Sports Quiz Finals - IIT Guwahati

SPORTS QUIZ
QUIZ WEEK
Sagar Mewar

RULES
 There will be total 3 rounds – 15 dry pounce round clockwise
1 written round
15 dry pounce round anticlockwise
 Scoring in the pound round – pounce +20/-10
bounce +10
 Also if no team answers on pounce, the next question will start from the next team.

1.
 X originated in the United States, and remains predominantly in America, with an estimated 1.5 million
participants.
 The growth of this ‘sport’ has stemmed from its growing exposure to a global audience. This trend
began with the broadcasting of X competitions by ESPN International starting in 1997, and the
worldwide release of the 2000 film Bring it On.
 Due in part to this recent exposure, there are now an estimated 100,000 participants scattered around
the globe in Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, New
Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
 X also carries the highest rate of catastrophic injuries in sports.

2.
 X. a famous news channel presenter, questioned the courage of the English batsmen during their
ominous Ashes tour in 2013-14, which England lost 0-5. X said that the English team had “gone soft” and
“needed to grow a pair”. In reply, Y challenged to a duel (which involved X playing an over of Y’s
bowling) in the nets of MCG during the third day of the fourth Ashes test.
 What followed was, in the words of Sir Richard Hadlee, “a dangerous and unnecessary stunt”. X was
peppered by Y’s no holds barres fast deliveries, and later it was confirmed that X suffered a rib fracture
as a result.
 Id X and Y

X – PIERS MORGAN, Y – BRETT LEE

3.
“___________ : The Mission” is a short film directed by Amani Martin and narrated by acclaimed
singer/songwriter John Legend and was released on January 16, 2013. It is a part of the highly acclaimed
“30 by 30 Shorts” released by ESPN.
The film delves into perhaps one of the most important, but least known, feats of X's remarkable life. In
1990, X traveled to Iraq to press a plea for peace and negotiate with Saddam Hussein for the release of U.S.
civilians taken hostage after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. X risked his reputation, health and safety for the
freedom of prisoners held by Hussein as "human shields" to deter U.S. military strikes. Only six weeks after X
brought 15 hostages back home to their relieved families, Operation Desert Storm bombarded Iraq.
Who’s X?

4.
 Prior to this competition, each athlete received three sheets of paper listing a few rules and a course
description. Handwritten on the last page was this exhortation: “____ 2.4 miles! ____ 112 miles! ____ 26.2
miles! Brag for the rest of your life", which is now a registered trademark.
 Fill in the blanks and which event is being described here?

SWIM 2.4 MILES! BIKE 112 MILES! RUN 26.2 MILES!
IRONMAN TRIALTHON

5.
 Built in 1939 at an estimated cost of just Rs.25,000, the Keenan stadium in Jamshedpur made its first-
class debut in December that year, when Bihar hosted a Ranji Trophy against Bengal. Despite hosting
first class matches and warm-up games for the touring teams quite regularly, the Keenan Stadium got its
first international game only in 1983-84, when Clive Lloyd’s West Indians were on Mission Revenge after
being shocked in the World Cup final.
 Why was the stadium not operable during the 24-25th November period in 2015, with huge crowds
teeming in the vicinity despite no sporting activity scheduled during that period?

DHONI : THE UNTOLD STORY WAS BEING SHOT AT
THE STADIUM

6.
In the late 1960s, as the U.S. steadily increased its involvement in the Vietnam War, both X and his younger
brother Johnnie were serving in the military: X in the Army and Johnnie in the Marines. During his time at
the base, X was simultaneously involved in the amateur tennis league, participating in international
tournaments such as the Australian Championships.
However, due to a rule established after World War II, during a time of war only one family member was
required to be on active duty. When Johnnie was sent home however, X suddenly became in danger of
being sent to Vietnam. Unbeknownst to X, Johnnie volunteered to be sent back to the war in his brother's
place so that X could continue his budding tennis career. Johnnie would return home, and X would go on to
win the inaugural 1968 U.S. Open en route to a Hall of Fame career in tennis, made possible by his brother's
selflessness.
Identify this tennis legend ?

7.
 X , the then captain of Mohan Bagan and India, was the flag bearer of the Indian Olympic contingent at
the 1948 London Games, and still perhaps remains the most famous Naga. At the Olympics, India almost
upset France in their first match, missing two penalties in a 1-2 defeat. After the Olympics, on a tour of
club matches in Holland, they beat Ajax Amsterdam 5-2 and of five games in England against club sides,
won three and drew two.
 Legend has it that X was offered a year's contract with Arsenal but he chose to return to India and
continue his studies, earning his MBBS degree in 1950.
 In Assam, where X grew up, there are two sporting venues named after him - an indoor stadium in
Cotton College, Guwahati, where he studied, and an outdoor venue in Kaliabor, east of the Kaziranga
National Park.
 When a British journalist asked him why his team didn't wear boots, he is known to have famously said,
"It is football, not boot ball."

