The Last Ride - A Sports Quiz

The Last Ride

A Sports QuizAs a part of IISER Mohali’s Annual Fest

Insomnia 2015

Quizmasters: Ashish Thakur & Biswajit PandaMarch 28, 2015

ROUNDS

PRELIMS FINALS

PRELIMS

RULES

• This round contains 20 questions.

• Question number 5, 10 ,15 & 20 are asterisked. They will be used in case of a tie.

• + 1 for each correct answer.

• No negative marking.

1.

• Which Pakistani cricketer was nicknamed ‘Bijli’?

2.

• Identify the tournament.

3.• What is the funda?

4.

• Fininvest is a financial holding company controlled by X’s family and managed X's eldest daughter Y. The Fininvest group is composed of a number important companies: Mediolanum, Mondadori, Mediaset, Medusa Film, Z etc. Identify Z.

Z is a sports team.

5*.

• What is the significance of this match?

6.

• What is this?

7.• What is this list?

8.

• Every Second Counts is a book by X written in collaboration with sports writer and columnist Sally Jenkins. The book has now been labeled as a fictional autobiography.

Identify X.

9.

• The Henri Delaunay Trophy is awarded to the winner of the which tournament?

10*.

• Identify the organization.

11.

• Name the movie.

12

• ‘Young Cagers’ is the nickname of Indian National XTeam.

Identify X.

13.

• Whose statue is this?

14.

• What is the only sport to have been played on the surface of the moon?

15*.

• In which sport would you: “Throw stones at houses.”

16.

• How do we better know Mark William Calaway?

17.• These pictures are from an event in September 2014.

Identify the event.

18.

• What unique achievement is held by these two gentlemen only?

19.

Connect

• King George VI Chase at Kempton Park Racecourse

• Test Match at Melbourne Cricket Ground

• Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

• IIHF World U20 Championship

• Spengler Cup

• Annandagsbandy

20*.

What is this list?

• Waldi

• Amik

• Misha

• Sam

• Hodori

• Cobi

• Izzy

• Syd, Olly and Millie

• Phevos and Athena

• Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, Nini

• Wenlock

• Vinicius

1.

• Which Pakistani cricketer was nicknamed ‘Bijli’?

Saqlain Mustaq

2.

• Identify the tournament.

3.• What is the funda?

Battle of the Sexes

4.

• Fininvest is a financial holding company controlled by X’s family and managed X's eldest daughter Y. The Fininvest group is composed of a number important companies: Mediolanum, Mondadori, Mediaset, Medusa Film, Z etc. Identify Z.

Z is a sports team.

AC Milan

5*.

• What is the significance of this match?

Only cricket match played at the Olympics

The match was played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, between teams representing Great Britain and France, and was

won by 158 runs by Great Britain.

The British side was a touring club, the Devon and Somerset Wanderers (alias Devon County Wanderers), while the French

team, the French Athletic Club Union, comprised mainly British expatriates living in Paris.

6.

• What is this?

Lionel Messi’s First Contract With FC Barcelona

7.• What is this list?

Medals Won at the Chess Olympiad

8.

• Every Second Counts is a book by X written in collaboration with sports writer and columnist Sally Jenkins. The book has now been labeled as a fictional autobiography.

Identify X.

Lance Armstrong

9.

• The Henri Delaunay Trophy is awarded to the winner of the which tournament?

UEFA European Championship

10*.

• Identify the organization.

FINA

Fédération Internationale de NatationInternational Swimming Federation

11.

• Name the movie.

12

• ‘Young Cagers’ is the nickname of Indian National XTeam.

Identify X.

Basketball

13.

• Whose statue is this?

Magic Johnson

14.

• What is the only sport to have been played on the surface of the moon?

Golf

In 1971, astronaut Alan Shepherd hit 2 golf balls to see how far they might travel.

15*.

• In which sport would you: “Throw stones at houses.”

Curling

16.

• How do we better know Mark William Calaway?

The Undertaker

17.• These pictures are from an event in September 2014.

