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42 questions as its the answer to life, the universe and everything
1.
What has been blanked out?
ANS
*2.
Id X and Y. This is the photo from the 2004 Athens Olympics. In
which sports the two Indians were representing India.
ANS
Weightlifting
3.
X was a legendary American baseball player who was voted the
greatest first baseman of all time by the Baseball Writers' Association.
He was the only surviving child of his parents and shared a very
special bond with his mother. He was popularly nicknamed ‘The Iron
Horse’ as he played for 15 years continuously with the New York
Yankees with a total of 2130 consecutive matches, without missing a
single one in between. Something special happened on his 36th
birthday which made him very popular outside the world of sports?
ANS
Lou Gherig
4.
Id him.
ANS
Dick Fosbury
5.
Id this national level shooter.
ANS
6.
If the husband represented India in Olympics in hockey and the son
represented India in Olympics in Tennis, then in which sport the wife
represented India in Olympics?
ANS
Basketball
Vece Paes
Leander Paes
Jennifer Paes
*7.
The latest recipient of this trophy are the UBC Kainakary group
captained by Chambakulam Chundan. Which Indian sporting event?
ANS
The Nehru Boat Race.
8.
He was the younger brother of Dhyan Chand, the most celebrated
player in Indian hockey and widely regarded as the greatest hockey
player ever. While Dhyan chand has a hockey stadium named after
him, he has a Cricket stadium named after him. Who?
ANS
Roop Singh
Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior.
9.
Id the grand prix track.
ANS
Suzuka Circuit
Japan GP
*10.
Whose latest tweets?
The #WorldCup was pretty good, right? Here are some of my favourite
bits. Thanks for all the love. #ballin
I guess this now makes me a #WorldCup legend so here I am with
more #WorldCup legends: Kaka, Beckham & Zico. #ballin
Thanks to all of you for following and supporting me. I've had a ball.
Best. Ever. #WorldCup. #ballin
Extra-time. I don't want this to stop. I'm going to see if FIFA will let
us play the 2018 #WorldCup now. #ballin
ANS
11.
Identify her.
ANS
Mirka Federer
12.
Id the logo.
ANS
Dakar Rally
13.
Which sporting event?
ANS
Wimbledon
14.
Id the logo.
ANS
*15.
On whose life the movie is based.
ANS
Jackie Robinson
16.
Whose name has been blanked out.
ANS
Floyd Mayweather.
17.
In 1984, this former NFL coach and TV analyst XY had to be coaxed
by EA Sports execs into lending his name to the game. He's glad he
did. In 2013, the 25th edition of the Y NFL franchise (XY Football
before 1993) was released. To date, it has sold 85 million copies and
brought in more than $3 billion in revenue. XY‘s licensing deal has
helped push his net worth north of $100 million. The franchise is
updated each year and is the best-selling sports video game of all
time in the US. Identify the person XY or the game franchise.
ANS
John Madden
18
The race was first organized in 1903 to increase paper sales for the
magazine L'Auto it is currently run by the Amaury Sport
Organisation.The race has been held annually since its first edition in
1903 except for when it was stopped for the two World Wars.
ANS
Tour De France
*19.
Winners of which sporting event get these as mementos?
Roughly $5000 a piece, the winning team can typically present rings
to whomever they choose, including usually, but not limited to:
players (active roster or injured), coaches, trainers, executives,
personnel, and general staff.
ANS
The Super Bowl ring is an award in the National Football League given
to the winners of the league's annual championship game
20.
“Just enough education to perform” is an album by the band
Stereophonics. It is the favourite album of a sports personality which
led him to make this tattoo. Id him.
ANS
21.
Until 2013 the winners of X was decided solely based on the
outcomes of the format that is used to decide the winners on the
more famous variant of X, Y. Starting 2013 the winners are decided
on a points system while also including two more formats. The name
X has been used since 1998 even though this was not first time this
event took place.
ANS
22.
Which sports equipment?
ANS
23.
Versions of which game.
20 to 1
Around the world
Cricket
Fives
Halve it
Killer
Shangai
Ranger
ANS
Darts
25.
