QUIZ CLUB IIT KANPUR

Antaragni Sports Run-Ups Pt. II

By Arijit Chakrbarty

RULES

1. 30 questions, infinite pounce2. +15/-10 on the pounce, +10/0 on the bounce

Question 1

• In November 2009, Thierry Henry was embroiled in the handball controversy during a World Cup qualifier vs Ireland.

• Also, Tiger Woods made headlines for all the wrong reasons after his car crash following which his series of affairs was exposed.

• Around the same time, Roger Federer was knocked out of the ATP World Tour by 6th seed Nikolai Davydenko in a shock defeat.

• What were these 3 events collectively called? (Hint: world of business)

The Gillette Curse

• Like many of his countrymen, he aspired to be a fast bowler. But in his own words, ‘’Some of my friends used to make fun that my run-up to the crease was faster than my deliveries.” He took their advice and took to something else. Who ?

Question 2

Usain Bolt

Question 3

• Had Frank Sedgman won the 1952 French Open singles title, he would have become the first and only male player in history to achieve something which has till now been achieved by 3 female players –Margaret Court (2 times), Doris Hart and Martina Navratilova.

• What?

Career Boxed Set

The Career Boxed Set refers to winning one of every possible grand slam title (singles, doubles, mixed) over the course of an entire career.

• Exhaustive list of what?Chess – 1 Billiards – 2 Yachting – 2 Weightlifting – 2 Tennis – 2 Cricket – 2 Athletics – 3Hockey – 2 Badminton – 3 Shooting – 8 Boxing – 2 Wrestling – 3 Gymnastics – 1 Javelin Throw – 1

Question 4

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna recipients

• Although never having played an international game, X was chosen as the brand ambassador of UEFA Euro 2008. He regularly played for FC Echicens, a team currently in the 2nd tier of the Swiss Football League. He once turned down an offer to join San Marino champions SS Murata in July 2008, a move which could have seen him play the qualifying rounds of the UEFA Champions League.

• Who?

Question 5

Michael Schumacher

• X, known as heʻe ʻana in the Hawaiian language, was first discovered byJoseph Banks on the HMS Endeavour during the first voyage of JamesCook, during the ship's stay in Tahiti. X was a central part ofancient Polynesian culture and predates European contact.

• However, X was popularised by Duke Kahanomoku, a Hawaiian nationalwho was also a 5-time Olympic medallist in swimming.

Question 6

Surfing

• Daniel Jarque González (1 January 1983 –8 August 2009) was a Spanish footballer who played as a central defender.

• He played his entire career with Espanyol and was named team captain one month before his death from a heart attack, at the age of 26.

• He was paid a tribute to by X at some time in 2010. As a result, it led to something happening relevant to X.

• What was the tribute and what did it lead to?

Question 7

Iniesta’s celebration in the 2010 FIFA World Cup final.Since then, Iniesta has never been booed by Espanyol fans during

the El Derbi Barceloni.

• The K.A. Auty Cup is reputed to be the first and longest running international sporting fixture.

• The first Auty Cup Trophy match was a two-day match held from the 25–27 September 1844.

• Largely as a result of this match, the first X Prime Minister, John A. Macdonald, declared cricket X’s first official sport in 1867.

• The series saw a 16-year hiatus beginning in 1995 due to financial difficulties. Since its revival in 2011 the series has been expanded from a two-day match only to a two-day match, a 50-over match, and two T20 matches.

• Which two neighboring countries contest this trophy?

Question 8

Canada and USA

• In athletics, a 3,000 metres X is defined in the rulebook as having 28 barriers and 7 water jumps. A 2,000 meters X has 18 barriers and 5 water jumps. Since the water jump is never on the track oval, a X "course" is never a perfect 400 metres lap. Instead the water jump is placed inside the turn, shortening the lap, or outside the turn, lengthening the lap. The start line moves from conventional starting areas in order to compensate for the different length of lap.

• Y was a renowned national sportsperson with multiple accolades in X and a movie based on him was released in 2012. Which movie?

Question 9

X=SteeplechaseY=Paan Singh Tomar

• While there is general disagreement about the precise origin of the X, most stories of the phenomenon's origin suggest that it first started appearing at North American sporting events during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Krazy George Henderson perfected the X at National Hockey League games, followed later by the earliest available video documentation, which he led on October 15, 1981 at a Major League Baseball game in Oakland, California.

