Open Sports Quiz - Barefoot 13th Edition, Durgapur

Prelims
25 Questions – 30 Marks
Questions 1-20
carry 1 mark each
Questions 21-25
carry 2 marks each

1. What first happened in India was in the CAB Super
League Final in 2016 between Mohun Bagan and
Bhowanipore?
If it serves as a clue, the first instance globally was this fixture

2. This April 15, 2019 article pays homage to one of
the greatest redemption stories of our times. Quite
simply, fill in the missing blanks.

3. What does this progression lead us to?

The Queen in Chess
Piece was first called Prime Minister, one of
the later names included Amazon and is now
called Queen because of the prominence of
Medieval queens - Eleanor of Aquitaine,
Blanche of Castile

5.
Instituted in 1895, what was initially run
by the Indian Football Association and
used to be held on natural grass at the
Mohun Bagan ground in Maidan?

6. What is being described below?
� It was given by architect Sir Herbert Baker in 1926, as an
apology when building work on the Grand Stand was
delayed by the General Strike.
� It was the only casualty of the place where it is located,
during the 1940-41 German Blitz of London - after
becoming entangled with a barrage balloon cable, it
spent the rest of the war in a cellar.

Father Time – The weather vane over Lords

7. Which sport can such drones help
revolutionize?
The Asahi Power Service Company unveiled an umbrella
attached to a drone. Designed for players of a particular
sport, it will follow them and keep them dry (or shaded). The
drone umbrellas could actually make a big difference to the
game, since while the rules state that no other person can
hold a brolly over you while you play, even if the rain is
making your hands slippery, they don’t have anything to say
about drones keeping you dry.

8. Below is a list of Sri Lanka’s trophy cabinet from
ICC multi-national tournaments so far. Who led them
to glory in the 2014 ICC T20 title?
1996 World Cup – Arjuna Ranatunga
2002 Champions Trophy – Sanath Jayasuriya
2014 World T20 - _______________

9. Which game, rather appropriately, originates
from a Swahili word meaning ‘to build’?

10. Which athlete’s shift is being talked about
below?
� It was the news of an accident in one of Kolkata’s famous
pools that forced her to quit the sport she initially chose to
pursue.
� Nonetheless, she grew up to be a champion athlete, picking
up medals in most of the events she participated in school.
But it was not till 2013 that she decided on the sport she
wanted to pursue seriously, due to her liking for action
movies right from childhood.

11. With what particular sport would you use
such objects in?

Shaping cue tips in Billiards/Snooker

12. What did Mr. Gill refuse to do in this case?
� The United World Wrestling (UWW) tournament in Turkey
would have been Mr. Jaskanwar Singh Gill's first international
competition had he not pulled himself out.
� Whatever he was asked to do (which he refused) was
forcefully thrust upon two basketball players, Amritpal Singh
and Amjyot Singh in the FIBA Asia Cup half a decade back.

13. What activity, majorly dominated by people of a
particular gender these days, is the subject of this
book?

14. Whom did Paul Biya, the then President of his nation,
give a call, personally convincing him to return to
international football, close to three decades ago?

15. Which sport is this?
�Men and women in the sport are referred to
as “traceurs” and “traceuses” respectively.
�Here you see a traceur testing his launching
capability.

16. Other than its regular use, one of its playing
grounds (or facility) is used by which entity?
� Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School is
located in Chetpet, Chennai. The school was started as
the Madras Christian College and became a separate entity
when the college moved to a new location.
� Its notable alumni include R.K. Narayanan, P Chidambaram,
Leander Paes.

17. These are the venues of which multi-sporting
event, brainchild of a soon-to-be dad royal?

18. Which is the only non-European team in F1 right
now, having made its debut in the 2016 Australian
GP, and is yet to win a race or the driver’s title?
If you google the team name, you are likely to come
across results of a famous German tennis player

19. What word has been blanked out here?

20. Name this player, who made her WTA
singles debut at the 2019 Miami Open.

21.
� From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they
engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle. Their uncommonly
competitive relationship came to symbolize the most compelling rivalry in the
NBA. Each pushed the other to greatness, together collected eight NBA
Championships, six MVP awards and helped save the floundering NBA at its most
critical time.
� Which two legends, one capturing the flight of fancy and the other, a moving
wizard on court, share writing credits for the book “When The Game Was Ours”
along with Jackie MacMullan?

