Cut Off for Prelims was 13.5

1. OPEN SPORTS QUIZ –
GARGI COLLEGE | 10.02.2018
CITIUS ALTIUS FORTIUS

2. PRELIMS
• 30 questions in total
• Q’s 1-10 are starred
• +1 for every correct answer
• 6 teams qualify for the finals
• Prelims scores carry forward to the finals (*5)

3. Q’S 1-5 –
ANSWERS START WITH
G
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4. 1. THE LADY IN THE PICTURE HAPPENS TO BE THE YOUNGEST
INDIAN TO PLAY INTERNATIONAL CRICKET; SHE ALSO HOLDS
ANOTHER OFTEN TALKED ABOUT RECORD – ONE THAT SHANE
WARNE IS IN POSSESSION OF, AMONGST MEN. WHO AND WHAT
RECORD?

5. GARGI BANERJI | MOST RUNS SCORED IN
TEST MATCHES WITHOUT SCORING A TON

6. 2.
NAME THE SHORTEST FIRST PICK IN THE
NBA DRAFT EVER.

7. ALLEN IVERSON

8. 3. WHO WOULD BECOME THE LATEST
ENTRANT TO THIS EXHAUSTIVE LIST ON
APRIL 8, 2018?
20082000-07 2016

9. RONDA ROUSSEY; OLYMPIC MEDALISTS
WHO HAVE COMPETED AT WRESTLEMANIA

10. 4. SON MADE HEADLINES IN INDIA DURING LAST YEAR’S FIFA U -17 WC;
FOR FULL POINTS, NAME HIS FATHER THOUGH WHO AMONGST OTHER
THINGS WON HIS COUNTRY’S GENERAL ELECTIONS TO BECOME
PRESIDENT-ELECT RECENTLY.

11. GEORGE WEAH

12. 5. WHAT 2 WORDED PHRASE WAS FIRST USED FOR JOE
MCGINNITY (PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF HIS PROFESSION)?
IT CAME TO CONVEY HIS LONGEVITY AND DURABILITY,
AS HE ROUTINELY PITCHED IN BOTH GAMES
OF DOUBLEHEADERS AND THUS LATER LEGENDS LIKE
LOU GEHRIG WERE REFERRED BY THE SAME.

13. IRON MAN

14. 6. CALLED ‘THE BORGO’, THIS IS AN 800-YEAR-
OLD RESTORED SITE WITH UNPARALLELED VIEWS
OF HISTORICAL SITES AND TRANQUIL VALLEYS.
WHY DID IT SPUR IN TO SPORTING
FOLKLORE RECENTLY?

16. 7. WHAT RECENT WORK/ INTERNET
PHENOMENON, IS INSPIRED FROM THIS
POPULAR 1970S ARCHIES NUMBER?

18. 8. THERE ARE 8 PLAYERS WHO HAVE WON ALL MAJORS,
ALBEIT WIMBLEDON – THUS MISSING OUT ON A CAREER
GRAND SLAM. HAVE MENTIONED 6 OF THEM HERE - NAME
THE MISSING 2.

19. JUSTIN HENIN AND STAN WAWRINKA

20. 9. WHAT TWO WORDED TERM IS USED TO
DESCRIBE THE GROUP OF PEOPLE IN (1)
AND WHAT’S HAPPENING IN (2)?
IT IS MORE COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE
A PHYSICAL FEATURE – OFTEN ASPIRED BY,
MANY A FITNESS ENTHUSIASTS.

21. SIX PACK (THAT’S KAROLYI’S SIX PACK AND THE
OTHER PICTURES DENOTES THE TERM USED WHEN
ONE IS HIT DIRECTLY BY THE SPIKE IN VOLLEYBALL)

22. 10. SCREENSHOTS OF TWEETS BEFORE THE ACCOUNT
WAS DELETED!
WHO? WHY WERE THEY BROUGHT UP RECENTLY?

