Sports Quiz finals

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Finals of the Sports Quiz held in Hansraj as part of its quiz fest.

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2. ANSWERS 3. 1. Deodhar2. Klitschko3. Ernst Happel4. Hank Greenberg5. Nikki Lauda6. Herman Maier 4. Clockwise 5. X had played only five times in as many years for his country before thetournament; after scoring a hat-trick on his international debut, in a WorldCup qualifier, he was not picked again for three years. Eventually when he wasrecalled to the national side for the world cup he had scored only oneinternational goal in 53 months. He didnt receive a Golden Boot at the end ofthe tournament: in those days there was no formal presentation, and he had tomake do with an air rifle from a local newspaper. Forty years later he received agolden boot from Gary Lineker as part of a television programme tracing thehistory of the award. X has regularly dismissed the idea that goals were a cheaper currency in his day."No, it wasnt easier to score back in the day," he said, possibly 0.00000000004seconds after watching a video of David Luiz. "The state of the ball, the lengthof the trip over and the amateurism of the backroom staff made everythingmuch more complicated than today. I had somebody elses boots as well. Andthe last great World Cup scorer, Ronaldo, played against teams such as Chinaand Costa Rica. Above all else, referees protect strikers much more than theydid in my day. So let me repeat it:. Beating my record? I dont think it can everbe done." 6. Just Fontaine 7. X began his career in 1770. X could appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against itsopponent, as well as perform the knights tour, a puzzle that requires the player to move a knight to occupy every square of a chessboard exactly once. X has defeated the likes of Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte holding the distinct record of being the only player to defeat Napoleon. X had a distinguished career touring Austria and Prussia and playing kings Fredrick The Great and Joseph II. Give me X? 8. The Turk 9. X is the first squash player to have won the World Junior titletwice; in 1999 and 2001 under the tutelage of Richard Glanfield.She remained the only female squash player to have achievedthis, until Raneem El Weleily emulated Xs feat by winning hersecond World Junior Championship in 2007. Xjoined WISPA and turned professional in 2000 when she wonher first WISPA title, after only a month in the tour. The victorycame in February, when she defeated Salma Shabana in the finalof the Savcor Finnish Open. On 7 June 2008, X was honouredwith the Order of Merit (Darjah Bakti) or D.B. in conjunctionwith the birthday of the His Majesty Tuanku Mizan ZainalAbidin. She was the first recipient of the award which wasestablished on 26 June 1975. X was also invited to carry theOlympic torch for Malaysia during the build up to the AthensOlympics in 2004 and being appointed as UNDP NationalGoodwill Ambassador for Malaysia. 10. Nicol David 11. The opening ceremony of the 2011 IAAF WorldChampionships ceremony culminated with the playing of acommemorative video for the late X. Posters of X hadstreamed the _____, the host city, weeks before the event.Brochures about his life had been circulated in the publicin this remote city. World great soprano Sumi Jo sang touplift the spectators hearts. "They could stop our musicians from playing our songs.They could stop our singers and silence our speakers," Xsaid before he died. "But they could not stop me fromrunning." 12. Sohn Kee Chung/ Son Heitai 13. -------- ---- 14. World record dismissals 15. In 1992, Alvernaz Alemao was caught with a cargo ofgold and was killed after a struggle with a CustomsOfficer. So powerful was the hold of the Alemao family in theregion that when the Customs Officer went to theColva Police Station to seek protection, they refused toentertain him. Alvernazs brother____ Braz Alemao is an MP fromMarmagao and an alleged gangster. FITB 16. Churchill( of the bros. fame) 17. Simply ID 18. Luiciano Aymar 19. Mams was a semi legendary child martyr of the 3rdcentury. He was tortured for his faith by the governorof Caesarea and was then sent before the RomanEmperor Aurelian, who tortured him again. Thelegend states that an angel then liberated him andordered him to hide himself on a mountain nearCaesarea. Mammes was later thrown to the lions, butmanaged to make the beasts docile. The clubs stadium was built near a church called SanMams thereby giving the club the nickname TheLions. Which club? 20. . X played in the National Football League for 14 seasons, with five