Prelims with Answers SPENT Quiz (Sports and Entertainment Quiz) Roobaroo'15

1. Presents
Sports and Entertainment Quiz
Abhishek | Archita | Mohit | Sanjeet | Utsav

2. Answers for prelims

3. 1. Connect (Non-exhaustive)

4. Club 27
• Famous artists died at the age of 27

5. 2.
• James Michael Taylor got
the role of Gunther in
Friends because of a
unique skill he possessed
on the sets. What?

6. • Only he could run the coffee vending machine

7. 3.
• X was born in Princes Town, Trinidad to Indo-
Trinidadian and Tobagonian parents, whose
ancestors were from Madras presently
changed to Chennai. He moved to India when
he was 19 and played his early cricket
in Madras. He went on to represent India in
136 ODIs. ID “X”

8. Robin Singh

9. 4.
• The South Wales derby is a football local
derby between Welsh clubs “X” and ”Y” and is
regarded as one of the most fierce rivalries in
British football. Despite both clubs being in
Wales, they play in the English football league
system and have won English honors: “X”
the FA Cup in 1927 and “Y” the Football
League Cup in 2013. ID the clubs

10. • Cardiff City and Swansea

11. 5.
Where would you find this verse?
“When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn;
Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return;
The welkin will ring loud,
The great crowd will feel proud,
Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn;
And the rest coming home with the urn."
Hint: Current affairs

12. • The Ashes

13. 6.
• “X” has been named FIFA world player of the
year for five times, was runner-up on 4
occasions has 15 world cup goals to boast of.
• Who?

14. • Marta Vieira Da Silva (Marta)

15. 7*.
• 90210 is a teen drama series which was aired
on CBS from 2008-13. This is the fourth series
in the “X, 90210” franchise.
• What is X?

16. • Beverly Hills

17. 8.
• Earlier in the Indianapolis 500 car race, it was a custom
that all drivers should have a mechanic along with them
in the car during the race for various reasons. In
• the 1911 Indianapolis race, Ray Harroun, a racer, could
not find a mechanic to ride with him. So he did
something which changed the world of automotives
forever. What
• What did he do?

18. He tied a mirror to the car and thus
the rear view mirror came into
existence.

19. Funda ?
9.

21. 10*.
Funda

22. • Corinthians players pay tribute to Formula 1
legend Ayrton Senna by wearing helmets
before match

23. 11.
• “X” was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time
project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating X was "to
create a site where people can get access to reviews
from a variety of critics in the U.S." As a fan of Jackie
Chan, Duong was inspired to create the website after
collecting all the reviews of Chan's movies as they were
being published in the United States. The first movie
whose reviews were featured on “X” was Your Friends
& Neighbors. The website was an immediate success,
receiving mentions by Yahoo!, Netscape, and USA
Today within the first week of its launch.
• What is ‘X’ ?

24. • Rotten Tomatoes

25. 12. Name the guy on your right and
Funda

26. • The two Djangos

27. 13*. Which place with a cult movie
reference

28. • Mandwa

29. 14. What is being depicted and the
occasion?

30. • Birdman getting oscars

31. 15. Who?

32. • Satnam Singh drafted to Dallas Mavericks

33. 16*. Lyrics of which song?
• When Ya Looking In-in Their Hearts,
Them A Da Pass The Test.
Them A Da Pass The Test
• Don’ T Look Back,
He’ S Comin’ Into Attack,
He’ S Takin’ It Side By Side,
He’ S Takin’ It Front To Back,
He’ S Takin’ It All Around The World,
Never, Never Will He Stop This
X!
• Pun – Ja – Bi
She Be Flippin’ A Beat,
She Be Out To Steal,
She Be Keepin’ It Real,
She Be On A Mission, She Be Livin, She Be Killin’ ,
She Be Y!
• Now the story begins in Kanpur

34. • Bunty aur Babli Rap by Amitabh Bachchan

35. 17. Who?
• Shortlisted for national hockey and football squads
• Captain of SA Junior Rugby
• Holds six SA school swimming records including
fastest 100m in juniors
• The national U-19 badminton champion
• Recipient of national medal from Mandela for a
Science project
• Has a golf handicap of scratch

36. • AB de Villiers

37. 18.
• An unabashed fan of the wild, drinking,
smoking, womanizing British driver Y(1976
world Champion), this finnish driver X went
one step further a year ago in the Monaco GP,
wearing the Y’s iconic black helmet livery.
Guess X and Y

38. • James Hunt and Kimi Raikkonen

39. 19*. ID?
• X is the only person to win the Wimbledon as
a wild card after being runners-up on three
previous occasions. He defeated Patrick Rafter
of the US to win his only grand slam. Pete
Sampras went on to say that X was the
opponent he feared the most on a grass court.

40. • Goran Ivanisevic

41. 20.
• Lala Amarnath had a very unusual bowling
action - he used to bowl off the wrong foot -
i.e., at the moment of delivery, his weight was
on his right foot. His own explanation was that
this happened because he had been an
amateur athlete before becoming a cricketer,
and reflected the influence of his previous
sport. Which sport?

42. • Triple Jump

43. 21

44. • Ennio Morricone

45. 22.
• Id the movie

46. • Requiem for a dream

47. 23.
• ID the artist

48. • Nancy Sinatra

49. 24.
• ID the female actor in the song

50. • Sasha Grey

51. 25.
Located in Reykjavík, Iceland,
which artist this monument is paying tribute to ?

52. • John Lennon (Imagine Peace Tower )

53. • Finals in few minutes