4. It was the last Olympics to issue solid gold medals. Japan
became the first Asian nation to have participated in this
Games. It was the only city which gave bid for the games.
The games were the first to have art competitions and
the first to feature the decathlon and pentathlon both
won by Jim Thorpe, women's diving and women's
swimming. Electric timing was introduced in athletics.
Which Olympics am I talking about?
8. This American swimmer was one of the most decorated
Olympians in history, winning 12 medals, including 8 gold
medals (all relay), from 1992 to 2004 Summer Olympics
the most for any female Olympic swimmer in history. At
age 31, she was the oldest member of the 2004 U.S.
Swimming and Diving team, competing in her fourth
Olympics in Athens. She was named by the Swimming
World magazine as the Female World Swimmer of the
Year in 1998. Name this great swimmer.
10. After her success in the Women’s 1500 mt. race
in Barcelona Games, Queen Noor of Jordan
wrote to her‐“Your victory in Barcelona is a
victory for all Arab women. It gives hope for the
progress of the Arab women”. Who is this
athlete?
12. This is a French term means ‐ ‘To rescue’. This
word is applied in sports like ‐ Judo, Taekwondo,
Rowing, Canoeing, Kayaking, Cycling etc. What is
the term ?
13.
14. What was ‘Mickey Cricket’, launched
Mickey Cricket
during the 2012 IPL ?
18. This Russian gymnast held the record for men for the
most Olympic medals at 15 (7 gold, 5 silver, 3 bronze)
until Michael Phelps surpassed him at the Beijing
Summer Olympics. He is the third athlete (male or
female) in cumulative Olympic medals after Michael
Phelps and Larisa Latynina. He took the Olympic Oath for
athletes at the Moscow Olympics. He married another
famous Soviet gymnast two time Olympic champion
gymnast, two‐time
Lyubov Burda. Name this legendary gymnast.
28. This Russian athlete was the president of the
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Ukrainian Olympic Committee and the Ukrainian
Minister for Youth and Sports. In 1972 he won
both the 100 m and 200 m sprint events at the
Munich Games. Identify him.
32. In the Seoul Olympics, he beat the hot favourite
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Matt Biondi by 1/100th of a second in the men’s
100mt. butterfly final and thus won his country’s
first ever gold in Olympics. Can you identify him?
36. This American athlete was the four‐time Olympic
Champion in his sport. He was the first track and
field athlete to win a gold medal in the same
individual event in four consecutive Olympics. He
carried the Olympic flag in the 1984 Olympics
and then carried Olympic flame into the stadium
in the
i th 1996 Ol Olympics. Wh i thi l
i Who is this legendary
d
athlete?
38. He was widely known as 'Pocket Dynamo'. The
principal of Kolhapur's Rajaram College Mr
College, Mr.
Khardekar, mortgaged his house for a sum of Rs.
7,000 to pay for his travelling cost. Local
shopkeepers from his village presented him with
groceries and other items of use. Delhi have a
stadium named after him. Name this Olympian.
42. What is the ‘Liberty Bell Classic’ associated with
Liberty Classic
the Olympic Games?
43. Olympic Boycott Games.
An event held in Philadelphia in 1980,
participated b th 29 b
ti i t d by the boycotting countries of
tti ti f
the American‐led boycott of the 1980 Moscow
Olympics.
Olympics
44. In the Montreal Games, Taro Aso was a member
,
of the Japanese shooting team. 32 years later, he
achieved something very special. What was his
claim to fame in 2008?
46. He is the only male player to have won both the
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singles and doubles gold medals in the same
Olympic Games. Identify this tennis player.
47.
48. It is one of the oldest names on the F‐1 grid.
Between 1962 and 1978 it won six drivers’
championships and seven constructors’ titles.
Automobile designer, engineer and racer Colin
Chapman was the founder of this company. Can
you name this F‐1 team?
52. This company was established in 1911. It
originally started by making clothing The
clothing.
company's primary product was originally
underwear, before moving into sportswear in the
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1970s. Now it is owned and operated from South
Korea since a takeover in 2007. Name this
company.
56. This map shows the participating countries of
which world famous sporting event?
57.
58.
59. He was the member of three Olympic gold medal winning
teams, in London (1948), Helsinki (1952) and Melbourne
, ( ), ( )
(1956). He lit the Sacred Flame at the Asian Games 1982
held at New Delhi. In 2006, he was named the Best Sikh
Hockey Player of All Times Also in a poll conducted in
Times. Also,
the year 1982 he was adjudged to be the Player of the
Century. Identify this legendary hockey player.
61. This super heavyweight weightlifter weighing
160 kg. won the 1972 and 1976 Olympics golds.
He had set 80world records and 81 Soviet Union
records. Sports Illustrated (issue date: April 14,
1975) termed him “The world’s Strongest man”
him‐“The man”.
Who is this Olympian ?