This sporting event is held in 3 cities in India. The first edition took
place in 2012 in Mumbai, Srinagar & Delhi, while in 2013 it took place
in Mumbai, Jaipur and Delhi. The year 2013 marks the debut of John
Abraham as the brand ambassador. It is in affiliation with the world
governing body of the sport and is sponsored by Godrej Eon. The
categories of the event are Full, Half, Green, Champions and
International.
This event is a spin off of a more famous event. Which event?
ANS
26.
The Russian Olympic Team Arrived 12 Days Late to The 1908 London
Olympics because of the poor communication between the countries.
Why?
ANS
As it turns out, England had been using the Gregorian calendar, the
one that we use today, for over a century and a half.
Unfortunately, Russia was still using the Julian calendar—a pretty
dated way to keep track of the days!
27.
X was a star of Indian athletics in the 1960s and the 1970s. Being
6'7", he dominated the Indian hammer and discus throws for several
years. He became a Double gold medalist in discus throwing in the
1966 and 1970 Asian Games holding the Asian Games record of
56.76 metres. He was a silver medalist in the 1966 Commonwealth
Games in Kingston and in the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran. He
competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer
Olympics. He contested the 2013 Delhi Legislative elections on
an Aam Aadmi Party ticket, but lost. Either tell me his name or tell me
the claim to fame.
(pic on the next slide)
ANS
Praveen Kumar Sobti
Played Bheem in Mahabharat
28.
ID him or his claim to fame.
ANS
Jigoro Kano the inventor of Judo
29.
In Japan, avid golfers buy insurance to protect themselves on the
course, however, it’s not for what you might think. They purchase it
because of something else. The policy covers them for a party worth
up to $3,000, for the low price of $65 a year. What is the insurance
for?
ANS
It is called Hole in One insurance.
They purchase it because if they get a hole-in-one, they have to buy
gifts and drinks for their friends.
30.
This is the logo of a minor league basketball team that plays
in Augusta, Georgia, as a Class A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.
The reason behind the name of this team is related to the thing that
is given as a reward to the winners of The Masters Tournament, also
known as The Masters or The US Masters, one of the four major
championships in professional golf. Scheduled for the first full week
of April, it is the first of the majors to be played each year. Unlike the
other major championships, the Masters is held each year at the same
location, Augusta National Golf Club, a private golf club in the city
of Augusta, Georgia, USA.
(pic on the next slide)
ANS
Augusta Green Jackets
31.
During lunch with commissioner Pete Rozelle in 1966,Tiffany &
Co. vice president Oscar Riedner made a sketch on a cocktail napkin
of what would become the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The original
trophy was produced by Tiffany & Co. in Newark, New Jersey Others
have since been handcrafted by the company in Parsippany, New
Jersey. How do we better know this as?
ANS
32
This is an American biographical sports drama film directed by Craig
Gillespie from a screenplay written by Tom McCarthy. The film is
based on the true story of baseball pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh
Patel who were discovered by sports agent J.B. Bernstein after winning
a reality show competition.
ANS
Million Dollar Arm
33
Similarly to the Gumball Rally, a transcontinental road race run on
public roads. Crossing checkpoints as fast as possible scores you
points. Committing vehicular manslaughter by running over innocent
pedestrians also scores you points. Depending on your definition of
"winning," you must score the most points, murder the most
pedestrians and then also plow your car into the President of the
Fascist United Provinces, and usurp his power. What race am I talking
about?
DEATH RACE
34.
At a time when Grand Prix racing was the dominant form of
motorsport throughout Europe, this was designed to present a
different test. Instead of focusing on the ability of a car company to
build the fastest machines, this would instead concentrate on the
ability of manufacturers to build sporty yet reliable cars. This
encouraged innovation in producing reliable and fuel-efficient
vehicles, because the nature of endurance racing requires cars that
last the distance and spend as little time in the pits as possible.
ANS
The 24 Hour Le Mans
35.
Guidelines regarding clothing rules of X:
No solid mass of colouring
Little or no dark or bold colours
No fluorescent colours
Preference towards pastel colours
Preference for the back of the shirt to be totally white
Preference for shorts and skirts to be totally white
All other items of clothing, including hats, socks and shoe uppers to
be predominantly white
ANS
Wimbledon
36.
