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Finals-Sports Quiz
1. TOUR DE TRIVIA FINALS
RULES:
•T H E W H O L E Q U I Z G O E S I N M O D I F I E D I N F I N I T E B O U N C E
•W I T H I N F I R S T 1 0 S E C O N D S O F C O M P L E T I N G T H E
QUESTIONPUT TO A TEAM BY THE QM, ANY OF THE
REMAINING TEAMS CAN ATTEMPT.+10/-5 ON SUCH
ATTEMPTS.
•A F T E R T H E 1 0 S E C O N D S T H E Q U E S T I O N G O E S O N R E G U L A R
PASSING SEQUENCE.+10 ON DIRECT AND PASS.
•D I R E C T Q U E S T I O N S T O T H E T E A M S O N I N F I N I T E B O U N C E
PATTERN
3. In 1980, USAC(The United States Auto
Club (USAC) is one of the sanctioning bodies
of auto racing in the United States) starter
Duane Sweeney started what tradition at the
Indianapolis 500 (Indy 500) which is
somehow different from the rest of the Auto
race including F-1 ?
4.
5.
6. The defending Olympic champion, Lynn
Davies of Great Britain, told X, "You have
destroyed this event", and in sports jargon, a
new adjective —X esque — came into use to
describe spectacular feats. X please?
7.
8. Robert “Bob” Beamon is an American former track and field athlete, best
known for his world record in the long jump at the Mexico Olympics in 1968,
which remained the world record for almost 23 years until it was broken in
1991 by Mike Powell. This is the second longest holding of this record, as Jesse
Owens held the record for 25 years, 1935-1960. Powell's record has stood for
over 20 years.
9. A combination of tennis, volleyball and medicine ball, X was invented,
developed and perfected by White House physician Admiral Joel T. Boone
to keep Y physically fit. "It required less skill than tennis, was faster and
more vigorous, and therefore gave more exercise in a short time," Y wrote
in his Memoirs."It is more strenuous than either boxing, wrestling or
football," wrote Will Irwin, a friend of X's, in a 1931 article "The President
Watches His Waistline" in Physical Culture magazine. "It has the virtue of
getting at nearly every muscle in the body.― Game ?
10.
11. Hooverball is a medicine ball game invented by
President Herbert Hoover's personal physician to
help keep then-President Hoover fit.
(http://www.jumpusa.com/hooverball2.html)
12. On 16th December 1997, a 50 over cricket
match was held at Middle Income Group Ground
in Bandra (Mumbai).
In this match Australia walloped Denmark
by 365 runs.
Who scored more than half of Australia’s
412 runs that day?
13.
14. Belinda Clark - she made 229 not out and thus became the first cricketer in
history of ODIs to score a double hundred.
15. Which sportsman wrote an autobiography titled
‘Serious’ - the title being a reference to something he
often said while playing?
18. The top division in this sport is limited to 42
players and is normally known by a name
meaning ‗inside the curtain‘.This name dates
back to the time when top players were given
the privilege of being seated in privacy before
taking their place in the arena. Which sport?
21. AUDIENCE
―While we are in the middle of playing in the most
beautiful festival of African
football, there are people dying in a stadium,"
Gabon goalkeeper Didier Ovono
said. "I'm truly sad for the __________ people.‖
What is he talking about ?
24. The Curse of the ___________was a superstition cited
as an excuse for the failure of the Boston Red Sox baseball
team to win the World Series in the 86-year period from 1918
to 2004. While some fans took the curse seriously, most used
the expression in a tongue-in-cheek manner.
The curse was said to have begun after the Red Sox
sold______, sometimes called_______, to the New York
Yankees in the off-season of 1919-1920.Before that point, the
Red Sox had been one of the most successful professional
baseball franchises, winning the first World Series and
amassing five World Series titles. After the sale they went
without a title for decades, as the previously lackluster
Yankees became one of the most successful franchises in
North American professional sports. Give me the sportsman
in question or his nickname.
25.