8.
 Unruly, or behavior which risks injury such as diving, will be deemed in breach of the promotion's terms
and conditions, therefore disqualifying contestants in the event of a claim.
 The principal change to the procedures was made with respect to establishment of a dedicated at
venues, in which contestants will have to be located in order to qualify for the claim. Patrons outside
these zones will be deemed ineligible.
 The governing body clarified that catch zones will not be in place at matches at Eden Park and Westpac
Stadium, but stressed that all other safety protocols will be.
 What is being talked about ?

TUI CATCH A MILLION COMPETITION

9.
 A newspaper cut-out reads :-
 “Sport such as football and basketball have sent countless students to college, but one institution is
taking things in a new direction, allowing applicants to earn athletic scholarships from their couches.
Robert Morris University in Chicago is now offering students the chance to compete for scholarships
playing _____________ the Chicago Tribune reports.”
 _____________ is also the most played game of its type in North America and Europe in terms of the
number of hours played.

11.
 In 1908, a pub owner, Foot Anakin, was taken to court for allowing this sport/game to be practiced at his
pub. This was because it was felt that this was a game of chance and thus, due to the negative
connotations associated with games of chance, this game was decided to be banned,. Thus Foot Anakin,
to prove it was rather a game of skill, and not chance, he challenged a public court official to the game
and beat him fair and square, thus proving his point. This was the turning point in the history of this
sport, and thus began its popularity. Which game ?

12.
Nando's is an international restaurant chain founded in 1987 in South Africa. Nando's operates about 1,000
outlets in 30 countries.
To mark a certain individual’s retirement, Nando's announced on 8th May 2013 that all their restaurants
located in a north-western English city will close at 11:05 instead of the usual closing time 11:00 PM, as a
reference to something that rivals have often complained about.
What is the two word term or give the funda behind closing 5 minutes later than their usual closing time.

13.
 This variant of Dodgeball was conceived recently. The game starts as every person for themselves. When
a player is hit, they can be controlled by the player who hit them. They operate as one team and the
hitter dictates tactical positions to be assumed by the other player.
 If the hitter’s player gets hit, he/she faints and must wait for 30 seconds to rejoin the field as a free
agent. If the hitter himself/herself gets hit, then control of all his players is handed over to the other
hitter and he/she is deemed to be dead. When a hitter has the control of all the players, he/she wins the
game.
 What is this variant of Dodgeball called?

14.
 The NBA All-Star Game is an exhibition game featuring the star players from Western Conference
against their Eastern Conference counterparts usually during the month of February.
 The starting lineup for each squad is selected by a combination of fan, player, and media voting, while
the reserves are chosen by a vote among the head coaches from each squad's respective
conference. The coach of the team having the best record that season, is selected to coach that
particular conference the team belongs.
 However a certain modification was made to this rule, following repeated occurrences that happened in
the 80s. What is the said modification to the rule, and also by what name is this rule known ?

RILEY RULE
 The head coach of the team with the best record in each
conference is chosen to lead their respective conference
in the All-Star Game, with a prohibition against repeat
appearances. Known as the "Riley Rule", it was created
after perennially successful Los Angeles Lakers head
coach Pat Riley earned the right to coach the Western
Conference team eight times in nine seasons between
1982 and 1990. The coach of the team with the next best
record serves instead.

15. EXPLAIN THE ORIGIN/FUNDA OF THESE
INTERNET TROLLS

MADHURA HONEY
 She is the “mystery woman in blue trousers and red shirt”
who was walking next to the Indian flag-bearer Sushil Kumar
with the Indian contingent during the inaugural ceremony
of London Olympics 2012

WRITTEN ROUND
 8 questions, +10/0
 + 20 bonus on a full house
 Identify the subject of the tribute

ANSWERS
 1. Richie Benaud
 2. Jules Bianchi
 3. Cheick Tiote
 4. Roger Bannister
 5. Dani Jarque
 6. Jonah Lomu
 7. Bradley Lowery
 8. Davide Astori

1.
 On 3 March, nine years ago, the bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers, part of a larger convoy which
included a minivan carrying the match officials, was fired upon by 12 gunmen, near Gaddafi
Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan.
 Bullets hit the chest and abdomen of X and he could see blood spouting out from his body "like a
fountain".
 “I saw my death before my eyes and chanted a few Quranic lines as I knew the end was near. I collapsed
on the floor of the vehicle and the next thing I knew was the towering figure of Y lying on top of me to
prevent the blood from oozing out. I passed out. My next recollection were the faint voices of doctors
talking among themselves and I overheard the words critical and very little chance of survival," says X.