23. PHIL NEVILLE | APPOINTMENT AS
COACH OF ENGLAND WOMENS TEAM

24. 11. IDENTIFY THIS TENNIS PLAYER

25. TENNYS SANDGREN

26. 12. WHO OR WHAT IS THE ONGOING ‘1875
PROTEST’ IN ENGLISH FOOTBALL AIMED
AGAINST?

27. VENKY; SUPPORTERS OF BLACKBURN,
CURRENTLY LANGUISHING IN THE
CHAMPIONSHIP

28. 13. WHAT LIST IS MENTIONED BELOW?
1998 – No one
2002 – No one
2006 – Neha Ahuja, Hira Lal and Bahadur Gupta
2010 – Jamyang Namgiyal and Tashi Lundup
2014 – Himanshu Thakur and Nadeem Iqbal
2018 – Jagdish Singh

29. TEAMMATES OF SHIVA KESAVAN AT WINTER
OLYMPICS | INDIAN WINTER OLYMPIANS
APART FROM SK

30. 14. THIS IS ALEX ZANARDI’S F1 CAREER; MANY BELIEVE THAT
HIS BEST YEARS WERE AHEAD OF HIM WHEN HE WAS FORCED IN
TO RETIREMENT FROM MOTORSPORTS IN 2002. THAT DIDN’T
QUITE DETER HIM THOUGH AS AROUND A DECADE LATER, HE
ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING UNIQUE.
WHAT CUT HIS CAREER SHORT? WHAT ACHIEVEMENT ARE
WE TALKING ABOUT?

31. ONLY F1 DRIVER TO WIN A MEDAL AT
OLYMPICS / PARALYMPICS

32. 15.
WHICH TWO GROUNDS IN ENGLAND HAVE HOSTED A FA
CUP FINAL, ENGLAND FOOTBALL INTERNATIONAL AND A
CRICKET TEST MATCH?

33. BRAMALL LANE AND THE OVAL

34. 16. SCOTLAND ON THE LEFT; INDIA ON THE
RIGHT. WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT HERE?

35. FAN CLUBS OF NATIONAL FOOTBALL
TEAMS
TARTAN ARMY & BLUE PILGRIMS

36. 17. TALK ABOUT WEIRD NAMES FOR
CHILDREN.
Who rather aptly named his newborn
after the primary equipment used in his
sport; albeit it kind of backfired because
of the gender of the newborn and to be
honest if one were to be prophetic, the
kid stands to being teased all of his life
because of the name.

37. LIN DAN NAMED HIS KID XIAO YU –
LITTLE (SHUTTLE)COCK

38. 18.
This adjective is used to
describe a move, player, or
style of play characterized by
risky, positionally dubious play
that sets traps for the
opponent. The name comes
from the notion that one would
expect to see such play
in skittles games played in
recreational places.
Person in picture should serve
as a hint.

39. COFFEEHOUSE

40. 19. WHO IS THIS ‘LEGEND’ AMUL IS
PAYING HOMAGE TO HERE?

41. VIJAY GOEL

42. 20. BELOW IS A FIRST CLASS XI PUT TOGETHER BY
A FEW CRICKET STATISTICIANS – WHAT IS THE
CRITERIA TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS TEAM?
• Aiden Markram (c)
• Joseph Renner
• Charles Mallam
• Christiaan Kok
• Ralston Otto
• Marthinus Otto
• Wayne Noon (wk)
• Rangy Nanan
• Munish Arora
• Sandeep Dahad
• Keegan Nanan

43. PALINDROME XI

44. 21-24 ARE GOOGLE DOODLES
COMMEMORATING SPORTING
ACHIEVEMENTS/MOMENTS/ICONS

45. 21.

46. SUZZANNE LENGLEN

47. 22.

48. FIRST TEST MATCH

49. 23.

50. LEONIDAS’ BICYCLE KICK

51. 24.

52. DUKE KAHANAMOKU

53. 25-30. RELATED MEDALISTS FROM 2016
RIO OLYMPICS. SURNAME FOR POINTS.

