sports quiz hqf 2016 (finals)
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FinalsResearched and Conducted by:
Souptik Das and Bishanka Dassarma
StipulationsThere are 4 rounds in the quiz• List it!!!• Infinite Bounce• A very interesting written round.• Infinite Bounce Dobara!!! No help of electronic gadgets should be taken to
reach an answer. One of the QMs is from Dakshineswar, if you
do not want the wrath of the Goddess on you, do not trifle with him(or any of them).
ALL THE BEST!!!
List It________________________________________
• Till date, India has participated in 7 Women’s Cricket World Cups,1978,82’,93’,97’,2000,05’,09’,13’.
• Give me the names of the captains in each of these world cups.
• Each correct answer will fetch you +5.
• +5 bonus if you get all correct.
Exchange your sheets.
• 1978-Diana Edulji• 1982-Shantha Rangaswamy• 1993-Diana Edulji• 1997-Pramila Bhatt• 2000-Anju Jain• 2005-Mamatha Maben• 2009-Mithali Raj • 2013-Mithali Raj
Infinite Bounce• 13 Questions• Rule of 3 strike pounce will apply• Clockwise rotation
1. Club Deportivo X is the second oldest club in El Salvador. The club was founded on September 17, 1923 by a group of local citizens. They have won ten Primera Division Champions titles. The club has the fourth highest total of major honours won by an Salvadoran club. Originally named Tecún Umán, the club was soon renamed in honor of X, who ,though not from El Salvador, almost became the first Latin American to achieve something on 24th September, 1923 in a fateful evening in New York. The club's colors are red and blue because of those worn by the football team that X supported in his lifetime - Club Atlético San Lorenzo.
Identify this gentleman, after whom the club has been named.
Answer
Luis Angel Firpo Who knocked Jack Dempsey out of the ring
2. Nicknamed the 'Sunshine super girl' early in her career, X is 12th on the list of all-time singles grand slam winners level with Venus Williams and ended her career with 19 single titles in all. If the fairy tale came true, there were also many times when the clock struck midnight, with her story marked by episodes where -- as with so many ______-- she was often treated as a second-class citizen. There was a regular fear of being taken away from her parents.“Whenever a car would come down the road, my mum would tell us to hide 'or else the welfare man would take you away,” she recalls.Even as an adult she was acutely aware of how in Australia, ______ could be excluded from everyday life -- even after winning Wimbledon."Before I started traveling overseas and I was with a friend and in those days I loved music and I loved disco dancing so she took me out but I wasn't allowed in.
"That happened again in Brisbane and I was with two friends and this was just after I won Wimbledon. I said 'don't worry we'll go somewhere else'. I think it hurt my friends more than me.“ Give this tennis great, who had to overcome racism all along her journey to the top.
Answer
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
3. Out of all editions that have taken place
since 1829, the one in 1877 is one of the most interesting ones. At the centre of it all is a man called John Phelps, who is suspected because he was reportedly over 70 and blind in one eye. Historian Tim Koch, notes that there is “ a very big and very entrenched lie ”, including the claim that Phelps had announced, “ ____ ____ ...... to ______ by six feet.”
Phelps's nickname "Honest John" was not an ironic one, and he was not (as is sometimes claimed) drunk under a bush. He did have to do his work without the assistance of finish posts. With no clear way to do what he had to, he pronounced the ‘safest’ result. He was vehemently criticised for doing so.
What did John Phelps do?
Answer
The only dead heat in the Oxford Cambridge Boat Race.
4.Shown here is the picture of a player who played in the NFL for the Houston Oilers, Buffalo Bills, Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers. He had an average career in the NFL and retired without much fanfare in 1979 with the 49ers. He was inducted into the 2009 USC Athletic Hall of Fame.However, he came into prominence 15 years after his retirement in an event that left the entire world shocked.
What is this man’s biggest claim to fame?
Answer
Al Cowlings was the driver during the infamous O.J. Simpson police chase
5. In the following slide, you will see a video of a match between Hellas Verona and Juventus, which took place on the 30th May, 2015. Carlos Tevez steps up to take a penalty against goalkeeper Rafael who manages to save it(video next slide).
