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1. SPORTS QUIZ
PRELIMS
The NSIT Quiz Club

2. 1. Rafael Nadal did this in 2008 and 2010 in the
French Open. So did Bjorn Borg in 1978 and 1980
and Illie Nastase in 1973.
Roger Federer and Ken Rosewall did this in 2007
and 1971 respectively in the Australian Open
Only Bjorn Borg has done this in Wimbledon
Nobody has done this in the US open
Too many such instances in women's tennis
What?

3. ANSWER

4. Won a grand slam without
dropping a single set in the
tournament

5. 2.* Not all discontinued sports appeared only in the
earliest Olympic Games. This individual event
was featured in three Games in 1984 (Los
Angeles), 1988 (Seoul) and 1992
(Barcelona), during which period the
USA, Canada and Japan were the only countries
to win medals. This event is a sub category of a
particular event and the other sub categories still
happen today.
Which discontinued event?

6. ANSWER

7. Solo Synchronized Swimming

8. 3. What famous event is being portrayed here?

9. ANSWER

10. Roger Bannister’s sub 4 minute mile

11. 4. Connect (inexhaustive)

12. ANSWER

13. Formula 1 drivers whose fathers
were also Formula 1 drivers

14. 5.
The following is a ranking system developed
by X.
Shodan, Nidan, Sandan, Yondan, Godan, Rok
udan, Nanadan, Hachidan, Kyudan, Judan.
What is this a ranking system for and name X.

15. ANSWER

16. Grades of black belts or Dan
Ranking system in martial arts.
Kano Jigoro (the founder of Judo)

17. 6.*
ID. Recently in the news for
the wrong reasons. If
proven guilty, an Indian
would be the beneficiary.
Who and put funda.

18. ANSWER

19. Tatyana Kotova. Anju Bobby
George might become the winner
of the 2005 world championships
in Long Jump

20. In one of the greatest heavyweight boxing fights
7. of all time (in 1941) – Billy Conn vs Joe Louis,
Billy Conn went into the fight saying he wouldn’t
gain any weight for the fight and instead would
adopt a “____ ____ ____” strategy. In response to
this, Joe Louis replied “ __ ___ ___ ___ __ ___’_
____”.
This quote became famous instantly and we still
here it today although in non-sports context as
well.
Later on in his biography, Joe Louis would state
that “Conn was a clever fighter. He was like a
mosquito. He’d sting and move”.
Joe Louis’ response?

21. ANSWER

22. He can run but he can’t hide

23. 8. The home page of which Indian non profit
organization's website?
Also, who is the founder?

24. ANSWER

25. Guns for Glory
Gagan Narang

26. 9.
Their father, Laszlo, was a noted psychologist in
Hungary, and he had a theory that any child
could become a genius with proper
training, and he decided to use his own children
as guinea pigs to prove his theory. The children
were homeschooled by their parents, and they
were resisted by Hungarian authorities as home
schooling wasn’t “socialist”.
What came about as a result of this experiment?

27. ANSWER

28. Polgar sisters and their intensive
training so that they could
become chess prodigies.

29. 10.
Sweden has added the verb X to their national
dictionary.
The Swedish Language Council has approved the
term since it has been increasingly used in
conversation by Swedes referring to an outlandishly
talented action.
The word was originally coined on Les Guignols, a
popular satirical puppet show - from French
station Canal Plus,whose characters were in awe of
the outlandishly talented action.What verb?

30. ANSWER

31. To Zlatan

32. 11.
The French National side, selected
and supported by the French
Cricket Federation,visited the
West Country to play the Old
Blundellian Cricket Club and, two
days later, Castle Cary.for this
trophy on 24th July 2012.Name
the trophy?

33. ANSWER

34. The Olympic Cricket Trophy
The Olympic Games at Paris in 1900
featured cricket for the only time in
olympic history. The final was between
France and an English team drawn from
the West Country including four Old
Blundellians and several Castle Cary
players.This tournament was held in 2012
to commemorate that.

35. 12.
Plaque commemorating what?

36. ANSWER

37. Diego Maradona's goal of the
century commentary by Victor
Hugo Morales

38. 13*
Andrew Anthony is a sports
journalist,and has been
writing for the Observer since
1993 and for the Guardian
since 1990. He is the author of
On Penalties, published by
Yellow Jersey Press and The
Fallout, published by
Jonathan Cape.He is famous
though for a completely
different reason,and that has
nothing to do wth
journalism.Id his claim to
fame.