54. 25.

55. PETER AND LADISLAV SKANTAR
(CANOEING)

56. 26.

57. TIRUNESH (10000M) AND GENZEBE
DIBABA (1500M)

58. 27.

59. LAURA TROTT(OMNIUM & TEAM PURSUIT)
AND JASON KENNY(TEAM SPRINT,
INDIVIDUAL SPRINT & KEIRIN)

60. 28.

61. CATE (4*100MFREE AND 4*100M MEDLEY) &
BRONTE CAMPBELL(4*100MFREE)

62. 29.

63. KATE & HELEN RICHARDSON WALSH
(FIELD HOCKEY)

64. 30.

65. ASHTON (DECATHLON) & BRIANNE
THEASON-EATON (HEPTATHLON)

66. SEE YOU IN THE FINALS

67. FINALS
Round 1 – List It(s)
Round 2 – Infinite Pounce 1 (8)
Round 3 – Themed Visual Round(s)
Round 4 – Maha Connect
Round 5 – Infinite Pounce II (8)

68. ROUND 1 – LIST IT(S)
You would have 2 minutes to answer each
of the List Its; number of variables are
mentioned in the Q slide. Each correct
answer will fetch you 5 points; Bonus of
10 for getting (n-2) or more correct.

69. LIST IT I – FEMALE RECIPIENTS OF THE
RAJIV GANDHI KHEL RATNA AWARD
1994-95
1995-96
1998-99
2002 (2)
2003
2009
2010
2015
2016 (3)

70. LIST IT 2 – RIDERS WITH 3 OR MORE
TOUR DE FRANCE WINS
Wins Editions
5
1957, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964
1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974
1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985
1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995
4 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
3
1913, 1914, 1920
1953, 1954, 1955
1986, 1989, 1990

71. AND THE ANSWERS ARE

72. 1994-95 KARNAM MALLESHWARI
1995-96 KUNJRANI DEVI
1998-99 JYOTIRMOYEE SIKDAR
2002 KM BEENAMOL & ANJALI
VEDPATHAK BHAGWAT
2003 ANJU BOBBY GEORGE
2009 MARY KOM
2010 SAINA NEHWAL
2015 SANIA MIRZA
2016 PV SINDHU, DIPA KARMAKAR
& SAKSHI MALIK

73. 5 JACQUES ANQUETIL (FRA)
EDDY MERCKX (BEL)
BERNARD HINAULT (FRA)
MIGUEL INDURAIN (ESP)
4 CHRIS FROOME (GBR)
3 PHILIPPE THYS (BEL)
LOUISON BOBET (FRA)
GREG LEMOND (USA)

74. INFINITE POUNCE
Regular Pounce Rules (+/-10)
Questions go clockwise

75. 1. BELOW IS A CI PROFILE OF SOMEONE WHO IS PERHAPS
BEST REMEMBERED FOR SCORING THE FIRST EVER DUCK IN
TEST CRICKET EVER. HE DID SOMETHING THOUGH, IN 1870
WHICH ANOTHER TEST CRICKETER (IN PIC) DID IN 1996.
WHAT DID THEY BOTH DO? HOW IS (1)S INDULGENCE
MORE APT?

76. AND THE ANSWER IS

77. NAMED THEIR NEWBORN ‘SYDNEY’
SYD GREGORY WAS BORN IN 1870 IN
SYDNEY CRICKET GROUND

78. 2. IN 1863, BELL’S LIFE IN
LONDON PUBLISHED A PIECE ABOUT THE
SPORT OF RUGBY WHICH FEATURES THE
FIRST RECORDED USE OF THIS 3 WORDED
PHRASE.
GENTLEMAN IN THE PIC THOUGH IS KNOWN FOR
POPULARISING IT IN ITS CURRENT FORM*
WHAT PHRASE ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? ALSO,
IDENTIFY THE PLAYER.