Give me the funda behind Rafael’s celebration.
Answer
Luca Toni Celebration.
6. Connect with respect to Eden Gardens.
Answer
Centuries in both innings of a test match.
7. Prior to turning professional, X won a bronze medal at the inaugural 1974 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Havana. Two years later, he capped off his amateur career by winning a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, by defeating Cuban great Sixto Soria. In only his eighth professional bout, X won the undisputed world heavyweight championship when he beat Muhammad Ali on February 15, 1978, in what was considered one of the biggest upsets in boxing history. Besides being heavyweight champion and his characteristic gap-toothed grin, X gained notoriety for the disaster which befell his career following the loss to Ali.
Y is an American former boxer who was an Olympic gold medalist and world champion in the light-heavyweight and heavyweight divisions. Nicknamed Jinx, which spawned the nickname of his right hand: The ______ Jinx, Y moved up to heavyweight and as underdog beat the long-reigning IBF heavyweight champion Larry Holmes; in doing so, Y became the first reigning light-heavyweight champion to win the heavyweight title. In his final fight, Y was knocked out by Mike Tyson in 91 seconds, the only defeat of his professional career.
Give me X and Y, who are related.
Answer
Leon Spinks and Michael Spinks
8.Identify this former “World No. 1” , who in 2011, won his country’s National Golf Championship and is currently the highest ranked Golf player from his nation. His dream is to take part in the Rio Olympics, having already achieved success in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
However, the defining moment of his life came in 1996, and even today, he is the last person to achieve a particular “double” .
Answer
Yevgeny Kafelnikov The last man to win both Singles and Doubles at a Grand Slam
9. John Arlott’s asessment of X in 1984: “ X was pre-eminently a highly skilful manipulator of medium-pace seam bowling. A thoughtful and sensitive cricketer. He, too, helped out as captain for a couple of difficult seasons, though from a sense of duty rather than real enthusiasm for the post. It appealed to his astute cricket brain but not to his essentially amiable personality. He was never a bowler to settle for the slavishly defensive; but sought to attack and to outwit opposing batsmen. It is less often remembered that he himself once hit four consecutive balls from Dennis Breakwell of Somerset for six. He also set what was then a club record of nine sixes in a championship innings, against Gloucestershire at Swansea in 1973. Those memories were some balm for him. In 17 seasons he scored 7129 runs and held 148 catches but, most important, he took 993 wickets without, however, taking a hundred in any season. ”
Despite his record, he will always be remembered for his involvement in a certain “first” in First-class cricket.
Give me X and his claim to fame.
Answer
Malcolm Nash The victim of Gary Sobers’ 6 sixes in an over
10. Connect these men from the world of tennis. Group I
Group II
Answer
These are the players which Rod Laver defeated to win the Grand Slam in 1962 - Group I and 1968 – Group II
11. X appeared in the playoffs every season in his career, including the NBA Finals in 1997 and 1998 with the Utah Jazz. He played his final season with the Los Angeles Lakers, with whom he played his third Finals in 2004. However, X has the most career post-season losses of any NBA player ever, with 95. He scored the second most career points in NBA history (36,928), and holds the records for most free throws attempted and made. X was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010 (twice – for his individual career, and as a member of the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team). Also, 8th in the list for most career points in history is Y, who played in both the ABA and the NBA from 1974 through 1995. Y won his only NBA championship in 1983, when he was both the league and Finals MVP with the Philadelphia 76ers. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 2001.
Simply give me X and Y, who have the same last name.
Answer
Karl Malone and Moses Malone
12. Dana Ingrova is a former javelin thrower. She won the gold medal and the silver medal in the Olympics during her time. She was the European champion in 1954 and 1958. She also set a world record in 1958 (55.73 m) when she was 35, making her the oldest woman to break one in an outdoor athletics event, at that time. However, most people have said that her husband was the more prominent one in her family, having surpassed Dana’s remarkable achievements. Who was Dana Ingrova’s far more illustrious husband?
