A

• Opening in 1997, it became the largest stadium for the particular sport it hosts, having a capacity of 22,457. It replaced the existing Louis Armstrong Stadium to host the major annual event in the locality. In 2005, it changed its interior colour scheme to “electric blue” to make “ball tracking” easier on TV.

B

• The game of B was popularized in the U.S only after Milton-Bradley released it in the markets in 1967. Although it is said to have its roots in the French game L’Attaque and is said to be played by Russian officers during World War I.

• Lazlo Carridas and Captain Haddock had a memorable face-off in this game in “Flight-714”.

C

In 1985, a Japanese baseball team from Oksaka called the Hanshin Tigers won the Japanese League (they had a penchant for losing). Their fans were ecstatic, and in their celebrations, they dumped a statue of Xinto the Dotonori River, causing a curse that would dog them for 24 years.

From that day on, the Hanshin Tigers were said to be cursed by the ghost of X, angry at the indignity of being banished to his watery, polluted realm. Many of the Tigers’ fans probably thought the curse was ridiculous, but as the 18-year losing streak broke records, opinion began to turn as the Tigers’ were consistently placed bottom of the league. An urban legend was born: The Tigers would not win the championship again until the X was returned from the river.

D *

From the best offerings on the fourth day of the fifth Ashes Test with the occasional special guests in the box...

"My son, Jackson, will be watching the cricket back home tonight and he'll be saying “look there is X and his arch enemy D!” Well they don't look too much like arch enemies at the moment - they're friends!"

Shane Warne uncovers X and D’s common secret - they both love to share a sunny Sunday at the cricket!

11.12: SW: "In fact, D looks a bit like Stuart Broad - I've got another nickname!"

E

• A gifted midfielder, he became the first Asian to score a hat trick in the Premier League. However, that failed to prolong his stay in the club as he was transferred. In the meantime he rose to fame with a meme that started from his spooky smiling face caught on camera, and soon became an internet rage. What meme?

F• Identify this former Brylcream model.

G

Benedict Cumberbatch was supposed to act as the protagonist in this man’s biopic who scaled great heights in his “hobby”, as of October 2013, but somehow the project has not materialized yet. Who is he?

H

Identify the sporting competition !

I *

• I, in 2013, became the first foreigner to be eligible to play for the Indian National Football team and I changed his name by an affidavit. Who? (Star mark awarded only if you get the new name adopted)

J

• J suffered from Nephrotic Syndrome at the peak of his career. This led to him needing dialysis & ultimately a kidney transplant.

• His vital statistics have also become an oft-quoted demonstration of the problematic use of Body Mass Index as a measure of obesity.

• J has been portrayed on screen by Isaac Feau'nati.

K• K is a sport popular across Polynesia specially Tuvalu

and New Zealand apart from its country of nomenclature. What sport which was played by Martin Guptil much before he took to cricket in his adolescence?

L *

• He had the unique distinction of making his test debut as a captain, against India (in a match which wasn’t his country’s first). He also led his country in a world cup scoring his highest ODI score in a heart breaking quarter final loss. Having retired at an early age of 29, he was considered as one of the all time best captains in the domestic circuit in his country.

M• These cars are very small with a very high power-to-weight

ratio and typically use four cylinder engines. They originated in the United States in the 1930s and are raced across several continents. What are they known as?

N

• N is an annual event that has traditionally been held at Maslin Beach in South Australia. N was first held in 1983, though the event was cancelled for five years after 2007 because of a lack of sponsorship.

• It started up again in 2013, though following a letter from the Australian Olympic Committee prohibiting them from using "Olympics'' in the title, it was renamed the Pilwarren Maslin Beach Y Z . This has not stopped the Olympic Committee from harassing them, still claiming that the name is unlawful as it 'suggests' the term Olympics.

• The events on the 2013 program included events for children and adults, such as:

• Kids’ Treasure Hunt• Sand Castle Competition• Donut Eating Competition

O

• The feat was named so when performed by Argentinian, CesareoOnzari against Uruguay, the winners of the particular event in 1924. Megan Rapinoe of the US Women’s team remains the only person to have achieved this feat in the particular event. What feat?

P

Kushal Mitra,known to us by his pen-name and a class-topper in Secondary examinations, keeps wicket for which outfit?

Q

• 1971 – Ajit Wadekar

• 1976 – Bishen Singh Bedi

• 2002 - Sourav Ganguly

• Connect

R

• The Jamaican Beach Soccer team is called the “ R boys”. The name denotes the populist influence of R in Jamaican culture and lifestyle. What ?

