sportivia prelims answers

SPORTIVIA V 3.0

PRELIMS

RULES

• Not a Spell B• 25 questions• 5 starred questions: 10,11,12,23,24• Quizmaster is Sachin Tendulkar.

QUESTION 1

• Fill in the blank.

ANSWER 1

QUESTION 2• A young French cavalry officer of the 19th century was

sent on horseback to deliver a message. • He rode across the uneven terrain, through enemy lines,

and was confronted by a soldier with his sword drawn. • Challenged to a duel, the officer won, only to have his

horse shot out from under him by another enemy soldier.

• After felling that soldier with a single shot, the officer ran on.

• He swam across a raging river, and then finally he delivered the message.

• So, legend has it, was born the modern........what? • Name this Olympic event.

ANSWER 2

• Pentathlon

QUESTION 3

• The X Saga :• 26-Dec-1990 : X Born - Dissolution of the Soviet

Union• 26-Dec-2003 : X 13 yrs old - Iran earthquake• 26-Dec-2004 : X 14 yrs old - Indonesia Tsunami• 26-Dec-2006 : X 16yrs old - Taiwan earthquake• 26-Dec-2008 : X 18 yrs old - Yunnan(China)

earthquake• 26-Dec-2012 : X 22yrs old - End of the world• ID X.

ANSWER

• Aaron Ramsey

QUESTION 4

• John Kinley Tener (July 25, 1863 – May 19, 1946) was a Major League baseball player and executive and, from 1911 to 1915, who served as the 25th Governor of Pennsylvania.

• He started the tradition of a Congressional Baseball Game, which is organized each summer and raises a lot of money that is donated to charity.

• What are teams that contest in this game?

.

ANSWER 4

• Republicans vs. Democrats

QUESTION 5

• This was the first device of its kind. What did it do?

ANSWER 5

• Electronic line caller for tennis

QUESTION 6

• The term X refers to the area being slightly depressed below field level.

• Xs allowed spectators to see all the action, while not obstructing their view.

• Xs are common in baseball, and more recently cricket.

• What is X?

ANSWER 6

• Dug Out.

QUESTION 7

• "Four Minutes" was a 2005 TV show which aired on BBC, and chronicled the life of X.

• It stars Jamie Maclachlan as X, a British Medical student who went on to create history.

• Give me X, or the historical event. • Pic in next slide

ANSWER 7

• Roger Bannister, the first man to run the mile in less than 4 minutes.

QUESTION 8

• In October 2009 , Callum Campbell , a 16-year old teenager, became 'famous' overnight for doing something ( X ) which ultimately led to Y.

• Following are a few of his quotes after the incident.• “It was me. I’m the one who did it. I’m the one caught on

camera. I’m so, so sorry. This is my worst, worst nightmare." • “When I got home I went into the garden and threw up. I was

physically sick – and that’s before the death threats started appearing on the internet the next day.”

• “I watched it over and over again, and I still can’t work out how it happened,” Callum said.

• Funda?

ANSWER 8

• X - bashed a beach ball on to the pitch in the Sunderland vs Liverpool game.

• Y - The (actual) ball deflected off the beach ball and landed in the net and Liverpool lost the Game 1-0.

QUESTION 9

• X National Cricket Team - Black Caps• X National Football Team - All Whites• X National Rugby Team - All Blacks• X National Basketball Team - Y• X? Y?• No part points.

ANSWER 9

• New Zealand Sports Teams.• The Basketball team is called the Tall Blacks.• X – New Zealand• Y – Tall Blacks

QUESTION 10 *

• This is an Indian based company located in Mumbai.

• They supplied 92963 pieces of _____ for X in 2011, in two colors for the two main categories.

• This was after they were associated with X in 2009 and 2010 as well.

• What is their main contribution to sports?

ANSWER 10 *

• They supplied towels for Wimbledon.

QUESTION 11 *

• 1976, The Oval X vs. England.• "The bowler's _________, the batsman's

Willie."• This was supposedly, a comment made by

commentator Brian Johnston, who was later taken to task by schoolmistress Ms. Mainfield, who felt the remark was highly inappropriate.

• X is some team. I don’t want X.• Blank?

ANSWER 11 *

• Blank- Holding. • Michael Holding bowling to Peter Wiley.• “The bowler's holding the batsman's willie”.

