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• 30 questions• 21-30 warrant simple identification and would

serve as the tie-break questions • The quizmaster is dog

To err is human,to grr is dog.

The honour of this lady caused some irreparable damage to a certain sporting ambition of a country somewhere in

the middle of the first decade of the 21st century.Who be she?

"For when the One Great Scorer comesTo mark against your name,

He writes - not that you won or lost –But ___ ___ ______ ___ ____.“

(from the poem "Alumnus Football")

how you played the game

GRANTLAND RICE

X (c. 1703 or 1704 – January 8, 1789) was an English bare-knuckle fighter. He was the first person to ever codify a set of rules to be used in such

contests; prior to this the "rules" that existed were very loosely defined and tended to vary from contest to contest.

In 1741, he beat George Stevenson so badly in a 35 minute contest that a few days later Stevenson died; The tragedy upset him and in an effort to ensure that it would not happen again, he called together some of the

patrons of his academy and drew up a set of rules that governed boxing from August 16, 1743 until 1838, when a new code, "The London Prize Ring

Rules," was adopted.X also invented, or rediscovered, the boxing glove; It has been suggested

that seeing a statue of a Greek boxer wearing the cestus gave him the idea of the padded glove; X's padded gloves were lightweight "mufflers" and used only in sparring - since matches were still bare-knuckle; The gloves

were really to prevent damage to his aristocratic patrons.He was inducted into the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1954 and the

International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.

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Jack Broughton

The Father of Boxing

Is there really a Y?"Apart from sounding like a shadowy gang bent on world domination, is there

really a Y?" asks Derrick Cameron. "What does it do, who is involved, and is there a secret handshake to become a member?"

There is indeed a Y, Derrick. It’s job is to decide Z. Video evidence is examined and debated by a three-person committee - consisting of former players and

officials who have worked within football - and a judgment announced.The panel sits on an ad hoc basis whenever there have been a number of _____ -

generally around three or four times a season, but the exact make-up of the committee is shrouded in secrecy. "Their identities are not revealed so as to

protect the game's integrity and avoid a panel member being put under pressure to make any particular decision," added the spokesman.

As per Wikipedia, it should be noted that the Committee does not enquire into:

# whether a goal has been scored. This is a matter for the officials attending the match in question.

#assists. These are attributed to players by their clubs.

Dubious Goal Panel

Identity of the goal scorer

Harry Vardon

A British government-backed meat promotion initiative.

The X and Y TV adverts feature voices of these two athletes,

whose characters share a home, cooking recipes in their kitchen using lamb and beef.

In them, South African-born Y frequently utters the word

"quality" - pronounced "quall-ity" - to remind viewers to look for the English quality mark on

meat.

Beefy and Lamby

Murderers’ Row

• A 6'6" center at UCLA, he became the first African American to be named consensus All-American in 1947.

• In 1948, he was the first African American to play with the U.S. Olympic team. He joined the team in Basketball at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He became the first African-American basketball player to win a gold medal in the Summer Olympics.

• In 1951, he signed a lucrative contract with the Baltimore Bullets and entered the NBA as a 28-year-old rookie. He would be the third African-American to sign an NBA contract after Chuck Cooper joined Boston and Earl Lloyd signed with Washington. While with the Bullets, he became the first African American to appear in an NBA All-Star Game in the 1953 NBA All-Star Game.

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Donald Angelo "Don" Barksdale

c. early 2009

Dick X (29 April 1922 - 10 June 1986) was a former Indonesian badminton player.He was also the founder of Badminton Association of Indonesia (PBSI) as well as its chairman for 22 years (1952–1963 and 1967–1981).

He was also the vice president of IBF in 1975.[next slide]

SUDIRMAN

NBA Ballparks• Celtics – TD Garden• Nets – Prudential Center• 76ers – Wells Fargo Center• Cavaliers – Quicken Loan Arena• Hawks – Phillips Arena• Raptors – Air Canada• Magic – Amway Center• Wizards – Verizon Center• Nuggets – Pepsi Center• Warriors – Oracle Arena• Grizzlies – FedEx Forum• Rockets – Toyota Center• Spurs – AT&T Center

Martina Navratilova and Jimmy Connors

Some 35 odd years ago, Thierry Sabine (pic) while en route to Nice on his bike, ended up taking a detour in the wilderness

whose raw beauty left him awestricken. His loss of navigational sense proved to be a blessing in disguise and was turned into a worldwide gain, so to speak, the following

year with the inception of __________.

