Jeopardy format, 9x5 Grid (10,15,20,25,30) A team should have correctly answered a 10 pointer to

move on to a 15 pointer, and so on… Pounce carries same positives and negatives as the

value of the question 2 free pounces per team. Additional free pounces

based on prelims scores. Kindly mention ‘Free Pounce’ before pouncing to avail of the benefits of no negatives

Team that answers on the bounce gets to choose the next question. If no one answers, question moves on to the next team

Quiz under the assumption that QM is God.

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Cricket 10 15 20 25 30

Football 10 15 20 25 30

Other Ball Sports 10 15 20 25 30

Olympics 10 15 20 25 30

Racing and Motor Sports 10 15 20 25 30

Racquet Sports 10 15 20 25 30

Table and Board Games 10 15 20 25 30

Sports in Other Fields 10 15 20 25 30

Miscellaneous 10 15 20 25 30

As the Mahatma’s homeland, Kathiawar has a honoured place in the political and social history of India. It also has a secure spot in the more modest realm of the history of cricket.

Proof may be found in this imaginary All-Time KathiawariEleven, which, in batting order, shall read:1. ____________ , 2. Vinoo Mankad, 3. K S Ranjitsinhji (C), 4. K S Duleepsinhji, 5. Cheteshwar Pujara, 6. MushtaqMohammad, 7. Salim Durrani, 8. Ravindra Jadeja, 9. L Amar Singh, 10. K S Indrajitsinhji (WK), 11. L Ramji

Identify the missing entrant in this team, who incidentally may also have been the only player to have bowled left-arm and right-arm in the same over of a Test match.

Hanif Mohammad

This person was no stranger to sports, as from a young age, he grew up hearing stories of how his grandfather Dennis once took Rod Laver to 5 sets at Wimbledon.

He first came to national attention in 2005 when, as a sixteen-year-old, he hit 55 off a single over(three no-balls, eight sixes, one four) in a pro-celebrity match at Lord’s.

Ironically though, he had been picked for his fast bowling ability.

Which current cricketer?

Alex Hales

What had been missed by almost everyone was that as X had swung round to complete the shot he flicked the stumps with his foot and the off-side bail jumped in the air and back into the slot.

Russell had seen it and was relieved the bail stayed out and he had not had to appeal. “I thought to myself that if I do I won't make it home,” he said. “I'll be lynched. The bail didn't fall off in the end but it stayed slightly out of its slot.”

Who exactly is X, and why was Russell afraid?

Brian Lara This was the run that took

him past Gary Sober’s epic 365. For obvious reasons, English keeper Jack Russell was terrified of appealing.

The traditional curtain raiser to the Indian domestic season is named after a former Mysore state cricketer whose cricinfo profile is given alongside.

Played with some novel rules, the uniqueness of this tournament lies in the fact that it is the first 4-day tournament in India that takes place before the Ranji Trophy in a season.

Which tournament is this?

Safi Darashah Trophy

Three sets of brothers played for the first time ever in a Test match when the Flowers, X and Y represented Zimbabwe against New Zealand in the first Test at Harare in September 1997.

The occasion became a unique one and a family affair when cousins Z joined the three sets of brothers in an ODI against New Zealand at Harare in October.

Amazingly, the only three players who were without a family connection in the eleven, were skipper Alistair Campbell, David Houghton and Craig Evans.

Give me each of the Zimbabwean cricketing families X, Y and Z. (X and Y interchangeable)

X, Y- Rennie (Gavin and John) and Strang(Bryan and Paul)

Z- Whittall (Andy and Guy)

In 1999, X rattled out 3 novels in the space of 4 months. They were all based on the fictional adventures of football manager Steve Barnes, and while reviews may have been somewhat mixed, they appear to have become collectors' items.

Striker! hit the book shelves in Dec, 1999 and was described by a reviewer as 'one of the most poorly written books I have ever read, yet hugely satisfying.' Another provided just as perverse an analysis, saying: 'Something about this book makes it absolutely brilliant, even though it's, err, awful!'