• The 1986 FIFA World Cup was broadcast to a global audience, and the X was popularized worldwide after featuring during the tournament. It was the first time that most people living outside North America had seen the phenomenon. As a result, English speakers outside of North America call it the X.

Question 10

Mexican Wave

• Andrei Kirilenko is a Russian-American retired professional basketball player, currently the commissioner of the Russian Basketball Federation. One of the most versatile players of his generation, he has had notable stints in the NBA with Utah Jazz, Minnesota Timberwolves and Brooklyn Nets.

• Despite his modest scoring statistics, he was nicknamed X. Coincidentally, the X is also related to the city of Izhevsk, where Kirilenko was born.

Question 11

AK-47

• The scientific reason for having X on the surface of a Y is because the boundary layer on the upstream side of the Y transitions from laminar to turbulent. The turbulent boundary layer is able to remain attached to the surface of the ball much longer than a laminar boundary and so creates a narrower low-pressure wake and hence less pressure drag. The reduction in pressure drag causes the Y to travel farther.

• Sidespin occurs when the ______ is not aligned perpendicularly to the intended direction of swing, leading to a lift force that makes the Y curve to one side or the other based on the direction of where the _____ is pointing at impact. The X allow both the sidespin to occur as well as to promote an angular upward lift. Some X designs are claimed to reduce the sidespin effects to provide a straighter flight.

Question 12

X=Dimples, Y=Golf Balls

Question 13

Countries and cities which currently host or have hosted F1 Grand Prix

Green countries and cities with black dots are currently hosting the 2017 Grand Prix.Grey countries and cities with white dots have hosted the Grand Prix before.Countries not shaded have never hosted.

• The origin of the word X is obscure. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests the name is related to the verb to X used in the game of hurling for striking or pushing the ball, from the Scottish Gaelic and Irish words, meaning "to poke, punch or deliver a blow“.

• A X is also referred to colloquially as a biscuit. To put the "biscuit" in the "basket" (colloquial for the goal/net) is to score a goal.

Question 14

Puck

• The 400 m men’s final at the 1960 Rome Olympics was settled via photo finish using one of the first experimental attempts at fully automatic timing. Carl Kaufmann of Germany made a diving lunge at the finish line, his head crossing the line first. But it is the torso that counts and Otis Davis of USA, running upright had his body ahead of Kaufmann. After a suspenseful pause, Davis was ruled the winner. Both of them were clocked at 44.9 seconds, which at that time became a world record.

• Malcolm Spence of South Africa came third at 45.5 seconds, closely followed by X at 45.6 seconds. X, who had been the gold medal contender following his blistering performances in the heat rounds, later lamented “After running perilously fast in lane five, I slowed down at 250 metres. I could not cover the lost ground after that -- and that cost me the race. After the death of my parents, that is my worst memory."

Question 15

Milkha Singh

Question 16

• Jurgen Sparwasser’s international career was 49 matches long, during which he scored 14 goals.

• Perhaps he is most known for a single goal which was exploited politically, but without any personal gains, he later said, ‘’Rumor had it I was richly rewarded for the goal with a car, a house and a cash premium. But none of that is true.’’

• Why was that goal so significant ?

Sparwasser played for East Germany and scored the only goal of the only meeting between East and

West Germany in a FIFA World Cup(1974)

• The springbok is a medium-sized antelope found mainly in southern and southwestern Africa.

• The springbok is characterised by a white face, a dark stripe running from the eyes to the mouth, a light-brown coat marked by a reddish-brown stripe that runs from the upper fore leg to the buttocks across the flanks, and a white rump flap.

• Why is it in a sports quiz?

Question 17

Popular nickname of the South African national rugby team

• In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when Nino Salukvadze of Georgia won the bronze medal in the 10 meter air pistol competition, she stood on the medal podium with Natalia Paderina, a Russian shooter who had won the silver.

• In what became a much-publicized event from the Beijing Games, Salukvadze and Paderina embraced on the podium after the ceremony had ended.

• What was the significance of this event?

Question 18

The Russo-Georgian war broke out on 8th August 2008,

also the opening day of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Question 19

The Ashes

• Evander Holyfield is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1984 to 2011. He reigned as the undisputed champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, being the first and to date only boxer in history to do so, which earned him the nickname of "The Real Deal".

