1

• Established in 1972 by the reorganization of another team following social upheavals in the parent country, this is 1 of the premier clubs of the nation in 2 different sports.

• It came into news among Indian sports fans following an incident in Feb 98.

The answer is…..

ABAHANI

2This sportsperson owns the unique double of representing

the country in both senior cricket and football world cups (not qualifiers), that too by the age of 21.

An ODI debut at 16, even before playing a single first class match made this person the youngest to have represented the country in international cricket. Incidentally, the international football debut came at 16 as well!!

In June 2010, the sportsperson’s media debut came as the host for Channel one’s “Football Stars of tomorrow”

The answer is…..

Ellyse Perry

3. Id the 2 men and the event. (Need all parts)

The answer is…..

Michael Johnson & Donovan Bailey (The World’s fastest Man)

5. This guy has made the stats based video game being shown here, MLB Front Office Manager. ID

The answer is…..

Billy Beane

7.

• This is what X says in his autobiography, on his first tour after he has seen a particularly brilliant piece of catching by Y in the 1st test which he missed owing to an injury, “Now all I want to see is Z’s falling sweep shot, and my tour is made”. X’s subsequent tour & later achievements put him in a similar bracket as the other 2.

• ID X, Y, & Z

• 2 gives you full points unless a team gets all 3.

The answer is…..

• X= Sunil Gavaskar

• Y= Gary Sobers

• Z= Rohan Kanhai

8. ID and connect.

The answer is…..

Cotah Ramaswami and Asif Karim

• Both played International cricket for their countries and also represented it in the Davis Cup.

9. The boxer is Joey Giardello, the middle weight champion in the mid 60’s.

ID the “No 1 contender” for his crown who Joey beat air & square but the release of a 90’s film led to questions being raised on the fairness of the result .Finally, he was awarded damages by the producers.

Rubin “Hurricane” Carter

10. Give the funda

The answer is…..

• South Korean pair, Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na & China's Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli were disqualified as both pairs tried to throw their round robin match to avoid facing tough opponents during the 2012 London Olympics.

11. What sport was Amitabh shown playing in this classic movie?

The answer is…..

Buzkashi

12. Id the occasion

While Y laid on the ground X stood over him screaming to get up while photographers snapped this now famous photo of scene.This is how the photographer, describes the famous shot: Well, I was lucky. I don’t want to sound like I’m just being modest .. The photographer you see between X’s legs is Herbie Scharfman, the other Sports Illustrated photographer. It didn’t make a difference how good he was that night. He was obviously in the wrong seat. What the good sports photographer does is when it happens and you’re in the right place, you don’t miss. Whether that’s instinctual or whether it’s just luck, I don’t know. No 1 on Sport’s Illustrated’s list of top sporting photographs.

The answer is…..

Muhammad Ali-Sony Liston fight

13. ID the Sporting organisation

The answer is…..

The Tennis Ball Cricket Federation of India

14. What am I talking about?

• According to Rod Roddewig, a contemporary of X, the 20,000 number was created when he and X were staying in X's penthouse in Honolulu during the mid-1980s. He and X stayed at the penthouse for 10 days, over the course of which he recorded everything on his Daytimer. For every time X did something he put a check in his daytimer. After those 10 days there were 23 checks in the book, which would be rate of 2.3 per day. He divided that number in half, to be conservative and to correct for degrees of variation. He then multiplied that number by the number of days he had been alive at the time minus 15 years. That was how the 20,000 number came into existence.

The answer is…..

Wilt Chamberlain’s Sex-capades

15.Who’s pitching? (It was dubbed the worst first

pitch in history)

The answer is…..

Anirban Basu

16. Why is this Swedish artiste in a sports quiz?

The answer is…..

Bob’s Beat” by WDL for CWC 2015

17

• X holds a world record international 453 appearances. X wore the number 14, in honour of his idol Johan Cruyff, for both club and country. The number was later bestowed on the signature sporting equipment he helped to create, the Dita Giga #14. Id X

The answer is…..

Teun de Nooijer

18.

• The sport know as “Eukonkanto” in native language originated in Finland in the 1800s. It is said to have been inspired from the acts of a notorious robber, Rosvo-Ronkainen.

• The official track for international competitions is 253.5 m with two dry and one water obstacle. The styles permitted are “fireman”, Estonian style and “piggyback”.

