This document provides information about an upcoming sports quiz to be held on February 25th at 12 pm in the seminar room. It outlines the rules of the quiz including the number of questions, scoring system, participating teams and their members. It also includes sample questions from different sports along with their answers. The document promotes participation and encourages teams to refrain from using search engines during the quiz.

1. a quiz by
sarthak and achintya
SPORTS
QUIZ
february 25 | 12 pm
seminar room

2. OUR MENTOR
U D I T

3. ● There are a total of 21 questions (12+9)
● +20/-10 for pounce
● +5 for brownie points
● +10/0 for bounce
● Standard pounce rules apply
● Pounce window would be open for 45 seconds
● Pounce would be followed by 30 seconds of bounce
● ReFrAiN FrOm UsInG SeArCh EnGiNeS :)
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RULES

4. TEAMS
TEAM 2
TEAM 1
Yajush
Vaibhav
Rishabh
Shreya
01
Aishani
Nitesh
Ayush
Rajat
TEAM 3
Mihir
Ambika
Zubair
Sweta
TEAM 4
We won’t reach here
02
03
04

5. “This is a quote. Words
full of wisdom that
someone important said
and can make the reader
get inspired”
— SOMEONE FAMOUS

6. Q1
A continental treble (in football) is achieved by a club when it wins its
League, its Domestic Cup Competition, and the Continental Cup
(usually the UEFA Champions League). The last team to complete this
rare set were Bayern Munich in 2020.
However, only one player has managed the unique feat of winning
the treble two seasons in a row, with two different teams.
Identify the player, and the clubs he won the treble with.
Brownie points for guessing the seasons/years.

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8. answer - samuel eto’o
clubs - barcelona (08/09)
& inter milan (09/10)

9. Q2
X is a professional MMA. He is a former UFC featherweight and
double lightweight champion. X set up a world record for winning a
championship bout in mere 13 seconds. X was reportedly the
highest paid athlete by Forbes in 2021, with a reported income of
$180 million.
X is also the biggest pay per view draw in MMA history, having five
out of six highest PPV events
His UFC 229 bout with a fellow russian fighter Y drew 2.4 million
PPV, highest ever for an MMA event. The fight ended with Y
defeating X, followed by a fight carried outside the octagon
ID X and Y

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11. X -Conor mcgregor
Y- khabib nurmagomedov

12. Q3
The following poster belongs to a standalone event from summer
olympics of 1900, Paris
Those summer olympics, are infamous for their ill managed affairs and
poorly conducted sporting events like races on uneven grass tracks and
swimming events conducted in Seine river
It is said that the only existing record of this game is not the official
scorecard, but the scorecard maintained by a member of the winning
team— the national team of France associating with the sport’s
international body only in 1998. The history of this particular
standalone event would have fallen into oblivion had it not been for this
player’s forethought
What sporting event is being talked about and why was it special?
Brownie points for ID the two national teams

13. Q3
image

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15. only cricket match ever
played in olympics,
between france and
great britain

16. Q4
C
O
N
N
E
C
T
Some of the most
prolific athletes in
their discipline,
connected by
off field
events

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18. famous players indulged
in adultery or
extra-marital affairs or
cheated on their
partners

19. Q5
X is a competition started in the happiest country in the world. In
this sport, we need a pair of man and woman (husband and wife
preferred) to run across a track filled with special obstructions.
The sport, not very famous, has quite an interesting reward to it
too, related to a physical attribute of the wife.
Legend goes about the basis of the sport but none is codified.
A 2015 Bollywood Rom-Com set in 1995 represented this sport
with a different name which was also the title of the movie.
Identify X
Brownie points for ID reward/attribute

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21. Wife carrying
competition originated
in finland (1997)
The winner is rewarded
with beer, equivalent to
weight of their partner
on back

22. Q6
John Isner played Nicolas Mahut in the first round of Men’s Singles
event of Wimbledon Championships in 2010. Both players broke
numerous Wimbledon and tennis records in this very game which
included each of them having over ____, a trait Isner was well
known for owing to his height.
However, the game is remembered for a much more significant
reason.
ID the reason
Brownie points for FITB

