FINALS

QM – Shraishth Jain

7 rounds

• Written

• Dry (12 clockwise)

• SVC

• Dry (6 clockwise + 6 anti-clockwise)

• List it

• Dry (12 anti clockwise)

• Maha Connect

WRITTEN

• List of India’s flag bearers at various Olympic Games.

• 5 points for each correct answer.

• +10 bonus for all 8 correct

• Correct order is compulsory.

• Teams have 2 minutes to answer.

S.No. Year Name

1. 1920 A

2. 1992 B

3. 1996 C

4. 1998 D

5. 2000 E

6. 2004 F

7. 2006 G

8. 2012 H

EXCHANGE SHEETS

S.No. Year Name

1. 1920 Purma Bannerjee

2. 1992 Shiny Abraham-Wilson

3. 1996 Pargat Singh

4. 1998 Shiva Kesavan

5. 2000 Leander Paes

6. 2004 Anju Bobby George

7. 2006 Neha Ahuja

8. 2012 Sushil Kumar

DRY 1Infinite Bounce and Pounce

+10/-10

1.

Ran ‘B’ rowed for Cambridge in the 1934, 1935 and 1936 races, all of which were won by Cambridge. He was in the boat with Jack Wilson, who was to become his rowing partner later in their careers.

At the 1936 Olympics, he rowed as Stroke in Great Britain's eight, the team eventually finishing in fourth place. He returned after the War by winning a gold medal in the coxless pairs event at the 1948 Olympics in London with Wilson, rowing on their familiar Henley course.

In 1954 he qualified as a medical doctor, working for thirty years as a General Practitioner in Blackbird Leys, Oxford. In 2005, it was proposed that the newly refurbished health centre in Blackbird Leys be named after B in recognition of his service to the local community.

Ran’s youngest son AB, shares many similarities with his father. He also studied in Cambridge University, is a doctor in his own right and was on course to become an Olympic-standard rower, before he suffered from a bout of glandular fever and gave up the sport.

Identify AB.

Hugh Laurie

2. Exhaustive connectName Opposition Venue Year

Syd Gregory England Sydney 1894

Aubrey Faulkner Australia Melbourne 1910

Victor Trumper South Africa Adelaide 1911

Len Hutton West Indies The Oval 1950

Neil Harvey South Africa Melbourne 1953

Graeme Pollock Australia Cape Town 1966

Dennis Amiss West Indies The Oval 1976

Matthew Hayden India Chennai 2001

Nathan Astle England Christchurch 2002

Ricky Ponting India Adelaide 2003

Virender Sehwag Pakistan Bangalore 2005

Brian Lara Australia Adelaide 2005

Paul Collingwood Australia Adelaide 2006

Kumara Sangakkara New Zealand Wellington 2015

Double centuries in a losing cause

3.In the Premier League, X played for Newcastle United,

Blackburn Rovers, Leicester City and Sheffield United, helping the former win the Football League Cup in 2002.

On October 29, 1995 - a day X refers to as Black Friday in his autobiography, ‘How Not To Be A Football Millionaire’ - he lost £47,000 in one afternoon's betting on horse racing. He had just discovered telephone betting and the next day, desperately chasing his losses, he blew another £15,000, and thus a year’s wages down the drain in less than 48 hours.

X was declared legally bankrupt on 1 October 2010 by the Belfast High Court, as he lost over £7m to his gambling addiction.

Perhaps his biggest footballing claim to fame is his presence in the iconic photograph on the next slide.

Identify X.

Keith Gillespie

4.

In one of the great upsets in sports history, distance runner X sprinted from 3rd place and took the gold medal in the 10,000 meter race at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He is still the only American in history to accomplish this feat.

With this victory, he became the second Native American to win an Olympic Gold, after Jim Thorpe.

Running Brave is a 1983 movie based on the story of X, Robby Benson portrays X, the Oglala Sioux who left the reservation in the late 1950s for his date with destiny.

Who is X?

Billy Mills

5.

The Asian Beach Games (ABG) are held every two years among athletes representing countries from Asia, with the first edition being held in 2008, and the 2018 edition scheduled to be held in Goa.

Most recently, these games where held in Phuket, Thailand, with 33 different events taking place. India finished 20th, with 2 gold medals.

• The first was won by X, in the ____ event.• The second was won by the women’s team in the

____ event.

Give X and fill in the blanks.