65. In 1960’s Olympics, he became the first non‐
American since Canadian Percy Williams in1928
to win the Olympic 100 metres. He was also one
of the first track stars to be affected by the
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rivalry between Adidas and Puma. Can you name
this sprinter?
67. During the inaugural edition of IPL he had played
for Mumbai Indians and represented the Deccan
Chargers side i th next t
Ch id in the t two seasons. H was
He
roped in after the Aussie pacer Mitchell Johnson
failed to recover from a toe injury and ruled out
from this edition. Can you identify this player?
73. After the successes in the Mexico Olympics, this
athlete enrolled his name in the NFL for Miami
Dolphins. Unfortunately, he did not have the
football skills to match his speed and spent on
the practice squad He was given the nickname
squad.
"Oops" due to his lack of football skill. Who is
this athlete?
75. He once opened the attack for Warwickshire He
Warwickshire.
has worked with some of the biggest names in
sports, from Sir Viv Richards to Greg Norman to
Brian Lara. He has interviewed Dhoni, Dravid
and Laxman for his book ‘Think Like a
Champion’. Can you identify this legend?
77. He
H was th ti k
the timekeeper f R
for Roger BBannister's
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historic four‐minute mile. This British athlete
was the Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100
metres sprint, which was depicted in the 1981
movie Chariots of Fire. His younger brother Sir
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Sidney ………… was also a British Olympic long
jumper. Who is this legendary figure?
83. This American athlete was the first to run
under 11 seconds in an Olympic Games As a 19‐
Games.
year‐old, she finished 5th in the 100 mt. event
at the 1976 Olympics. At the 1988 Olympics, she
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was the flag bearer for the United States team
at the Opening Ceremony. Name this sprinter.
85. John Ian Wing, the British resident of Chinese
descent was a 17 year old apprentice carpenter
in Australia. I 1956 j
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days b f
before the closing
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ceremony of the Games, he wrote an
anonymous letter to the IOC which created a
new tradition and brought global unity. What
was his claim to fame?
87. This influential athlete
revolutionized one of the
techniques which adopted by
almost all athlete of his event
today. At the 1968 Olympics,
he took the gold medal and set
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a new Olympic record,
displaying the potential of the
new technique Who is this
technique.
legend?
94. She won Olympic medals at the Summer and
Sh Ol i d l t th S d
Winter Olympics in the same year. She adds
cycling silver to the speed skating gold she won
earlier in the Winter Olympics in Calgary.
98. This Belarusian and former Soviet gymnast was
arguably the greatest male gymnast of all time.
He is the only male gymnast ever to have won a
world title on all 8 events. At the 1992 Olympics,
he won 6 of 8 events more than any other
gymnast in Olympic history and became the most
successful athlete at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
104. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson
London
He received the flag from Mayor of Beijing Guo
Jinlong, which was entitled "From London, 'With
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a whole Lotta love”.
120. Ben Johnson.
All of their gold medals were stripped in 1988 Olympics.
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They are‐ Angell Guenchev (weight‐lifting, 1988, Bulgaria,
67.5 kg. category), Mitko Grablev (weight‐lifting,
Bulgaria, 56 kg. category), Andor Szanyi (weightlifting,
Hungary, 100 kg category) and Ben Johnson (100 mt.
race, Canada).
race Canada)
122. All of them accomplished a ‘The Career Boxed
Set’ or ‘Grand Slam Boxed Set’ in‐women’s
singles, women's d bl and mixed d bl
i l ' doubles d i d doubles.
The Career Boxed set is winning the same set of
all possible grand slam titles over the course of
an entire career.
The players are‐ Doris Hart (1 time), Margaret
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Court (2 times) and Martina Navratilova (1 time).
128. Mo Farah, the Somalia born‐British athlete adopted the move
following a television appearance in May 2012 opposite sports
presenter Clare Balding in the show ‘A League of Their Own’. The
host of the show suggested to the panelists that they should think of
a new dance to mark Farah's winning celebration and Balding
Farah s
subsequently came up with the "Mobot". While demonstrating it for
the first time, she indicated that the part of the move intended to
represent the "M" in "Mo" was inspired by the dance of "Y.M.C.A.",
a popular song by the Village People.
129. Connect th
C t these i
images with a t
ith tennis personality.
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130. Paul Annacone.
He was the coach of both Sampras and Federer
when they surpassed Roy Emerson and Pete
Sampras in 2000 and 2012’s Wimbledon.
136. Euro Cup Football‐2012.
1) Henri Delaunay (founder of the European Cup football
H iD l (f d f h E C f b ll
tournament & the trophy is named after him), 2) Spain
(the winner of 2012), 3) Logo of the 1978 FIFA World Cup
(‘Adidas Tango 12’ is the official match ball of this
tournament which was first used in the 1978 FIFA World
Cup) 4) Wycinanki (a Polish version of the art form of
paper cutting)
140. This American took part in the 1976
Summer Olympics in Montreal at
16. In the Los Angeles Olympics,
with record scores and leads over
his opponents, he won gold medals
in two events. In his autobiography‐
‘Breaking the Surface’, he disclosed
‘B ki th S f ’ h di l d
to the world that he was HIV
positive, having been diagnosed a
few months before the Seoul
Games. Who is this Olympian?