differentteams. In his prime, X was 61" and 188 lbs., known for his speed, agility, andpass-catching ability. He got his professional start in 1925 with the MilwaukeeBadgers, where he became famous as the "Vagabond Halfback" for his off-the-field behavior and spontaneity. In 1926 and 1927 he played for the YEskimos, and in 1928 he played with the Pottsville Maroons. Between 1929 and1936 he played with the Green Bay Packers, with whom he won fourchampionships. In 1937, he moved on to the Pittsburgh Steelers (then calledthe Pirates), where on his first play he ran back a kick 92 yards for atouchdown. He ended his NFL career in 1939 as the head coach of the Pirates.Xs spontaneous and bizarre behavior didnt stop with his football career. Onone occasion, out of boredom, he climbed to the top of a train, walked to theengineers car, dropped through the ceiling, and spent the rest of the tripentertaining the drivers. In the Second World War, McNally served asa cryptographer in India. He returned to Saint Johns at age 42 to finish hiseconomics degree and write a textbook on the subject. He again came in newsin the year 2008 because of a movie. 21. Exhaustive list of people to have won the 5000m and 10000m at the same olympics 22. Jos Carlos Pace was a racing driver from Brazil. He participated in 73 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on March 4, 1972. He won one race, achieved six podiums, and scored a total of 58 championship points. He also secured one pole position. How is he immortalized in F1 history? 23. Interlagos has been renamed theCarlos Pace circuit. 24. . Made his debut for the Indian cricket team on the tour of Pakistan 89-90. But injuries - not helped by an extremely long run-up - took their toll and he didnt appear again in that series. In 1990 he worked with Frank Tyson on remodelling his approach to the wicket, and returned with a shorter run, less pace but much-improved control. He returned to the Indian one-day side in 1993 but was again cast aside the following year, his place not helped by his reputation as a poor fielder. 25. LEquipe, the main sponsor of the Tour de France, hasa yellow newsprint which, in turn, gives the colour forthe jersey of the leader of each stage in thecompetition.In a similar vein, X, the title sponsor of Y, has a pinknewsprint which, in turn, gives the colour for the jerseyof the leader of each stage in the competition.X and Y? 26. X-La Gazzeta del SportoY-Giro dItalia 27. Video 2 28. Isle of Man TT 29. X, born 24 September 1962 is the football manager ofGlasgow Rangers and former player. X began his careerwith St Johnstone before moving to Sunderland in 1981. Hereturned to Scotland two years later and signedwith Rangers. At Rangers, X became the clubs recordgoalscorer, netting 355 goals. In addition to this X holds theRangers records for number of league goals scored, numberof Scottish League Cup goals scored and the most goalsscored by a player in European competitions with 251, 54and 21 respectively. X is also third in the all-timeappearance table for Rangers, having made 581 appearancesfor the club. Id X. Perhaps better known now day for something else. 30. Ally McCoist(lends his voice forFIFA commentary) 31. ANTICLOCKWISE 32. The X Championships is an internationaltennis tournament that has been held every year in Julysince 1976 at Newport, Rhode Island. Originally part ofthe Grand Prix tennis circuit from 1976-1989, it features a32-player singles draw and a doubles tournament. Eachyear that the tournament has been held there is aninduction ceremony for the X. The tournament is held ongrass courts, and is the last grass court tournament of theseason on the ATP tour and the only grass courttournament played outside of Europe. Previous winners ofthis tournament have been Rajeev Ram, LeanderPaes,Fabrice Santoro and Mardy Fish. What tournament? 33. ATP Hall of Fame Tournament 34. 2010 Philippine House of Representatives election at SaranganiPartyCandidateVotes PercentagePCM X 120,05266.35%SARRO Roy Chiongbian60,899 33.65% Valid votes180,59197.57% Invalid or blank votes4,4992.43% Totals 180,951 100.00%PCM gain from SARRO 35. The club was originally founded on 26 April 1903 as X bythree Basque students living in____. These founders sawthe new club as a youth branch of their childhoodteam,Athletic Bilbao. In 1904, they were joined by dissidentmembers of________. They began playing in blue andwhite, similarly to Athletic Bilbao. One plausible account ofthe reason to change colours is that both AthleticBilbao and X used to buy Y blue and white kits inEngland. Once in 1911, Juanito Elorduy, former player andmember of the board of X, went to buy kits