked I believe by Takanosato and Wakanohana II, the
two Yokozuna he raised as a stablemaster.
It was performed in a hotel, not on a hon-basho dohyo.