QM:Somnath ChandaSports QuizGrand Finale

Round 1 : Written (6 questions)Round 2 : Mixed Bag (18 questions)Round 3 : Written II (6 questions)Round 4 : Mixed Bag II (18 questions)

bySomnath ChandaSports Quiz

6 questions Each question carries 5 marksFull house ensure 10 extra

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THE ANSWER IS

Phil Hughes

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Jonah Lomu

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Yogi Berra

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Richie Benaud

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Charlie Sifford

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Jules Bianchi

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Je suis Paris 6

bySomnath ChandaSports Quiz

18 questions Each question carries 10 marksInfinite BounceLimited Pounce (6 per team)

For the forthcoming FIFA U-17 World Cup to be staged in India, who has been appointed as the Project Director as he has very good experience of media interactions and is well known for his creativity and knowledge of managing events and production in India?*

THE ANSWER IS

Joy da*

1Only two coaches have won the all three major European club titles - UEFA Champions League/ European Cup, UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup and UEFA Cup Winners Cup. Giovanni Trapattoniwon all the three titles with Juventus.

Who won it with three different teams?

THE ANSWER IS

Udo Lattek1Happy Birthday.

ManagerEuropean Champions' Cup/Champions LeagueCup Winners' CupUEFA Cup[12]Udo Lattek1974-Bayern Munich1982-Barcelona1979-Borussia Mnchengladbach*

2Patrick Kypson of USA won the US National U-16 Tennis Championship in 2015. Some of the other past winners are - Stan Smith, Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Andre Agassi, Jim Courier & Pete Sampras.

Who became the first non-American to win this title since it started 72 years back?

THE ANSWER IS

Ramesh Krishnan2

3After a brief hiatus, X, a full-time bank teller and part-time beautician, decided for a last attempt at the Olympics arena. In the 100 mts, X clocked progressively better in each round. Xs timing in the final was even better than all the men in decathlon. In 200 mts. X twice broke the WR in the same day.

Identify X.

THE ANSWER IS

Florence Griffith Joyner

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4This disgraceful statue-defacing incident rocked the city of Brantford a few years earlier.

Identify this little boy, standing along with his parents Walter & Phyllis, who later became an iconic name in the world of sports.(vis next slide also)

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THE ANSWER IS

Wayne Gretzky

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5The book Fussballhelden GOLD 2010 featured 150 football heroes from each and every World Cup, drawn by 45 of the worlds best illustrators. Kako, an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer, was asked to illustrate the only team to appear on that book. Each of his portraits of the members of that team also featured a bird which has a great significance to that national team.

Members of which team was drawn by Kako?(vis of some of the portraits next slide)

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THE ANSWER IS

Brazilian team in 1970 World Cup

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6AnnMaria De Mars (vis) is the first woman from her country to win Gold at theWorld Judo Championships, competing in the -56kg weight class, during the1984 World Judo Tournament. In 2013, she was named inForbes annual list of the 40 Women to Watch Over 40.

Name her more famous daughter who has somewhat upstaged her by winning a medal in Olympics.(vis next slide)

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THE ANSWER IS

Ronda Roussey

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7At the time of his death in 2015, Harvey Pollack, the legendary sportsstatistician, held the distinction of being the only individual still working for the NBA since its inaugural 1946-47 season.

His hasty action after a particular match, is famously captured in an iconic black-and-white photograph.

With which piece of sporting trivia, much discussed in sports quizzes, is he famously associated?

THE ANSWER IS

He scribbled the number 100 in a piece of paper which was shown by Wilt Chamberlain after his record-breaking feat

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8After learning piano, flute, clarinet and guitar from ages 6 to 14, Greta commenced her professional career in 2010 primarily as a concert classical singer. According to her, she inherited all these musical prowess from one of her family members who was very fond of classical music.

Why is she being mentioned in todays sports quiz?

THE ANSWER IS

Greta granddaughter of Don Bradman

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Who announced his retirement through this poem?* From the momentI started rolling my dads tube socksAnd shooting imaginarygame-winning shotsIn the Great Western ForumI knew one thing was real:

I fell in love with you. .. .. But my body knows its time to say goodbye And thats OK. Im ready to let you go. I want you to know now. So we both can savor every moment we have left together. The good and the bad. We have given each other all that we have.

THE ANSWER IS

Kobe Bryant*

9Considered the most technically difficult routine, its different variations are as follows :-- * Single seniors normally do not perform this one. * Double very popular among the female performers. * Triple usually performed by the males. Very few female performers have tried this in Olympics. * Quadruple yet to be tried in competitions.