for both teams.He did not find Ys kits and bought Zs red and white onesinstead.. X, Athletic Madrid adopted the red and whiteshirt but kept Xs blue shorts. Give X,Y,Z 36. X-Atletico MadridY-Blackburn RoversZ- Southampton 37. ID guy on the right 38. Dr. Robert CadeCreator of Gatorade 39. Put funda. Or give missing guy Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia, a seven-time world champion boxer atthree different weight classes Josh Barnett, an American heavyweight mixed martial arts fighter anda professional wrestler Isiah Thomas, a retired American professional basketball player andcoach in the NBA Danny Graves, a relief pitcher for the Minnesota Twins organization Jimmy McLarnin, two-time welterweight boxing champion of the worldin the 1930s. Stephen Curry (basketball), played 4 years in Davidson, current Rookiefor the Golden State Warriors Fergal OBrien, a snooker player Brian Lee (ice hockey), a professional ice hockey player for the OttawaSenators, known for his frequent hits. 40. An attempt to popularise the sport in Great Britain was carriedout by Channel 4, who commissioned a programme dedicated tothe sport. The show in the early 1990s, however, failed to captureviewer attention despite fixtures such as West Bengal Policeversus the Punjab. The show was axed in 1992, but not before itspresenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy suffered a collapsed lung whileparticipating in the sport. Alt-rock band The Cooper TempleClause formed a team in 2001 and was, at one stage, rankedseventh in the British domestic standings. The game is alsoplayed extensively in the small town of Peebles in the ScottishBorders, mainly in the local primary school playground, where itis favoured to more traditional childhood past-times such asBritish bulldogs and Kiss, Cuddle and Torture. 41. Kabaddi 42. . X is a first-class cricket team based in Colombo, SriLanka. It was founded in 1888. The name "X" is derivedfrom the fact it was intended to be open to anyoneunlike other Colombo-based clubs such as SinhaleseSports Club, Moors Sports Club and Tamil UnionCricket & Athletic Club which used to be aligned witha particular ethnic group at the time. The notableplayers of X include Russel Arnold, Lasith Malinga,Michael Vandort, Aravinda De Silva and AvishkaGunawardane among others. X? 43. Nondescripts Cricket Club 44. The first recorded instance of the term ____" being used was to describe E.King Gill and his actions in Dallas on 2 January 1922, at the Dixie Classic, theforerunner of the Cotton Bowl Classic. Texas A&M played defending nationalchampion Centre College in the first post-season game in the southwest. Inthis hard fought game, which produced national publicity, anunderdog Aggie team was slowly but surely defeating a team which boastedthree All-Americans. Unfortunately, the first half produced so many injuries forA&M that Coach D. X. Bible feared he wouldnt have enough men to finish thegame, so, he called into the Aggie section of the stands for E. King Gill, areserve who had left football after the regular season to play basketball. Gill,who was spotting players for reporters at the time and was not in footballuniform, willingly volunteered. When the game ended with an A&M victory,2214, E. King Gill was the only man left standing on the sidelines for theAggies. Gill later said, "I wish I could say that I went in and ran for the winningtouchdown, but I did not. I simply stood by in case my team needed me."Although he did not actually play in the game, his readiness to play wasnoted. [pic on next slide] 45. Origin of the phrase 12th man 46. ID 47. Aleksandr Karelin Only wrestler to have won 3 Olympic Golds 48. ___________ 70.3 Panama 12th Februrary 2012Results for a certain event.Simply ID X. 49. Lance Armstrong 50. Video 3 The scene is from Martin Scorseses Color of Money.According to X , he was inspired by this scene[thedialogue that comes immediately afterwards] to namehis very famous creation Y Id X and Y 51. X - John Carmack Y - Doom 52. Although shy and insecure as a teenager, adult X became well-known for his womanizing. In 1991, X wrote his secondautobiography, A View from Above. There, the lifelong bachelorclaimed he had sex with 20,000 women. For this to be true, hewould have had to have had sex with 1.37 women per day fromthe age of 15 up until the year of the autobiographyspublishing, a rate of over nine women a week. He quickly becamea target for jokes and jibes, and tennis superstar ArthurAshe was highly critical, Chamberlain defended himself: "I wasjust doing what was naturalchasing good-lookingladies, whoever they were and wherever they were available" andpointed out he never started a relationship with a marriedwoman. According to Rod Roddewig, a contemporary of Xs, the20,000 number was created when he and X were staying in Xspenthouse in Honolulu during the mid-eighties.