• X – Men’s Squash, Harinder Singh Sandhu

• Kabaddi

6.He is a former short track speed skater and four-time Olympian. He was the first from

his country to win a Winter Olympic gold medal and was also part of the short track relay team that won his country’s first Winter Olympic medal, a bronze in 1994. He is the first person from any southern hemisphere country to win a Winter Olympic gold.

He is best known for his memorable gold medal win in the men's short track 1000 metres event at the Salt Lake City Games, owing to three improbable events.

He won his heat convincingly but it appeared that his run would end when the draw for the quarter-finals was made. He finished third in his race and thought himself to be eliminated, but Marc Gagnon was disqualified for obstructing another racer, allowing him to advance to the semi-finals.

In his semi-final race, he was in last place, well off the pace of the medal favourites. However, three of the other competitors in the semifinal crashed, paving the way for the him to take second place and advancing him through to the final.

In the final, he was again well off the pace when all four of his competitors crashed out at the final corner while jostling for the gold medal. This allowed him to avoid the pile-up and take the victory even though he was around 15 m behind with only 50 m to go.

Identify this athlete and give the country he represented.

Stephen Bradbury, Australia

7.

Slade are an English rock band, which rose to prominence during the glam rock era of the early 1970s with 17 consecutive top 20 hits and six number ones. The British Hit Singles & Albums names them as the most successful British group of the 1970s based on sales of singles.

X is a UK and German only single from Slade. It was written by lead singer Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea, and released in 1985. The single's earning went to charity.

The song has no direct relevance or reference to this particular sporting event, but it shares its title with a phrase that defines this great moment in American sport.

What is X? (Five word phrase)

8.

In 2001, this club was relegated to Serie B. The situation worsened as it was revealed that the club was in debt to the tune of USD 50 million and unable to pay salaries. It entered judicially controlled administration and, owing to regulations, found themselves refused a place in Serie B. The club effectively ceased to exist until they were able to reform and start again in Serie C2 (Italy's fourth tier).

The new club faced further embarrassment when forced to change the name on its badge and refused the right to wear their iconic strip. All of the highly paid players soon flocked to the exit, with one notable exception, X.

X was a player of high pedigree and his tireless running had earned him the nickname ‘Il Solatino' (the little soldier) and he showed great loyalty in choosing to take a pay cut to Serie C2 levels and remain at the club. Within two years the club, with X as captain, were back in Serie A.

In 2003, the club bought back the rights to use the original name and wear its famous shirt. One shirt that will be forever remembered by fans is the number 7 of X, the little soldier.

Identify the club and the player.

Fiorentina, Angelo di Livio

9.

“If you could only see his fingers you would know. You would know what is demanded of the best. What sacrifices they routinely make. And you would know, in your heart, that you weren`t like them and never would be. _________, watching X tape those fingers before taking to the field, thinks them ghastly and mal- formed. And they are mediaeval, those awful hands. Shakespearean in their ruin; the gnarled and broken claws of Macbeth`s witches. They will surely torment him in his later years. But for now he wraps them tightly, hiding all the damage done. He shucks on the outsized leather gloves with which he earns his keep. He adjusts his cap with that familiar and strangely comfortable gesture, that slight tug forward over the eyes, and then he squints into the light, steps into place behind his captain and takes the field. And at that moment he looks... at home. As though, without knowing it himself, he has already settled into history.”

An article on Cricinfo about X’s career opens with the above paragraph. Who is X?

Ian Healy

10.

"Official" Xs are administered by clubs or national associations. Exact rules for X can vary from country to country. X systems are not used at professional level.

A X is calculated with a specific arithmetic formula. The administration of these systems is the responsibility of the national associations. These bodies specify slightly different ways to calculate X.

In the United States, Xs are calculated using several variables, which includes the player's scores from his most recent games, the slope and a few others.

What is X?

Handicap

11.

The Linares 1994 marked the first time the 17-year-old X was invited to compete with the world's strongest players. After four games, X had two points. During X’s match with Kasparov in the fifth round, the World Champion changed his mind after taking his hand off a piece, and moved the piece to a different square, which according to chess rules, would have meant that Kasparov should have been required to play his original move. X did not challenge this because it was X’s first invitation to such an important event.