X – AHSAN RAZA, Y – CHRIS BROAD

2.
 X is regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation, Diego Maradona once stated that X is the best
striker he has ever seen play the game.
 When his club Y was relegated to the second division, X stayed with the club and helped it return to the
top-flight league a year later. He became a popular sporting figure in ________; the Y fans erected a life-
size bronze statue of him, in recognition of his performances for the club. X also held the record of being
the most expensive player above the age of 30 until 2009 when it was broken by Diego Milito’s transfer
Inter.
 X played in three World Cups, scoring 10 goals, making him Argentina's all-time top scorer in the
competition, and the joint eighth-highest World Cup goal scorer of all time. He is the only player in
football history to score two hat-tricks in different World Cup.

X - GABRIEL BATISTUTA, Y - FIORENTINA

3.
 Dean Karnazes (born Constantine Karnazes; August 23, 1962) is an American ultramarathon runner, and
author of Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner, which details ultra endurance running
for the general public. He once ran a marathon to the South Pole in −13 °F (−25 °C) temperatures
without snowshoes in 2002.
 In 2006, Karnazes embarked on the well-publicized Endurance 50: 50 marathons in 50 states in 50
consecutive days. Beginning with the Lewis and Clark Marathon in St. Louis on September 17, 2006, it
finished with the New York City Marathon on November 5.
 Which popular ‘marathon runner’ was he compared to as a result ?

4.
 _________ is a practice in series competitions that allows participants who failed to meet qualifying
standards by a small margin to continue to the next round, in a similar way as wild card system works
out.
 _________ was in news in 2008 as it helped a certain Indian to clinch a medal.
 FITB and name the athlete who benefitted from its use.

5. WHO IS DERIDING THE AUSTRALIAN FANS ?
Once a jolly Aussie sat down at a cricket match
Sat in the shade of the _____ ____
And he sat and he sighed and then the poor Aussie cried
Why have the Poms got more humour than me?
MORE SENSE OF HUMOUR
MORE SENSE OF HUMOUR
WHY HAVE THE POMS GOT MORE HUMOUR THAN ME
Cos I'm thick as a brick
I'm a seventh generation skip
That's why the poms have more humour than me
And so the Aussie sits there
And he starts to think a bit
Thought he'd make a song
That his mates could enjoy
So he thought up a song
And it didn't take him very long

6.
X was in contention to be selected for the 1969 England tour of South Africa on the virtue of his
performance in the fifth Ashes test match against Aussies at Oval (he had scored a century), his past record,
and the usefulness of his bowling. The selectors left him out, however, deciding that his bowling was not
strong enough to classify him as an all-rounder.
Tom Cartwright, one of the players selected for the tour, had been struggling with an injury. On 16
September, he withdrew from the MCC team, citing his injury and X was called up as a replacement.
Vorster, prime minister immediately announced that the English team would not be allowed into South
Africa if it included X. He told the gathering that while "we are and always have been prepared to play host
to the MCC ... [we] are not prepared to receive a team thrust upon us by people whose interests are not the
game, but to gain certain political objectives which they do not even attempt to hide". Attempts to find a
compromise followed, but these led nowhere. The MCC announced the tour's cancellation on 24
September.
Id X and what did this cancellation serve as a catalyst a year later for and why?

BASIL D’ OLIVEIRA, THE VERY NEXT YEAR SOUTH AFRICA WAS BANNED
FROM PLAYING CRICKET. THE BAN ON THEM WAS LIFTED IN 1992
 The very next year, i.e. in 1970, South Africa was banned from playing cricket officially with any other
nation because of the apartheid situation and their intolerance of racially mixed squads and the events
that transpired following the Bail D’Oliveira affair. The ban was eventually lifted in 1992 after South
Africa had abolished apartheid and laid down the seeds of racial integration.

7.
 The Old Firm is the collective name for the association football clubs X and Y. Also when they face each
other, the match is termed as the Old Firm Derby.
 The Origin of the term is unclear but may derive from the commercial benefits of the two clubs’ rivalry.
 The two cubs are the most successful in their country, between them having won 97 National League
championships, 68 National Cups and 41 National League Cups.
 Id X and Y

08.
 The game X was popularised in the U.S. after Milton-Bradley released it as a plsdtic board game in the
markets in 1967. X is thought to have its origins in the French game L'Attaque although parallels have
also been drawn to E. I. Horseman's 1890 game Baslinda and it is said that X was played by Russian
officers before World War I.
 The game has spawned electronic versions, video games, smart device apps and a film.
 Laszlo Carreidas and Captain Haddock had a memorable face-off in this game in “Flight-714 to Sydney”.
 Id X

