This document contains 19 quiz questions about various sports topics. The questions cover a range of sports including soccer, cricket, tennis, Olympics, boxing and more. For each question, clues and context are provided to help identify the correct answer, which is then revealed after the question.

1. QUIZ CLUB IIT KANPUR
Antaragni Sports Run-Ups Pt. II
By Arijit Chakrbarty

2. RULES
1. 30 questions, infinite pounce
2. +15/-10 on the pounce, +10/0 on the bounce

3. Question 1
• In November 2009, Thierry Henry was embroiled in the handball
controversy during a World Cup qualifier vs Ireland.
• Also, Tiger Woods made headlines for all the wrong reasons after his car
crash following which his series of affairs was exposed.
• Around the same time, Roger Federer was knocked out of the ATP World
Tour by 6th seed Nikolai Davydenko in a shock defeat.
• What were these 3 events collectively called? (Hint: world of business)

5. The Gillette Curse

6. • Like many of his countrymen, he aspired to be a fast bowler. But in his own
words, ‘’Some of my friends used to make fun that my run-up to the
crease was faster than my deliveries.” He took their advice and took to
something else. Who ?
Question 2

8. Usain Bolt

9. Question 3
• Had Frank Sedgman won the 1952 French Open singles title, he would
have become the first and only male player in history to achieve
something which has till now been achieved by 3 female players –
Margaret Court (2 times), Doris Hart and Martina Navratilova.
• What?

11. Career Boxed Set
The Career Boxed Set refers to winning one of every possible grand slam title
(singles, doubles, mixed) over the course of an entire career.

12. • Exhaustive list of what?
Chess – 1
Billiards – 2
Yachting – 2
Weightlifting – 2
Tennis – 2
Cricket – 2
Athletics – 3
Hockey – 2
Badminton – 3
Shooting – 8
Boxing – 2
Wrestling – 3
Gymnastics – 1
Javelin Throw – 1
Question 4

14. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna recipients

15. • Although never having played an international game, X was chosen as the
brand ambassador of UEFA Euro 2008. He regularly played for FC Echicens,
a team currently in the 2nd tier of the Swiss Football League. He once
turned down an offer to join San Marino champions SS Murata in July
2008, a move which could have seen him play the qualifying rounds of the
UEFA Champions League.
• Who?
Question 5

17. Michael Schumacher

18. • X, known as heʻe ʻana in the Hawaiian language, was first discovered by
Joseph Banks on the HMS Endeavour during the first voyage of James
Cook, during the ship's stay in Tahiti. X was a central part of
ancient Polynesian culture and predates European contact.
• However, X was popularised by Duke Kahanomoku, a Hawaiian national
who was also a 5-time Olympic medallist in swimming.
Question 6

20. Surfing

21. • Daniel Jarque González (1 January 1983 –
8 August 2009) was a Spanish footballer
who played as a central defender.
• He played his entire career with Espanyol
and was named team captain one month
before his death from a heart attack, at
the age of 26.
• He was paid a tribute to by X at some
time in 2010. As a result, it led to
something happening relevant to X.
• What was the tribute and what did it lead
to?
Question 7

23. Iniesta’s celebration in the 2010 FIFA World Cup final.
Since then, Iniesta has never been booed by Espanyol fans during
the El Derbi Barceloni.

24. • The K.A. Auty Cup is reputed to be the first and longest running
international sporting fixture.
• The first Auty Cup Trophy match was a two-day match held from the 25–
27 September 1844.
• Largely as a result of this match, the first X Prime Minister, John A.
Macdonald, declared cricket X’s first official sport in 1867.
• The series saw a 16-year hiatus beginning in 1995 due to financial
difficulties. Since its revival in 2011 the series has been expanded from a
two-day match only to a two-day match, a 50-over match, and two T20
matches.
• Which two neighboring countries contest this trophy?
Question 8

26. Canada and USA

27. • In athletics, a 3,000 metres X is defined in the rulebook as having 28
barriers and 7 water jumps. A 2,000 meters X has 18 barriers and 5 water
jumps. Since the water jump is never on the track oval, a X "course" is
never a perfect 400 metres lap. Instead the water jump is placed inside
the turn, shortening the lap, or outside the turn, lengthening the lap. The
start line moves from conventional starting areas in order to compensate
for the different length of lap.
• Y was a renowned national sportsperson with multiple accolades in X and
a movie based on him was released in 2012. Which movie?
Question 9

