Sports Quiz- Jesus and Mary College

 26 questions
 1 point per correct answer, 2 part questions carry 2 points (unless
mentioned otherwise), 32 points in total.
 Top 6 teams in the finals.
 Please refrain from using unfair means
 Star marked questions will be used to resolve ties.

 Who holds the record for most consecutive appearances in
test cricket? Whose record, of 153 consecutive test
appearances, did he break?

 Dorothy_uk is an instagram account that, in a
series of posts, mashed 24 classic album covers
with 24 iconic images from FIFAWorld Cup
history.
 The cover of Joy Divison's final albumCloser had
someone bent over after coming the closest he
had to winning the world cup title but then having
squandered it away.As things would pan out, he
would never be closer to that trophy in his life and
his country would have to wait for another 12
years for gold.
 Whose picture did the instagram account use for
the cover of closer?

 While England is regarded as the birthplace of soccer as we
know it today, it is China where the roots of the game lie.
 In China, well over 2,000 years ago the game of “kickball” -
locally called ____ (with this still being one of the words used for
football there), was played. In one of its versions the idea was to
keep the ball in air as long as possible, while in the other the idea
was to score as many goals as possible.
 The heydays of Chinese Football was during the reign of Song
Dynasty (960-1280 AD).
 FITB/ Name the game.

 Bangalore Mirror recently published an article titled “The Other
_________” where the up and coming golferAnisha _______
opened up on golf, mental healthcare and finding her definition
of success.
 Anisha, in addition to being a golfer is also the director ofThe
Live Laugh Love Foundation.
 What is Anisha's very famous surname?Who startedThe Live
Laugh Love Foundation? (1 Pointer)

 Yankee's closer for 17 seasons, 13 time All-Star and 5 time
World Series Champion, he is MLB's career leader in saves
and games finished and was the last Major League player to
wear the the number 42 full-time following its league wide
retirement in honour of Jackie Robinson. Identify Him.
 To Ice opposing hitters atYankee Stadium, a particular song
was played while he made his slow egress out to the mound
from the bullpen. It was the perfect sonic descriptor for what
would become of you if you faced his late-inning cutter
(you’d be put right to bed). Which song, that also gave him
his nickname?

 Tetsuya “Ted” Fujita, often called “Mr.Tornado” by his associates
and media, was a prominent Japanese- American severe storms
researcher.
 Best known for his contributions inTornado research, he developed
the eponymous “Fujita Scale” which differentiates tornado
intensity and links tornado damage with wind speed. ATornado of
rating 0/1 on the scale is considered weak while that with rating 5 is
considered the strongest.
 What, that has proved similarly destructive for those being at the
recieving end, gets its name from the strongest tornado?

 Oleg Salenko, whose international career was cut short by
injuries, played one match for Ukraine (country's first recognised
game) before playing for Russia.
 Salenko scored 6 goals for Russia in his short career, with the
goals all being scored in a short span of time. Where were these
goals scored?
 What unique record does Salenko hold, most of the credit for
which should go to the fact that his team did not play that well?

 Regarded as the father of Indian Boxing, he won the Gold Medal
at 1966 and 1970 Asian Games and lost only due to a
controversial refree decision at the 1974 edition, but not before
knocking his Iranian opponent out.
 So complete was his dominance that he won the National
Championships a record 11 consecutive times, from 1961 to
1972- a record that still stands.
 An ArjunaAwardee, he was posthumously awarded the
DronacharyaAward for his contribution to Indian boxing as a
coach, the biggest of which was starting the Bhiwani Boxing
Club which would go on to produce the likes ofVijendra Singh.
 Who are we talking about?

 ____ ___ ____ is 2010 documentary film which chronicles the
story ofTerry Fox who lost his right leg to cancer and then went
on a run across Canada to raise funds for cancer research and
achieved nationwide fame. He became the youngest ever
companion of the Order of Canada and won the Lou Marsh
Trophy (awarded to nation's best sportsperson).
 What was the documentary's title, not to be confused with a
John Krakauer book later made into a highly acclaimed 2007
film?

 About which double Olympic Gold Medallist, two time All
American and the subject of a 1951 biopic starring Burt
Lancaster did Dwight D Eisenhower, who played against
him, say this in a speech in 1961:
“Here and there, there are some people who are supremely
endowed. My memory goes back to ___ ______. He never
practiced in his life and he could do anything better than any
other football player I ever saw” ?

