PRELIMS + FINALS

RULES• 23 questions in all• Questions 4, 6, 12, 20, 23 are star-

marked.• Top 8 teams make it to the finals• Participants caught cheating shall be

given a dose of meldonium and reported to the WADA

• QM’s decisions are final and binding

1.Born in 1970 in Brig, a Swiss-German speaking

Alpine town close to the border with Italy, he studied law at Fribourg university, then worked as the secretary general of the International Centre for Sports Studies at the University of Neuchâtel.

He is fluent in Italian, French and German and also knows English, Spanish, and Arabic. He is also a die-hard fan of Inter Milan and has often been seen watching them play at the San Siro.

Simply enough, name him.

Gianni Infantino

2.Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors are

revolutionizing the way basketball is played in a record-breaking 2015-16 season.

On Feb 28, Curry entered the record books for breaking the NBA single-season mark for 3-pointers in a 121-118 overtime victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder as he crossed the 286 mark.

Whose record did he break?

Steph Curry himself!

3.Iconic picture

from whose funeral?

(Picture on the bottom right corner)

Peter Norman

4.The Durkin Opening is a chess opening beginning

with the move 1. _____. It is named for Robert James Durkin of New Jersey.

It is rarely played at high levels as it goes against the basic principles of center control and active development.

While this opening may not get you much activity on the board, it is also named after a highly reactive metal with the atomic number 11.

What is the first move of this opening?

1. Na3 (Sodium!)

5.Made from recycled materials and measuring 340mm by

490mm, they bear the images of the club’s heroes and are made for each home game by a London-based company.

They cost the club £12,000 each time, meaning a total spend of £228,000 for the league campaign – a snip considering their apparent impact that has seen the club exceed all expectations this campaign.

The club’s stadium announcer said, “They were a hit immediately with the kids and the mums but now even the dads have joined in.”

What is being talked about?

The clappers at Leicester City’s home games

6. X, who hails from the Andaman islands, was nine years old

when the devastating 2004 tsunami hit Port Blair and she had to spend over a week stuck in a tree until help arrived.

In October, she clinched five medals at the Taiwan Cup Track International Classic - a record gold in the women's elite sprint category - including a gold, three silver and a bronze.

Then in December she won three medals at the 2015 Track Asia Cup held in New Delhi.

 In January, she created history again by qualifying for the 2016 Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Track Cycling World Championships for the first time in India's history, ahead of South Korea and Japan in the main draw.

Name this rising star from the world of cycling.

Deborah Herold

7.X is a 6’3” pole-vaulter from South Korea and

made his Olympic debut at Athens 2004 at the age of 22.

He participated in the 2012 Games as well and became an internet sensation, despite failing to win a medal.

Buzzfeed wrote about him – “The worst part of being ________ is when people want to cheer for you.”

The athlete’s name please.

Kim Yoo Suk

8.What are these moves called? Both are

named after animals.

Scorpion Kick & Frog Jump

9.This Brazilian is recognized as the greatest player of

his sport.He was adjudged the best player in the world in

2004, 2006, 2011 and 2012. In 2008 and 2012, he helped the Brazilian National Team win their 4th and 5th title in the World Cup, and was awarded the trophy for the player of the tournament on both occasions.

He has also scored 339 goals in 201 appearances for the Brazil national team.

Name this sporting great, who shares his name with the only player to win consecutive UEFA Europa League titles with two different teams.

Falcao

10.The modern-day ______, was invented by Gallaudet

University quarterback Paul D. Hubbard in 1892. Gallaudet was among the first schools intended for the

education of deaf and hard-of-hearing students, and the first intended for their postsecondary education. When quarterbacking, Hubbard realized that his hand signals could be read by opposing players, a particular concern when Gallaudet played other schools for the deaf.

To remedy this, he had his players do something. This practice is now quite prevalent in modern sport all over the world.

Fill in the blank.

Huddle

11.He is one of the few modern English footballers to play for a

foreign club.He signed for Real Zaragoza and it was felt that he never

made any real effort to learn Spanish and, despite his qualities, rarely made any significant sort of contribution on the pitch in his 25 appearances. The club decided to wash their hands off him and he was sold after just one season.

