This passage is from the book "The Hustler" by Walter Tevis and refers to the television quiz show scandals of the 1950s in the United States. It describes Charlie, a contestant, being encouraged by the show's producer Al to intentionally lose against the champion Stempel so that the show can continue having a champion that draws viewers.

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THE UPPER CUT
A Quiz on SPORTS and GAMES…
QM: “C'est la vie” Arif

2. THE UPPER CUT
A Quiz on SPORTS and GAMES…
… or the greatest
sports trial since
THE CHICAGO BLACK
SOX TRIAL OF 1921

3. The Upper Cut
A ‘Sport and Games’ Quiz
RULES:
Anything played anywhere in the universe
Never argue with the QM. Come on, be a sport!
Or else u would be made the official drinks carrier of Kozhikode Football League!
(I would personally ask KVT(pronounced: kaa-vee-tee) to take care of that!)
This is a sports and GAMES quiz also!
Write your team name and team members’ names legibly
QM: ‘Ce’st la vie’ Arif

4. 1.
• Innovated by Robert Koch, this punch is used
in boxing that usually aims at the opponent's
chin. It is one of the power punches.
• Samuel Elias, also known as "Dutch Sam", is
credited with creating this punch .It was
reported that "Dutch Sam created havoc with
the new blow until a new way was found to
block it“
• In India this punch is popularly known as Arjun
Murthy
• What is the name of this punch?

5. Ans
• The Upper Cut

6. 2.The cup that counts!
• Simba Toys India had entered into an exclusive
alliance with the ICC to manufacture and
merchandise X for the first time in India. X is
available in various sizes
26inch, 17inch, 10inch and 7inch, priced
between ` 299 to ` 2499.
• What is X?

7. Ans
• 'Stumpy', the official mascot of the ICC World
Cup 2011

8. 3
• X ,an author, was an enthusiastic cricketer and
assembled the most extraordinary amateur cricket
team ever to have taken the field. Some of the
Edwardian England’s most famous authors including
Arthur Conan Doyle, A. A. Milne, P. G. Wodehouse, and
Jerome K. Jerome, regularly turned out for X’s team
from 1890 until 1913, when the team was brought to
an end by the First World War.
• The team was named Y in the mistaken belief that ‘___’
meant ‘Heaven help us’ in Arabic (rather than ‘____’).

10. Ans
• Y-Allahakbarries CC
• X-JM Barrie

11. 4. What has been removed from the blue spot?

12. Ans
• A golf club
• That’s Alan Shepherd playing golf!

13. 5. The greatest quote of all!
• “It will be a Killer, And a chiller , And a __X_.
When I get the gorilla in _Y__”
• Whose words and who was the ‘gorilla’?
• ‘X in Y’ is the name of the famous match
between these two guys!

14. Ans
• Mohammed Ali on Joe Frazier
• Thrilla in Manila

15. Am in love with this place!
6. Where would you find these quotes?

16. Ans
• Wimbledon entrance to Centre Court
• Kipling’s ‘If’

17. 7.Trump Card!
• X is the highest rank that a wrestler can achieve in
sumo wrestling. The name literally means "horizontal
rope" .The rope, which can weigh up to 40 pounds, is a
Shinto symbol and is worn during the ring entrance
(“dohyo-iri”) ceremony of the X, not during the bouts
themselves.
•
The origins of the X rank are clouded in the mists of
ancient Japanese history.
There are no specific rules for making the rank of X .
But the general standard is two consecutive
tournament championships as ozeki or one win and
two runner-up spots in consecutive tournaments with
at least 36 wins

18. Ans
• YOKOZUNA

19. 8.Is the connection going too far?

20. Ans
• All were experts in Bridge
• Winston Churchill
• Deng Xiaoping
• Dwight Eisenhower
• Buster Keaton
• Omar Sharif
• Margaret Thatcher

21. "A Reminiscence of Cricket“
9.Poet? Whose wicket did he take?
•
Once in my heyday of cricket,
One day I shall ever recall!
I captured that glorious wicket,
The greatest, the grandest of all
• A statue from Thebes or from Knossos,
A Hercules shrouded in white,
Assyrian bull-like colossus,
He stands in his might.
• Wicket keep Storer, the knowing,
Wary and steady of nerve,
Watching it falling and growing
Marking the pace and curve.
I stood with my two eyes fixed on it,
Paralysed, helpless, inert;
There was 'plunk' as the gloves shut upon it,
And he cuddled it up to his shirt.
• Walking he rumbled and grumbled,
Scolding himself and not me;
One glove was off, and he fumbled,
Twisting the other hand free

22. Ans
• Arthur Conan Doyle on WG Grace

23. 10. What’s the satire on?