 Nico Broekhuysen, a Dutch teacher fromAmsterdam was sent
to Naas, a Swedish town to follow an educational course about
teaching gymnastics to children.
 In Naas he was introduced to a Swedish game where one could
score points by throwing the ball through a ring that was
attached to a 3m pole. Men and women played together.
 Once he came back to Amsterdam, Nico decided to teach his
students the game. However, he made a small change by
replacing the ring with a basket, thus making it easier to see if a
player had scored or not.
 What sport was born thus?

 Smallfoot is an animated musical comedy adventure film
based on the bookYetiTracks by Sergio Pablos.The plot
follows a group ofYeti who come across a human, with each
species thinking the other was a myth.
 Who voiced the character of Gwangi in the film?

 From 1942 until 1945 it was progressively occupied by US Army
Air Forces and the US Marine Corps (after their victory at the
battle of Guadalcanal) and was regarded as their home away
from home by more than 200,000 personnel.
 Nicknamed “Camp Murphy” by the US Army's Fifth Air Force, it
saw the Marines host a giant “get together” of US and
Australian forces in the region.
 Which place?

 Named in the honour of the British Admiral who defeated
both the French and Spanish fleets at battle ofTrafalgar in
1805, ______ is the second oldest settled city in New
Zealand.
 The city's cricket team played 17 first class matches from
1874 to 1891, all of which were extremely low scoring with
them crossing 200 runs only once.
 Interestingly, the team made the same score in their first and
last inninngs, which went rather well with their name.
 What score?Which team/city?

 Identify the gymnast/ the eponymous move
she is performing en route to Olympic Gold.
 She emigrated to USA with her family in 1991
from her country as they were worried about
the effects of fallout from a 1986 event on
where they lived. She would later go on to
campaign for those affected by the event and
raise funds for them.What event?

 Who is nicknamed “The Prince of Pune”?
#Kolstylz

 On 25th August, ESPN put out a tweet
reminding their followers of a controversial
play from 24 years ago.
 The said match ended with Ireland defeating
Bulgaria 170-160, even though the deciding
play, which some called “the selfish play of
the century”, was made by a Bulgarian.
 What event was this, held every four years
since 1473?Who made the deciding play?

 One of the few natural grass courts in India is located at
Oliver Road in Mylapore. A clay court for well over three
decades, it was Ramesh's idea to turn it into a
Wimbledon-type grass court and the family has even
kept two men on job to maintain the court.
 TheWimbledon style court is very close to the family's
heart as Ramesh won the 1979 junior title and was a
quarterfinalist at the 1986 senior event. However, it is
his father's achievements at the event, about two
decades before the son that are better known.
 Who is Ramesh's more famous father?

 Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of John F
Kennedy started a camp calledCamp Shriver
for children with intellectual disabilities at her
home in Maryland to give them opportunity
to participate in athletic events.The camp
became an annual event. It formed the base
for an event (held annualy first and every four
years later) that was first held at Soldier Field
in Chicago in 1968.The next edition of this
event will be held in Abu Dhabi in 2019.
 Identify the event.

 RanjiTrophy
 DuleepTrophy
 Irani Cup
 NKP Salve ChallengerTrophy
 Vijay HazareTrophy
 Syed Mustaq AliTrophy

 Perhaps the world's oldest team sport and one of the oldest sports
still around, it was played under various rules in different regions
and eras but in general teams of up to seven players scored points
when the opponent failed to return the ball as in tennis or if the
ball was driven past an opponent’s end zone as in American
football. Some ball courts also included vertical stone rings about
10 feet off the ground through which the ball could be struck to
score points.The ball, mostly, had to be struck with hips or thighs.
 What game is this which confounded Christopher Columbus and
introduced him to rubber ball, one of the most important things
he brought back home from the new world?

 Known for his love of different helmet
designs that are supposed to relay one
message or other, X used this Pink Floyd
inspired design to pay tribute toY who
passed away at the Malaysian GP in 2011.
 As it happened,Y's bike lost traction and he
veered across the track in X's path with his
bike running over his head, eventually leading
to his death.
 Give me X andY.

 Born prematurely as 20th of her father's 22 children, she
contracted polio at a very young age and was fitted with metal leg
braces when she was 6.
 She spent most of her time trying to get them off but one or other
of her siblings was always on the lookout for same and stopped
her from doing so. A lot of massage and exercise later, she started
playing basketball after her brothers set up a basketball hoop in
the yard and made the school team.
 She soon became an all state player, setting a record of 49 points
and this was where EdTemple noticed him, and the rest as they
say is history.
 Who?