Human crush resulted in the deaths of 96 people and injuries to 766
others. The incident has since been blamed primarily on the police for
letting too many people enter the stadium. It remains the worst
stadium-related disaster in British history, and one of the world's
worst football disasters. Name the disaster or the two teams involved.
(pic on the next slide)
ANS
Hillsborough Disaster
Liverpool and Nottingham Forest
37.
ANS
Common Scores in Golf
Eagle
Albatross
Birdie
Humphrey Bogart nicknamed as Bogey
38.
In soccer or European football, a player is ______ when an opponent
kicks the ball between his or her legs. According to Peter Seddon's
Football Talk: The Language & Folklore of the World's Greatest Game,
the verb is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary as "arising in the
1870s which in Victorian slang came to mean 'to be tricked or
deceived, especially in a manner which makes the victim look
foolish.'“
(pic on the next slide)
ANS
Nutmeg
39. ID THE MAN ON THE RIGHT.
MARK SPITZ
40.
Other kids' games are all such a bore!
They've gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!
_______ is better by far!
It's never the same! It's always bizarre!
You don't need a team or a referee!
You know that it's great, 'cause it's named after me!
______ is a nomic or self-modifying game, a contest of wits and
creativity rather than stamina or athletic skill.
FITB.
ANS
Calvinball
41.
__X__ fans attempted various methods over the years to exorcise their
famous curse. These included placing a __X__ cap atop Mt. Everest
and burning a Yankees cap at its base camp; hiring professional
exorcists and Father Guido Sarducci to "purify" Fenway Park; spray
painting a "Reverse Curve" street sign on Storrow Drive to change it to
say "Reverse the Curse"; and finding a piano owned by ___Y___ that he
had supposedly pushed into a pond near his Sudbury, Massachusetts
farm, Home Plate Farm. What is this curse about/called? X? Y?
ANS
Curse of the Bambino
X- Red Sox
Y- Babe Ruth
42.
Purists of the sport claim that it was started in 1997 in Leicester,
England, by resident Phil Shaw in his back garden. Shaw came home
from what he recalls as a hard day in a Leicester knitwear
factory. Preferring the idea of an evening out rock climbing, he
decided to combine the two activities into a new extreme sport. In
June 1999, Shaw, who uses the nickname "Steam", embarked on an
international tour to promote the activity.
In this sport people take ____ to remote locations and do ______.
Some locations where such performances have taken place include a
mountainside of a difficult climb; a forest; in a canoe; while skiing or
snowboarding; on top of large bronze statues; in the middle of a
street; underwater; in the middle of the M1 motorway; whilst
parachuting; and under the ice cover of a lake. The performances
have been conducted solo or by groups. Which extreme sports?
ANS
Extreme ironing
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Sports Quiz IIT-BHU

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    RULES 42 questions asits the answer to life, the universe and everything
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    1. What has beenblanked out?
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    *2. Id X andY. This is the photo from the 2004 Athens Olympics. In which sports the two Indians were representing India.
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    3. X was alegendary American baseball player who was voted the greatest first baseman of all time by the Baseball Writers' Association. He was the only surviving child of his parents and shared a very special bond with his mother. He was popularly nicknamed ‘The Iron Horse’ as he played for 15 years continuously with the New York Yankees with a total of 2130 consecutive matches, without missing a single one in between. Something special happened on his 36th birthday which made him very popular outside the world of sports?
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    5. Id this nationallevel shooter.
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    6. If the husbandrepresented India in Olympics in hockey and the son represented India in Olympics in Tennis, then in which sport the wife represented India in Olympics?
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    *7. The latest recipientof this trophy are the UBC Kainakary group captained by Chambakulam Chundan. Which Indian sporting event?
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    8. He was theyounger brother of Dhyan Chand, the most celebrated player in Indian hockey and widely regarded as the greatest hockey player ever. While Dhyan chand has a hockey stadium named after him, he has a Cricket stadium named after him. Who?
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    ANS Roop Singh Roop SinghStadium, Gwalior.
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    9. Id the grandprix track.
