The India Sports Quiz

Rules
• 25 questions
• All questions will have 1 point each
• Questions 1, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 are starred
questions and would be used to break ties
• Top 8 teams make it to the finals

1*
Training for which sport is usually divided into
four main parts consisting of Meithari,
Kolthari, Ankathari and Verumkai ?

3
Who is the current President of the Delhi
Badminton Association?

4
Chika Amalaha, a 16 year old Nigerian
schoolgirl finished first and later was
disqualified due to testing positive in a dope
test. Who finished 3rd and later had her
medal upgraded to silver?

6
X, which means “a bag of coins” , is an
ancient tradition popular amongst
warriors during the Tamil classical
period. According to legend, in olden
days X was used by women to choose
their husbands. A seal in Mohejodaro
had X depicted on it.What is X?

7
This Arjuna Awardee of 1984, bagged Silver
at the 1986 Seoul Asian Games. His most
outstanding international performance was
at the SAF Games where he won 5 Gold
Medals at Kathmandu in 1985 and 7 at
Islamabad in 1989. He won a Bronze at the
1988 Asian Swimming Championship in
Beijing and a Silver in the 100 metre butterfly
at the world Police Games in 1988.Who?

9
• Identify this
prominent figure in
Indian sports

10*
Mubarak Shah of Pakistan finished 1st,
Saburo Yokomizo of Japan finished 2nd, Zenji
Okuzawa of Japan finished 3rd. Who finished
7th (a name in the news in 2012)?

11
• Name this Indian
sportsperson

12
The Arjuna awardee and
Olympian is the nephew of a
Bollywood actor. He debuted
in the Golf Premier league
played at Aamby Valley near
Pune in 2013 and trains with
Rajeev Datar. He came in the
news some time back for
writing an open letter to PM
Modi. Name him

13
• The lady in the picture is a
former Olympian and
captain of the national
team. Few of her current
and ex family members
are also Olympians.
Identify her

14
• This person, holds two Dan black belts in
Taekwondo and represented India in the
1997 World Taekwondo Championships in
Hong Kong. In 2008, 7Seas Technologies
launched a 3D mobile game The Alien Killer
with this person as the lead character. Who?

16
After her performance in the 2010 CWG and
Asian Games, Corporation Bank made her the
brand ambassador. But subsequent doping
allegations made her lose the contract. Who
is this Indian athlete?

18
• Armaan Ebrhahim is a promising Indian racer.
Besides JK Tyre, Red Rooster Racing and
Amaron, which other organization named
after a cricketer sponsors him?

19
Name this former
Indian golfer who set
up a applied sports
psychology firm called
“Sport Psych India”

20*
Who is the eldest daughter of Prakash
Peshawaria, a tennis player and coach from
Delhi, who won the Asian Lawn Tennis
Championship in 1972?

21
In October 2013, he re-wrote history by
becoming the first-ever Indian to reach the
final of a professional ranking tournament in
his sport as he overcame World No.5 Stephen
Maguire from Scotland in the semi-final of
the Indian Open. Who am I talking about?

22
Brothers Kedarnath and Dwarakanath
Anand established the company X in Lahore.
Later they shifted base to Sialkot. The
brothers established a company named Y to
facilitate export at a time when the world is
overshadowed by World War II. In 1979 X & Y
merged together to form the entity we know
it as today. Which company is being talked
about?

24
Identify this rising star
of Indian sport

25*
• His company owns
which team captained
by Nilesh Shinde and
coached by Raj Narain
Sharma?

Answer
• Mohammed Azharuddin

Answer
• Gurbaksh Singh Sandhu

Answer
• Yuvraj Singh foundation

Answer
• Aditya Mehta- who reached the finals of the
Indian Open snooker tournament

Answer
• Sanspareil Greenlands

Answer
• Tanvi Lad
• Anup Sridhar

Answer
• Bengal Warriors in the Pro Kabaddi League
• This is of course Kishore Biyani, of the Future
Group

Rules
• 16 questions
• Questions pass clockwise
• 10 points for each correct answer
• Teams can pounce- i.e raise their hands and show
the quizmaster the answer in writing
• Points on pounce:- + 10 for correct answer and -
10 for a wrong answer
• However, a team is allowed only 2 incorrect
pounces
• After making 2 incorrect pounces, a team would
not have the opportunity to pounce again

1
What we see in the
picture are two sports
called Asol Aap and Asol
Tale-Aap – canoeing in
the sea and on sand. In
which part of India have
these sports been
played for over a 1000
years?

2
• A description of the picture is
found in Abul Fazal’s accounts –
the picture is that of a king
riding a horse – Ashvapati. The
other types were – Senapati,
Gajapati, Dhanpati, Dalpati,
Navapati, Surapati, Asrapati,
Vanapati, Ahipati etc. They were
made of various materials
including ivory, tortoise shell
etc. Some of them have motifs
of Ramayana and Mahabharata,
among others. What?

