Open Sports

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and fantastic reviews.

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Rules 30 questions; 36 points

Questions 5,10,15,20,25,30, are 2 pointers and are starred to resolve ties, if any.

Pay attention to italicised words, emboldened phrases and inverted commas as they are clues.

Blanks are always indicative unless specified otherwise.

No unfair practices pls.

All the best.

1. Connect

2002-03

1999-00 2007-08

2013-14 2012-13

Single Nation Finals in the UEFA Champions League

Spain in 2000, Real Madrid vs Valencia Italy in 2003, AC Milan vs Juventus England in 2008, Machester United vs Chelsea Germany in 2013, Bayern Munich vs Borussia

Dortmund Spain in 2014, Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid

2 _____ ___ ____ is a recently

launched UK based company that caters to a certain ‘ailment’ suffered by most male sportspersons as a result of improper grooming and sultry weather.

FITB with a term that denotes unfairness, one that would have, once again, pissed off Balaram from the Mahabharata.

Below the Belt

3 Identify the speaker

Kenny G

4 One of the four major forms of Kabaddi played in

India which are recognized by the amateur federation is __________ kabaddi where one player is revived against one player of the opposite team who is out – one out, the other three being Gaminee, Amar and Punjabi.

FITB with the common name for Selaginella bryopteris.

Sanjeevani

5* Of the male footballers who’ve scored 50 or more

international goals, 3 players have a goals-per-game stat exceeding 1.00, while another legend misses this elite group with a stat of 0.99 with 84 goals from 85 matches.

X - 0.99 Sandor Koscis - 1.10 Gerd Muller - 1.10 Y - 1.37

X- Ferenc Puskas Y- Poul Nielsen

6 Architect Gil Hanse

has had the opportunity to design the successor of what is shown in the image, after a 112 year hiatus.

What has he designed?

The Rio 2016 Olympics Golf Course

7 This internationally popular but predominantly

American sport involves multiple ‘dead’ and ‘live’ balls. While Canadian variants of a different name involve concepts like prisoners, jailbreak and buddy bail, a more violent Swedish version asks you to kill the opposition.

Which sport, which got footage in popular culture in Dexter’s Lab, Percy Jackson, Ed, Edd an’ Eddy, Freaks and Geeks etc.? 

Dodgeball

8 The Medeu Stadium in Kazakhstan was used as

concert ground where the popular international music festival “Voice of Asia” was carried out in which not only Kazakhstan performers but also variety stars from all over the world take part.

What list does this stadium sit on top of?

Highest ice rink in the world

9 In the wake of a serious car accident, which

association banned their athletes from driving their own cars, owing to security and practical reasons?

Sumo Wrestling Association

10* Nicknamed the Dominican Dandy, this San Francisco

Giants’ pitcher and Hall of Famer is remembered among other things for a 1965 incident which was included in the first line in a Los Angeles Dodgers catcher’s obituary when he died in August 2002, listed even above this four All-Star games, three Dodgers World Series championships, and his role in two Sandy Koufax no-hitters.

Identify the Giants’ pitcher.

What was the 1965 incident?

Image in next slide

Juan Marichal v. Johnny RoseboroThe infamous Giants v. Dodgers Brawl

11 In 1961 Wolfgang Berghe von Trips who was

leading the F1 standings till the fatal race in Monza, Italy, had established a go-kart race track in Kerpen, Germany. After his death, the track was later leased out to a German and 31 years later, culminated in a patriotic tribute at the 1992 Belgian Grand Prix.

To whom was the race track leased out?

Michael Schumacher’s dad Schumacher learned racing here

12 In this 1996 sports comedy film, Stanley says

“...it's game time. Slip on your Hanes, lace up your Nikes, take your Wheaties and your Gatorade, and we'll grab a Big Mac on the way to the ballpark.“

Which film?

Put funda as to why he says this?

Space JamMichael Jordan had sponsorship deals with

those companies

13 What in 2001 won a BAFTA(British Academy of

Film and Television Arts) for its use in Channel 4, UK initially and later, one Emmy, One Logie (Australian TV industry Awards) and Three Royal Television Society Awards ?

Hawkeye

14 The title of this dystopian novel about tennis among

other things, which was included by Time magazine in its list of the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923, is from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1, in which Hamlet holds the skull of the court comedian, Yorick, and says,

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of ________ ____, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!" 

FITB

Infinite Jest

15* The Devoted Children award is given away at

Thailand's National Mother's Day ceremony. Usually a low key event, the 2013 edition got a lot of eyeballs for a particular 18 year old’s inclusion.

Who, in 2013, wearing dental braces and decked out in a blazer and check shirt, was among the 96 to receive the award?

What had happened a few days prior, leading to the increased worldwide attention?