79. AND THE ANSWER IS

80. THE BEAUTIFUL GAME; DIDI

81. 3. WHAT CONTINGENT’S OLYMPIC
MEDAL TALLY IS LISTED BELOW?

82. AND THE ANSWER IS

83. MIXED TEAMS
EARLY MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES ALLOWED FOR
INDIVIDUALS IN A TEAM TO BE FROM
DIFFERENT NATIONS. THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC
COMMITTEE (IOC) GROUPED THEIR RESULTS TOGETHER
UNDER THE MIXED TEAM DESIGNATION (IOC CODE ZZX)

84. 4. JAMES JOYCE APPARENTLY ATTENDED AN
‘INVINCIBLES’ GAME AT PARIS AND WAS
INSPIRED TO WRITE THE FOLLOWING IN HIS
NEXT NOVEL – ‘FINNEGANS WAKE’
WHO ARE THESE INVINCIBLES AND WHAT
SPECIFICALLY INSPIRED JOYCE?
LET US PROPEL US FOR THE FREY OF THE
FRAY! US, US, BERADDY …..

85. AND THE ANSWER IS

86. 1924-25 NEW ZEALAND RUGBY TEAM
THAT WAS THEIR VERSION OF THE
HAKA

87. 5. THE TWO BATSMEN IN PICTURE GOT OUT
ON IDENTICAL SCORES IN MATCHES
SEPARATED BY 66 YEARS; WHILE THE THIRD
PERSON HAD LITTLE TO DO WITH EITHER,
LEGEND SAYS HE WAS INFLUENCED BY THE
LATTER TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING.
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?

88. AND THE ANSWER IS

89. TERM DUCK IN CRICKET WAS BROUGHT
ABOUT TO DESCRIBE EDWARD VII’S
DISMISSAL IN A GAME IN 1966
WALT DISNEY SAW DONALD BRADMAN GET
OUT FOR ZERO/ ‘DUCK’ AND NAMED HIS
CHARACTER THUS

90. 6. THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN STARTED IN 1905
AND WAS WON IN ITS SECOND YEAR BY
TONY WILDING – A TRINITY COLLEGE
GRADUATE AND ONE OF THE MOST
SUCCESSFUL PLAYERS FROM THAT ERA BUT
CRUCIALLY A NON-NATIVE.
IN ITS LISTINGS THOUGH, ITS STATED THAT
LOCALS WON THE MEN’S SINGLES AT THE
EVENT EACH YEAR FROM 1905-07.
WHO WAS HE REPRESENTING AND WHAT
LED TO THIS ANOMALY?

91. AND THE ANSWER IS

92. HE WAS FROM NEW ZEALAND
THE AUSTRALASIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
WERE PLAYED IN CHRISTCHURCH THAT
YEAR

93. 7. CONNECT THE FOLLOWING ACROSS TWO
EDITIONS OF THE SUMMER OLYMPICS
SPREAD ACROSS 76 YEARS (1936 & 2012).

94. AND THE ANSWER IS

95. HORSES NAMED AFTER THEM WON
OLYMPIC MEDALS
PAAVO NURMI
DAMON HILL

96. 8. THE ONE WHO DROPPED OUT OF
COLLEGE TWICE!
IN 1905, THIS ASPIRING SPORTSMAN
ENROLLED HIMSELF IN TO THE UNIVERSITY
OF COLUMBIA. AFTER SPENDING A COUPLE
OF YEARS AS PLAYING SHORTSTOP FOR THE
COLLEGE TEAM, HE QUIT TO FOCUS ON
SPORT.
RECORDS IN COLUMBIA INDICATE THOUGH
THAT HE ENROLLED HIMSELF AGAIN IN 1910
ONLY TO DROP OUT A YEAR LATER AGAIN.

97. AND THE ANSWER IS

98. JOSE RAUL CAPABLANCA

99. ROUND 3 – FAMOUS SPORTING
RIVALRIES
Written round – identify the sporting
rivalry from the picture/data given on
screen

100. 1.

101. 2.