Months later, in one barely believable final show of arrogance or, simply, ignorance, he was contacted by Real Zaragoza regarding a Porsche that had been left outside Zaragoza train station five months earlier. The footballer allegedly claimed to have forgotten he even owned it.

Identify the guy.

Jermaine Pennant

12.X, certainly one of India’s sporting greats, had led the Indian

football team on several occasions and won major events. She retired from international football after the final match between India and Nepal at the 12th South Asian Gamesheld in Shillong last month.

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno Agitok Sangma penned his last letter before his fatal heart attack to Home Minister Rajnath Singh, recommending an Arjuna award for X.

"He had recommended X’s name for the Arjuna award. I remember he told me that this Manipuri woman deserved the Arjuna award as she brought laurels to India on several occasions," said Sangma's close aide A. Rehman.

Identify X.

Oinam Bembem Devi

13.He is a former World Champion and his

biography’s subtitle is ‘Hero to Zero’.Identify him.

Damon Hill

14.On October 20, 1996, he wrote his name in the history

books courtesy his bat (surprisingly), against Zimbabwe at Sheikhupura.

To this day, it remains the highest score at number eight in Test cricket.

He broke many records on the way. While he still holds the record for the highest score at number eight, he also broke a long-standing record for the most sixes in a Test innings that was previously held by Wally Hammond and rather surprisingly, he still holds it to date.

Who?

Wasim Akram 257*

15.In the past few years, there have been a growing

number of franchise-based sporting leagues in India, from cricket to kabaddi.

While they may cover a wide variety of sports, one thing that has been common is the poor performance of Delhi-based teams every season in every tournament.

However, there have been two occasions where the Delhi side have been crowned champions. First was in the 2014 Hockey India League and the second was as recent as the 2016 Premier Badminton League.

Name the two winning franchises.

16.He has made 11,196 career baskets. Not surprisingly,

11,195 of which have been 2-pointers. On Feb. 26, 1996, in a game against Milwaukee Bucks,

he received the ball well beyond the arc and hurled it towards the hoop. The ball somehow went in off the glass — not that he called it.

He has taken just 22 3-point attempts over the course of his career — averaging about one per year. His total 3-point percentage is .045, which is even less than one tenth of his .527 career free-throw percentage.

Identify him.

Shaquille O’Neal

17.Noted chess and X player Edward

Lasker said, "While the baroque rules of chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of X are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play X.“

Use your deep mind and give me X.

Go

18.• Mahavir• Geeta• Vinesh• Ritu• Priyanka• Babita

One-word connect.

Phogat

19.On February 25, 2016, Elena Vesnina and Daria

Kasatkina made it through to the semifinals of the Qatar Open after a tense 2-6 6-4 10-5 victory.

"That was an amazing match for us," Vesnina said after the match. "We played against them just a week ago. I think everything worked today for us to win, and we're just so excited about it.”

"It's unbelievable for me," Kasatkina added, "something huge because it's just my third WTA doubles tournament and we beat X and Y. For me, it's something unbelievable.“

Identify X and Y, who were consequently stopped from making it 10 in a row.

Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis

20.The flag was first used in 1991 when the two countries

competed as a single team in the 41st World Table Tennis Championships in Chiba, Japan and the 8th World Youth Football Championship in Lisbon, Portugal.

It featured in the opening ceremonies of the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympic Games and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin along with the 2006 Asian Games in Doha.

However, it was not used in the 2008 and 2012 Games due to a decision taken by the IOC and the organizing committees in Beijing and London respectively.

Which flag?

United Korean flag

21.X is a city in Florida lying about 80 kms northeast of Orlando.It is historically known for its beach where the hard-packed

sand allows motorized vehicles to drive on the beach in restricted areas. This hard-packed sand made it a mecca for motorsports and in 1959, it saw the X International Speedway built.

It hosts large groups of out-of-towners that descend upon the city for various events, notably Speedweeks in early February when over 200,000 NASCAR fans come to attend the season opener. Other events include the NASCAR Coke Zero 400 race in July, Bike Week in early March and the Biketoberfest in late October.

What is X?

Daytona Beach

22.“Mashrafe bhai predicted that I would score 10,000 runs before

ending my career. While I believe that is possible if I play consistently for 10-12 years in the national side, there is another dream which I have.