Undeterred, or should that be encouraged, the then centre-back rushed out Sweeper! two months later, and Defender! after that.

While being no T S Eliot or Samuel Beckett, X is still a well known footballing name. X?

Steve Bruce

St Albans City FC, a football club in the sixth tier of English football, is famous for an FA Cup match it played in 1922 which it incredibly lost 7-8 to Dulwich Hamlet. What put the game in the record books was that City scored 7 times, with all 7 goals being scored by its star striker Wilfred Minter, whose feat remains the highest tally by a player on the losing side of an FA Cup tie.

The club was again in news last October when its star striker John Frendo missed its FA Cup Qualifier against Concord Rangers, which they lost 1-0.

What was Frendo’s excuse for missing the match, a sin which could probably be forgiven by football fans?

He missed the match to watch the El Clasicoat the Santiago Bernabeu, which Real Madrid won 3-1

In a particular season, X were 8-1 with the bookies to win the league- after they'd played their final game.

X’s destiny was so far out of their hands that they could barely see it, never mind touch it. The players and coach were holidaying in Majorca and the Isles of Scilly when they were informed that Liverpool had drawn and that Leeds- absurdly asked to play two days after the FA Cup final- had lost 2-1.

Even the coach Y, who was never shy about pronouncing his ability to walk on water, said: "I do not believe in miracles, but one has occurred tonight." And for once, he had nothing to do with it.

The club and the coach, please.

X- Derby County Y- Brian Clough

In the year 1994, in one of the strangest football matches of all time, Barbados were leading a game against Grenada 2-1 in the 87th minute, when astonishingly they scored an own goal to make the score 2-2.

What followed next was even more astonishing. Grenada were now trying to score a goal in either net, and the Barbados players were trying hard to defend them both.

What unusual rule lead to this comical series of events?

Golden Goal in extra time counting as double Barbados wanted to take the match into extra

time as they had to win by a 2 goal margin to progress further, which they achieved by scoring the “Golden Goal”

In Aug 1986, as a consequence of promotion to Serie C2, X was forced to move from their own stadium to the Stadio Bentegodi, home to the then Serie A champions and city neighbours Y.

Y being a mid-size club, soon had financial difficulties and became a yo-yo club between Serie A and Serie B. X in 1994 under the guidance of Alberto Malesani won the C1 title and entered Serie B.

Thus, on Dec 10, 1994, the city had its first derby, which ended 1-1. The bigger club Y managed to escape the second division and went back into Serie A, continually mocking their rivals but never again reaching the heights of that 1985 title triumph.

From 2001/02 onwards, the fortunes of X and Y completely reversed. While X won promotion to the Serie A, Y were relegated and in the next 11 years, managed to even touch the lows of Serie C1.

Three things required- X, Y and the city they are based in.

X- AC Chievo Verona Y- Hellas Verona FC The city is Verona

Legend has it that as X was leaving, a young boy begged of him, "Say it ain't so, X," and that X did not respond.

In an interview in SPORT nearly three decades later, X contended that this story was a myth, and what really happened was one urchin stepped up to him, and grabbing his coat sleeve, said:

"It ain't true, is it, X?" "Yes, kid, I'm afraid it is," X replied. The boys opened a path for

him and stood in silence until he passed out of sight. "Well, I'd never have thought it," sighed the lad. Nonetheless, the "Say It Ain't So" story remains an oft-repeated

and well-known part of sporting lore involving which famous player X?

“Shoeless Joe” Jackson

X was often confused with the prolific golf course designer, Trent Jones, with whom he worked from time to time. "People always used to get them confused, so when they met, they decided each be called something different," Trent Jones Jrsaid. To help avoid confusion, the golfer was called X and the golf course designer was called Trent.

Identify this golfer who has a unique record against his name in the world of golf.

Bobby Jones, calendar year grand slam in golf Bobby Jones was originally named Robert

Tyre Jones, and Trent Jones was named Robert Trent Jones, hence the ensuing confusion

X is the most populous city of Argentina that is not a state capital. Notable as the city of birth of Che Guevara, it is also famous as the hometown of a legend Y.