• Recently this sport may have entered the collective Indian conscience.

The answer is…..

Wife-Carrying

19.ID both. The guy in the pic & the painter

The answer is…..

Jack NicklausAndy Warhol

20.Id voice.

Roger FedererRafael Nadal

21

• Never have two players had such similar career tracks.

• They both after playing club level football in their same country of birth, came to India in search of a post graduate degree at the same University.

• Spotted by scouts for their supreme footballing in the All India Inter-Varsity football tournament, their career took a turn being called up by Calcutta Giants, East Bengal Club.

• ID both.

Jamshed Nasiri and Majid Bishkar (or Baskaras you like)

22What ? • The game was aired live on CTV in Canada, but not ABC in the United

States. Thus, American viewers who resided in or near Canadian border regions and received the CTV signal could watch the game live, but the rest of the United States had to wait for a delayed rebroadcast. After the hosts declined a request to move the game from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for U.S. television, ABC decided to broadcast the late-afternoon game on tape delay in prime time. To this day some of the people that watched the game on television still believe that it was live!

The answer is…..

Miracle on Ice

23. This is a scene from a MLB game on April16,last year commemorating the X day. What exactly is X?

The answer is…..

Jackie Robinson Day

24.Which film ?• This film was released in 2008 to coincide with the Summer Olympics

in Beijing. The story on which the film is based on, incidentally was published at the eve of the 1972 Munich Olympics. The following real life sporting heroes featured in the movie.

The answer is…..

Asterix at theOlympic Games

LEMON - BREAK

………..And the whistle blows again

25. ID X and the landmark!

• Born on May 30,1940, X represented a number of Calcutta clubs in his youth. This little known “cricketer” started out as a wicketkeeper. In fact he once scored a double century representing Scottish Church College.

• His father ,however, can be associated with the setting up of a famous Kolkata landmark in the 60s.

The answer is…..

Jaggu Dada and the M.P. Birla Planetarium

26. Connect these two gentlemen in regard to Indian Sports !

The answer is…..

• School level tournaments in Indian sport

• Subroto Cup

• Harris and Giles Shield

27

• X was a skilled cartoonist and a regular contributor in magazines apart from being a master in his craft. During Australia’s tour of 1921 in a first class game played in Cheltenham, X took all ten Gloucestershire wickets.

• Identify X and what did the above feat lead to the naming of?

The answer is…..

• Arthur Mailey

• “10 for 66 And all that” – his autobiography published in 1958

28. Identify the sporting arena and the movie (be very specific with your answer)

The answer is…..

Royal Calcutta Turf Club and Seemabaddha

29. What was the subject of this movie?

• In 2006, a documentary named “Freedom’s Fury” was released which was narrated by Mark Spitz.

• Incidentally, Spitz was coached in his early days by a certain Ervin Zador who was directly involved in the controversial subject of the documentary. This was attributed by Quentin Tarantino as “the best untold story ever”.

The answer is…..

Blood in the Water match - Russia versus Hungary water polo final in 1956 Melbourne Olympics

30. What are we talking about ?

• The original prop was crafted using boards from Checkers and Tic-Tac -Toe sets available in stores at the time and adding pieces from the futuristic-looking Classic set designed by Peter Ganine in 1961.The design retained the essence of a traditional X, but distributed them onto separate platforms in a hierarchy of spatial levels.

The answer is…..

Three Dimensional Chess set from Star Trek.

31. What event?

• This annual event has a challenging task of 341 meters that needs to be covered within only 43 seconds (approximately 24 rounds according to an old world tradition). Only two people have done it successfully in the illustrious history of the competition. Sebastian Coe and Steve Cram had a go at it in a 1986 charity run but were unsuccessful. However, a British sprinter of Jewish origin was shown to triumph at the event in a Oscar winning 1981 movie.

The answer is…..

The Great Cambridge Court Run

32. What sport ?

• IKTHA is the governing body of this sport a variant of which was tried at The Johnny Carson Show by actor David Ames

• A certain General had immortalized this sport in the world of comics.

• Bengalis have it immortalized with their own cultural reference.

The answer is…..

Knife- Throwing

33. X and Y ??

• “ The Stem Guard” was released on February 12,2015 in a press conference on behalf of the company X. It uses foam and plastic in a honeycombing pattern designed to cause deceleration for better protection. Y was the first person to use it on the World stage in the very next month.