The tournament director was criticized for not forfeiting Kasparov when the videotape evidence was made available to him. At one point, X reportedly confronted Kasparov in the hotel bar, asking him, "How could you do this to me?” Kasparov told reporters that his conscience was clear, as he was not aware of his hand leaving the piece. X went into a slump over the next six rounds, gaining only half a point.

X recovered from this nightmare tournament and never looked back. X reached a career-high Elo rating of 2735 and world-ranking of #8, and recently retired in 2014, and is now identified as one of the most iconic chess-players of all-time.

Identify.

Judit Polgar

12.

He started his career with Santos, and has also played for clubs such as Genoa, Palmeiras, Dinamo Zagreb, and Yokohama F.C., where he made the most appearances.

He is capped 89 times for his country, scoring 55 goals and was arguably his country’s first football superstar and currently stands 6th in his country’s all-time appearance charts.

At the ripe age of 47, he recently signed a one-year extension at Yokohama F.C., and is widely acknowledged as the oldest player currently active in world football.

Identify this legend.

Kazuyoshi Miura

SVC

3 slides. 3 guesses per team.

1st slide - +35/-25

2nd slide - +20/-15

3rd slide - +10/-5

ANSWER?

All of them have featured in the Simpsons

DRY 2

13.

In 2006, television cameras captured X ‘mooning’ Everton fans, following City's injury-time equalizer in a game at Goodison Park.

He had received abuse from Everton supporters throughout the match and the gesture has since been described as "light-hearted" and "inoffensive" by people involved in football.

Merseyside Police looked into the incident, but announced in October that no further action would be taken, although X was fined £2,000 for bringing the game into disrepute and warned about his future conduct by The Football Association.

Identify X, and explain what he exactly did.

Joey Barton

14.

“I felt so good when I arrived in Sydney; it was amazing. I was happy being at the Olympics, because it was a new experience for me. We arrived early in the morning, at around 5am, after travelling from Malabo to Libreville to Paris to Hong Kong and on to Sydney.”

“I felt that I was important because I was representing my country. I was also nervous, due to the fact that I had never seen so many people and TVs. I remember that when I was swimming, I could hear the crowd, and that gave me strength to continue and complete the 100 metres, but I was already tired. It was my first time in an Olympic swimming pool.”

Identify and give the country he was representing.

Eric Moussambani, Equatorial Guinea

15.In 2004, he signed a deal with Adidas for a major advertising campaign

that also featured David Beckham, rugby ace Jonny Wilkinson and boxer Laila Ali.

Impressed by his performances, Adidas chose him to feature alongside David Beckham on its ‘Impossible is Nothing' campaign. Not only was his face splashed on huge billboards globally in 2004, Adidas named a shoe-range in his honour. And the best part is that he hadn't heard of Beckham until he was contacted for the ad campaign!

He later said, “I was told that he was a very famous boy who played football. I was taken to a big stadium where they took my photos. Later, they also gave me these shoes.”

The money he raised with this ad campaign was donated by him to various charities. He said, "What will I do with the money? To be able to do what I am doing is a reward in itself. God is watching me, please give this money to those who need it.”

Identify.

Fauja Singh

16.

If you find Manuel Neuer’s style of play jaw-dropping, wait till you see this guy.

X was a particularly eccentric player, known for his constant play outside the penalty area, his acrobatic style in goal, and his colorful attire. His strength in goal was his leaping ability and speed, which made him able to overcome his relatively short height for the position he played at.

X also made for an effective striker, a rare example of versatility in football. At times, he would start a game in goal, and transfer upfield later in the match, mostly at the club level.

X has 130 caps for his country and has scored 34 goals in his club career as well.

Identify X.

Jorge Campos

17.

This 4’ 11” ‘sparrow’, is a 4-time Olympic gold medallist. Richard Nixon had remarked that her performance in Munich did more for reducing the political tension during the Cold War than the embassies were able to do in five years.

Fosbury may have a ‘flop’ to his name, but this gymnast has ‘flip’ to hers. Identify her.

Olga Korbut

18.

Trying it is one thing. Pulling it off, is something else. A few people say that it is the most exhilarating thing in the sport. "You have to know you're going to make it," Jacoby Ellsburysays. "I knew. It was something I'll never forget."