Like Mashrafe bhai, I also believe that besides being a good cricketer, you have to be a good soul. I really admire the fighting spirit. That's why my favourite players are Shakib bhai and Yuvraj Singh.

The other people who I have followed are Sourav Ganguly and Brian Lara. When I started playing cricket I used to be a right-handed batsman. It was only after watching them play those drives that I decided to become a left-hander. If you notice, I still prefer throwing the ball with my right hand. I even bowl with my right hand.”

Whose words are these?

Soumya Sarkar

23. Connect

Vijender Singh’s opponents/victims at pro level

FINALS

ROUNDS• List it• Dry clockwise (17 questions)• Written • Dry anticlockwise (17 questions)

ROUND 1

LIST IT!

List it• There have been a combined total of

17 players (7 male and 10 female) who have achieved a career grand slam in the singles category.

• List all 17 players• +4 points for each correct name• +10 bonus if 13-16 answers correct• +20 bonus if all 17 answers correct

EXCHANGE YOUR SHEETS!

ANSWER1. Fred Perry2. Don Budge3. Rod Laver4. Roy Emerson5. Andre Agassi6. Roger Federer7. Rafael Nadal

8. Maureen Connolly Brinker

9. Doris Hart10. Shirley Fry Irvin11. Margaret Court12. Billie Jean King13. Chris Evert14. Martina Navratilova15. Steffi Graf16. Serena Williams17. Maria Sharapova

ROUND 2

Dry Clockwise (17 Qs)+10 on direct, +10/-10 on

pounce

1.The Pietermaritzburg cricket ground in South Africa

honours international batsmen who score centuries there or bowlers who take a five-wicket haul in a special way, quite different to the Lord's and the MCG honours boards.

Playing South Africa A in a warmup game, Alistair Cook scored a typically steady 126 off 194 balls with Joe Root scoring 117 at a touch over a run a ball.

The centurions were soon handed _______, after groundsmen had done most of the hard work so that they could immortalize their innings at the City Oval and became the latest batsmen to have left their mark in the stadium.

What did they do after the game?

Planting trees

2.Born in 1905 in Punjab, he worked as domestic help in the house

of Sir Umar Hayat Khan, where he ran daily errands for his royal master. His first breakthrough came when he was 21 years of age as he was adjudged the strongest player in the state, and just two years later, he won the All-India Championships with a remarkable score of 8.5 points of a possible nine.

Sir Umar then decided to take him to London, where he trained with some British masters and subsequently entered the British Chess Championship. He would go on to win the tournament three times in 1929,1932 and 1933 in a total of four attempts.

He had no theoretical knowledge of the game, did not understand English and was often sick during his time in England. In spite of all these drawbacks, he managed to play some of the greatest chess the world has ever seen and is often referred to as ‘the greatest natural player of modern times’.

Identify this chess great from India, who shocked players all over the world much before Vishy was even born.

Mir Sultan Khan

3.“The hat-trick wizard T.K.S. Mani, who won the Santosh trophy for

Kerala for the first time, was simply Captain Mani to us -- not Ettan (elder brother). Neither I.M. Vijayan nor C.V. Pappachan, who made Kerala kiss the trophy again, was Ettan on our lips.

Only you, X, became our Ettan -- X Ettan. But now, like the referee's cruel last whistle, comes the shattering news: “X leaving for Kolkata.“

Can you, X, forget the waves of ovation rising steam-like from that concrete copa called Kaloor stadium? That booming hum from the throats of thousands who thronged Kochi from all over Kerala in the November-December evenings last year? You said these heartily rooting crowds were bewildering.”

An excerpt from an open letter to X that was published in local newspaper Malayala Manorama in May 2015. Who is X?

Iain Hume

4.The Pravasi Bharatiya Samman is an award constituted by

the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, Government of India in conjunction with the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas to honour exceptional and meritorious contribution in their chosen field/profession.

The award was instituted in 2003 and out of the 136 awardees so far, only one is a sportsperson.

A Hindu by religion, he played snooker, cricket, football and his nation’s favourite sport rugby as a child.

However, his true calling was another sport, where was world number 1 in the world rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005.

He has won three major championships and was inducted in his sport’s Hall of Fame in 2005.

