KHEL KHEL ME!KHEL KHEL ME!A Sports Quiz.A Sports Quiz.

Aman Sinha3rd Year CSE

Q1.

Identify and Claim to Fame!

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• Ewa Kłobukowska First athlete to fail the gender test.

Q2.

• The club X was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1901 as the Baltimore Orioles.The team took X as their official name in 1913.The team is owned by X Global Enterprises, an LLC controlled by the family of George Steinbrenner, who purchased the team in 1973.One of the most successful franchises in professional sports history, the X have won 18 division titles, 40 AL pennants, and 27 World Series championships, all of which are records.Forty-four ex players and 11 ex managers have been inducted into the National Hall of Fame.In pursuit of winning championships, the franchise has utilized a large payroll to recruit talent, particularly under former owner George Steinbrenner. According to Forbes, in 2013, the X are the highest valued sports franchise in the United States, and fourth in the world, with an estimated value of approximately $2.3 billion.

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• New York Yankees.

Q3.

• X is a sport having a mixed-gender league and an all-women league, but no all-men league. It is played by two teams of eight players with either eight females in each team or with four females and four males in each team. The objective is to throw a ball through a bottomless basket that is mounted on a 3.5 m (11.5 feet) high pole.The sport was invented by Dutch school teacher Nico Broekhuysen in 1902. In the Netherlands, there are around 580 clubs and over 100,000 people playing X. The sport is also very popular in Belgium and Taiwan, and is played in 54 other countries. Mixed-gender X is more generally played in the north of the Netherlands, while all-female X is generally played in the south

Hints:

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• Korfball

9 world Championships have been played since 1978. The only two countries reaching the Finals are Belgium and Netherland. Netherlands have won it 8 times, Belgium once in 1991.

Q4.

X is best known for his system of rating chess players. The original chess rating system was developed in 1950 by Kenneth Harkness, the Business Manager of the United States Chess Federation. By 1960, using the data developed through the Harkness Rating System, X developed his own formula which had a sound statistical basis and constituted an improvement on the Harkness System. The new rating system was approved and passed at a meeting of the United States Chess Federation in St. Louis in 1960.In 1970, FIDE, the World Chess Federation, agreed to adopt the X Rating System. From then on until the mid-1980s, X himself made the rating calculations.

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• Arpad Elo and the Elo Rating System

Q5. Connect(Not Exhaustive)

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BALCO Scandal.The BALCO scandal is a scandal involving the use of banned, performance-enhancing substances by professional athletes. The Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) was a San Francisco Bay Area business that supplied anabolic steroids to professional athletes.It started as a Vitamin shop, but after one year of its business turned into a sports supplement company.

Q6.

• The Old Firm was the collective name for the clubs X and Y. The origin of the term is unclear but may derive from the commercial benefits of the two clubs' rivalry. The rivalry between the two clubs deeply embeds the country's culture and has largely contributed to the political, social and religious division in the country. As a result, the fixture was widely considered one of the biggest derbies in world football.The two clubs are the most successful in the country, between them having won 99 Country League championships (X with 54 and Y with 45), 68 Country Cups and 41 Country League Cups. Interruptions to their ascendancy have occurred infrequently, most recently with the challenge of the New Firm of Aberdeen and Dundee United in the first half of the 1980s. Since the 1985–86 season one half of the Old Firm has won the Country League consistently and from the 2005–06 season to the 2011–12 season both clubs finished in the top two places.X and Y played each other 399 times: X won 159 matches, Y 144 matches and 96 were draw

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• Country- Scotland

• X- Rangers

• Y- Celtic

Q7.

• The idea of the competition X came about with the starting of a silver jubilee fund in 1952 to celebrate X's 25 years as a cricket and hockey player.Through the fund, an annual cricket match was instituted between Madras and Ceylon and named after X.Ceylon won the first match.The match became a regular fixture in the calendar until Sri Lanka received Test status in 1983 and the competition was stopped. It was revived in 2000 with a match between Tamil Nadu and a Colombo District Cricket Association. Two years later the fixture was dropped again but in 2007 the Sri Lankan and Tamil Nadu boards agreed to restart the competition. A match was played in September 2007 between Tamil Nadu and a Sri Lankan XI, won by the Sri Lankan team. No matches for the trophy have been played since.

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• MJ Gopalan.The tournament was named as MJ Gopalan Trophy

• He died at the age of 94. Before his death, he was the Oldest surviving Indian test Cricketer.

Q8. Connect(Exhaustive)

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• The are the only 5 players in test history to remain 99* at the end of an innings.

Q9.

