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TOUR DE TRIVIA FINALS

ROUND 1

In 1980, USAC(The United States Auto Club (USAC) is one of the sanctioning bodies of auto racing in the United States) starter Duane Sweeney started what tradition at the Indianapolis 500 (Indy 500) which is somehow different from the rest of the Auto race including F-1 ?

The defending Olympic champion, Lynn Davies of Great Britain, told X, "You have destroyed this event", and in sports jargon, a new adjective —X esque — came into use to describe spectacular feats. X please?

Robert “Bob” Beamon is an American former track and field athlete, best known for his world record in the long jump at the Mexico Olympics in 1968, which remained the world record for almost 23 years until it was broken in 1991 by Mike Powell. This is the second longest holding of this record, as Jesse Owens held the record for 25 years, 1935-1960. Powell's record has stood for over 20 years.

A combination of tennis, volleyball and medicine ball, X was invented, developed and perfected by White House physician Admiral Joel T. Boone to keep Y physically fit. "It required less skill than tennis, was faster and more vigorous, and therefore gave more exercise in a short time," Y wrote in his Memoirs."It is more strenuous than either boxing, wrestling or football," wrote Will Irwin, a friend of X's, in a 1931 article "The President Watches His Waistline" in Physical Culture magazine. "It has the virtue of getting at nearly every muscle in the body.“ Game ?

Hooverball is a medicine ball game invented by President Herbert Hoover's personal physician to help keep then-President Hoover fit.(http://www.jumpusa.com/hooverball2.html)

On 16th December 1997, a 50 over cricket match was held at Middle Income Group Ground in Bandra (Mumbai).

In this match Australia walloped Denmark by 365 runs.

Who scored more than half of Australia’s 412 runs that day?

Belinda Clark - she made 229 not out and thus became the first cricketer in history of ODIs to score a double hundred.

Which sportsman wrote an autobiography titled ‘Serious’  - the title being a reference to something he often said while playing?

John McEnroe

The top division in this sport is limited to 42 players and is normally known by a name meaning ‘inside the curtain’.This name dates back to the time when top players were given the privilege of being seated in privacy before taking their place in the arena. Which sport?

Sumo Wrestling –The practice is called Makuuchi.

AUDIENCE“While we are in the middle of playing in the most beautiful festival of African football, there are people dying in a stadium," Gabon goalkeeper Didier Ovono said. "I'm truly sad for the __________ people.”

What is he talking about ?

Egyptian clubs Al-Ahly and Al Masry

The Curse of the ___________was a superstition cited as an excuse for the failure of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to win the World Series in the 86-year period from 1918 to 2004. While some fans took the curse seriously, most used the expression in a tongue-in-cheek manner.The curse was said to have begun after the Red Sox sold______, sometimes called_______, to the New York Yankees in the off-season of 1919-1920.Before that point, the Red Sox had been one of the most successful professional baseball franchises, winning the first World Series and amassing five World Series titles. After the sale they went without a title for decades, as the previously lackluster Yankees became one of the most successful franchises in North American professional sports. Give me the sportsman in question or his nickname.

Babe Ruth also known as the Bambino

The Curse of the Bambino

A popular story is that Sir Charles Moses, General Manager of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation immortalized something by using a postal address number. There is some debate about whether the story is true, but ABC sports host Karen Tighe confirms that the number was in fact chosen for the purpose. What number ? Complete funda please.

P O Box 9994 –Honouring the test batting average of Sir Don Bradman

She started her basketball career in 1994 when she led her team of University of North Carolina to the basketball championship. The career continued and in 2011 she decided to take some time off from WNBA. However to the world, she is known for her speed and also called a sprinter. Who is she? 

Marion Jones

The pic shown below shows the snapshot from a web based newspaper .Fill in the blanks or put the funda.

East Bengal and Mohan Bagan

On 21 December 2009 FIFA proclaimed Lionel Messi the Football World player of the Year,but which female football player who plays for the Los Angeles Sol and previously for the Swedish team Umea,won the women’s trophy for the fourth year in succession?