22.
� On the next slide is Aimee Fuller, a slopestyle snowboarder who
represented Great Britain at the 2014 and the 2018 Winter Olympics,
completing her first ever marathon in Mangyongdae.
Which national capital hosted the Manyongdae marathon?
� This was part of a documentary about the local sports culture in the
country, which is planning a joint bid with its neighbour to host an
event quite a few years from now.
Which event?

Pyongyang; 2032 Summer Olympics

23. Which sport?
Which other sport is it compared with?
� A great deal of strategy and teamwork go into choosing
the ideal path and placement of the concerned object for
each situation, and the skills of the players determine the
degree to which the object will achieve the desired
result.
� This gives the sport its nickname of “_____ on ice”.

24.
�Identify this player, once a doubles partner of
an Indian, who sported such a wacky outfit in
Wimbledon 2011.
�Which 2019 Best Actress Oscar nominee is
the obvious inspiration behind such a
sartorial choice?

Bethanie Mattek-Sands; Lady Gaga

25. Who is being talked about below? What are these
three units of, secured by him in 1985, ‘86 and ‘89??
Bailiffs visited his home to seize his assets, but were unable to find
the most valuable ones –three ‘units’ of something. One was
eventually tracked down at his mother’s house, but the other two
remained missing. An official handling the incident said, ‘There are a
lot of __________ so it’s possible one might forget where a couple
of them are, but these are perhaps the highest value ones and it’s
particularly unfortunate that he can’t remember where they are.’

Boris Becker; Wimbledon Trophies

12 teams qualify for the
Semi Finals

Semi Finals I
10 Questions
Questions 1
is a List It
Questions 2-10
are on Pounce/Bounce
+10/-10 on Pounce

1. List it – Cricketers who have scored a hundred
in a ICC World Cup Final
5 Points for every right answer (6)
For a Bonus 10 points, name the only woman who
has achieved the same
Total points on offer – 40

Karen Rolton is the only female to achieve the
same
Clive Lloyd
Viv Richards
Aravinda Da Silva
Ricky Ponting
Adam Gilchrist
Mahela Jayawardene

2. Remembered for his cruelty towards suspected nationalists,
name this player, a google search of whose name would throw up
results about a former Nigeria and Arsenal player.
In a tournament organised by the Maharaja of Cooch Behar
this Dhaka boy caught his eye for his football skill. He came
to Calcutta in 1909 and got enrolled in Presidency College
and would start playing for Mohun Bagan in the same year. A
famous member of the 1911 team, he joined the Imperial
Police Service in 1917.

3. On 7 April 2019, Cracknell became the oldest competitor, and
oldest winner in which annual event?
James Cracknell is a double Olympic gold
medalist who also ran the London
Marathon on 23 April 2006.
Last year, he enrolled at Peterhouse to
study for a MPhil degree in human
evolution.

4. Although he later on converted to Islam, he was the only Hindu
player in Bangladesh’s first ever Test match against India. Who?

Bikash Ranjan Das | Mahmudur Rahman Rana

5. What does this lighthouse lend its name to ?
This historical
lighthouse still in
use, is located on
the northern coast
of Sea of Marmara
in Istanbul, Turkey.

Fenerbahce FC; The name means "lighthouse
garden" in Turkish

6. Who is this versatile sportswoman who was
also a member of her national Women's
Hockey Team in 1967 and 1971.
Yvonne West and Fran Marshall were the only two
players to defeat this player, who lost only two matches
in her entire career (in 1960 and 1962), and was
unbeaten in competitive matches from 1962 through
to 1981.

7. Who is the subject of the book? While at it,
what is its apologetic title?
Written by Sundeep Mishra, the biography’s cover features the
legend with head bowed down, shoulders dropped, holding the
sporting equipment in the left hand. The blurb on the back cover
reads “three Olympics I have played and I couldn’t get a medal back”,
a lamentation directed towards his mother.

Dhanraj Pillai; Forgive me Amma

8. What was Patou’s most famous contribution
to the world of sports?
Jean Patou's perfumes "Joy", a heavy floral scent, was one of the
costliest perfumes in the world at one point of time.
However, much before that, he created a radical design for his
muse, that allowed the latter to leap and swing with a full range of
motion.

9. Who is this boxer? Why did he chose to
prepare in Las Vegas?
This boxer’s first fight with Hashim Rahman
was deemed so uncompetitive that no
major US casino would put up the site fee.
Carnival City Casino, South Africa, became
the venue. Rather than preparing for the
high altitude, he trained in Las Vegas. Quite
expectedly, a fifth round KO followed.

