The document outlines the details of a written quiz competition including: - It has 15 questions worth 240 points total split into 2 rounds - single and double pointers. - Single pointers are 10 questions worth 10 points each with a max stake of 6 questions. - Double pointers are 5 questions worth 20 points each with a max stake of 2 questions. - The maximum possible scores are 130 for single pointers and 110 for double pointers. - It provides examples of quiz questions related to World Cup history and players.

3.  Written Quiz
 15 Qs  240 Points
 2 Rounds
I. Single Pointers: 1o Qs
II. Double Pointers: 5 Qs

4.  Single Pointers  10 Qs
 Each Question carry 10 points.
 Stake possible for a max. of 6 questions.
 Stake: +2/+5 with negs -2/-5 respectively.
 Maximum possible score = 130

5.  Starting with a question from the first world cup.
 ID this Uruguayan player, who scored the winning
goal in the 1930 World Cup final. His name is a
combination of the Greek prince played by Eric Bana
in the 2004 movieTroy, and the name of a
revolutionary leader?

8.  This country hosted theWC at a time they were not
recovered from the devastating earthquakes.
During this country’s WC bid, Carlos Dittborn, the
president of their football federation coined the
magnificent non sequitur, ‘We must have theWorld
Cup because we have nothing’.
 Which country?

10.  One of the interesting things about a certainWorld Cup
was the emergence of an interesting formation 4-2-4,
employed by the winning team, which had its heyday for
another 3 editions.This formation helped them to score
heavily in all games, including 5 in both Semi-finals and
the Final.
 This formation had 4 forwards.Three of had nicknames
“little bird”, “the professor”, “Peito de Aco (steel chest)”,
and the 4th forward was someone who did not feature in
the team until the last of his team’s group games.
 Which team?

12.  One of the inevitable effect of this particular edition ofWorld
Cup was a huge increase in the cost of preparation due to the
medication required to cope up with the high altitude. It
required at least 2-3 weeks for the players from sea levels to
get acclimatized and adapted.
 However, the medical team could prove that once they settle
in, they could play there best.This was also evident in the
Olympics that happened in the same country 2 years prior,
where the home country were easily beaten by France and
Japan, and after all, the finals were played Hungary and
Bulgaria.
 Which country?

14.  Which dream shattering
incident?
 OR who tweeted this
sometime last month?

16.  This “superstar”, a practicing Muslim, has both his brothers
playing football, with one playing in the national team for Guinea,
and the other currently playing for theTurkish clubGenclerbirligi.
 He captained his team to victory at the 2013 FIFA U-20 World
Cup and took home the award for the Best Player, after which he
got the call to the national team on March 2013 against Georgia in
the World cup qualifiers.
 Identify this player, who had a goal discredited afterVAR referral
in this WC?

18.  This deep-lying playmaker player lead his country to win the gold
medal at the 1992 BarcelonaOlympics.
 Between 1992 and 2001, this jersey #9 gained 47 caps and scored 5 goals
for the national team, and 7 caps in friendly games for another “national”
team.
 He was a benchwarmer during his team’s QF exit in the 1994WC, where
they lost 2-1 to Italy, thanks to the goals by both the Baggios, where JL
Caminero scored his team’s only goal.
 He suffered a career-threatening injury in 1998, which kept him out of
the 1998World Cup, although he returned later to lead his country later,
till his swansong game.
 ID this player, who took a very famous Sabbatical in 2012-13 season in
his new role?

20.  Which National FootballTeam,
featured in this edition ofWorld
cup, is nicknamed Coffee
Growers?
 Although their star striker missed
out the world cup due to an
injury, another player from the
team rose to the occasion, and
won the Golden Boot in one of
the previous world cups, with one
of those goals also going on to
win the best goal award in that
edition.

22.  How are these 3 gentleman and the subject of the statue
picture in the next slide connected to the 1994 FIFAWorld
Cup?

25.  One of the matchups in the semi-finals of this world cup
was compared by 9GAG and other social media forums as
a contest between two of their most famous series of
works that represent both the countries.
 One of them first appeared on 10 January 1929 in a youth
supplement ‘Le PetitVingtieme’ (The Little twentieth), the
success of which saw it being serialized for a leading
newspaper ‘Le Soir’ (The evening).The other first
appeared in a magazine Pilote on 20 October 1959, and
was written by Albert Uderzo until 2009, before the rights
were sold to the publishing company Hachette.
 Name both series of works?

27.  Double Pointers  5 Qs
 Each Question carry 20 points.
 Stake for a maximum of 2 Qs.
 Stakes: +5 for 2 questions. No negs
 Maximum possible score = 110

28.  Among the players that played the recently concluded
Russia World cup, CR7, Leo Messi and Neymar Jr. leads in
terms of the international goals scored.
 The players that come 4th (X)and 5th (Y) in the list have very
similar statistics. X has 55 goals from 98 appearances, whileY
has 53 from 103.
 While X was the third runner up for Ballon D’Or in 2015,Y
came right behind him as the 4th runner up, and when X was
named the 5th best footballer in the Planet by Guardian,Y
was ranked ahead of him in 4th, only behind Messi, CR7 and
Neymar in both these lists as well.
 Name both?

30.  Four reigning continental champions failed to qualify for FIFA World Cup
2018. ID All?
 The champion of one of the continents has their main striker (also their
all time top scorer) and their first goal keeper playing for two rival clubs
from the same city in a top European league.
 Another champion in question still is in record books for having the
oldest player ever to score in the World cup history, at the age of 42.
 The third continental champions in the question has two of its biggest
goal scorers occupying the 6th and 7th position in the list of the most
goal scorers who are still active, with 57 goals.The latter gave up his
captaincy for David Beckham when he was signed by his club.
 The fourth continental champions in question is nicknamed “AllWhites”,
contrary to their nicknames in all other sports.

32.  Tuts is a cafeteria in the posh
Palo Alto area of California,
selling Turkish delicacies
 Which world cup hero owns
this?
 What record, set by him in
2002, is still unbeaten?

34. • ID both the players with the
same the tattoo which depicts a
boy overlooking a Favela with a
football in his hand
• They both play for the same
country in the same position.

36.  There is the only FootballWC edition that ended
without a single hat-trick being scored.
 The closest one came to scoring it was in the Losers
final, by the “midfield general” X of the bronze winning
team, who was benched for the Semi-final game.The
21- year old scored a brace and assisted for an own goal
through a Free Kick taken from 30-yard out.
 The consolation goal for the 4th place team was scored
by a substitute player Y, who was playing his 127th and
final game for his country.
 Which edition?
 ID X and Y?

38.  1st: Anand Rajagopal (BhavansVidya Mandir, Elamakkara)
 2nd: Nikhil Sreeraj (SaraswathiVidya Nikethan, Elamakkara)
 3rd: Krishnakanth G (ChinmayaVidyalaya,Vaduthala)
Junior Category:
 1st: Krishnakanth G (Class 9, ChinmayaVidyalaya,Vaduthala)
 2nd: Nikhil Sundar M (Class 9, SN HSS, Ayyappankavu)