• Xs playing career began as an amateur with Queen's Park, where he made his debut as a striker aged 16.He scored Queen's Park's goal in a 2–1 defeat against Stranraer.Despite scoring 20 goals in his 31 games for Queen's Park, he could not command a regular place in the side and moved to St. Johnstone in 1960. Although he continued to score regularly at St. Johnstone, he was still unable to command a regular place and regularly requested transfers. Ferguson was out of favour at the club and he even considered emigrating to Canada,however St. Johnstone's failure to sign a forward led the manager to select X for a match against Rangers, in which he scored a hat-trick in a surprise victory. Dunfermline signed him the following summer (1964), and X became a full-time professional footballer.The 1965–66 season saw X notch up 45 goals in 51 games for Dunfermline. Along with Joe McBride of Celtic, he was the top goalscorer in the Scottish League with 31 goals. He then joined Rangers for £65,000, then a record fee for a transfer between two Scottish clubs. He was blamed for a goal that they conceded in the 1969 Scottish Cup Final, in a match in which he was designated to mark Celtic captain, Billy McNeill, and was subsequently forced to play for the club's junior side instead of for the first team. X ended his playing career in Ayr United in the year 1974.

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• Sir Alex Ferguson

Q10.

Rules for which competition

• Use of alcohol is prohibited prior to and during the competition.• Competitor must sit erect, their buttocks and thighs on the bench.• Ordinary swimsuits must be used. Pant legs in men's swimsuits may

be up to 20 centimeters long, and women's shoulder straps may be up to 5 centimeters wide.

• Hair that reaches the shoulders must be tied into a ponytail.• Touching the skin and brushing is prohibited.• Competitors must not disturb each other.• At the request of the judges, competitors must show that they are in

their senses with a thumbs up.• Competitors must be able to leave unaided to qualify.• A breach of the rules results in a warning. Another one results in

disqualification.• The last person leaving unaided is the winner.

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• World Sauna Championship

Q11. Connect(Exhaustive)

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• Only players to win all the 4 Grand Slams

Q12. Connect

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• 2014 Fifa World Cup.

Q13.

• Apart from Sevens Rugby and Kitesurfing, which is the third event confirmed to be returning to the Summer Olympics in 2016 after 112 years after being held only twice in 1900 and 1904 olympics?

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• Golf

Q14.

Identify and Claim to Fame!

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• Alan SmithFamous Football Commentator and One of the commentators who lend their voice for FIFA.

Q15

• X was founded following a dispute between the Everton FC committee and John Houlding

• After 8 years at the stadium, Everton relocated to Goodison Park in 1892 and Houlding founded X

• Originally named "Everton F.C and Athletic Grounds Ltd"(Everton Athletic for Short), the club became X in June 1892 after the Football Association refused to recognize the club as Everton.

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Q16

• Where will you find these lines written?

"When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn;Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return;The welkin will ring loud,The great crowd will feel proud, Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn;And the rest coming home with the urn."

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• The Ashes Urn

Q17

• He won his gold medal in the heavyweight(90-100 kg;198-220 lb) weight class despite his injury, defeating the Iranian Abbas Jadidi by official's decision after the competitors wrestled to an eight minute,one-one draw. The bout saw Jadidi earn a point after two minutes and 46 seconds by turning him, and he earned a point of his own with a takedown after three minutes and 11 seconds.The officials decision was protested by Jadidi. He dedicated his Victory to Schultz's honour(his murdered coach)Who?

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Q18

ID this star who made her debut in the Telugu film industry with an item song.

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Q19.

• Willie Renshaw did it in 1881. R.F Doherty repeated this feat in 1898, and so did Fred Perry and Suzzane Lenglen. Rod Laver did it twice, in 1961 and 1962. What is the record each of these people hold with context to Wimbledon finals?

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• Won the Wimbledon Finals under 1 hour.

Q20.

This is the poster of a 1979 romantic comedy directed by Blake Edwards and created superstars out of its leads. The title derives from a rating system used by people to rank members of opposite sex.What sporting term origin can be traced back to this movie?

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• The movie is '10' starring Bo Derek.

• The four 10 cards in a deck of cards are called 'Bo Dereks' after this movie.

Q21

• X is the first person from the LGBT community to win a gold medal in boxing in Olympics. X also dashed Indian hopes for a gold medal in boxing. X has also been awarded the Member of the Most Excellent Order of British Empire(MBE)

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• Nicola Adams

Q22.

• If it is George Mikan for basketball,

Gordie Howe for Hockey, and,

Joe Davis for Snooker,Then, who is it for Cricket?

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• Mike Hussey- Mr. CricketGeorge Mikan was nicknamed Mr. BasketballGordie Howe as Mr. Hockeyand Joe Davis as Mr. SnookerSimilarly Mike Hussey is nicknamed Mr. Cricket.

Q23.

• Spanish Paralympics team celebrating in the image because they won the Basketball Gold.Why were they later stripped off their gold medal?

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• IQ levels of a few athletes were more than 80, thus disqualifying them.80 is the max lmit to be allowed in Paralympics