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1. THE SPORTS QUZ
WELCOME TO...

2. ROUND~1
EASY TO READ, EASY TO ANSWER

3. RULES
• 9 QUESTIONS, OPEN FOR ALL
• THE FIRST 3 TO RAISE HANDS WILL ONLY BE
CONSIDERED TO HAVE POUNCED
• +10/-5 MARKING PATTERN
• READING LEADS TO SUCCESS.....

4. Q.1]
• If X were a country, X would have been placed at the
35th position in the all time Olympic medal list, ahead
of 97 other nations.

5. • Michael phelps

6. Q.2] This is a man called Gunter Parche. What 1993
incident made him infamously famous

7. • Stabbing of monica seles

8. Q.3]
• In their first match in 1987 WC, Australia scored 268
against India. However, after the close of innings, X
agreed with the umpires that the score should be
increased to 270 as one boundary during the innings
had been mistakenly signalled as a four and not a six.
In their reply, India scored 269 falling short of
Australia's score by one run. In the Wisden Cricketer's
Almanack, it was reported that “X's sportsmanship
proved the deciding factor in a close-run match".

9. • Kapil dev

10. Q.4]
• was chosen as Man of the Match despite him neither
batting or bowling in an ODI against Pakistan on
November 28, 1986. Adjudicators awarded him for his
three catches and two run-outs, which helped The
West Indies dismiss Pakistan for 143.

11. • Augustus “gus” louis

12. Q.5]
• At the age of eight, climbing a tree he touched a live
electric cable. He received medical attention but the
doctors were forced to amputate his left hand.
• In 2004 qualified for his first Summer Paralaympic
Games. At the games he set a new world record with a
distance of 62.15m eclipsing the old one of 59.77m.

13. • Devendra jhanjharia, two time gold medalist at
paralympics

14. Q.6]
• After becoming interested in football as a kid, having
kickabouts with his friends on the dusty streets of
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, X apparently became so in love
with Arsenal, he gave one of his sons a replica
Gunners shirt with Ian Wright's name and number on
the back.
• Who is this unwanted die hard fan of the gunners

15. • Osama bin laden

16. Q.7]
• From mid-2010 to 2020 the Y made use of an American
bald eagle, called X, as the club mascot, with the bird flying
from one end of the stadium to the other at every home
game.The bird died recently in June 2020.

17. • Crystal palace F.C, kyala the eagle

18. Q.8]
• While the Indian team was touring Australia in 1935,
one of the match was scheduled at Adelaide. The
manager pankaj gupta asked the mayor of Adelaide if
X could be present to witness the match. After
watching the performance of Y, X was so overwhelmed
that he said a famous line for Y.

19. • Don bradman and dhyanchand
• Bradman said for dhyanchand, “you score goals just as
I score runs”

20. Q.9]
• Afghanistan’s national women cycling team was
nominated for which award, after having cycled as a
protest to gender inequality and social taboo

21. • Nobel peace prize

22. ROUND~2
NICKNAME GAME

23. RULES
• MINI, BUT MEGA ROUND
• +20/-5 , SO AS TO BOOST THE SCORES
• FIRST THREE TO RAISE HANDS WILL ONLY BE
CONSIDERED TO HAVE POUNCED.
• IF YOU ARE A CRICKET DEVOTEE, YOU MUST GRAB
+60 IN THIS ROUND.....

24. Q.1]
• X was nicknamed 'Whispering Death' by umpire Dickie
Bird for "his smooth and silent" run-up.
• Bird gave the name after he could not hear X
approach the crease before delivering a ball during a
match.

25. • Michael holding

26. Q.2]
• The nickname 'FOT' was coined early in his career
when he had just started playing for Western
Australia.
• During a match, his captain Tony Lock called him and
said “X, you are bowling like a Flipping Old Tart.” His
teammate John Inverarity immediately gave X the
nickname 'FOT' (Flipping Old Tart), which became
popular in the latter days.

27. • Dennis lillee

28. Q.3]
• But a couple of years later, in Sri Lanka, he ran into
trouble, bagging successive pairs in Colombo and
Moratuwa. Four in a row earned him the temporary
nickname after the car-maker's logo.
• His team-mates generously pointed out that if there
had been another Test he had a chance to be renamed
"Olympic“.

29. • Mark waugh, he got the nickname “Audi” as he scored
4 consecutive ducks

30. ROUND~3
TERMS AND CONDITIONS

31. RULES
• 5 QUESTIONS, OPEN FOR ALL
• +15/-10 ON STAKE.
• FIRST THREE TO RAISE HANDS WILL ONLY BE
CONSIDERED TO HAVE POUNCED.
• READ THE QUESTIONS CAREFULLY, AVOID TAKING
RISKS.