24. Ans
• In an important World cup quarter final game, Ghana was robbed of
victory when Luis Suárez of Uruguay deliberately used both his
hands on the game’s final play changing a 100-percent certain
Ghana goal into a roughly 75- percent certain Ghana penalty kick.
Suárez was red-carded. But FIFA did NOT deem his offense serious
enough to suspend him an extra game,
• In 1986, Maradona used his right hand to hit the ball into the goal
thus robbing England in going to the semi-final,
• In 2009, Ireland were robbed of going to WC South Africs
2010, when Thierry Henry steadied the ball with his left hand
before kicking the ball into the net and this France went instead of
Ireland.
• Luis Suárez feels that he has evoked Diego Maradona's infamous
goal against England in 1986, declaring "the Hand Of God now
belongs to me" after he broke Ghana's hearts and helped his side
reach the World Cup semi-finals.

26. 11. What famous feat is depicted by the arrow?

27. Ans: Bob Beamon’s phenomenal jump

28. Beamon's world record was finally broken in 1991
when Mike Powell jumped 8.95 m (29 ft. 4-3/8 in.) at
the World Championships in Tokyo

29. 12. What a ‘horror’ name!
• Büvös Kocka is the "the world's most asked-for
plaything”.
• Douglas R. Hofstadter, an assistant professor
of computer science at Indiana University and
Pulitzer-prize winning author
(Gödel, Escher, Bach), lists __itis magikia as "a
severe mental disorder accompanied by
itching of the fingertips that can be relieved
only by prolonged contact" with Büvös Kocka.
• What am I talking about?

30. Ans
• Rubik’s Cube (aka The Hungarian Horror)

31. 13.
Queen song . Folklore has it that this
song was inspired after a major
sporting event .What is it?

32. Ans
• Tour de France

33. 14.Video
Ben X is a 2007 Belgian drama film about a boy
with autism who retreats into the fantasy world
of ArchLord to escape bullying.
The film's title is a reference to the leet version
of the Dutch phrase "(ik) ben niks", meaning "(I)
am nothing".
ArchLord is a game belonging to a famous video
game family term. What?

34. Ans
• Massively multiplayer online role-playing
game (MMORPG) is a genre of role-playing
video games in which a very large number of
players interact with one another within a
virtual game world.

35. 15.Can you read it properly?
• X , the inventor of Y (a famous cricket term) had
honed his sleight of hand while playing “Twisti
Twosti”, a parlour game whose object was to
bounce a tennis ball across a table so that it
eluded the player opposite.
• One Australian newspaper commented on X: “He
is the worst length bowler in England and yet he
is the only bowler the Australians fear.”
• In Australia, the Y was known as “the wrong 'un”,
a term which – as the cricket historian David Frith
has pointed out – was “often applied to felons,
divorcées and homosexuals”.

36. Ans
• X- Bernard Bosanquet
• Y- Googly

37. 16.Royal Treatment!
• The first recorded X tournament was in 600 BC
when the Turkomans beat the Persians in a public
match
• In the mid 19th century an Irishman, Captain
John Watson, created the first set of written rules
for playing X.
• The modern game of X, though formalized and
popularized by the British, is derived from the
state of Y in India where the game was known as
'Sagol Kangjei'

38. Ans
• X-Polo
• Y- Manipur

39. 17.Poetry in slow motion

40. • “Lazy elegance was never so elegant. Those
who didn't see the poetry in this have no
aesthetic sense. X looks to furiously pull a
Panesar half-tracker. Then, realising he's too
cool for such effortful shots, he falls over in
slow motion - all grace, mind you - onto the
stumps. A less graceful man would have
shattered the stumps; X merely dislodged the
bails.”--- cricinfo.com

41. Ans
• Inzamam ul Haq (who else!)

42. 18. Which famous sporting place?
• “Its elliptical latticework shell, …, has an intoxicating
beauty that lingers in the imagination. In a site for
mass gatherings, Herzog and de Meuron have carved
out psychological space for the individual, and
rethought the relationship between the solitary
human and the crowd, the everyday and the heroic.
Their aim is to break down what the writer Elias
Canetti, in his renowned study of crowds, described
as “the closed ring from which nothing can escape.”
• It is also inspired by traditional ____ ‘crazed’
pottery.”

43. Ans
• The Bird’s Nest (Beijing’s Olympic stadium)

44. 19. “A Chess Game: X with Y- Vienna 1909”

45. Ans
• Lenin and Hitler

46. 20. You bet your life!
• Stempel’s posture and gestures were awkward, his clothes
were too tight—he seemed almost to be choking in his
shirt—and his speech was wooden. I remembered Al’s
remark that I might have a good chance against him, and
then he came right out and said it: “I’ve thought about
it, Charlie, and I’ve decided you should be the person to
beat Stempel. And I’ll help you do it.” He held up his hand.
“I swear to you, no one will ever know. It will be just
between you and me. Jack Barry”…“won’t know and Dan
Enright won’t, either. Stempel won’t know—I’ve got a way
to handle that. The sponsors won’t know—anyway, they’ll
be so happy they won’t give a damn. And the audience will
never know, because I won’t tell them, and you
won’t, either.”
• He suggested that I could make at least eight thousand
dollars, maybe a good deal more. I was guaranteed a
thousand dollars for the first( initiative).

47. Van Doren (at left) faces Herb Stempel on “Twenty-One,” in 1956, under the
eye of the show’s host, Jack Barry. Some fifty million people watched the
climax of their rivalry.

