Dinesh Mongia Memorial Sports and WWE Quiz

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General Guidelines20 questions

Starred questions indicated in slidesUnless otherwise specified, football refers to only one

sport.Curling is not an answer to any question.

1Sathish Sivalingam is an Indian weightlifter. He won the Gold

Medal in the men’s 77 kg weight category at the Glasgow CWG in 2014, with a

snatch of 149 kg, and clean and jerk lifts of 179 kg, which brought the total weight

lifted to 328 kg. Why is he in this quiz?

1His father, Sivalingam, is a security guard at VIT. Keep

an eye out for that name.

2The exact origin behind the name of this rivalry in football is

unclear. The reasons behind the rivalry however, are numerous. From opposing

religious views, to political views to ethnicity, all have been cited as reasons

that have kept the rivalry going.Name the clubs and the rivalry. Part points applicable.

2Rangers and Celtic

Old Firm DerbyPart points for either both the clubs, or only the

Derby’s name.

3The bowler on the left is the first in history to achieve a certain

feat in ODI cricket. The one on the right emulated him very recently, barely 7 months after the former achieved his

feat. Interestingly, both happened at the same venue.

Don’t need names. Just tell me what achievement.

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3The players are Taijul Islam and Kasigo Rabada.

They are the first two bowlers to take ODI hat-tricks on debut. Both achieved the feat while

playing at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur.

4"I used it to great effect against him in the tough situation, 4-1 in the tie-breaker

in Cincinnati. We will see if the occasion presents itself. It’s got to be the right point, right frame of mind, the right place to do it. I hope I’ll have

the opportunity to do it.”“It's not disrespectful; I’m actually standing in position originally, and then only

once they toss it, that’s when I run so they don`t actually really see me. As long as it`s in the rules, I think you should be able to use it.”

Whose words? What is he defending?

4Roger Federer

Defending the “SABR” -Sneak Attack By Roger- a shot where he runs in from the baseline to return a second serve effectively as a half-volley rather than a

groundstroke, which was criticised by Djokovic and Boris Becker, who perceived it to be disrespectful to an opponent.

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5Although alcohol-consumption is legal in this country,

the winners of this grand prix aren’t presented with champagne on the podium. Instead, rosewater is the

substitute. Which Asian GP?Image follows.

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5Bahrain GP

Gulf Air in the background would have been a hint.

6Months before he engineered one of the greatest upsets in the history of all sport, coach

Eddie Jones had this to say about his inspiration: “Rugby and Football are very similar in that you always want to move the ball into space and

____ and his previous team ____ played the most fantastic passing game you could have ever seen. The principles are exactly the same.”

Id the guy who is being talked about and the upset in question. (It’s very, very recent)

Part points.

6Pep Guardiola

Japan’s shock win over South Africa (*cough* Chokers *cough*) in the 2015 Rugby World

Cup.

7In September 1996, at the age of 10, he witnessed his father killing his mother in

cold blood. He was placed in the care of his grandmother and almost gave up all hopes of a career in football. However, he persisted and

10 years later, having made the World Cup squad for Poland, proceeded to sign for Borussia Dortmund. Right before Euro 2012, he lost his grandmother, and his goal against Russia on Mother’s Day at

the same competition was dedicated to both of them.Identify this guy, unanimously regarded to have the

most-difficult-to-spell/pronounce surname in sport.

7Jakub Blaszczykowski aka ‘Kuba’

8The Salt Lake Winter Olympics of 2002 was running $379 million short of its revenue

goals, in 1999, when the OC decided to hire X as president and CEO. With allegations of bribery and security concerns after 9/11, the event’s future looked so bleak that there were plans in place to move the Games away

from the States entirely. The move to bring in X seemed to have changed the Games’ fortunes entirely, eventually going ahead as originally planned, with

a surplus of $100 million. This was cited as a key example of X’s efficiency and ability to handle crisis, when he

would seek a much greater job, 10 years later.Id X. Image follows.