102. 3.
• Olympics – MP7 W2 L4 D1
• World Cup – MP5 W3 L2 D0
• Champions Trophy – MP18 W12 L6 D0

103. 4.

104. 5.

105. AND THE ANSWERS ARE

106. 1. LOMBARDI DERBY
2. JEHNAGIR VS JANSHER
3. INDIA VS PAKISTAN HOCKEY
4. GREG LEMOND VS BERNARD HINAULT
5. SUGAR RAY ROBINSON VS JAKE LA
MOTA

107. THEM, MIND GAMES

108. 1.

109. 2.

110. 3.

111. 4.

112. 5.

113. 1. HUGH LAURIE & STEPHEN FRY
2. HUMPHEREY BOGART & PAUL
HENREID
3. DAVID BOWIE
4. EVE BABITZ & MARCEL DUCHAMP
5. BOB DYLAN

114. ROUND 5 – MAHA CONNECT
• Exhaustive List – 6 Questions
• Points for Connect –
• 30/-30
• 25/-25
• 20/-20
• 15/-15
• 10/-10
• 5/-5

115. 1. THEY SAY HER PIONEERING CAREER IN
GOLF COULD NEVER DEVELOP SINCE SHE
STARTED THAT LATE.
THE CAREER BEST RANKING OF 27 THOUGH
WAS CONSIDERED MONUMENTAL AS SHE
WAS SEVERELY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST –
OFTEN FORCED TO DRESS FOR
TOURNAMENTS IN HER CAR BECAUSE SHE
WAS BANNED FROM THE CLUBHOUSE.
WHO ARE WE TALKING ABOUT AND WHY
DID SHE START ‘LATE’?

116. 2. SPREAD ACROSS 3 DECADES,
CONNECT THE FOLLOWING 3
PUBLICATIONS—
DAYS OF GRACE
A HARD ROAD TO GLORY
PORTRAIT IN MOTION

117. 3. WHO WOULD COMPLETE THIS LIST?

118. 4. DIAGNOSED WITH SJÖGREN
SYNDROME WHICH IS A LONG-
TERM AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE, THIS
PLAYER IS THE ONLY ONE FROM THE
SPORT TO WIN MEDALS AT 4 DIFFERENT
EDITIONS OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES.

119. 5. CONNECT THE FOLLOWING TO A
SPORTSPERSON.
20

120. 6. SYBIL SMITH, IN 1988 AS A SWIMMER
AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY, BECAME THE FIRST
AFRICAN-AMERICAN FEMALE TO BE NAMED
FIRST TEAM ALL-AMERICAN IN DIVISION I
HISTORY. SHE RECENTLY SPRUNG IN TO
LIMELIGHT LAST YEAR BECAUSE OF
SOMEONE ELSE’S ACHIEVEMENTS. WHO?
WHAT HAD HAPPEENED?

121. AND THE ANSWERS ARE

122. ALTHEA GIBSON
ARTHUR ASHE
YANNICK NOAH
VENUS WILLIAMS
SERENA WILLAIMS
SLAONE STEPHENS
BLACK ATHLETES TO WIN INDVIDUAL
GRANDSLAM TITLES

123. INFINITE POUNCE 2
• Regular Pounce Rules (+/-10)
• Questions go Anti Clockwise

124. 1. WHAT LANDMARK DECISION IS BEING
DEFENDED BY AN INSTITUTION BELOW?
“The choice was reassuringly easy”
“The spell had won England the World Cup, so in
my mind it was going to take something pretty
extraordinary to topple that off the perch. And
the fact that it wasn't a token pick was
important.”
“The old-school pick might have been Steve
Smith, but cricket has moved beyond that now.”

