1. Danish | Manan| Pranjal | Siddhartha

2. No mobile phones Quizmasters’ discretion final
Ask a stupid question and we’ll give you a stupid answer

3. modified infinite bounce-I
12 questions | 10 points flat | clockwise

4. The Magnus effect is the phenomenon whereby a
spinning object flying in a fluid creates a whirlpool of
fluid around itself, and experiences a force
perpendicular to the line of motion. The overall
behaviour is similar to that around an aerofoil with
a circulation which is generated by the mechanical
rotation, rather than by aerofoil action. Connect this
with the gentleman in the photograph below.
The Magnus Effect
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5. Below is a photograph of Amelie Mauresmo with a special trophy given
to her at a tournament. The trophy is a golden tennis racquet studded
with diamonds and is worth over a million Euros and is given to any
player who wins the tournament three times in five years. Give me the
name of the tournament.
If no team has the answer, I am prepared to accept the city where the
tournament takes place.
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6. X is a Czech long distance runner best known for winning three gold
medals at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. He was nicknamed the "Czech
Locomotive" for his multiple golds.
X's wife Y, was an outstanding javelin thrower. She won the gold medal
in the javelin in the 1952 Olympics, only a few moments after X's victory
in the 5km run.
An example of the playful relationship between husband and wife came
when X attempted to take some credit for his wife's Olympic victory at
her press conference, claiming that it was his victory in the 5 km run
that had "inspired" her. Y's indignant response was, "Really? Okay, go
inspire some other girl and see if she throws a javelin fifty meters!“
Identify this famous sporting couple.
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8. ―They said I was afraid of heights. But I was doing
60 jumps a day then, which is hardly something
someone who was afraid of heights would do.‖
... But was he afraid of jumping?
―Of course I was. There was always a chance that
my next jump would be my last. A big chance.‖
—The Guardian, 3 September 2007
Who are we talking about?
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10. This is from Asterix In Belgium. Identify the person being
caricatured.
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12. By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April‘s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And ____________________________.
The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set to-day a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those spirits dare,
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
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13. X was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After dropping out of Kent
State University, he ran an illegal bookmaking operation,
and was charged for killing two men in separate incidents
13 years apart. The first was determined to be justifiable
homicide after it was found that X shot Hillary Brown in the
back and killed him while he was attempting to rob one of
X's gambling houses. X was convicted of second degree
murder for the second killing in 1966 after he was found
guilty of stomping to death an employee, Sam Garrett, who
owed him $600. In an ex parte meeting with X's attorney,
the judge reduced X's conviction to no negligent
manslaughter for which X served just under four years in
prison. X please.
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14. I have 17 Grand Slam singles titles, 13 year end singles
championships, 18 Grand Slam doubles titles and 8 year
end doubles championships. I played basketball before
taking tennis up fulltime. I hold a world record for the
number of consecutive wins in tennis at 401 and have won
the Laureus Award twice. (nominated five times). I have
also posed nude for ESPN: The Magazine‘s annual body
issue. Who am I?
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15. "Secrets are incredibly isolating and exhausting," says X,
who came out of the closet and revealed his medical secret
in his 1995 memoir Breaking the Surface. About the book,
he said, "It's just telling my story really. I want to be
remembered as strong and graceful, but as a person, I want
to be remembered as someone who made a difference."
Battling depression and addiction, X—who endured a
relationship with an abusive partner (who died of AIDS-
related illness in 1990)—stole his dad's pain pills after his
death in 1991 and went to rehab a few years later after a
severe infection in his colon left him hooked on meds. X
please.
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16. long visual connect
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26. who am i?
8 questions | 3 clues per person | points as on slides

