This document provides a series of trivia questions and answers about various topics including sports, music, movies, and history. It tests knowledge about the origins of band names, top songs, famous cricket and baseball events, movie references, Olympic sports, and more. The questions cover identifying people, places, events, and making connections between related topics through images or descriptions.

1. AND PRESENT
THE LAST BALL
THE SPENT (Sports and Entertainment ) QUIZ
QM: ‘C’est la vie’ Arif

2. 1
This band’s name is derived from the fact that
when they started, three of the band members
were of full Malayali descent and the fourth
member was not a full but part Malayali. Which
band?

3. Ans
• The fourth member was one-quarter Malayali,
hence "Three Malayalis and a quarter
Malayali", which was later shortened to
"Three Mals and a Quarter" and corrupted to
"Thermal and a Quarter"

4. 2
Which is 2011's top song according to CNN (US)?

5. Ans
• Why this Kolaveri di

6. *3. Put funda

7. Ans
• While playing against Marylebone Cricket Club
at Lord's in 1936, Jehangir Khan bowled a ball
to Tom Pearce that hit a sparrow on the way.
The sparrow fell dead against the stumps and
is preserved in the MCC museum at Lord's.

8. 4. What’s happening?

9. Ans
• Bradman, captaining his Invincibles for the last
time in a Test, arrived at the crease on Aug 14
1948
• Once he stepped on to the field of
play, Norman Yardley, the opposing
skipper, insisted on shaking hands with the
great man, while the rest of the English team
doffed their caps to salute the Don

10. 5. Which stadium?

11. • Estádio Municipal de Braga (English: Braga
Municipal Stadium)
• home for local club Sporting Clube de Braga
• The stadium is also known as A Pedreira (The
Quarry), as it is carved into the face of the
adjacent Monte Castro quarry

12. 6.Claim to fame ?

13. Ans
• first full length Indian movie to be shown in
the United Nations auditorium

14. 7. Why is this cartoon famous?
November 6, 1902 :Washington Post cartoon, "Drawing the Line in Mississippi”

15. Ans
• Clifford Berryman depicted President
Theodore Roosevelt showing compassion for a
small bear cub.
• The cartoon inspired New York store owner
Morris Michtom to create a new toy and call it
the teddy bear

16. 8. Who?

17. Ans
• Mark Knopfler

18. 9.
What was described as "throwing the offending
lump of metal fully 40 yards towards the
pavilion” ?

19. Ans
• Dennis Lillee’s ComBat (aluminium bat)
incident

20. 10. FITB
• Johan Cruyff (Holland), Michel Platini (France),
Marco van Basten (Holland) and ______

21. Ans
Lionel Messi (Argentina) –
Winning the Ballon d'Or thrice (Since 2010
known as FIFA Ballon d'Or)

22. 11
Where would you find “Multan ke Sultan Ki
Tikdi” , “Unbeaten Century Partnership” and
"Half Century Partnership” ?

23. Ans
Virendar Sehwag’s signature vegetarian eating
joint Sehwag Favourites in Delhi’s Fun Republic
Cineplex

24. 12. Connect
• Pictures follow

26. Ans
Official timekeepers of Grand Slams
• Rolex- Wimbledon and Australian Open
• Longines – French Open
• Citizen – US Open

27. *13. Parody of The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely
Heart's Club Band . Name band or album.

28. We're Only in It For the Money by The Mothers
of Invention(Frank Zappa)

29. 14. Connect

30. Ans
• The torpedo system
converts the traditional ice
hockey layout of three
forwards and two
defensemen, into two
torpedoes up front, two
halfbacks, and one lone
defenceman (or libero).
• Torpedo Ray fish

31. 15. Movie name?

32. Moneyball . About the Oakland Athletics baseball team and the
analytical approach to assembling a competitive baseball
team, despite a disadvantaged revenue situation

33. 16. What event was depicted?

34. Ans
• Red used to
officially signify
American
continent (before
1951)

35. 17. What ?
• While studying at the Soviet Union's Academy
of Science in 1984, the 29-year-old Alexey
Pajitnov designed a bare-bones version of the
game in his free time for the Elektronika 60, a
Soviet terminal computer.
• In 1989, a major video game company
purchased the rights of the game and
marketed it as FROM RUSSIA WITH FUN!

36. Ans

37. *18
• X did not become an official Winter Olympic
sport until the Nagano Games in 1998 despite
the fact that Scots have been wearing out corn
brooms on local ponds since at least 1511.

38. Curling

39. 19. Who
appears at
the end ?

40. Don Quixote’s
character

41. 20
• The history of X began in
Bridgeport, Connecticut when Yale University
students played with ____ from the local X
Baking Co. Inspired by the UFO obsession that
swept through American culture in the late
1940s, two men, Warren Franscioni and
Walter Morrison, created it from a different
form of material. Wham-O purchased the
rights in 1955 and renamed it the X - an ode to
the bakery that inspired it.

42. Ans
• Frisbee

43. *21. Parodies of corporate and political advertisements.
Term?

44. Ans
• Subvertising or a Subvert

45. 22
• X's debut Bollywood song is "Jaago Gori" for
Chachi 420 .For Hey Ram, she sang the title
song "Ram Ram" in bilingual versions - Tamil
and Hindi. She is also the vocalist of an
alternative rock band The Extramentals.
• Her younger sister Y represents India
nationally for Z and had plans to participate in
2012 London Olympics for Z .However Z has
not yet been recognized in the Olympics!

46. Ans
• X- Shruti Haasan
• Y- Akshara Haasan
• Z- (Latin Ball) Room Dance

47. 23. Connect

48. Ans
• At the peak of their success in the 1970s, the
Dutch football team was famous for its
mastery of Total Football and was nicknamed
Clockwork Orange for its precision passing.
• Also Flying Dutchman- the Ghost Ship
• Flying Dutchmen- supposed to be another
nickname of the Dutch soccer team

49. 24
• X (1967) was a remake of a Telugu film called
Goodachari 116 (1967) starring Krishna
Ghattamaneni, or ‘Super Star’ Krishna as he
was known. Krishna would later star in P Q
777. The main hero in X reprised his role in
another movie Y in 1981 and he also played a
similar role in 1985 in Q 303

50. Ans
• P Q = James Bond
• X- Farz
• Y- Raksha

51. *25
• Video from The Dreamers (Bernardo
Bertolucci ).
• Pays homage to what?

53. Ans

54. Ans.
• In one scene, the three youth run through the
Louvre in homage to the race in Jean-Luc
Godard's 1964 film Bande à part (Band of
Outsiders)

55. 26.
• Original artist : Joaquim Antônio Barroso Neto
– Brazil (Around the World)
• Name the group

56. The Three Tenors (Spanish singers Plácido Domingo and
José Carreras and the Italian singer Luciano Pavarotti)

57. FINITO