Identify the event.

World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan

18.

• What unique achievement is held by these two gentlemen only?

Graham Hill and his son Damon Hill are the only father and son pair to have both won the Formula One World

Championship.

19.

Connect

• King George VI Chase at Kempton Park Racecourse

• Test Match at Melbourne Cricket Ground

• Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

• IIHF World U20 Championship

• Spengler Cup

• Annandagsbandy

Boxing Day

All these events start on the Boxing Day.

20*.

What is this list?

• Waldi

• Amik

• Misha

• Sam

• Hodori

• Cobi

• Izzy

• Syd, Olly and Millie

• Phevos and Athena

• Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, Nini

• Wenlock

• Vinicius

Olympic Summer Games Mascots

FINALS

INFINITE BOUNCE

TRIVIA

LONG VISUAL CONNECT

DIFFERENTIAL

INFINITE BOUNCE

RULES

• This round consists of 24 questions.

• +10/-5 on pounce.

• +10 on IB.

• For the first 12 questions IB will go clockwise, for the rest 12 counterclockwise.

1.

• X helped to establish three football clubs at the beginning of the last century, in Durban, Pretoria and Johannesburg (where he moved at the end of 1904), all of which were given the same name: Passive Resisters Soccer Club. Sadly, there is no evidence proving that X ever turned out himself for any of the teams or took on any coaching roles.What fascinated X in particular was the notion he had of football’s nobility. At that time, the idea of team play was much stronger than the idea of individual ‘star’ players, and this is something that greatly appealed to him.– Poobalan Govindasamy, president of the South African Indoor Football Association

Source: fifa.com

Mahatma Gandhi

2.

• The trophy of this tournament was designed by the Bashir Moojid and created by the Pakistani Army. On March 27, 1971, in Brussels, the trophy was formally handed to Y’s President Rene Frank by Mr H.E Masood, the Pakistani Ambassador to Belgium. The trophy consists of a silver cup with an intricate floral design, surmounted by a globe of the world in silver and gold, placed on a high blade base inlaid with ivory.The inaugural tournament was won by Pakistan.

Identify the tournament.

Hockey World Cup

3.

• Identify the sport.

Lacrosse

4.

• Ross Norman is a former professional squash player from New Zealand. He is best remembered for winning the World Open in 1986.What was so special about his win in the World Open of 1986?

Hint: Norman had vowed: "One day X will be slightly off his game and I will get him."

He beat Jahangir Khan of Pakistan in the final 9-5, 9-7, 7-9, 9-1. The win marked the end of an unbeaten run

for Khan that had stretched for over five years (the longest in the history of professional sport).

5.

• Identify the logo.

Hint: The project was started by a former German hockey player Andrea Thumshirn in 2010. She started the academy in Garh Himmat Singh, District Dausa in Rajasthan with the support of her German hockey friends and local ruling families.

6.

Which sportsperson has the following World Records?

• Most party poppers ever popped in one minute (52);

• Fastest time to drink a hot chocolate (5.45 seconds);

• Most Facebook likes in one hour (52,719);

• Fastest 100 metres on a Pedalo (1 minute 58.62 seconds), with fellow cricketer X;

• Most kisses in 30 seconds (40), a record he broke live on air in the Loose Women studio;

• Most peas eaten with a cocktail stick in 30 seconds (38);

• Most people popping party poppers together (420);

• Fastest time to high-five 20 people blindfolded (6.53 seconds);

• Most cricket deliveries faced in one minute (19), helped by fellow sport star Gary Lineker and McFly's Harry Judd;

• Fastest three-point turn in a car (14.01 seconds), after failing his first attempt by two seconds this morning;

• Fastest zorb over 100 metres (26.59 seconds);

• Most hot dogs made in one minute (9);

• Longest distance to throw a bullseye in darts (5.05 metres);

• Most lemons caught while blindfolded in one minute (20), again with X.

Andrew Flintoff

7.