Identify him.

Vijay Singh

5.Popular singer and songwriter Robin Thicke has a hugely

significant sports connect from his childhood days.When Thicke was 11, X had been babysitting him while his

father was on vacation when X learned he had officially been traded in an iconic deal and had to suddenly leave. Alan Thicke reportedly didn't find out that his son was home alone until he called home the next morning and found out that X had to leave because he was traded.

In 2013, on the 25th anniversary of X's historic trade, announcer Gord Miller tweeted that it was Robin who answered the telephone call from _______ owner Bruce McNall confirming the trade: "(He) wasn't sure he should admit that X was there, but McNall insisted that he bring him to the phone.“

Identify X and FITB.

Wayne Gretzky, LA Kings

6.It was at the Millennium Stadium in 2002 and the world

of cricket was about to change. The Brits took on the Rest of the World side in a game of Power Cricket, a format played indoors that allowed a batsman to score more than six runs off a single ball.

After a massive hit by a certain Boom Boom Afridi, umpire Vanburn Holder did a weird new signal that hasn’t been done since - he raised his wrists and crossed them like he's demanding justice for a jailed comrade - and the world smiled.

What exactly had Lala done?

Hit the roof for 12 runs

7.The date was December 8, 1980 and the New England

Patriots and Miami Dolphins were battling it out at the Orange Bowl as the game was winding down, a tied game with a few seconds left.

Howard Cosell, the presenter at Monday Night Football then received a certain piece of information that was so dramatic and shocking, that he had to interrupt his football commentary and deliver the news to the watching audience in an extraordinary first.

“Remember, this is just a football game, no matter who wins or loses," Cosell told TV viewers. "An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City.”

What tragedy had taken place?

John Lennon had died

8.While working as a pundit for Norwegian TV, he had made a

withering assessment of Blackburn Rovers' owners. He said, “There are no real managers with credibility who would accept a job like that.” 

On 31 October 2012, Blackburn Rovers announced that he had accepted an offer for a three-year contract to manage the club and became Blackburn's first foreign manager. He then justified his previous comments by saying, “That was me looking at it from the outside without knowing really what was going on in the inside. I think this club at the moment is going in the right direction.”

He was a part of the Blackburn side that won the Premier League title and made nearly 300 appearances for them. He also won the PL with another side, making him the first player to win the title with two different clubs. He also has a total of 100 caps for the Norwegian national team.

Identify him.

Henning Berg

9. Two-word connect.• 2003 Wimbledon: 4R Srichapan loses to Roddick (4-6,6-3,3-

6,2-6)• 2004 Aus Open: 4R Hewitt loses to Federer (6-4,3-6,0-6,4-6)• 2005 Wimbledon: 3R Muller loses to Gasquet (6-7,3-6,3-6)• 2006 US Open: SF Youzhny loses to Roddick (7-6,0-6,6-7,3-6)• 2008 Aus Open: F Tsonga loses to Djokovic (6-4,4-6,3-6,6-7)• 2008 US Open: F Murray loses to Federer (2-6,5-7,2-6)• 2011 Aus Open: SF Ferrer loses to Murray (6-4,6-7,1-6,6-7)• 2012 Wimbledon: 3R Rosol loses to Kohlschreiber (2-6,3-6,6-7)• 2013 Wimbledon: 2R Darcis loses to Kubot (w/o)• 2014 Wimbledon: QF Kyrgios loses to Raonic (7-6,2-6,4-6,6-7)• 2015 Aus Open: SF Berdych loses to Murray (7-6,0-6,3-6,5-7)• 2015 Wimbledon: 3R Brown loses to Troicki (4-6,6-7,6-4,3-6)• 2015 US Open: 4R Fognini loses to Lopez (3-6,6-7,1-6)• 2016 Aus Open: 2R Verdasco loses to Sela (6-4,3-6,3-6,6-7)

Rafa’s curse

10.Although it did not receive its current name until 1985,

the trophy was first awarded in 1967. Before that year, the champion did not receive an official trophy. Since its inception, the only year that it has not been awarded was 1994, due to a players' strike.

The current trophy was redesigned in 1999 and is 24 inches (61 cm) tall, excluding the base, and has a diameter of 11 inches (28 cm) and is made of sterling silver. The trophy features 30 gold-plated flags, which rise above a silver ________ covered with latitude and longitude lines that symbolize the world.  