Ratchanok IntanonShe had just become the youngest winner of the

Badminton World Championship after beating China’s Lui Xuerui

16 On Fox's 2003 show Man vs. Beast, reigning

champion Takeru Kobayashi lost a competition against a 1089-pound Kodiak bear with the scoreline 31-50.

Which sport?

Video in next slide

Competitive Eating

17 Which sport involving ‘necklines’ and ‘ganglines’

was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York and again at the Olympics in Oslo, but did not gain official event status.?

Sled Dog Racing

18 Al Pease's F1 career spans 3 Grand Prix races,

starting with an NC in the Canadian Grand Prix(1967, finishing 43 laps behind the leaders), DNS (engine trouble in 1968), and DSQ (1969). He holds a uniquely unfortunate distinction, one that involved him being black-flagged after a series of on-track incidents as well as a major deficit in high-speed racing, the last involving Matra driver Jackie Stewart who complained and got him disqualified.

What distinction does he hold/ Why was he disqualified?

‘He is too slow, get him out of the way’

19 Juror #7 in 12 Angry Men, who throughout the

movie is anxious to get to his game, is a fan of which MLB team?

Baltimore Orioles

20* The Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of

the year and Sportswoman of the year has been awarded 16 times each and rescinded once each, namely 2003 men’s award and 2000 women’s award.

Name both the unfortunate awardees.

Lance ArmstrongMarion Jones

21 Nicknamed Honey Badger, whose helmet?

Daniel Ricciardo

22 Barbara Bowerman speaking to a company’s historian

Scott Reames in 2006 about a 1971 incident.

"I picked out a couple pieces of jewellery and things that had stars on them, or things that we thought would indent or make a pattern on the _____. We were making the waffles that morning and talking... As one of the waffles came out, he said, 'You know, by turning it upside down - where the waffle part would come in contact with the track - I think that might work.‘”

The creation of what did this 1971 incident lead to?

The first Nike Running Shoes

23 This advert was released by the National

Congress of American Indians. What change was it trying to bring about?

Ad to change the name of Washington Redskins

24 Devon Malcolm speaking about someone’s

performance in a 1995 post-Apartheid thriller:

“What he required was a partner who could stick around, and ____ was as good as it got. A dogged little character, an in-your-face kinda guy. He might not have had the technique - which gave the bowler the impression that he could get out to any ball - but he stayed put and gave nothing away.”

The player who ‘stayed put’ later published a set of paintings including one that captured the aforementioned incident. Identify him. Image follows.

Jack Russel

25* Jacob ‘______’ Duran is one of the notable

examples of a particular profession, the compensation for which varies, staying within 1–3% of sportsman’s prize money. He portrayed his professional role in the 6th and 7th movies of a popular franchise, using real life apparatus like the one shown.

FITB for his nickname, quite apt for his job.

Name the apparatus and explain its use.

‘Stitch’; he was a cutman, acted in the Rocky franchise

Eye iron; to reduce inflammations

26 This largest spherical building in the world serves

as the home arena for Sweden's national men's hockey team and also serves as the sun in the world's largest scale model of the Milky Way. It shares one half of its name with that of a c.1000 Norse navigator who mounted an expedition in search of lands he had heard west of Greenland.

Simply name.

Image in next slide.

Ericsson Globe

27 Which sport, the origin of which means stick/ball

was surprisingly played outdoors in the 1340s in its first recognizable form and was reminiscent of croquet?

Billiards

28 Professor Pugnacious’ Portfolio of Perils,

________, and Perfidy-the Card Game of Victorian Combat is a fast-paced, tactical, deck-building game involving multiple levels of combat including one that is popularly known by a different name today than from the blank in the title.

FITB.

Pugilism

29 In 1995, a club from the Isle of Lewis club in

Scotland attempted to arrange a game between two prominent players of the game in which a famous discovery made on the Isle consisting of 93 artefacts would be used. However, the British Museum refused to release the set despite assurances that the players would wear gloves. Scottish member of parliament Calum MacDonald pointed out that the artefacts would be safe, especially as it was not a contact sport. In the end, the Museum allowed the artefacts to be displayed at the Isle of Lewis festival tournament, but they were not used in any games.

Which artefacts?

Lewis Chessmen

30* In 2008, Richard Danzig, senior advisor to

U.S. President Barack Obama, claimed that a lesson could be learned about terrorists by studying _________. Referring to a 1990 book, Danzig states that "one of the best books I’ve read on terrorism in recent years is not about terrorism at all... He(author) describes with relentless honesty how he finds sickening things attractive. He says violence lets the adrenaline flow; it’s like sex, you live in the moment.”

FITB

Which book?

Hooligans

Prelims highest was 21.

Cutoff was 9