This document contains the questions and answers for a sports quiz. It includes 20 multiple choice and fill in the blank questions about various sports topics like football transfers, tennis matches, cricket injuries, and MMA fights. The questions cover identifying athletes, events, and statistics. It also provides clues, context, and details to help participants answer each question correctly.
2. Prelims
20 Questions
Teams of 3 or less
No negatives. Part points for questions with multiple
answers.
Star marked questions are tie breakers.
Ronaldo > Messi
Nadal > Federer
YNWA
#Filth
7. Q3
Excerpts from an interview given by X defending Y.
“In the heat of the moment you can say stuff that you
regret.
“Even for Z , who very rarely says anything on the
court, there was tension there for him as well.”
X, Y and Z?
8. X – Andy Murray
Y – Kim Sears
Z - Tomas Berdych
9. Q4
The following are audio clips from the David
Letterman show.
ID the superstar guest.
11. Q5
Y’s mother said in her book - “She wouldn’t want to sleep
with X if she wasn’t sure.”
“I believe their relationship was coming to an end. In her
heart of hearts, she didn’t think it was making either of
them happy.”
“Sorry is not about words or paying money, sorry is about
actions. Immediately after _____ he showed no
remorse. He went out partying on numerous occasions.”
Y’s father Barry, 71 – who has suffered two strokes since
– said he and his wife were “satisfied with the result and
are relieved it’s all over”.
ID X & Y.
13. Q6
An incident from a famous football match in 2008.
To make matters worse, X turned his back on Y when
receiving his booking, prompting the official to tell
him: “X, you’re going to get sent off in a minute.
Show me some respect, calm down.”
End result. Just a yellow card.
ID X & Y.
15. Q7*
X (born March 5, 1960) is an American boxing trainer and former boxer.
He is of Irish and French Canadian descent. His one of the best-known
boxing trainers in the world, having been voted Trainer of the Year by the
Boxing Writers Association of America in 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010
and 2013.
He is the boxing coach of former UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-
Pierre, eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao, five-time and four-
division World Champion Miguel Cotto, and former WBC Middleweight
Champion Julio César Chávez, Jr.
X suffers from Parkinson's disease. As chronicled in the HBO series Real
Sports with Bryant Gumbel, he is able to actively control the disease
through medication, injections and his training of boxers. X’s doctors feel
that his active in-ring training routines with his fighters and tremendous
hand-eye coordination that he has to exhibit have made it possible to slow
the progress of the disease.
ID X. Image in the next slide.
18. Q8
Cricket
Player Cause Date Place
Jasper Vinall
Struck on the head by a
bat
28 August 1624 Horsted Keynes
George Summers
Struck on the head by a
ball
29 June 1870 Nottingham
Andy Ducat Heart failure 23 July 1942 London
Abdul Aziz
Struck over the heart by a
ball
17 January 1959 Karachi
Wilf Slack Collapsed while batting 15 January 1989 Banjul
Ian Folley
Heart attack while being
treated in hospital for eye
injury sustained on the
field
30 August 1993 Whitehaven
X Struck on the head by a
ball while fielding
20 February 1998 Dhaka
Wasim Raja
Suffered a heart attack on
the pitch
23 August 2006
Marlow,
Buckinghamshire
Darryn Randall
Struck on the head by a
ball
27 October 2013 Alice, Eastern Cape
Phillip Hughes
Struck on the neck by a
ball
27 November 2014 Sydney
22. Q10
22-year-old X etched his name onto Indian football history by
becoming the first Indian footballer in 79 years to take the field for a
European club playing in the first tier of the country’s football
league structure.
X had been signed by Norwegian Tippeligaen club Stabaek FC
in August 2014, and was handed the first appearance of his
European career in this weekend’s 4-1 victory over Follo
Fotballklubb.
X is the fifth Indian player to play professionally in Europe after
Mohammed Salim, Bhaichung Bhutia, Sunil Chhetri and Subrata
Pal, but only Salim has the recognition of having represented a top-
division club – the barefoot legend from Mohammedan SC had been
signed by Celtic in 1936.
ID X.
26. Q12
X is a 5 time NBA champion
NBA MVP
2X NBA Final’s MVP
17 time all star
3rd in NBA History in points scored
However, on Nov 11 2014, X passed John Havlicek for
_______ and added this not so glorious record to his
resume.
ID X and what is the record being talked about? No part
points for X.
28. Q13
In the other semi-final, Pakistan, with a similar style of play,
succumbed to X. “The unsuitable turf denied the hockey world of
what would have been one of the finest finals ever,” rues Datt.
It rained the night before and drizzled through D-day, August 12. A
worried Indian team watched Pakistan struggle in the third place
play-off before they were to take the field. “We realised that the
grass was so slushy that our Asian style short passes would not
work. We decided to go for aerial passes,” Datt says.
The X knew that the conditions favored them. But the change in
strategy worked so well that the X were confined to their half. India
won 4-0. “We could have scored more if the ground wasn’t so
heavy,” Rajput says, smugly.
What was so special about this victory?
29. Independent India’s first Olympic victory against
Great Britain in the final just a year after
Independence.
30. Q14*
In the 1994 FIFA World Cup Final between Italy and
Brazil, Roberto Baggio missed the last penalty for
Italy.
Which other legend of the game, and a pioneer of his
position, missed the first penalty for the Italians?
He’s one of six players who have won Gold, Silver
and Bronze at the FIFA World Cup.
32. Q15
X uses technology developed in the military for tank
and jet fighter tracking.
The technology was founded by French scientist
Nicholas Bion, before being worked upon by many
companies in Paris and being bought and adopted by
the an Australian network.
The technology was adapted for television by BBG
Sports.
ID X
34. Q16
Brandon Belt crushed a solo home run off Tanner
Roark to give the Giants a 2-1 victory over
the Nationals in Game 2 of the NLDS at Nationals
Park giving them a 2-0 series lead.
The Giants would go on to win their 3rd World Series
in the last 5 years.
However, what was historically remarkable about
this Game 2 win?
35. Longest post season game in MLB history. Lasted for
18 innings, the equivalent of two complete baseball
games.
36. Q17*
The following is an image of Croatia’s medal tally at
the Winter Olympics.
What is special about the blurred names?
38. Q18
This might be the weirdest "injury" that has ever
occurred during an MMA fight. It occurred on Dec
21st 2014.
During a bout, Alan Grays went down after taking a
kick to the head from Jose Johnston. The blow to the
dome was so severe that Grays' ________.
As the video shows, the official—unknowingly—
nearly stepped on the ______. Luckily, the _____
just missed the ref's foot.
FITB.
41. Terminally ill Club Brugge fan Laurenzo
Schoonbaert watched his beloved club win for one
last time, before visiting a euthenasia clinic.
42. Q20
March 8, 2015.
World champion X of Spain staged a remarkable
comeback to win the All-England Championships on
Sunday as Saina Nehwal blew the chance to become
India's first woman winner.
Olympic bronze medallist Nehwal threw away a 6-1
lead in the second before the Spaniard pressed the
throttle to land her first Superseries singles title 16-
21 21-14 21-7.
ID X.