The biggest deterrent comes not from the opponent but from the perpetrators themselves. "If it were that easy, teams would be doing it a lot. There's more risk than there is reward, so I don't see teams doing it a lot.“

Another, if less serious, impediment is that teams almost never scout it, meaning players are often forced to decide to do it or not on their own. Several players said their teams don't even mention it during advance meetings before each series, nor is it something they work on in spring training.

Ty Cobb is the all-time leader. What is being talked about?

Stealing home

REVERSE!

19.

Eric Liddell, often called the "Flying Scotsman" after the record breaking locomotive, was born 16 January 1902, in Tientsin, in north China, the second son of the Rev. and Mrs. James Dunlop Liddell, who were Scottish missionaries with the London Missionary Society.

At the 1924 Paris Olympics, he refused to run in a heat and was forced to withdraw from the 100-metres race, his best event. The schedule had been published several months earlier, and his decision was made well before the Games.

Liddell spent the intervening months training for the 400 metres, and when the day of the Olympic final came, Liddell raced the whole of the first 200 metres to be well clear of the favoured Americans. With little option but to then treat the race as a complete sprint, he continued to race round the final bend. He was challenged all the way down the home straight but held on to take the win.

He broke the existing Olympic and world records with a time of 47.6 seconds. It was controversially ratified as a world record, despite it being 0.2 seconds slower than the record for the greater distance of 440 yards.

Why did he refuse to run the 100 metres heat? And connect him to the 2012 Olympics.

Holy Sabbath (Sunday)

20.

“Ten twinkling toes of X, Celtic FC's player from India hypnotized the crowd at Parkhead last night in an Alliance game with Galston. He balances the ball on his big toe, lets it run down the scale to his little toe, twirls it, hops on one foot around the defender, then flicks the ball to the center who has only to send it into goal. Three of Celtic's seven goals last night came from his moves. Was asked to take a penalty, he refused. Said he was shy. X does not speak English, his brother translates for him.

“In his bare feet he was a conspicuous figure but this was further emphasisedby his dark skin against the white and green of the Celtic strip. His play was top class. Every ball he touched went exactly to the place he wanted it to. Not one inch was it out. His crosses into goal were simply shrieking to be nodded into the net. I wouldn't like to have calculated the score had McGrory been playing.”

These are excerpts from Scottish newspapers dated 29th August, 1936.

X was the only Indian to play for a first-division European club until Y recently became the second member of this exclusive club.

Identify both X and Y for full points.

Mohammed Salim, Gurpreet Singh Sandhu

21.

The main entrance at Stamford Bridge is flanked by the X and Speedie hospitality entrances (entrances for disabled fans) named after former Chelsea players.

X played for the Blues in two spells, from 1983-1987 and 1992-1996. He has 200+ appearances for the club and played a crucial role in their rise to the top tier.

The video on the next slide shows a famous incident involving X and Martin Keown, which makes naming the hospitality stands after X quite ironic.

Identify this Chelsea legend from the BA i.e. Before Abramovich era.

Nigel Spackman

22.

Marylebone Cricket Club faced off against the Rest of the World XI in 1998 at the spiritual home of cricket in a memorial match for Princess Diana.

The lineups were as follows:

MCC – M. Atherton, A. Sohail, S. Chanderpaul, M. Azharuddin, S. Ganguly, B. McMillan, I. Healy, A. Kumble, J. Srinath, A. Donald, G. McGrath.

ROI XI – S. Jayasuriya, S. Tendulkar, S. Anwar, A. da Silva, G. Hick, T. Moody, A. Flower, C. Cairns, W. Akram, M. Ahmed, I. Bishop.

This match sees a unique feat take place, something that has never happened in international cricket. What feat?

Sachin scored a century at Lord’s

23.Like Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in Catch Me If You Can, this guy used his ability to

make friends, his daring and his wit to accomplish something unimaginable. He built a 20-year-career as a striker – despite never scoring a goal.

His strategy was as easy as it was effective. In the early 80’s, he made friends with some of Brazil’s most famous players and whenever they signed a new contract, they would convince their club to give their ‘talented’ friend a three month trial contract. Immediately after signing his deal, he would confess that he needed a couple of weeks to get fit.

So for the next month, he would run laps around the pitch at day, and frequent Rio’s party scene at night, relying on his status as professional footballer to impress women.

Once the first month had passed, he would make his appearance on the training pitch. Then he would have someone pass him a ball, and he’d kick it far away. Then he’d grab his hamstrings in agony and spent the next 20 days in the medical department. And this went on and on.

