QUIZ PRELIMS

1)***

• Leryn Franco specializes in the javelin throw. Her personal best throw is 55.66 meters.

• She was in 51st position in Beijing Olympics.• She became an internet sensation during the

2008 Beijing Olympics.

• Why?

• Bleacher Report upgraded Leryn Franco to No. 1 in its list of "The 100 Hottest Athletes Of All Time".

• Bleacher Report, ranked her as No. 6 in its list of "The 40 Hottest Female Athletes Of The Decade”.

2) Identify this Logo?

• 2016 Olympics LOGO

3)What is her significant feat?

Perfect Ten

4) Who is the person missing in this list?

Len hutton Rameez raja Mohinder Amarnath

Inzamam Ul Haq

5)Identify the logo?

6) What am I talking about?

• The new sport was definitively launched in 1873 at the below building owned by the Duke of Beaufort.

• Being particularly popular in the British garrison town Poona (now Pune), the game also came to be known as Poona.

• In 1992 it has been an Olympic sport with five events.

BADMINTON

7) Who is the only Indian player in the list of TIME magazine’s most influential people of 2011?

8)*** Who is the first player to score a double century in ODI’s?

Belinda Clark

Identify X?

9)***• X was developed by engineers at Roke Manor

Research Limited in 2001. • A patent was submitted but withdrawn by Dr Paul

Hawkins and David Sherry.• Later, the technology was spun off into a separate

company, X as a joint venture with television production company Sunset + Vine, which was bought outright by Sony in March 2011.

HAWK EYE

10)***

• X’s paternal family originates from Italy.• At the age of 11, he was diagnosed with a

growth hormone deficiency.• The traditional River Plate showed interest in

X's progress, but did not have enough money to pay for treatment for his condition which cost $900 a month.

• Who is X?

Lionel Messi

• Messi is the first one to win the Champions League top scorer titles for three consecutive years after Champions League changed its format in 1992.

• Messi received several Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year.

11)***

• Hitler was using the games to show the world a resurgent Germany. He had high hopes that German athletes would dominate the games with victories.

• Meanwhile, Nazi propaganda promoted concepts of "Aryan racial superiority" and depicted ethnic Africans as inferior.

• Name the sportsperson who annoyed Hitler by winning medals?

Jesse Owens

• Hitler said with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than those of civilized whites and hence should be excluded from future games.

12)

• 23 April 2009- RR v/s KKR• 21 March 2010-CSK v/s KXIP

What’s the connection?

Super over

13) Who was presented with the manager of the year award in 2000-01 of the

Premier League1. Alan Curbishly2. George Burley3. Arsene Wenger4. Alex Ferguson

• Despite Ferguson’s third successive Premier League title, it was George Burley who took the award for taking newly promoted and hot favourites for relegation, Ipswich Town, to fifth place in the league and a place in the following season’s UEFA Cup.

• Arsenal finished 2nd and Charlton Athletic finished 9th

What is X?

14)• X was founded following a dispute between the

Everton F.C. committee and John Houlding• After eight years at the stadium, Everton relocated

to Goodison Park in 1892 and Houlding founded X.• Originally named "Everton F.C. and Athletic Grounds

Ltd" (Everton Athletic for short), the club became X in June 1892 after the Football Association refused to recognize the club as Everton.

Liverpool F.C

15)***• Mir Ranjan Negi is a field hockey player and

former goalkeeper of the India national field hockey team.

• He returned as a goalkeeping coach for the 1998 Asian Games in which the India national field hockey team won the Gold.

• But suddenly in 2007 ,he became very famous. Why?

Chak De India

16)

What does Formula mean in F-1 racing?

• The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which all participants' cars must comply.

17)

• Jab• Cross• Hook• Uppercut• Short straight punch• Cross counter Which sport am I talking about?

Boxing

18)

• Taj Entertainment Network was launched on April 1, 2002.

• Taj Entertainment Network is famously known as TEN sports.

• Am I making a fool of you?

No. Taj Entertainment Network is famously known as TEN sports.

19) Identify this sportsperson?

Danica PatrickPatrick became the first woman to win an Indy car race.

• Patrick was named the Rookie of the Year for both the 2005 Indianapolis 500 and the 2005 IndyCar Series season.

20)

What is this move called?

Answer

• “En passant” move

Thank you!!!