• "Million Dollar Arm" was a 2008 reality TV show that sought to discover baseball pitching talent in India. It was the subject of a 2014 film as well.

Sports agent J.B.Bernstein, the brain behind this show, launched a new show in 2014, which in some sense is the geographical and sporting opposite of the Million Dollar Arm. So what is his new show a Million Dollar quest for?

It's called "Million Dollar Bat" and it seeks to find a baseball batter who can play in India's IPL

8.

• What completes the list?

Grand Tour

9.

Which game has the following variants?

• Cricket

• Around the world

• 20 to 1

• Ranger

• Halve it

• Fives

• Shanghai

• Killer

Darts

10

• Following are the pictures from a match played by international cricketers including former South Africa fast bowler Makhaya Ntini and ex-England spinner Ashley Giles in September 2014.The "Gorillas" team, led by England women's vice-captain Heather Knight, scored 82-5 to beat Giles' "Rhinos" team, who managed 64-9.

What’s so special about this match?

Highest-ever match played. Played at the top of Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, in Tanzania.

11.

• Electronic Arts Inc. announced on March 17, 2015 that X will be the new face of its golf series. “X PGA Tour" will be released in June.EA Sports built its PGA Tour series around Woods from 1998 until it ended its relationship with him in 2013, when Woods was still No. 1 in the world.

Identify X.

Rory McIlroy

12.

• Each year, the International Federation of XAuthorities (IFXA) and Longines present to the Y with the best performance in the world’s highest-rated races the LONGINES WORLD’S BEST Y AWARD.The inaugural recipient of the Longines World's Y Award is Ryan Moore.

Identify Y.

Y – Jockey

13.• What is this list?

Winners of World Computer Chess Championship

14.

• X represented India at the 1958 Asian Games at Tokyo. X trained as a distance runner during his days in the army - a subedar with Bengal Engineers at Roorkee. X was not interested in steeplechase running at first, but discovered it in the military. He went on to be the national champion of steeplechasing for seven years. His national record of nine minutes and four seconds in the 3000 meter steeplechase event remained unbroken for 10 years. He was not allowed to fight in the 1962 and 1965 wars due to his career in sports, which ended in 1972.

Paan Singh Tomar

15.Connect (Not exhaustive)

Recipients of the Olympic Order

The Olympic Order is the highest award of the Olympic Movement and is awarded for particularly distinguished

contributions to the Olympic Movement, i.e. recognition of efforts worth of merit in the cause of sport. It was established in

May 1975 by the International Olympic Committee as a successor to the Olympic Certificate.

16.

• The X ruling is a European Court of Justice ruling handed down on 8 May 2003 in favour of Maroš X, a Slovak handball player. It declared that citizens of countries which have signed European Union Association Agreements have the same right to freedom of work and movement within the EU as EU citizens.A X player, or X, is a term used in the United Kingdom for players in the domestic leagues in cricket and both rugby codes from overseas, subject to the X ruling.

The the decision has allowed English county cricket clubs to employ the services of a multitude of overseas cricketers, especially from South Africa. Prior to the X ruling ECB rules had limited each county to one overseas (non-EU) professional.

Kolpak

17.

• The X Olympian Games, dating from 1850, are a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games. These were one of Pierre de Coubertin's sources of inspiration for the modern Olympic Games. They are organized by the X Olympian Society, and are held each year at venues across Shropshire, England, centered on the little market town of Much X. The mascot for the London 2012 Summer Olympics was named X in honour of the X Olympian Games.

Wenlock

18.

• X Baloncesto is a Spanish professional basketball team founded in 1931. They play in the Liga ACB and internationally in the Euroleague. Cabrera, a Spaniard who had been playing basketball in Argentina, was given the go ahead by the X board at the time to create the first teams. On the 8th of March 1931, an advertisement was placed in the daily newspaper ABC which said the following: “Men who are interested in practicing this sport are kindly asked to visit the club secretary, Caballero de Gracia, 15, to receive further instructions”.

Identify X.

Real Madrid

19.

Connect.

