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ROUNDS
• Warm Up- List It (Written)
• Women in Sports – 8 questions
• Olympics- 8 questions
• Long Visual Connect (Written)
• Football- 8 questions
• Cricket- 8 questions
• Lighter Side of Barefoot
(Written)- 8 questions
• General Sports- 8 questions
• For all non written rounds +10
on bounce, +10/-5 on pounce.
(All parts needed on pounce)

WARM UP
• Simple list it
• For each of the 10 countries who participated in the 2019
World Cup, name the batsman who hit the highest
individual score in World Cup 2019
• +3 for each correct answer, +5 extra for all 10

Ans
• David Warner (Australia)
• Jason Roy (England)
• Kane Williamson (New Zealand)
• Rohit Sharma (India)
• Babar Azam (Pakistan)
• Angelo Matthews (Sri Lanka)
• Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh)
• Faf Du Plessis (South Africa)
• Nicolas Pooran (West Indies)
• Ikram Alikhil (Afghanistan)

1 The people in picture were the first 5 stops in
which fairytale journey in 2019?

Ans
Bianca Andreescu
• Katie Volynets
• Kirsten Flipkens
• Caroline Wozniacki
• Taylor Townsend
• Elise Mertens

2
The first ever women’s winner of this
event, at the Olympics won with a
score of 47 in 9, representing USA.
The 2nd time this event was contested
at the Olympics, the women’s winner
won with a score of 268 representing
South Korea. The silver medal winner
was from New Zealand. What event is
being talked about?

Ans
Golf, the winners being talked about
are Margaret Abbott and Inbee Park

3
She was the winner of the 48 kg
category at the 2016
Commonwealth Wrestling
Championships. In December 2016,
she also became the most
expensive female wrestler in the
Pro Wrestling League auction.
Recently she has forayed into
MMA. Identify her, about whom
the Hindu published an article in
2017, titled the next ------.

4
Two famous players A and B have each
won 8 national singles title in their
sport. Though, none of them are
record holders in terms of most
national singles titles won. Both the
record holders had won 9 straight
national titles. A, a gold medalist for
India at Brisbane in 1982 won 8
straight titles, while B won 7 straight
titles. B’s first title was followed by
wins for Radhika Bose and a 7 time
National champion. A and B both won
national titles in the same year 5
times. Identify A and B

5
#Conceptualclarity
The move shown here led to the
introduction of a ‘ninth’. Introduction of
what am I talking about?

Ans
The move seen is the Moors performed
by Victoria Moors (in picture). The only
skill in the Gymnastics code of points
with an I rating. The FIG had to create
the I rating to do justice to this move,
backward double-twisting double layout

6
Majiziya Bhanu is a sportsperson
from Kozhikhode. Talking about her
initial days, pursuing her sport she
said- “In the initial days, men used
to stare at me as I had my ----- on.
But soon they realised that I was as
serious as them in my workouts.
Then all the eyes disappeared.
Initially, like many others I was
apprehensive as I was under the
impression that it involved a lot skin
show”. Fill in the blanks and tell me
what sport she is in the news for.
(Image on next slide)

7
Who are the women pictured here
with the two famous Bollywood
actresses?

Ans
Chandro and Prakashi Tomar, on whose
life the upcoming movie ‘Saand ki Aankh’
is based

8
Laszlo had a courtship with Klara
through letters. In his letters he
detailed an experiment he wanted
to conduct with his progeny. After
studying biographies of great
intellectuals, he concluded that
many of them had an early and
intense specialization in a particular
subject. Laszlo also published a
book on the subject titled ‘Bring up
Genius!’. Laszlo and Klara were soon
married and in 1969 their first child
was born. What was Laszlo’s
surname?

1
This sport made its only Olympic
appearance in 1900. Only a single
spectator purchased a ticket to the
event. A damning declaration by an
official report of the Paris Olympics said
was that this was a game with “hardly
any pretensions to athleticism.” Gaston
Achille Louis Aumoitte was one of the
gold medalists in this event, confused (as
per some sources) by Americans with
another sport that made its only Olympic
appearance in 1900. Name this sport
where Gaston won a gold.

