SportsQuiz-Horizon 2015 Finals

Sports Quiz- FinalsHorizon’15-Parth Agrawal

Finals

Round 1 – Citius

Round 2 – Altius

Round 3 – Fortius

Round 1 : Citius

• Written round

• 3 List-Its

• How well do you know your players might help

List 1

List 2

List 3

List1

Front Row Left to Right:

• Ashish Bagai (Canada),

• Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka),

• Ricky Ponting (Australia),

• Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh),

• Jimmy Kamande (Kenya) and

• William Porterfield (Ireland).

Back Row Left to Right:

• Elton Chigumbura (Zimbabwe)

• Daniel Vettori (New Zealand)

• Shahid Afridi (Pakistan)

• Mahendra Singh Dhoni (India)

• Graeme Smith (South Africa)

• Andrew Strauss (England) and

• Darren Sammy (West Indies)

List2

• Magic Johnson

• Larry Bird

• Michael Jordan

• Scottie Pippen

• John Stockton

List 3- Nike World Cup Ad Risk Everything

• Cristiano Ronaldo,

• Wayne Rooney,

• Neymar,

• Zlatan Ibrahimovic,

• Andres Iniesta,

• Andrea Pirlo,

• Mario Gotze,

• Thiago Silva,

• Eden Hazard

Round 2 : Altius

12 Questions on the Pounce

Infinite Bounce

+10/ -0 on the bounce

+15/-10 on the pounce

3 Strikes on the pounce and you are OUT!

Q1.

The motto was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin on the creation of theInternational Olympic Committee in 1894.

Coubertin borrowed it from his friend Henri Didon, a Dominicanpriest who was an athletics enthusiast. He said "These three wordsrepresent a programme of moral beauty. The aesthetics of sport areintangible."

The motto was introduced in 1924 at the Olympic Games in Paris. Amore informal but well known motto, also introduced by Coubertin, is"The most important thing is not to win but to take part!“

Coubertin got this motto from a sermon by the Bishop of Pennsylvaniaduring the 1908 London Games

Answer

Citius, Altius , Fortius

latin for "Faster, Higher, Stronger."

Q2.

Connect ( No Not a MELA Question)

Answer

• Lewis Hamilton

• Wore a gold-framed version of Warhol's Cars, Mercedes Benz 300 SL Coupe painting hanging from a chain around his neck

Q3.

Connect (Non Exhaustive)

Kepler WesselsBoyd RankinEd JoyceLuke RonchiDirk Nannes

And a more famous one would be playing for England in 2015 CWC.Name the Player and what this non- exhaustive list is.

Answer

• Eoin Morgan

• Cricketers who have played for 2 international teams

Q4.Connect

Answer

Swimming Strokes

Q5.

• The X Y, also referred to assimply the X, was a yachtoriginally owned by RobertQueen. It sunk during a heavystorm at sea in 2007. It waslater secretly recoveredby Moira Queen, who wasapparently involved with itssinking via explosives.

• Now we know this termaltogetherly in a different sensein the world of sports.

Famous Chess Opening

The Queen's Gambit is one of the oldest known chess openings.

Sometimes known as the Aleppo Gambit in his honour. During the early period of modern chess, queen pawn openings were not in fashion, and the Queen's Gambit did not become common until the 1873 tournament in Vienna.

After World War II, it was less frequently seen, as many Black players moved away from symmetrical openings, tending to use the Indian Defences to combat queen pawn openings.

The Queen's Gambit is still frequently played and it remains an important part of many grandmasters opening repertoires.

Q6.

In US Open, The main court is located at the 22,547-seat Arthur Ashe Stadium, opened in 1997. It is namedafter Arthur Ashe, the African American tennis playerwho won the men's final of the inaugural US Open in1968.The next largest court is the X Stadium, opened in 1978,extensively renovated from the Singer Bowl, which wasbuilt for the 1964 New York World's Fair. It was themain stadium from 1978 to 1996. Its peak capacityneared 18,000 seats, but was reduced to 10,200 by theremoval of the upper tiers of seating after the openingof Arthur Ashe Stadium.Id X (not from the world of sports)

Hint

Answer

Louis Armstrong

Q7.What vs What

Answer

Rugby vs NFL

Q8.

Id the guy

Answer

Jake LaMotta

Q9.

Oh, that weekend in Imola, Italy, in 1994 …

Formula One had become unused to tragedy, let alone tragedy on this scale. Not for 12 years had a driver lost his life at a Grand Prix, and for what seemed like a whole generation of racing people, the experience was new and shocking. Crashes never ceased, of course, for men are fallible, but everyone had grown used to feeling apprehension, then relief, as drivers walked away from them again and again.

It was just so on the Friday of San Marino Grand Prix weekend when sophomore driver Rubens Barrichello launched his Jordan Grand Prix car off a curb and flew airborne, horrifyingly, into a tire barrier. He was OK, somehow, but the next day Austrian rookie Roland Ratzenberger died instantly when his Simtek-Ford suffered a front-wing failure, pitching him hard into a concrete wall during qualifying .The then three-time world champion who had never before been present at a race where someone died, was distraught.