Playing cards in ancient India

3
The man in the picture was the
oldest Australian test cricketer
at the time of his death.
However, we remember him to
be the first one in a particular
respect. But contrary to
popular belief, the first time
was in a practice match. The
test match was the second
occasion. What are we talking
about?

Mankading, the cricketer is Bill Brown

4
The two cricketers have many things in common
– they played just one test (that too in the same
series vs. West Indies), they both took 5 wickets
in the match, their surnames and initials (of 1st
and last name) were same. One of them was
involved in the partnership where both No. 10
and 11 scored 100s in a FC match. A 3rd player,
with the same initials and last name also played
1 test (and 6 ODIs) in the 1990s. Name the two
cricketers who both played in the same series
vs. West Indies – nicknames will do

• Sudangsu Abinash “Montu” Banerjee and
Sarobindu Nath "Shute" Banerjee. Shute had
that famous 249 run last wicket partnership with
Chandu Sarwate – he also remains one of India’s
oldest test debutants (at age 37). Both played in
the 1948-49 series vs. Windies. Montu played in
the 3rd and Shute in the 5th Test. Later, Subroto
Banerjee (all 3 S Banerjees) also played one test
(which was Warne’s test debut) and 6 ODIs- his
debut ODI, was incidentally vs. West Indies

5
• One of the longest serving
sports administrators in India,
he is currently the acting
President of the IOA.
However, he is also known as
the person who defeated a
famous Indian in his only Lok
Sabha election attempt.
Name him and the other
famous Indian

• Vijay Kumar Malhotra, President of the
Archery Association of India and Leader of
Opposition in Delhi Assembly representing
BJP. He defeated Dr. Manmohan Singh from
South Delhi in 1999

6
• Nicknamed Pocket Dynamo, X was allowed to
travel for the Olympic Games only on the
intervention of The Maharajah of Patiala The
principal of the college where X studied
mortgaged his home, and his parents and
cousins went around the district begging for
donations as well act in street plays to send X
to the Olympics. Soon after the Olympics, he
defeated the world champion Unemori of
Japan in an exhibition match. He received the
Arjuna award posthumously in 2001. Who ?-

• Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav (the Olympics in
question is the 1952 Helsinki one)

7
PC Wren (of Wren-Martin fame) was also a
prolific author. One of his novels “Beau Geste”
based on a French Legionnaire in Africa (some
say its based on his own military experiences)
has been adapted into movies several times. In
the 1926 silent version, Ronald Colman (who
acted in movies like “The lost horizon” and
“The prisoner of Zenda”) played the titular
character. Who plays Major de Beaujolais?

• Norman Pritchard (also known as Norman
Trevor)

8
• India’s first victory (margin 56-3) as well
biggest victory (92-0) in this sport till date,
have come against Pakistan, while their first
and heaviest defeat (0-85) have come against
Singapore. Though this sport has been played
in India since 1871, the national team was
formed only in 1998. Nasser Hussain is the
present captain and Norman Laker is the
present coach. Which sport?

9
This Indian golfer shares his name with a
boxer and a politician. He represented India
in the 1998 Asian Games and the 2003 World
Cup. He had a relative who is also a well
known golfer (it was this other golfer who
introduced him to the sport). His wife also
represented India in volleyball. Name this
golfer

• Digvijay Singh. The other golfer is friend and
former brother-in-law Jyoti Randhawa. Wife
is Chitra Sarware, daughter of former
Haryana minister Nirmal Singh

10
This Indian sportsman shares
his name with a legend of his
sport. He is the first Indian
sportsperson to win a gold in
Commonwealth games in his
discipline. Who?-

• Mohammad Ali Qamar, boxing, 2002 CWG

11
She is Meera Munda, wife of
former CM of Jharkhand Arjun
Munda. She used to play a sport
in her youth, but poverty
ensured she never made it big.
As a result, she started an
academy in that sport to help
the poor but talented
sportsmen. Who is the most
well known product of the
academy? (recently won 3
medals at a world event)

12
• A documentary movie by
Ashvin Kumar about a
young Kashmiri
footballer who is denied
a visa because his father
was a militant associated
with the Hizbul
Mujahideen. Name the
documentary movie

13
An advertising agent who was born on 25th
June 1983, at the exact moment that India
won the Cricket World Cup and lives in Karol
Bagh in Delhi with her father and his three
brothers' family. Whenever she eats
breakfast with the Indian Cricket Team they
win the following match. This prompts the
board to send her to Australia with them for
the Cricket World Cup. Who?