The answer is…..

X – Masuri Y- Kumar Sangakkara

34. ID X and Y !

• X and Y are not even remotely related. However in the recent past there have been numerous internet memes trolling the sports fans about the uncanny similarity in their looks.

• Some of the memes even have gone to the extent of attributing Y as a reincarnation of X from the fact that, Y was born in 1988,the year X died ! Y however is a German while X was an Italian. ID both.

The answer is…..

35

• This is Eric Lemming of Sweden who won the Men’s Javelin competition in 1912 Stockholm games beating Julius Saaristo of Finland. However, Saaristo ended the Olympics with two medals in Javelin- a silver and a gold, thereby overshadowing Lemming.

• What anomalous decision regarding Javelin Throwing lead to such an unique occurrence?

The answer is…..

Only time in Olympics where Javelin had both One handed as well as two handed throws !

36• This prodigy broke a string of youngest-ever records in the

1990 season before going on to win the 1992 Gold at the Barcelona Games. However, her carrier was marred with controversies from alleged shoplifting to marijuana addiction for which she had to take a sabbatical from the game in the mid 90s. She later made a stunning comeback. Who?

The answer is…..

37

ID this IIT-KGP and IIM-C graduate

The answer is…..

Malli Mastan Babu

38

• This club was initially founded as Philips Eftal to serve the recreational needs of the giant electronics company, Philips in 1910.However financial turmoil and strikes led to the death of the team. Finally on 31st August,1913 Philips organised massive celebrations and sports competitions in light of the centennial defeat of the French in the Napoleonic Wars and the team was revived again. How do we know them today?

The answer is…..

Philips Sports Verening

39. Give me the blanked out word!

The answer is…..

40. A very famous team owes it’s name to X?

• X is a form of men's or boys' baggy-kneed trousers particularly popular in the early 20th century United States.

• “X" had become a local byword for an imagined old Dutch-descended aristocracy, their old-fashioned ways, their long-stemmed pipes, and knee-breeches long after the fashion had turned to trousers. “X” gradually became a byword for an aristocrat from the city in concern.

The answer is…..

New York Knicks

41.

• The original anti-Olympic text, this book tells the story of the build-up to the 1992 summer Olympics at Barcelona. In the book, the authors Andrew Jennings and Vyv Simson portrayed Juan Antonio Samaranch, then 12 years into a 21 year stretch as President of IOC as having been an active supporter of dictator Franco and accused him of corrupting the Olympic movement with secrecy and greed. Samaranch had the IOC sue the journalists for criminal libel. The writers were found guilty in absentia and ordered to serve five days in jail if they set foot in Lausanne.

The answer is…..

Lord of The Rings!

42.

“Kıtalararası Derbi ” loosely translates to The Inter-Continental Derby in local parlance and started as far back as 1909. It has been marred by violence often with riots in 1934.

The bitter rivalry between the two clubs is often said to be due to the two clubs representing the higher and lower classes in the country.

Which two clubs?

The answer is….

Galatasaray SK and Fenerbahce SK (The two clubs are from the European and Asian sides of Istanbul respectively)

43. What is X and what originated thus?

• This originated in England, when people once raced from one church’s X to the next. (The X’s were used as markers due to their high visibility.) Along the way runners inevitably had to jump creeks and low stone walls separating estates.

The answer is….

Steeplechase

44.

"I've never been a person to share my private life. But I can help save lives," he said in a midtown Manhattan conference room on November 9,2010. This was the day when he declared to the world that he was suffering from CML(chronic myeloid leukaemia).He became concerned last year after feeling odd sensations. He went for tests at UCLA, where he dominated college basketball in the late 1960s, winning three straight NCAA championships from 1967 to 1969.

"I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis," he said. "That's not normal, even for my age."An exam showed his white blood cell count was "sky high" and a doctor quickly diagnosed his condition. He then started taking oral medication for the disease. He is a paid spokesman for the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis, which makes a drug that treats the illness.

The answer is….

Karim Abdul Jabbar

45.

• X is used as a performance enhancer in endurance sports and is widely known in the sporting cirles as “Edgar Allan Poe” . What?

The answer is….

• Epo / Erythropoietin Alfa

46.

