SPORTS QUIZ PRELIMS

RULES:-

20 questions in total.

No negatives.

+1 for each correct answer.

No use of electronic gadgets.

MY QUIZ, MY RULES.MY CHOICE

1

X became the first 100-year-old to finish a marathon, completing the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 8:11:06. However, Guinness World Records refused to include Singh in its record book due to the fact that he could not produce his birth certificate to prove his age. Birth records were not kept in India in 1911, however it is claimed that records written in Urdu date back to 23 February 1879.He was able to produce a passport listing his date of birth as 1 April 1911, and a letter from Queen Elizabeth II congratulating him on his 100th birthday.

2. CONNECT(EXHAUSTIVE)

PSV Eindhoven

Celtic

FC Barcelona

FC Bayern Munich

Ajax

Manchester United

Inter Milan

3

X is the only player in the history of test cricket to score 5 consecutive hundreds in consecutive innings.

Give the name of the player.

4

X appeared in a film, Charitra, with Parveen Babi in 1973.

He was the first cricketer to win an Arjuna Award.

He was also awarded the C.K. Nayadu Lifetime Achievement Award by the BCCI in 2011.

Give X.

5. PUT FUNDA.

Father, mother, uncle, aunt.

Nitin, Savita, Ajit

Anand and Annabel Mehta

Friends

Players

Mark Mascarenhas, WSG, Vinod Naidu

Media, photographers

Trainers, Physios, Doctors

6

She is considered the fastest woman of all time based on the fact that the world records she set in 1988 for both the 100 m and 200 m still stand and have yet to be seriously challenged.

Give her name.

7

“When I was pitted against Virat Kohli, I gave up”.

Whose lines? Put funda?

8. CONNECT. (INEXHAUSTIVE)

Marvan Atapatu

Nathan Bracken

Nathan Hauritz

Upul Chandana

9

X faces the biggest test of his boxing career on May 2 when he fights undefeated Y.

That test has been almost six years in the making.

Give X and Y. (part points).

10

X was a Test cricket all-rounder, blending thoughtful leg spin bowling with lower-order batting aggression. Along with fellow bowling all-rounder Alan Davidson, he helped restore Australia to the top of world cricket in the late 1950s and early 1960s after a slump in the early 1950s. In 1958 he became Australia's Test captain until his retirement in 1964.

11

What we were watching was a legal, non-violent bodyline-type tactic, an attempt to minimise the impact of an awesome opponent. It was well thought out and applied with accuracy.

These are the lines said about the negative line which the bowler was bowling which had the great SachinTendulkar stumped for the one and only time in his career.

Name the bowler who achieved this feat.

12

Whose first tweet. He must have mistook it for texting.

13

“X" – a shrine depicting every player to have played for Yduring its 93-year residence – was erected in late 2009 outside it’s stadium at the south end.

Eight large murals on the exterior of the stadium were installed, each depicting four Y’s legends linking arms, such that the effect of the completed design is 32 legends in a huddle embracing the stadium.

Give the shrine and the club.

14. WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?

Irons

Wedges

Putters

Hybrids

Woods

Driver

15

X (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr) is an American retired professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers.

During his career as a center, a record 19-time NBA All-Star, a 15-time All-NBA selection, and an 11-time NBA All-Defensive Team member. A member of six NBA championship teams as a player and two as an assistant coach, twice was voted NBA Finals MVP.

X is still the NBA's all-time leader in points scored (38,387 points).

Give the name of the player.

16

X (born November 12, 1961) is a former gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the first female gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She also won two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She is one of the best-known gymnasts in the world. In 2000 she was named as one of the Athletes of the Century by the Laureus World Sports Academy.

17

It is possible to score direct from a corner kick if sufficient swerve is given to the kick, and/or there is a strong enough wind blowing in the goalward direction. However, it was illegal until the International Football Association Board (IFAB) meeting of 15 June 1924 authorised it for the following season.

What is this type of goal called.

18

Who has recently won the AIFF women footballer of the year?

19

X’s first major coaching position was the head coach of the men’s team of H.O.C Gazellen Combinatie

After that he went on to coach the U-21 national team of Holland and was later appointed the coach of national team. He led the team to 2012 Olympic Silver

After his contract expired last year he took up another coaching position. Id him

20. PUT FUNDA

“I just said a few words about the World Cup, the current team, and how they embarrass me when I watch a classic match on TV and we're getting 220 and these guys are getting 400”.

Id the speaker and what is he talking about?

21.

Recently the first ever annual Hockey Awards were given. Who was awarded the best hockey player award.

Also tell the name of the person on whom this award is instituted.