SPQC SPACE SPORTS QUIZ Elims

SPORTS QUIZ 2012

CREATED BYROHAN PANICKERVIVAN SHRIDHARANIPRANIT JANKOLI

ELIMS

• Disclaimer: Please excuse us for the more number of football related questions

• Q1. Name the only player in India’s 1983 World Cup squad who did not play a single match in the tournament?

• Q2. Which is the first sporting event to have been telecasted live on T.V?

• Q3. The sport of boxing is governed by a set of rules named ?

• Q4. Who was the manager of England when they won the 1966 Football World Cup?

• Q5. Michael Schumacher has the record for most F1 Championships(7). Name the racer who previously held this record and also mention the number of titles he won.

• Q6. Name the players who have won the Ballon d’Or the most number of times and also how many times have they won it?

Q7. Who became the first player ever to be disqualified from

Wimbeldon?

Q8. Who is the only cricketer to win four successive man of the match awards in

ODI’s?

Q9. Name the player who has the best all-round figures in a single ODI

game?

Q10.Scunthorpe United

Hamburger SVNewcastle United

Southampton___________

Q11. AJAXBENFICA

PSV VALENCIA

AZ ALKMAAR FEYENOORD

Q11. Who was the first ever wildcard to win a grand slam title?

Q12. Jackie Stewart called it “The Green Hell”.Niki Lauda was severly burned in

1976. Name this 15.1 mile track with 176 corners.It has undergone a lot of changes

in the past few decades.

• Q13. X is the only player to have scored in a Champions League final, FA Cup final, UEFA Cup final & League Cup final.

• ID X

• Q14. In which city would you find the Indian Sports Research Institute?

• Q15. How many players have won the FIFA world cup as a player and manager. Name the player/players

• Q16. Who was the first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award?

• Q17. X represented his country in the 1986 FIFA WC. He became famous because of one infamous goal and another sublime goal that he conceded which resulted in the elimination of his team from the WC.Id X

• Q18. How many times has a host nation won the FIFA WC?

• Q19. Name the first Asian Football Team to reach the semifinals in the Olympics?

• Q20. Who is the only tennis player to have completed a “Golden Slam?”

• Q21. Name the youngest women’s World number 1 in Tennis?

ANSWERS

SUNIL VALSON

• He never represented India in any international game.

1936 Berlin Olympics

THE QUEENSBERRY RULES

SIR ALF RAMSEY

JUAN MANUEL FANGIO

• 5 Titles-1951,1954,1955,1956,1957

• He also holds the highest win percentage in F1 with 47.06% as compared to Schumi with 31.60%

Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini, Marco van

Basten• They have won it THREE times

Tim Henman

• During a doubles match he hit a ball girl named caroline bell on the head with a ball

SAURAV GANGULY

PAUL COLLINGWOOD112* and 6-31

LIVERPOOL(Clubs Kevin Keegan has

played for)

RONALD KOEMAN

GORAN IVANISEVIC2001 Wimbeldon

The old circuit of Nurburgring, Germany

STEVEN GERRARD

PATIALA

• Franz Beckenbauer(Germany)• Mario Zagallo(Brazil)

Viswanathan Anand

• Peter Shilton• England Goalkeeper 1986 WC• Famous for his quotes after the

match about the “Hand of God” incident.

SIX

• 1930 Uruguay, 1934 Italy, 1966 England, 1974 West Germany, 1996 France,1978 Argentina

• INDIA• 1956 Melbourne Olympics

STEFFI GRAF

• Martina Hingis• 16 years,6 months and 21 days