27. +20/ -10 | +10/-5 | +5/0
The _______ Hour is an American talk show hosted by me.
The series aired in syndication from June to September
1998.
Soon after its debut, the series was panned by critics citing
My apparent nervousness as a host, my overly
complimentary tone with celebrity guests, and lack of
chemistry with my sidekick, comedian Craig Shoemaker. I
later blamed the demise of my talk show on a lack of
support from African American celebrities who refused or
could not appear on my show. I claimed, "Their managers
and agents keep them off of the black shows."
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28. +20/ -10 | +10/-5 | +5/0
I was first dubbed ________ as a 15-year-old sophomore
playing for Lansing's Everett High School, when I recorded
a triple-double of 36 points, 18 rebounds and
16 assists. After the game, Fred Stabley Jr., a sports writer
for the Lansing State Journal, gave me the moniker despite
the belief of my mother, a Christian, that the name was
sacrilegious.
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My career achievements include three NBA MVP Awards,
nine NBA Finals appearances, twelve All-Star games, and
ten All-NBA First and Second Team nominations. I led the
league in regular-season assists four times, and am the
NBA's all-time leader in assists per game, with an average of
11.2. I was a member of the "Dream Team", the U.S.
basketball team that won the Olympic gold medal in 1992. I
was honoured as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA
History in 1996, and enshrined in the Basketball Hall of
Fame in 2002. I was rated the greatest NBA point guard of all
time by ESPN in 2007.
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30. +20/ -10 | +10/-5 | +5/0
In 1969, I captained the Western Australian State under 19
cricket team before going on to play A-grade Club cricket
for West Perth (1969–70, 1976–82) and University Cricket
Club (1970–76). I played in 47 first-class matches
for Western Australia from 1972 until 1979, making 2,327
runs at an average of 30.22. I was a member of Sheffield
Shield winning teams in 1972-73, 1976–77, 1977–78, and
was a squad member in the winning season of 1974-75.
Post retirement, I was the high performance manager of
the New Zealand cricket team.
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I played in and captained the Western Australia hockey
team and the Australia men's field hockey team
the Kookaburras. I was selected to represent Australia in
five Olympic hockey teams, 1972, 1976, 1980 (captain)
(Moscow Olympics were boycotted), 1984 (captain), and
1988, winning Silver at the 1976, Montreal Olympic Games.
I was a member of the national team which competed in
various other international tournaments including winning
the World Hockey Cup in London in 1986. I retired from
playing after representing Australia at the 1988 Olympics in
Seoul. I played 227 games for my country.
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32. +20/ -10 | +10/-5 | +5/0
You‘ve probably heard of me because I was selected to act as an advisor to the
newly formed hockey selection committee formed by the Indian Olympic
Association. I later resigned due to several issues related to red tape in India and
my fees. Post resignation, I coached the Australian men's national hockey team to
victory at the Hockey World Cup, the Champions Trophy and the Commonwealth
Games.
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33. +20/ -10 | +10/-5 | +5/0
I scored 1 run (out of a total of 268-3) for the MCC
against Germany in 1992. After the match I said
something that would later end up being one of my
most famous quotes, ―I always score one
against the Germans‖.
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34. +20/ -10 | +10/-5 | +5/0
Gremlin Sports has three 8-bit football video games named after me. I also
lent my voice to EA Sports‘ World Cup ‗98. In 2001, I was approached to
front the LMA Manager series on PlayStation. I paired up with Alan
Hansen to voice the post match comments on the game. Since then the
game has sold millions of copies and in LMA Manager 2006, I voice news
items and the cup draws on the game. In 2004 I was also chosen to front
the Codemasters England International Football game, with me voicing the
team selection and the pre- and post-match menus.
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35. +20/ -10 | +10/-5 | +5/0
I made my England debut in 1984 and over the following eight years
earned 80 caps and scored 48 goals, finishing as England's all-time
second highest scorer behind Bobby Charlton. My international goals-to-
games ratio remains one of the best for the country and I am regarded as
one of the all-time best English strikers. I was top scorer in the 1986
World Cup and received the Golden Boot, the only time an Englishman
has achieved this feat. I remain England's top scorer in the FIFA World
Cup finals, with 10 goals.
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36. +20/ -10 | +10/-5 | +5/0
My father was a Labour minister, and a Member of Parliament for both
the Conservative and Labour parties in the 1920s. His first wife died in
1933, and in 1936 he married my mother, in a ceremony in Germany
attended by Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler. I was born in London in
April 1940 during the early stages of the Second World War. My parents
were arrested for being fascists and my brother and I were separated
from our parents for the first few years of our lives. In December 1940,
then-prime minister Winston Churchill, who knew my mother socially,
