Satranj Ke Khiladi - The Sports quiz || Finals || Quizagomoni 2018

Quiz Name : Sports Quiz || QuizMasters : Souvik Ghatak and Utsab Guha || Date : 14th October,2018 || Raiganj, Uttar Dinajpur
Rules
Total 25 Questions
First 15– Utsab, Rest – Souvik
Total quiz will be on Pounce Bounce system
Marking - +10/-5

Rules
Set of Utsab Guha starts.....

Question 1
Pil
Rook
Asb
Sharbaz
Shah
Fer
These six are related to a sport X which is used to be made up of
Emerald and Ruby.
X is arguably the ancester of a sports of its kind which is originally
derived from indian Gupta empire,though the rules are more or less
same.
Id the sports.

Sports quiz || Questions by Souvik Ghatak and Chirodip Guha || Date : 14th October,2018
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Quiz Name : Sports Quiz || QuizMasters : Souvik Ghatak and utsab Guha || Date : 14th October,2018 || Raiganj, Uttar Dinajpur
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Quiz Name : Sports Quiz || QuizMasters : Souvik Ghatak and Chirodip Guha || Date : 14th October,2018 || Raiganj, Uttar Dinajpur
Question 2
Ben Foster is an American actor who
appeared in films like The punishing,X
men, Alpha Dog ,Leave no trace etc. But in
2015 he appeared in a biographical film
about X’s lifestyle for whom the four titles
in the movie poster is very much suitable.
Identify the sportsperson.

Ans

Question 3
A Jamaican-Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey once hold the world record for
the 100 meters in just 9.84 secs to win the gold medal in 1996 Olympic games.
Similarly, Michael Johnson was an American sprinter who won four Olympic
gold medals in 200 and 400 meters and eight world championship.
To determine who is faster between them a new format of the game was
invented which is known as Bailey-Johnson X.
X please?

Ans
Space for Questions

Question 4
Robin Soderling in 2010
Roger Federer in 2011
Novak Djokovic in 2012
David Ferrer in 2013
Novak Djokovic in 2014
Put funda with someone else and the specific
incident.

Ans
Lost to Rafael Nadal in French Open for five consecutive winning in Grand Slum.

Question 5
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a
habit.“
- The team of X believes firmly in this adage and also believes that
athletes who are working to achieve their potential can inspire
countless others to strive for excellence and can empower India's
future Olympians. X, who turned 10 years this year, highlights these as
major mission.
Identify X

Space for Questions

Question 6
The most widely accepted legend of a term is that it started in Guelph,
Ontario when the hat company Biltmore Hats was awarding a new hat
to players after they achieved something. Incidentally, the tradition
evolved to the fans who used to throw the hats onto the ice to celebrate
the achievement of the players. Data says, it first appeared in cricket
long before, it came to ice hockey in 1947 in Guelph, Ontario and
eventually is adopted to other sports.
How is this tradition related to sports?

Ans
After the consecutive achievement of a positive feat for THREE TIMES in a sport, the fans
traditionally celebrated it. Eventually the most widely accepted legend of the term "HAT TRICK"
came to sports

Question 7
Simply FITB.
Put Funda

ANS

Question 8
Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical drama film. It tells
the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric
Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of
God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to
overcome prejudice.
The theme tune of this movie may bring us back to our
childhood days when we didn’t use to watch olympic games , but
that meant an imaginary Olympic to us.
Where exactly this tune was used?
PLAY

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Question 9
X's foresight and genius was evidenced yet again in 1893, when he
dared to cross his area of work and constructed the first-ever film
production studio, the Black Maria. Leonard-Cushing Fight (1894) -
Filmed in Black Maria Studio on the 14th of June 1894, this clip
features the much talked fight between LEONARD and CUSHING.
The famous one!
Identify X.
And..Tell me why is this fight famous?

1. Thomas A. Edison2. The first sport to be filmed
was boxing (Leonard-Cushing fight,1894)

Question 10
Most people training for a marathon would never think of
stopping with ten kilometers to go for _ __ _ __ , but most
people aren’t Spyridon Louis, the winner of the marathon in
the first ever modern Olympic games in 1896.Spyridon was
not intially the favorite to win the race. He finished fifth in
the qualifying marathon. In the beginning of final he fell
behind Frenchmen Albin Lermusiaux. But He stopped for _
__ _ __ at town Piekrmi prior to finishing the race and
thereafter he took the lead, astonishingly! Spyridon Louis’s
victory in this way vaulted him to hero status in Greece.