[contd] 53. They stayed at the penthouse for 10 days, over the course of which herecorded everything on his Daytimer. For every time X went to bed witha different girl he put a check in his daytimer. After those 10 days therewere 23 checks in the book, which would be rate of 2.3 women per day.He divided that number in half, to be conservative and correcting fordegrees of variation. He then multiplied that number by the amount ofdays he had been alive at the time minus 15 years. Which was how the20,000 number came into existence.[18] In a 1999 interview shortly before his death, X regretted not havingexplained the sexual climate at the time of his escapades, and warnedother men who admired him for it, closing with the words: With all ofyou men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies ispretty cool, I have learned in my life Ive found out that having onewoman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.[X alsoacknowledged he never came close to marrying, and had no intentionof raising any children .Give me X 54. Wilt Chamberlain 55. Boston Red2007 Jon LesterDiagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2006 SoxRocco Tampa BayDiagnosed with a mitochondrial disorder that causes2008BaldelliRays chronic muscle fatigue ChrisSt. LouisHad Tommy John surgery and nerve problems in his right,2009 CarpenterCardinalsthrowing armJoaqun Tampa Bay2010 Sat out a year after a rotator cuff tear Benoit Rays Tony2011 Diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma as a child Campana 56. Tony Conigliaro Award forComeback of the Year 57. DIFFERENTIAL 2n+5 where n is no. of non answering teams 58. In the evening of 19th July, Boris Onischenko was alleged to havecheated in the modern pentathlon and was expelled from theOlympic Games after officials discovered his weapon was wiredto score a hit without touching his opponent. In an astonishingincident that destroyed the Soviet Unions chances of repeatingtheir Munich gold medal win in the event, 38-year-old BorisOnischenko was found to have a piece of wire concealed on hispe to trigger the electronic scoring machine. He was fightingBritains Jim Fox in the second round of the fencing when hetook a lunge at his tall, fair-haired opponent. The Briton steppedback without being touched and stood amazed as a lightsignalled the Russian has scored a hit. However, this quite astounding incident was overshadowed byanother incident on the same day. Which very famous incident? 59. His fear of flying very nearly caused X to miss the Olympic Games that madehim a superstar. When he was told that travelling to the Games by both sea andland was not possible, he decided that he could do without the games. Finally, Joe Martin, a policeman by profession from his home town, who tookhim out to a public park and had a long talk for a couple or three hours. There,he calmed him down and told him that if he is to excel in his sport it isimperative that he go to the Games. So X travelled to the Games by aeroplane. But he came prepared. Beforedeparting he visited an army surplus store and purchased a parachute, whichhe kept strapped on throughout the flight. Accounts differ as to Xs behaviouronce the flight was airborne. Joe Martins son, Joe Jr, claims that during a roughflight X prayed in the aisle with the parachute on his back. Others recall Xdistracting himself from his fears by holding forth on the flight and decreeingwho among the team would win a gold medal. Obviously he included himselfin this select group. X? 60. Gold Fever was the name of a BBC documentary shown inAugust 2000, which followed X in the years leading up tothe Sydney Olympics. The 3-part series included videodiaries recording the highs and lows in the quest for gold. A follow-up documentary programme entitled _____ wasproduced in the aftermath of the Sydney Olympics. Thetitle was part-reference to a fictional public house, TheRovers Return, a venue in a long-running British soapopera called Coronation Street. The documentary detailedthe crews return to the UK and completed the Gold Feverstory. ID X. 61. . Jennifer Irwin is an Australian costume designer. Her career spans 30 years. In 1984 she was awarded a theatre Board Grant to study at La Scala Opera, Milan. In 2001 she was awarded a Centenary Medal for service to community and has been nominated for 10 Green Room and 2 Helpmann Awards. 