• Zoya Solanki of “The Zoya Factor” by Anuja
Chauhan

14
Yubi Lakpi, similar to
rugby, is played in
Manipur. What does
“Yubi Lakpi” mean in
the local language?

15
• An Indian merchant and philanthropist D. G.
Hathiramani of Gujarati origin was one of the
earliest players and coach of this sport in
India He later went to do business in Gold
Coast and settled down in Ghana in the
1940s. A general purpose sports hall at
the Accra Sports Stadium is named after him.
The D.G Hathiramani Memorial Open
Championship is organized every year in his
memory. Which sport was he associated
with?

16
• In Asia, India was the first country to start
playing this sport, in 1979. In the 2008 Asian
Championships held at Jaipur, India finished
second. The President of the Association
between 2012 and 2013 was controversial
Rajya Sabha MP KD Singh, who was also a
major shareholder in Tehelka and CMD of
Alchemist Group. Which sport which derives
its name from the Dutch word for basket?

Rules
• This is a written round
• The names of 4 sportspersons will be asked for
• 5 points for each correct anwer
• 5 point bonus for getting all 4 correct

1. This football club was formally constituted on 6
November 1887, with the purpose of alleviating poverty
in the locality by raising money for the charity the Poor
Children's Dinner Table. This club has the oldest club
magazine in football, started in 1965
2. This football club is the first team to win the FA Cup
without conceding a goal and also have the record of
winning by the biggest margin (6-0) in a FA Cup final.
3. This club, formed in 2008 is nicknamed the Vikings. The
Assistant coach of this club is Tommy Moller Nielsen, a
distant relative of the shipping magnates.
4. This Portugese team is nicknamed “The Lions”, and it is
one of the "Três Grandes" (The Big Three) football clubs
in Portugal
• Name the Indians who played for these clubs

• Mohammad Salim (Celtic FC)
• Bhaichung Bhutia (Bury FC)
• Subrata Paul (FC Vestsjaelland / FC Vikings)
• Sunil Chhetri (Sporting Lisbon)

Rules
• Written round
• 9 questions
• For each correct answer- 5 points
• The 1st letter of each answer would lead you
to an anagram, solving which you get a further
bonus of 10 points

1
• Identify this
sportsperson who
achieved a first for
India last year

2
• For 5 points and the
clue to the anagram-
name the wife of this
shooter, who is a
celebrated sportsperson
herself
• For extra 5 points
identify the shooter in
the picture

3
• His record in Olympics reads as follows:-
1996
– Lost to Enrique Flores (Puerto Rico) 7–15
2000
– Defeated Ki Soo-Choi
– Defeated Danie Venter
– Lost to Andriy Fedchuk
• Who am I talking about?

4
• For 5 points and the clue
to the anagram- name the
athlete whose 30 year old
national record this
person broke in 2004
• For extra 5 points identify
the athlete in the picture

6
• What award is
Robin Uthappa
receiving here?

7
He made his Test debut at the Corporation
Stadium in Chennai (then Madras) and
bowled only 20 overs in a match where Salim
Durrani picked up a 10 wicket haul. His last
Test was also not spectacular, as he did not
pick up a single wicket in that match, which
would be most remembered for a memorable
double century by Zaheer Abbas. Name the
cricketer.

9
• Identify this famous
Indian sportsperson

Answer
• Sandeep Yadav- the first Indian to win a
medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the world
championships

Answer
• Heena Sindhu
• Ronak Pandit

Answer
• Gurcharan Singh- the Indian boxer who
narrowly missed out on a medal in the 2000
Sydney Olympics, light heavyweight category

Answer
• T.C Yohannan
• Amritpal Singh

The Anagram
• Sandeep Yadav
• Heena Sindhu
• Gurcharan Singh
• T.C Yohannan
• Tania Sachdev
• Ekalavya
• Erapalli Prasanna
• Edgbaston
• Indu Puri

Rules
• 16 questions
• Questions pass anticlockwise
• 10 points for each correct answer
• Teams can pounce- i.e raise their hands and show
the quizmaster the answer in writing
• Points on pounce:- + 10 for correct answer and -
10 for a wrong answer
• However, a team is allowed only 2 incorrect
pounces
• After making 2 incorrect pounces, a team would
not have the opportunity to pounce again

1
The father is considered to be the “father of
Madras cricket” and has a invitational
tournament named after him. One of the
sons is a double international and also has a
trophy named after him. Name both

• Mothavarapu Buchi Babu Naidu and Cotah
Ramaswamy. The annual TNCA-Sri Lanka
Board President XI FC match (which has now
been discontinued) was called Cotah
Ramaswamy Trophy

2
One of the few Sindhis to play test cricket for
India, X lead India when they first beat Australia
in 1958-59 season. In 1954-55 in Karachi, he had a
haul of 6 for 49 against Pakistan, the best bowling
effort by an Indian in Pakistan till Kapil Dev got 7
for 220 in Faisalabad in 1982-83. Though X is the
first Indian to bag a pair on debut, between 1959-
60 and 1962-63, what domestic batting feat did
he achieve, a record which remains to this day?
Also, identify X

• Gulabrai Ramchand, 100 in 4 consecutive
Ranji finals

3
• An excerpt from
someone’s
linkedin profile.
She married into
a sporting family.
Name her and
her husband.

