Galaxy 2015 Sports

Quiz-PRANJAL AGRAWAL

Rules

Round 1- 32 Questions

Infinite Bounce

Infinite Pounce (+10/-10)

1. Who?

Frequently mentioned as the most superstitious cricketer of all time,

he feared treading on white lines. He’d also obsessively lower all of the

toilet seats in the team changing rooms before he went out to bat andmost famously, began taping his bat to the ceiling above his locker

when a similar prank by team-mates had preceded a century by him.

Neil McKenzie

2. Which team?

Its name can be attributed to the fact that it is sponsored by a

coalition of state-owned companies from the country. It was founded

in 2007, but gained worldwide recognition in 2009 due to a widelypublicized return. Which team?

Team Astana

3. Who?

His arrival at Waterford was announced following the club’s 2-1 defeat

to Limerick City on 11 January 1976. The game itself had been a drab

affair and fans’ spirits were only lifted with the incredulous news that aformer World Cup winner would soon be playing in Ireland. The first

question on many peoples’ lips was understandably, how much?

Sir Bobby Charlton

4. X and Y?

There were rumors that Y had run up major gambling debts to the

mafia, so he may have bet against himself in the fight and then lost on

purpose to make back what he owed. Also, footage of X’s jab showsthat it barely connected. What followed is one of the most iconic

images in sports history.

X-Mohammad Ali, Y-Sonny Liston

5. Who?

He was a one-club man, representing the same club during his entire

professional career, which spanned 15 years. He is probably most

famous for scoring a memorable long distance goal in the 1996–97UEFA Champions League final. That goal is to date the fastest goal in a

final of the competition, finding the net after just 16 seconds on the

field as a substitute.

Lars Ricken

6. Who?

2004 Athens Olympics – Gold, Silver

2000 Sydney Olympics – Gold (2)

1996 Atlanta Olympics – Gold, Silver

1992 Barcelona Olympics – Gold, Silver

1988 Seoul Olympics – Gold (2), Silver

1984 Los Angeles Olympics- Boycott

1980 Moscow Olympics – Gold

Birgit Fischer

7. Whose flag is this? Why did it gain

infamy in 2000?

Cathy Freeman in 2000 Olympics

waved the Aboriginal flag along

with the Australian flag

8. What change?

What change was made in 1450 to make the game of chess faster

and more enjoyable? The change was so revolutionary that the French

called the new game “ésches de la dame enrage.”

Queen allowed to move any number of

places. Early, it was allowed to move

just one step.

9. Name/ How do we know him

better?In 2011, he was found guilty of punching another

man at a children's football game.

The court was told that he had previous convictions

for public order offences, assault and a caution for

common assault. he court heard that he, of

Kynaston Avenue, Thornton Heath, south London,

held a grudge against Cooper because his son, 13, was dropped from the under-8s side.

Matthew Simmons, the Crystal

Palace fan kicked by Eric Cantona

10. X and Y?

Telegraph’s Mick Cleary on the comparisons between X and Y-

Of course you can argue that X is the more complete player. He can

defend. He can kick. He can chase. And, boy, can he score. He is afabulous talent. No doubt about that. But Y was something else

entirely. And who knows just how prolific he would have been if he had

not been struck down by that horrible kidney illness at a comparatively

early stage in his career.

X-Julian Savea; Y-Jonah Lomu

11. Rules of which sport?

Women Fighters Only. No Exceptions.

Fights have a five minute time limit and are won via pinfall, surrender, or referee

stoppage. If a fight ends at the time limit with no winner, a winner is declared by a

three-judge committee.

Punching, leg drops, clotheslines, submission holds, and other moves are allowed as

long as a ____ is used to execute the attack.

Preventing an opponents' ____ strike by holding her ____ results in a warning from the

referee. Judges may choose to include these warnings as part of their judging criteria

if a fight goes the distance.

No eye-gouging, biting, scratching, hair pulling, or low blows.

No rude, lewd, or suggestive behavior.

Loading a ____ with a foreign object such as a brick is strictly forbidden.

Pillow Fighting Championship

12. The event and the drink. Part

pointsThe glass features the 140 past

winners of the event and this year's

official 141 Logo. Each year, almost

120,000 servings of this drink are

served over the two-day period of

the event.

Kentucky Derby, Mint Julep

13.

Guardian article dated Sep 15, 2014-

“There will be more than one historic decision made in Scotland on

Thursday. X, like every other place in the nation, will be in the grip of areferendum vote that has split opinion. Yet as the sun sets on the

famous links, another saga dogged by controversy may finally be

resolved.”

Frequently considered to be the home of the sport, which iconic

venue am I talking about? What was the controversy?

Women being allowed at St.

Andrews Gold Club

The route shown in the

figure gained prominence

in 1981 and 1982. Which

city is this present in? What

does the map show?

14.

Caesar's Palace F1 Grand Prix

15. Exhaustive list. Of what?

Year Visiting Team Home Team Attendance

2007 New York Giants Miami Dolphins 81,176

2008 San Diego Chargers New Orleans Saints 83,226

2009 New England Patriots Tampa Bay Buccaneers 84,254

2010 Denver Broncos San Francisco 49ers 83,941

2011 Chicago Bears Tampa Bay Buccaneers 76,981

2012 New England Patriots St. Louis Rams 84,004

2013 Pittsburgh Steelers Minnesota Vikings 83,518

2013 San Francisco 49ers Jacksonville Jaguars 83,559

2014 Dallas Cowboys Jacksonville Jaguars 83,436

2014 Detroit Lions Atlanta Falcons 83,532

2014 Miami Dolphins Oakland Raiders83,603

NFL games played in Wembley

16. Award for Best player of the

year in a particular sport. X? Which

sport? Year Winner

1998 Alysson Annan

1999 Natascha Keller

2000 Alysson Annan

2001 X

2002 Cecilia Rognoni

2003 Mijntje Donners

2004 X

2005 X

2006 Minke Booij

2007 X

2008 X

2009 X and Naomi van As

2010 X

2011 Maartje Paumen

2012 Maartje Paumen

2013 X

2014 Ellen Hoog

Wome’s Hocket, Luciana Aymar

17.