2
Haakon and Kristin were mascots for a
certain edition of the Olympics, that
started a new trend that has continued
till date (a trend that makes the
achievements of a certain Germany
cyclist impossible in the current day)
Name the edition of the Olympics they
were mascots for (year and venue)

Ans
Lillehammer 1994 (the first time the
Winter Olympics were held in a different
year to the Summer Olympics)

3
#Conceptualclarity
Of all the running events in the current
athletics programme, in only 1 distance
the Men’s and Women’s Olympic record
is held by athletes from the same
country. The person who holds the men’s
record also holds the Olympic record
over another distance. Tell me the
distance, and the country.

Ans
10000 metres, Ethiopia
(Athletes in question are Keninisa Bekele
and Almaz Ayana)

4
Based on events from 1976, Imdb
describes this documentary thus- “After
an entire competition of disappointing
results, winning no races and facing a
critical media that heaped on additional
pressure, the U.S. women finally came
together to do as a team what they could
not do individually. Four women stepped
to the blocks in an attempt to do what
nobody thought possible, win --- ---- ----.
Name the documentary. Who were the
US’s opponents who had dominated
them in the individual events?

Ans
The Last Gold, East Germany

5
At the age of 44, he was lifted high above
91000 spectators suspended from wires.
He circled above their heads, simulating
a runner racing around a track in slow
motion, before igniting the Olympic
cauldron with a streak of flame. 24 years
before this daredevil act, he was the
highest medal winner at a particular
Olympics. In 2006, Shaquille O Neal
signed a $1.25 million deal with a
company he founded. Who am I talking
about?

Ans
Li Ning- ‘The Prince of Gymnastics’ won 6
medals in 1984 (3 of them gold)

6
Connect:-
• A Japanese word combining two
words from Middle Chinese meaning
compete and wheel
• A sporting venue at the northeast
corner of East 26th street
• A Latin word meaning ‘belonging to
all’
• A word denoting chase
• A word meaning an act of running fast
over a short distance

Ans
Track cycling disciplines at the Olympics
• Keirin
• Madison
• Omnium
• Pursuit
• Sprint

7
Connect and find the odd one out

Ans
Leander Paes’ opponents enroute to his
bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics. The
odd one out is of course Andre Agassi
whom he lost to. The other opponents
are
• Richie Reneberg
• Nicolas Perreira
• Thomas Enqvist
• Renzo Furlan
• Fernando Meligini

8
He is the first Indian to win a gold medal
at the Asian Games in a certain sport. He
competed in five Olympic Games for
India. In the 1980 Olympics, he finished
21st in an event with a score of 186,
where a teammate of his finished tied for
14th at the age of 56. Identify him and his
teammate. (Visual on the next slide)

Ans
Randhir Singh and Karni Singh
(incidentally both have represented India
in 5 editions of the Olympics). The event
both were part of was the Mixed Trap

LONG VISUALCONNECT
• Setof9visualsconnectedbyasingletheme
(exhaustive)
• Certainvisualsmayappeartwice(thereisareasonfor
that)
• Visualsareinsequence
• +30forgettingthethemeinfirst2visuals
• +25forgettingthethemein visuals3-4
• +20forgettingthetheme invisuals5-6
• +15forgettingthethemeinvisuals7-8

Ans
Silver medalists when India has won a
gold medal at the Summer Olympics
• 1928 Field Hockey- Netherlands
• 1932 Field Hockey- Japan
• 1936 Field Hockey- Germany
• 1948 Field Hockey- United Kingdom
• 1952 Field Hockey- Netherlands
• 1956 Field Hockey- Pakistan
• 1964 Field Hockey- Pakistan
• 1980 Field Hockey- Spain
• 2008 10m air rifle- Zhu Qinan

