Prelims of the Sports Quiz of Quizzitch Cup 2020, QuizInc, NIT Durgapur

1. Sports Quiz
Prelims

2. Rules
• 20 questions, each counts for 1 mark, half marks may be awarded for
half answers.
• Mention the team name, name of participants and at least one phone
number.
• Questions 1, 8, 11 and 19 are star marked and will serve as tie
breakers.
• Quizmaster’s decision is final.

3. 1*. ID the company X
• When Stephen Curry entered the NBA, he signed an endorsement deal
with Nike. At the end of the 2013 season, Curry's contract with Nike was up
for renewal
• During the meeting, the Nike officials pronounced his name as Steph-On
instead of Stephen. It got worse from there. A PowerPoint slide featured
Kevin Durant's name, presumably left on by accident. Though his manager,
Dell resolved to “keep a poker face, throughout the entirety of the pitch,
the decision to leave Nike was in the works.”
• He moved to this company X and currently it is expected that his signature
adds $ 14B to the company and this saga is often termed as Nike’s biggest
ever failure and marks the point where the sales of X skyrocketed

6. 2. Connect this exhaustive list of footballers
• Bobby Charlton
• Franz Beckebauer
• Gerd Muller
• Paolo Rossi
• Zinedine Zidane
• Rivaldo
• Ronaldinho
• Kaka

8. Won UCL, Balon D’Or and FIFA World Cup

9. 3. What did Dennis Lillee use?
• The ComBat was a new type of cricket bat and the subject of an incident
that occurred at the WACA cricket ground in Perth in December 1979.
• The bat, manufactured by the company of Dennis Lillee's good
friend Graeme Monaghan, was intended only as a cheap replacement for
traditional cricket bats for schools and developing countries. Nevertheless,
Lillee decided to use it in the Test match as a marketing stunt, and at that
point, there were no rules against using such a bat
• After the game, sales of the bat skyrocketed for a few months, with
Monaghan giving Lillee a small cut of the profits.
• This lasted for only a few months before the Laws of cricket were amended
to prevent the usage of such a bat

11. The bat was made of
aluminium

12. 4. What are these instances of?
( All blanks will be filled by the same word)

14. Mankading

15. 5. These are subsidiaries of which group?

17. City Football Group (Manchester City)

18. 6. ID X , probably the most famous person in
his sport
• In 1964, X failed the U.S. Armed Forces qualifying test because his writing
and spelling skills were sub-standard due to his dyslexia. With the
escalation of the Vietnam War, the test standards were lowered in
November 1965 and X was now eligible for the draft and induction into
the U.S. Army. When notified of this status, he declared that he would
refuse to serve in the U.S. Army.
• X stated that "War is against the teachings of the Holy Qur'an. I'm not
trying to dodge the draft.
• X also famously said in 1966: "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong .
They never called me N*****. Why should they ask me to put on a uniform
and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on
brown people in Vietnam while so-called N**** people in Louisville are
treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?"

20. Muhammad Ali/Cassius Clay

21. 7. ID this brave Indian athlete
• X, a law graduate from KIIT, is the third Indian woman to ever qualify
for the Women's 100 metres event at the Summer Olympic Games.
• In 2018, she clinched silver in women's 100m at the Jakarta Asian
Games.
• In 2019, she became the first Indian sprinter to win gold at
the Universiade, clocking 11.32 seconds in the 100m race
• She currently holds the National Record for completing 100m in
11.22s
• X is India’s first openly gay athlete when she came out as being in a
same sex relationship in 2019

23. Dutee Chand

24. 8*. What is special about the soccer match that
disgraced Chile?
• A few weeks after the coup of 1973, Chile's national soccer team faced a play-off game in
Santiago against the Soviet Union. The winner would go to the 1974 World Cup, in Germany. The
loser would stay home.
• The match was to be held in Chile's National Stadium in Santiago, but there was a problem: in
the weeks since the coup, the Chilean military had transformed the stadium into a detention
camp. Seven thousand political prisoners were being held there.
• The Soviets got wind of this, and they said the stadium was "stained with blood."•
The accusation was, of course, denied by Augusto Pinochet's military junta. So, soccer's
governing body FIFA stepped in to mediate. It sent representatives to Santiago to inspect the
national stadium but somehow the FIFA representatives didn't manage to see a single one of the
detainees.
• FIFA gave the Chilean government a clean bill of health and decreed that the match would go
ahead.
• This symbol of a stadium turned into a concentration camp was like the worst propaganda for
the dictatorship. That awful image went around the world, and the stadium became a metaphor
for Chile's dictatorship."•
• On November 21, 1973, ten weeks after the coup, in an almost empty stadium, the Chilean
players came out to the field. The Chileans kicked off, dribbled down the field, and shot into an
open net.
• High above the stadium, the scoreboard read: Chile 1, Soviet Union 0. Chile went on to play in
the 1974 World Cup

26. The Soviet Union team never showed up but FIFA
had declared that the match would go on
regardless of their presence. The match did not
have an opponent but was still played instead of
being forfeited

27. 9. Who became the first living person to have
his face on the coin of his country?