Identify the sporting routine/move.

THE ANSWER IS

Axel Jump

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10First gold in Moscow and last gold in Athens and also winning a few in the other editions --- in the process became the youngest ever (18 yrs) and oldest ever (42 yrs) Olympic champion in his/her sporting discipline.

Who?

THE ANSWER IS

Birgit Fischer

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11The Nikopol Trilogyis a series of sci-figraphic novelswritten in French between 1980 and 1992. The stories were later translated into English with the titlesGods in Chaos,The Woman Trap andCold Equator. The central plot, set in 2023 Paris, follows Alcide Nikopol who returns from a 30-year sentence spent orbiting the Earth undercryo-preservationto find France under fascist rule following twonuclear wars.

How the last novel of the trilogy is associated with the world of sports?

THE ANSWER IS

Chess-Boxing

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12A centre-forward, he represented Maharasthra for several years in the National Hockey Champioships. He also played for a long time in his career for Tata Sports Club in regional hockey tournaments.

Why his name is in the record books?

THE ANSWER IS

Neville DeSouza(scored the only hattrick for India in Olympic football)

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13After becoming one of the very selected few in the world to execute the [A] perfectly, which Indian sportsperson is now trying to perfect the [B]?AB

THE ANSWER IS

Dipa Karmakar(A is Produnova & B is Tsukahara)

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14Tim Peake is going to become the first male to try something unique on April 24, 2016. But this lady (vis) has already successfully attempted something similar on April 16, 2007.

Put funda.

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Running a marathon on a treadmill at ISS(Peake will run the London Marathon. Sunita Williams ran the Boston Mararthon)

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15While completing the shot, the batsman flicked the stumps with his foot and the off-side bail was dislodged. But strangely, it returned into the slot perfectly. Wicketkeeper Jack Russell had seen everything and didnt appeal. He later said, I thought to myself that if I do I wont make it home. Ill be lynched. The bail didnt fall off in the end but it stayed slightly out of its slot.

What was thus achieved by that slice of luck?

THE ANSWER IS

Brian Lara overtook Sir Gary Sobers epic innings of 365 through that shot15

16John, nicknamed Gypsy during his days of glory, made a prophecy about his new-born son who was born weighing just one pound (0.45 kg). The son, named by John after a tainted sporting hero, turned his words into reality in presence of a sellout crowd on 29th Nov, 2015.

What did Gypsy Johns son achieve on that day?

THE ANSWER IS

Tyson Fury became the World Heavyweight Boxing champion

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17Edgell Westmacott, a relative of A.R. Edgell of Teddington Club of Middlesex got the idea of introducing something in field hockey after watching a game of Garden-Tennis. Introduced for the first time in a match vs Surbiton at Bushby Park in 1876, it brought about a revolutionary change in hockey.

What was thus introduced?

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Striking Circle / D

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18Whose ad is this?

THE ANSWER IS

Porsche 911

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bySomnath ChandaSports Quiz

6 questions Each question carries 5 marksFull house ensure 10 extra

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THE ANSWER IS

Sunil Gavaskar

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Andy Murray

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18 questions Each question carries 10 marksInfinite BounceLimited Pounce (6 per team)

Just find the connection.*

THE ANSWER IS

555(Jahangir Khan of Pakistanownsthe longest winning streak in any sports, winning 555 straight squash matches from 1981-86.& On June 16, 1932 Percy Holmes and Herbert Sutcliffe of Yorkshire made a 555-run stand against Essex)

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1South American club Sports Boys signed this not-so-young midfielder in 2014. He played a few matches in that season. Though he didnt do anything spectacular on the field, but crowds thronged to see him in action.

Why?

THE ANSWER IS

Evo Morales (President of Bolivia)

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2This 18-kg trophy was supposedly named after X because the last possible game of the inaugural Kontinental Hockey League season would take place on April 12, 2008, theanniversary date of Xs seminal event.

Who was X?

THE ANSWER IS

Yuri Gagarin2

3 * Artur Yusupov No more theory means more creativity. * Pter Lk Finally, one is no longer obliged to spend the whole night long troubling oneself with the next opponents opening moves. The best preparation consists just of sleeping well! * Vassily Ivanchuk Chess is already complicated enough.

What are they talking about? (In 2008FIDEadded it to an appendix of therules of chess)

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Chess960 / Fischer Random Chess / Fischerandom Chess3

4He was US Pro-Cycling champion in 1985. He also took part in the 1986 TDF. Later on, he became an orthopaedic surgeon in Utah. But his moment under the sun came in 1980.