26. The Curse of the Bambino
Babe Ruth also known as the Bambino
27. A popular story is that Sir Charles Moses,
General Manager of the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation immortalized
something by using a postal address number.
There is some debate about whether the
story is true, but ABC sports host Karen Tighe
confirms that the number was in fact chosen
for the purpose. What number ?
Complete funda please.
28.
29. P O Box 9994 –Honouring the test
batting average of Sir Don Bradman
30. She started her basketball career in 1994
when she led her team of University of North
Carolina to the basketball championship. The
career continued and in 2011 she decided to
take some time off from WNBA. However to
the world, she is known for her speed and also
called a sprinter. Who is she?
36. On 21 December 2009 FIFA proclaimed
Lionel Messi the Football World player of
the Year,but which female football player
who plays for the Los Angeles Sol and
previously for the Swedish team
Umea,won the women‘s trophy for the
fourth year in succession?
39. Hitler Youth club once forced a man to cover
his genitals tightly and compete in the
women‘s events as Germans were not
performing well in the event. This however did
not help Germany as the player still finished
fourth. What is the ―lady name‖ of this player?
42. AUDIENCE
Computer games based on movies are
common, but in 2010 Electronic Arts surprised
everyone with an action-adventure game based
on a 14th century masterpiece of world
literature . The game is a mix of fast paced
combat and puzzle solving .What is the two-
word name of this hellish sounding game?
48. Only three prime ministers till date to have played First-class cricket.
(From left):
•Grantley Adams played one match for Barbados as a wicketkeeper in 1925-26
but his main claim to fame was as a politician and union leader. He went on to
become the first Premier of Barbados. The main airport in Barbados is named
after him and he is also one of the country's ten national heroes.
•Nawaz Sharif was a right-hand batsman who made a duck in his only
appearance for Railways against PIA in 1973-74. He later served two terms as
Pakistan's prime minister.
•Sir Alec Douglas-Home , who died at his home on October 9, 1995, aged 92, was
the only British prime minister to have played first-class cricket. As Lord
Dunglass, he was a useful member of the Eton XI. In the rain-affected Eton-
Harrow match of 1922 he scored 66, despite being hindered by a saturated
outfield, and then took 4 for 37 with his medium-paced out-swingers.
49.
50.
51. MOZART
•Jan- Ove Waldner : Mozart of Table Tennis.
•Magnus Carlson : Mozart of Chess.
.Mohammed Ashraful: Mozart of Cricket
52. Shortly before the match, X entered the
Astrodome in Cleopatra style, carried
aloft in a chair held by four bare-chested
muscle men dressed in the garb of
ancient slaves. Y followed in a rickshaw
drawn by a bevy of scantily-clad models.
Y presented X with a giant lollypop and
she gave him a piglet named Larimore
Hustle.
X ,Y & the event ?
53.
54. BATTLE OF THE SEXES (TENNIS)
Battle of the Sexes II Billie Jean King vs.
Bobby Riggs Set 1 2 3 Billie Jean King 6 6 6
Bobby Riggs 4 3 3 Date September 20, 1973
Location Houston, Texas.
60. MUSCLE
1 is Ken Rosewall, the tennis player. 2 is India‘s
spinning legend Venkatapathy Raju. Both were
nicknamed ―Muscles―, because they didn‘t have
any.
61. A were initially named B. However,
concerns about trademark issues
necessitated a name change and they
took the name A. As a compensation, A
named their first work C as a tribute to
B. A, B and C please.
62.
63. A is Pearl Jam, who were initially
named Mookie Blaylock (B), after the
basketball player. Since they had to
change it, they named their first album
Ten (C), it being Blaylock’s jersey
number.
68. LONG VISUAL CONNECT (LVC) :
• All the slides are related to a common theme.
• The teams need to draw the attention of the
QM in case they want to guess the answer on
any particular slide.
• The points and negatives on the slides are
shown .
•The teams can go for connect on a single slide
only once .