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    *10. Whose latest tweets? The#WorldCup was pretty good, right? Here are some of my favourite bits. Thanks for all the love. #ballin I guess this now makes me a #WorldCup legend so here I am with more #WorldCup legends: Kaka, Beckham & Zico. #ballin Thanks to all of you for following and supporting me. I've had a ball. Best. Ever. #WorldCup. #ballin Extra-time. I don't want this to stop. I'm going to see if FIFA will let us play the 2018 #WorldCup now. #ballin
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    *15. On whose lifethe movie is based.
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    16. Whose name hasbeen blanked out.
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    17. In 1984, thisformer NFL coach and TV analyst XY had to be coaxed by EA Sports execs into lending his name to the game. He's glad he did. In 2013, the 25th edition of the Y NFL franchise (XY Football before 1993) was released. To date, it has sold 85 million copies and brought in more than $3 billion in revenue. XY‘s licensing deal has helped push his net worth north of $100 million. The franchise is updated each year and is the best-selling sports video game of all time in the US. Identify the person XY or the game franchise.
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    18 The race wasfirst organized in 1903 to increase paper sales for the magazine L'Auto it is currently run by the Amaury Sport Organisation.The race has been held annually since its first edition in 1903 except for when it was stopped for the two World Wars.
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    *19. Winners of whichsporting event get these as mementos? Roughly $5000 a piece, the winning team can typically present rings to whomever they choose, including usually, but not limited to: players (active roster or injured), coaches, trainers, executives, personnel, and general staff.
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    ANS The Super Bowlring is an award in the National Football League given to the winners of the league's annual championship game
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    20. “Just enough educationto perform” is an album by the band Stereophonics. It is the favourite album of a sports personality which led him to make this tattoo. Id him.
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    21. Until 2013 thewinners of X was decided solely based on the outcomes of the format that is used to decide the winners on the more famous variant of X, Y. Starting 2013 the winners are decided on a points system while also including two more formats. The name X has been used since 1998 even though this was not first time this event took place.
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    23. Versions of whichgame. 20 to 1 Around the world Cricket Fives Halve it Killer Shangai Ranger
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    25. This sporting eventis held in 3 cities in India. The first edition took place in 2012 in Mumbai, Srinagar & Delhi, while in 2013 it took place in Mumbai, Jaipur and Delhi. The year 2013 marks the debut of John Abraham as the brand ambassador. It is in affiliation with the world governing body of the sport and is sponsored by Godrej Eon. The categories of the event are Full, Half, Green, Champions and International. This event is a spin off of a more famous event. Which event?
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    26. The Russian OlympicTeam Arrived 12 Days Late to The 1908 London Olympics because of the poor communication between the countries. Why?
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    ANS As it turnsout, England had been using the Gregorian calendar, the one that we use today, for over a century and a half. Unfortunately, Russia was still using the Julian calendar—a pretty dated way to keep track of the days!
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    27. X was astar of Indian athletics in the 1960s and the 1970s. Being 6'7", he dominated the Indian hammer and discus throws for several years. He became a Double gold medalist in discus throwing in the 1966 and 1970 Asian Games holding the Asian Games record of 56.76 metres. He was a silver medalist in the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston and in the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran. He competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He contested the 2013 Delhi Legislative elections on an Aam Aadmi Party ticket, but lost. Either tell me his name or tell me the claim to fame. (pic on the next slide)
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    ANS Praveen Kumar Sobti PlayedBheem in Mahabharat
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    28. ID him orhis claim to fame.
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    ANS Jigoro Kano theinventor of Judo
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    29. In Japan, avidgolfers buy insurance to protect themselves on the course, however, it’s not for what you might think. They purchase it because of something else. The policy covers them for a party worth up to $3,000, for the low price of $65 a year. What is the insurance for?
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    ANS It is calledHole in One insurance. They purchase it because if they get a hole-in-one, they have to buy gifts and drinks for their friends.
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    30. This is thelogo of a minor league basketball team that plays in Augusta, Georgia, as a Class A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. The reason behind the name of this team is related to the thing that is given as a reward to the winners of The Masters Tournament, also known as The Masters or The US Masters, one of the four major championships in professional golf. Scheduled for the first full week of April, it is the first of the majors to be played each year. Unlike the other major championships, the Masters is held each year at the same location, Augusta National Golf Club, a private golf club in the city of Augusta, Georgia, USA. (pic on the next slide)
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    31. During lunch withcommissioner Pete Rozelle in 1966,Tiffany & Co. vice president Oscar Riedner made a sketch on a cocktail napkin of what would become the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The original trophy was produced by Tiffany & Co. in Newark, New Jersey Others have since been handcrafted by the company in Parsippany, New Jersey. How do we better know this as?