Twenty-four hours later, he, too, was gone. Toward the exit of the flat-out Tamburello corner, a bumpy left-hander, his Williams-Renault veered suddenly to the right. Inconceivable as it seemed to so many, he got into a situation even he couldn't recover from; there were initial suggestions the car's steering failed, but subsequent investigations proved inconclusive and contradictory.

Who is the world champion in question?

Answer

Ayrton Senna

Q10.

Stood in front of a towering image of the LA Galaxy ace on a New York billboard Posh keeps a straight face as she poses with her hand upturned.

Put funda as to what she might be doing(unknowingly/knowingly)

Answer

David Beckham’s Golden Balls

Q11.

421146466.2211666461411.44.6466

What’s so special about this mumbo jumbo above?

2 Parts to it

Answer

AB De Villiers Fastest Century and Fastest Half Century Ball-by-Ball against West Indies on January 18,2015

Q12.

The first manned mission to the Moon since the near-disastrous ________ is on its way home after two successful moon walks. There was just one moment of serious concern: as X left its orbit around the Earth for the Moon, a docking probe failed to work, putting the mission's ability to return in jeopardy.

In the event, a manual docking went perfectly.

There were also light-hearted moments. At the end of today's moonwalk, Y became the first man to play Z on moon, using the sports equipment that he had smuggled on board inside his space suit.

Video removed

Answer

Q13.Which venture?A non profit venture joined by India’s only Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra and former Indian cricket team captain Rahul Dravid on their Board of Advisors with a mission of empowering India's future Olympians is premised on the belief that sporting champions are created when the right talent gets the right support at the right time.

Some of the achievements of the athletes supported by them:

• 5 athletes representing India at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland- Sharath Gayakwad (Para-Swimming), Soumyajit Ghosh, Harmeet Desai (both Table tennis), Kidambi Srikanth and RMV Gurusaidutt (both Badminton), the latter winning the bronze medal in the Men's Singles category.

• Swimmers Virdhawal Khade, Sandeep Sejwal (Beijing 2008) and Gagan Ullalmath (London 2012) represented India at the Olympic Games.

• Para-swimmer Sharath Gayakwad was India’s lone representative in swimming at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

• Soumyajit Ghosh became India’s youngest men’s table tennis player to qualify for the Olympic Games. He represented India at the London 2012 Games.

• Badminton player Srikanth Kidambi became the first Indian to win a Grand Prix Gold event outside India when he won the Thailand Open in 2013.

Answer

GoSports Foundation

Round 3 : Fortius

• Short connects

• 3 connects with 3 individual slides

• For individual slides, +5

• For connect, the score will be written on the slide

Connect 1 : Slide 1 +30 -15

The Acronym is the key word for the larger connect (Sport- Boxing)

Connect 1 : Slide 3 +10

Answer - Fight of the Century Trilogy

1)MSG(Madison Square Garden

2)Smokin Joe and The Greatest

3)Thrilla in Manilla

In Hockey,

• A player accomplishes a Gordie Howe X by scoring a goal, getting an assist, and getting in a fight, all in the same game (Howe himself only recorded two in his career). While this description has remained popular, it does not satisfy the conditions of a traditional X.

• A player accomplishes a DC X by scoring the third goal as part of an overtime shootout. Typically only goals scored in regular play count towards earning a X. It is called the DC X because it began with the Washington Capitals.

• A pure X when a player scores a goal in each period of the game.

• A Texas X occurs when a player scores four goals in a single game. Like a regular hat-trick, only larger - it is derived from the saying "Everything's bigger in Texas".

• An Alaskan X occurs when a player scores five goals in a single game. Like a Texas X, only larger - it is derived from the fact that the only state larger than Texas is Alaska.

*No Individual Slide points


Eliminating three players from a table with one hand in live poker play is sometimes referred to as a X and is incredibly rare. It is a much more frequent occurrence in online poker games, given the faster and greater number of hands played in online tournaments and the continuing presence of multiple "all-in" players during the early stages of tournament play as players look to build large chip stacks quickly and early.



The most recent instance of X was by Steven Finn of England, playing the opening World Cup game against Australia on 14 February 2015 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.



Answer – Hat-Tricks in different sports

X was the referee for the ____ _____ ______ match between Shawn Michaels and Stone Cold Steve Austin at the March 29, 1998 __________ pay-per-view. Before the match he seemingly aligned himself with Michaels and his DGenerationX stable, only to turn on them and punch Michaels, after counting the pinfall for Austin and awarding him the championship.

Id X

+2 for the individual slide as well


The final match of the night at _____ was the championship match between Yokozuna and Bret Hart.

The guest referee for the match was Roddy Piper, while the guest ring announcer was X and the guest timekeeper was.

X is an American actor, director and producer who has starred in many films, such as The Longest Yard and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Boogie Nights.



Not only did X’s _________ victory make him an even bigger attraction, but it could have a domino effect and help create _____ ____ ____’s next top star. The wrestler that eventually takes the belt from X, potentially Roman Reigns at _________ , will get benefit greatly from defeating the man who conquered The Streak.



Answer- WWE’s Wrestlemania

• Mike Tyson

• Burt Reynolds

• Brock Lesnar

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