The exceptional skills displayed by Y have led to nicknames such as "La Maga" ("The Magician") and "Diego", often evoking comparisons to Argentina’s most famous son.

Y was an integral part of the Argentinian team that dominated the sport for an entire generation, with Y’s only regret being the absence of an Olympic Gold Medal despite all the dominance.

Identify the city X and the Argentine great Y, who has received the maximum number of Player of the Year Awards and is probably the greatest of all time.

X- Rosario, Y- Luciana Aymar

It is a sad fact that the first goalkeeper to become captain of an international hockey team and an Arjuna and Padma Shri Awardee lived the final years of his life in extreme poverty, dying in 2006 after suffering gangrene in one leg in Mhow.

Goalkeeper of the Indian hockey team that won two Olympic golds and one silver from 1956-64, he quit hockey after missing selection for the 1968 Olympics.

Identify the hockey player who was back in national consciousness due to a certain 2012 event.

Shankar Lakshman He was mentioned at the end of the movie

Paan Singh Tomar, albeit with slightly inaccurate facts

X is probably one of the best basketball players of his country and is often considered to be one of the top international prospects of NBA. He was drafted #12 in the 2013 Draft by Oklahoma City Thunder. He also made it to the NBA all-rookie second team of 2014.

Y, X’s sister is a two time Olympic, four time World Championship and three time Commonwealth Games gold medallist. Luck favoured Y for the second of her Olympic medals, which got upgraded due to a failed drug test by the initial gold medallist NadzeyaOstapchuk.

Identify X and Y.

X- Steven Adams Y- Valerie Adams

In the movie Forrest Gump, the titular character Forrest wears leg braces as a child but later sheds them to become a very fast runner. X’s story is somewhat similar.

X was born prematurely, and was the twentieth of twenty two siblings. Having contracted infantile paralysis (caused by the polio virus) at age four, X wore a leg brace until the age of nine. X was required to wear an orthopaedic shoe for another two years.

By the age of twelve, X had also survived bouts of polio and scarlet fever.

Identify this Olympic great who retired prematurely.

Wilma Rudolph

Haiti had been competing in the Olympics since the 1900 games in Paris.

Liechtenstein competed at the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.

What did the Liechtenstein team discover at the 1936 Olympics?

They found out that they had a flag exactly similar to that of Haiti’s

This prompted a change in Liechtenstein’s flag in 1937, when a crown was added.

In 1956, a promising 19-year-old Australian was chosen to light the Olympic Flame in the iconic MCG during the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Melbourne.

The 19 year old transformed into one of the best known middle and long distance runners in the 1960s, and set 17 world records. But the tragic undertone of his career was that he could never be the claimant of an Olympic Gold medal, a bronze in the 10,000 m at Tokyo being his only purchase.

In 1968, Emil Zatopek invited the Australian to Czechoslovakia, and as a parting gift he gave him his 1952 Olympic 10,000 m gold medal with the following words:“Not out of friendship but because you deserve it.”

Who is this unfortunate Olympian?

Ron Clarke

Rhadi Ben Abdesselam from Morocco was supposed to wear number 26.

For unknown reasons, Rhadi did not acquire his black marathon bib before the race, and instead was wearing his regularly assigned track and field bib number 185.

Something happened as a result of this change in numbers from 26 to 185.

Weave a story.

Abebe Bikila won the 1960 Olympics Marathon in a record time of 2:15:16.2

Bikila was warned beforehand that his main rival was wearing number 26. During the race he passed numerous runners as he searched for Rhadi's number 26. By about 20 km, Bikila and Rhadi (actually wearing number 185) had created a gap from the rest of the pack. Bikila kept looking forward to find the runner with number 26, unaware that Rhadi was running right beside him. They stayed together until the last 500 m, when Bikila sprinted to the finish line.

Fighting Gravity is a 2009 documentary. The documentary was screened in 2009 and followed 15 passionate female athletes' fight for their sport's inclusion in the Olympic Games. These 15 X athletes fought for their right to compete in their sport in the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010.