Marta (Vieira De Silva)

Hitler Youth club once forced a man to cover his genitals tightly and compete in the women’s events as Germans were not performing well in the event. This however did not help Germany as the player still finished fourth. What is the “lady name” of this player?

Dora Ratjens

AUDIENCE

Computer games based on movies are common, but in 2010 Electronic Arts surprised everyone with an action-adventure game based on a 14th century masterpiece of world literature . The game is a mix of fast paced combat and puzzle solving .What is the two-word name of this hellish sounding game?

Dante’s Inferno

ROUND 2

Connection Please .

Only three prime ministers till date to have played First-class cricket.

(From left):

•Grantley Adams played one match for Barbados as a wicketkeeper in 1925-26 but his main claim to fame was as a politician and union leader. He went on to become the first Premier of Barbados. The main airport in Barbados is named after him and he is also one of the country's ten national heroes.

•Nawaz Sharif was a right-hand batsman who made a duck in his only appearance for Railways against PIA in 1973-74. He later served two terms as Pakistan's prime minister.

•Sir Alec Douglas-Home , who died at his home on October 9, 1995, aged 92, was the only British prime minister to have played first-class cricket. As Lord Dunglass, he was a useful member of the Eton XI. In the rain-affected Eton- Harrow match of 1922 he scored 66, despite being hindered by a saturated outfield, and then took 4 for 37 with his medium-paced out-swingers.

•Jan- Ove Waldner : Mozart of Table Tennis.

•Magnus Carlson : Mozart of Chess.

.Mohammed Ashraful: Mozart of Cricket

MOZART

Shortly before the match, X entered the Astrodome in Cleopatra style, carried aloft in a chair held by four bare-chested muscle men dressed in the garb of ancient slaves. Y followed in a rickshaw drawn by a bevy of scantily-clad models. Y presented X with a giant lollypop and she gave him a piglet named Larimore Hustle. X ,Y & the event ?

Battle of the Sexes II Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs Set 1 2 3 Billie Jean King 6 6 6 Bobby Riggs 4 3 3 Date September 20, 1973 Location Houston, Texas.

BATTLE OF THE SEXES (TENNIS)

CAROLYN DAVIDSON OF THE NIKE SWOOSH LOGO FAME

Both have the same nickname .What ?

MUSCLE

1 is Ken Rosewall, the tennis player. 2 is India’s spinning legend Venkatapathy Raju. Both were nicknamed “Muscles“, because they didn’t have any.

A were initially named B. However, concerns about trademark issues necessitated a name change and they took the name A. As a compensation, A named their first work C as a tribute to B. A, B and C please.

A is Pearl Jam, who were initially named Mookie Blaylock (B), after the basketball player. Since they had to change it, they named their first album Ten (C), it being Blaylock’s jersey number.

AUDIENCE“Legend” who shot to fame in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Name.

Eric “The Eel” Moussambani. As to why he became famous after Sydney 2000.

ROUND 3

LONG VISUAL CONNECT (LVC) :

• All the slides are related to a common theme.• The teams need to draw the attention of the QM in case they want to guess the answer on any particular slide.• The points and negatives on the slides are shown .•The teams can go for connect on a single slide only once .

SLIDE 1: +30/-20

SLIDE 2:+25/-15

SLIDE 3: +20/-10

SLIDE 4: +15/-5

SLIDE 5: +10/-0

SLIDE 6: +5/-0

SPORTSPERSONS WHO CONVERTED TO ISLAM :

Eric Abidal (Bilal)Wayne Parnell (Waleed)Nicolas Anelka (Bilal)Kareem Abdul Jabbar (previously Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor)Frank Ribery ( Tarek)Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)Mohammad Yousuf (Yousuf Youhana)

ROUND 4

In 2000, shortly before his death, he said in an interview: "The maximum punishment in Brazil is 30 years imprisonment, but I have been paying, for something I am not even responsible for, by now, for 50 years.“ Who speaking about what ?

Moacyr Barbosa

Which woman track athlete in 1996 became the first to retain an Olympic 100m sprint title since Wyomia Tyus in 1968 ?This despite the fact that she was diagnosed with Graves’ disease in 1990 and that the 100m hurdles was actually her favoured event.