What is the name of this trophy?

Commissioner’s Trophy

11.• 1961 Dutch Grand Prix• 2005 United States Grand Prix• 2005 Italian Grand Prix• 2011 European Grand Prix

Narain Karthikeyan garnered a dubious distinction after the end of the 2011 European GP, and it has not been surpassed to date.

Connect the 4 GPs. (Exhaustive list)

Only races where all the racers who started finished the race

12.This tiny nation has made a remarkable rise to the top of

African football. According to the latest FIFA rankings, the Blue Sharks are now 31st in the world, which is the highest of any African team. It's an impressive achievement for a country with a population of just over 500,000.

They have never qualified for the FIFA World Cup but have qualified for the 2013 African Cup of Nations. Their first World Cup qualifying campaign was the 2002 World Cup qualifiers, in which they were eliminated in the first round after one draw and one defeat against Algeria.

They has won just two titles - The Amílcar Cabral Cup in 2000, and won the gold medal in the football tournament at the 2009 Lusophony Games. Their highest capped player is Babanco, a midfielder who plays for Estoril in the Portuguese first division.

Which country am I talking about?

Cape Verde

13.It is a Japanese traditional game, similar to badminton without a net,

played with a rectangular wooden paddle called a hagoita and a brightly coloured shuttlecock.

Often played by girls at the New Year, the game can be played in two fashions: by one person attempting to keep the shuttlecock aloft as long as possible, or by two people batting it back and forth. Girls who fail to hit the shuttlecock get marked on the face with India Ink.

Traditionally, the longer the shuttlecock remains in the air, the greater protection from mosquitoes the players will receive during the coming year. Although it is not as popular as it used to be, decorative hagoita are commonly sold throughout Japan.

At the beginning of the game development, cherries (fruit) were used as the ball by kids often.

What is the name of this racquet(?) sport?

Hanetsuki

14.X is a well-known Indian singer of Hindustani classical music

and popular Indian Pop music.She has been awarded the 1996 National Film Award for Best

Non-Feature Film Music Direction for 'Amrit Beej‘, the 1998 Gold Plaque Award for Special Achievement in Music, at the 34th Chicago International Film Festival, for her music in the film Dance of the Wind (1997), and the Padma Shri in 2000.

In addition to her recordings and concerts, she briefly ran a website called raagsangeet.com aimed at lovers of Classical Indian Music.

When she was 20, she fell in love and married Y in 1982. The marriage, however, didn't last for long and a divorce ended the relationship.

Who is Y, someone who has been an important figure in Indian cricket in recent times?

Shubha Mudgal, Justice Mukul Mudgal

15.During the Olympic weightlifting competition, X failed in his

third snatch attempt, and with 203 kg, he was ranked fourth after the snatch.

Latvian Viktors Ščerbatihs was in position to take the lead in the clean and jerk, but failed in his second attempt. X also failed in his first clean and jerk attempt, and Evgeny Chigishev took the lead with 250 kg in the clean and jerk.

Ščerbatihs failed in his third attempt, which forced X to increase his last attempt by 10 kg in order to win gold. With a successful clean and jerk of 258 kg, and a total of 461 kg, X won the gold medal.

X stood on the medalists' podium with a photo of his late wife, who had died in a car accident an year back, and would otherwise have accompanied him to the Games.

X was also named the German Sports Personality of the year in 2008.

Identify X.

Matthias Steiner

16. A pair of queens from Ukraine. The one on the left is the reigning Women’s

Chess Champion and is currently contesting Hou Yifan to defend it.

Name her.

Mariya Muzychuk

17.NK Domzale are a top-flight Slovenian club and while the league

was on a winter break in January, they lost their captain Nejc Skubic to Turkish side Konyaspor at the start of the transfer window.

The club's PR officer Grega Krmavnar said, “We have a small budget and we do not have the money to buy the biggest player. We needed a cheap way to replace our captain and so we decided to go down this road.”

"We needed a replacement and could not find one in Slovenia and had no other choice of players. This was just an idea from our head coach Luka Elsner, so we decided it would be a good way.”