Answer
Emil Zatopek
13. X, an eight time All England
Championship winner, is one of the most famous players in the history of the sport and one of the greatest badminton players of all time.
Y luckily met X in the Swedish Open and beat him. When reporters asked Y about beating his idol, he said humbly,” I could have beaten him 15-0 in the last game but I couldn’t do that to my idol, I conceded a point and finished the game.”
Give me Y, and his idol X.
Answer
X-Rudy Hortana,Y-Prakash Padukone
Non Sporting GreatsWritten Round
5 Questions5 points for each+5 if full house
Audience Question His younger brother Harald was a genuinely good
footballer and represented the Danish National Football team at the 1908 Olympics. X, though not as good as Harald, was a passionate footballer and joined his brother to play for the Copenhagen based Akademisk Boldklub (Academic Football Club), playing as a goalkeeper.
When the king of Denmark Christian X met him, he is said to have been impressed by X’s footballing skills.
His son, Ernst emulated his uncle and played field hockey for Denmark in the 1948 London Olympics.
X, please.
Answer Neils Bohr
Question 1 X was a fan of motorcycles since his youth, and bought
a 250-cc Moto Guzi racing motorcycle and competed recreationally in mountain races for the next few years.
It is said that racing at the Altvater in Germany in 1928 he nearly beat the German champion Walfred Winkler, but he stopped a lap early thinking that the race was over.
But X was married in the early spring of that year, on
March 6, well before the motor racing season started. Thus, X had to give up on his motorsport dream and go back to his other career.
Question 2 Andre the Giant was arguably the greatest
professional wrestler of all time. But he had very humble beginnings. As a child, he displayed symptoms of his gigantism very early, reaching a height of 191 cm (6 ft 3 in) and a weight of 110 kg (240 lb) by the age of 12. In 1958, when 12-year-old André’s acromegaly prevented him from taking the school bus, X who was Andre’s dad’s card buddy and neighbor in rural Moulien, France, volunteered for transport duty, as he was only one in the village who had a car. It was a standing gig, with no other passengers. André recalled that they mostly talked about cricket, as X was a former first class cricketer.
X, please.
Question 3Identify this former British Commonwealth Games athlete, who was a keen footballer in his youth, and he played alongside Vinnie Jones, former Wimbledon legend, for his school.
Question 4In July 1999, X was one of 300 women who vied for a semifinals berth in the US Olympic archery team to participate in the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. She placed 24th of 300 and did not qualify for the team, but participated as a wild-card entry in the Sydney International Golden Arrow competition. But her life changing moment came sometime later in 1999 and she decided to leave archery for her other career.
Question 5X is a laicized Irish Roman Catholic priest who is noted for his interference with the running of the 2003 British Grand Prix and the 2004 Summer Olympics men's marathon in order to promote his religious belief that the end of the world is near. X pushed Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima, who was leading the race, into the crowds alongside the course in the 2004 Men’s marathon. De Lima later went on to win the Bronze medal and X was sentenced to 12 months in an Athens prison.Give me X, whose name is uncannily similar to his countryman, who makes young teenage girlsGo weak in the knees.
Exchange your sheets.
Question 1 X was a fan of motorcycles since his youth, and bought
a 250-cc Moto Guzi racing motorcycle and competed recreationally in mountain races for the next few years.
It is said that racing at the Altvater in Germany in 1928 he nearly beat the German champion Walfred Winkler, but he stopped a lap early thinking that the race was over.
But X was married in the early spring of that year, on
March 6, well before the motor racing season started. Thus, X had to give up on his motorsport dream and go back to his other career.
Oskar Schindler.
Question 2 Andre the Giant was arguably the greatest
professional wrestler of all time. But he had very humble beginnings. As a child, he displayed symptoms of his gigantism very early, reaching a height of 191 cm (6 ft 3 in) and a weight of 110 kg (240 lb) by the age of 12. In 1958, when 12-year-old André’s acromegaly prevented him from taking the school bus, X who was Andre’s dad’s card buddy and neighbor in rural Moulien, France, volunteered for transport duty, as he was only one in the village who had a car. It was a standing gig, with no other passengers. André recalled that they mostly talked about cricket, as X was a former first class cricketer.