125. AND THE ANSWER IS

126. ANYA SHRUBSHOLE BECOMES FIRST
WOMAN TO BE ON THE COVER OF WISDEN

127. 2. IT IS BELIEVED FOUR THOUSAND PEOPLE
ATTENDED AND THE CITY’S 1,000-STRONG
FORCE OF TAXIS, NONE OF THEIR METERS
RUNNING, DROVE THE MOURNERS ALONG
THE SIX-MILE PROCESSION ROUTE FROM
THE DAILY EXPRESS BUILDING ON GREAT
ANCOATS STREET TO THE SOUTHERN
CEMETERY TO MOURN THE DEATHS OF
THESE 8 GENTLEMEN. CROWDS TEN DEEP
LINED THE WAY TO WATCH THE CORTEGE
PASS.
WHO WERE THEY? HOW DID THEY DIE? (PIC
ON NEXT SLIDE)

129. AND THE ANSWER IS

130. SPORTS JOURNALISTS WHO WERE
ONBOARD DURING THE MUNICH AIR CRASH

131. 4. IDENTIFY THIS CRICKETER, WHO ACTED
RATHER HASTILY POST HIS TEST DEBUT!
• Having been told, there have been 355 players who have donned
the Baggy Green before him, this cricketer got 356 tattooed on
himself and bought a brand new Ferrari with the number plate
MS356.
• What he forgot though is that he had a co-debutant(in picture)
whose name came alphabetically before him.
• Confusion ensued but the latter was gracious enough to offer an
exchange of serial numbers, thus bringing about a unique
anomaly.

132. AND THE ANSWER IS

133. MICHAEL SLATER

134. 5. CONNECT THE PODIUM FINISHERS FROM
THE TEAM SABRE EVENT AT RIO 2016 TO
THIS ICONIC ENTREPRENEUR.

135. AND THE ANSWER IS

136. HIJAB BARBIE MODELED ON IBTIHAJ
AHMED

137. 6. NAME THIS MARATHON WINNER FROM
1900 WHO APPARENTLY WAS THE FIRST
PERSON TO BE ACCUSED OF CHEATING IN
THE MODERN OLYMPICS (PRIMARILY
BECAUSE OF HIS PROFESSION AND HOW IT
HELPED HIM WIN).
ALSO, IOC HAS LISTED HIS COUNTRY
INCORRECTLY IN ITS BOOKS, THUS DENYING
ANOTHER(FROM WHERE HE ORIGINALLY IS)
A UNIQUE RECORD? WHAT PRECISELY ARE
WE TALKING ABOUT?

138. AND THE ANSWER IS

139. HE WAS NEWSPAPER BOY; THUS WAS
ACCUSED OF USING SHORTCUTS
MICHEL THEOTO WAS LUXEMBORG’S
ONLY PARTICIPANT; HAD HE NOT BEEN
LISTED AS A FRENCHMAN, LUX WOULD
HAVE HAD THE DISTINCTION OF A
100% GOLD MEDAL RECORD (UNIQUE
IN OLYMPIC HISTORY)

140. 7. WHAT IN INDIAN SPORTS WAS
CALLED THE “MILL REEF”?
A thoroughbred racehorse and sire, he was bred in the US and had an
extraordinary racing career from 1970 to 1972.
Extremely celebrated in the West for his own exploits, why or how can we
relate him to a landmark Indian achievement from the
aforementioned period though?

141. AND THE ANSWER IS

142. BHAGWAT CHANDRASEKHAR STARTED
REFERRING TO HIS FASTER BALL AS MILL
REEF AFTER LEADING INDIA TO THE
FAMOUS WIN AT OVAL IN 1971

143. 8. WHAT UNUSUAL RITUAL IS BEING
TALKED ABOUT BELOW?
• It was initiated by Sandra Merino, spiritual advisor at Santa Fe FC
(Mexican club) for four years, during which they won three titles. She
dictated that players should follow the proverb of Deuteronomy 11:24.
• It is believed to have broken a 37-year curse only four months later,
when the club celebrated its seventh league title.
• Unsurprisingly thus, a former product of the aforementioned club
indulged in the same recently somewhere else, much to the surprise of
onlookers.

144. AND THE ANSWER IS

146. THANKS A LOT FOR SITTING THROUGH.