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24. Longest tennis match
played in history lasting
11 hours and 5 minutes
spread over 3 days
FITB- over 100 aces by
each player

25. Q7
Considered as the greatest sporting event of the century, the
match supposedly had a viewership of 1 billion.
Hype around the match was such that promoter of the event
managed to convince 2 of the cynical African dictators to help
make this event a reality. One of these was Muammar
Gaddafi, who helped arrange the purse money of $5 million.
Another dictator involved allowed for the match to take place
in his country .
Name the sporting event whose original poster is given
below, contested between legendary individuals nicknamed
big george and the greatest
Brownie points for ID the host country

26. Q7
image

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28. Fought between
muhammad ali and
george foreman;
titled-
Rumble in the jungle
Host- DR of Congo

29. Q8
La Catedral was a ‘personal’ prison built by the richest drug
dealer in history. It had multiple guests and celebrities
visiting it while the owner cum prisoner served his term
there. In 1991, he hosted a guest, unarguably the best of his
sport at that time, after he recently lead his country to a
world cup triumph in 1986 with the famous hand of god.
Another player X— of the same country and the same
middle name as the drug dealer, and same sport as the
guest—, part of the 1994 national team endured mob
lynching the same year amidst failing the high expectations
and bets put forth by various illegitimate groups on the
national team
ID X and the event that led to his death

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31. X-Andres ‘escobar’ of
columbia, was killed by
gallon brothers, after he
scored an own goal in the
1994 FIFA world cup

32. Q9
X is a retired German track and field athlete. He is the only athlete to cross
the Centenary mark in his respective sport, a feat which stood as the world
record at the time.
In 1986, new implementations to the sport meant that the records had to be
restarted, with X’s feat being classified as an “eternal world record”.
In 2017, X was hired to train Y, but was sacked in 2021 reportedly due to
dissent remarks made against his employers, despite Y’s outstanding
performances at the Commonwealth & Asian Games, as well as the
Olympics.
ID X and Y.

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34. X - Uwe Hohn
Y - Neeraj Chopra

35. Q10
The X-Miller medal is an award for man of the series given in the
Ashes series, contested between Australia & England. It is named
after the surnames of two great cricketers, X and Keith Miller.
X was a remarkable sportsman, with over 100 first class centuries to
his name.
Y, often hailed as one of the greatest all-rounders of the game and
the greatest English cricketer of all time, also played professional
football for a couple of seasons before retiring. Despite being
routinely dismissed by X as an “overrated player”, Y was crowned
Cricketer of the Year by Wisden in 1978, and went on to receive a
Knighthood for his services to the game
ID X and Y

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37. X - Denis Compton
Y - Sir Ian Botham

38. Q11
X and Y have shared a storied rivalry, considered by many to be the
greatest in tennis history. Entering the Z, the two had combined to
win the previous 14 out of 16 Grand Slams.
Z was the third consecutive year in which the two had met, with X
winning not only the last two, but also the last five editions of said
competition.
Z is often regarded as the greatest match of tennis ever played.
ID X, Y & Z.

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40. X - Roger Federer
Y - Rafael Nadal
Z - 2008 Wimbledon
Men’s Singles Finals

41. Q12
X was an american grandmaster and the eleventh world chess
champion. A chess prodigy, he won the 1958 U.S. Championship for
the first time, and again, with a perfect record in 1964.
Following a failed agreement with FIDE, he refused to defend his title.
Subsequently X disappeared from the public eye though occasional
reports of erratic behavior emerged.
A movie released in 1993, “searching for X” depicting a young prodigy
considered to be the next X. The movie is based on a book written by
the prodigy’s father and follows the early life of next X.
Later in life, he quit the sport and professionally sought martial arts.
ID the next X

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43. X is bobby fischer and
the next X is
josh/joshua waitzkin

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