X, please.
Samuel Beckett.
Question 3Identify this former British Commonwealth Games athlete, who was a keen footballer in his youth, and he played alongside Vinnie Jones, former Wimbledon legend, for his school.
Jason Statham.
Question 4In July 1999, X was one of 300 women who vied for a semifinals berth in the US Olympic archery team to participate in the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. She placed 24th of 300 and did not qualify for the team, but participated as a wild-card entry in the Sydney International Golden Arrow competition. But her life changing moment came sometime later in 1999 and she decided to leave archery for her other career.
Geena Davis.
Question 5X is a laicized Irish Roman Catholic priest who is noted for his interference with the running of the 2003 British Grand Prix and the 2004 Summer Olympics men's marathon in order to promote his religious belief that the end of the world is near. X pushed Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima, who was leading the race, into the crowds alongside the course in the 2004 Men’s marathon. De Lima later went on to win the Bronze medal and X was sentenced to 12 months in an Athens prison.Give me X, whose name is uncannily similar to his countryman, who makes young teenage girlsGo weak in the knees.
Niell Horan,uncannily similar to Niall Horan(from One Driection).
Infinite Bounce Dobara!!!!• 13 Questions• Rule of 3 strike pounce will apply.• Anticlockwise Rotation
1._______ is the act of running naked through
a public place as a prank, dare or an act of protest.
The 1996 Wimbledon’s Men’s singles final between MaliVai Washington and Richard Krajicek was interrupted by a lady. X, a 23 year old student, ran onto the ground with an apron on, which she lifted to reveal her vulva to the players and crowd. This incident, thus became the first instance of ______ at Wimbledon.
FITB and give me the name of the lady.
Answer
Streaking,Melissa Johnson
2. “Everywhere I went, I was abused by the public. Nothing
matters to me more than playing for my country. I am a proud Indian and will always be so. There were lots of things that happened in the run up to the final. You find out. I will not speak about the politics that contributed to the defeat in the final.”
X said this, talking about the 1982 Asian Games final, which turned X’s life upside down, after India lost 1-7 to Pakistan. X was called a ‘traitor’ and was accused of deliberately conceding the goals.
He returned as a goalkeeping coach for the 1998 Asian Games in which India won Gold. The position, however, only proved temporary and he left the game once again. Four years later, X was hired to be the goalkeeping coach of the India women’s national field hockey team. The team won the Gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Who is X and what did his story inspire?
Answer
Mir Ranjan Negi
3. X played 26 matches for the All-Blacks as a first five-eighth and fullback, most memorably being the player to kick the winning penalty goal against Wales in 1978 when Andy Haden dived out off a lineout near full-time and was apparently awarded a penalty which would secure the "Grand Slam" for the All Blacks against the home country unions.
With Lynn McConnell, he wrote X : Double All Black: An Autobiography in 1983.
However, he will forever be remembered for an incident that happened in 1981, the aftermath of which saw his country rally behind him and their team.
Very simple. What is X's greatest claim to fame ?
Answer
Brian McKechnie faced the infamous under-arm ball by Trevor Chapell
4. Connect with respect to motorsport.
Answer
Emerson Fittipaldi, Jacques Villeneuve, Jim Clark, Graham Hill and Mario Andretti are the only men to have won both the Indy 500 and the F1 championship
5. The 1977 NBA Draft was definitely an interesting one. Otis Birdsong, Marques Johnson, Walter Davis and Bernard King were some of the notable picks in the Draft. But according to NBA.com, the biggest shock came when X was selected by the Kansas City Kings. X was selected in the seventh round. The draft took place before the NBA shortened the draft to two rounds. Despite not actually playing basketball since high school, X, in the early days, earned a football scholarship and attended Graceland College (now Graceland University) but was forced to stop playing football because of a knee injury. X was flattered, but decided not to play in the NBA and continue with the other career that brought X much fame. Give me X.
