Food Alcohol Drugs(in sport)+WAGS quiz Finals

FINALS

Round 1: Know thy partner!

8 WAGs Name their respective sportsperson

husbands/boyfriends (1st letter of the 1st name would start with B,A,R,E,F,O,O,T)

Hints mentioned are for the sportsperson & not about the WAG

+5 for every right answer +10 if you get all correct Total- 50 points on offer

1. B.[Recently completed 100 international appearances. Our city has had its tryst with him sometime back]

2. A.[He is currently the last North American male player to win a Grand Slam singles event.]

3. R.[Only Indian cricketer to score a century and take 5 wickets in same test match on 2 separate instances.]

4. E.[Is his country’s highest goal scorer. Importantly scored 14 goals in Qualifying to lead them to their 1st WC]

5. F.[Recently took over Michael Schumacher’s record of most championship points in F1]

6. O.

7. O.[In 1995, he was acquitted for murdering his wife(in pic). For pure sports enthusiasts, he holds the NFL record for the single season yards-per-game average, which stands at 143.1 ]

8. T.[Latest couple on the block]

And the answers are

1. B.[Recently completed 100 international appearances. Our city has had its tryst with him sometime back]

Bastian Schweinsteiger

2. A.[He is currently the last North American male player to win a Grand Slam singles event.]

Andy Roddick

3. R.[Only Indian cricketer to score a century and take 5 wickets in same test match on 2 separate instances.]

Ravichandran Ashwin

4. E.[Is his country’s highest goal scorer. Importantly scored 14 goals in Qualifying to lead them to their 1st WC]

Eden Dzeko

5. F.[Recently took over Michael Schumacher’s record of most championship points in F1]

Fernando Alonso

6. O.

Oscar Pistouris

7. O.[In 1995, he was acquitted for murdering his wife(in pic). For pure sports enthusiasts, he holds the NFL record for the single season yards-per-game average, which stands at 143.1 ]

OJ Simpson

8. T.[Latest couple on the block]

Tom Daley

1.

Tyler Hamilton is a former American road cyclist. At the 2004, Vuelta a Espana, Hamilton failed a dope test when he was found to have two types of blood in his system indicating blood transfusion. When a molecular biology professor at MIT caught wind of this story, he wrote to Tyler’s father, Bill enquiring about the circumstances of Tyler’s birth. He then offered an alternative explanation to the dope test. The Hamiltons went with this explanation and proclaimed Tyler’s innocence. The authorities, however, did not take the bait and found him guilty. The cyclist, later, confessed his crime.

  So, what bizarre explanation was offered to the

authorities by Tyler Hamilton?

Chimerism

The explanation was that Tyler lost a twin at the time of birth and it was traces of the lost twin’s blood that the authorities detected on him!

2. Who was it between 2008-2009?

Laura Andressy(1981-2007) Kirsten Kutner(2010-

present)

Chris Evert.

3.

XY Brigade is a term that describes corporate or otherwise emotionally detached football fans who attend matches primarily to enjoy corporate hospitality, rather than support a team.

The term originated from a media comment by Manchester United captain Roy Keane who felt certain sections of the crowd had not been vocal enough in their support, and at times too quick to criticise minor mistakes, during the Champions League game against Dynamo Kyiv in November 2000.

Prawn Sandwich Brigade.

4. How does this Arsenal fan podcast get its name?

The Tuesday Club was the name of social gatherings held by Arsenal players under George Graham. It usually involved heavy drinking and was led by Tony Adams. Many notorious incidents came about because of the Tuesday Club, notably players turning up for training drunk, notable players being involved in unsavory incidents in tours abroad.

5.

What controversial rule introduced by an entity ‘‘declared in Lausanne” was challenged by Sporta, the Belgium Sports Union, who argue that the system violates Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights?

WADA’s wherabouts system

6. Pictured here is the men’s +105 Kg weightlifting Gold medal winner from Beijing. He had the most poignant love story of the Games. Only a year after he had lost his wife Susan in car crash, he came back from severe depression to lift the gold medal. Name him.

Matthias Steiner

7. Novak Djokovic launched a furious tirade against the tennis administration last year for banning his friend from the tour for 18 months for missing a drug test. Name him.

Victor Troicki

8.