The documentary mainly follows the American Lindsey Van (different from Vonn) who describes how she feels about the exclusion of women in the professional X world.

Immense pressure by these ladies paid dividends and the sport made its women’s debut at Sochi in 2014.

Z is a Winter Olympic sport which combines X and Y. This leaves Z as the only Olympic sport in which there is no

female participation as of now.

X- Ski Jumping Y- Cross-Country Skiing Z- Nordic Combined

Bartosz Huzarski is a Polish professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental Bora-Argon 18 team.

He achieved instant fame and a certain amount of notoriety for something he did last year.

How exactly did he whip up a social storm?

He posted this now famous photograph after the 18th stage of the Tour De France 2014

X was a four-time 500cc motorcycle World Champion –winning that title in 1956, 1958, 1959 and 1960 – and also the Formula One World Champion in 1964

X thus remains the only person to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels. Identify the racing great.

John Surtees

The 1976 Formula 1 season has been excellently dramatised in the movie Rush, showing the intense rivalry between Niki Lauda and James Hunt for the title.

The 1976 British Grand Prix at the Brands Hatch Circuit was involved in a lot of controversy, with James Hunt being stripped of the win that was later awarded to Lauda.

The race, however, will be remembered for something even more significant, a unique incident in F1 history. What exactly?

The only Formula 1 Grand Prix in which multiple female racers were entered

Lella Lombardi and Divina Galica were entered. However, neither qualified for the Grand Prix.

The person in the picture competes in a sport which has a name that would perhaps make more sense to a medical student.

Interestingly, she achieved a unique career grand slam in her sport earlier this month by winning the World Championship, as she had already secured the Olympic gold, European crown and the World Cup title in the past 13 months.

Identify the Brit, and the sport she competes in.

Lizzy Yarnold Skeleton

The circuit X has been named after the two towns situated near it. Michael Schumacher has an intricate love affair with the circuit X, setting a record by winning it a total of 8 times. Schumi had also won the 2004 race at this circuit using an unprecedented 4 stop strategy due to the extremely short pitlane.

The circuit Y was built with finance from an eccentric pastis magnate after whom it is named, who wanted to experience the challenge of building a highway. Y was the site of the unfortunate death of promising driver Elio de Angelis in 1986 at the fast sweeping Verierrecurves.

The circuit at Z started life as a triangle from Z down south to Mulsanne, northwest to Arnage, and back north to Z. Currently, Z is famous for an annual event held there.

X, Y and Z are all connected in a certain way.

X- Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours Y- Circuit Paul Ricard Z- Le Mans All of them have played host to the French

Grand Prix

U Vimal Kumar is a former 2 time national champion and the current director of the famous Prakash Padukone academy.

A former top 20 player, he came back in news sometime last year due to a certain decision take by an athlete which shocked most of the country.

Why was he back in news?

He became Saina Nehwal’s new coach

A certain professional tennis player started his career in India in the early 90s, winning 18 consecutive matches and three titles.

A famous exponent of a dying art, he is also an Olympic silver medallist and certainly one of my favourite tennis players.

Simply identify him.

Tim Henman Serve and Volley

being the dying art

This incident happened at the Montreal Masters in 2013 between Juan Martin Del Potro and X in the third round of men’s singles.

This is what X had to say in his post match interview. Q. Del Potro was upset in the second set, he felt you ___________________.

What was your view of that point?X: I was fortunate that the line judge didn’t see it. It’s a lucky thing for me in my sense, unlucky for him. Something that can go really both ways.It’s sort of the exact same thing as having no challenges left and you get a bad line call. It’s like a bad-luck thing. It was hard to sort of be able to take this point on such a big point.

Q. He seemed to think you should have called it on yourself.X: It’s a big point. I don’t know. If you can put somebody in the situation being down breakpoint, same thing happens, do you call it on yourself?

Q. But it was his point.X: Hypothetically yes. Technically no.

X and the blank, please.

