THE CRICKET QUIZ!

PRELIMS!

A QUIZ BY

ADITHYA & GURUDATTA

RULES

• 20 QUESTIONS, * MARKED QUESTIONS WILL BE USED BREAK TIES.

• NO NEGATIVE MARKING.• NAKAARATMAKA TANTRAGALIGE

AVAKAASHAVILLA! • TOP 6 TEAMS MAKE IT TO THE FINAL.

0*. Who dons the no. 69 jersey for the Royal Challengers of Bangalore?!

1. Shown here is the Order Of Star Of India, India’s highest order of chivalry during the British Raj. What has been derived from this?

2*. Connect.

3. Australia: KFCEngland: Friends LifeSri Lanka: MahindraPakistan: Faysal BankIndia: ?

4. There are 10 ways in which a batsman can be dismissed. Bowled, caught, LBW, run out, stumped, handling the ball, hit wicket, X, Y and Z.

What are X, Y and Z?

5*. X played for Cammeray Cricket Club in the Northern Suburbs Cricket Association as a fast-medium bowler. After the 1990–1991 season he won the club's best and fairest award, was leading wicket-taker and had the lowest bowling average in the association. His state cricket team even considered giving him a chance. But his career was cut short due to a back injury. X?

6. Formerly known as Flightraja.com, it was started in a small garage on 9th A Main Road, 2nd Block Jayanagar in 2006 by Vinay Gupta and Amit Agarwal. What is it’s cricketing connection, something that made the company’s name familiar to all of us?

7. Connect.

8*. What name, that sounds like an entity often associated with both Kolkata and Bengal, was given to this mascot?

9. ID this object.

10. Connect.

11 • If one-day cricket was pyjama cricket, then

Twenty20 is underwear cricket.• This cricket is like a burger, you can have it

once a week but for a whole meal, you need to return to Test cricket. More than once a week, and it will give you a tummy ache.

• Wickets are like wives - you never know which way they will turn!

• What collective name is given to these one liners??

12. This is an image of the new stadium in India. Where is it? This has been inspired by which

iconic stadium?

13. This legendary cricketer acquired a non cricketing nickname in his close circles because his father worked for ‘Kissan’ .Who and what nickname?

CONNECT14*.Connect

15*. ‘LIFE OF PI’ movie review in whose style?

16*. Whose stats?

17.Edited wiki article on whom? “ __ _________ ______ or _________

Anirudhsinh ________ (born 6 December 1988) is a philanthropist, a Nobel prize winner, a double Laureus sportman of the year and the nearest human to being God. Other than that he is an Indian cricketer. "

18

Who wrote the coffee table book "Wide Angle - Candid Moments From My Playing Days" that brings together his abiding passions of cricket, photography and wildlife?

19

Which Indian statistian would you associate with this graph?

20. This is a song by David Rudder. What is its significance in the cricketing world?

THE CRICKET QUIZ

ANSWERS

0*. Who dons the no. 69 jersey for the Royal Challengers of Bangalore?!

Siddartha Mallya :P

1. Shown here is the Order Of Star Of India, India’s highest order of chivalry during the British Raj. What has been derived from this?

2*. Connect.

People who have represented two countries.

3. Australia: KFCEngland: Friends LifeSri Lanka: MahindraPakistan: Faysal BankIndia: ?

Pepsi. T20 league sponsors.

4. There are 10 ways in which a batsman can be dismissed. Bowled, caught, LBW, run out, stumped, handling the ball, hit wicket, X, Y and Z.

What are X, Y and Z?

Obstructing the field, hitting the ball twice and timed out.

5*. X played for Cammeray Cricket Club in the Northern Suburbs Cricket Association as a fast-medium bowler. After the 1990–1991 season he won the club's best and fairest award, was leading wicket-taker and had the lowest bowling average in the association. His state cricket team even considered giving him a chance. But his career was cut short due to a back injury. X?

Simon Taufel

6. Formerly known as Flightraja.com, it was started in a small garage on 9th A Main Road, 2nd Block Jayanagar in 2006 by Vinay Gupta and Amit Agarwal. What is it’s cricketing connection, something that made the company’s name familiar to all of us?

Via.com

7. Connect.

English cricketers.

8*. What name, that sounds like an entity often associated with both Kolkata and Bengal, was given to this mascot?

9. ID this object.

Cricket ball used in blind cricket.

10. Connect.

T20 centurions.

11. If one-day cricket was pyjama cricket, then Twenty20 is underwear cricket.

• This cricket is like a burger, you can have it once a week but for a whole meal, you need to return to Test cricket. More than once a week, and it will give you a tummy ache.

• Wickets are like wives - you never know which way they will turn!

• What collective name is given to these one liners??

Sidhuisms!

12. This is an image of the new stadium in India. Where is it? This has been inspired by which

iconic stadium?

13. This legendary cricketer acquired a non cricketing nickname in his close circles because his father worked for ‘Kissan’ .Who and what nickname?

Rahul Dravid. _/\_Nickname is Jammy

CONNECT14*.Connect

15*. ‘LIFE OF PI’ movie review in whose style?

Ravi Shastri

16*. Whose stats?

17.Edited wiki article on whom? “ __ _________ ______ or _________

Anirudhsinh ________ (born 6 December 1988) is a philanthropist, a Nobel prize winner, a double Laureus sportman of the year and the nearest human to being God. Other than that he is an Indian cricketer. "

18

Who wrote the coffee table book "Wide Angle - Candid Moments From My Playing Days" that brings together his abiding passions of cricket, photography and wildlife?

Which Indian statistian would you associate with this graph?

V Jayadevan

20. This is a song by David Rudder. What is its significance in the cricketing world?

The West Indies anthem.