He later moved to Europe and signed for French club Gazelec Ajaccio. Hundreds of fans had arrived at his first training session to witness the wonderful skills of their new Brazilian star. He didn’t want to disappoint them, so pulling his old trick – collapsing into agony after his first touch of the ball – wasn’t an option. Instead, to the delight of the fans, he started kicking balls into the crowd. And continued doing so, until there were no balls left. The coach had no other choice than doing 90 minutes of physical exercise, which he actually excelled at.

Give the name of this absolute legend.

Carlos Henrique Kaiser

24. Give funda.1. 1995 - Sasa Hirszon / Goran

Ivanisevic2. 1996 - Jacco Eltingh / Paul Haarhuis3. 1996 - Jonas Bjorkman / Nicklas Kulti4. 1997 - Martin Damm / Petr Korda5. 1997 - Nicolas Massu / Marcelo Rios6. 1998 - Neil Broad / Tim Henman7. 1999 - Dong-Hyun Kim / Hyung-Taik

Lee8. 1999 - Shan Jiang / Ben-Qiang Zhu9. 2001 - Ran Xu / Jing-Zhu Yang10. 2001 - Thomas Shimada / Takao

Suzuki11. 2001 - Donald Johnson / Jared

Palmer12. 2002 - Patrick Chucri / Ali Hamadeh13. 2002 - James Shortall / Daniel

Willman14. 2003 - Jun Kato / Thomas Shimada

15. 2003 - Alistair Hunt / Mark Nielsen16. 2004 - Mark Nielsen / Matthew

Prentice17. 2004 - Thomas Shimada / Takahiro

Terachi18. 2005 - Yu Jr. Wang / Ben-Qiang Zhu19. 2005 - Murad Inoyatov / Denis

Istomin20. 2005 - Simon Aspelin / Jonas

Bjorkman21. 2006 - Woong-Sun Jun / Oh-Hee

Kwon22. 2006 - Jalil Khan / Asim Shafik23. 2008 - Satoshi Iwabuchi / Takao

Suzuki24. 2008 - Adrian Cruciat / Horia Tecau25. 2009 - Tsung-Hua Yang / Chu-Huan Yi26. 2010 - Teymuraz Gabashvili / Igor

Kunitsyn27. 2010 - Marcelo Melo / Bruno Soares

Bhupati/Paes win streak at the Davis Cup

LIST IT

• +5 for each correct.

• +10 bonus for all 7 correct.

• Any answer after the first 7 is null and void.

• Teams are given 90 seconds to give their answers.

• According to WBO regulations, there are 7 different weight classes, ignoring the words such as ‘junior’ and ‘super’.

• List the 7 weight categories.

EXCHANGE SHEETS!

ANSWER

• Heavyweight

• Middleweight

• Welterweight

• Lightweight

• Featherweight

• Bantamweight

• Flyweight

DRY 3

25. Exhaustive list.

Stephanie Roche, Puskas Award runner up

26.

He is a Formula One great from the British Isles, winning five GPs in his career as an F1 driver.

His most successful year was 1982, when he finished third in the drivers' championship, winning two Grand Prix. In several races he achieved high placings despite qualifying towards the back of the grid. At the first ever Detroit Grand Prix in 1982, he overtook three cars in one lap deep into the race on a tight, twisty track that was difficult to pass on; working his way from 17th starting position on the grid, he charged through the field and scored a victory in the process.

A year later in 1983, he repeated the feat at the final ever Formula One race in Long Beach; another street circuit, starting from 22nd on the grid, the farthest back from which a modern Grand Prix driver had ever come to win a race.

Identify him.

John Watson

27.• X is a freestyle skiing competition

consisting of one timed run of free skiing on a steep, bumpy course, stressing technical turns, aerial maneuvers and speed.

• Xs are a series of bumps on a piste formed when skiers push snow into mounds as they do sharp turns. This tends to happen naturally as skiers use the slope but they can also be constructed artificially. Once formed, a naturally occurring X tends to grow as skiers follow similar paths around it, further deepening the surrounding grooves known as troughs. Since skiing tends to be a series of linked turns, Xs form together to create a bump field.

• The term X is from the Bavarian language word for ‘mound’ or ‘small hill’.

Mogul

28.