1
Eduardo Galeano in his book, “Football in
Sun and Shadow” writes about an act by
footballer Ramon Unzaga, that we have
seen many footballers perform to
spectacular effect- “Body in the air, back
to the ground, he shot the ball
backwards with a sudden snap of his
legs, like the blades of a pair of --------”
Fill in the blanks

2
Whose journey to a record can be
charted thus, and what comes last?
Sapporo Dome, Kashima Soccer Stadium,
Ecopa Stadium, Allianz Arena,
Olympiastadion, Olympiastadion, Moses
Mabhida Stadium, Free State Stadium,
Cape Town Stadium, Estadio Castelao,
_________ __________
(A stadium or a city would do)

Ans
Miroslav Klose’s 16 World Cup goals-
these are the venues where they were
scored. The last one during Germany’s
7-1 thrashing of Brazil in the 2014 semi
final at Estadio Mineirao (Belo Horizonte)

3
This team came to the consciousness of
Indian football fans, for a specific reason
in the past 10 years. In which city is this
club based? What was the earlier name
of the club? (it shares its name with an
NBA franchise. The name of the NBA
team starts with the same letter as the
city the NBA franchise is based out of)
The visual is on the next slide

Ans
Kansas City, Wizards. Sunil Chhetri had
signed for them in 2010

4
In an ongoing domestic cricket
tournament Priyank Panchal and Faiz
Fazal are captaining two of the three
sides. The naming convention followed
during this tournament is similar to the
naming convention followed by the
Indian Army for their football teams. In
the 2016 edition of a tournament
organized by DFTS (initially headed by
armed forces members), one of the
Indian Army football teams beat a club
based out of Imphal in the final. So just
name the two finalists.

Ans
The tournament of course being the
Durand Cup
Army Green and NEROCA FC

5
For the ease of understanding of
Americans, the word ‘Move’ was
proposed to be used instead of another
four letter word. Also, a certain No.9
whom Ms Paxton idolized was proposed
to replace a certain No.7. The proposed
changes never happened. What am I
talking about? Who is the No.9 being
referred to?

Ans
Bend it like Beckham, Mia Hamm. The
movie was proposed to be released in
USA with the title Move it like Mia

6
This list comprises of a Spaniard, 4
Italians, 1 Portuguese, 1 Chilean, 1
Frenchman and 2 people from another
country. One of them topped the list of a
‘100 players who shook the kop’ poll.
The other spent the early years of his
career at East Stirlingshire and St Mirren.
Name the 2 people being talked about.

Ans
Kenny Dalglish, Alex Ferguson (Premier
League winning managers)
Spion Kop (or Kop for short) is a colloquial name or
term for a number of single tier terraces and stands
at sports stadiums, particularly in the United Kingdom.
Their steep nature resembles a hill near Ladysmith,
South Africa, that was the scene of the Battle of Spion
Kop in January 1900 during the Second Boer War. An
example of this is Anfield. The ‘100 players who shook
the Kop poll was taken among Liverpool fans

7
Among the venues for Euro 2020, two of
them are named after legendary players.
One of them played 3 matches for Spain
in a FIFA World Cup in Chile, where his
team finished bottom of their group. He
never played in the European
Championship. The other won a bronze in
the 5th European Championship. Both
have also been FIFA World Cup losing
finalists. Name both players

Ans
Ference Puskas and Johan Cruyff.
The stadiums are of course located in
Budapest and Amsterdam. Euro 2020 will
be played in 12 cities in 12 European
countries

8
In an interview done in India (while on a
visit on the invitation of the organisers of
the Subroto Cup) in October 2015, this
footballer revealed one record of his
father Joao Ramos that he tried to break,
but couldn’t. His father’s record in a
single match was 5, while he could
manage a maximum of 4 in a match
against Botafogo in 1964. Identify him
and the record he is talking about.