Gail Devers

VIDEO 1

The winner in this iconic race was honoured by the King of her native country who telephoned her to give his congratulations, and he declared that all girls bornon the day of her victory were to be named in her honor.Give me her name .

NAWAL EL MOUTAWAKEL –The first Muslim born woman in Africa to be an Olympic champion.

CONNECT with relation to a sporting term:

PERFECT 10 in Gymnastics(From left)• Nadia Comaneci (Romania) in 1976 Montreal Olympics • Alexander Dityatin (Soviet Union) in 1980 Moscow• Nellie Kim (Soviet Union) in 1976 Montreal

Which upcoming movie about an athlete turned dacoit who held the national record for the 110m hurdles from 1958-1963 ?

Connect :

Identify the encircled person and the sporting connection.

AUDIENCE

Mahatma Gandhi who founded football clubs Durban , Pretoria and Johannesburg together called the passive kickers football club.

ROUND 5

Which cricketer’s cricinfo profile ? A person with his name is immortalised in history .

Connect :

K D Singh Babu and Roop Singh

Only two hockey players after whom international cricketstadiums in India are named :

K D Singh Babu stadium in LucknowRoop Singh Stadium in Gwalior

He is a former U.S. track and field athlete, motivational speaker, socialite and television personality. He won the gold medal for decathlon in the Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics.Following his Olympic victory and the related recognition, his professional career evolved into being a television celebrity. By 1981 he had starred in several made for TV movies and was Erik Estrada's replacement on the top rated TV series CHiPs. Since the 2007 debut of Keeping Up with the Kardashians ,he is a regular on the show. Identify this athlete.

Bruce Jenner- Kim kardashian’s step father

The world record for the sport was held by Patrick Sjoberg before he broke it in 1988.He went on to break his own records in 1989 and 1993, which still stand. Who is this legendary sportsman ?

Javier Sotomayor- World High jump record holder

On 10 November 2009, at the age of 32, “X” committed suicide when he stood in front of a regional express train at a level crossing in Eilvese, Neustadt am Rübenberge. Police confirmed a suicide note was discovered but would not publicise its details. His widow, Teresa, revealed that her husband had been suffering from depression for six years and was treated by a psychiatrist. After the death of his daughter, Lara, in 2006 he struggled to cope with the loss. Who is “X”?

Robert Enke

Known as the first pitch in baseball, this ceremonial ritual has the guest of honour throwing a baseball from the pitcher's mound to home plate to mark the end of pre-game festivities and the official start of the tournament. American Presidents from Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Kennedy to Nixon, Reagan and Bush have all thrown the first pitch at some time for their favourite teams. X was given this honour in 2009 for the home team ______ Dodgers against Arizona ,thus becoming the first from his country to do so . X ??

Anil Kapoor pitching for Los Angeles Dodgers

AUDIENCE

Identify the person on the right.

FIDEL CASTRO

ROUND 6

IVY LEAGUE

X was heavily favored to win a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics, held at Los Angeles. In the 3000 meters final, Y, half a stride ahead of X, moved to the inside lane, crowding X, who collided with Y and fell spectacularly to the curb. X’s hip was injured and she was unable to resume the race. She was carried off the track in tears by her boyfriend, British discus thrower Richard Slaney. At a press conference she said that Y was to blame for the collision. Identify X and Y.

X= Mary Decker ,Y= Zola Budd

VIDEO 2

After missing the bus for the Beijing Olympics by three seconds, this long distance runner achieved the qualifying mark set for this year's London Games by dipping more than a minute under the B standard in the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon in January this year. He thus became the first runner after Shivnath Singh in 1976 and 1980 Olympics to qualify for the marathon in Olympics. Who is this Indian athlete ?

Ram Singh Yadav

Released in Nov 2011 in cinemas in England , Out Of A Rainbow stars which two famous characters ?

Wenlock and Mandeville-London Olympics mascots

Wayne “The Great one” Gretzky holding aloft the Stanley Cup.