Lennox Lewis; was shooting for Oceans 11

10. Who is being talked about below?
He loved playing friendly games with people far more famous than him,
including Fidel Castro, Winston Churchill, Che Guevara, Nikita
Khrushchev, the Shah of Iran and Juan Peron.
He also exchanged letters with a passionate player in Rome. As a result,
Argentine fans who followed his column in the Buenos Aires newspaper
Clarin were able to ponder a problem contributed by the enthusiast in
Rome.

During the final round of the recently concluded Augusta
Masters, a video of this athlete cheering for Tiger Woods
went viral. Identify him.

Semi Finals
II
10 Questions
Questions 1
is a List It
Questions 2-10
are on Pounce/Bounce
+10/-10 on Pounce

1. List all athletes who have defended their
100m sprint title at the Olympic Games.
5 Points for every right answer (5)
For a Bonus 15 points, name the only person outside this list
who has medaled at 3 Games without ever winning gold in
the event (and the years)
Total points on offer – 40

Wyomia Tyus (1964–68)
Carl Lewis (1984–88)
Gail Devers (1992–96)
Usain Bolt (2008. 2012, 2016)
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (2008–12)
Merlene Ottey is the only athlete to win three medals
without winning gold, with one silver and two bronze
medals (1984, 1996 and 2000)

2. This is a picture taken during one of Persepolis
FC’s home games earlier this year; what is unique
about the encircled person?

Women aren’t allowed to watch football games in
Iran. So they disguise themselves and pose as men to
enter stadiums

3. What Club is being talked about below?
� In November 2018, ESPN published an article about an Indian football
franchise, which last year became the first from its state to play in the
country's top division
� It details how since its founding in 2016, the club has exceeded
expectations despite the odds being stacked against them in the form of
lack of infrastructure, the climate, political turmoil, etc.
� Making a slight alteration to the team's name, what did ESPN
appropriately title the article; transforming a statement of authenticity
into an expression of disbelief that could double up as a tourist slogan?

Real Kashmir | ‘Unreal Kashmir’

4. What first in Olympic History did French Gymnast,
Albert Sequin achieve in the Men’s Sidehorse at the
1924 Paris Games?

Scored 10.00 (First perfect 10 outside Rope
Climbing, 5 decades before Comaneci)

5.
In 1905 the belt, as seen on the next slide, was introduced so that the
wrestlers could have a better grip on each other. Before that they
held on each other's trousers.
Which contact sport is this that is believed to have been popularized
by the Norwegian settlers in Iceland?
More than a century back, what first is generally and ‘officially’
associated with this sport?

Glima; 1st Demonstration Sport in Olympics

6. Which screen wunderkind of the 80s?
What was this ‘innocent’ role?
His father Abhay was a journalist and cricket
commentator. A History graduate from St. Stephen's
College, Delhi, he captained the Delhi Under-19
Cricket team and was part of the “Indian School
Boys” cricket team to tour West Indies.
Yet he will possibly be remembered because of
playing the role of an aspiring cricketer.

Abhinav Chaturvedi; ‘Nanhe’ from Hum Log

7. Four players in SL’s WC bound squad haven’t featured in ODIs in
3 or more years. Which one of them have spent the most time away
from the national team set up though?
Last played a game at the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup

The Captain – Dimuth Karunaratne

8. What was Gerbi’s nickname, mostly associated with multiple
teams from a different sport?
Giovanni Gerbi was nicknamed
a two-word nickname possibly
due to his choice of jersey and
his "never-say-die" attitude.

9. Who is Md. Ali’s opponent here?
Also, from the pic next slide, tell me where was this match held?

10. What feat did Burgess achieve? What equipment in
the concerned sport was he the first to use?
� Though British by nationality, Thomas William Burgess spent most of his life
in France, and won a bronze medal with the French water polo team at
the 1900 Olympics.
� On 6 September 1911, on his 16th attempt, Burgess became the second
person to achieve a certain feat. Being a motorcycle enthusiast, he used a
particular ‘equipment’ which greatly helped him perform the task.

Swam across the English Channel; wore goggles

Power Play
6 Questions to get started
+20/-20 on Pounce
+20 on Bounce

1. This building served as the Headquarters of IAAF
from 1948 to 1994; what is located here currently?
Why has it recently been in the news?

Ecuadorian Embassy in London; Julian Assange’s arrest

2.
1977: Andy & Old Buddy
1979: ____(X) & ____(Y)
1981: Andy & Slick
1982: Andy
1991: Goose
Listed above are some entities intrinsically connected to the 5 victories of the person
pictured (image follows) at a certain annual North American sporting event. What exactly
are they and which event?
Of the 2 blanked out words, X is a ‘sport’ and the –ing form of Y could refer either to a
sport or an action in another sport; combining the two (XY) you get the most popular
format of X in North America. What are X & Y?