Ultimately, they signed Spanish defender Alvaro Brachi, 30, just before transfer deadline day. Brachi's CV includes spells with Spanish sides Real Betis and Espanyol's second teams, Anorthosis in Cyprus and then Videoton in Hungary.

What novel way did the club use to sign the replacement?

LinkedIn!

ROUND 3

WRITTEN

Written Round• 9 questions• All questions are based on screen

clips from social media accounts• +5 for each correct answer• +10 bonus if 8 correct• +15 bonus if all 9 correct

1.What is

Jimmy Neesham poking fun at?

2.Which rising

sensation posted this faceswap?

3.Which team

posted this?

4.Identify both

these superstars.

5.

6.Identify this

three-time world champion who made quite a splash on her most recent trip to India.

7. Identify

8.Identify this

tennis player from this picture of his.

9. Funda?

EXCHANGE YOUR SHEETS!

1.What is

Jimmy Neesham poking fun at?

The Underarm Incident

2.Which rising

sensation posted this faceswap?

Max Verstappen

3.Which team

posted this?

FC Augsburg

4.Identify both

these superstars.

Carli Lloyd and Alex Rodrigues

5.

Bret Hart

6.Identify this

three-time world champion who made quite a splash on her most recent trip to India.

Adeline Gray

7. Identify

Peter Svidler

8.Identify this

tennis player from this picture of his.

Nick Kyrgios

9. Funda?

The Sachin and British Airways saga

ROUND 4

Dry Anticlockwise (17 Qs)+10 on direct, +10/-10 on

pounce

18.He wore the #11 jersey when he started off, but

later changed to #14 as a tribute one of his nation’s most iconic sportspersons.

His record includes two Olympic, one World Cup, one European and six Champions Trophy golds among various silver and bronze medals.

His expertise on the pitch has been well rewarded having represented his national side a world record 453 times, scoring 219 goals.

Identify this ‘wizard’.

Teun de Nooijer

19.“It must be difficult. I won’t even suggest that I understand or can relate to the

degree of frustration you’re probably feeling at this point. You’ve been an icon of intensity and strength for many of us. Your domination of the international squash scene is tremendous and I don’t think most of us even understand what it means. What you achieved in squash, is as great as Roger Federer’s achievements in tennis; it’s as brilliant as Usain Bolt’s accolades.

You were the world number one female squash players for 108 months. In 2001, you became the first player to have won the World Junior title on two occasions (1999 and 2001). You’ve won the Asian Squash Championships for a record of nine times and you’ve also clinched the World Open title for eight times now. Better still, you’ve won a total of 79 international titles throughout your career thus far. And that’s not too far away from Roger Federer’s 88 titles – bear in mind that he’s considered by many to be the greatest player to have ever graced tennis.

None of your achievements reflect anything ordinary. But you were just an ordinary girl from Penang, when you first started out. What changed in between? Nothing but sheer hard work. Every single accolade you’ve claimed is a culmination of the effort you’ve invested in improving yourself. All those world titles remain a symbolic sign of where consistency and focus ultimately brought you.”

Who is this open letter addressed to?

Nicol David

20.Created by a West German horticulturist named Werner Fisher, they featured

a highly movable string surface, could impart massive amounts of spin that were completely unheard of at the time.

It caused the greatest stir in 1977, as it started to influence the outcomes of both club and professional tournaments. That year, at the French Open, Australian player Barry Phillips-Moore became the first to swing the stick at a major pro tournament. And a few months later, at the U.S. Open, little-known American Mike Fishbach, having notably rigged his own with Venetian-blind cord, upset Stan Smith in the second round.

But it wouldn’t reach the height of their notoriety until later that fall. Ilie Nastase was beaten by a player using a ‘________’ racket in Paris and swore he would never play against it again. The following week he turned up with one and used it to win a tournament at Aix-en-Provence, ending Guillermo Vilas’ long winning streak of 46 straight matches in the final. Vilas quit after two sets, claiming that playing against the exaggerated spin injured his elbow.”

What is being talked about? (Image on the next slide)

Spaghetti strings

21.Major League Baseball retired the number 42 throughout the league in

1997 in honour of Jackie Robinson, but players wearing it at the time could continue to use it.

So, when X, a one-club man, retired in 2013, his team also retired the number 42 in his honour.