Only sportsperson to play both Cricket & Football World Cups.

20.

• The Triple Crown of Motorsport is an unofficial motorsport achievement, often regarded as winning three of the most prestigious motor races in the world in one's career:

• The Indianapolis 500

• The 24 Hours of Le Mans

• X ( A Formula 1 Grand Prix)Graham Hill is the only driver to have completed the Triple Crown.Identify X.

Monaco Grand Prix

21.

• 6th of November, 1867 a letter of challenge was sent to X:

'To the President of the X:

The undersigned, in behalf of the Y, hereby challenges the X to row a race in outrigger boats from Putney to Mortlake, some time between the middle of August and the 1st of September, 1869, each boat to carry four rowers and a coxswain. The exact time to be agreed upon at a meeting of the crews. This challenge to remain open for acceptance one week after date of reception.'

William H. Simmons

The challenge finally took place on 27th of August, 1869 and was known by ‘The Great International Boat Race’.

The huge public interest in the X-Y Boat Race had an unbelievable affect on rowing in America.

Identify X & Y.

X – Oxford University Boat ClubY – Harvard University Boat Club

22.

• X is a trap shooter. He won two silver medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and a gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games. In 2011, he became first Indian to successfully defend a World Cup title. He received Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2013.

He is currently ranked No. 1 in International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) world rankings.

Identify X.

Ronjan Sodhi

23.

• X is among the most prestigious and oldest events in the Olympic Games. It was included in the Olympics in 708 BC. In ancient times, X in India was mainly used as a way to stay physically fit. It was also used as a military exercise without any weapons. X in India is also known as dangal, and it is the basic form of a X tournament.

X also finds mention in Ramayana & Mahabharata.

Wrestling

24.

• X is an unarmed martial art from Varanasi in north India. In Varanasi, X was not a sport, but a way to fight with the anti-social elements.Similar to Southeast Asian kickboxing styles it makes use of punches, kicks, knees and elbow strikes & head buttes although punches tend to dominate. Matches were once held regularly in Varanasi but were eventually banned because of the fights which often broke out among the boxers' supporters. Illegal bouts continued but became rare by the 1960s.Today it usually refers to muki boxing from Varanasi.

Identify X.

Musti-yuddha

AUDIENCE QUESTIONS

1.

• In 2009, a Twenty20 match was played just above the base camp of the world's highest peak — the Mount Everest — to raise 250,000 pounds for charity.Team X were led by Haydn Main, 29, a lawyer from South London but it was Team Y, skippered by a New Zealand Glen Lowis, that won by 36 runs.The match was played on a pitch on the Gorak Shepplateau in Nepal.

Identify X & Y.

X – Tenzing

Y – Hilary

2.

• Identify the organization.

Leo Messi Foundation

3.

• Following is a list of fully sovereign states without FIFA membership. Identify the blacked out country

Vatican City

4.

• Which team won the 2009 & 2011 UEFA Champions League by defeating Manchester United In the finals on both the occasions?

FC Barcelona

DIFFERENTIAL

RULES

• This round consists of 8 questions.

• 2n + 5 marking scheme.

• ‘n’ is the number of teams not/incorrectly answering the question.

• If the answer consists of two parts, differential will be applied even if one of the teams answer both the parts.

1.Connect (Exhaustive)

Sports Stars at Madame Tussauds London

2.

• X was a British badminton, tennis and chess player. He was twice British Chess Champion and a 21-time All-England Badminton champion. He also reached the quarterfinals of the singles and the semifinals of the men's tennis doubles at Wimbledon in 1911.In 1934 he was co-founder of the International Badminton Federation of which he was president from 1934 to 1955.X was inducted into the World Badminton Hall of Fame as an Inaugural Member in 1996. Who is X?

Sir George Thomas

Badminton's world men's team championships cup is named Thomas Cup after him

3.

• Identify both the boxers.

Mike Tyson & Evander Holyfield

4.

• Identify the organization. It is the only international federation with more than 50 sports on its competition program.