Question 11
The "Legend of the __" is a sports tradition during Detroit red wings
(Ice Hockey team of Detriot) home playoff games involving DEAD ___
thrown onto the ice rink. The origins was in 1952, when a ___ having
eight legs, symbolized the number of playoff wins necessary for the Red
Wings to win the Stanley cup and Pete and Jerry Cusimano, brothers
and storeowners of Detriot's eastern market, hurled an ____ into the
rink. The team WON as well as winning two of the next three
championships.
Since 1952, the practice of throwing ___ is considered LUCKY and has
persisted with each passing year. In one 1995 game, fans threw 36 of
them.

Question 12
Simply put funda.

PLAY

Question 13

Space for Questions

Question 14
Space for Questions

Question 15
X is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent.
★ In 2016, X became a national figure when he ignited a firestorm of controversy by
choosing to kneel on one knee rather than stand while the U.S. national anthem being
played before the start of NFL games.
★In 2018 Y’s decision to X as the face of its latest advertising campaign has left some
sports fans burning with rage.People upset with the move have started setting fire to
their sportswear to protest Y using X to promote its advertising campaign.

1.Who is "X"?
2. Why did he choose to kneel
down then?
3. Name me "Y"?
4. What is Y's motto to make X
their campaign face?
5.What rule did NFL change
after this?

ANS
1. Colin Kaepernick
2. protest of police brutality to kill unarmed black people
3. Nike
4. the motto to rise of the black athletes in america
5.Either U have to stand up during the National Anthem or U mast wait into the locker room.
PLAY

Question 2
Space for Questions

Set of Souvik Ghatak starts....

Format and Pattern
• Question 1-10 – Straight pounce bounce questions
• Question 11-14 – Questions from “ World cup football
history”
• Question 15 – Written round containing 4 questions

Straight Questions
Pounce – bounce format
Marking : +10/-5

Question 1Anton Geesink was a Dutch judo player who became the first
non-Japanese judoka to win gold at the World Judo
Championship, a feat he accomplished in 1961 and 1965. He
was also an Olympic Champion, having won gold at the 1964
Summer Olympics in Japan, and won a record 21 European
Judo Championships during his career.
It is believed that X took coaching under Anton to adapt some
special moves,which he applied later and became world
famous,(the move). Facing that move a Sweden player said “I
played 18 years in top football and seventeen times for Sweden
but that moment against him was the proudest moment of my
career. I thought I'd win the ball for sure, but he tricked me. I
was not humiliated. I had no chance. He was a genius”. Give me
X and the special move? (5+5) (If you give me the Swedish
player extra 5 marks goes to you)

ans
Swedish Player – Jan Olsen

Question 2
A net breaking meme came on internet on the very next day of this particular match,30th
March,2015. Find the connection of this match with a 2014 released film directed by Raj
Kumar Hirani. Watch the scorecard carefully. If you give me the exact meme,full points
goes to you.

Sports quiz || Questions by Souvik Ghatak and Utsab Guha || Date : 14th October,2018
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Question 3
“In the ghetto” is a song by Elvis Presely that was released in 1969. It is
a narrative of generational poverty: a boy is born to a mother who already has
more children than she can feed in the ghetto of Chicago. The boy grows up
hungry, steals and fights, purchases a gun and steals a car, attempts to run, but is
shot and killed just as his own child is born. The song implies that the newborn will
meet the same fate, continuing the cycle of poverty and violence.
An ‘Englishman’ was a huge fan of Elvis, who had a lot of other talents besides
what he used to do, sang this on someones ‘request’ in 2015. What am I talking
about or what is this song doing in a sports quiz?

Question 4
A still from the American comedy sitcom F.R.I.E.N.D.S ( Season 2 episode 1),Where
the guest artist Brooke Sheilds (on screen Erica) licking the hand of Matt LeBlanc.
This particular scene made very angry her then ‘American’ boyfriend who
eventually ended up breaking all his trophies to show his anger. Identify his famous
boyfriend who was dominant in his particular sport from early 1990s to mid 2000s.