Quiz(X) & Bowl(Y)
Lead sled dogs at the Iditarod (the person being Rick
Swenson)

3.
Baler is a coastal town located in Philippines which is now considered the hub of a
recreational sport in the country. Several local businesses cater to said sport
including a training school called “Charlie Does”. Which sport?
According to local hotel owner Edwin Namoro, the sport took off in the country
thanks to a bunch of Americans who were present in the region during the late
70s. He claims that his friend was gifted the necessary equipment by one of the
Americans when they left the country and that he and his friend used the
equipment to become the first practitioners of the sport in the country. For what
purpose were the Americans present there?

Surfing
Shooting of Apocalypse Now

4. Name both books.
Tim Moore is a travel writer and humorist from England. He has published
2 books about the 2 most famous events in a certain sport. The first one's
title is the plural form of a late 18th century event
The second one's title is a portmanteau which combines the name of the
event with that of a 19th-20th century North American. The North
American's name which was briefly back in popular consciousness in the
early part of the decade means “the one who yawns”; quite ironic
considering the exclamatory circumstances of its modern day usage.

French Revolutions (Tour de France)
Gironimo (Giro d’ Italia)

5.
Listed on the next slide(image follows) are people who have held the
World _____ ___________ Championship, which was a pretense title
created in 1913 after repeated failures in accomplishing something
FITB
The title eventually became defunct in 1915 thanks to the culmination of
something that had lasted for 2,292 days. What 1915 event bookended
the existence of this title?

White Heavyweight
Jack Johnson’s loss to Jess Willard

6. What is the 9-letter name of this particular variant, which
can be arrived at by involving the ‘net’ used and the name
of the sport it is a wordplay on?
The region is among one of the world’s most heavily regulated and
policed border zones—the arid climate of which is responsible for many
migrant deaths each year.
Yet, it witnesses such an annual face-off.

Wallyball; The ‘net’ being the border wall
separating US and Mexico.

Middle Overs
12 Questions to get started
+10/-10 on Pounce
+10 on Bounce

1. What nickname?
In the 1984 Olympics the American 4 by 200 relay team in swimming was
nicknamed what after an upset win over the more favoured team. The
name had to do with one of the superstars of the more favoured team
and was a pun on one of the biggest movies of that year.

2. What two word term, common among high school
students, is used to describe the method for recording and
describing the moves in a game of chess?
It is based on a system of coordinates to uniquely identify each square on
the chessboard. It is now standard among all chess organizations and
most books, magazines, and newspapers.

3. Name the two cricketers mentioned below.
X was batting on 197 against England when his captain Y
declared the innings depriving him of 3 runs to complete a
double century. This is the highest score in the 190’s that a
player has remained unbeaten when his captain has declared
thereby preventing him of a double century. X’s highest test
score was 261 and he was the first person to achieve an “iconic”
distinction in cricket for his country, ironically taking it from Y.

X - Frank Worrell | Y - Gerry Alexander

4. Which Spaniard talking about which toolmaker who
threatened her many a times through letters?
“It was the most important tournament so I had to go and play.
But I had to have four bodyguards everywhere I played because
they were afraid that this guy would show up. I knew this guy
was around. So when I was playing, I would try and concentrate
and not think about it. Fortunately nothing happened to me. But
this guy always tried. I knew he tried different things but he
could never do it (get to me).”

Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario about Gunter
Parche

5. Which organization did he sue? What was the
initial requirement?
Currently the head coach at the University of Oregon, Casey
Martin’s main claim to fame is a case he lodged against a
sporting body in America involving the applicability of the
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The Supreme Court
ruled in favor of Martin in a 7–2 decision.

USPGA
PGA tours required all golfers to walk between shots.
His circulatory condition impaired his ability to walk,
sued the PGA Tour under the ADA, asserting that it
must accommodate his disability by allowing him to
use a golf cart.

6. What three word name? With reference to the company, who has
made the most number of appearances in the products, a whopping
18 times?
Every year, a bunch of young business winners meet on a given
day between 7.30 and 9.30 am in Toronto to raise awareness
and funds for SickKids. The name of this event is incidentally
trademarked by a Minnesota based company.