Who is being talked about?

THE ANSWER IS

Eric Heiden

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5In 1978, Bishan Bedis team landed in Pakistan to play the first series between the countries since 1961 war. At the airport, the team was met by a team-bus and a Toyota waiting. Indian manager, Fatehsinhrao Gaekwad, the erstwhile King of Baroda, assumed that the Toyota was sent for him. However, the chauffeur, informed him that the car was specially arranged by the people of Pakistan for a journalist who was travelling with the Indian team.

Who was that Indian journalist?

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Lala Amarnath

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6Tennis coach John Johnson had a chance to take a close look at a 12 year old kid during a tennis camp in 2015. As per the punters, the hill or mound at the Wimbledon could be rechristened the ridge based on the extraordinary skills he is currently displaying.

Who is this tennis-star-in-the-making?

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Romeo Beckham6

7He went to Melbourne as his countrys no. 3 in his event but he won the gold in 3000 metres steeplechase against all odds in the 1956 Games. Later with fellow runner John Disley, he founded the London Marathon. But despite all these, he is best remembered for a particular event where he played the supporting role in the best possible way.

Who? What role did he play?

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Chris Basher & he was one of the pace-setters of Roger Bannisters historic sub-four-minute-mile race

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8This well-known gentleman who breathed his last just a few years ago, was strangely accused by a group of angry fans for giving proxy to someone else during a high voltage sporting contest in the late 70s.

What was the issue?

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Shanti Gopal was accused of giving proxy to Pele in the match vs MB

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Identify the singer of this song from a 2015 movie which told the story of six UP youths who turned kidnappers for their living. *

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91st Test

100th Test

Who is being referred to here?

THE ANSWER IS

Mohandas Menon

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10Asian Games gold medallist Subedar Makhan Singh, one of the unsung heroes of Indian sports, died an anonymous and pitiable death in 2002. The familys voices for financial help were heard only when Makhans wife Salinder Kaur announced that she had no choice but to put her husbands awards on sale.

What was his claim to fame?

THE ANSWER IS

Defeated Milkha Singh in 400 mts

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11Only three women has won the Sports Illustrateds Sportsperson of the Year award individually. Chris Evert was the first to get it in 1976 and Serena Williams is the third, so far, in 2015.

Who is the 2nd lady in this list who came into bigtime news on August 10, 1984?

THE ANSWER IS

Mary Decker Slaney

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12An inductee of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, this Dutch player is one of the most successful mens doubles players of all time. In singles also, he has a very impressive careerrecord and reached a career-best ranking of 3 in 1969.

Identify this gentleman who is known as the answer of a very popular question asked in quizzes.(vis next slide)

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THE ANSWER IS

Tom Okker

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13Lyubov Burda is a member of the Gold winning Soviet teams at the 1968 and 1972 Olympic Games. Her husband, a legend in the same sports, coached the Japan Olympic gymnastics team between 1994 and 2002, on the invitation of his former rival, Mitsuo Tsukahara. And thanks to his work, Japan rose to be one of the leading nations of the world again in the 2000s.

Identify this legend who was also named twice as the best coach of the year in Japan.

THE ANSWER IS

Nikolai Andrianov13

14Jornada nas Estrelas is a type of underhand serve where the ball is hit so high that it comes down almost in a straight line. Invented and employed almost exclusively by the Brazilian beach volleyball team in the early 1980s it is now considered outdated. What is the popular name of this type of serve?

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Star Trek

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15Continuing a tradition which, as per popular folklore, started in May, 2011, what said to have happened as result of these two recent strikes?

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Death of David Bowie & Alan Rickman15

16Solve the equation.

THE ANSWER IS

Colin Everton Hunte Croft

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17Known as the Cabbage Patch as it was built on land previously used to grow cabbages, it is the 4th largest stadium in Europe. It hosted World Cup matches in three separate editions, including final matches in two.

Identify it from its logo.

THE ANSWER IS

Twikenham Stadium

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18Sepp Blatter was handed an 8-year ban following an investigation by FIFAs Ethics Committee into a disloyal payment of 1.3million made to Platini in 2011. In a press conference on 21 Dec, 2015, Blatter spoke lengthily and tried to prove his innocence. Expressing his zeal to fightback, he concluded his speech with a phrase, which has gained iconic status because of its pop-culture reference.

What were those concluding words?

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Ill be Back

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ManagerEuropean Champions' Cup/Champions LeagueCup Winners' CupUEFA Cup[12]Udo Lattek1974-Bayern Munich1982-Barcelona1979-Borussia Mnchengladbach*