QUESTION 12 *

• Jeremy John Bujakowski (March 30, 1939 - June 1, 2010) was born in Druskieniki to Polish travellers Halina Korolec-Bujakowski and Stanisław Bujakowski.

• Stanisław Bujakowski had served as a Warrant Officer of the No.101 Repair and Servicing Unit in the Polish Air Force in the UK during World War II.

• Jeremy John Bujakowski has a certain first to his name. What?

ANSWER 12 *

• 1st Indian Winter Olympian.

QUESTION 13

• _________ literally means "Union" or "United".

• They were famously chief sponsors of the Spyker F1 team before Vijay Mallya took over, following which they have been sponsoring the Scuderia Ferrari team.

• Fill in the blank.

ANSWER 13

• Etihad

QUESTION 14• She won the 2004 French Open singles title,

becoming the first Russian female tennis player to win a Grand Slam main draw singles title.

• Subsequent to this victory she rose to number 3 on the WTA ranking, becoming the first Russian female tennis player to reach the top three in the history of the rankings.

• In September 2004 she reached a career high of No.2, but she has not played professional tennis since 2007, and has stated she does not know whether she will return or not.

• Injury has prevented her from advancing for the past several years.

• ID.

ANSWER 14

• Anastasia Myskina

QUESTION 15

• Here’s an extract from Urban dictionary’s definition of a term.

• Any accident or injury caused to a man while trying to escape from his enraged and livid wife or girlfriend.

• Eg. Bob: Brenda found the text message on Johnny’s phone about meeting some girl so as he was walking out the door she hit him over the head with a bat and then chased him up the block.

• Tony: Now that's what I call a ____ ______!• Bob: Ain't nothin grand about that.• Fill in the blank.

ANSWER 15

• The Tiger Slam, which in golf refers to holding all 4 major titles simultaneously, a feat accomplished by Tiger Woods in 2001.

• He remains the only one to have ever done so.

QUESTION 16

• "Ghanti bajao iski."• A stump mike moment from August 2011.• Who, about whom?

ANSWER 16

• M S Dhoni on Ian Bell.

QUESTION 17

• Chatenay-Malabry is a place in France and has an ____-_______ lab. In November 2011, X was accused of "benefiting from" hacking into the computers.

• Who was X? • What's the funda of the break-in?

ANSWER 17

• Floyd Landis broke into the anti-doping lab in Chatenay-Malabry along with his coach to erase his WADA records.

QUESTION 18

• Connect.

ANSWER 18

• Buckingham Palace.• Beckingham Palace, David Beckham’s house is

said to be modelled on Buckingham Palace.

QUESTION 19

• Whose record?

ANSWER 19

• Kimi Raikkonen

QUESTION 20

• What game?

ANSWER 20

• Thumb Wrestling

QUESTION 21• Whose Jersey?

ANSWER 21

• Swamy Army

QUESTION 22

• The man in the photo is Rogerio Ceni, a Brazilian footballer who represented his country in two World Cups.

• He has played over 1020 matches and has scored over 106 goals.

• But he holds an unique record in the history of football. What?

ANSWER 22

• Only goalkeeper to have scored over 100 goals.

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QUESTION 23 What song? *

• It is death, it is death• It is life, it is life• This is the hairy man• Who caused the sun to shine again for me• Up the ladder, up the ladder• Up to the top• The sun shines

ANSWER 23 *

• Haka

QUESTION 24 *

• Then- Now?• Sharad Pawar- ?• Haroon Logart- ?

ANSWER 24 *

Alan Isaac• Dave Richardson

QUESTION 25• ___X___ is regarded as one of Spain's greatest players; as a player he

was noted for his elegant, graceful style of play.Nicknamed El Arquitecto (The Architect) he was noted for his perceptive passing and explosive shot and in 1960 he became the first Spanish-born player to be voted Ballon d'Or. In 1964 he helped Spain win the European Championship.

• On 20 November _____, Y , X's namesake was in trouble when he bit PSV's Otman Bakkal on the shoulder during a 0–0 draw. Ajax suspended him for two games and fined him an undisclosed amount which the club said they would donate to a "good cause".The Dutch daily newspaper De Telegraaf branded Y the "Cannibal of Ajax".

• While he was at Ajax, Y scored 111 goals in 159 appearance and also belongs to the elite group of players, including Johan Cruyff and Dennis Bergkamp to have scored 100 or more goals with the club.

• ID X,Y. • Image of X in next slide

ANSWER 25

• Luis Suarez.