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Sportstar- Sports Quiz

NSIT Quiz ClubQuiz Blaster : Sahil Kalra

Round 1- Dry Infinite Bounce. Starts from team A.Question to the same team if it goes

unanswered.10 points for each correct answer.

1.After whose death in 2003, a fellow

sportsman called Eddie DeLaHoussie said "For a man his size, wearing a shoe of size 2 and a half, he was a giant"?

Willie Shoemaker

2.Only 3 players have hit 4 consecutive sixes

in an over in a test match. Two of them are - Kapil Dev and Shahid Afridi. Name the third.

A.B. Devilliers

3.X was nicknamed "_______ the Terrible".

Tennis magazine named X as one of the ten greatest tennis players since 1966, calling him "the game's greatest overachiever" and emphasizing his importance in the game's history. X captured eight Grand Slam singles titles during his career and competed in a total of 19 Grand Slam singles finals, a record for a male player. Identify X.

Ivan Lendl

4.X is a female boxer from Manipur, who came

back from a two-year sabbatical to clinch her fourth successive World Amateur boxing gold in 2008. She is right now posted as DSP at bapupara police station. Who?

MC Marykom

5. In F-1, for what reason is a blue flag shown?

Shown to a slow car when getting lapped.

6.X, Mumbai wicket-keeper, took the field for

West Indies, for about 2 overs, in the match against Australia on October 18, 2006 in champions trophy. Give me X.

Vinayak Samant

7.Apart from the Chappells who are the only

sets of three brothers to play for the same team in the same Test match?

Grace brothers

Round 2-Identify the Legends.

Scoring same as before.Order reverses.

1.

Billie Jean King

2.

Kareem Abdul Jabbar

3.

Sergie Bubka

4.

Wayne Gretzgy

5.

Zico

6.

Vinoo Mankad

7.

Kiran Balooch

Round 3 - CluetopiaOrder reverses again.No passing.After first clue- +20 for correct, -10 for wrong

answer.After second clue- +10 for correct, -5 for

wrong answer.After first clue- +5 for correct, no negative for

wrong answer.One shot per question.

1. Clue 1: He played one first-class cricket match for

Essex, against Lancashire at Aigburth in 1962, making 0 not out in the first innings, and was bowled by Colin Hilton, again for 0, in the second. He is currently Director of Football for McDonald's fast food chain.

Clue 2: He had played one game short of 500 for West Ham, scoring 252 goals. He was briefly Player/Manager for Telford United, served as assistant coach for England from 1977-1982, and managed Chelsea for two years after that.

Clue 3: In the game's history as the only player to have scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final.

Geoff Hurst

2. Clue 1 He holds the unique distinction of being the only captain to

lead his side to Ranji, Duleep and Deodhar Trophy victories in a single season.

Clue 2 He made his first Test double century at the Antigua Recreation Ground against the West Indies in June 2006. His 212 was made in over 500 minutes during the second innings was the equal second highest by an Indian batsman in the Caribbean.

Clue 3 He made his Twenty20 (T20) debut for Mumbai against Tamil Nadu at Ahmadabad. He joined the Bangalore Royal Challengers team for $1,50,000 and he played in five matches for the team during the 2008 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), making 110 runs, including a half-century.

Wasim Jaffer

3. Clue 1 In the 1975 World Cup held at Kuala Lumpur, he helped

Indian Hockey Team to win the gold medal. He as a member of Indian team also participated in Munich Olympics held in the 1972. He won Madhya Pradesh's Betul seat in 1991.

Clue 2 After the Indian Hockey Federation was suspended in April, 2008, He was selected to head a new committee created by the Indian Olympic Association to organize hockey in India.

Clue 3 He has also authored an autobiography, `To Hell with Hockey`.

Aslam Sher Khan

4. Clue 1 He won six Grand Prix races in a short career at the

highest level. In 1979 he finished second by four points in the championship to team-mate Jody Scheckter. He was taken on by reigning world champions Ferrari for the end of the season in 1978 and from 1978 to 1982 drove for the Italian team.

Clue 2 He died in a 140 mph crash with the March of Jochen Mass during qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder.

Clue 3 His son, became Formula One world champion in 1997 and he has a Formula-1 track named after him.

Giles Vilenueve

5. Clue 1 X's career win–loss record in singles matches of 1,309–

146 (.900) is the best of any professional player in tennis history.

Clue 2 X won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 7 at the French Open. X won at least one Grand Slam singles title each year for 13 consecutive years, from 1974 through 1986.

Clue 3 X is currently married to golfer Greg Norman.

Chris Evert

6. Clue 1 His major contribution in academic medicine was in the

field of autonomic failure, an area of neurology focusing on illnesses characterized by certain automatic responses of the nervous system (for example, elevated heart rate when standing up) not occurring.

Clue 2 He was the inaugural recipient of the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year award in 1955.

Clue 3 His memoir is title "The Four Minute Mile".

Roger Bannister

7. Clue 1 Regarded as one of the greatest spin bowlers, he played

36 Tests between 1951 and 1962 and captured 149 wickets. His best was 9/102 against West Indies in 1958-59 at Kanpur.

Clue 2 He was nicknamed ‘Fergie’ after Wilfred Ferguson and settled in Trinidad & Tobago 2 years before Retirement.

Clue 3 His career ended after the controversy regarding his teammate calling the receptionist at the hotel into their room for drinks.

Subhash Gupte

Round 4- Sports and PoliticsOrder reverses. Infinite bounce.10 points for correct answer.

1.Which former cricketer will contest the

upcoming Lok Sabha General Elections for the BJP from the East Delhi constituency? He was the first Test cricketer to finish his Test career with over 2000 runs but without a century.

Chetan Chauhan

2.Which Italian politician has written AC

Milan's anthem with the Italian music producer and pop singer Tony Renis?

Silvio Berlusconi

3.He serves as secretary of the All India

Congress Committee, the central governing body of India's largest political party. He is also a founder and director of BAG Films Limited, the Honorary Secretary of Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association and ex-manager of the Indian National Cricket Team. He is also the Chairman of the Media Committee of BCCI. Who am I talking about?

Rajeev Shukhla

4.She is a Member of Parliament, representing

Krishnagar in West Bengal, affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). An athlete and won the Gold medals in 800 m and 1500 m events in the 1998 Asian Games. She is a recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award for the year 1998-1999 and was awarded the Padma Shri in 2003.

Jyotirmoyee Sikdar

5.X is the Senior Vice President of the Indian

Olympic Association in addition to being the Presidents of the General Association of National Sports Federations and the  Archery Association of India. He is the deputy leader of the BJP parliamentary party. Simply Identify X.

Vijay Kumar Malhotra

6He was given the Arjuna award in 1961, the first ever from his sport to be rewarded with this national honour. He won the National Championship 17 times and represented India at all levels of international competition including five Olympic Games He documented his sporting experience in a book of his memoirs From Rome to Moscow. He was a member of the Indian Parliament for 25 years from 1952 to 1977 from Bikaner.

Karni Singh

7He served in the Indian Air Force from 1965

to 1974 as a pilot, and participated in the Indo-Pakistani Wars of 1965 and 1971. He is associated with Sai Service, one of the largest dealerships of Maruti and Bajaj passenger vehicles in India. During the tenure of P.V.Narasimha Rao, he served as the Minister of State for Railways from 1995 to 1996. Who am I talking about?

Suresh Kalmadi

Round 5- VideosOrder reverses. Infinite bounce.10 points for correct answer.

Game over

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