In the 1928 Olympics, he played five matches as goalkeeper, and no goals were scored against him.

Four years later in Los Angeles, he played one match against United States as goalkeeper. The American team scored one goal against him, while he was off the field signing autographs, the final score being 24-1, a world record at that time.

In the 1936 Olympics he played four matches as goalkeeper. One goal was scored against him.

This tally of conceding only two goals over three Olympic games remains an Olympic record to this day.

Identify this three-time Olympic gold-medallist.

Richard Allen

29.

For 74 years, he was the last Briton to reach the final of the gentlemen's singles at Wimbledon, until Andy Murray did so in 2012.

He was also a finalist at the 1937 French Championships and a championship winner at Queen's Club.

Along with Fred Perry, he was a vital part of the British team that won the Davis Cup in three consecutive years (1933–35).

He is also remembered as the first tennis player to wear shorts.

Identify him.

Bunny Austin

30.XY has become a growing sport in many countries. The sport

can be played indoors in swimming pools or outside on beaches.

The sport consists of a series of competition disciplines intended 'to further develop and demonstrate certain skills, fitness and motivation.

In some nations (including the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand) there are numerous governing bodies affiliated to the world body. This is often due to various components of XY within a nation being focused on by separate organizations. Every two years the XY World Championships are held.

XY has progressed significantly becoming a modern and widely known sport and occupation. It is recognized by the Commonwealth Games Federation as well, but has never featured in any edition of the Commonwealth Games.

Give the name of the sport XY.

Life Saving

31.Maurice Watkins, legal director of the club said, "It was an obscure thing

to say. He just does not want to stay here and meet you and answer questions because he has had enough...I think he has been under tremendous strain."

The words became the subject of debate. The assumption was that they were another example of X's flair, but Fabrice Ousselot, London correspondent of Liberation, suggested he was not being totally original.

"This is something I've heard before. I think it's clearly relating to the media and all the people on his back all the time, but you never know with X. Maybe he got mixed up.“

Before X had said those words, the magistrate had sentenced X to two weeks in prison. There then followed an almost comic three-and-a-half hours during which a bail application to the same bench was turned down, forcing Watkins and his legal team to dash up the road to the nearby crown court to make a further attempt to get X released.

Who is X? What had he said?

Eric Cantona

32. Identify the driver and give the unique distinction he holds in F1 history.

Jochen Rindt, only driver to be crowned world champion

posthumously

33.

Adriano Panatta is a former Italian tennis player, with 17 career titles and a career-high ranking of #4.

The pinnacle of his career arrived in 1976, when he won the French Open defeating Harold Solomon in the final 6–1, 6–4, 4–6, 7–6 (in the first round he had saved a match point against Czechoslovakian player PavelHutka). He finished off 1976 by helping Italy capture its first-ever Davis Cup title, winning two singles and a doubles rubber in the final against Chile.

He can boast of an achievement with pride, as he is the only player of his era to have done something, and that too twice.

What achievement?

Defeat Bjorn Borg at the French Open

34.

X has been ranked as the greatest boxer of all time by sportswriters, fellow boxers, and trainers. Hall of Fame fighters such as Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis and Roberto Duran have ranked X as the greatest pound for pound boxer in history. In 2007, ESPN.com featured the piece "50 Greatest Boxers of All Time", in which it named X the top boxer in history. X was also ranked as the #1 welterweight and the #1 pound for pound boxer of all-time by the International Boxing Research Organization.

Y is the 1976 Olympic Light Welterweight Gold Medalist. He turned pro in 1977 and returned in 1980 to the Olympic Stadium in Montreal to defend his WBC Welterweight Championship title against Roberto Duran before a crowd of 46,317. Duran was awarded victory by a unanimous decision. Asked if X was the best he ever fought, Duran thought for a moment and then answered, "Si, si." Duran said. "He does have a heart. That's why he's living.“

Identify X and Y.

X – Sugar Ray Robinson Y – Sugar Ray Leonard

35.

Only one man in the history of the NBA has averaged a triple-double for one season.

He did it as a second-year player for the Cincinnati Royals in 1962. That year, he averaged 30.8 points, 11.4 assists and 12.5 rebounds.

The hilarious part is that he was only tops in assists that year and to add insult to injury, he was not named MVP.