asked Home Secretary Herbert Morrison to ensure my mother was able
to see me—whom she had christened the Entschlossener (the
determined one)—regularly.
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37. +20/ -10 | +10/-5 | +5/0
While I was at University, my wife was given tickets to a motor race at
the Silverstone circuit. The circuit was not far from Oxford, and we went
out of curiosity. I was attracted by the sport, and when my career as a
barrister was bringing in sufficient money, I started racing cars myself.
The sport's indifference to my background appealed to me. I once said :
“There was always a certain amount of trouble [being the son of Sir
Oswald] until I came into motor racing. And in one of the first races I ever
took part in there was a list of people when they put the practice times
[...] and I heard somebody say, „Y, XY, he must be some relation of Alf Y,
the coachbuilder.' And I thought to myself, 'I've found a world where they
don't know about Oswald Y.' And it has always been a bit like that in
motor racing: nobody gives a darn.”
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In 1969, after two large accidents to my Lotus car, I decided that I was
never going to be world champion, so I got into administration
instead.
In a press conference in 2004, I said, "I went to his funeral because
everyone went to Senna's. I thought it was important that somebody
went to his."
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39. +20/ -10 | +10/-5 | +5/0
As a prodigious teenager, I became known for my attacking
playing style. As I matured, I found that this risky playing
style was not as well suited against the top players in the
world. In the early to mid 2000s I was struggling against
more experienced players, and had trouble getting much out
of how I began. To progress, I became a more universal
player, capable of handling all sorts of situations well.
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At the age of 19 years, 32 days I became the
youngest player in history to be ranked world number
one in my sport.
My performance at the September–October
2009 Nanjing Pearl Spring tournament has been
described as one of the greatest in history.
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41. +20/ -10 | +10/-5 | +5/0
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My major contribution in academic medicine was in
the field of autonomic failure, an area
of neurology focusing on illnesses characterised by
certain automatic responses of the nervous system
(for example, elevated heart rate when standing up)
not occurring.
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For my efforts, I was knighted and was also made
the inaugural recipient of the Sports
Illustrated Sportsman of the Year award in 1955 (I
was given the award as the 1954 Sportsman of the
Year but it was awarded in January, 1955) and am
one of the few non-Americans recognised by the
American-published magazine as such.
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44. +20/ -10 | +10/-5 | +5/0
This commemoration on a British fifty pence coin was done on the 50th
anniversary of the achievement you know me for.
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My debut at Lord's was disastrous, but my next two Tests
won me notice. In the final Test against Australia in 1959/60
at Calcutta, I went into bat towards the end of the day and
finished on 20* on the second. I started my second innings
just before close on third, batted throughout the fourth
scoring only 59 runs and was out on the final day for 74.
This made me the first batsman to bat on all five days of a
Test match. At Kanpur against Pakistan two years later, I
batted through a whole day for just 49 runs, a world record.
This innings which lasted 505 minutes for 99 runs ironically
ended when I attempted a quick single to complete the
hundred.
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I led Hyderabad for 16 seasons and 76 matches. Mansur
Ali Khan Pataudi often played under my leadership. I was
a selector between 1977/78 and 1980/81, and managed
the Indian tour to Sri Lanka in 1985/86. MCC made me a
life member in 1978. I was also a TV commentator for
some time.
I also hold the world record for opening both the batting
and bowling in most consecutive Tests.
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My blood took seven litres of oxygen around my body per
minute, compared to 3-4 litres for an ordinary person and 5-6
litres for fellow sportspersons. My cardiac output is 50 litres a
minute; a fit amateur‘s in my sport is about 25 litres. My lung
capacity was 7.8 litres, compared to an average of 6 litres.
My resting pulse was as low as 28 BPM, compared to an
average 60-72 BPM, which meant my heart would be less
strained in tough conditions.
All of this gave me an advantage I exploited fully by being
regarded widely as one of the greatest my sport has ever
seen.
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49. +20/ -10 | +10/-5 | +5/0
In 2000, I was voted Spain's sportsman of the 20th century.
Andy Hood wrote of me :
He was a man difficult to know. He was modest and quiet,
"governing his troops without ever being demanding.” A
Spaniard journalist frustrated that he could find nothing
interesting about him, asked "I wonder if his wife knows who
this man is who sleeps beside her.” A team-mate, Jean-
François Bernard said: "When he comes down for his meal,
you don't even hear him move his chair."
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51. modified infinite bounce-II
12 questions | 10 points flat | anti-clockwise

