Sportivia V 3.0 is a 25 question quiz with 5 starred questions. The rules state it is not a spelling bee. Sachin Tendulkar is the quizmaster. Questions include identifying an Olympic event from a description of its origins in a cavalry officer's ride, and correctly naming Aaron Ramsey from clues about dates and earthquakes. Other questions identify sports like pentathlon, teams that play in the Congressional Baseball Game, and Roger Bannister as the first to run a mile under 4 minutes.

2. SPORTIVIA V 3.0
PRELIMS

3. RULES
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Not a Spell B
25 questions
5 starred questions: 10,11,12,23,24
Quizmaster is Sachin Tendulkar.

4. QUESTION 1
• Fill in the blank.

5. ANSWER 1

6. QUESTION 2
• A young French cavalry officer of the 19th century was
sent on horseback to deliver a message.
• He rode across the uneven terrain, through enemy
lines, and was confronted by a soldier with his sword
drawn.
• Challenged to a duel, the officer won, only to have his
horse shot out from under him by another enemy
soldier.
• After felling that soldier with a single shot, the officer
ran on.
• He swam across a raging river, and then finally he
delivered the message.
• So, legend has it, was born the modern........what?
• Name this Olympic event.

7. ANSWER 2
• Pentathlon

8. QUESTION 3
• The X Saga :
• 26-Dec-1990 : X Born - Dissolution of the Soviet
Union
• 26-Dec-2003 : X 13 yrs old - Iran earthquake
• 26-Dec-2004 : X 14 yrs old - Indonesia Tsunami
• 26-Dec-2006 : X 16yrs old - Taiwan earthquake
• 26-Dec-2008 : X 18 yrs old - Yunnan(China)
earthquake
• 26-Dec-2012 : X 22yrs old - End of the world
• ID X.

9. ANSWER
• Aaron Ramsey

10. QUESTION 4
• John Kinley Tener (July 25, 1863 – May 19,
1946) was a Major League baseball player and
executive and, from 1911 to 1915, who served
as the 25th Governor of Pennsylvania.
• He started the tradition of a Congressional
Baseball Game, which is organized each
summer and raises a lot of money that is
donated to charity.
• What are teams that contest in this game?

11. ANSWER 4
• Republicans vs. Democrats
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12. QUESTION 5
• This was the first device of its kind. What did
it do?

13. ANSWER 5
• Electronic line caller for tennis

14. QUESTION 6
• The term X refers to the area being slightly
depressed below field level.
• Xs allowed spectators to see all the
action, while not obstructing their view.
• Xs are common in baseball, and more recently
cricket.
• What is X?

15. ANSWER 6
• Dug Out.

16. QUESTION 7
• "Four Minutes" was a 2005 TV show which
aired on BBC, and chronicled the life of X.
• It stars Jamie Maclachlan as X, a British
Medical student who went on to create
history.
• Give me X, or the historical event.
• Pic in next slide

18. ANSWER 7
• Roger Bannister, the first man to run the mile
in less than 4 minutes.

19. QUESTION 8
• In October 2009 , Callum Campbell , a 16-year old
teenager, became 'famous' overnight for doing something (
X ) which ultimately led to Y.
• Following are a few of his quotes after the incident.
• “It was me. I’m the one who did it. I’m the one caught on
camera. I’m so, so sorry. This is my worst, worst nightmare."
• “When I got home I went into the garden and threw up. I
was physically sick – and that’s before the death threats
started appearing on the internet the next day.”
• “I watched it over and over again, and I still can’t work out
how it happened,” Callum said.
• Funda?

20. ANSWER 8
• X - bashed a beach ball on to the pitch in the
Sunderland vs Liverpool game.
• Y - The (actual) ball deflected off the beach
ball and landed in the net and Liverpool lost
the Game 1-0.

21. QUESTION 9
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X National Cricket Team - Black Caps
X National Football Team - All Whites
X National Rugby Team - All Blacks
X National Basketball Team - Y
X? Y?
No part points.

22. ANSWER 9
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New Zealand Sports Teams.
The Basketball team is called the Tall Blacks.
X – New Zealand
Y – Tall Blacks

23. QUESTION 10 *
• This is an Indian based company located in
Mumbai.
• They supplied 92963 pieces of _____ for X in
2011, in two colors for the two main
categories.
• This was after they were associated with X in
2009 and 2010 as well.
• What is their main contribution to sports?

24. ANSWER 10 *
• They supplied towels for Wimbledon.

25. QUESTION 11 *
• 1976, The Oval X vs. England.
• "The bowler's _________, the batsman's
Willie."
• This was supposedly, a comment made by
commentator Brian Johnston, who was later
taken to task by schoolmistress Ms.
Mainfield, who felt the remark was highly
inappropriate.
• X is some team. I don’t want X.
• Blank?