32. Q.1]
• In tennis, X describes various exhibition matches
played between a man and a woman, or a doubles
match between two men and two women in one case.
• The term is most famously used for an internationally
televised match in 1973 held at the Houston
Astrodome between 55 year-old Bobby Riggs and 29
year-old Billie Jean King, which King won in three sets.
• The match was viewed by an estimated fifty million
people in the United States and ninety million
worldwide.

33. • Battle of sexes

34. Q.2]
• The term is derived from the French term ruban. Over
a long period of time, the term was corrupted and
idiomized .
• In the United Kingdom(UK), a tournament is often
called an American tournament in sports such as
tennis or billiards which usually
have knockout tournaments.

35. • Round robin

36. He is Allison Danzig. Known to
be one of the best journalist to
cover sports, he is also known
for popularising the term
“grandslam” and also coin the
term X.
Q.3]

37. • Ace

38. Q.4]
• Despite the relatively recent coining of the term, the
practice is as old as cricket itself, with historical
accounts of witty banter between players being quite
common. W. G. Grace and his brother E. M. were noted
throughout their careers for being "noisy and
boisterous" on the field. W. G. admitted that they used
to "chaff" opponents, and this is seen as part of
the gamesmanship for which E. M. and W. G. were
always controversial.

39. • Sledging

40. Q.5]
• X also known as fast leg theory bowling, was a cricketing tactic
devised by the English cricket team for their 1932–33 Ashes
tour of Australia, specifically to combat the
extraordinary batting skill of Y.

41. • Bodyline, where bowler bowls length balls to the
batsman with fielders placed close to him so that if a
batsman defends it, there is always a chance of catch
• Sir Donald Bradman had to face bodyline tactic in the
1933 ashes

42. ROUND~4
UNIQUENESS IN EVERY BIT

43. RULES
• 10 QUESTIONS, OPEN FOR ALL
• FIRST TWO TO RAISE THEIR HANDS WILL GET A
CHANCE TO SPEAK THEIR ANSWER.
• +20/-10 ON STAKE.
• ALSO LISTEN AND READ THE QUESTION BEFORE
JUMPING ON TO ANSWER

44. Q.1]

45. • Perfect 10 of nadia commanneci

46. Q.2] What connects
• Doris hart
• Margret court
• Martina navratilova

47. • International hall of fame
• Only players to score career grand slam i.e. Winning
all 12 trophies of 4 major grandslam tournaments in
all the three categories

48. Q.3]
• Gagan Narang - shooting
• Saina Nehwal - badminton
• Mary Kom - boxing
• X – wrestling
• Sushil kumar - wrestling
• Vijay kumar - shooting

49. • Yogeshwar dutt, bronze

50. Q.4]
• Chris Gayle - 175*
• Brendon McCullum - 158*
• AB de Villiers - 133*
• Rishabh Pant - 128*
• Murali Vijay - 127
• David Warner - 126*
• Virender Sehwag - 122
• X - 120*
• Shane Watson - 117*
• Andrew Symonds - 117*

51. • Paul valthaty

52. Q.5]
• 500 - X
• 422.22 - Chris Morris
• 400.00 - Albie Morkel
• 387.50 - AB de Villiers
• 385.71 - Balachandra Akhil

53. • Krunal pandya, highest strike rate in an IPL innings

54. Q.6]
• Reginald Duff (AUS): 1902-1905
• Bills Ponsford (AUS): 1924-1934
• Greg Chappell (AUS): 1971-1984
• Mohammad Azharuddin (IND): 1984-2000
• Alastair Cook (ENG): 2006-2018

55. • All of them scored hundreds on both their debuts and
last test match
• Interestingly, Sir Alastair Cook did both against india
(2006 and 2018)

56. Q.7]
• Richard Raskind, achieved a unique feat after loosing
to VIRGINIA WADE in the US Open having earlier lost
to NEALE FRASER in the same tournament.
• What unique feat?

57. • First player to play in both men and women category
in US open, as she went through a gender transplant
surgery.

58. Q.8]
• Researchers at the University of Leicester claim that a
phenomena was caused by the celebrations of the
fans when Leicester City’s Leonardo Ulloa scored an
89th-minute winner against Norwich City in 2016. It
was attributed to the sudden release of energy by the
cheering fans at Leicester's King Power Stadium.
• What was the phenomena and the name it got

59. • A 0.3 magnitude earthquake
• Name given was Vardy quake, named after the
highest scorer of that match, Jamie Vardy.

