a very learning and classic quiz

1. FINALS

2. Connect

7. X:Pierluigi Collina

8. CONNECT

9. SOCIETA SPORTIVA CALCIO NAPOLI

10. CONNECT

14. CONNECT (Non-exhaustive)

19. Lala & Surinder Amarnath

21. X: Vijay Amritraj Y: Ashok Amritraj

23. Circuit de Spa Franchorchamps

25. Manchester City Sunderland Everton Blackburn Rovers

27. X: Herschelle Gibbs

29. Andrei Kanchelskis

31. X: Monica Seles Y: Steffi Graf

33. Ian Holloway on CRISTIANO RONALDO

37. X: Gianfranco Zola

38. Identify this football. Hint: Released very recently

39. Adidas have just officially launched ‘The Albert’ i.e, the official matchball to be used at the 2012 London Olympics

40. Identify the significance

41. Doncaster striker Billy Sharp, who tragically lost his two-day old son Luey, opted to play through the pain against Middlesbrough, led a minute’s applause before kick-off and then scored a stunning volley in the 14th-minute before revealing a t-shirt that read ‘That’s for you son’

42. This popular hockey tradition may have gotten its inspiration from the sport of cricket. The custom crossed over to hockey with Ontario’s Biltmore Mad Hatters. When one of the players achieved this feat, the team owner Mr. Biltmore would present him with a new fedora. Many stories describe Mr. Biltmore throwing his top hat onto the ice to salute the player and soon enough, the fans also tossed their own hats onto the ice. After they are collected, the hats are either donated, thrown away or saved for a gigantic transparent case. Identify the term for this.

43. Hat trick

44. Wimbledon, Leeds United, Sheffield United, Chelsea, Queens Park

45. Vincent Peter “Vinnie” Jones

46. Identify the significance.

47. A flag with the map of undivided Korea in blue over a white background was carried by Park Jung Chon, a North Korean judo coach and Chun Un Soon, a basketball player from South Korea in Sydney at the 2000 Olympics

48. Ian Rush George Weah Eric Cantona Ryan Giggs Alfredo Di Stefano George Best Nicolas Anelka And so on…. Link.

49. Never played in the World Cup

50. Identify his claim to fame in O.D.Is

51. Faced the first ball ever bowled in one day cricket

52. X scored a century on test debut. Clearly he enjoyed the feeling. He followed it up with centuries in his next two matches and remains the only test cricketer to score three centuries in his first three tests. Identify X.

53. Mohammed Azharuddin

54. In early 2007, Formula One driver Kimi Räikkönen entered and won a snowmobile race in his native Finland under the name X. X, a former F1 champion was notorious for his unconventional behaviour on and off the track. He was associated with a succession of beautiful women; he preferred to turn up to formal functions in bare feet and jeans; he was an extensive user of alcohol, and also cocaine and marijuana. Identify X.

55. James Hunt

56. Last night I had a dream, When I got to Africa, I had one hell of a rumble. I had to beat Tarzan’s behind first, For claiming to be King of the Jungle. For this fight, I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick. I’m so fast, man, I can run through a hurricane and don't get wet. Who wrote this and in what context?

57. Muhammad Ali. A poem written by him about his match with George Foreman, known as the Rumble in the Jungle

58. Identify this striker who played for Queen’s Park FC (1957-60), St. Johnstone FC (1960-64), Dunfermline Athletic FC (1964-67), Rangers FC (1967-69), Falkirk FC (1969-73) and Ayr United FC (1973-74) born in Glasgow, Scotland.

59. Sir Alex Ferguson

60. The club X was founded as a football and cricket club on December 16, 1899 by British expatriates Alfred Edwards and Herbert Kilpin who came from the British city of Nottingham. In honor of its British origins, the club has retained the English spelling of the city's name. The team's stadium is the 80,018 seater , officially known as Estadio Giuseppe Meazza. Id X

61. A.C. Milan

62. Identify X. Cricket world's legend Don Bradman and X once came face to face at Adelaide in 1935, after watching X in action, Don Bradman remarked "He scores goals like runs in cricket" A German newspaper carried a banner headline: 'The Olympic complex now has a magic show too.' in his honour.

63. Dhyan Chand