“It’s the ultimate honour to have it (The X Role) named after me, I suppose it shows that I have achieved everything I have worked for,” he says. “I really learnt how to play that role at Real Madrid where, if we were losing 1-0, we would say ‘Right, lock up shop’. The four at the back and the one in front of them – me – would concentrate only on defence and let the others go and do what they had to up front. They would take the risks, I would take care of the opposition’s attacks.”

P.S: In present times, according to some pundits a certain NemanjaMatic is said to be making this role extinct!

The answer is….

Makelele Role

47.

In the 19th century when this sport still followed the X style, a certain Christina Willies supposedly set the game on the path to its now standard Y style. Playing with her brother John( who represented Kent) in their garden in the early 1800’s, she is said to have pioneered the Y style followed today- because her lead weighted, hoped skirt prevented her from executing the X style.

This was however simply a myth and in reality the Y style is credited to a certainTom Walker.

The answer is…

Round Arm Bowling

48.

• Two- Time World Champion and nine-time National Champion of India, Irudayam is the only player in this discipline to receive the Arjuna award in 1997, the highest award for Indian athletes presented by the Government of India.

• He also won the best International Player award from the German Federation in 1998.

• For which sport.

The answer is….

Carrom Rambanu , Juice peevanu, ban jani life!!

LIST IT !!

• List all the 19 F1 GPs of 2015

• 2 for every correct answer.

• -1 for every wrong answer.

• +12 bonus for a full house.

• Time- 5 minutes

Australian GP, Malayasian GP, Chinese GP, Bahrain GP, Spanish GP, Monaco GP, Canadian GP, Austrian GP, British GP, Hungarian GP, Belgian GP, Italian GP, Singapore GP, Japanese GP, Russian GP, US GP, Mexican GP, Brazilian GP, Abu Dhabi GP

Famous Personalities who spent their formative years playing

The next set of questions will have differential scoring .For those who love equations:

S = (6-n) x 5

S= Score for each team, n = number of teams that got it right

1)

• A natural athlete, X excelled at cricket as a left-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-pace bowler. Later, he was to play for Dublin University and played two first-class games against Northamptonshire. As a result, he became the only Nobel laureate to have an entry in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, the "bible" of cricket. Id X

The answer is…

Samuel Beckett

2)

• Despite suffering crippling bouts of acute asthma that were to afflict him throughout his life, X excelled as an athlete, enjoying swimming, football, golf, and shooting; while also becoming an "untiring" cyclist.

• He was an avid rugby union player, and played at fly-half for AtalayaPolo Club, Ypora, and San Isidro. he brought out his own rugby magazine called Tackle.

• Id X

The answer is….

Arunava “Che” Ghosh

3)

• X has competed in prestigious pro-am events such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Rolex 24 at Daytona sports car race, and Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 off-road race. He was a co-owner of the Vision Racing Indy Car Series team and current owner of Dempsey Racing, which is presently racing two Porsche 911 GT America's in the Tudor United Sports Car Series.

• Hint: He is an actor with a medical connect.

The answer is….

Patrick Dempsey

4)

• X was a passionate footballer as well, and along with his brother played several matches for Akademisk Boldklub (Academic Football Club), with X as goalkeeper.

• His brother Harald & son, Ernest both represented their nation in Olympics ( football & hockey, respectively), while another son won the Nobel Prize, making them 1 of the few father son duos to win the same.

The answer is….

Niels Bohr

5)

• X won an Olympic gold medal in rowing in 1924 while attending Yale University. Though his fame rested mainly as a physician he was a noted activist in the New Left and anti Vietnam War movements during the 1960s and early 1970s. In the 1972 United States presidential election, X was the People's Party candidate with a platform that called for among others the legalization of marijuana.

The answer is…

Dr. Benjamin Spock

6)• X, once ranked among the world's best-known contract

bridge players, formed the “X Bridge Circus" in 1967 which toured the world, competing against such powerhouse teams as Blue Team and Dallas Aces.

• X, co-wrote a syndicated newspaper bridge column for the Chicago Tribune for several years, He is also both author and co-author of several books on bridge.

• He licensed his name to a bridge video game; initially released in a MS-DOS version and Amiga version in 1992, X on Bridge is still sold in Windows and "mobile platform" versions. In 2006, X declared that his passion for bridge was over.

The answer is

Omar Sharif