144. Before he signed up for F‐1, he was a Royal Australian Air
Force flight mechanic, who also ran a small engineering
workshop. At the Cooper Car racing team, he put his
racing and engineering skills to full use and won the
world titles in 1959 and 1960 In 1962 he established his
1960. 1962,
own racing team after his name with fellow Aussie
friend‐ Ron Tauranac. In 1966, he became the only man
to i the F‐1
t win th F 1 world titl b d i i hi own cars. N
ld title by driving his Name
this legendary F‐1 driver.
148. He was the Indian national champion in 1991 and
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1992 and reached main stage of the 1990 All
England Open Badminton Championships, the
only deaf person to do so. He has won 12 golds
and been singles champion at the Deaflympics
from 1989 to 2001 and was named 'Deaflympian
Deaflympian
of the Century' by the Comité International des
Sports des Sourds (International Committee of
Deaf Sports) in 2001. Identify this player.
152. He was the goalkeeper of the Pak hockey team
and awarded ‘Man of the Match’ in the historic
Delhi Asiad Final against India in 1982 in which
India’s Mir Ranjan Negi conceded 7 goals! Can
you name the Pak keeper?
170. This South African javelin thrower had played
This South African javelin thrower had played
one Women's Test cricket and 17 Women's ODI
matches for South Africa between 2000 and
2002. Then she changed the course of her career
and became a javelin thrower. She went on to
win bronze at the IAAF World Championships in
i b h IAAF W ld Ch i hi i
Daegu, South Korea in 2011. This time she
participated in this Games. Can you name this
participated in this Games Can you name this
athlete?
186. Written Round.
6 questions.
5 points for each correct answer.
All the answers are related to a central theme.
Theme answer can be given after each question
question.
Only one chance will be given for the theme answer.
The point schemes for the theme answer are as follows :
1st: +30/‐25, 2nd: +25/‐20, 3rd: +20/‐15,
30/ 25 25/ 20 20/ 15
4th: +15/‐10, 5th: +10/‐5, 6th: +5
187. This Olympic stadium was d i
Thi Ol i di designed b R
d by‐Roger
Talliber. It was called‐ ‘The Big O’ or ‘The Big
Mistake
Mistake’. In Dec 2006 its cost was finally paid
Dec,
which amounted to $ 1.61 billion. It is the first
stadium which has the retractable roof. It has the
world’s tallest inclined towers measuring 175 mt.
In which city it is situated? or Which Olympic
Games happened here?
188.
189.
190. I was born on 23rd June, 1940 at Tennessee. I was
the 20th of 22 children of my railway porter
father. I was adorably called‐ ‘The Tennessee
Tornado’. The Italians called me‐ ‘The Black
Gazelle’. Identify
G ll ’ Id tif me.
192. Victor Boin of Belgium won silver in water‐polo
in 1908, a bronze in 1912 in team fencing in
1920. Overall he took part in swimming, ice‐
skating, ice‐hockey, flying and motor‐cycling.
Later he went on to become the President of the
Belgian Olympic Committee. What was his claim
to fame in the Antwerp Games?
194. Gosta Lilleiehook of Sweden won the inaugural
event at Stockholm The women’s section was
Stockholm. women s
started in 2000. This event has happened for the
last time in the recently concluded London
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Games. Which event I am talking about?
196. When he was 16, he began working in a Bata
shoe f
h factory. He i the only Olympic athlete
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whose statue appears at the Musée Olympique,
Lausanne.
Lausanne Name this Olympic legend
legend.
200. 1) The 2004 Olympics at Athens.
2) Brazilian beach volleyball player Emanuel Rego
(He
(H won the gold medal at the 2004 Ol
h ld d l h Olympics
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who wanted to give his gold medal to him).
3) Cornelius Horan (this defrocked Irish priest
stopped him in the Athens Olympics Marathon
while he was leading convincingly).
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201.
202. 1. The Olympic Stadium of Montreal –‘Francis: Le Stade
1 ‘Francis:
d’Olympique’ is located at the 4549 Baron Pierre de
Coubertin Avenue, Quebec, Canada.
2. Wilma Rudolph was born on 23rd June, 1940. The IOC
was created by Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on 23rd
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June, 1894.
3.
3 The ‘Athlete’s Oath’ in Olympics was written by
Athlete s Oath
Coubertin.
203. 4. The format of Modern Pentathlon was designed by
Coubertin.
5. Emil Zátopek was later awarded the ‘Baron Pierre de
Coubertin Medal’ for his achievement in Olympics.
6. Vanderlei de Lima was awarded the ‘Baron Pierre de
Coubertin Medal’ for sportsmanship for that race.
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