52. X was one of the greatest all-rounders in the true sense. He
captained England at cricket, played for England in football and
equaled the world long-jump record. Away from sport he was offered
the Kingship of Albania, he represented India at the League of
Nations, and Hitler consulted him when he was developing the Youth
Program in Germany.
John Arlott summed him up thus: ―X could be autocratic, angry and
self-willed: he was also magnanimous, extravagant, generous,
elegant, brilliant - and fun [...] he was probably the most variously
gifted Englishman of any age.‖ Neville Cardus wrote that he was "a
national gallery and a theatre and a forum".
Identify this English polymath, who has over 30000 runs and 90
centuries at an average of over 50 in first-class cricket.
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53. X: Well, it was during the war and my husband was at Fort Reilly,
Kansas...It was the middle of winter, and I was walking my big police
dog, Sultan. A little dog came barking wildly out of a house and grabbed
my dog by the throat. Those little fox terriers have no sense. They‘re
just wild. So my poor dog was being chewed to pieces and wasn‘t able
to respond. But I wasn‘t going to have a dogfight under my feet so I let
go of his collar. And then Sultan took this little dog and shook him,
which he deserved. But in the fight, my index finger on my right hand
was bitten...
William Simon: By the terrier?
X: I don't know. Fury! Wild, stupid animal! But my poor old finger, the
finger next to the thumb. The thumb is very important in tennis. So that
was the end of my career. I couldn‘t manage. I never mentioned this
before to anyone.
Who‘s X?
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55. ―It‘s about time that somebody else takes the throne. And I‘m very
happy for him. I really, truly am...I was working with a corporate
sponsor who elected not to bring their contingent, and they piled on
more work for me here in the United States, which was great. So I
wasn't able watch X in the first couple of days. And they thought, some
of these reporters, that I was supposed to be invited by some entity,
and I told them that that wasn't really the case, that doesn't happen that
way. And so, I'm sort of disappointed that I wasn't there, but, you know,
that interview somehow took a different turn, and I've done hundreds
and hundreds of them and I've been true to form about the way I feel
about X, and he's doing a great job for the United States and inspiring a
lot of great performances by the other team members.‖ Who is the
speaker?
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56. The following anecdote is told (even by X himself) to explain the
origin: On the occasion of a friendly game of his club
in Vienna, Austria, X posed for a photo session right beside a bust
of the former Austrian emperor Joseph I. The media called
him Fußball-_____ afterwards, soon after he was just
called ______. However, according to a report a newspaper of his
country, this explanation is untrue, though very popular.
According to the report, X fouled his opposite number, Reinhard
Libuda in the cup final. Disregarding the fans' hooting, X took the
ball into the opposite part of the field, where he balanced the ball
in front of the upset fans for half a minute. Libuda was commonly
called König von Westfalen (king of Westphalia), so the press
looked for an even more exalted moniker and invented _______.
All three blanks are the same. (well, almost) Fill them in.
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57. Shown above is a photograph of a stadium that was, at the time of its
opening, called the “eighth wonder of the world”. What, used here for
the first time in a well publicized game in 1966, is named after the
stadium and is now used in hundreds of sports stadia worldwide?
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59. The tune whistled by the English troops in the movie The Bridge on the
River Kwai is called Colonel _____ March, supposedly named after a
military man who whistled a characteristic two-note phrase (a
descending minor third interval) instead of shouting "Fore!". It is this
descending interval which begins each line of the melody.
The name "Colonel _____" began in the later 19th century as the
imaginary "standard opponent" of the Colonel ______ scoring system,
and by Edwardian times the Colonel had been adopted by a sport as the
presiding spirit of where it is played. Edwardian sportspersons in North
America often played matches against "Colonel _____". _______ is now
a generic term in the sport, the meaning of which can be inferred from
the above.
All the blanks are the same. Give me a one word answer that fits.
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60. Easy one. Who?
1927–1940 Internazionale 348 (245)
1940–1942 Milan 37 (9)
1942–1943 Juventus 27 (10)
1944 Varese 20 (7)
1945–1946 Atalanta 14 (2)
1946–1947 Internazionale 17 (2)
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62. Who is this guy?
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63. X is depicted, but not named, by Vladimir Nabokov in his
novel Lolita. He appears as a has-been tennis champion with
"a harem of ball boys", whom Humbert Humbert hires to coach
Lolita, knowing that he will not try to seduce her due to
his homosexuality. In retrospect, Nabokov told Alfred Appel,
who was editing an annotated version of Lolita, that his
anonymous tennis coach was a real person who had won
three Wimbledon championships. The name of Nabokov's
character is Ned Litam.
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64. picking round
8 questions | 9 options