29. X=Steeplechase
Y=Paan Singh Tomar

30. • While there is general disagreement about the precise origin of the X, most
stories of the phenomenon's origin suggest that it first started appearing at
North American sporting events during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Krazy
George Henderson perfected the X at National Hockey League games, followed
later by the earliest available video documentation, which he led on October 15,
1981 at a Major League Baseball game in Oakland, California.
• The 1986 FIFA World Cup was broadcast to a global audience, and the X was
popularized worldwide after featuring during the tournament. It was the first
time that most people living outside North America had seen the phenomenon.
As a result, English speakers outside of North America call it the X.
Question 10

32. Mexican Wave

33. • Andrei Kirilenko is a Russian-American
retired professional basketball player,
currently the commissioner of the Russian
Basketball Federation. One of the most
versatile players of his generation, he has
had notable stints in the NBA with Utah
Jazz, Minnesota Timberwolves and
Brooklyn Nets.
• Despite his modest scoring statistics, he
was nicknamed X. Coincidentally, the X is
also related to the city of Izhevsk, where
Kirilenko was born.
Question 11

35. AK-47

36. • The scientific reason for having X on the surface of a Y is because the
boundary layer on the upstream side of the Y transitions from laminar to
turbulent. The turbulent boundary layer is able to remain attached to the
surface of the ball much longer than a laminar boundary and so creates a
narrower low-pressure wake and hence less pressure drag. The reduction
in pressure drag causes the Y to travel farther.
• Sidespin occurs when the ______ is not aligned perpendicularly to the
intended direction of swing, leading to a lift force that makes the Y curve
to one side or the other based on the direction of where the _____ is
pointing at impact. The X allow both the sidespin to occur as well as to
promote an angular upward lift. Some X designs are claimed to reduce the
sidespin effects to provide a straighter flight.
Question 12

38. X=Dimples, Y=Golf Balls

39. Question 13

41. Countries and cities which currently host or
have hosted F1 Grand Prix
Green countries and cities with black dots are currently hosting the 2017
Grand Prix.
Grey countries and cities with white dots have hosted the Grand Prix before.
Countries not shaded have never hosted.

42. • The origin of the word X is obscure. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests
the name is related to the verb to X used in the game of hurling for striking
or pushing the ball, from the Scottish Gaelic and Irish words, meaning "to
poke, punch or deliver a blow“.
• A X is also referred to colloquially as a biscuit. To put the "biscuit" in the
"basket" (colloquial for the goal/net) is to score a goal.
Question 14

44. Puck

45. • The 400 m men’s final at the 1960 Rome Olympics was settled via photo
finish using one of the first experimental attempts at fully automatic timing.
Carl Kaufmann of Germany made a diving lunge at the finish line, his head
crossing the line first. But it is the torso that counts and Otis Davis of USA,
running upright had his body ahead of Kaufmann. After a suspenseful pause,
Davis was ruled the winner. Both of them were clocked at 44.9 seconds, which
at that time became a world record.
• Malcolm Spence of South Africa came third at 45.5 seconds, closely followed
by X at 45.6 seconds. X, who had been the gold medal contender following his
blistering performances in the heat rounds, later lamented “After running
perilously fast in lane five, I slowed down at 250 metres. I could not cover the
lost ground after that -- and that cost me the race. After the death of my
parents, that is my worst memory."
Question 15

47. Milkha Singh

48. Question 16
• Jurgen Sparwasser’s international career was
49 matches long, during which he scored 14
goals.
• Perhaps he is most known for a single goal
which was exploited politically, but without
any personal gains, he later said, ‘’Rumor had
it I was richly rewarded for the goal with a car,
a house and a cash premium. But none of
that is true.’’
• Why was that goal so significant ?

50. Sparwasser played for East Germany and scored the
only goal of the only meeting between East and
West Germany in a FIFA World Cup(1974)

51. • The springbok is a medium-
sized antelope found mainly in
southern and southwestern Africa.
• The springbok is characterised by a
white face, a dark stripe running
from the eyes to the mouth, a light-
brown coat marked by a reddish-
brown stripe that runs from the
upper fore leg to the buttocks across
the flanks, and a white rump flap.
• Why is it in a sports quiz?
Question 17

53. Popular nickname of the South African
national rugby team

54. • In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when Nino Salukvadze of Georgia won the
bronze medal in the 10 meter air pistol competition, she stood on the
medal podium with Natalia Paderina, a Russian shooter who had won the
silver.
• In what became a much-publicized event from the Beijing Games,
Salukvadze and Paderina embraced on the podium after the ceremony
had ended.
• What was the significance of this event?
Question 18

56. The Russo-Georgian war broke out on 8th August 2008,
also the opening day of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