 In Doha as a midfielder for Al-Saad, he is also
an ambassador for FIFAWC 2022,and has
won the Qatar Cup 2017 with the team.
 In 2016, when his wife gave birth to their first
daughter, the couple decided to name her
Asia.
 Who?

 The earliest recorded use of this word is said
to have been by British Gneral JamesWolfe in
1758 to refer to people from what became the
United States.
 MarkTwain used the term in his book: A
Connecticut _____ in KingArthur's Court.
 The word has been used in sporting context
since 1913, where is followed Orioles and
Highlanders.
 Give me the good word.

 Who published this ad
in March, 2018?

1. Alaistair Cook,Allan Border
2.Baggio after 1994WC final Penalty
Miss
3.Cuju
4.Deepika Padukone
5.Mariano Rivera, Enter Sandman
6.The F5
7.OnlyGolden Boot winner whose team
was knocked out in the group stage
8.Captain Hawa Singh
9.IntoTheWind
10. Jim thorpe
11.Korfball
12.LeBron James
13. Melbourne Cricket Ground
14. 111, Nelson
15. Olga Korbut, Chernobyl
16. PankajAdvani
17. Quidditch World Cup,Victor
Krum
18. Ramnathan Krishnan
19. Special Olympics
20.Trophies of Indian Domestic
cricket circuit
21.Ulama
22.Valentino Rossi, Marco
Simoncelli
23. Wilma Rudolph
24. Xavi
25.Yankee
26. Zlatan

 28 Questions in total.
 9 Clockwise+ 9 Anti-Clockwise on
Pounce/Bounce.
 Two written rounds of 5 questions each.

 5 questions, write down the answers.
 Each question is related to a certain sporting
nickname/moniker.
 +10 for each correct answer, no negative
marking.

 Michael Gross, a former competitive swimmer fromGermany won
3 Olympic Golds (2 in 1984 and 1 in 1988) in addition to 5 world
championship titles.
 201 cm in height, Gross had a wingspan of 2.13 m.What nickname,
that might remind you of something leading a ship out of an ice
jam and the events that followed, did he get because of his
wingspan?

 Jean Borotra, Jaques Brugnon, Henri Cochet and
Rene Lacoste dominated tennis in later half of
1920s and early 1930s winning 20 Grand Slam
singles titles and 23 doubles titles between them.
They also led France to six straight Davis cup wins
from 1927-32.
 The group was given a certain nickname inspired
from a 1920 film adapted from an 1844 work of
literature.The trophy awarded to the winner of
French Open takes its name from the said
nickname.
 What?

 Nigel Bond is an English Snooker player who
achieved his career high 5th ranking in 1996
and reached the final of 1995World
Championship.
 Nigel's nickname is a pun on that of most
famous Bond and includes the number of
points that one scores on a maximum break.
 What nickname is this, that also shows how
many times Nigel has achieved the maximum
break?

 Early in his career, the elegant MarkWaugh
was overshadowed by his brother Steve's
performances for a brief period, who had by
then made it to the national side.
 What nickname, a refrence to a late 1970s
and 80s event which was largely forgotten,
was given to Mark by those close to him since
he was “the forgottenWaugh” back then?

 Roscoe Monroe Brumbaugh, was an American pro
wrestler, civil rights pioneer and headliner in many
territories.
 Although popular with blacks for his human rights
stands, Monroe went on to become the biggest heel of
his time when he adopted a new ring name in 1957.
 The name was coined when a woman likened him to a
certain Russian achievement from that year, with
Monroe deciding to use it by adopting the ringname
_______ Monroe, resulting in immense heat on him.
 FITB.

 Early in his career, the elegant MarkWaugh
was overshadowed his brother Steve's
performances for a brief period, who had by
then promoted to the national side.
 What nickname, a refrence to a late 1970s
and 80s event which was largely forgotten,
was given to Mark by those close to him since
he was “the forgottenWaugh” back then?

 9 Questions, all on Pounce/Bounce,
clockwise.
 +10 on bounce.
 +10/-5 on pounce.

 Hailing from NarainaVihar in SouthWest Delhi,
she followed in the footsteps of her siblings and
started playing the game at a very young age. An
alumni of Jesus and Mary college, she would drop
out after first year to concentrate on her game.
 Making good on the promise she always showed,
she bagged 4 medals, including two Gold medals
at the Gold Coast CWG and would have finished
22nd she were a nation.
 Identify this youngster who recently made it to
the cover of Femina.