S

This stadium is home to Calgary Flames in Canada. It was built in the mid 80’s and has an inverse hyperbolic paraboloid roof for pillar free viewing of the game for every spectator present. What common name is attributed to this magnificent piece of architecture ?

T *

• Identify the team.

U

• Name the Game

V

• In this grip most popular among professional golfers, one places the little finger of the trailing in between the index and middle finger on the leading. The leading-hand thumb should fit in the lifeline of the trailing hand. Though not invented by him, it was named by the one who popularised it.

W *

X:"My dad got sent off for punching Roberto Mancini in the face," he says. "It was in the European Cup-Winners' Cup quarter-final against Sampdoria in 1991 and if you look on YouTube you will have confirmation.“

X’s dad was a former goalkeeper who was at that time playing for LegiaWarsaw.

Sampdoria had just scored an 89th-minute goal through Gianluca Vialli in the second leg against Legia Warsaw but needed more to avoid elimination. X Srgrabbed the ball and Mancini wanted it back. "The question for my dad was: 'Do you want to play in the final?'" X says. "But obviously being a nutter … it was: 'No.' Bang, he punched him. X?

XFor a few years the owner of a world record previously held by Jayasuriya & Afridi

Y *

• Y is a professional golfer. Y has twice taken part in the European PGA tour at the 2005 and 2008 Russian Open.

• Y has also tried his hand at the World series Poker in 2005.

• Y however achieved something in Paris in 1996 in another sport which makes him the last male sportsperson to have that “double”.

• (Add the feat for the star point)

Z

• Z is a popular 1986 song from Cameroon group “Golden Sounds” who changed their name to Z as well, owing to the popularity of the song. The song became popular during the Nigerian Civil war, being played by the Army Band frequently.

• However, it came to global recognition in 2010 due to a sporting cause.

A

• Opening in 1997, it became the largest stadium for the particular sport it hosts, having a capacity of 22,457. It replaced the existing Louis Armstrong Stadium to host the major annual event in the locality. In 2005, it changed its interior colour scheme to “electric blue” to make “ball tracking” easier on TV.

Arthur Ashe Stadium

B

• The game of B was popularized in the U.S only after Milton-Bradley released it in the markets in 1967. Although it is said to have its roots in the French game L’Attaque and is said to be played by Russian officers during World War I.

• Lazlo Carridas and Captain Haddock had a memorable face-off in this game in “Flight-714”.

BATTLESHIP

C

In 1985, a Japanese baseball team from Oksaka called the Hanshin Tigers won the Japanese League (they had a penchant for losing). Their fans were ecstatic, and in their celebrations, they dumped a statue of Xinto the Dotonori River, causing a curse that would dog them for 24 years.

From that day on, the Hanshin Tigers were said to be cursed by the ghost of X, angry at the indignity of being banished to his watery, polluted realm. Many of the Tigers’ fans probably thought the curse was ridiculous, but as the 18-year losing streak broke records, opinion began to turn as the Tigers’ were consistently placed bottom of the league. An urban legend was born: The Tigers would not win the championship again until the X was returned from the river.

Colonel Sanders

D *

From the best offerings on the fourth day of the fifth Ashes Test with the occasional special guests in the box...

"My son, Jackson, will be watching the cricket back home tonight and he'll be saying “look there is X and his arch enemy D!” Well they don't look too much like arch enemies at the moment - they're friends!"

Shane Warne uncovers X and D’s common secret - they both love to share a sunny Sunday at the cricket!

11.12: SW: "In fact, D looks a bit like Stuart Broad - I've got another nickname!"

Draco Malfoy

E

• A gifted midfielder, he became the first Asian to score a hat trick in the Premier League. However, that failed to prolong his stay in the club as he was transferred. In the meantime he rose to fame with a meme that started from his spooky smiling face caught on camera, and soon became an internet rage. What meme?

Evil Kagawa

F• Identify this former Brylcream model.

Farokh Engineer

G

Benedict Cumberbatch was supposed to act as the protagonist in this man’s biopic who scaled great heights in his “hobby”, as of October 2013, but somehow the project has not materialized yet. Who is he?

George Mallory

HIdentify the sporting competition !

Highland Games

I *

• I, in 2013, became the first foreigner to be eligible to play for the Indian National Football team and I changed his name by an affidavit. Who? (Star mark awarded only if you get the new name adopted)

Izumi Arata ( Nilkantha Arata)

J

• J suffered from Nephrotic Syndrome at the peak of his career. This led to him needing dialysis & ultimately a kidney transplant.

