Solo Sports Quiz Barefoot 2024 (Prelims + Finals)

• 25 Questions
• Q’s 1-10 are starred, which will be used to
break ties
• 8 participants qualify for the final (top 6 from
the prelims and 2 more through repechage)
Prelims

1. On October 15, 2022, Sydney McLaughlin and
Neeraj Chopra were among the stars who were
invited for an event that had been in practice
since 1928. However, this particular instance is
the only anomaly to what is regular-practice.
What happened on this day, that makes it
unique/stand out?

Olympic flame/cauldron was re-lit

2. In the dying minutes of USA’s win
against Brazil, LeBron was seen
acknowledging the crowd as he thought
they were chanting his name.
They weren’t though – who were these
cheers actually for?

Leon! Leon!
and not
LeBron! LeBron!

3. At the closing of the 2024
Olympics, athlete
representatives from each
continent and a refugee team
representative were invited
on stage by the IOC.
Two out of these six have
won medals in another IOC
event too – who/what
continents representatives
are these?

Sun Yingsha (Asia) and Emma McKeon (Oceania)

4. How would you connect the following athletes with
respect to the Paris Olympics?

Listed a score of Zero in one/few of their events
• Roeffen Quinty
• Kim Ye-Ji
• Rachael Gunn (Ray Gunn)

5. Renny Quow is a
sprinter from Trinidad &
Tobago who was part of
their quartet competing in
the 4*400 meters relay
heat in Paris.
He ran a disappointing leg
of 48.61 though, the
slowest in the entire field
by a good margin and thus
T&T finished last – what
happened mid-race that
contributed to this?

6. If you look up the name of this former NCAA
athlete and current coach on a search engine,
you will come across entries about a pop star.
Her marital name would too throw up results of a
rumoured affair.
Name this athlete, who was the first Indian
origin athlete to medal at NCAA track
championships.

7. The date of
release for the Ben
Affleck and Matt
Damon starrer, Air
was 5th of April last
year.
Why was that
particular date
chosen?

4/5/23
Homage to
Michael
Jordan’s jersey
numbers

8. In cricket
scoring,
what is a
“smudger”?
Hampshire vs
Nottinghamshire
from May earlier
this year

Every ball of
an over has
a different
outcome

9. Which is the
only event to
have made its
Olympic debut
as part of a
multi-event
discipline
before it was
contested on
its own?
Multi-event discipline being the all-round
competition in 1904 which consisted of 10
track and field events and was a precursor
to what we know as Decathlon now
Prompt - If you think its hammer throw, I need throwing

10. This is baseball
player Jhostynxon
Garcia.
What was he rather
aptly nicknamed in
2021 by a twitter user,
one that has since
become synonymous
with him, making its way
to his social media bios
too?

11. This 2017 productions documents the troubled
relationship between Nick Bollettieri and Andre Agassi.
The former’s relentless desire to win cost him
relationships and the title pays homage to that while
referencing the scoring system in their sport.
What is this 3-word title?

12. Made of silk or cotton, this part of an athlete’s
attire can be worn in such a way as to give them
some advantage over their opponent.
While wearing it loosely makes it more difficult to
be thrown, wrapping it tightly and splashing water
prevents from getting a good grip on it.
In what sport would you come across this piece of
clothing?

13. Amul ads are known
for their clever wordplay.
Here they combined what
seemed like a clear
favouritism with the name
of an event to describe
what had happened.
Either identify the boxer
from Manipur or give the
quadrennial event that
this occurred in (need a
year in your answer too).

Sarita Devi
at the 2014
Asian
Games

14. In 1947, friends Prakash Nath and Devinder Mohan were pitted against
one another in the quarter-final at the All-England Badminton Open.
What did these players do before the match, thus marking a certain first in
the history of the illustrious event?

Tossed a coin to determine the
winner

15. Last year,
Max
Verstappen
won the
Canadian
Grand Prix
despite what
mid-race
mishap?
The driver radioed his team, Red
Bull during the race to say ‘it’ had
happened and later, the team
director confirmed, “The biggest
moment he had was that and he
did half the race with it behind the
front right brake duct.”

He had a
dead bird
stuck in his
car for half
the race

16. After winning the UEFA Champions League,
UEFA Europa League, UEFA Super Cup with
Chelsea and UEFA European Championship with
Italy, this player became the first player to
complete the set of senior UEFA winner's medals
when West Ham won the UEFA Europa
Conference League in June 2023.
Identify him (either first name or last name will
fetch points)

17. Earlier this year, Bernard Tomic retired from the
Little Rock Open in Arkansas after just 23 minutes
for what unconventional reason?
The commentators while on air exclaimed “Either
way, uncomfortable for all the fans here, who are
just wanting to see a little bit of tennis tonight, but I
don’t know that they’re going to get it.”
To be fair to Tomic, the occurrence is pretty regular and common but for it to happen during a game seemed a bit
out of place.