Ans
Record of 5 headers in a match. The
player in question is of course Pele, his
father was known as Dondinho

1
The Earley cricket club in Reading
introduced a new type of tea for their
players 2 years back. They have also
replaced ham and beef sandwiches with
Moroccan tagine lasagne and meat free
spaghetti Bolognese. It is popularly
known as the ----- cricket club, and
recently introduced cricket balls using a
rubber covering. Fill in the blanks

2
From 5th to 17th October in a certain year,
New Zealand played a 5 match ODI
series, which they lost 0-4. An allrounder
from the opposing side scored 213 runs
and took 11 wickets. The lone silver
lining for New Zealand in that series was
a batsman becoming the youngest New
Zealander to make an ODI century, after
a miserable start to his ODI career in Sri
Lanka. Name the batsman and the
allrounder from the opposing side being
talked about.

Ans
Kane Williamson and Shakib Al Hasan

3
Neville Cardus in ‘The Cricketer’ wrote
“……second in the first-class averages
scored 19 runs in four completed innings
against Australia, such an eclipse of
genius which the game had never known
before and has not known since.” He
made his debut in the same ground as
the one in which he played his last Test,
though the results could not have been
more different (A century and a half
century on debut, and failing to cross
double figures in either innings of his
final test). Name the cricketer

4
It was produced by Asprey and Garrard in
and was valued at 30,000 GBP. It is a 90
cm silver- and gold-plated trophy. It sits
on a wooden base with a silver plaque in
front with room for engravings of the
sides to hold it. It was first presented in
July 2001 at Edgbaston. What am I
talking about?

Ans
ICC Test Championship mace

Ans
10th wicket during 9 wicket hauls taken
by Indians in Test Cricket
• Vasant Ranjane- Subhash Gupte
• Chandu Borde- Jasu Patel
• Balwinder Sandhu- Kapil Dev

6
With respect to a venue in the
Docklands, what from the world of
entertainment will come next?
Also in 2006, the venue was used
for the series between Australia, South
Africa and Sri Lanka, as the usual venue
in the city was occupied in preparations
for what event?

Ans
Marvel, 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth
Games. This is the Docklands or the
Marvel Stadium (earlier known as the
Colonial Stadium then the Telstra Dome
and the Etihad Stadium). It hosted the
first ever ODI to be played indoors in
2000. This is also the home ground of the
Melbourne Renegades. The usual venue
being referred to is of course the MCG.

7
In 2019, this has already happened 6
times in international cricket. Five of the
venues where this has occurred this year
are Muscat, Cape Town, Saint Peter Port,
Rotterdam and Doha. Just like the 5
venues mentioned, in the 6th one also
this had never previously happened in
international cricket. However, it did
happen once at the venue in a 2009 ICC
World T20 warm up match between
Ireland and Netherlands. What am I
talking about? Name the venue.

8
In the first 11 editions of the World Cup,
4 pairs from the winning team had this
distinction. The two pairs in picture,
where the only ones from the losing
team to have this distinction. What am I
talking about?

Ans
Not out at the end of a World Cup final.
The first pair is Neil Foster and Gladstone
Small (1987) and the other is Chaminda
Vaas and Dilhara Fernando (2007_

LIGHTER SIDE OF BAREFOOT
• 8 questionsbasedonvisuals
• +5foreachcorrectanswer
• +10bonusforgettingall5correct

1
The Liebenauer Stadium was earlier
named after the person caricatured as a
superclone in this Asterix comic. Name
him

2
As per this album’s title Ali and his Gang
are pitted against a common problem
represented by the moustached person
on the right. What is the common
problem?

3
The visual shows a sportsperson
recreating a scene from a movie he acted
in many years back. Name the
sportsperson on the left.