 Remembered today for his legendary jump, Bob Beamon
almost did not qualify for the Olympic finals, failing in his
first two attempts and only managed to seal the berth in the
third and the final attempt. Primary reason behind this was
Beamon's electrifying speed that made him lose control on
the runway and led to fouls.
 a)With which two fellow American atheletes had Bob
Beamon trained to hone his speed before the Olympics?
 b)When the distance jumped by him (8.90 m) was
announced on the digital screen, Beamon failed to
comprehend the enormity of his achievement and realised
what he had achieved only after his teammate Ralph Boston
explained it to him.The realization made him have
cataplectic episode out of shock.
 Why did Beamon not understand his achievement initially?

 As of this day, 4 Indian cricketers have hit six sixes in an over.
WhileYuvraj Singh remains the only Indian to do so in an
international match, Ravi Shastri achieved the feat in a first
class game.The third person on the list, Ravindra Jadeja did so
at an inter-district T20 game.
 Who, an unlikely candidate, given the role he plays today,
remians the only Indian to have achieved the feat at school
level, off the bowlig of a certainVishal Dhruva?

 At the 1936 Berlin Games, Japanese pole vaulters Shuhei
Nishida and Sueo Ōe tied for second place.The teammates
were offered the opportunity to have a jump-off for the silver
medal, but the two friends declined out of mutual respect for
one another. For the purposes of Olympic records, Ōe agreed
to the bronze while Nishida took the silver.
 Upon their return to Japan, the teammates came up with a
different solution.The said solution involved a jeweler with
the end products being “Medals of Friendship”.
 What exactly was this solution/ what did they do?

 Recently,Virat Kohli came up with a pair of sneakers that he
himself designed under his newly launched brand, One8.
 What exactly, as per him, was signified by this particular
design element of the shoe, as shown?
 Image follows.

 The shortest member of Basketball Hall of Fame formed a world
touring team in 1928, however, it would be four more decades
before the said team played at its billed hometwon.Which
team?Who is founder in question?
 The said person also started the short lived West Coast Baseball
Association, an all black league (it was disbanded after two
months). One of the teams in the league, Portland Rosebuds,
had an owner who would entertain the crowds by competing in
races against horses in between doubleheader games.Who?

 One of the most famous art collectors in the country, she is a
fierce bidder at auction houses around the country and has
the costliest bid for an Indian painting to her name, a painting
by SH Raza.
 However, she recently added another feather to her cap by
winning an Asian Games gold medal at the age of 67.
 Who is the lady in question, who has stopped playing with her
husband since he does not have time and her game has
moved way beyond his level? While we are at it, also name the
painting.

 Magdalena Maleeva is a former Bulgarian tennis player who won a
total of 10WTA singles titles and 5 doubles titles. She has also
been an active environmentalist and has created an organic food
brand- Harmonica.
 Although regarded as one of the most influential Bulgarian
women, her primary claim to fame for the wider world is her being
one of the closest spectators of an incident in Hamburg in early
1993.The said incident prompted the Australian bandYoung
Elders to send one of their songs to someone to lift their morale,
and the band would later end up changing their name to that
person's name.
 What did Magdalena Maleeva witness in Hamburg?What was she
doing there?

 Ross Norman is a former squash player from
New Zealand. On November 11, 1986, in pre
match press conference he predicted that to
achieve something, at which he had failed 30
times before that day, he would need to keep
his opponent on the court for more than 100
minutes.
 Ross would go on to make good of his claims
and would end up playing 100 minute+ match
and winning it, finally.
 What did this victory put an end to?

 5 questions, each question has two parts.
 Atleast one of the two answers is an
alliteration.
 10 points per correct answer, 5 per part.
 No negative marking.

 Balvinder Singh Sandhu, a swing bowler, an useful lower order batsman and a
protege of Ramakant Achrekar is one of those players whose fame rests
solely on one spectacular moment.
 The suggestion that it was caused by a stone on the pitch is apocryphal,
however, it must have been a surprise to the batsman as well as Sandhu that
it happened at all, since he was not really known for his inswingers and it was
the first one he had tried to the batsman that day.
 a)Who was the batsman on the recieving end of what is one of the most
famous balls bowled in Indian history?
 b) Sandhu's last test came against the same opposition later in the year in
which he took only a single wicket. However, this wicket prevented a rare
cricketing feat from happening 27 years after it happened for the first, and till
then the only time.What feat?Who missed the chance to equal the said
record that day?