When one of the great athletes of our time, Javier Sotomayor, tested positive for cocaine at the 1999 Pan American Games, it caused a massive furore in the world of athletics and, also, back home in Cuba. Such was the outcry that Fidel Castro himself intervened to reduce the obligatory two year ban imposed by the IAAF in order to allow Sotomayor to compete at the Sydney Games. The IAAF, eventually (and controversially) relented and allowed him to compete. He ended up winning Silver.

What rather predictable explanation was offered by Granma, the official newspaper of the central committee of the Cuban Communist party, to appease Sotomayor’s indignant countrymen?

They said that it was a CIA plot to cut Sotomayor(and Cuba) down to size!

9.Name the husband wife duo which won their country’s first badminton Olympic golds.

Alan Budikusuma and Susi Susanti.

10.

Whose very accomplished WAG announced this week that she would be unable to defend her Olympic title in Downhill Skiing at Sochi owing to a serious knee injury? The four time overall world champion expressed regret at being unable to recover from an injury that she sustained in the World Championships in Austria last year.

Tiger Woods

11. What’s the record?

The exact details of one of the great cricket statistics remain sketchy even today. The ‘event’ occurred on a flight to London for the 1989 Ashes. Dean Jones was seated next to X for the initial part of X’s endeavor. X, Jones recalled, never set out to beat the mark set by Rod Marsh(46) and Doug Walters(44) before that. When X was on 23, Jones retired to bed. He awoke 8 hours later to a round of applause and a PA announcement from the captain congratulating X on his ‘fantastic achievement’. So revered is the figure that it was once suggested that the Tasmanian speed limit be lowered to 52km/h as a tribute.

David Boon drinking 52 cans of beer on a single flight.

12. An iconic wedding from last year, identify the athlete on the left.

Greg Louganis

13.

In an interview in 2011, a certain Holly Sweeney revealed all to The Mirror. She spoke about how her former boyfriend had left her heartbroken after he flew to Germany to watch a boxing match and meet the woman he was beginning to covet, leaving poor Holly all alone at home. Upon his return, Holly claimed, he dodged her at the door and went straight to the dogs. He, later, sat her down and explained to Holly that he’d met with another woman in Germany and wanted to see how things went with her. Holly, in order to cope, moved to Dubai for a few years after which returned to Belfast. She appeared on a celebrity edition of Come Dine With Me where she cheekily dressed up as a tennis player. So, who was Holly’s boyfriend?

Rory Mcilroy

14.

Long before the likes of John Terry preyed on WAGS of teammates, another gent lurked in his fast cars. When he met his future wife, Corinna, she was still dating former teammate, Heinz Harald Frentzen. Once Heinz and Corinna split up, he seized his chance and they were married five years later.

Michael Schumacher

15. Identify the cricketer and the athlete.

When a former cricketer and his wife, Sangeeta split up, the media alleged it was due to an affair with an athlete of some other discipline. The athlete, at that time married to another athlete of the same discipline, vehemently and steadfastly shot down any such allegations. Later, however, the athlete claimed that the affair and surrounding media hullabaloo contributed to the breakdown of her own husband.

Jwala Gutta and Mohammed Azharuddin

16. Identify this sexy couple When former national team mates, X and Y, were

reunited at Boca Juniors in 1995, X, a Golden Ball winner, promised to kiss his strike partner, Y on the mouth each time. When the kiss arrived - full on the lips and with mouths noticeably open – arrived it caused such a furore that Y's then wife, Mariana Nannis, appealed to the pair to desist for the sake of their children. Later she told a TV interviewer: "At times I think X is in love with my husband. It must be the long hair and the big muscles." The said physical features were to later land Y in a world of trouble, enough to see him expelled from a World Cup squad even.

X- Diego Maradonna, Y-Claudio Cannigia

REVERSE

17.

What long standing tradition did Williams F1 end in 2000 at a time Formula One was no longer exempt from European sponsorship legislations?

They were the first major team to run without a tobacco sponsorship

18. Who described the tennis player below to have a ‘black heart’ in a Rolling Stone interview last year? Explain the controversy.

Serena Williams’ tirade against Sharapova and her boyfriend, and Serena’s ex, Grigor Dimitrov

19. Which group of sportsmen?

A study conducted by Limerick University showed that a certain group of professional sportsmen were suffering from serious conditions like constant dehydration and inadequate body fat and bone density in order to adhere to the severe weight restrictions imposed them. It is for the same reason that this group go on systematic smoking schedules so that they do not feel hungry on game day, the study said.