4
What word has been blanked out in this
Amul advertisement?

5
Identify the person on the left

6
Identify this American football player.
(The name by which we know him,
sounds very much like a villain in DC
comics)

7
What has been blanked out in this
meme? (Clues are there in the visual)

8
What two words have been blanked out?
(6,3)

Ans
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The stadium was of course in Graz,
Austria

3
Kareem Abdul Jabbar, they are recreating
a scene from Airplane!

5
Pr Man Singh whose role Pankaj Tripathi
will play in the movie 83

6
Lawrence Wendell Pfohl also known as
Lex Luger, who played college football
and had also signed for the Green Bay
Packers

1
A Brazilian heads the list with 104, a
person from Northern Ireland who was a
world championship runner up is 2nd with
59. At 3rd is a German world champion
with 58. Other members of this list
include Andrea De Cesaris, Martin
Brundle, Riccardo Patrese and JJ Lehto.
What list am I talking about? Who is the
German world champion who is 3rd in
this list?

Ans
Teammates of Michael Schumacher,
Nico Rosberg (The numbers denote the
number of races in which they have been
teammates)

2
The latest edition of this tournament
happened in 2018 in San Francisco. The
winners of the tournament are awarded
a trophy named after a Scottish town
where the game was first played. The
first edition was played in Scotland, and
won by England. In the 7 editions of the
tournament played so far, a particular
nation has reached the semis all times
but once. They are also the reigning
Olympic champions in the sport. What
tournament? What country is being
talked about?

Ans
Rugby Sevens World Cup, Fiji
They compete for the Melrose Cup

Ans
Pro Volleyball League teams
• Ahmedabad Defenders
• Calicut Heroes
• Chennai Sparts
• Black Hawks Hyderabad

4
During the 2016 Rio Olympics, the
governing body of a particular sport
brought out an article about the use of
something becoming a dying art. In the
men’s game only 2 players in the top 20
at that moment used it, Xu Xin and Wong
Chun Ting. Among the women there was
none who used it in the top 20. Two
players in the women’s draw who made
an impact, getting to Round 3 using this
were Fang Lay and Ni Xialian. The use of
what is being talked about?

Ans
Penhold grip in Table Tennis

5
London received a particular honour in
July 2007 after their bid of $2.68 million
was accepted in January 2006. The mayor
had said that this would enable the city
to prepare for the 2012 Olympics, and
the city had budgeted more than $7
million for security and road closures.
Other places in contention included
Rotterdam, Utrecht , Duesseldorf,
Lugano, Florence, Wallonia (Belgium),
Tyrol (Austria). Copenhagen will receive
this honour in 2021. What honour is
being talked about?

Ans
Grand Depart of Tour De France (start of
Tour De France)

6
In baseball, what is the term used to
describe a walk off home run with all
three bases occupied by baserunners,
that erases a three point deficit?
(8,5,4)
The 8 letter word is also the name of a
sport popularly known by a 2 word name
(but the 2nd word cannot be used
officially as it is a trademark of the
Wham-O toy company). The last 2 words
together form a popular sporting term.

Ans
Ultimate Grand Slam. This is David Bote
who is the latest to hit this.

7
In 2018, Sportstar came out with an
article about one of India’s Asian Games
medalists titled ‘Asiad and family: how
---- ------- the gap’. In her medal winning
effort her teammates included Himani
Khandelwal, Bachiraju Satyanarayana,
Gopinath Manna, Rajeev Khandelwal and
X. The entity whose logo is there in the
next slide is named after X. About whom
was the article published?
Identify X.

Ans
Hema Deora and Kiran Nadar. The logo is
of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. They
were part of the bronze medal winning
team in the mixed team event in bridge

8
Columnist Jim Murray wrote the
following epitaph for X after his death -
"Start the count. He’ll get up. ... A lot of
us today are wishing there were an
honest referee in a cornfield in Iowa.” His
death was just few weeks after he had
finished filming “The Super Fight” with
Muhammad Ali. The movie was watched
by 7000 people at Boston Garden close to
his birthplace. After watching the movie,
his father Pierino smiled and said ‘Well, X
finally won his ___ fight.’ Who is X? Fill
in the blanks

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