FISU

Fédération internationale du sport universitaireInternational University Sports Federation

5.

• The first and second edition of this tournament was organized and hosted by Saudi Arabia. It was called King Fahd Cup. The first and second edition organized in 1992 & 1995 respectively was contested by the Saudi national side and some continental champions. In 1997, FIFA took over the organization of the tournament, renamed it the X and staged the competition every two years.The inaugural edition was won by Argentina.

Since 2005, it has been held every four years.

Identify X.

FIFA Confederations Cup

6.

• As a bowler enters his delivery stride, the non-striking batsman usually 'backs up'. This means he leaves his popping crease and walks towards the other end of the wicket so that it will take him less time to reach the other end if he and his batting partner choose to attempt a run. Sometimes a batsman, whilst backing up, leaves the popping crease before the bowler has actually delivered the ball. Where this has happened, the bowler may attempt to run the non-striking batsman out. Getting a batsman out this way, though legal, is generally considered to be against the spirit of the game as the non-striker usually accidentally leaves the crease. This method of dismissal goes by the popular name X, after Indian bowler Y.Identify X or Y.

X – MankadingY – Vinoo Mankad

7.

• X has a history which traces back to the times before Christ. X is said to be the world's oldest spectator sport. The sport was popular in ancient times in India, China, Persia, and other Eastern countries and was introduced into Ancient Greece in the time of Themistocles (c. 524–460 BC). In the first century after Christ, Julius Caesar led Rome into enjoying the sport of X. He was the first citizen of Rome to be an enthusiast of the sport. Caesar ultimately introduced X into England.

In many places, X and has been outlawed.

Cockfighting

8.• What unique achievement is being held only by

these four teams?

These teams have won all three main UEFA club competitions.

UEFA Champions LeagueUEFA Cup Winners' Cup

UEFA Europa League

TRIVIA

RULES

• There are four questions in this round.

• +15 for correct answer.

• No negative marking.

1.

• Who is the only person to win both an Olympic medal and a Nobel Prize?

Philip John Noel-Baker

He carried the British team flag and won an Olympic silver medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp,

and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959.

2.

• Name of the Cup?

Olympic Cup

It was instituted by Pierre de Coubertin in 1906 and is awarded to an institution or association with a record of merit and integrity in actively developing the Olympic Movement.

3.

• "Nobody had ever done anything like that before. I came up with the idea because I used to practice penalties after training at Bohemians with our goalkeeper Zdenek Hruska. To make it interesting, we used to wager a beer or a bar of chocolate on each penalty. Unfortunately, because he was such a good keeper, I ended up losing money as he kept saving more shots than I could score. As a result I ended up lying awake at night thinking about how I could get the upper hand. I eventually realized that the goalkeeper always waits until just before the last moment and dives just before it's kicked so he can reach the shot in time. I decided that it was probably easier to score by feinting to shoot and then just gently tapping the ball into the middle of the goal. I tried it out on the training ground and it worked like a charm. The only problem was that I started getting a lot fatter because I won back all those beers and chocolates.“

Words said by 'X' explaining one of his feats in 1976 Euro Championships.X? Funda ?

Antonin Panenka on his chip penalty famous as 'Panenka Chip'

4.

• Which world record is jointly held by these to gentlemen?

Most number of ascents of Mt. Everest ( 21 each)

LONG VISUAL CONNECT

RULES

• There are 12 images in total.

• No marks for individual identification.

• Constant minus five ( except for the last slide) for wrong answer.

1.+ 40

Sebastian Coe

2.+ 40

Sir Bobby Charlton

3.+ 35

Zinedine Zidane

4.+ 35

Nawal El Moutawakel

5.+ 30

Sergey Bubka

6.+ 30

Franz Beckenbauer

7.+ 25

Johan Cruyff

8.+ 25

Arne Naess

9.+ 20

Gary Player

10.+ 20

Sir Peter Blake

11.+ 15

Sir Steve Redgrave

12.+ 10

Pelé

Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award