48. Ans
• The Quiz show scandal of the 1950s
• Subject of the movie: Quiz show

49. 21.Famous F1 event
• Once he had said he would do as they wanted, the three
men worked out the details. "They wanted the safety car
on lap 14. It actually felt good to agree to do something for
the team after all the criticism I had taken. I did not even
consider the morality of it." Symonds showed him a map of
the circuit and indicated the best place to _____ "because
there are no cranes or anything".
• "Looking back, it seems like a lifetime ago, but I know I will
never fully escape from its shadow," he told the newspaper.
"I apologise unreservedly for what I did. I just hope people
will understand the pressures I was under. It is no
excuse, but I was a deeply unhappy person. I am a stronger
man today. If the question was asked again, I am sure I
would have the strength to say no."

50. Ans
The Renault Crashgate (Nelson Piquet Jr. in
Singapore 2008)

51. 22
• X was offered a position in the German army which
was politely declined. Or so the story goes!
• Apparently, the Dutch were convinced that he simply
couldn’t be that good. So they broke open his ___ in
search of a magnet. They didn’t find one.
• The Japanese thought his __ might contain glue. That
wasn’t it either.
• Don Bradman and X once came face to face at Adelaide
in 1935. After watching X in action, Don Bradman
remarked "He scores _ like runs in cricket"

52. 22
• Dhyan Chand

53. Livin' la Vida Loca
23.Whose words?
• “I say a final because for us, because of everything it
represented, we were playing a final against __. More
than defeating a football team it was defeating a
country. Of course, before the match, we said that
football had nothing to do with the Malvinas War but
we knew a lot of _____ kids had died there, shot down
like little birds. This was revenge. It was like recovering
a little bit of the Malvinas. In the pre-match interviews
we had all said that football and politics shouldn’t be
confused, but that was a lie. We did nothing but think
about that. Bollocks was it just another match!”

54. • mp3

55. Ans
• Diego Maradona
• Malvinas War is the spanish name for
Falkland’s war
• He was singing abt Hand of God in the song!

56. 24.Again time for some more sporting connections!

58. • Movie vid

59. Ans
• All movies feature a game of Buzkashi

60. 25.Connect

61. • Movie Vid

62. Ans
• The Al Fayed family
• Dodi – executive producer of The Chariots of
Fire
• Mohammed – owner of Fulham and Punch
mag

63. 26. Connect

64. • Mp3
• mr

65. Ans
• Joe di Maggio
• Marilyn Monroe’s husband
• Character in Babe Ruth comics
• ”I would like to take the great Joe di Maggio
fishing”, the old man said. “They say his father
was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we
are and would understand.”
- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

67. • Madonna’s vogue lyrics:
Vogue, [Vogue]
Beauty's where you find it [go with the flow]
Greta Garbo, and Monroe
Dietrich and DiMaggio
• S n G’s Mrs Robinsonlyrics:
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you
(Woo, woo, woo)

68. 27. Identify the guy

69. • mp3

70. Ans
• Henry Olonga

71. 28. Parody of a song X by the band Y.
Sporting connection of the song X?
• Weird al Yankovic Vid

72. Ans
• "Eye of the Tiger" is a song performed by the American band
Survivor from the album Eye of the Tiger, released in 1982. It was
written at the request of Sylvester Stallone for the film Rocky III, as
a replacement for Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" for which
Stallone was unable to obtain permission.
• Lot of references in the movie.eg:
• 00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:28,516
• Gotta get that look back, Rock.
• 00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:32,031
• Eye of the tiger, man.
• Eye of the tiger. Come on.
• 00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,071
• Come on, let's go.

73. 29.
• “The Chinese read backwards, and it doesn't seem to
hurt their eyes. The Czechs make movies
backwards, and do all right at the box office. So why
shouldn't an American named Dick X win gold and
glory at the Olympics —by jumping backwards
• With his engineer's precision, X tried to name it the
"back layout". But one journalist said those early
attempts looked more like an "airborne seizure". It was
another, kinder, writer, who suggested X resembled a
"fish _Y_ping in a boat" and
thus, perhaps, immortalised him”
• X Y is a famous long jump term.

74. Ans
• The Fosbury Flop

75. 30. Video
• The rural sport of Kambala is a traditional
buffalo race held predominantly in the
southern coastal Karnataka region.
• The Maramadi is an annual festival (known as
Maramadi Mahotsavam), held during the post
harvest season in the villages of Kerala. It is a
bull racing competition
• Common English term ___ ___ by which it is
known ?

76. Ans
• Bull surfing!

77. 31. Claim to fame of this SI Swimsuit mag cover?

78. Ans31
• First non-model/non-athlete featured on the
cover

79. STUMPS Day 1

80. The Bowler’s Epitaph
To Cricket’s shrine I offer’d , day by day.
Pace, length and spin, swervers that ‘ran away’;
…
…
…
By Wides, No-balls, by Extra-Covers stout,
By l.b.w’s miscalled NOT OUT,
One last APPEAL. Let fall a kindred tear
O’er Bowler’s dust. A broken heart lies here.
R. C. ROBERTSON-GLASGOW
La Fin