62. X competed in the 1912 Olympics and was the US national all-aroundathlete in 1914, 1916 and 1918. Rising to president of the AmateurAthletic Union, he subsequently served as the fifth president ofthe International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972 the onlyAmerican to hold the post . X is likely to be best remembered for hisinsistence that the Games of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munichcontinue following the terrorist massacre of Israeli athletes there adecision for which he was both praised and criticized though gainednotoriety for a different reason when he was United States OlympicCommittee in 1936 Berlin Olympics for removing from the USswimming squad on charges of misbehaviour but decades later,Eleanor Holm confided in fellow Olympian Dave Sime that EleanorHolms grudge stemmed from an incident in which he propositionedher sexually and she turned him down. Give me X ? 63. ANSWERS 64. In the evening of 19th July, Boris Onischenko was alleged to havecheated in the modern pentathlon and was expelled from theOlympic Games after officials discovered his weapon was wiredto score a hit without touching his opponent. In an astonishingincident that destroyed the Soviet Unions chances of repeatingtheir Munich gold medal win in the event, 38-year-old BorisOnischenko was found to have a piece of wire concealed on hispe to trigger the electronic scoring machine. He was fightingBritains Jim Fox in the second round of the fencing when hetook a lunge at his tall, fair-haired opponent. The Briton steppedback without being touched and stood amazed as a lightsignalled the Russian has scored a hit. However, this quite astounding incident was overshadowed byanother incident on the same day. Which very famous incident? 65. Nadia Comanecis perfect 10 66. His fear of flying very nearly caused X to miss the Olympic Games that madehim a superstar. When he was told that travelling to the Games by both sea andland was not possible, he decided that he could do without the games. Finally, Joe Martin, a policeman by profession from his home town, who tookhim out to a public park and had a long talk for a couple or three hours. There,he calmed him down and told him that if he is to excel in his sport it isimperative that he go to the Games. So X travelled to the Games by aeroplane. But he came prepared. Beforedeparting he visited an army surplus store and purchased a parachute, whichhe kept strapped on throughout the flight. Accounts differ as to Xs behaviouronce the flight was airborne. Joe Martins son, Joe Jr, claims that during a roughflight X prayed in the aisle with the parachute on his back. Others recall Xdistracting himself from his fears by holding forth on the flight and decreeingwho among the team would win a gold medal. Obviously he included himselfin this select group. X? 67. Cassius Clay 68. Gold Fever was the name of a BBC documentary shown inAugust 2000, which followed X in the years leading up tothe Sydney Olympics. The 3-part series included videodiaries recording the highs and lows in the quest for gold. A follow-up documentary programme entitled _____ wasproduced in the aftermath of the Sydney Olympics. Thetitle was part-reference to a fictional public house, TheRovers Return, a venue in a long-running British soapopera called Coronation Street. The documentary detailedthe crews return to the UK and completed the Gold Feverstory. ID X. 69. Sir Steven Redgrave 70. . Jennifer Irwin is an Australian costume designer. Her career spans 30 years. In 1984 she was awarded a theatre Board Grant to study at La Scala Opera, Milan. In 2001 she was awarded a Centenary Medal for service to community and has been nominated for 10 Green Room and 2 Helpmann Awards. 71. She designed Cathy Freemans fullbody suit for the Sydney Olympics 72. X competed in the 1912 Olympics and was the US national all-aroundathlete in 1914, 1916 and 1918. Rising to president of the AmateurAthletic Union, he subsequently served as the fifth president ofthe International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972 the onlyAmerican to hold the post . X is likely to be best remembered for hisinsistence that the Games of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munichcontinue following the terrorist massacre of Israeli athletes there adecision for which he was both praised and criticized though gainednotoriety for a different reason when he was United States OlympicCommittee in 1936 Berlin Olympics for removing from the USswimming squad on charges of misbehaviour but decadeslater, Eleanor Holm confided in fellow Olympian Dave Sime thatEleanor Holms grudge stemmed from an incident in which hepropositioned her sexually and she turned him down. Give me X ? 73. Avery Brundage