4. 2.During a qualifying match for the
1990 World Cup, X faked being hit and
seriously injured by firecrackers hurled
by Brazilian fans, and the team refused
to play the rest of the match. Footage
later showed the firework never hit X
after all. His lie lead to Y being banned
from the next World Cup, and X was
banned for life.
6. 3.BBC saw fit to preface a broadcast of
the match with the warning: “Good
evening. The game you are about to
see is the most stupid, appalling,
disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of
football, possibly in the history of the
game.” Match also called as 'Battle of
Santiago'. Which one ?
9. - during the 2006 World Cup in
Germany. Four players are sent off and
16 yellow cards are handed out - the
most in any World Cup match in
history - as Portugal beat Netherlands
in a stormy encounter
11. 9. what is 'The Maracana
Blow' in the context of world
cup history ?
12. Brazil suffer arguably their most
painful defeat, when in front of over
200,000 fans in the Maracana they
lose 2-1 to neighbours Uruguay in the
final match of the 1950 World Cup.
manner of defeat deeply affected
Brazilian football and society for many
years after, and to this day is still
known in Brazil as "Maracanazo" ("The
Maracana Blow").
13. 10.X is a religion, created by
fans of the retired Argentine
football player Diego
Maradona, who they believe to
be the best player of all
time.what is X ?
14.
15.
16.
17.
18. Euro 2012 champions Spain creates
history - July'12
• Spain became the first team to win two
consecutive European Championships
19. 13.A played in her first professional tournament
in October 1982 at Stuttgart, Germany. She lost
her first round match 6–4, 6–0 to B, a two-time
US Open champion and former World No. 1
player. B famously told about thirteen year old A
that "there are hundreds of girls like her in
America."
Twelve years later, A defeated B 6–0, 6–0 during
a second round match at the Evert Cup in Indian
wells, California, which was their second and last
match against each other. Name A and B
21. 14.Name the only man to
captain England in Cricket and
Football. In 1903 he scored 287
on his Test debut, setting a
world record for the highest
Test score.
26. Named after their parents idols
Thomas Alva
Edison
Ronald Reagan Carl Lewis
Rohan Kanhai,
ML Jaisimha, &
G Vishwanath
27. 17.Soon after 1982 world cup in
spain,the french press ran a poll
to find out most hated man in
France.Adolf Hitler came
second,Mussolini third. Who came
First ?