26. ANSWER 11 *
• Blank- Holding.
• Michael Holding bowling to Peter Wiley.
• “The bowler's holding the batsman's willie”.

27. QUESTION 12 *
• Jeremy John Bujakowski (March 30, 1939 - June
1, 2010) was born in Druskieniki to Polish
travellers Halina Korolec-Bujakowski and
Stanisław Bujakowski.
• Stanisław Bujakowski had served as a Warrant
Officer of the No.101 Repair and Servicing Unit in
the Polish Air Force in the UK during World War II.
• Jeremy John Bujakowski has a certain first to his
name. What?

28. ANSWER 12 *
• 1st Indian Winter Olympian.

29. QUESTION 13
• _________ literally means "Union" or
"United".
• They were famously chief sponsors of the
Spyker F1 team before Vijay Mallya took over,
following which they have been sponsoring
the Scuderia Ferrari team.
• Fill in the blank.

30. ANSWER 13
• Etihad 

31. QUESTION 14
• She won the 2004 French Open singles
title, becoming the first Russian female
tennis player to win a Grand Slam main
draw singles title.
• Subsequent to this victory she rose to
number 3 on the WTA ranking, becoming
the first Russian female tennis player to
reach the top three in the history of the
rankings.
• In September 2004 she reached a career
high of No.2, but she has not played
professional tennis since 2007, and has
stated she does not know whether she will
return or not.
• Injury has prevented her from advancing for
the past several years.
• ID.

32. ANSWER 14
• Anastasia Myskina

33. QUESTION 15
• Here’s an extract from Urban dictionary’s definition of
a term.
• Any accident or injury caused to a man while trying to
escape from his enraged and livid wife or girlfriend.
• Eg. Bob: Brenda found the text message on Johnny’s
phone about meeting some girl so as he was walking
out the door she hit him over the head with a bat and
then chased him up the block.
• Tony: Now that's what I call a ____ ______!
• Bob: Ain't nothin grand about that.
• Fill in the blank.

34. ANSWER 15
• The Tiger Slam, which in golf refers to holding
all 4 major titles simultaneously, a feat
accomplished by Tiger Woods in 2001.
• He remains the only one to have ever done so.

35. QUESTION 16
• "Ghanti bajao iski."
• A stump mike moment from August 2011.
• Who, about whom?

36. ANSWER 16
• M S Dhoni on Ian Bell.

37. QUESTION 17
• Chatenay-Malabry is a place in France and has
an ____-_______ lab. In November 2011, X
was accused of "benefiting from" hacking into
the computers.
• Who was X?
• What's the funda of the break-in?

38. ANSWER 17
• Floyd Landis broke into the anti-doping lab in
Chatenay-Malabry along with his coach to
erase his WADA records.

39. QUESTION 18
• Connect.

40. ANSWER 18
• Buckingham Palace.
• Beckingham Palace, David Beckham’s house is
said to be modelled on Buckingham Palace.

41. QUESTION 19
• Whose
record?

42. ANSWER 19
• Kimi Raikkonen

43. QUESTION 20
• What game?

44. ANSWER 20
• Thumb Wrestling

45. QUESTION 21
• Whose Jersey?

46. ANSWER 21
• Swamy Army

47. QUESTION 22
• The man in the photo is
Rogerio Ceni, a Brazilian
footballer who represented
his country in two World
Cups.
• He has played over 1020
matches and has scored over
106 goals.
• But he holds an unique
record in the history of
football. What?

48. ANSWER 22
• Only goalkeeper to have scored over 100
goals.

49. QUESTION 23 What song? *
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It is death, it is death
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It is life, it is life
This is the hairy man
Who caused the sun to shine again for me
Up the ladder, up the ladder
Up to the top
The sun shines

50. ANSWER 23 *
• Haka

51. QUESTION 24 *
• Then- Now?
• Sharad Pawar- ?
• Haroon Logart- ?

52. ANSWER 24 *
• Alan Isaac
• Dave Richardson

53. QUESTION 25
• ___X___ is regarded as one of Spain's greatest players; as a player
he was noted for his elegant, graceful style of play.Nicknamed El
Arquitecto (The Architect) he was noted for his perceptive passing
and explosive shot and in 1960 he became the first Spanish-born
player to be voted Ballon d'Or. In 1964 he helped Spain win the
European Championship.
• On 20 November _____, Y , X's namesake was in trouble when he
bit PSV's Otman Bakkal on the shoulder during a 0–0 draw. Ajax
suspended him for two games and fined him an undisclosed
amount which the club said they would donate to a "good
cause".The Dutch daily newspaper De Telegraaf branded Y the
"Cannibal of Ajax".
• While he was at Ajax, Y scored 111 goals in 159 appearance and
also belongs to the elite group of players, including Johan Cruyff
and Dennis Bergkamp to have scored 100 or more goals with the
club.
• ID X,Y.
• Image of X in next slide

55. ANSWER 25
• Luis Suarez.