SPORTS QUIZ – PRELIMS.

1. This is the only player to play in both football and cricket world cups. Name him.

2. The big three for Miami heat comprise of LeBRON JAMES, ……………………. &…………………………

3. The May Day stadium in Pyongyang is the largest stadium by capacity in the world. Which is the second largest?

4. Connect - 51.2-23-53-10 16.4-04-37-9

5. This country played in the first two cricket world cups with a name and then never played with that name. Name the country?

• Vasily Dimitrov• Alexei Levski• Lev Zograf• Clara Ivanova• Ivan Volkov• Pyotr Vulchanov• ________

6. FIND THE MISSING PERSONALITY

7.Second to Anand?? He’s gone higher

1 Garry Kasparov 2851 July, 1999

2 X 2826 July, 2010

3 Vishwanathan Anand 2817 March, 2011

4 Veselin Topalov 2813 July, 2006

5 Vladimir Kramnik 2809 October, 2001

Identify X

8. Identify

9. ‘A’ and ‘B’ were the greatest of their kinds. Identify them

1) A.H. Albut (1892–1900)2) James West (1900–03)3) Ernest Mangnall (1903–12)4) T.J. Wallworth (1912)5) John Bentley (1912–14)6) Jack Robson (1914–21)7) John Chapman (1921–26)8) Lal Hilditch (1926–27)9) Herbert Bamlett (1927–31)10) Walter Crickmer (1931–32)11) Scott Duncan (1932–37)

12) Walter Crickmer (1937–45)13) ‘A’ (1945–69)14) Wilf McGuinness (1969–70)15) ‘A’ (1970–71)16) Frank O'Farrell (1971–72)17) Tommy Docherty (1972–77)18) Dave Sexton (1977–81)19) Ron Atkinson (1981–86)20) ‘B’(1986–)

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10. The NZ rugby team are called the ‘All blacks’, their hockey team is called the ‘Black sticks’, their cricket team is called the ‘Black Caps’. What is their football team called?

11. Which sport would you be competing in if you were in a Velodrome?

12. Peter Schmeichel is a Manchester United legend. This man revolutionized the art of saving the ball from going into the net. He popularized a “style” of goalkeeping or rather you can call a “type” of saving. Name the save.

13. The Tour De France encompasses many different routes over different nations. It basically passes through two different mountain ranges. NAME THEM.

14. The only team from Canada that plays its basketball in NBA is…….

15. What are these?

• Ashburton Grove• Boleyn Ground• Eastlands

16. Indians have reached the finals of the All England Open Badminton Championships thrice.

• Pullela Gopichand won it in 2001. The legendary Prakash Padukone also won it in 1980.

• Who was the third player?

17. CONNECT