76. SPORTSPERSONS WHO CONVERTED TO ISLAM :
Eric Abidal (Bilal)
Wayne Parnell (Waleed)
Nicolas Anelka (Bilal)
Kareem Abdul Jabbar (previously Ferdinand Lewis
Alcindor)
Frank Ribery ( Tarek)
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)
Mohammad Yousuf (Yousuf Youhana)
78. In 2000, shortly before his death, he said
in an interview: "The maximum
punishment in Brazil is 30 years
imprisonment, but I have been paying, for
something I am not even responsible for,
by now, for 50 years.― Who speaking
about what ?
81. Which woman track athlete in 1996 became
the first to retain an Olympic 100m sprint
title since Wyomia Tyus in 1968 ?This
despite the fact that she was diagnosed with
Graves‘ disease in 1990 and that the 100m
hurdles was actually her favoured event.
85. The winner in this iconic race was honoured by the
King of her native country who telephoned her to give
his congratulations, and he declared that all girls born
on the day of her victory were to be named in her honor.
Give me her name .
86.
87. NAWAL EL MOUTAWAKEL –The first
Muslim born woman in Africa to be an
Olympic champion.
90. PERFECT 10 in Gymnastics
(From left)
• Nadia Comaneci (Romania) in 1976 Montreal
Olympics
• Alexander Dityatin (Soviet Union) in 1980
Moscow
• Nellie Kim (Soviet Union) in 1976 Montreal
91. Which upcoming movie about an athlete turned dacoit who held
the national record for the 110m hurdles from 1958-1963 ?
106. K D Singh Babu and Roop Singh
Only two hockey players after whom international cricket
stadiums in India are named :
K D Singh Babu stadium in Lucknow
Roop Singh Stadium in Gwalior
107. He is a former U.S. track and field athlete,
motivational speaker, socialite and television
personality. He won the gold medal for decathlon in
the Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics.
Following his Olympic victory and the related
recognition, his professional career evolved into
being a television celebrity. By 1981 he had starred in
several made for TV movies and was Erik Estrada's
replacement on the top rated TV series CHiPs. Since
the 2007 debut of Keeping Up with the Kardashians
,he is a regular on the show. Identify this athlete.
110. The world record for the sport was
held by Patrick Sjoberg before he
broke it in 1988.He went on to
break his own records in 1989 and
1993, which still stand.
Who is this legendary
sportsman ?
113. On 10 November 2009, at the age of 32, ―X‖
committed suicide when he stood in front of a
regional express train at a level crossing in
Eilvese, Neustadt am Rübenberge. Police
confirmed a suicide note was discovered but
would not publicise its details. His widow,
Teresa, revealed that her husband had been
suffering from depression for six years and
was treated by a psychiatrist. After the death of
his daughter, Lara, in 2006 he struggled to
cope with the loss.
Who is ―X‖?
116. Known as the first pitch in baseball, this ceremonial ritual
has the guest of honour throwing a baseball from the pitcher's
mound to home plate to mark the end of pre-game festivities
and the official start of the tournament. American Presidents
from Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Kennedy to Nixon, Reagan
and Bush have all thrown the first pitch at some time for their
favourite teams. X was given this honour in 2009 for the
home team ______ Dodgers against Arizona ,thus becoming
the first from his country to do so .
X ??
126. X was heavily favored to win a gold
medal at the 1984 Summer
Olympics, held at Los Angeles. In
the 3000 meters final, Y, half a
stride ahead of X, moved to the
inside lane, crowding X, who
collided with Y and fell
spectacularly to the curb. X‘s hip
was injured and she was unable to
resume the race. She was carried
off the track in tears by her
boyfriend, British discus thrower
Richard Slaney. At a press
conference she said that Y was to
blame for the collision.
Identify X and Y.
129. After missing the bus for the Beijing Olympics by three
seconds, this long distance runner achieved the qualifying
mark set for this year's London Games by dipping more than
a minute under the B standard in the Standard Chartered
Mumbai Marathon in January this year. He thus became the
first runner after Shivnath Singh in 1976 and 1980 Olympics
to qualify for the marathon in Olympics. Who is this Indian
athlete ?