• Arati Ponnappa and Gaurav Natekar

4
• This art is a compilation of
grappling and striking
techniques. It is closely related to
an old Tibetan martial arts
known as Lion's Roar and is said
to be the martial art of the
bloodline of the historical
Buddha. A "knuckleduster"
weapon is often used by fighters
during the practice of this martial
art. Name it

5
When she first represented India at the Olympiad as a
13-year-old in 2004 she drew all nine games. In
Istanbul 2012 she also didn’t lose a game. In the 2010
Women’s World Championship she made it to the
quarterfinals, while in 2012 she went one better,
losing only in the semifinals to Antoaneta Stefanova.
In the same year she proved she was also able to
compete with men, finishing tied for third at the
Hogeschool Zeeland Open. She was the second Indian
woman to achieve a feat in her sport. Who are we
talking about?

6
• At 15 he was spotted playing right-back for his club
in Leigh by the Manchester United academy, who
offered the young defender a one-year contract. At
19 he moved to Crewe Alexandandra and within
three seasons he played a hundred games on the
first team. Over the next 15 years he played for 12
different teams in the Football League. Successes
included a stint with Bradford City, who were
promoted to the Premier League in his first season
there. Name him and what success did he achieve
in Indian sport in 2014.

• Ashley Westwood
• Coach of the I-league winning Bengaluru FC

7
• He hails from Andul. In the last edition of
CWG at New Delhi he won silver. He was
suspended in 2011 for failing a dope test
during the Continental Grand Prix in
Malaysia. He is of Havaldar rank in armed
forces. Who am I talking about?

9
He is chairperson of the Serum Institute of
India and its mentoring force. He is also a
designer of cars. However, he is known for a
different reason in the world of Indian sport
and Saif Ali Khan’s character in Race is said to
be loosely based on him. Who am I talking
about?

• Cyrus Poonawala of the Poonawala Stud
Farms

10
He scored 2 goals in the memorable Berlin Olympics
hockey final, where India beat Germany 8-1. After
independence and partition, he moved to Pakistan.
Whenever Pakistan would win, Dhyan Chand would
say, “--- is doing a good job for Pakistan hockey.”
The first sporting contact between India and
Pakistan after the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
was when the Asian All-Stars team played in 1974.
He was the one who organised the event. When the
All-Stars team played in India, he called his friend
Dhyan Chand from Jhansi to Delhi. Who am I talking
about?

11
• She was a true
champion in her sport
winning the national
title six successive
times. Her record was
broken by another
remarkable
sportswoman in 1991,
when she won her
seventh consecutive
national title. Identify
her and the lady who
broke her record

Meena Shah and her record was
broken by Madhumita Bisht who won
seven consecutive national singles
titles between 1985 and 1991

12
What recent victory by a side coached by
Scott Fleming and captained by Vishesh
Bhriguvanshi was called in some articles as
“The Wonder of Wuhan” ?

India’s victory over China in the 2014
FIBA Asia Cup

13
“I started off well, breaking my own Asian
record. In the semifinal, I finished second. In
the final, I led at the bell with a time of
50.85, ahead of Cuban Alberto Juantorena’s
50.90. Juantorena caught up with me and
won in a world record time” Excerpts from a
great athlete describing his journey in
perhaps his most memorable event. Name
the athlete.

14
• Company X, the main subsidiary of the QI Group,
was founded in Hong Kong by Vijay Eswaran in
1998. The company, first known as GoldQuest,
made custom-commissioned numismatic coins. In
recent times it has been accused of involvement in
a Rs 425 crore financial fraud. A former 3 time
World Champion & Padma Bhushan was ordered to
appear before court in connection with the case.
Name the company & the sportsman concerned.

15
Rabindranath Tagore arranged
demonstrations and coaching of this sport at
Shantiniketan in 1929 by Shinzo Takagaki, It is
said that he was so impressed by Mr Takagaki
that he wrote a poem on this sport. A few
years later, it was started in the Aurobindo
Ashram at Pondicherry as well. Which sport?

16
• In the Baroda Museum at Sayajibaug, India,
lies a massive 1,200kg stone with the name
of a great sportsman inscribed on it. Who?

Gama Pahalwan
• A young boy in his 20s left Barodians gasping
for breath way back in 1902 when he lifted a
stone weighing over 1,200 kilograms. World-
renowned Gulaam Mohammed alias Great
Gama Pehelwan had lifted the stone that was
lying in Nazarbaug Palace near Mandvi.

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