James Forman "Tod" Sloan (August 10, 1874 - December 21, 1933) was an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He was

elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1955.

It was Sloan who popularized the forward seat style of riding, or the “Z" as the British called it, when he began riding there in 1897.

Initially laughed at, his style revolutionized the sport worldwide. (Although he did not invent it. The "American Seat" of short

stirrups and crouching over the horse's neck and withers was used in the colonies as far back as the Quarter Horsedashes along tracks cut in the wilderness as well as being the preferred riding style of the Native Americans. Not only that, but two years before Sloan rode in England, the African American jockey, Willie Simms had ridden exactly that way taking England's Crawfurd Plate {sic) at

Newmarket against England's finest bolt-upright riders.)[next slide]

Monkey Crouch

Mound commemorating what?

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The Martyrs of the Battle of Marathon

Olympic Stadium, Munich

Widely regarded as a creative genius, and the best attacking player of all time, he played a daring, combinatorial style. His

play was known above all for improvisation and unpredictability. Every game, he once said, was as inimitable and invaluable as a

poem. He was also known as "The magician from Riga". Both The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games (Burgess, Nunn & Emms 2004) andModern Chess Brilliancies (Evans 1970) include more games by him than any other player. He was also a

highly-regarded chess writer.He holds the records for both the first and second longest

unbeaten streaks in competitive chess history. Many authorities consider him to have been the greatest attacking Grandmaster in the history of chess. On May 28, 1992, dying from kidney failure, he left hospital to play at the Moscow blitz tournament, where

he defeated Garry Kasparov. He died one month later.[next slide]

• "There are two kinds of sacrifices: sound ones, and mine.“• "To play for a draw, at any rate with White, is to some degree a crime

against chess.“• "I drink, I smoke, I gamble, I chase girls – but postal chess is one vice I

don't have.“• "If Black is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his

opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.“• "It is also important to remember that Bobby Fischer was a real chess

gentleman during games. He was always very fair and very correct.“• "You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5,

and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.“• "They compare me to Lasker, which is an exaggerated honour. He

made mistakes in every game and I only in every second one!“• Nevertheless, when asked about his opinion on who was the greatest

player of all time, he answered: "Lasker, for he made miracles on the chessboard.”

Mikhail Tal

"Later, ... I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realised a very simple truth:not only was I worried, but also my opponent."

The earliest known use of a Z to represent the then-town of X was on its corporate seal, dating from the 1350s. The seal is

now held by the British Museum. In 1668 the Earl of Derby gave the town council a mace "engraved with ...a leaver", the first

known reference to a YZ by what it is known today. In 1797 the College of

Arms granted official arms to X, which depicts the Z in pride of place.

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Liver Bird

Farokh Engineer & Diana Eduljee

Last man and woman of Parsi origin to play test cricket for India

A _________ is a toy, invented in 1964 by chemist Norman Stingley by compressing a synthetic rubber material under high

pressure. It is extremely elastic and made of Zectron, which contains the synthetic rubber polymerpolybutadiene, as well as

hydrated silica, zinc oxide, stearic acid, and other ingredients

vulcanized with sulphur at a temperature of 165 degrees Celsius and at a pressure of 80 atmospheres (1,175 psi). It has an

amazingly high coefficient of restitution. Dropped from shoulder level, they snapped nearly all the way back; thrown down by an

average adult, it can leap over a three-story building. After watching his children play with a ___________, Lamar

Hunt coined the term Z. In a July 25, 1966, letter to Pete Rozelle, Hunt wrote, "I have kiddingly called it the ‘Z,' which obviously

can be improved upon." Although the leagues' owners decided on some other name, the media immediately picked up on

Hunt's “Z" name.[next slide]

Superball and Super Bowl

Paan Singh Tomar

ZADOK (The Priest)

Jansher Khan

Bob Beamon

Yasin Merchant

Kunjarani Devi

Bob Burnquist

Jan-Ove Waldner

John Surtees

Pieter van den Hoogenband & Inge de Bruijn