39. ANSWER

41. 14. The X Trophy is a biennial golf tournament between teams of professional
male golfers representing Great Britain & Ireland and Continental
Europe. It is named after five times major winner X, the most successful
golfer ever from Continental Europe who was one of the key instigators
of the tournament. A sponsorship deal with the French media
conglomerate Vivendi meant that the 2009 was known as The Vivendi
Trophy with X and the 2011 event was the Vivendi X Trophy. Like the
much more established Ryder Cup, which is now played between
teams representing the whole of Europe and the United States, the X
Trophy is a team event played over three or four days, with two or
three days of pairs matches (the precise formats used have varied) and
a concluding set of singles matches on the final day.

42. ANSWER

43. X: Seve Ballesteros

44. 15.
This former Boston Celtics sharp shooting forward (X) was
also known as "The Hick from French Lick“.
The NBA draft eligibility rules were changed to prevent
teams from drafting players before they were ready to sign.
The rule is called the ____X____ Collegiate Rule. X?

45. ANSWER

46. Larry Bird and the Bird Collegiate
Rule

47. 16*
Akin to the customary boxing day test each year in
Australia and South Africa,there was one such
tradition that was part of Indian cricket - the 'X'
hosted in a city Y.An almost forgotten occasion
today, the X used to be played during the four-day
holiday period in that city.
Thirteen such Tests were hosted between 1960 and 1988
with Australia playing the first X and West Indies in
1988 the last.
The city's weather is the best around that time and
offices, schools and colleges remain closed. That was
why they used to play the Test during that time.
Recently,there's been talk of reviving the historic "X
Test".What test?

48. ANSWER

49. X: Pongal Test
City : Chennai/Madras

50. 17.
<video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hslYBv1_TaY>
ID the interviewer.

51. ANSWER

52. Dola Banerjee

53. 18.
<Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2JbRYrmf74>
Ad released in 2004.What is the context?

54. ANSWER

55. Boston Red Sox in the world series
finals in 2004.

56. 19*
<Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Yy1vihIKs
>
Movie about X who is famous for setting an
under-1,000 cc world record, at
Bonneville, 26 August 1967 at the age of 68 years
on a 47 year old machine. He visited the
Bonneville salt flats 10 times, creating world
records on 3 occasions. The afore mentioned
record still stands today.
X?

57. ANSWER

58. Burt Munro
(The world’s fastest Indian)

59. 20. He won gold medals in both the springboard and
platform diving events at 1984, 1988 Olympics.
Posed nude for Playgirl magazine in 1987.
autobiography Breaking the Surface.
Revealed publicly he was gay in 1994, that he was
domestically abused and raped by a live-in lover and
that he was HIV-positive.
His 1988 gold in the springboard event is particularly
famous for his comeback after hitting his head while
diving, yet managing to win comfortably
<Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5nqeFWufrE
>
Who is he?

60. ANSWER

61. Greg Louganis

62. TIE BREAKERS

63. 1. Former Olympic swimmer _____X_____ played
this character in a series of films, and Ron Ely
played him on the short lived television series.
Christopher Lambert has also played the part
on the silver screen. Which popular role
___Y_____ has seen these, as well as other
portrayals?
_____X_____ was probably the actor most
closely associated with the role, and his easily
recognized _____Z_____ was played at his
funeral.

64. 2. X, a Texan, was a prominent
financer, philanthropist and sponsor of
professional sports who was the chairman of
the now defunct X Financial Group of
Companies. He holds a dual citizenship, being
a citizen of Antigua and Barbuda, and USA.
He was knighted in Antigua and Barbuda in
2006, but it was revoked in 2009, when he was
charged by the US Securities and Exchange
Commission with a massive Ponzi Scheme and
fraud to the tune of $ 8 billion.
X?

65. 3. •Mark Cavendish, a favourite for Gold, came 29th in the
cycling event. (London 2012)
•England being beaten by Germany in the 2010 World Cup
•Andy Murray losing to Federer in the Wimbledon finals
•Tom Daley and Peter Waterfield losing out on the gold in
synchronized diving
Twitterati blamed a certain X for these losses, calling it “The
Curse of X”.
X?

66. Answers:

67. • Ans 1:-X:- Johnny Weissmuller
Y:-Tarzan
Z:-Tarzan’s war cry

68. Ans2: Allen Stanford

69. Answer 3: David Cameron