9. NAME ANY 2
 Few variations of the term “Duck” in cricket :
 Golden Duck – Batsmen dismissed on the first ball they face
 Silver Duck – Batsmen dismissed on the second ball they face
 Bronze Duck – Batsmen dismissed on the third ball they face
 _______ Duck – A batsmen dismissed without facing a ball (most usually run out from the non-striker’s
end, but alternatively stumped or run out off a wide delivery)
 ________ Duck - An opening batsmen who is dismissed on the first ball of a team’s innings without facing
a ball.
 ________ Duck – A batsmen who is dismissed for a duck concluding the batting team’s innings

DIAMOND DUCK, TITANIUM DUCK AND LAUGHING
DUCK

10.
 X’s incredible form led to one of Y’s fan, Sean Kennedy, immortalizing him in song with a YouTube clip
which has been viewed more than 3,840,000 times. It soon went viral across social media, managing to
reach No 7 in the iTunes UK Top 100 chart. The song also spread to France for Euro 2016, with fans from
many of the other 23 competing nations getting involved with the catchy tune.
 Hamburg fans were so impressed that they started a petition to sign the forward in a bid to 'finally bring
proper atmosphere to the stadium'. The petition, which was posted on www.openpetition.de, stated:
 ‘X has a market value of €1.5m.The striker enjoys an international reputation and would probably [pay
for himself] several times over through merchandising. 'It also claimed that he would be a cult hero for
'the club, and the city' and that 'the HSV fans need a player like X”. More than 5,000 German supporters
backed the signing of X in order to make his song their own, but a move to the Bundesliga failed to
materialize.
 Id X and Y

11.
 One of the most well known Olympic tradition, parade of nations has been a mainstay feature of
Olympic opening ceremonies since the 1908 London Games.
 Under the games’ precise protocol, Greece always marches first (in a nod to its status as the first nation
to ever hold both the modern and ancient versions of the Olympics). The host country always goes
last. For the rest, the parade follows alphabetical order.
 But, alphabetical order in which language?

NATIONAL LANGUAGE OF THE HOST COUNTRY

12.
 X and Y fought for domination in women’s tennis in the 70s and the 80s and their rivalry is widely
considered to be the greatest tennis rivalry of all time. No two athletes have met in as many matches or
world championships as X and Y. While Ali fought Frazier all of 3 times and Nadal has faced Federer a
total of 38 times as of this moment, X and Y met on the tennis court 80 times over the course of 16
years.
 X was the stoic "Ice Maiden ," whose errorless, accurate ground strokes made X virtually unbeatable until
Y came along. X's personality and consistent backcourt game were countered perfectly by the
emotional, powerful Y, whose aggressive serve-and-volley game dominated women’s tennis for a
decade.
 Fierce rivals on court, their strong friendship off court was the hallmark of their rivalry. Identify X and Y.

X – CHRIS EVERT, Y – MARTINA NAVRATILOVA

13.
 _____ ___ is an American athlete. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she became the youngest woman to win
an Olympic snowboarding medal when she won gold in the women’s snowboard halfpipe at the age of
17 years. She is a four-time X Games gold medalist and the first woman to win two gold medals in
snowboarding at the Winter Youth Olympic Games.
 Incredibly, only age restrictions stopped the young snowboarder participating at the last Winter Games,
four years ago in Sochi. She was only thirteen years old then. Team USA coaches estimate that _____ ___
was among the world's top three halfpipe competitors, even then.
 Now, with the benefit of hindsight, she acknowledges the ruling was in place for a reason. "I think I was a
little bummed out then, but now that I look back at it, I think I'm kind of glad that I wasn't old enough to
go last time," Kim reflects. "It's too much stress for a 13-year-old, so I'm actually really happy that I
wasn't able to go. “
 Name her

14.
Sachin Tendulkar was one of the first to adorn the tri color on his helmet. He was panned by sections of
media and a number of activists for disrespecting the flag. He was asked by the Home Ministry to explain
his actions. People were particularly angry because Sachin had used the flag in a particular manner
which was considered disrespectful.
Sachin, being the non-controversial person he is, promptly had it removed. But later on, he again begin
using the tri color on his helmet with the necessary adjustments so that it would be deemed acceptable.
This second version is now used by most of the Indian players. So what was the adjustment that Sachin
made so that he would be allowed to use the tri color on his helmet without courting controversy ?

SHIFTED THE TRI COLOUR ABOVE THE BCCI LOGO
ON THE HELMET
 Earlier Sachin used to wear the tri colour below the BCCI logo. He was hence criticised by many and was
summoned by the Home Ministry to explain his actions. Later on he tweaked his helmet with the tri
colour above the BCCI logo.

15.
 Voiceover by whom?
 Also what award did it win recently?

KOBE BRYANT
ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM (2018)

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