The document outlines rules and hints for a quiz format with various sporting trivia and historical facts. It includes references to notable sports figures, events, and unique occurrences in sports history, such as Boris Becker's paternity suit and the Pierre de Coubertin medal for sportsmanship. Additionally, it mentions the Principle 6 campaign protesting against anti-gay laws in Russia during the Sochi Olympics.

2.  20 questions in the prelims, no negatives
 Prelims scores are significant
 Stick around for the finals if you don’t qualify,
we promise a good quiz 
 QM being generous, will drop a lot of hints
along the way, so pay attention
 Google is thy God outside this room. In here,
QM is thy God.

3.  Cameron Slater is a
controversial, right wing New
Zealand-based blogger who is
best known for publishing the
most widely read blog in New
Zealand, the Whale Oil Beef
Hooked blog.
 He is going to fight against a
famous and controversial
sportsperson in Celebrity
Boxing today in Christchurch.
 Identify his opponent.

4.  Jesse Ryder

5.  Only two male tennis players have ended
every year since 2002 ranked in the top 50 of
the world.
 One of them is obviously Roger Federer. Who
is the other highly consistent player?

6.  Mikhail Youzhny

7.  Five of the six highest innings scores in a
cricket World Cup game have all taken place
in the 21st century.
 Which is the blanked out entry, the only one
in this list that took place in the 20th century?

8.  Sri Lanka against Kenya

9.  Mauritz Von Strachwitz, 1953 Germany (failed to
qualify)
 Moises Solana, 1963 Mexico (retired but
classified 11th)
 Divina Galica, 1976 Britain (failed to qualify)
 But perhaps the most unlucky ones were Paul
Torchy in 1925 and Count Giulio Masetti in 1926.
 What essentially connects them, and who is the
most well known person omitted from this list?

10.  They all drove car number 13
 The most famous driver is of course Pastor
Maldonado, who revived the long defunct
number

11.  Derby County were once placed under a curse by a group
of Romani Gypsies that they would never win the FA Cup.
True to word, they never managed a win despite reaching
six FA Cup semi finals, including three finals, between 1896
and 1903.
 The next time they reached the final was in 1946 against
Charlton Athletic. In the build up to the final, a
representative from the club went to meet with Gypsies in
an attempt to lift the curse.
 During the match, with the score tied at 1-1, something
happened, which has since been seen by fans of the club as
the exact moment the curse was lifted. Derby County then
went on to win the match 4-1.
 So what exactly happened?

12.  The ball burst!

13.  This very famous sportsperson is a keen skier and
football player, though he admits he’s lazy and
often sleeps in until noon.
 “I’ve recently started playing for a football team
here in X,” he says. “I play at left back where I can
do least damage. I’m a Real Madrid fan but a
little less of one since the signing of Gareth Bale.
It was too much money. I don’t get it.”
 Simply identify this sportsperson who can pretty
much do as he pleases.

14.  Magnus Carlsen

15.  FIFA barred X clubs from European Championship
because they didn’t have a national league, but
one divided into Serb, Croat and Muslim leagues.
 The first time X met Y on cordial terms on the
football field was in India during the Millennium
Cup in January 2001. In a group game in Kochi,
honours were shared in a one-all draw, but X
took the moral victory.
 In the final in Kolkata, Y prevailed 2-0, but it set
the template for X’s future battles on the football
field.
 X and Y, please.

16.  X- Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Y- Yugoslavia

17.  X is a sporting term that is often realised in
retrospect. Some leagues maintain official lists of
X, but whether a team or person has achieved a
X is subjective, resulting in frequent debates
among sporting fans.
 Ferrari, New York Yankees, Canada and Soviet
Union Ice Hockey teams, Brazil National Football
team and Juventus at various points of their
histories are some notable examples of X, along
with Dale Earnhardt, Sébastien Loeb, Michael
Schumacher and Juan Manuel Fangio.
 Which politically relevant term is X?

18.  Dynasty

19.  What haunting moniker was given to this line up
of Yankees, who according to Senators' first
baseman Joe Judge, “not only beat you but they
tore your heart out”?

20.  Murderer’s Row

21.  Contrary to popular perception, what unique
event occurred for the first time in the 2002
FIFA World Cup Final, though there are claims
that a similar event took place in a 2nd round
game of the 1974 World Cup?

