Sports Quiz at SPrint, SPJIMR (Prelims)

Online Prelims @ D2C || Sports Quiz at Sprint, SPJIMR || 5th February, 2022

Acknowledgements
• I would like to thank my friends Siddharth Mishra and Prithvi Raj for
setting questions and Guinea Pigging the quiz.
• A big big thank you to the SPrint team and S. P. Jain Institute of
Management And Research for having me over.

Note to the Quizzer seeing this:
• The font used is Candara, for best experience download it before seeing.
• The framing of the questions in this quiz is different from how an on-
ground quiz would be, mainly due to the present scenario of quizzing, and
measures like removal of proper nouns, numerical approximations etc.
have been done to be as fair as possible.
• Reframed some questions before uploading, so that it becomes less
vague.
• In the notes section of some answers, the source of the question has
been provided, if you may want to read further on it.

Rules
• 20 Qs on Dare2Compete

• July, 1998 at Lord’s, a group of about 30
people congregated in the Harris Garden
with a miniature bat, some matches and a
wok.
• This was being done to replicate a famous
1882 event.
• What was this done for?

Women’s Ashes
(burnt and transferred into the trophy)

• Within the last fortnight, some in the home crowd showed
their support by showcasing cereal packets like this. Whose
journey to the title had people supporting like this? (Need 2
names)

Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis
(the team nicknamed Special K)

• Here is the list of
Olympic Medal winners
for Malaysia.
• What is the
confounding common
surname of the 1992
Men’s Doubles
winners, and the 1996
Men’s Singles winners
in Badminton?

Sidek

• Founded in California in the 1980s, this
company was founded by a designer and an
Olympic-medallist.
• While the company makes a wide range of
products, it is best known for its products
for a certain class of sports in a different
medium.
• Named for this Scandinavian God, patron of
heroes and warriors, which company is this?

Tyr

• This Spanish surname comes from the nickname for a man with
wide shoulders and chest, and originates from ‘to form a square’.
• What is this surname, also of a South American winger/full-back,
who is currently plying his trade in Italy?

Cuadrado

• The logo of which west coast American sports franchise is actually
a pinwheel with the 5 lines on each side representing the 5
attacking and 5 defending players coming together around the
center circle?

Portland Trail Blazers

• One of India’s recent ‘almost sheroes’, she spoke about being quite
frail as a youngster, so she could never practice the power game
for more than an hour.
• This meant that she could spend time and better the shorter game
for 7-8 hours. The incredible results of that have been there on
show.
• Who is this 23-year old?

Aditi Ashok

Give one word to connect the two.

• Minor League Cricket had 27 teams in its inaugural seasons this
year. This included two teams from one state - Empire State Titans
and Manhattan X.
• X itself has contentious etymological roots with some believing
that the name comes from a county in Northern England where it
originated. Others point out that in 19th century England, it was a
slang for cheating or ‘pulling a fast one’ which is quite appropriate.
• Identify X.

Yorkers

• While this happened for the first time in the 2012 London Games,
the rules have been broadened over the last few editions.
• In the 2020 Tokyo Games, the games where this was possible was
in:
1. Triathlons
2. 5-a-side soccer (Only the GK)
3. Athletics
4. Cycling
5. Boccia
• What is this list all about?

Able bodied players who can win
medals in Paralympics

• In 1880, a match was played between JF
Malta and Henry Bird. Bird is considered
one of the best players in 20th century and
won this match in style with black in 28
moves.
• Chessgames.com used an appropriate
enough title for the match which uses the
name of both players through a pop
culture icon. The pop culture icon itself is
based on the statuette shown here.
• What name?

Maltese Falcon

• The three main components of this sport translate to:
1. Basics/Fundamental
2. Form: Practiced solo, as a means of perfecting movement
3. Grappling Hands: Practiced against an opponent, to get
competition ready
• What sport, part of a group of 5 from the last year?

Karate
• Debuted in the 2020 Olympics Games along with baseball
(+softball), skateboarding, surfing, and sport climbing.

• He was always a prodigy, a target of jealous parents, and in his
childhood days played in age-groups over his own.
• And because the sweaters for ten-year-olds were far too large for
him at age 6, he started tucking his sweater into his pants on the
right side, something which stayed with him throughout his senior
career.
• Who, quite simply the best there ever was in his sport, is this?

Wayne Gretzky

• This word for meandering through obstacles is commonly used in
multiple sports, and has its origin in English from Norwegian in the
early 1920s, meaning ‘sloping trail’, in turn originating from a word
meaning ‘row of houses’.
• What word?

Slalom

• Who is this, showing the chequered flag at a Grand Prix in 2021?
• Which Grand Prix? (0.5 point each)

Lamont Marcell Jacobs
Italian Grand Prix

• The person on the right is the
Regiment Lead, and till very recently
was known for his career
achievements and exploits.
• However, a recent honor for him has
met with overwhelming political
criticism from India, and has found
repercussions even before he
undertook the activity.
• What is the recent honor? What 2020
event was he a part of? (0.5 point
each)

China’s Winter Olympics Torchbearer
Galwan Valley Skirmish

• This stadium was the first in the world to be
fully closed off and air conditioned due to
the high temperatures the area reaches.
• As teams started playing in the stadium,
they realized a certain elemental
requirement was missing and ended up
being unfavourable for them in certain
situations. A solution for this was bought
about by a Missouri based company and
ended up being a global standard today.
• What was the solution?

Astroturf
• The domed roof made the grass turn brown and die due to lack of
sunlight.

• In fencing, the attack stance
you see on the left is derived
from the French word for a
certain sporting equipment,
and is meant to be an
indication to the surprising
style of the attack and the
speed at which the maneuver is
performed.
• What is the French word
derived from?

Arrow
The move is called fleche, French for arrow

• What connects the following events? Also tell how #4 is different
than the rest? (0.5 each)
• #1 1947 All England Badminton Championship match (Prakash Nath
vs Devender Mohan)
• #2 1964 European Championship Semi Final - Soviet Union Vs Italy
• #3 QF between Liverpool and FC Koln 1965 European Cup
• #4 1988 Permian Basin High School Football Final Playoff Match

Coin toss to decide the outcome
Used to resolve a 3 way tie

• During the last weekend, a professional one-night ‘sport’
tournament took place in an American city, with many UFC stars
and pugilists making their way to the showdown.
• There are three 1.5-minute rounds, the excitement coming from the
fact that you don’t need to explain rules to a casual watcher.
• Won by MMA stars in both the men’s and women’s categories,
many suggest it could be one for the future, as it has intensity
without the gore.
• What ‘sport’ is this, one which you may have seen on social media
being played as part of flash mobs?

Pillow Fighting Championship

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