X- Milos Raonic He touched the net

The most famous territorial dispute in tennis could very well have a new claimant in the future. The hill or mound could be rechristened the ridge based on the ‘extraordinary’ skills a 12 year old is currently displaying.

Can you imagine the roar on centre court if an umpire was to announce “Game, set and match _______” at the end of the 2025 Wimbledon final?

Identify the prodigy.

Romeo Beckham

Perhaps in a game of tennis the stakes have never been higher for a player than they were in the Davis Cup Final of 1937, where X was literally playing for his life.

X was a German, homosexual (apparently) and had married a girl with Jewish lineage. To make matters worse, he was quite outspoken against the Nazis. So the chances of him getting arrested on his return to Germany were very high.

Sure enough on his return to Germany, X was arrested and tried for homosexuality, but connections at the right place helped X to escape from any charges.

This final between X and Don Budge has been used as a backdrop in a book “A Terrible Splendor” by Marshall Fisher to explain the dramatic events leading Germany, Britain, and America into global war.

Gottfried von Cramm

A strange event took place in the on going Women’s World Chess Championship in Sochi.

Former champion Anna Ushenina from Ukraine exited the tournament in the second round when she lost her first tie-break game due to the zero tolerance rule by not showing up on time.

What was the reason given by her for being late to the match?

She explained that her phone battery had drained out. When she connected it to the socket to charge it up, the phone reset to the Ukrainian time-zone, which is one hour behind the Sochi time zone.

Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut is one of the largest casinos of USA.

Since 2006 this casino has been playing host to a Ryder Cup style tournament of an event that is borderline sports.

Which tournament?

World Cup of Trick Shots

X is a relatively recent development in chess, and somewhat controversial.

Used as the last resort to break ties in high level events, the X game is guaranteed to produce a result, because Black has draw odds, that is, for Black, a draw is equal to a victory.

To compensate, White has more time on the clock. Common times are six minutes for White and five for Black, or five minutes for White and four for Black.

What evocative name is given to such a game of chess?

Armageddon

In October 2004, during qualifying for the UK Championship, Jamie Burnett became the first player to do ‘this’ in tournament play, against Leo Fernandez.

There are at least 8 more instances of this happening in non-tournament settings, with Jamie Cope having done this twice, once each in 2003 and 2005, with his 2005 effort being the best among the lot.

Which ‘impossible’ feat have these gentlemen performed?

Snooker breaks exceeding 147 A break higher than 147 can be achieved when

an opponent fouls and leaves the incoming player snookered on all 15 reds. The player can nominate one of the other colours as a red, known as a "free ball", which carries the same value as a red for just that shot. By potting the free ball followed by a colour, then the reds with colours and then clearing up, the player can compile a break of more than 147, with 155 being the maximum possible score, achieved by Cope in 2005

The Zurich Chess Challenge 2014 was the first of its kind tournament in history, while the 2014 Sinquefield Cup was only the second of its kind.

X, runner up at Zurich, made a perfect 7-0 start to the Sinquefield Cup, at which point his performance rating was an astronomical 3595. X eventually won the tournament with 8.5/10, with the highest ever performance rating in a single tournament, beating out Magnus Carlsen’s 3002 in the 2009 Nanjing Pearl Spring tournament.

What was so unique about these two tournaments, and who was the player X?

Category XXIII tournaments The average rating of its

participants was above 2800, the only 2 times in history

X- Fabiano Caruana

While coaching baseball for the Reagan County Owls in the spring of 1999, Jim Morris made a promise to his team that he would try out for Major League Baseball if his team won the District Championship, something the team had never accomplished before. His team won the title, and Morris kept his end of the bargain by attending a Tampa Bay Devil Rays tryout.

The scout wasn't interested in Morris, but gave him a tryout solely to let Morris keep his promise to his players. Surprisingly, Morris impressed in the tryout and after much debate with his family, signed a professional contract at the age of 35.

How has his story been adapted to the big screen by Disney in 2002?

The Rookie, starring Dennis Quaid as Jim Morris

When West Indies did the world record chase of 418 against Australia, X was instrumental with a 47*.