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8Mitt Romney

9The logic behind this combination of shapes and colours was originally

thought to represent all the continents. However it was quickly debunked, and the clarification was, that every

country to feature in the early editions of this event was going to have at least one of the colours, on their flag,

while the shape represented unity and inter-dependence of countries.

What iconic design?

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9The Olympic Rings/Flag

10“(If) I Did It - Confessions of the Killer” is a 2007 book, ghost-written by Pablo

Fenjves, purportedly from X’s point of view, where he supposedly details a hypothetical crime, one that he had earlier so vehemently

denied. While X’s representatives initially denied his involvement in writing the book,

he later went on to accept $600,000 from the publishers, ReganBooks to falsely claim, that, he indeed had written it, and to

appear in an interview supporting the same.

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10O.J Simpson

11This image is poking fun at the logo of a particular sporting event’s

logo(released in July last year) referring to its resemblance to the mask worn by ex-WWE Superstar Rey Mysterio.

The logo was released immediately after the conclusion of the most recent edition of the event.

Event, Venue, Year wanted.

11EDITED image of Rey Mysterio tweet with RUSSIA, 2018, FIFA World

Cup and the main LOGO which looks like a mask blanked out.

11Original image of the tweet

12X was the 34th Sultan of Perak and the 9th King of Malaysia, from April 1989 to

April 1994He was president of the Malaysian ____ Federation until 2005, and was the

elected President of the Asian _____ Federation from 1997 until his death in 2014. He also served on the Executive Board of the

International _____ Federation, serving as vice-president for two terms starting in 1992.

All blanks are the same sport.Why/how is X known to us?

12Sultan Azlan Shah

In 1983, he founded the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, the now annual hockey tournament, played in Malaysia every year.

13When Michael Phelps was asked to confirm if this indeed was the prevalent

culture, his nonchalant reply was, “I think it’s very common. It’s kind of a normal thing to do for us. When we’re in the water, we

don’t do it any other way.”Ryan Lochte’s honest reply to the same question was, “I’m like an animal; like

animals, my territory is the swimming pool”Funda?

13Both confirmed that swimmers were pretty cool with peeing in the pool.

14Super Bowl XXXVIII is consistently rated as one of the best Super Bowl matches

of all time, with the New England Patriots beating the California Patriots, 32-29, despite neither side scoring in the first and the third

quarters. However, the most discussed incident at the event took place at half-time, and

resulted in networks being required to delay live broadcast at awards shows or sporting awards by upto five seconds.

What incident? Need at least one name in the answer, followed by funda for full points. Part points available.

14Janet Jackson

Her “nipplegate” wardrobe malfunction was caught on live broadcast by viewers, for half-a-second before the camera shifted focus.

15In a series of tweets, American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura the following,

clarified why he sported something when he turned up for the third round at the Sinquefield Chess Cup, 2013 in St Louis, Missouri,

against Magnus Carlsen.“I just felt like doing something different. Why not? Life is short, might as well

have some fun every once in a while, considering how overly serious chess seems to be at times.”

What conspiracy theory did this lead to, fueled further by the less-than-convincing justification in the tweets?

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15The theory went, that Carlsen used hypnotism to distract his opponents,

before defeating them. This match ended in a draw, with Carlsen only just escaping defeat, further pointing towards

possible use of hypnosis in his wins.

16The following sign was seen at the Manly public library, Sydney, in 2012,

after one of the most infamous revelations by a sportsperson, previously regarded as the undisputed greatest in his sport.

Like the rest of the world, it appeared that the library had decided, that since claims made in preceding biographical/auto-biographical works had been proved false, it had to be classified as fiction.

It was quickly rejected as a hoax.Whose name (and works) has been blanked out?

16Image of notice (google it) with Lance Armstrong blanked out

16Image of notice as original

17Google Doodle for? Significance?

17Google doodle as on original

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Sochi Winter Olympics, Russia, 2014Russia’s anti-gay laws. The gay-pride rainbow colour combination.