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    32 This is anAmerican biographical sports drama film directed by Craig Gillespie from a screenplay written by Tom McCarthy. The film is based on the true story of baseball pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel who were discovered by sports agent J.B. Bernstein after winning a reality show competition.
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    33 Similarly to theGumball Rally, a transcontinental road race run on public roads. Crossing checkpoints as fast as possible scores you points. Committing vehicular manslaughter by running over innocent pedestrians also scores you points. Depending on your definition of "winning," you must score the most points, murder the most pedestrians and then also plow your car into the President of the Fascist United Provinces, and usurp his power. What race am I talking about?
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    34. At a timewhen Grand Prix racing was the dominant form of motorsport throughout Europe, this was designed to present a different test. Instead of focusing on the ability of a car company to build the fastest machines, this would instead concentrate on the ability of manufacturers to build sporty yet reliable cars. This encouraged innovation in producing reliable and fuel-efficient vehicles, because the nature of endurance racing requires cars that last the distance and spend as little time in the pits as possible.
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    35. Guidelines regarding clothingrules of X: No solid mass of colouring Little or no dark or bold colours No fluorescent colours Preference towards pastel colours Preference for the back of the shirt to be totally white Preference for shorts and skirts to be totally white All other items of clothing, including hats, socks and shoe uppers to be predominantly white
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    36. Human crush resultedin the deaths of 96 people and injuries to 766 others. The incident has since been blamed primarily on the police for letting too many people enter the stadium. It remains the worst stadium-related disaster in British history, and one of the world's worst football disasters. Name the disaster or the two teams involved. (pic on the next slide)
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    ANS Common Scores inGolf Eagle Albatross Birdie Humphrey Bogart nicknamed as Bogey
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    38. In soccer orEuropean football, a player is ______ when an opponent kicks the ball between his or her legs. According to Peter Seddon's Football Talk: The Language & Folklore of the World's Greatest Game, the verb is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary as "arising in the 1870s which in Victorian slang came to mean 'to be tricked or deceived, especially in a manner which makes the victim look foolish.'“ (pic on the next slide)
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    39. ID THEMAN ON THE RIGHT.
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    40. Other kids' gamesare all such a bore! They've gotta have rules and they gotta keep score! _______ is better by far! It's never the same! It's always bizarre! You don't need a team or a referee! You know that it's great, 'cause it's named after me! ______ is a nomic or self-modifying game, a contest of wits and creativity rather than stamina or athletic skill. FITB.
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    41. __X__ fans attemptedvarious methods over the years to exorcise their famous curse. These included placing a __X__ cap atop Mt. Everest and burning a Yankees cap at its base camp; hiring professional exorcists and Father Guido Sarducci to "purify" Fenway Park; spray painting a "Reverse Curve" street sign on Storrow Drive to change it to say "Reverse the Curse"; and finding a piano owned by ___Y___ that he had supposedly pushed into a pond near his Sudbury, Massachusetts farm, Home Plate Farm. What is this curse about/called? X? Y?
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    ANS Curse of theBambino X- Red Sox Y- Babe Ruth
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    42. Purists of thesport claim that it was started in 1997 in Leicester, England, by resident Phil Shaw in his back garden. Shaw came home from what he recalls as a hard day in a Leicester knitwear factory. Preferring the idea of an evening out rock climbing, he decided to combine the two activities into a new extreme sport. In June 1999, Shaw, who uses the nickname "Steam", embarked on an international tour to promote the activity. In this sport people take ____ to remote locations and do ______. Some locations where such performances have taken place include a mountainside of a difficult climb; a forest; in a canoe; while skiing or snowboarding; on top of large bronze statues; in the middle of a street; underwater; in the middle of the M1 motorway; whilst parachuting; and under the ice cover of a lake. The performances have been conducted solo or by groups. Which extreme sports?
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