Chaudhary Abdul Jalil was born in Daska, Punjab on October 8, 1949.

He used to work in Abu Dhabi before gaining popularity in the ’90s and

2000s. How do we know him better?

Chacha Cricket

18.

Writer Eric Schlakman and a couple of his buddies have created a

web extension dubbed “X Web Skin." Once installed in any web

browser of your choice, the application swaps out all “X" mentions onthe Internet, and in its place replaces them with words like "Citizens“.

"We just wish they were losing their name as easily as they've been

losing games.” The ultimate goal is not to earn money off the

campaign, but to force change for what the writer says is "the most

egregious" team name in professional sports. Which team?

Washington Redskins

19.

He contracted polio as a young boy. For a short while, he was in a

wheelchair, and it was feared that he might become paralysed for life.

However, he overcame his illness through a strict exercise regime. He specialised in now defunct events, X and Y. His 8 Olympic gold medals

in individual events (i.e. non-relay) are second only to Michael Phelps's

11. Who (5 points)? X and Y (5 points)?

Ray Ewry, Standing High Jump and

Tsanding Long Jump

20.

The Green Monster is a popular nickname for the thirty-seven foot, two-inch (11.33 m) high left field wall at this stadium. The moniker was born

when advertisements were scraped off the highest outfield wall andpainted green to match the rest of the stadium. Stadiums in this sport

have often featured high fences hiding the field from external viewers,

particularly behind open areas of the outfield. In which stadium is the

Green Monster located?

Fenway Park, Boston Red Sox’s

Home Stadium

21.

Not everyone loved X’s influence. Some sniffy officials were hostile to

the change that she ushered in, which they equated to turning

gymnastics from a discipline on a par with ballet to some kind of vulgar circus show. Eleven months after the event, the move was banned,

allegedly for safety reasons. X threatened to retire from the sport.

"Gymnasts are not guaranteed against injury," she said indignantly. "In

effect I am asked to revise my views on gymnastics without being

given any choice in the matter. Gymnastics is about expression.“

Name X or the move.

Korbut Flip by Olga Korbut

22.

Rohullah Nikpai is the first person from his

country to win an Olympic medal. Which country?

Afghanistan

23.

Although her nickname was given by her mother, she reveled in telling

people that it was down to her fierce reputation on the baseball field.

Known for her exploits in multiple sports, including track and field, basketball, and golf, who is this American lady?

Babe Zaharias Didrickson

24.

Before the Olympics, X turned down the role of Y, who had won gold

medals in precisely the four events X was contesting in, in a TV movie,

and the chance to play a detective in a mooted new series. "I'm willing to wait for the so-called big bucks," he said. "If I do a TV series I want to

be the star.“ X and Y?

X- Carl Lewis; Y- Jesse Owens

25.

The name comes from an invented Dutch surname that was

popularized by an 1809 Washington Irving satire. The name evolved

into a term for an imagined Dutch aristocracy in the city, who smokedlong pipes and wore short pants. The term continued to evolve and

became commonly used as a generic term for people in the area.

What name?

Knicks (Knickerbockers)

26.

Which country are all the active Yokozunas in Sumo Wrestling from?

Mongolia

27.

He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame, in 2001. In

1989, WBC President José Sulaimán, gave him an award for ‘Best

amateur and professional boxer of all time’ and granted him honorarychampion status of the World Boxing Council. He became the first man

in history to win three successive gold medals at the Olympics in

Boxing, something that only Felix Savon and Teofilo Stevenson have

succeeded in doing after him. Who?

Laszlo Papp

28.

Plot of a 1991 movie called Sau Crore directed by Dev Anand

“After her husband Raj (Raman Kapoor) is murdered, Kamlesh (Fatima

Sheikh) receives a shock and doesn't speak for days. The cause of this is that she indeed witnessed her husband's murder. But who did murder

Raj? Was it really the politician Somnath (Naseeruddin Shah) who fell in

love with Kamlesh and wanted to marry her? Was it a plot created by

Somnath's rival candidate Mohanbhai (Anupham Kher) to win the

elections? Or was it Kamlesh herself who wanted to leave Raj and run

off with Somnath? It's up to CBI Inspector Kumar (Dev Anand) to find

out.”

What real life story is the movie based on?

Assassination of Syed Modi

29. Who?

Bobby Riggs

30. Pictures of ruins of a few

Olympic sites in the city. Which

city?

Sarajevo (1984)

31.

This is a tradition that started with the NHL’s New York Islanders in the

early 1980s. Islanders of the 1980s would "play four games in five nights

in the first round and it was just something that kind of happened."The1980 Islanders included two Swedish players (Stefan Persson and

Anders Kallur), so it is possible that they were influenced by their

compatriot’s superstition. Since then, many teams and their fans have

continued this tradition for the duration of the playoffs. What tradition?

Playoff Beard

32.

Although one would think the name is an an oxymoron, this sport did

feature in the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Olympics and was won by Tracie

Ruiz-Conforto, Carolyn Waldo, and Kristen Babb-Sprague respectively. Which sport?

Solo Sychronized Swimming