 Although she owned the record from 1964 to
2012, she did not know of that for about 15
years and came to know only when a
journalist from Czechoslovakia sent her a
cutout from a magazine.
 The anticipation that her record will be
surpassed in 2012 was what put all the
spotlight on her and she herself was present,
as one of 17,500 spectators, to see it happen.
 Who?Who surpassed her in 2012?

 In 1997, X replaced Louis Armstrong as the focal
point, withWhitney Houston singing 'One
moment in time'.
 2016 saw a much publicized new feature being
introduced here, but it soon turned out that
certain key aspects were ignored while doing so.
This has resulted in a lot of complaints and
criticism, with Novak Djokovic comparing it to a
sauna recently.
 a) Give me X.
 b)What feature is being talked about here?

 Winner of the 1952 and 1953 driver's championship, by beating Guiseppe
Farina and Juan Manuel Fangio respectively, he is remembered the most for
eerie similarities between his death and that of his father. Both of them
passed away at the age of 36, on the 26th day of the month, four days after
surviving serious accidents, and both had won 13 Grand Prix.
 a)Who, the first European to become a two time F1 champ, is this?
 b) His father Antonio, when he died in 1925, was racing for Alfa Romeo.His
death shocked one of his teammates so much that when offered by Alfa
Romeo to step up and take Antonio's place, he refused the opportunity and
in time decided to turn his focus from personal racing towards driver
management, car design and race team management, giving birth to one of
the most iconic entities in the field.Who was this friend/What did he
evetually start?

 On a visit to a nightclub in San Francisco one weekend Ken Waller
saw a band with a musician with shaved head who had a tight t-
shirt on.When he got back, he asked Ric Drasin to design a logo
that would look like Mr. Clean. Ric Drew the thing and when he
saw it,Waller suggested just one change, observing that such
heavy weight would cause anything to curve.
 a)Which iconic logo was born thus?
 b) Ric Drasin had a 36 year long pro wrestling career which started
with him training under an all time great at a wrestling school in
Los Angeles.The school was initially meant only for female
wrestlers but its popularity brought in male trainees too.Who,
now commemorated through an all women tournament on WWE
Network, started this wrestling school?

 Balvinder Singh Sandhu, a swing bowler, an useful lower order batsman and a
protege of Ramakant Achrekar is one of those players whose fame rests
solely on one spectacular moment.
 The suggestion that it was caused by a stone on the pitch is apocryphal,
however it must have been a surprise to the batsman as well as Sandhu that
it happened at all, since he was not really known for his inswingers and it was
the first one he had tried to the batsman.
 a)Who was the batsman on the recieving end of what is one of the most
famous balls bowled in Indian history?
 b) Sandhu's last test came against the same opposition later in the year in
which he took only a single wicket. However, this wicket prevented a rare
cricketing feat from happening 27 years after it happened for the first, and till
then the only time.What feat?Who missed the chance to equal the said
record that day?

 Gordon Greenidge
 10 wickets in an innings, Sandhu took the 1
wicket which Kapil Dev missed ins 9-83

 In 1997, X replaced Louis Armstrong as the focal
point, withWhitney Houston singing One moment
in time.
 2016 saw a much publicized new feature being
introduced here, but it soon turned out that
certain key aspects were ignored while doing so.
This has resulted in a lot of complains and
criticism, with Novak Djokovic comparing it to a
sauna recently.
 a) Give me X.
 b)What feature is being talked about here?

 9 Questions, all on Pounce/Bounce, anti-
clockwise.
 +10 on bounce.
 +10/-5 on pounce.

 Named after and donated by the first Chief Minister of Goa, the trophy, when
donated, was among the costliest sporting trophies in India. It was heavily
guarded all the time and was followed by a police escort wherever it went.
Even the teams winning the trophy have had to settle for its replica and the
real trophy is sent to the bank vault as soon as the brouhaha of triumph had
died down.
 _________ Braz Alemao, an ex-CM of Goa, in his bid to become the president
of GFA has raised the issue of the trophy not being pure gold, saying
someone has switched the trophy as its glitter has faded away. Evaluation of
the trophy after it was brought out of the bank seems to agree with him,
stating that only 11% of the trophy is gold.
 Which trophy, that has led to questions being raised in assembly?Also, FITB
with one of the most famous names in Indian football.