29. Roger Federer

30. 10.

33. 11*. Legend says it all started in 1908, when Ralph Rose, an Irish
American shot putter, refused to do it at the London Olympics. The
suspicion is that because the Irish team then had to compete under
the Union Jack, he refused to do it for the British officials, in
protest.
For a while after that, this task became a hodgepodge for US. They
did it in Sweden in 1912. They didn’t do it in Belgium in 1920. They
did it again in Paris in 1924.
However, it became a solid tradition for the United States to not do
it in 1936. Then, both the Summer and Winter Olympics were in
Hitler’s Germany.
If that was not enough, in the 1940s it became law. The United
States adopted a federal code that makes it illegal to do it to “any
person or thing.”
ID this activity.

35. ANSWER
To dip or not to dip?

36. 12. The following snap is from the first test of the test
series of India’s first tour of South Africa in 1992, after
the apartheid episode.
This test match was historic because of a certain game
changing moment which came into play for the first
time, as a result of what has been captured in the
picture.
Identify this “game changing moment”
ID the Indian batsman

39. ANSWER
THIRD UMPIRE
SACHIN TENDULKAR- FIRST BATSMAN TO BE
DISMISSED BY A THIRD UMPIRE DECISION

40. 13. On 1st October 1977 football legend Pelé played the very last
match of his impressive career. It was an exhibition match and
was between his two former clubs New York Cosmos and Santos.
The match was played at the New Jersey Giants stadium and
drew a crowd of 77,000 (stadium capacity).
In the first half Santos took the lead, but Pelé managed to score a
goal to equalize the game, this was the final goal in his illustrious
career. During the second half, his replacement Ramon Mifflin
came on and scored another goal to ensure Cosmos won the
game.
Why was Pele replaced in the second half?
Or
What is very special about this match, especially for Pele?

42. ANSWER
PELE PLAYED THE FIRST HALF FOR COSMOS, AND
THE SECOND HALF FOR SANTOS

43. 14. Historians believe that the tradition was started by Thomas Wolsey, an
extremely powerful figure in the court of King Henry VIII. It is believed
Thomas first served strawberries and cream at a banquet in 1509.
Back then dairy products were seen as peasant food by the upper class. It's not
clear why the head chef thought to serve it to the King's court alongside a
handful of strawberries. Researchers think it was down to logistics, as Thomas
would entertain at least 600 guests at a time. The Tudors thought nothing of
eating their way through 44 courses at the dinner table, so a dish that didn't
need much preparation would have been appealing to the palace staff.
Thomas' palace had a tennis court, where staff also served strawberries and
cream to spectators. The combination stuck and nearly 400 years later was
among the offerings at the first ______ in 1877.
Where do you see this tradition?

45. ANSWER

46. 15. Put funda

48. ANSWER
FIRST HUMAN TO RUN A MARATHON (26.2 MILES) IN UNDER 2 HOURS

50. 16. Perhaps that was Pixar’s most ingenious double-
meaning adult joke, a sly reflection on a certain activity
of some sports fans, which make them viral and also
getting them banned from stadiums.
What is this activity, literally demonstrated by Mia and
Tia?

52. ANSWER

53. 17.
• German striker Giuseppe Reina made this insane demand when he
signed for the football club Arminia Bielefeld.
• According to a clause in his contract, the club was contractually
obligated to build a new house for him for every year of his stay.
• However, the club came up with an ingenious method to bypass this
particular clause.
• What did they do to counter the clause above?

55. • They built him a LEGO House for every year of his contract.

56. 18. Some victims of the X curse
• Osama Bin Laden, May 2, 2011 – a day after he scored against
Manchester United
• Steve Jobs, October 5, 2011 – three days after he scored against
Tottenham Hotspur
• Muammar Gaddafi, October 20, 2011 – a day after he scored
against Marseille
• Paul Walker, November 30, 2013 – Same day he scored against
Cardiff
• Robin Williams, August 11, 2014 – the day after he scored against
Manchester City
• David Bowie, January 10, 2016 – a day after he scored against
Sunderland
• Alan Rickman, January 14 2016 – a day after he scored against
Liverpool
X is a former Arsenal midfielder, currently in Juventus. ID X

58. ANSWER

59. 19*.
• Nike's 2005 "Touch of Gold" ad had Ronaldinho put on Nike shoes
with actual gold on them, and go on to demonstrate some exquisite
skills.
• The most renowned skill, however, was him hitting the crossbar 4
times in a row, which caused a huge frenzy on YouTube.
• However, this ad is in the history books for a completely different
reason. Identify the reason.

61. • First YouTube video to hit one million views.

62. 20.

64. • Ole Gunnar Solksjaer’s next permanent job.