60. Q.9]
• “ the Indian coach John Wright and Ganguly decided in
10 minutes when India were following on that X will
bat at three and Y will be at six, he was in good
rhythm. Nobody moved in the dressing room when
those two batted. Drinks, ice packs were all being
prepared for them. It was a magical partnership” said
Tendulkar.

61. • VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid, before the historical
374 run stand at eden gardens, 2001

62. Q.10]

63. • Gautam gambhir’s jersey on the eve of CWC 2011.

64. ROUND~5
SEE IT, GRAB IT

65. RULES
• FULLY VISUAL ROUND
• +30/-20 PATTERN
• FIRST TWO TO RAISE THEIR HANDS WILL GET A
CHANCE TO SPEAK THEIR ANSWER.
• ALSO LISTEN TO HINTS, IF GIVEN

66. Q.1]

67. • Joseph schooling, defeated Michael Phelps at 2016
Rio Olympics.

68. Q.2]

69. • Norman pitchard

70. Q.3]

71. • Paan Singh Tomar

72. Q.4]

73. • Jesse Owens

74. Q.5]

75. • Mark Spitz

76. Q.6]

77. • Col. C.K Naydu, first indian test captain

78. Q.7]

79. • Mankad or Vinoo Mankad
• The newletter describes the way he mankaded Bill
Brown

80. Q.8]

81. • Left: Gabriela Sabatini
• Right: Steffi Graff

82. ROUND~ 6
SUPER CONNECTS

83. RULES
• 3 SETS OF QUESTIONS, 4 IN EACH.
• EACH SET HAS 3 DIRECT QUESTIONS, AND A SUPER
CONNECT AT LAST
• OPEN FOR ALL
• FIRST TWO TO RAISE THEIR HANDS WILL GET A
CHANCE TO SPEAK THEIR ANSWER.
• +30/-25 ON EACH DIRECT
• +60/-40 ON EACH SUPERCONNECT

84. 1

85. • Maharaja Bhupindra Singh of Patiala

86. 2

87. • Maharaja Ranjit Sinhji Jadeja

88. 3

89. • Irani Cup

90. SUPER CONNECT

91. • Connect: Ranji Trophy
• Initially, Maharaja Bhupindra Singh donated the
trophy.
• The tournament is named after Maharaja Ranjit Sinhji
Jadeja
• Irani cup is played between the champion of Ranji
trophy and Rest of India team.

92. 1

93. • Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

94. 2

95. • Doordarshan

96. 3

97. • Soviet Union

98. SUPER CONNECT

99. • Connect: Nehru Cup
• Named after the first prime minister of India.
• It used to televised on the Doordarshan channel.
• Soviet Union is the most successful team in the history
of the tournament, having won it at 4 occassions.

100. 1

101. • Chepauk or M.A Chidambaram stadium
• (* You dare not call yourself a MSD Fan if you didn't
knew it)

102. 2

103. • The dugout show

104. 3

105. • Melbourne Cricket Stadium or MCG

106. SUPER CONNECT

107. • Connect: RIP Prof. Dean Jones
• His most famous test knock of 215* came against
India at the Chepauk stadium of Chennai (Madras that
time)
• He was a prominent member of the dugout cast.
• His dead body was taken to the MCG before burial

108. Buffer questions...

109. Q.1]
• “He took the lift, wherease i took the staircase”
• Who said this line and for whom

110. • Vinod Kambli on being asked about his less lustrous
success as compared to Sachin Tendulkar

111. Q.2]
• Arthur Watson
• Learie Constantine
• Jim Smith
• Carl Hooper
These four are the only cricketers to have hit the ball
over the X for a six.

112. • Only players to have hit a six over the famous St
Lawrence Lime Tree Situated in canterbury stadium at
kent.

113. Q.]
• X is thought to be named after an area on the ground
at Dulwich College where cattle would often graze.
• This has led to the naming of X shots, which are wild
and risky shots that tend to end up at X, and are
considered to be mostly played by players with little
knowledge of, or ability to apply, the more difficult
techniques of the game.
• Such shots are also called agricultural.

114. • Cow’s corner

115. Q.]
• The term is a shortening of another old term. When
referring to the Prince of Wales' (the future Edward VII)
score of nought on 17 July 1866, a contemporary
newspaper wrote that the Prince "retired to the royal
pavilion on a X' ". The name is believed to come from
the shape of the number being similar to that of a X,
as in the case of the American slang term "goose-egg"
popular in baseball.

116. • Duck