Had an argument with his partner/girlfriend

18. This is Anshul Kamboj
who made his IPL debut
recently.
What jersey number did he
don for Mumbai Indians?

19. After Chinki Yadav’s
win in a nationals, a
coach was seen sporting
this message on his T-
shirt – what had
prompted this/ who is
this coach?

Manu Bhaker’s brother had
sent this message to Jaspal
Rana

20.
In 2006 when one of Larkhall’s most famous sons,
Graeme Dott, won snooker's world championship,
refused to show the trophy at Ibrox Park unless the
ribbons were swapped.
The hatred for a certain colour in this town is so
exemplary that shops are often asked to change their
boards and traffic lights are misleading for anyone
who isn’t from there.
What prompts this?

Larkhall is a town where residents support Rangers and
hate the Glasgow Celtics and thus the colour green

21. The teams at University of Tennessee are
called by a name that the state received during the
War of 1812.
What are they called, which is quite apt in the
literal sense too, since the players are not
professionals?
If it helps, the term is a broader umbrella which
brings together thousands at most sporting events.

22. Bhaichung Bhutia’s move wasn’t Indian football’s first tryst
with Bury FC. A former player of the club Bert Flatley was the
first entrant in a list that has recently been extended.
Who was Flatley and what sub-group is in question here?

First foreigner
to manage the
Indian football
team

23. How would one
connect speed
climber Ola Kalucka’s
qualification for
#Paris2024 with a
similar occurrence
leading up to this
Ashes test in 1991?

Replaced/was
selected ahead of their
twin in the squad

24. In 1996, 2000, and 2008 Olympics, Anky van Grunsven
and Isabell Werth contributed to a list which was unique till
it was emulated and bettered recently.
What list is this and who bettered it?

Same athletes winning
gold and silver in an
Olympic event at 3
separate editions; Ryan
Crouser and Joe Kovacs
did in 3 successive
games

25. This is Yuki Irie –
what otherwise
‘perfect’list is she
the only anomaly in?

Only
wrestler to
beat Yui
Susaki

• 25 Points on offer
• All questions are written
• 2 participants qualify for the final from
repechage
Repechage

1. List down
the events in
the Decathlon
in order that
they are
contested.
1. Track
2. Field
3. Field
4. Field
5. Track
6. Track
7. Field
8. Field
9. Field
10.Track
0.5 points for each correct entry
1 Bonus if you get all correct
Total – 6 Points

2. There were 6 instances
of a country winning all
gold medals in a sport at
the Paris Olympics in
2024.
List them.
1 Point for each correct entry
Total – 6 Points

3. Five boxers beat Muhammad Ali
in his professional career. Name
them all.
1 point for each correct entry
Total – 5 Points

4. Name the 5
players who have
won both the
Golden Ball as
well as the Golden
Boot at the same
edition of the FIFA
Women’s World
Cup.
1999 2003 2007 2011 2019
1 point for each correct entry
1 Bonus point if you get all correct
Total – 5 Points

5. Name the only two athletes
to win gold medals in both
the Summer and Winter
Olympics.
1 Point for each correct entry
Total – 2 Points

1. Events in
Decathlon
1. 100 meters
2. Long jump
3. Shot put
4. High jump
5. 400 meters
6. 110 meters hurdles
7. Discus throw
8. Pole vault
9. Javelin throw
10. 1500 meters

2. Medal sweep at
#Paris2024
1. China – Diving
2. South Korea – Archery
3. China – Table Tennis
4. Netherlands – Hockey
5. USA – Basketball
6. China - Artistic Swimming

3. Boxers who
defeated
Muhammad
Ali
1. Joe Frazier
2. Ken Norton
3. Leon Spinks
4. Larry Holmes
5. Trevor Berbick

4. Players who
won both
Golden Ball &
Golden Boot at
the same
edition of FIFA
Women’s World
Cup
1. Sun Wen
2. Birgit Prinz
3. Marta
4. Homare Sawa
5. Megan Rapinoe

5. Athletes to win
gold medal at both
Summer and Winter
Olympics
1. Eddie Eagan
2. Gillis Grafström

Round 1
• 10 questions on
the
pounce/bounce
• +10 on bounce
• +10/-5 on pounce
• Questions pass
anti clockwise

1. One man and three women have won a doubles
Grand Slam with different partners.
Maria Bueno in women’s doubles in 1960, Margaret
Court in mixed doubles in 1965 and Owen Davidson in
mixed doubles in 1967.
Who was the fourth, achieving the feat in 1998?

Martina Hingis
with Martina
Navratilova and
Pam Shriver

2. Three cricketers made their test
debut for the same side in the
1990s. One played just 1 test, the
other just 5, even with his amazing
start. The third had a long career,
eventually even playing in the IPL
and is still a part of his national
team’s coaching setup.
Name any two of the three and
why this test made history?