Jockeys

20. Connect the two images on the left with the image on the right.

VIRGINIA SLIMS. Philip Morris, the Marlboro Man, founded a brand of cigarettes called Virginia Slims. Virginia Slims sponsored the breakaway circuit for the Original Nine, The Virginia Slims Circuit, which was a precursor to the WTA Tour.

21. Ad campaign started by Johnson & Johnson. What is it called? Alternatively, explain the funda behind the title.

“Don’t be an asterisk”

The campaign uses the image of “asterisk” to refer to athletes who are disqualified or banned from sport because of their use of steroids to advise against teen steroid usage.

22.

In 2009, the Genoese Anti Tobacco League lobbied hard against a gent called Baciccia to put out his smoking device. The conveners of law, however, were sensible enough to reject their lawsuit.

What the hell am I talking about?

Baciccia is the name of the man with the pipe on the Sampdoria crest!

23.

To celebrate his silver medal winning effort in the 1920 Olympics, the Spanish GK decided to carry home multiple cases of contraband Havana cigars. He would have probably gotten away with it had he not decided light one up in the carriage. The customs officer at the border stumbled upon his stash. The keeper was fined 500 pesetas and thrown in jail for a night. So, how do we remember this daredevil GK today?

For bonus points: For people who are easily pleased with symmetry, who scored Spain’s winning goal in the 3-1 win over the Dutch in the silver medal match?

Ricardo Zamora trophy for the Best GK in LaLiga.Pichichi trophy for the top goalscorer in La Liga

24.

This footballer comes from an illustrious line of sportsmen. His father was a national judo champion and also played professional football. His mother was a volleyball player turned administrator. His sister too has represented the country at the U-21 level in volleyball.His wife, Anna Stachurska, is the most accomplished of the lot. She is a national Karate champion and won a bronze in the 2009 Karate World Cup.

Robert Lewandowski

25. Who is her more famous in-law?

Annabel Mehta was born in Birmingham and went to study to the London School of Economics. It was here she met Anand. She married him and came to Mumbai some 47 years ago. It was here she found her true calling, social work. She works mainly with mentally disable slum children who have been cast away from their homes and is the number one fundraiser for Apnalaya, a charity she helped set up.

Which famous WAG’s mother is she?

Sachin Tendulkar

26. ID the WAG

Identify this WAG who rose to prominence when she was stripped of her Miss Great Britain title for posing nude for Playboy and sleeping with one of the pageant judges, Teddy Sheringham. She was one of the inmates of the Celebrity Big Brother house who bullied and racially abused Shilpa Shetty during her time there. Specific comments she made about Shetty include "She's a dog" and "They eat with their hands in India, don't they – or is that China? You don't know where her hands have been."

Daniella O’Hara; Jamie O’ Hara’s WAG

27. Identify the Hall of Famer Her induction into the Hall of Fame in Newport last

year, six years after a forced retirement, was paraded upon by her ex-husband, French equestrian, Thibault Hutin who claimed that he caught her cheating on him multiple times during their marriage. The drug tainted Hall of famer was labeled “ a serial cheater” by Hutin. A few months after the interview was published, Hutin was attacked at his Swiss home by his ex wife and an entourage. The police recovered his stolen credit card and passport from the group. A rather sad trajectory for a champion of the game.

Martina Hingis

28. How was a wig the central motif of a controversy which started at a Walkabout bar in Birmingham sometime last year?

David Warner punched Root because he thought ‘ridiculous’ in the wig

29. Id this ‘activist’ former WAG A few months before her wedding in Paris, this

good friend of Princess Diana, converted to Islam. After her marriage disintegrated she said that she "over-conformed in her eagerness to be accepted" into the "new and radically different culture“. Despite her eventual divorce, this Editor of Vanity Fair and New Statesman, continues to do charity work in charities run by her former husband and has repeatedly been the subject of death threats from radical Islamist groups. A vocal advocate of free speech, she was the executive producer for the documentary film We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks by Alex Gibney.

Jemima Marcelle Khan

30.

How would you connect an ethnic Eastern Ugandan tribe specializing in agriculture to the youngest designer to unveil at Lifestyle India Fashion Week 2010?

Masaba