X primarily threw a sharp-moving, mid-90s mile-per-hour cut fastball that frequently broke hitters' bats and earned a reputation as one of the league's toughest pitches to hit. With his presence at the end of games, signaled by his foreboding entrance song "Enter Sandman", he was a key contributor to his side‘s success in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

An accomplished postseason performer, he was named the 1999 World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) and the 2003 AL Championship Series MVP, and he holds several postseason records, including lowest ERA (0.70) and most saves (42).

Identify X, a true baseball great.

Mariano Rivera

22.The blog was controversial from the start, giving unflattering nicknames to

players, coaches, and owners of KKR and other teams, telling sordid stories, and showing most of them in a very negative light. As it rapidly became popular, it was believed to be of a fringe KKR player who was upset at not being part of the core team.

The blog worsened an already bad season for KKR, which lost most of their games, had controversies surrounding their coach, John Buchanan, and frequently changed captains, including Sourav Ganguly. 

The 2009 IPL season took place in South Africa, and two KKR players, Aakash Chopra and Sanjay Bangar, were sent home to India midway through the tournament. This fuelled speculation that they were suspected of being the person behind the blog. The team was also rumoured to have banned use of laptops by players. The management of the team termed the blog as "poison pen writing of the dirtiest variety", while denying it could have been written by an actual player.

In August 2010, Bangalore based marketing specialist Anupam Mukerji revealed himself on Television and newspapers as the person writing the blog. He said he had "never met a cricketer in his life", and was just making up stories. He never expected it to become this big, he remarked, adding that the blog ended up getting legitimised by the media frenzy. 

What was the name of this blog?

The Fake IPL Player

23.This event has taken just once in Olympic history, at

the Paris Games in 1900.All 17 competitors managed to make it to 4.50

metres, but several were eliminated at 4.90 metres. The winning mark of 6.10 metres was considered unimpressive, but was in part due to heavy ground caused by rain earlier on the day of the competition.

The silver medal was won by an Italian competitor Gian Giorgio Trissino at 5.70 metres, while the gold was won by Belgian Constant van Langhendonck.

What event?

Horse long jump

24.Except Asia, all continents have seen atleast one person

become Formula One World Champion. The man representing Africa is X, as he was crowned champion in 1979.

A seventh-place finish with the Walter Wolf Racing team in 1978 followed and he left the team after the season to join Ferrari to partner Gilles Villeneuve.

Critics felt he would not get along well with management at Ferrari, but he far surpassed expectations and helped give F1's most recognizable team another constructors' championship, while his consistent finishes, with three wins among them, gave him the drivers' championship.

Who is X?

Jody Scheckter

25.As a kid, he dreamt of becoming an Olympic-level

swimmer like his sister and was close to making the 1992 Olympic Games. A hurricane destroyed his island's only Olympic-sized swimming pool in 1989 and lost his enthusiasm for swimming because of his fear of sharks.

He never swam competitively again, but was inspired by his brother-in-law to turn to basketball, where he made quite a name for himself.

Identify this five-time NBA Champion, two-time MVP and 15-time All Star.

Tim Duncan

26.The U.S. ice hockey squad in 1960 was a scrappy, determined

bunch of college kids and amateur players mostly from Boston and Minnesota. They qualified unbeaten to the medal round, where the six teams would face off in a league-type format.

In their second last game, the US side came from a goal behind to defeat the USSR side, marking the first time in history a U.S. hockey team had beaten a Soviet team.

In their final game against Czechoslovakia, they were staring at a 4–3 deficit after two periods. And then they simply exploded. Six unanswered third-period goals later, the Americans had a commanding 9–4 win and a gold medal to go with it.

A documentary about the team was made on the 50th anniversary of the achievement, whose titled referred to an iconic event that took place 20 years after this one had.

What was the documentary called?

The Forgotten Miracle

27.Occasionally, special golfing events host a ______

contest, where prizes as expensive as a new car, or cash awards sometimes reaching $4 million are offered if a contestant is successful. 

Usually such expensive prizes are backed by an insurance company who offers prize indemnification services. 

Actuaries at such companies have calculated the chance of an average golfer achieving the feat at approximately 12,500 to 1, and the odds of a tour professional at 2,500 to 1.