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Following image is the third kit of Hearts FC, a Scottish football team. This season marks their return to top-tier football, the SPL, only one

season after relegation and the threat of dissolution. What is so special about this jersey?

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Jersey close up

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The jersey features the names of 8000 fans who contributed generously to ensure that the club stayed afloat.

This was the club’s way of honouring those fans.Points for: “names of fans”/“Contributors towards solvency”

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Connect the following 4 footballers with the recently released (Sept 2015) memoir “Leading”, co-authored by X and Michael

Moritz.

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Image of Cantona, Giggs, Scholes, Ronaldo

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X - Sir Alex FergusonAccording to SAF, Cantona, Giggs, Scholes and Ronaldo are the only

“World-Class” players he managed in his time at Manchester United.

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Engineers at Roke Manor Research Limited, a Siemens subsidiary in Romsey, England, developed this system, X, in 2001.

Dr Paul Hawkins and David Sherry submitted a patent for their technology in the United Kingdom but withdrew their request.

All of the technology and intellectual property was spun off into a separated company, X Innovations Ltd, based in Winchester, Hampshire.

Id X, a broadly used term, whose applications are in most outdoor sports, and the demand for which keeps increasing when fans are flustered by decisions

going against their teams, yet the BCCI refuses to listen.

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X - Hawk-Eye TechnologiesNo points for UDRS, Goal-Line Technology, Line Referral System.

FINALS - Dries 1Normal bounce/pounce rules apply

Two sets of 12 driesOne theme

1From 1935 to 1977, the Americans won this biennial sporting

event against Team Great Britain all but once (1957)This monopoly led to a change in composition of the team

that USA faced, that persists till date.The dominance was soon ended.

What sporting event? What change?

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1Ryder Cup

Better sense prevailed, now Team Europe faces the USA.

Since 1985, the record stands at Europe 11-4 USA

2"The only regret that I have in my career is to see this kind of film that we are having on _____,”

he told CNN in an exclusive interview for The Circuit."You need to tell everything right, correct, and you need to accept that you can have some

qualities, some faults and one cannot be white and the other black."I am very disappointed about that because it would have been good at my age to have shown

to the people, to the world, that it was a little bit different."But for me, inside me, I know what happened, I know the story, I know how _____ was just

before his accident after I retired, I keep that for me. “He’s voicing his concern about his portrayal in a film, and urging people against the idea of

another movie similar to a previous, critically acclaimed film about rivalries in the racing circuit. Just give me the speaker and the subject.

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2Alain Prost

Referring to the film ‘Senna’Shooing away the idea of a Rush 2, which had been announced and

publicised around the time of this quote.

3In 2015, the Copenhagen based magazine SE Og HOR purchased a

piece of land of area one-square foot, in Glance Wood, Scotland, to gain rights over a particular title from Highland Tiles Limited.

Questions have been raised about the selling company’s rights to engage in such a deal. But that didn’t stop the whole affair from being universally ridiculed as a classic case of a bad idea being

taken way too far.Why is this in a sports quiz?

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3Image of certificate of lordship (available on google) just search

magazine name+lord bendtner

3The aim of this purchase was to officially confer the title of Lord on

Nicklas Bendtner!

4_______ was the high-scoring trio of basketball teammates consisting of Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond

and Chris Mullin. Starting in 1989, who played together for two seasons with the Golden State Warriors in the NBA, famed for their fast-paced, run-and-gun style.

________ was the league's highest-scoring trio in the 1990–91 season.

By what name, obtained by combining the first letters of their first nams were they known by?

This name was a play on the name of a defining Hip-Hop group, which, in 2009, became the second Hip-Hop group to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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4Run TMC (Inspired by Run D.M.C)

Apt tribute to their style of play too.

5Responding to a challenge issued by X (a retired professional in a

different combat sport) , Y responded sharply“If she wants to take me up on that, I’m around"

“She’s retired and has several kids. I understand why she’d think that because she has a size advantage, but if you saw my last fight it had nothing to do with size or strength at all. That’s not how I beat people.”"So you can’t count having a size and strength

advantage as having a real advantage against me.”