X represented West Indies for 10 tests and 5 ODIs and also played first class cricket and was the first Anguillan to represent West Indies in cricket.

In 2011 at the age of 29 he decided to quit cricket and follow into his father’s footsteps to become a reggae musician.

Considered by many as the next big thing in Anguillan music, he released his first album titled “Move On” in 2013. Who?

Omari Banks

In a particular scene from the movie X based on the life of chess prodigy Joshua Waitzkin, the Russian player in the park, played by VasekSimek, holds up the sign “For $5 a photo or a game with the man who beat Y.”

The character was based on the real life of Israel Zilber, a Latvian chess champion, who during most of the 1980s was homeless and regarded as one of the top players in Washington Square Park.

Identify the movie X and the chess player Y.

X- Searching For Bobby Fisher

Y- Mikhail Tal

The novel X is the story of a 14-year-old girl who rides her horse to victory in the Grand National steeplechase. The horse which she trains and rides in the Grand National is named The Piebald, because it is piebald colour.

A 2-time Oscar winning movie of the same name was made in 1944, starring Mickey Rooney and a young Elizabeth Taylor as the young girl.

Give me X.

National Velvet

Belgian engineer X was born in Wimbledon in England in 1917. His sporting connection, however, doesn’t end there. At the 1948 Summer Olympics, he participated with the Belgian team in the field hockey tournament as a forward.

X is best remembered for an iconic structure designed by him for the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair, which was named as Europe’s most bizarre building by CNN.

Identify the architect and the building designed by him, which offers a panoramic view of Brussels.

André Waterkeyn The Atomium

Serafim Todorov is a Bulgarian boxer, who won the amateur world championship thrice and an Olympic silver medal at ’96 Atlanta.

On August 2, 1996, his semi final bout was one of the many controversial bouts to have taken place down the years.

Till today he is the last person to have achieved something in the world of boxing – an achievement that can be repeated – but which has not been replicated by anyone (either amateur or professional ).

What did he achieve?

He has achieved the only win by anyone over Floyd Mayweather, Jr

In March 2012, the 10th Arab Shooting Championships were held in Kuwait.

Maria Dmitrienko of Kazakhstan won the 75 Targets event at the championships, but during the medal ceremony, a farcical error by the organisers was made which took away the patriotic feeling from the ceremony.

How did the organisers err during the ceremony?

They played a parody anthem from the film Borat in place of the real Kazakh anthem

Wollaton Hall and Park in Nottingham, known for being used as Wayne Manor in a Batman film, was chosen to host the second edition of this cup, with the organisers hoping that the public location will help to raise the profile of the sport.

"It's like rugby mixed with dodgeball," said a participant. “There are a few injuries but we are currently working on

re-evaluating the rules to minimise that, because if the injury rates continue as they are people aren't going to carry on wanting to play it.”

"I haven't had a bad injury apart from a concussion. I got accidentally kicked in the head by my captain.“

Identify the sport.

Quidditch, with the cup being named the BQC, British Quidditch Cup.

English racing cyclist X dominated women’s cycle racing in the UK, winning more than 90 domestic championships and seven world titles, and setting numerous national records in the 1960s and 70s.

Her most famous claim to fame was perhaps the 12-hour time trial record in 1967, where she set the record of 277.25 miles – a mark that stands still today.

Who was she, and what was so interesting about the record?

Beryl Burton Her mark surpassed the men’s record by 0.73

miles, and was not superseded by a man for 2 more years.

While setting the record she caught and passed Mike McNamara who was on his way to setting the men's record at 276.52 miles and winning that year's men's British Best All-Rounder. She is reputed to have given him a liquorice allsort as she passed him. Apparently, McNamara ate the sweet!

After his record breaking performance in the recently concluded Kerala National Games, Madhya Pradesh athlete X had the world best performance of the year in Y.

After the performance, X said, "It’s a dream come true. Every sportsperson wants to see his or her name on the top. I have started this year with a new record and would try to improve it further."

Identify X, who hails from Morena district of MP.

Ankit Sharma, Long Jump He had a jump of 8.04 m