2. QUESTION
Wyndham Halswelle was a British Athlete who won the
400 m race at the 1908 Summer Olympic Games in
London, in a time of 50.2 seconds.
The circumstances in which he won the race are
unparalleled in the history of the Olympics games. How
was his victory unique?
This event resulted in an immediate change to the rules of
the 400 m race from the 1912 Olympics onwards. What?
This, and other incidents preceding this event in the 1908
Olympics, prompted the international athletics fraternity
to form what organization?
3.
4. ANSWER
Only athlete to win an event by a walkover – He was the
only athlete to run that race as the others were
disqualified (some story about how they attempted to
intrude in his path)
Lanes were made compulsory for 400 m races from 1916
onwards
Given the fractious nature of the games, the IAAF was
instituted to put standard rules in place and safeguard
them.
5. QUESTION
Jackson Haines is widely considered the father of modern figure
skating. Previous to him, figure skating was performed in the
"English style", which was rigid and formal. Haines' style was a
complete contrast to the English style; he used his ballet
background to create graceful programs.
There were two major innovations that he is credited with :-
1. One that improved the aesthetics and increased the
‘Performance value’
2. The other was to do with the equipment that was used,
which resulted in increased stability and provided scope for
more athletic leaps
What were the innovations?
6.
7. ANSWER
1. Introduced accompanying music
2. Screwed his figure skates directly onto his boots. Typical practice before was to
strap the blades on to the boot
11. QUESTION
In October 2004, during qualification for the UK Championship, Jamie Burnett became
the first snooker player to record what unique achievement in tournament play?
12.
13. ANSWER
Break of greater than 147 (He recorded a break of 148)
14. QUESTION
What feat has been accomplished only 23 times in the history of major league baseball
(21 times since the modern era began in 1900) and achieved most recently by Felix
Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners on August 15, 2012?
20. QUESTION
Ross Norman, a sportsperson from New Zealand had once vowed : “One day X will be
slightly off his game and I will get him”. That day finally came in the final of the sport’s
biggest tournament held in Toulouse , France in 1986.
X?
25. ANSWER
Retronyms – Terms that have come into being because of another variant coming up
later on
26. QUESTION
Margaret Ives Abbott was the first American woman to win a gold medal, in the 1900
Olympics. The event in which she won gold was so poorly organized, that she did not
realize that she’d participated in the Olympics, and spent her whole life think she’d won
a little tournament in Paris.
Which sport did she win her medal in, which is making a comeback in the 2016 Rio de
Janeiro Olympics?
34. QUESTION
Skeet shooting was invented by Charles Davis of Andover, Massachusetts, an avid grouse
hunter, in the 1920s as a sport called Clock Shooting. The original course was a circle
with a radius of 25 yards with its circumference marked off like the face of a clock and a
trap set at the 12 o’clock position. The practice of shooting from all directions had to
cease, however, when a chicken farm started next door. The game evolved to its current
setup by 1923 when one of the shooters, William Harnden Foster, solved the problem by
placing a second trap at the 6 o’clock position and cutting the course in half. Foster
quickly noticed the appeal of this kind of competition shooting, and set out to make it a
national sport. The game was introduced in the February 1926 issue of National
Sportsman and Hunting and Fishing magazines, and a prize of 100 dollars was offered
to anyone who could come up with a name for the new sport. The winning entry was
"skeet" chosen by Gertrude Hurlbutt.The word "skeet" was said to be derived from the
Norwegian word for "shoot" (skyte). During World War II, skeet was used in the
American military to teach gunners the principle of leading and timing on a flying target