22.  First world cup
meeting between
Brazil and Germany
 Brazil had also faced
East Germany on 26
June, 1974

23.  X is considered by many to be the greatest
speed skater of all time. In his homeland
Norway, he was considered as big an icon as
Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen, the
two explorers.
 Over his entire career he set 14 different
world records and many others which were
not considered because the International
Skating Union considered him a professional.
 An award named after him is given out for
the most outstanding skating performance of
the season, which consists of a replica of his
statue by the Oslo Skating Club.
 The award or his name, please.

24.  Oscar Mathisen
 Skating ‘Oscar’

25.  In the 1988 Olympics, Canadian sailor Lawrence Lemieux was running
the 5th of 7 total races to determine the medallists in the Finn class and
was in 2nd place.
 The wind suddenly picked up speed, and capsized a nearby dinghy of
the Singapore team competing in the 470.
 Subsequently, Lemieux deviated from his course to assist in rescuing
them.
 He re-joined the heat at 22nd place after rescuing them. However, due to
his actions, the International Yacht Racing Union decided to reinstate
Lemieux's position when he went off course, rewarding him with a 2nd
place finish in his race.
 At the medal awards ceremony, the President of the International
Olympic Committee awarded Lemieux the X Medal for Sportsmanship,
one of the noblest honours that can be bestowed upon an Olympic
athlete. Give me the name of the medal.

26.  Pierre de Coubertin Medal

27.  A Gordie Howe Hat Trick is a
variation on the hat-trick,
wherein a player has to
score a goal, record an
assist, and ___________, all
in one game.
 It is named after Gordie
Howe, who is nicknamed
"Mr Hockey", and is
considered to be one of the
greatest hockey players of
all time.

28.  Get in a fight

29.  This game was played by a former
World Chess Champion X against
Aron Nimzowitsch in San Remo,
1930, ending in X’s victory.
 What was remarkable about this
match was this particular formation
of 2 rooks and a queen stacked
together on the same file, an assault
which led to a resignation within 4
more moves.
 Identify the world champion X or
the formation named after him.

30.  Alexander Alekhine
 Alekhine’s Gun

31.  For the 1992 Euro Qualifiers, 34 teams were
initially divided into 7 groups. 6 groups of five
teams and 1 group with four teams.
 Initially, Group 5 had five teams. However,
before the first match in the group took place,
something happened due to which the
number of teams in the group was reduced to
four.
 What major event happened?

32.  West and East Germany were re-unified prior
to the tournament

33.  In late 2000 Boris Becker had a separation with
his wife of 6 years. Almost parallel but
independent to this, a paternity suit was
acknowledged by him which involved fathering a
child with a Russian model Angela Ermakova in a
broom cupboard at a restaurant in London.
 The German newspapers suggested a conspiracy
theory in this matter which involved the Russian
mafia.
 What possible reason did the tabloids come up
with to justify the innocence of Boris Becker?

34.  Stolen sperm

35.  The 6th principle of Olympic charter states “Any form
of discrimination with regard to a country or a person
on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or
otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the
Olympic Movement.”
 Principle 6 campaign was launched sometime last year
by All Out, a social media organizing advocacy group
with 1.9 million members coming from every country
in the world. Athlete Ally, a sports based organization,
and a brand American Apparel partnered with the two
groups to produce and distribute Principle 6 gear
online and in their stores globally.
 What was this group protesting against?

36.  Anti-Gay Laws in Russia (Sochi Olympics
Protests)

37.  Son of S. M. Anandan, he started his career at
the age of 11. He was inspired by Noel Grant
and Billy Cobham, with whom he shared the
stage at Mumbai’s Rang Bhawan in 1990.
 He has also acted in two Telugu movies
Padamati Sandhya Ragam and Sirivennela.
 How do we better know this person, who was
in danger of finding himself unemployed a few
months back?

38.  Sivamani

39.  X is one of only two persons, the other one being
Jupp Heynckes, who, as player and as manager
combined, has participated in over a 1000
Bundesliga matches.
 In the Bundesliga, he holds the records for the
most victories (387), most draws (205), most
losses (228), and his teams have scored the most
goals (1473) and conceded more (1142) than any
other.
 Coaching a national team, he won the Laureus
Sports Award for Team of the Year in 2005.
 Identify X.

40.  Otto Rehhagel

41.  The Indian team had found a unique way of
fitting X into their scheme of things at the World
Cup. At the entrance of the players’ and officials’
access area, in the list of names and photographs
put up, X was put on the team management
sheet that included Team India’s non-playing
staff.
 It’s an oddity, unless of course, X has been
handed some kind of a coaching role, which has
not been made official. X?

43.  Dhawal Kulkarni

44.  Kindly switch off your lights for Earth Hour
tonight from 8:30 to 9:30 pm!