What is being talked about?

Hole-in-one

28.Chocolat Poulain is one of the oldest chocolate brands

in Europe and is known particularly for its bars of eating and cooking chocolate, as well as its Poulain Orange product, which is a chocolate drink mix.

In 1975, they were the sponsors of a widely popular sporting event. They covered their chocolate bars in a distinct ______ wrapper at the time and what began as a marketing idea has now become an iconic part of the event as well as the sport.

Carrefour, the supermarket chain, is the sponsor now but it has still managed to remained unchanged from 1975.

What is being talked about?

The King of the Mountain jersey

29.This flower is called the Flor

de ______. The generic name - Chiranthodendron is a combination of Greek words meaning "hand-flower-tree.”

______ is a term used commonly in Spanish football when a team records a ‘perfect victory’.

The most prominent example of such an occurrence would be in November 2010 when the Special One was humbled at the Camp Nou.

The good word please.

Manita

30.“It was a bit weird but it’s always been a dream of mine to

kick a conversion right-footed,” X said. “I sort of had a bit of fun with the guys in the team that it would ever happen. The opportunity came. I practiced a few in training off my right foot and I just thought I’d give it a little go.”

He delivered when it mattered the most with a flawless kick and brought his personal haul in the match to 19 points and his career total to 1,584 in 112 appearances, retiring from the sport with nothing left to prove or any more targets to meet.

He has spent his career preparing for the 40-metre drop goal which swung the game back in his side’s favour and took the game finally beyond Australia.

Identify this sporting great.

Dan Carter

31.Xs are normally available in three forms, their use

depending on the player’s choice; the standard one is a simple cross, the 'spider' has a raised arch around 12 cm with three grooves and for the most awkward of shots, the 'giraffe‘ or 'swan‘ which has a raised arch much like the 'spider' but with a slender arm reaching out around 15 cm with the groove.

Many amateurs refuse to use an X based on the perception that to do so is unmanly. However, many aficionados and most professionals employ the X whenever the situation so requires.

Give the correct term for X.

Mechanical Bridge

32.Froid Équateur (French for "Cold Equator") is a science

fiction graphic novel published in 1992, written and illustrated by Yugoslavian-French cartoonist and storyteller Enki Bilal. The book extensively features this hybrid sport, which was fictional at the time.

In 2003, it became a real sport, directly inspired by how it appeared in Froid Équateur. It was invented by Dutch performance artist, Iepe Rubingh and what was initially only thought to be an art performance quickly turned into a fully developed competitive sport.

Contested in four categories, the current champions are from the USA, Germany, Belarus and Russia. Leonid Chernobaev, the Belarusian, lifted the title after defeating Shailesh Tripathi of India in the final.

Which sport is being talked about?

Chessboxing

33.Blackpool entertained Bradford City in a League One fixture on

February 27, that saw the away side pick up a narrow 1-0 win.However, there was more drama before the game than during it,

as an error by the Blackpool stadium staff saw them left red-faced and the club later apologized on their social media account as well.

Bradford hold an annual memorial in tribute to the 56 supporters who died in the Bradford fire disaster in 1985 and in May last year the city staged a special Remembrance Service to mark its 30th anniversary.

Blackpool have said the error was unintentional, after some of Bradford’s fans took offence at what had happened and had complained on social media.

How had the Bloomfield Road stadium staff messed up?

They played Billy Joel’s ‘We didn’t start the fire’ on the PA system

34.The second fight between X and Y is one of the most iconic ones in

the history of boxing. It came to embody the broader political and social conflict of the

times. As the most significant African American athlete of his age, X was a focal point for African American pride in the 1930s. Moreover, as a contest between representatives of the United States and Nazi Germany (Y was a German) during the 1930s, the fights came to symbolize the struggle between democracy and fascism.

70,000 people watched in the Yankee Stadium as X delivered a swift first-round knockout and became a symbol of pride for African Americans in the country.

Maya Angelou wrote about the scenes after X’s win, “Champion of the world. A Black boy. Some Black mother's son. He was the strongest man in the world. People drank Coca-Cola like ambrosia and ate candy bars like Christmas.”

Give X and Y.

X – Joe Louis, Y – Max Schmeling

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