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5X - Laila Ali

Y - Ronda Rousey

6Robert Parish is a retired American basketball player, best known for

his defensive ability. He stands at 7’ and weighs 230 lbs, and was known for his endurance in high adrenaline matches.

He was given the nickname ‘X’ by the Boston Celtics forward Cedric Maxwell, because of his similarity in build and demeanour to the

fictional character by the same name.The character appears in a 1975 movie, based on a 1962 book. The

movie is universally regarded as one of the best ever.

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6Image of The Chief from One Flew Over the cuckoo’s nest

6X - The Chief

Character - “Chief” Bromden, from One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

7Before he entered his chosen field of work, he was a regular amateur baseball

player, and his professional career was just beginning when he broke an arm, ending his short career, in his first outing for the New York Giants, in 1913. His next job was as a cartoonist for the New York Globe where

he was responsible for the column “Champs and Chumps”, where he would excavate unique achievements and amusing fails in sports, from all over the world, thus setting the tone for the rest of his active career.

Just give me his famous surname.

7Image of Ripley

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7Robert Ripley

Of “Ripley’s: Believe it or not” fame

8The ______ Games were held in East Dublin, Georgia annually from 1996 until

2012. It came into effect after some American media reacted to the news that

Atlanta had won the bid to host the 1996 Olympic Games by saying the event would be organised by a group of <derogatory term for rural,

bigoted Southerner>To begin with it was created to help children's needs. Around 5000 people

turned out for the first _______ Summer Games – over the twice the population of East Dublin.

8Some of the premier events include:

Bobbing for pig's trotter

Toilet seat throwing

Mud pit belly flop

Big-hair contest

Wet T-shirt contest

Armpit serenade

Dumpster diving

Hubcap hurling

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8The Redneck Games!

FINALS - Theme+10 for each correct answer

+10 for a full house

Sporting Couples

1Harry and Nell Hall _____ were a married couple who won the Australian Open mixed doubles title thrice and the US

Open once, reaching three other Grand Slam finals.The ______ Cup is the premier annual international

tournament for mixed doubles on a country-by-country basis, held in Perth, Australia. FITB

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1Hopman, lending its name to the Hopman Cup

2Nicknamed “Czech locomotive” X was a Czechoslovak

long-distance runner, best known for his three golds at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, in 5000m, 10000m and the

marathon.His wife, Y, won a gold medal in Javelin Throw at the same

event, only minutes after X had won the 5 km run.

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2X - Emil ZatopekY - Dana Zatopek

3Unconfirmed rumours say that X and Y, international

teammates, had a spat owing to Y’s alleged affair with X’s ex-wife.

X has since moved on, and is now married to Arjuna Awardee and Padma Shree winner, squash player Z.

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3X - Dinesh Karthik

Y - Murali VijayZ - Dipika Pallikal

4Owing to their nationalities and hushed-up previous marriages, X and Y’s

marriage raised quite a few eyebrows.

Recently, both X and Y have found form again (different sports) after a prolonged period of inconsistency or complete absence from their sports.

While X’s career is now pre-dominantly Doubles based, Y has made a return to his country’s national team and has been among their best players since his

comeback this year.

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4X - Sania Mirza

Y - Shoaib Malik

5Both X and Y have been ranked number one in the male and female division of the same sport. Both are also part of the list of a select few, who have won Olympic gold as

well as all Grand Slams over the span of their career.While Y achieved this feat in an unprecedented single

calendar year, X completed it over a seven-year period.

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5X - Andre Agassi

Y - Steffi Graf

FINALS - Dries 2Normal bounce/pounce rules apply

Two sets of 8 driesTwo themes

1The French term X was first used in 1863 to refer to a horse race.

A close translation of this term is a “huge prize/award”.Today, it is widely used in many sports, including equestrian and

sailing, however it is most synonymous with another major sport.