Ali Naqvi, Mahmood Ramzan and
Azhar Mahmood made their debuts
together against Pakistan.
Azhar and Ali both got centuries on
debut.

3. The Wimbledon Effect (Uinburudon Genshō) probably
better translated as "Wimbledon Phenomenon,”is a theory
that originated in Japan, and is often used to explain a
common phenomenon in Sumo Wrestling and K1.
What exactly is the Wimbledon effect?

While Japan is the home of Sumo, most Sumo Champions are
Mongolian or Polynesian, similar to Wimbledon having very few
British champions

4. What is the specific
name of this sport, the
state sport of Hawaii,
which has categories like
OC1, OC2, OC3, OC4
and OC6 and the DC12
or OC12?

5. Who is
speaking
here, and
what is the
context?
• "In one such match, I was up against a
Middlesex club with the great Fred Titmus
in it. We were chasing a rather large target
and Freddie, a giant of an off spinner, was
bowling. I couldn't get a run. I looked
around and realised that the only gap
was at third man. My shot was pre-
meditated, but it connected and went for
four," he says. "But Titmus appealed!”
• Appealed? "Yes, poor old Freddie. He
went wild and pulled his hair out. This
was 1964, you see. The umpire told
Freddie, 'You got a ball in your hand, he
has a bat. He can do whatever he wants
with it’"

Mushtaq
Muhammed
on the
reverse hit

6. The Super Bowl played in 2016, where the Denver
Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers, broke tradition in
one very important way, which also ensured that one
specific site, usually in the news around that time, was
not in use.
What tradition? and for no extra points, the site.

Super Bowl 50,
which used the
Arabic(Indian!)
numerals
instead of
Roman
Numerals

8. In which edition, did the IPL final
feature the maximum past,
present and future Orange Cap
holders?

IPL 2016
David Warner, K L Rahul, Chris
Gayle, Virat Kohli

Robot Jockeys now used for Camel racing

10. A mighty warrior
of his time, the Raja
of Panna from 1675
to 1731 and a
descendant of Rudra
Pratap Singh of
Orcha, why is he
remembered in
India, especially
during major multi-
sport events like the
Olympics?

Chhatrsal Stadium,
regarded as the font of
Indian wrestling is named
after him.
Yogeshwar Dutt, Ravi Dahiya,
Bajrang Puniya and Aman
Sehrawat are all from Chhatrasal,
run by Satpal Singh

Round 2
• 8 questions on the
pounce/bounce
• +10 on bounce
• +10/-5 on pounce
• Questions pass
clockwise

1. This is the official entry of one of the longest
standing records in athletics, the women’s 100
meters. Why is it often deemed inaccurate and
thus the legitimacy of the record questioned?

Every event
before and after
this on the same
day had a wind
reading of 5 or
above while only
for this, it read 0.0

2. How is USA’s win in the men’s 4*100
meters medley relay at the 2004
Athens Olympics an anomaly in an
exhaustive list of 28?

Only final Michael Phelps didn’t swim in

3. Every year, two departmental teams from University of Bradford and Kings
College London contest in a football match which has been featured in lists of
great college sporting rivalries.
Almost like quizzing teams though, they don’t use their own names; while one
have called themselves Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King and Gandhi in the
past, the other has opted for Nelson, Caesar and Clausewitz.
Pretty aptly, what do they receive for winning the game, which would lend its
name to the contest too (and not the other way around)?

Department of
Peace Studies,
Bradford
versus
Department of War
Studies, Kings
College
contest for the
Tolstoy Cup

4. This is a
footballer
describing a
restrictive item
placed on him early
on in career, one
that ensured he
would often get
substituted after 60
minutes of a game.
“You could wear it like a guard. There was no way of
breaking it, even if you got kicked. You could hit it with a
hammer and it’s not coming off!”
Who is this player, and what was
the item in question?

5.“Set in stone since 1938 it was an annual nonevent. It was crying out
for … some passion. I pledged to keep the distinguishing features – the
background, the Playbill logo, the dimensions – and to add only a black-
and-white portrait.”
These are the words of a Tim de Lisle describing a 2003 change –
what had de Lisle who was the shortest serving professional in this
role just pioneered?

6. The USA men’s basketball team at the 1996
Olympics had 3 really formidable centers,
meaning coach Lenny Wilkens rotated them in the
line-up.
Which debutant was allotted just 2 minutes of
playing time in the final against Yugoslavia which
led to him hurling out his gold medal on his way
home?

7. While some of his predecessors (most notably
Dwight Eisenhower who had a cabin named after
him here) had been regulars to this sporting venue,
this POTUS had only made it there for the first time
in 1983.
It was here and on this day that a former local
football player barged in through that day and took
5 hostages with a demand to talk to him.
Where venue was this and who was this POTUS?

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