57. Question 19

59. The Ashes

60. • Evander Holyfield is an American former professional boxer who
competed from 1984 to 2011. He reigned as the undisputed champion in
both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, being the first and to
date only boxer in history to do so, which earned him the nickname of
"The Real Deal".
• As an amateur, Holyfield represented the United States at the 1984
Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the light heavyweight
division. He turned professional at the age of 21, moving up to
cruiserweight in 1985.
• However, he was on the receiving end of a bizarre event on June 28, 1997.
What happened?
Question 20

62. Mike Tyson bit off his ear

63. • In 2016, X commented on the global significance of the 1972 Z World
Championship match against defending champion Y.
• I think the reason you look at such matches probably was not so much the
Z factor but to the political element, which was inevitable because in the
_____, Z was treated by the authorities as a very important and useful
ideological tool to demonstrate the intellectual superiority of the _______
over the decadent West. That’s why the defeat of _____ was treated by
people on both sides of the Atlantic as a crushing moment in the midst of
the Cold War.
• Id X and Y.
Question 21

65. X = Bobby Fischer; Y = Boris Spassky

66. Question 22
Id the sport being played in this picture.

69. Polocrosse

70. • X began his wrestling career in the International Wrestling Federation as
Terra Ryzing before joining World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1994.
Overall, X has won 23 championships in WWE. He is a thirteen-time world
champion having won the WWF/E Championship eight times, and
the World Heavyweight Championship five times. He was the first World
Heavyweight Champion, having been awarded the title in September
2002. In addition, X won the 1997 King of the Ring, the 2002 Royal
Rumble, and was the second Grand Slam Championship winner.
• Who is this legend?
Question 23

72. Triple H

73. • The men’s hockey final between India and Pakistan in the 1982 Asian Games
was a dark day for Indian sports. India lost 1-7 in the match which “brought
unprecedented humiliation for India in a sporting arena.”
• The Indian goalkeeper X was literally pilloried by armchair critics, the media
and an ignorant public for letting in so many goals. Some of the tabloids even
ran headlines crying out that Pakistan had bribed him and that he was a
'traitor‘.
• X went into hiding, only to make a comeback in typical filmy style.
• Who?
Question 24

75. Mir Ranjan Negi
The inspiration for SRK’s character Kabir Khan in Chak De India

76. • What connects the following sports?
1. Baseball/Softball
2. Karate
3. Skateboarding
4. Surfing
5. Sport Climbing
Question 25

78. New sports to be introduced at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

79. • ______ newspaper Dagens Nyheter unveiled their list of the top 150
______ sportspersons of all time in 2014.
• X, who came in at no. 2 on the list was clearly disgusted with it and
responded to it in typical X style, “Thank you but to finish second is like
finishing last. On that list I would have been number one, two, three, four
and five, with due respect to the others.“
• Y who was no. 1 is a former world No. 1 tennis player widely considered to
be one of the greatest in the history of the sport. He won 6 French Open
titles, 5 Wimbledon titles and 4 US Open titles in the 1970s and early
1980s. He never won the Australian Open title though. He also won the
Davis Cup with his country in 1975.
• Id X and Y.
Question 26

81. X=Zlatan Ibrahimovic; Y=Bjorn Borg

82.  A certain George impressed the owner of the Baltimore Oriols, Jack Dunn
who wanted him to offer a contract in 1914. As George was only 19 at
that time, the law stated that George had to have a legal guardian sign his
contract in order for him to play professionally. As a result, Dunn became
his legal guardian, leading teammates to jokingly call him "Dunn's new X."
The joke stuck, and George quickly earned the nickname "X" and that is
how he is famous now.
 What is George’s more famous name?
Question 27

84. George Herman “Babe” Ruth

85. Question 28
 The _________ (often abbreviated The Race) is an annual rowing race
between the men's heavyweight rowing crews of X and Y. First contested
in 1852, it has been held annually since 1859 except during major wars
fought by the United States. The Race is America's oldest collegiate
athletic competition and is often considered as the American parallel of
The Boat Race which takes place in England between Oxford University
and Cambridge University. Originally rowed on Lake Winnipesaukee, New
Hampshire, it has since moved to the Thames River, near New London,
Connecticut.
 Id X and Y.

87. Harvard-Yale Regatta or Yale-Harvard Boat Race

88. Question 29
 Funda?
Classification Colour
General Yellow
Points Green
Mountains Polka dots
Young rider White

90. Different jerseys at the Tour de France
Winner of the yellow jersey is considered the winner of Tour de France

91. Question 30
• Following slide shows the scorecard of a certain test match. There is
only one instance of something in test history happening in this test.
What?

94. India’s famous spin quartet (EAS Prasanna,
S Venkatraghavan, B Chandrasekhar, BS Bedi) playing
together in the same match.

95. The End. Thank You!