• As an amateur, Holyfield represented the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the light heavyweight division. He turned professional at the age of 21, moving up to cruiserweight in 1985.

• However, he was on the receiving end of a bizarre event on June 28, 1997. What happened?

Question 20

Mike Tyson bit off his ear

• In 2016, X commented on the global significance of the 1972 Z World Championship match against defending champion Y.

• I think the reason you look at such matches probably was not so much the Z factor but to the political element, which was inevitable because in the _____, Z was treated by the authorities as a very important and useful ideological tool to demonstrate the intellectual superiority of the _______ over the decadent West. That’s why the defeat of _____ was treated by people on both sides of the Atlantic as a crushing moment in the midst of the Cold War.

• Id X and Y.

Question 21

X = Bobby Fischer; Y = Boris Spassky

Question 22

Id the sport being played in this picture.

Polocrosse

• X began his wrestling career in the International Wrestling Federation as Terra Ryzing before joining World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1994. Overall, X has won 23 championships in WWE. He is a thirteen-time world champion having won the WWF/E Championship eight times, and the World Heavyweight Championship five times. He was the first World Heavyweight Champion, having been awarded the title in September 2002. In addition, X won the 1997 King of the Ring, the 2002 Royal Rumble, and was the second Grand Slam Championship winner.

• Who is this legend?

Question 23

Triple H

• The men’s hockey final between India and Pakistan in the 1982 Asian Games was a dark day for Indian sports. India lost 1-7 in the match which “brought unprecedented humiliation for India in a sporting arena.”

• The Indian goalkeeper X was literally pilloried by armchair critics, the media and an ignorant public for letting in so many goals. Some of the tabloids even ran headlines crying out that Pakistan had bribed him and that he was a 'traitor‘.

• X went into hiding, only to make a comeback in typical filmy style.• Who?

Question 24

Mir Ranjan NegiThe inspiration for SRK’s character Kabir Khan in Chak De India

• What connects the following sports?1. Baseball/Softball2. Karate3. Skateboarding4. Surfing5. Sport Climbing

Question 25

New sports to be introduced at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

• ______ newspaper Dagens Nyheter unveiled their list of the top 150 ______ sportspersons of all time in 2014.

• X, who came in at no. 2 on the list was clearly disgusted with it and responded to it in typical X style, “Thank you but to finish second is like finishing last. On that list I would have been number one, two, three, four and five, with due respect to the others.“

• Y who was no. 1 is a former world No. 1 tennis player widely considered to be one of the greatest in the history of the sport. He won 6 French Open titles, 5 Wimbledon titles and 4 US Open titles in the 1970s and early 1980s. He never won the Australian Open title though. He also won the Davis Cup with his country in 1975.

• Id X and Y.

Question 26

X=Zlatan Ibrahimovic; Y=Bjorn Borg

A certain George impressed the owner of the Baltimore Oriols, Jack Dunn who wanted him to offer a contract in 1914. As George was only 19 at that time, the law stated that George had to have a legal guardian sign his contract in order for him to play professionally. As a result, Dunn became his legal guardian, leading teammates to jokingly call him "Dunn's new X." The joke stuck, and George quickly earned the nickname "X" and that is how he is famous now.

What is George’s more famous name?

Question 27

George Herman “Babe” Ruth

Question 28

The _________ (often abbreviated The Race) is an annual rowing race between the men's heavyweight rowing crews of X and Y. First contested in 1852, it has been held annually since 1859 except during major wars fought by the United States. The Race is America's oldest collegiate athletic competition and is often considered as the American parallel of The Boat Race which takes place in England between Oxford University and Cambridge University. Originally rowed on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, it has since moved to the Thames River, near New London, Connecticut.

Id X and Y.

Harvard-Yale Regatta or Yale-Harvard Boat Race

Question 29

Funda?

Classification Colour

General Yellow

Points Green

Mountains Polka dots

Young rider White

Different jerseys at the Tour de France

Winner of the yellow jersey is considered the winner of Tour de France

Question 30

• Following slide shows the scorecard of a certain test match. There is only one instance of something in test history happening in this test. What?

India’s famous spin quartet (EAS Prasanna, S Venkatraghavan, B Chandrasekhar, BS Bedi) playing

together in the same match.

The End. Thank You!