Give X

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X - Grand Prix

2"There's so much hype around this fight anyone would think that it's the main event! I'm going to put

this kid through absolute hell in the ring on the night," said Y, before his bout with X

"Since it was announced that I would be the opponent for X I've been cast off as someone who's in there to get a pasting from him. Listen, I'm not taking a pasting for nobody, especially from someone who's making his pro debut. I'm a proud fighter who will go in there and give it

everything. I've got and I'm not laying down in front of anyone”.

"If he's goes past the second round I'll be surprised. I'm looking to do some damage and take him out early. He won't be able to stand my body shots and I'll break him in half with them. This is going

to be a Y victory,"

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2X - Vijender SinghY - Sonny Whiting

3Stocks of GoPro, a wearable sports camera maker, suffered falls

upto 16% in New York, when a French sports journalist, Jean-Louis Moncet, published his view, that it was their product

that caused an unfortunate mishap, in 2013. The journalist was quick to clarify that his views were his own

independent opinion, and not the findings of some test.What incident?

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3Michael Schumacher’s skiing accident

GoPro’s camera was fitted on the helmet worn by all skiiers as part of the safety pre-caution.

4“It was pretty wild,” Sydney Leroux, a forward for the U.S. women’s

national soccer team, recently told The Huffington Post. She noted the timeliness of this move, given that the Women’s

World Cup and the Summer Olympics are just around the corner.“It was really cool getting in the suits, it took a while, they were a

little tight. My tattoos are exactly how they are on my body!”What move?

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4Women National Teams being included in FIFA 16

5“They saw my style, they saw me in the ring, they saw that I was white,” Todorov said, grinning at the memory.

“There will never be another white boxer like me, and they knew this. They wanted me to stay.”

In Atlanta, Todorov recalled, he smiled as the interpreter checked off the perks. A big signing bonus. A house. A car. A new life and big fights in front of big crowds. The other two men leaned in, one of them holding a pen.

But Todorov pushed it away. “Without considering, I said no,” he said. “I just said it quick, like that. No.”

“You know what happened next? The two men went over to X and started talking in English!”

Serafin Todorov is the Bulgarian boxer who won the silver medal in the Featherweight category, at the Atlanta Olympics, 1996, defeating X in the semi finals. In this story, he talks about how he may have inadvertently

passed up on the opportunities that opened up for X. He remains the last man to have defeated X.

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5Floyd “Money” Mayweather

6QUESTION on MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES

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6ANSWER on MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES

7The following picture of X was taken immediately after a tragic accident at the

1983 US Open, when X’s serve hit the groin of Dick Wertheim, a linesman positioned at the center line beyond the court, causing him to fall off his

chair and hit the hardcourt surface, head first, which proved fatal.The incident left a deep scar on X, and is often used to explain why he doesn’t

smile much in his public appearances.Id X, one of the best players of all time, currently in the public eye because of

his coaching role.

7Image of Stefan Edberg (Black and White fallen on chair, face

covered)

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7Stefan Edberg

Currently coach to Roger Federer.

8In Lap 20 of the 2012 Abu Dhabi GP, X had just overtaken Lewis

Hamilton. His race engineer Simon Rennie advised that Fernando Alonso was five seconds behind and he would be

kept informed of Alonso's pace. What immortal reply from X followed?

Part points available. Funda needed in the reply, not exact quotes.

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8T-Shirt Image of quote

FINALS - List it

List all of independent India’s INDIVIDUAL Olympic medal wins along with the corresponding year

+4 for each individual correct answer+8 for 11 or above correct answers

You’re not allowed to write more than 14 answers

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1952 - KD Jadhav

1996 - Leander Paes

2000 - Karnam Malleswari

2004 - Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

2008 - Abhinav Bindra, Sushil Kumar, Vijender Singh

2012 - Gagan Narang, MC Mary Kom, Saina Nehwal, Vijay Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Yogeshwar Dutt