Answer
Caitlyn Jenner
6.Identify this sporting great from the movie trailer of this 2006 movie. Also give me the movie.
Answer
Graeme Obree The Flying Scotsman
7. X studied intelligence when he was a university student. He later recalled that “when I looked at the life stories of geniuses” during his student years, “I found the same thing….They all started at a very young age and studied intensively.” He “prepared for fatherhood” prior to marriage, reported People Magazine in 1987, “by studying the biographies of 400 great intellectuals, from Socrates to Einstein.” He concluded that if he took the right approach to child-rearing, he could turn “any healthy newborn” into “a genius.” In 1992, X told the Washington Post: “A genius is not born but is educated and trained….When a child is born healthy, it is a potential genius.”In 1965 X “conducted an epistolary courtship with a foreign language teacher named Klara.” In his letters, he outlined the pedagogical project he had in mind and told her he had identified a common theme to build a child prodigy— “early and intensive specialization in a particular subject.”
Just give me X’s greatest ever student.
Answer
Judith Polgar X was obviously her father, Laszlo Polgar, legendary Hungarian sports psychologist
8.The 2016 Masters tournament will be remembered for a number of reasons. Danny Willet fending off Lee Westwood and the scintillating defending champion , Jordan Spieth to win the title. But to most golf purists, the most memorable event of the Masters 2016 happened on the 2nd day at the 18th hole. X’s approach shot had gone long, way up to the back of the plateau beyond the pin. He was 66ft away from the hole, but barely tapped the ball. It rolled around to the left, up on to the slope in front of the bunker, and curled around towards the hole. For a moment it looked like it might slide in, but it ambled to a stop 10 in or so short. The crowd sighed and X dropped his putter and spread his arms wide, as if to say “I tried”.He said later that he felt all the applause from the crowd meant “that maybe I succeeded in what I tried to do as a kid: I hit shots. I hit shots that they will remember.”
Just give me the name of X, a crowd favourite who just missed out on the cut.
Answer
Tom Watson Who played his last competitive hole at the Masters this year
9. Give me what this list is about and give me X, who completes the list. Very specific answer. Jacques Anquetil Felice Gimondi Eddy Merckx Bernard Hinault X Vincenzo Nibali
Answer
X- Alberto Contador These are the only cyclists who have won the 3 Grand Tours, namely, Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a Espana in their career.
10. In the United States Grand Prix at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race course, Twenty-three-year-old Lotus rookie Emerson Fittipaldi, making his debut after a rather unfortunate incident in the earlier Italian Grand Prix, captured his first Grand Prix win in only the fourth start of his Formula One career, with firm Championship favourite Belgian Jacky Ickx finishing a lowly 4th. What absolutely unique record happened due to Emerson Fittipaldi’s victory?
Answer
Jochen Rindt became the first posthumous Formula One Champion
11.Identify the three sportsmen after whom this famous ‘90s cartoon was based.
Answer
Answer Michael Jordan Bo Jackson Wayne Gretzky
12. Identify the sport XY from the video.The term Y probably comes from the Vulgar Latin term meaning ball game. It may also refer to the Latin words for strike or spade and is related to the English word pellet.
Today, XY is played in several countries. In Europe, this sport is concentrated in Spain and France, especially in the X region. The sport is also played in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Cuba. Operated as a gaming enterprise called Jai Alai, it is seen in parts of the U.S. such as Florida,Connecticut, Nevada, and Rhode Island.In Valencia, Valencian Y is considered the national sport. XY is often considered to be the fastest ball game in the world.
Answer
Basque Pelota
13. X was a former Danish winger who played mostly for Manchester United. He even represented Denmark in the and Euro 1984 and 1986 World Cup.
However X is more famous for his part in an incident in the early ‘80s.
He was remembered suddenly this year on Valentines’ Day, and more recently in March., because of certain reasons.
Give me X and his biggest claim to fame.
Answer
Jesper Olsen He was the other guy in the famous two-man penalty with Johan Cruyff