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FIFA SPORTS QUIZ
By
-Omprakash
IISER Mohali
1.1950 was the first tournament where the trophy was referred to as the X, to mark the 25th anniversary of Y's presidency of FIFA.give X and Y
• Jules Rimet Cup AND Jules Rimet
2.During a qualifying match for the 1990 World Cup, X faked being hit and seriously injured by firecrackers hurled by Brazilian fans, and the team refused to play the rest of the match. Footage later showed the firework never hit X after all. His lie lead to Y being banned from the next World Cup, and X was banned for life.
X-Roberto Rojas and Y-Chile
3.BBC saw fit to preface a broadcast of the match with the warning: “Good evening. The game you are about to see is the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football, possibly in the history of the game.” Match also called as 'Battle of Santiago'. Which one ?
match between Italy and Chile in the 1962 World Cup
7.what is 'Battle of Nuremberg'. In context of world cup history
- during the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Four players are sent off and 16 yellow cards are handed out - the
most in any World Cup match in history - as Portugal beat Netherlands
in a stormy encounter
Bebeto's baby celebration
9. what is 'The MaracanaBlow' in the context of world cup history ?
Brazil suffer arguably their most painful defeat, when in front of over 200,000 fans in the Maracana they
lose 2-1 to neighbours Uruguay in the final match of the 1950 World Cup. manner of defeat deeply affected
Brazilian football and society for many years after, and to this day is still
known in Brazil as "Maracanazo" ("The Maracana Blow").
10.X is a religion, created by fans of the retired Argentinefootball player Diego Maradona, who they believe to be the best player of all time.what is X ?
Euro 2012 champions Spain creates history - July'12
• Spain became the first team to win two consecutive European Championships
13.A played in her first professional tournament in October 1982 at Stuttgart, Germany. She lost her first round match 6–4, 6–0 to B, a two-time US Open champion and former World No. 1 player. B famously told about thirteen year old Athat "there are hundreds of girls like her in America." Twelve years later, A defeated B 6–0, 6–0 during a second round match at the Evert Cup in Indian wells, California, which was their second and last match against each other. Name A and B
• A - Steffi Graf and
• B -Tracy Austin
14.Name the only man to captain England in Cricket and Football. In 1903 he scored 287 on his Test debut, setting a world record for the highest Test score.
RE FOSTER
M. J. Gopalan
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Named after their parents idols
Thomas Alva Edison
Ronald Reagan Carl Lewis
Rohan Kanhai,
ML Jaisimha, &
G Vishwanath
17.Soon after 1982 world cup in spain,the french press ran a poll to find out most hated man in France.Adolf Hitler came second,Mussolini third. Who came First ?
Harald Schumacher
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X-Glane Mcgrath,Y-Ramnresh Sarwan