• His vital statistics have also become an oft-quoted demonstration of the problematic use of Body Mass Index as a measure of obesity.

• J has been portrayed on screen by Isaac Feau'nati.

Jonah Lomu

K• K is a sport popular across Polynesia specially Tuvalu

and New Zealand apart from its country of nomenclature. What sport which was played by Martin Guptil much before he took to cricket in his adolescence?

Kilikiti / Samoan cricket

L *

• He had the unique distinction of making his test debut as a captain, against India (in a match which wasn’t his country’s first). He also led his country in a world cup scoring his highest ODI score in a heart breaking quarter final loss. Having retired at an early age of 29, he was considered as one of the all time best captains in the domestic circuit in his country.

Lee Germon

M• These cars are very small with a very high power-to-weight

ratio and typically use four cylinder engines. They originated in the United States in the 1930s and are raced across several continents. What are they known as?

Midget Cars

N

• N is an annual event that has traditionally been held at Maslin Beach in South Australia. N was first held in 1983, though the event was cancelled for five years after 2007 because of a lack of sponsorship.

• It started up again in 2013, though following a letter from the Australian Olympic Committee prohibiting them from using "Olympics'' in the title, it was renamed the Pilwarren Maslin Beach Y Z . This has not stopped the Olympic Committee from harassing them, still claiming that the name is unlawful as it 'suggests' the term Olympics.

• The events on the 2013 program included events for children and adults, such as:

• Kids’ Treasure Hunt• Sand Castle Competition• Donut Eating Competition

Nude Olympics (Sorry , no picture slide available :D )

O

• The feat was named so when performed by Argentinian, CesareoOnzari against Uruguay, the winners of the particular event in 1924. Megan Rapinoe of the US Women’s team remains the only person to have achieved this feat in the particular event. What feat?

Olympic Goal

P

Kushal Mitra,known to us by his pen-name and a class-topper in Secondary examinations, keeps wicket for which outfit?

Potoldanga Thunder Club

Q

• 1971 – Ajit Wadekar

• 1976 – Bishen Singh Bedi

• 2002 - Sourav Ganguly

• Connect

Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain

R

• The Jamaican Beach Soccer team is called the “ R boys”. The name denotes the populist influence of R in Jamaican culture and lifestyle. What ?

Reggae Boyz

SThis stadium is home to Calgary Flames in Canada. It was built in the mid 80’s and has an inverse hyperbolic paraboloid roof for pillar free viewing of the game for every spectator present. What common name is attributed to this magnificent piece of architecture ?

Saddle-dome

T *

• Identify the team.

Tibet

U

• Name the Game

Ultimate Frisbee

V

• In this grip most popular among professional golfers, one places the little finger of the trailing in between the index and middle finger on the leading. The leading-hand thumb should fit in the lifeline of the trailing hand. Though not invented by him, it was named by the one who popularised it.

Vardon Grip (named after Harry vardon)

W *

X:"My dad got sent off for punching Roberto Mancini in the face," he says. "It was in the European Cup-Winners' Cup quarter-final against Sampdoria in 1991 and if you look on YouTube you will have confirmation.“

X’s dad was a former goalkeeper who was at that time playing for LegiaWarsaw.

Sampdoria had just scored an 89th-minute goal through Gianluca Vialli in the second leg against Legia Warsaw but needed more to avoid elimination. X Srgrabbed the ball and Mancini wanted it back. "The question for my dad was: 'Do you want to play in the final?'" X says. "But obviously being a nutter … it was: 'No.' Bang, he punched him. X?

Wojciech Szczesny

XFor a few years the owner of a world record previously held by Jayasuriya & Afridi

Xavier Marshall

Y *

• Y is a professional golfer. Y has twice taken part in the European PGA tour at the 2005 and 2008 Russian Open.

• Y has also tried his hand at the World series Poker in 2005.

• Y however achieved something in Paris in 1996 in another sport which makes him the last male sportsperson to have that “double”.

• (Add the feat for the star point)

Yevgeny Kafelnikov

The last male Tennis player to win both Men’s Singles as well as Doubles titles in a Grand Slam (1996 French Open).

Z

• Z is a popular 1986 song from Cameroon group “Golden Sounds” who changed their name to Z as well, owing to the popularity of the song. The song became popular during the Nigerian Civil war, being played by the Army Band frequently.

• However, it came to global recognition in 2010 due to a sporting cause.

Zangalewa (Zamina Mina accepted)