Prelims

1. What’s the occasion?

Jane McGrath Day

2. Connect the 2 Cricinfo profiles to the lady.

Dinesh Karthik & Murali Vijay. The lady while still married to DK went out with Murali Vijay

3. Id the WAG, seen here posing with her husband, who is a 3 time Super Bowl winner..

Giselle Bundchen, Tom Brady’s wife

4. Connect the following 3 WAGs to a tennis player who recently won a grand slam.

Radek Stepanek! Whattaplaya!!

5. Major drug scandal before the Athens Olympics, need we say more?! Identify both for full points.

Ekaterina Thanou & Kontstantinos Kenteris

6. Identify this triple Olympic champion.

She was the darling of Ireland after winning three swimming gold medals at Atlanta 1996 – the only gold medals Ireland had ever been awarded– and one bronze. Suspicions of foul play were voiced by rivals, however. The fact that her husband and coach – the former Dutch discus-thrower Erik de Bruin – had served a four-year ban for testing positive for illegal levels of testosterone, only elevated those rumours.

Two years after the success at Atlanta the swimmer was banned for four years, not for testing positive, but for tampering with her urine sample. Laboratory analysis showed the sample, which testers said had “a very strong whiskey odour”, contained traces of the golden nectar.

She was not stripped of her medals though(only samples subsequent to her Olympic involvement tested positive) and has always denied using illegal performance enhancing drugs. At the age of 28, she called time on her swimming career.

Michelle Smith

7. Identify this tennis player.

Brought shame to tennis when he tested positive after a quarter-final at Wimbledon in 1998. The Czech, who had won the Australian Open earlier that year, was banned from tennis for 12 months.

Pete Korda

8. He cast the biggest smear on the London Olympics, won the gold medal, but was stripped of it and banned after testing positive.

Nadzeya Ostapchuk

9. Drafted in the 3rd round of the 2003 Draft by the Phoenix Mercury, X finally played an appearance in the league for Tulsa Shock in 2010. Who and what league?

Marion Jones, WNBA

10. Id this test cricketer.

Alyssa Healy (Uncle- Ian Healy, Boy friend- Mitchell Starc)

11. Name that theory.

In game theory, _______,also called Bach or Stravinsky, is a two-player coordination game.

Imagine a couple that agreed to meet this evening, but cannot recall if they will be attending the opera or a football match (and the fact that they forgot is common knowledge). The husband would most of all like to go to the football game. The wife would like to go to the opera. Both would prefer to go to the same place rather than different ones. If they cannot communicate, where should they go?

Battle of the Sexes

12. Identify the protagonist

Paul Gascgoine

13. Madonnina

The word for “dear, loving and gracious” in Slavic is the same as the word for “eager and laborious” in Ancient Roman and the word for “unification” in Sanskrit.

Why did the word figure prominently in a celebrity couple’s announcement in January 2013?

Milan Pique Mebarak

14. Identify the athlete

Emma Green Tregaro

15. What is the crime?

Speculation has been rife since ‘The Battle’ in 2004 as to who the perpetrator of the ‘crime’ is . In an interview with BBC 5 in 2011, Martin Keown confirmed the identity of the ‘criminal’ to be Cesc Fabregas. The player himself ‘favourited’ an image of his “weapon of choice” circulating on a social media website last year.

Fabregas threw pizza at Sir Alex Ferguson after the Battle of Buffet

16. ID the darling couple from London 2012

Laura Trott and Jason Kenny

17. What entity completes the list?

Ford, MasterCard, Sony Playstation, UniCredit, HTC, Gazprom.

UEFA Champions League sponsors

18. #kolstylz

Which quizzically famous WAG won medals in Olympic javelin events, Gold in 52’ Helsinki and Silver in 60’ Rome?

Dana Zatopek

19. How did a French model called Vanessa Peroncell coming into sporting consciousness sometime in 2010?

John Terry’s, ehem, ‘muse’.

20. What are the missing names?

Calvin Smith, Linford Christie, Dennis Mitchell, Desai Williams, Robson da Silva, Ray Stewart,_______,_________.

Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis.

21. What explanation did a lady named Melissa Satta give to explain, then AC Milan midfielder, Kevin Prince Boateng’s thigh muscle injury in January 2012?

Injury sustained due to “too much sex”!

22. What nickname did the boys at school bestow upon Mr Sharad’s son because Mr Sharad worked at Kissan?

Rahul Dravid was given the nickname “Jammy”.

23.

What did Manly Library do with its collection of Lance Armstrong books after his confession on Oprah?

All titles were shifted to the Non-Fiction category