He can be said to be the NBA’s Jean-Marc Bosman, as the landmark NBA antitrust suit filed under his leadership, led to an extensive reform of the league's strict free agency and draft rules and, subsequently, to higher salaries for all players.

Name him.

Oscar Robertson

36. Exhaustive connect.

Only Indians who made their ODI debut in a WC game

MAHACONNECT

• 8 questions, worth 10 points each.

• Inexhaustive but finite connect.

• Teams can go for the connect not more than 3 times.

• Points for the connect are displayed on the individual slides.

1. +60/-50

In recent years, the club's performance has been mixed. It holds the dubious distinction of the worst goal drought in Bundesliga history: in 2002, the supporters had to wait 1034 excruciating minutes until Thomas Cichon found the back of the net again.

The club's nickname Die Geißböcke ("The Billy Goats") refers to the club's mascot, a male goat named Hennes after the veteran player and (later) manager Hennes Weisweiler.

The goat features on the club's logo and crest. The first Hennes was donated by a circus entrepreneur as a/an X carnival joke.

Which club?

2. +50/-40• Court of Arbitration for Sport• International Hockey Federation• International Table Tennis Federation• Fédération Equestre Internationale• Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron (Rowing)• Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (Fencing)• Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc (Archery)• International Baseball Federation• International Swimming Federation• International Skating Union• Fédération Internationale de Volleyball

All these bodies have their headquarters in the same city. Which one?

3. +40/-30Which tournament?

4. +30/-20

The city is home to two of the oldest professional football teams in the world. It is also notable for being the location for the first football league, which was invented by William McGregor on March 22, 1885.

The X and District Cricket League is the oldest cricket league in the world, having been founded in 1888.

The first ever game of lawn tennis was played here in 1859 by Major Harry Gem and Augurio Perera, both residents of the city.

The All England Open Badminton Championships are now held here as a result of the tournament outgrowing all previous venues.

Which city?

5. +25/-15

The ___ Grand Prix is one of the longest running events on the Formula One calendar, also one of the inaugural Formula One championship races in 1950, and has been held every year since then.

It is usually held at ___, outside the city of X, except in 1980, when it was held at ___.

Schumacher has won this the most (5 times), followed by Nelson Piquet (4 times).

Give the first blank, or the city X.

6. +20/-10

The Red Bull Arena, formerly Zentralstadion, is located in the former East Germany, in the city X. It is the largest football stadium in the former East Germany.

The Zentralstadion was the only stadium in the former East Germany to host games in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. It hosted four group matches and a round of 16 game in the tournament.

VfB X (name changed now), won the first national football championship in 1903. In June 2009, Red Bull founded the club RB X, which is now attempting to come up through the ranks of German football to bring Bundesliga football back to the region.

X also made a bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. The bid did not make the shortlist after the International Olympic Committee pared the bids down to 5.

X?

7. +15/-5

The Bad Blue Boys (BBB) were originally founded on 17 March 1986 in X, with members from different areas of the city. The name of the group is said to have been inspired by the 1983 film starring Sean Penn, Bad Boys.

Bad Blue Boys are considered one of the most dangerous supporters' groups in the world and are known for their vocal and physical intimidation at football matches.

The group's mascot is a bulldog and the official anthem is “_______ ja volim". BBB also publish a fanzine about the club and the ultras subculture. At home matches at the Maksimir Stadium in the city X, the Bad Blue Boys usually settle behind the home goal on the stadium's north stand.

City/club?

8. +10• Ricardo Zamora• Ladislao Kubala• Zoltán Czibor• Cayetano Ré• Javier Urruticoechea• Pichi Alonso• Ernesto Valverde• Miquel Soler• Cristóbal Parralo• Fernando Muñoz• Iván de la Peña• Jordi Cruyff• Óscar García• Roger García• Joan Verdú• Simão Sabrosa

Only players to play for both of these city rivals. Which 2 clubs?

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ANSWERS

1) Koln/Cologne

2) Lausanne

3) Swiss Indoors (Basel)

4) Birmingham

5) Monza/Milan

6) Leipzig

7) Zagreb

8) Barcelona and Espanyol

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Teams which participated in the first Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1955

Barcelona, KBU Copenhagen XI, Vienna XI, Birmingham City, Internazionale, Zagreb XI, Lausanne Sports, Leipzig XI, Cologne XI,

London XI, Frankfurt XI, Basel XI

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