Question 5
Basically you don’t expect X to write any romance novel, he wasn’t a novelist either. But
before marrying his fiance in 1795 he wrote one titled ‘Clisson et Eugenie’ which tells a
fictionalized account of the young soldier’s relationship with Bernardine Eugénie
Désirée Clary, whose sister married his brother Joseph. The novel was never published
during his lifetime and following his death, the manuscript was divided into segments
that sold as souvenirs at auction houses in the centuries after.
Y was a German born scientist who had over 6 citizenships and was one of the favourites
to become the president of a particular country in 1952.
If you combine X with Y you’ll get Z who played U-19 cricket for India under the
captaincy of Virat Kohli in 2008,He was also picked up by CSK in the debut season of
IPL as an opening batsman but didn’t play a single game.
Give me Z.

Sports quiz || Questions by Souvik Ghatak and Utsab Guha || Date : 14th October,2018
ANS
+ =
X = Nepoleon Y= Einstein Z = Nepoleon Einstein

Question 6
In 1919 Philladelphia Bulletin published a news title
“When the White turned Black” and thus this
particular incident is known as _____ ___ ______ ( 3
words )where these 8 players eventually sold Baseball
losing intentionally against Cincinnati Reds in 1919
world series in exchange of money from a gambling
syndicate.
Being inspired from this incident John Sayles directed
a movie called _____ ___ ___ ( also 3 words ) in 1988
starring John Cusack,Clifton James,Michael
Lerner,Christopher Lloyd,David Strathairn and D. B.
Sweeney.
Give me both.

Ans
Black Sox scandal

Question 7
Being the only cricketer to climb at Mt. Everest in 2011,he
has a very unique record in odi cricket history to score the
highest run ( 96 of 138 balls ) without hitting a single
boundary or over boundary vs India in Vododhora,1994.
Identify this Kiwi veteran.

Ans
Adam Parore.

Question 8
X

This is the full cast of the movie Octopussy, X acted here as an auto
driver or Bond’s M16 ally in India. In a very little time of his acting
career he never acted in an Indian movie. Other than Octopussy he
also appeared in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
X is a former tennis player whose brother Anand and nephew Stephen
were also in same sport.
Identify this Don Bosco alumny who was awarded the fourth highest
civilian award in 1983?

Question 9
Many test matches in the pre-second World War period were played to a
finish (timeless). The last ever, timeless Test was the 5th Test between
England and South Africa, starting March 5th 1939.After ten days play
spread over eleven days (over 46 hours of cricket) South Africa had set
a target of 696 for England to win.On Tuesday 14th March, as the
players headed off for tea (with rain falling), England were very
comfortably placed at 654-5 ,the highest ever first class fourth innings
score,within 42 runs off victory.However the captains consulted and
the test match was abandoned as a draw for some issues regarding
England cricket team.
Why was the match abandoned?

Ans
The match ended as a draw because the ‘England Team’ had to be on the
train leaving Durban at 8.05 pm otherwise they would have missed the
ship ‘Athlone Castle’ at Cape Town for home.The next ship was a month
away and war was looming.

Question 10
A tweet was made by one of the greatest managers of all time on 26th
February,2014. Resembling that quote so many fanmade posters and trolls were
made. According to that manager he will surely conquer the ultimate
championship of europe if he gets X and 10 other ‘players’.
X was one of the greatest players who won ballon d or,UCL and World Cup too.
The player in the pic is Chris Wood,an infamous EPL midfielder.
Put funda.

Ans

Question 11-14
World Cup Football
Marking is same as before

Question 11
Ernstus Wilhelmus Johannes was a dutch
football player and was an important part
of 1978 football world cup, That was the
only world cup he played but he achieved a
unique feat in a particular group stage
match against Italy which Netherlands
somehow managed to win with a 2-1
margin. Later that same feat was achieved
in the recent edition of world cup by a
Croatian Juventus player.
What am I talking about and who is the
Croatian?

Ans
Scored for his national team and against his national team in the same match for the first time in
world cup.
The Croatian is Mario Mandzukic.