 While she had ran the distance once before,April
16, 2007 was different. Having qualified for the
race during the 2006 Houston Marathon, she was
given the bib number 14,ooo.
 While she did not have to brave strong winds and
rain like all others who competed, she had her
own set of issues to handle.The harness and cords
proved painful on the shoulders and hips but she
ended up copmleting the race in 4 hours, 24
minutes.
 Who?What event did she participate in?What first
did she achieve?

 Suffering from severe brain damage that left
him in persistent vegetative state for four
years, Anthony “Tony” Bland was the first
patient in English legal history to be allowed
to die by the courts through the withdrawal
of life-prolonging treatment including food
and water and passed away in 1993.
 How did Bland suffer the injuries that
eventually proved fatal?

 Ranked as the greatest female athlete of 20th
century, she won 3 Gold, 1 Silver and 2 Bronze
medals at Olympics in Heptathlon and Long Jump
across 4 Olympics.
 a) Identify her.
 b) She was named after the first Catholic First
Lady of USA.Who?
 c) Her Brother, himself an Olympic Gold medallist,
was married to another triple Olympic Gold
medallist who still has the 100m and 200m records
to her name. Identify the husband-wife pair.

 X- claimed to have been first worn by Belgian Phillipe Thys in 1913,
officially introduced in 1919 after journalists complained that they
could not distinguish the leader and worn by Eugene Christophe of
France.
 Y- Inspired by lawn mower producing sponsor La Belle Jardinière,
introduced in 1953 and first worn by Fritz Schär of Switzerland.
 Z- First awarded to Belgian LucienVan Impe, its design was based
on wrapper of original sponsor Chocolat Poulain's chocolate bars.
 a) Give me X,Y and Z.
 b)Who is the only person to have held all 3 in the same year?

 X-Yellow Jersey
 Y- Green Jersey
 Z- Polka Dot Jersey

 JasonArsheben, a law student at University of California,
decided to pursue his hobby of Jewellery designing after a
chance meeting with Anthony Mason in 2003, and has been
the most famous person in his field in last 7-8 years.
 For his most famous recent commision he designed about
500 products of a certain kind, with each containing 74
Sapphires and 74 Diamonds, and “Strength in Numbers”
inscribed inside it.The feature making the most news
however is the twist-off top that allows one to either have a
blue or a white top.
 What is this recent commission being talked about?Why was
the number 74 chosen?

 InThe Moor's Last Sigh, Aurora, Moor's Mother, makes a painting that gets
caught in political storm. Raman Fielding, a vicious political cartoonist
accusses the subject of painting of not giving it his all against the
neighbouring country because he was a Muslim and goes on to chide him for
having the nerve to go after patriotic hindu girls.
 Fifteen years after this event, when it is long forgotten, Aurora puts the
painting in an exhibition held at an art gallery.This again arouses Feilding,
now a political heavyweight, and he announces his intention to march for the
art gallery claiming that “It was flagrantely displaying a pornographic
representation of a muslim on an innocent hindu maiden”.
 What was the title of the painting/ what event did it depict?Who is believed
to have been the inspiration for the character of Raman Feilding?

 The Legend of BaggerVance is a 2000 film starring Will Smith,
Matt Damon and CharlizeTheron.
 Set between the two world wars, the films story has Adele
(Theron) organize a golf tournament for which she needs a local
player as one of three competitors and decides to get her
estranged lover Ranulph Junnuh (Damon), an exceptional player,
to participate.
 Surrounded by doubts and traumatic memories from WW1,
Junnuh meets a mysterious traveler BaggerVance (Smith).Vance
offers to be his caddie and helps him come to grips with his
personal demons and play golf again, guiding him through the
tournament.
 What inspired the plot of “The Legend of BaggerVance”?

 Growing up inVaranasi, he was really into sports and played seven
sports, including basketball at the national level. He went on to
graduate from BHU and ended up in Mumbai.
 In 2016 he decided to sell all his belongings in Mumbai and leave
for Punjab where he trained under Anudeep Singh and Harpreet
Singh, with the later being a coach of Indian team. He trained for
almost an year, training as late as midnight. A few injuries
happened on the way but nothing deterred him and he continued
to practice even at the hospital and at his home.
 The hardwork bore fruit and was there for everyone to see about
an year ago.
 Who is this? What was the result of all the hardwork?

 Kanika, for helping
with the format and a
few questions.

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