66. Stadia such as the MCG frequently use ‗drop-in
pitches‘, pitches that are made outside and
‗dropped-in‘ before a match. This is more
familiar in countries like New Zealand than in
countries like India.
Why were drop-in pitches first used?

67. What name has the press given this bunch? Exact answers, please.

68. X created controversy by twice using the gesture to salute
Lazio fans, first in a match against arch rivals A.S.
Roma and then against A.S. Livorno Calcio. X received a
one match game ban after the second event and was fined
€7,000, after which he was quoted as saying "I will always
salute as I did because it gives me a sense of belonging to
my people..I saluted my people with what for me is a sign
of belonging to a group that holds true values, values of
civility against the standardisation that this society imposes
upon us." His salute has been featured on unofficial
merchandise sold outside Stadio Olimpico after the ban.

69. His father, who died when he was 13, represented India in 1936 at
the Berlin Olympics and made his wife promise that if they ever had
a son, she would bring him up to be a hockey player. He went on to
represent India in the 1972 Olympics at Munich, when India won the
Bronze Medal. He was also instrumental in helping India win her
only Hockey World Cup title in 1975.
Post retirement, he has been a Congress Member of Parliament and
a Union Minister. In December 1997, he joined BJP but resigned
from the party on 27 January 1999. He currently heads the
committee that organizes hockey in India.
He has authored an autobiography, To Hell with Hockey.
Who am I talking about?

70. Connect

71. Of what, which originally took place to commemorate the event
depicted in the painting above, is Haile Gebrselassie the world
champion of?

72. In 2002, Channel 4 unveiled a list of the 100 greatest
sporting moments. Which moment topped the list?
5 Ian Botham's Headingley heroics
Manchester Utd's Champions
4
League Final comeback
3 England win the 1966 World Cup
2 Germany 1 England 5

73. X was created as an honorific title by the AIACR, the FIA's predecessor
in the organisation of motor racing events. The title was first received in
1923 After a hiatus in 1929, ______ received the last honorific title of
the pre-WWII years, in 1930.
The title was revived by the FIA after World War II, and was first given in
1947, and was given until 1977, the last to receive the honorific title.
The modern event was initially created as a stopgap. In 1983, the
Formula One schedule originally featured a race near Flushing
Meadows Park in New York. When the race was cancelled three months
before the event, track organizers at Brands Hatch were able to create
X at the track in its place. The success of the event, buoyed by a
spirited battle for the World Championship, led to the event returning on
the schedule the following year.

74. Modern chess matches are timed, but this wasn‘t
always the case. In the event that a match had to
be continued the following day, the player who
played first had an advantage because he had an
entire night to think of his next move. How was this
problem circumscribed?