CCA Quiz FinalsStandard 7

Theme : Sports

Rounds in the Quiz

Rounds

Stage 1

Visual Thinking

Stage 3

Figure the nameTheme Round Finishing Line

Stage 2

Lateral Thinking General Thinking

Question 1

• Which Country issued this postage stamp and to commemorate which occasion?

(part points allowed)

Answer

• Germany on the occasion of the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Question 2

Answer

• Curling

Question 3

Answer

• Underwater Hockey : Octopush

Question 4

Answer

• This was the origin of the 2008 Beijing Olympics logo, ‘Dancing Beijing’.

Question 5

Answer

• This man is Sandip Patil who coached Kenyan cricket team on their dream run in 2003 Cricket World Cup. The Kenyan team reached the Semi-finals and lost to India.

Question 6

Answer

• This is the origin for the Manchester United’s present logo.

Audience

Audience

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Question 10

Answer

• Theme – EPL Team Homegrounds

Question 1

Answers

• The connect is Nickname of South African sports teams.

• The deer is a Springbok which is the nickname of South African Rugby Team.

• The Boys is the nickname of RSA’s Soccer team.

• The flower is Proteas, which is the nickname of RSA’s Cricket team.

Question 2

Answer

• The Answer is French open.

• The man next to the aircraft is Roland Garros

• Bjorn Borg is the man who has won most French open Titles

• Roger Federer and Svetlana Kuznetsova are the winners of the French open 2009.

Question 3

Answer

• The connect is Ashes.

• The flags are of England and Australia.

• The newspaper report is a satire of English cricket which led to the prigin of the term Ashes.

Question 4Archery

Athletics (track and field) Boccia

Football 5-a-side Football 7-a-side

Goalball Judo

Powerlifting Rowing

Shooting Swimming

Table Tennis Volleyball (sitting) ______ basketball _______ fencing ________ rugby ________ tennis

Audience

That’s Cricket

Question 1

Answer

• W G Grace

Question 3

• When he was young, he used to roam about in the streets of Najafgarh. Currently, he is popularly referred to as the ‘Nawab of Najafgarh’. He owns a fast food restaurant named “_ _ _ _ _ _ favourites”. The majority of the products on the menu are named after cricketing themes related to his memorable innings, such as Multan Ke Sultan Ki Tikdi, meaning dish for three persons and is priced Rs.309. Identify this Cricketer.

Answer

• Virender Sehwag

Question 3

• “The sport it resembles the most is Basketball which is probably the sport I enjoy watching the most. I had a lot of fun making up the rules and I have still got the notebook I did it.”

• Who said this and on what?

Answer

• J K Rowling on Quidditch

Question 4

• X was born in Manchester, England on 23 November 1954. His career in motorsport began in 1976 when he joined March Engineering in the town of Bicester as a milling machine operator. X was hired by Sir Frank Williams in 1978 as a machinist for the newly formed Williams team. He then worked for Benetton, Ferrari and Honda. Currently X is a Formula 1 team owner. Identify X.

Answer

• Ross Brawn. The boss of Brawn GP.

Audience

Audience

• Former Australian coach John Buchanan has criticized some of the present and former Indian cricket stars like Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar and Harbhajan Singh in his recently-published book.

• Name of that book ?

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Question 1

• Which Sport’s first mention in literature appears in India about 500 BC in Brahmajala Sutta in Digha Nikaya?

Question 2

Question 3Kamran Akmal

Mohinder Amarnath Rao Iftikhar Anjum

Allan Border Stuart Clark

Martin Crowe Dilhara Fernando

Brad Haddin Brad Hogg

Mike Hussey Sanath Jayasuriya

Dean Jones Simon Jones

Dinesh Karthik Praveen Kumar

Brett Lee Farveez Maharoof

Sajid Mahmood Shoaib Malik

Dimitri Mascarenhas Ajantha Mendis

Albie Morkel Morne Morkel

Muttiah Muralitharan Ashish Nehra

Andre Nel Yusuf Pathan

Ramesh Powar Kumar Sangakkara

Ishant Sharma Navjot Singh Sidhu Harbhajan Singh Maninder Singh

RP Singh Michael Slater Graeme Smith

Pat Symcox Sohail Tanvir

Chaminda Vaas Atul Wassan

Waqar Younis

Question 4

• In which movie, released in 2008, did Anil Kumble do a cameo role ?