Question 12
There was a myth in 1978 world cup, Where the then Argentine
dictator Jorge Videla & Peru president Francisco Bermudez had
a deal about a particular match. After the match the reactions
from the two teams were completely different. Leopard Luque
from Argentina said “With what I know now,I can’t say I am
proud of my victory. I didn’t realise, most of us didn’t. We played
football”. On the other side a midfielder from Peru Ricky Villa
said “There is no doubt we were used politically”.
Many reports says, If this wouldn’t happen Argentina wasn’t the
favourites to reach the world cup finals in 1978, which they
eventually won.
What particular myth or conspiracy am I talking about or Why
Argentina had to do this?

Ans
Argentina needed 4 goals against Peru to go into the finals as well as to restrict Brazil from
reaching there, The match was fixed and Argentina won in a margin of 6-0.
The unbeaten Brazil had to go out of WC capturing the third position.

Question 13
Alessandro Altobelli was an Italian
striker/winger who was considered to be one
of the promising Italian strikers of all time.
Playing only two world cups he has a unique
feat in World cup history for scoring two
goals, one in 1982 WC and the other one in
1986 WC.
What are the speciality of that two goals?
Hint : He is the only player to do that.

Ans
He scored the last goal of 1982 world cup and scored the very first goal of 1986 world cup

Question 14
Ernst Wilimowski of Poland vs Brazil in 1938, Josef Hugi of Switzerland
vs Austria in 1954 and Igor Belanov of Soviet Union vs Belgium in 1986
achieved which unique but unlucky feat in Football World Cup history?

Ans
Scored a hattrick but eventually lost the match

Written Round
Total 4 Questions
‘Baap baap hota hai,Aur beta beta’
+10/No negative
Full house gives you extra 10

Question 1
In 1977 when Pele came to India to play for New York
Cosmos,In the gallery two veteran indian sports personality
were present. One was the father and the other one was his
four year old son.
The father was an eminent hockey player who represented
India in 1972 munich olympics and ended up winning the
bronze medel.
The son later became world famous in another sports who
has a unique relationship with a bengali author.
Identify the father and the son.

Question 2
X is considered to be one of the greatest sportsperson of all time
in his particular sport. During the 1936 Berlin olympics Hitler
was there to see this legend's play. He was so amused and
confused at the same time that he wanted to see his hockey stick
wheather any of other attachments are there or not,Hitler also
offered him to be Germany's field marshal but he refused.
Y is X's son, one of the unsung heroes of Indian sports, was in
the same sports like his father, There was not much contribution
by him, but he scored the winning goal for India in 1975 WC. Id
X and Y.

Question 3
The highlight of X's career came when he reached the semi-
finals of Wimbeldon twice consecutively (1961 and 1962) and
reached as high as world no.6 in Lance Tangay’s amateur
rankings. He was also the first Indian to win boys single in
Wimbledon.
His son on the other hand,Y,Won both Wimbledon and French
open in Junior career. He also defeated the then world no. 1,
Mats Wilanderat the 1989 Australian Open.
X and Y please?

Question 4
It was a ‘like father,like son’ situation when the world cup and
ballon d or winner brazilian X and his 20 year old son Y scored
in the same match against Macae in Brazilian second division
on 14th July,2014.
The 43 year oldie X retired in 2014 but only came back in this
particular match just to play alongside his son which ended up
scoring by both.
Identify X and Y.

Question 1
In 1977 when Pele came to India to play for New York
Cosmos,In the gallery two veteran indian sports personality
were present. One was the father and the other one was his
four year old son.
The father was an eminent hockey player who represented
India in 1972 munich olympics and ended up winning the
bronze medel.
The son later became world famous in another sports who
has a unique relationship with a bengali author.
Identify the father and the son.

Question 2
X is considered to be one of the greatest sportsperson of all time
in his particular sport. During the 1936 Berlin olympics Hitler
was there to see this legend's play. He was so amused and
confused at the same time that he wanted to see his hockey stick
wheather any of other attachments are there or not,Hitler also
offered him to be Germany's field marshal but he refused.
Y is X's son, one of the unsung heroes of Indian sports, was in
the same sports like his father, There was not much contribution
by him, but he scored the winning goal for India in 1975 WC. Id
X and Y.

Ans
Dhyanchand and Ashoke Kumar

Ans
Ramanathan & Ramesh Krishnan

Ans
Rivaldo and Rivaldinho

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