Breakfast of Champions; Michael Jordan

7. Why did Derek Brewer have to work out of
his home?
On the next slide you’ll see Derek Brewer, the CEO of an august
institution, at his home which would be the envy of most
commuters. The house, which was acquired by the organisation
in 1912, was long rented out to a Cricketer who famously didn’t
agree with Jardine on Bodyline.
A century later, when a bunch of official personnel took over his
office he had to work from his dinner table.

CEO of MCC; Because of Archery at London Olympics,
they were forced to move out

8. Which entity and why were the 2012 and
2016 events preponed?
Which annual event has been sponsored by this entity, who
among other businesses, owns 50 hotels under various brands?
Events traditionally take place during one day or over several
consecutive days in June and July. However, starting in 2008, the
Main Event final table was delayed until November, except for in
2012 and 2016 when it commenced in October.

World Series of Poker; US Presidential Elections

9. ID both of them, image in the next slide.
In 1966, X and Y and put on 128 for England against West Indies
at the Oval.
X did quite well out of the whole thing: his father, a vicar, had
promised the bowler 10 shillings for every run he scored, and a
bookmaker friend promised £1 for every run above 25. All told,
he pocketed £29 and the bookie’s £34 cheque went towards
church funds.

10. What is the missing entry from someone’s
filmography?
______ (1933)
Over She Goes (1938)
The Navy Comes Through (1942)
Buckskin Frontier (1943)
Africa Screams (1949)
The Harder They Fall (1956)
Utah Blaine (1957)

Max Baer , The Prizefighter and the Lady

11. This is Louis Stanley writing in “Behind The Scenes”, his honest
and revealing book on Formula 1. Which carmaker fills the blank?
What is the lasting non-sporting legacy of the aforementioned
gentleman as far as the business entity is concerned?
“______ ______ never made the impact on Grand Prix racing
that many anticipated. Possibly they were not geared up to cope
with the inevitable problems that come with Formula 1 racing
where the time factor is all important. It was not lack of
confidence on the part of David Brown. It bubbled over. He was
always good value on the circuit.”

ASTON MARTIN | David Brown is the DB
in Aston Martin DB

12. Which Ivy League institution, alma mater of Ratan Tata has such
bright red coloured uniform?
What non-sporting entity that went on to achieve cult popularity in
the 60s did this colour scheme inspire?

Cornell University | Campbell Soup Cans

Slog Overs
6 Questions to slog it out
+20/-20 on Blind
Topics mentioned before the
Question; you either blind
pounce or you attempt it on
bounce
+10 on Bounce

1. Which two word term is described below, one, which in early
2017, became familiar to non-sporting audiences due to a ‘prime’
project.
This is a two piece cue that looks like a house cue in billiards. The
original idea was designed for hustling. When you employed such a cue
someone would think you were using a house cue instead of a custom
cue. Since it feels like one solid piece of wood, it is presently the most
preferred type of cue for most professional players.

2. Identify the cricketer, the events and thus the
significance of the number.
In the picture is a cricketer(cropped out) with his new car, which he got
last year. He calls it a coincidence, that the car number corresponds to
two landmark events in Indian cricket history set 4 years apart. The first
event broke a 3 year old Indian record, which was itself broken 4 years
later in the second event.

Virender Sehwag; 29th March was when
he scored 309 and 319.

3. What did Danny McLennan almost achieve?
He is a former Scottish footballer who won the League Cup
with East Fife. In the mid-1990s though, he came tantalizingly
close to being the first to achieve a certain distinction – one
which was eventually achieved by a Serbian more than a
decade later.

First Foreigner to win the NFL/I League as coach |
Zoran Dordevic won with Churchill in 2008-09

4.
Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, duos, or groups
perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport
included in the Olympics, in 1908. The four Olympic
categories are men's singles, ladies' singles and which two
other disciplines?

5. Who did Thiago Silva defeat? With which gold medal winning
effort did his opponent compare his ordeal with?
In Rio 2016, 22-year-old Thiago Braz da Silva beat the defending
champion but the contest was marred by large sections of the
Olympic Stadium crowd booing the latter’s attempts.
The hostile atmosphere clearly unsettled the Frenchman, who
gave fans the thumbs-down sign between attempts and in his first
interview after the event likened his treatment to another
reception decades back.

Renaud Lavillenie; Jesse Owens

6. The gentleman in picture persisted with these two organisations
for what ‘common anomaly’, thus providing us with an unique
instance of something across sports. What is the anomaly? What
uniqueness are we talking about?

Sir Biren Mookerjee; CFL and CAB accepted teams
from outside Kolkata in their top flight leagues

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