12th TRIVIA QUIZ
SPORTS QUIZ
(first thematic quiz)
Claudy Rayan
1
99.94 is not equal to 100 !
In the 5th Test of the series at the AMP Oval, when Sir Don Bradman just
needing 4 runs to make his career average 100 or more, was bowled by a
second ball googly for zero. Who is the bowler ?
Eric Hollies (England).
2
What is Brian Lara’s daughter’s name ?
Sydney
3
Gunter's Chain is a measuring device (designed and introduced in 1620 by
Edmund Gunter) used for accurate land survey by triangulation. It consists of a
chain formed of 100 long wire links, with brass tags along the chain for
intermediate measurement. One of its lasting legacies is as a very well known
length. Of what?
Cricket Pitch (22 yards). Gunter’s Chain is 66 feet long.
4
His father was a midfielder in the bronze medal winning Indian field hockey
team at the 1972 Munich Olympics. His mother captained the Indian
basketball team in the 1980 Asian basketball championship. Name the great
grandson of a famous Bengali poet.
Leander Paes
The Bengali poet is Michael Madhusudan Dutt.
5
Connect:
Malcolm Nash, Tilak Raj, Daan van Bunge, Stuart Broad
Six sixes in an over
Garry Sobers, Ravi Shastri, Herschelle Gibbs and Yuvraj Singh
6
He won a total of nine gold and three silver medals in the 12 events in
which he competed at the Olympic Games from 1920 to 1928. In 1932 he
was unable to compete at the Olympics, as he had received money for his
running and was thus considered a professional. Who ?
Paavo Johannes Nurmi
(Finland)
7
Meher Khalil
8
On July 2, 1994, Andres Escobar was shot outside "El Indio" bar,
located in a Medellin suburb. Why he was killed ?
He scored a own goal in a match against the USA on 22 June during
the 1994 FIFA World Cup. The USA won the game 2–1, and as a
result, Colombia was eliminated from the tournament in the first round.
9
1972 Munich Massacre
A Black September commando appears on the balcony of the Connollystrasse
building where the Israeli team members were held.
10
10
Perfect 10 !!
A V Jayaprakash (Anil Kumble)
Nadia Comaneci
Old Trafford ground before start (Jim Laker)
11
‘Blue Ribbon Sports’ was founded by University of Oregon track athlete
Philip Knight and his coach Bill Bowerman in January 1964. How do we
know this company today ?
NIKE
Officially became Nike, Inc. in 1978. The company
takes its name from the Greek goddess of victory
12
Yauheni Hutarovich (Belarus)
In 2009 Tour de France Hutarovich finished 156th in General Classification,
and became the Lanterne Rouge.
Lanterne rouge means Red Lantern in French
13
Multi-talented sportsman Max Woosnam, an Olympic and Wimbledon
champion at lawn tennis and one-time captain of the England national
football team, once defeated actor and film director Charlie Chaplin in a
table tennis match. What is so special about this match ?
He played with a butter knife instead of a racket !!
14
Florence Griffith-Joyner
15
Name the Indoor version of Baseball which was invented by George
Hancock in Chicago, Illinois. The first game was played using a rolled up
boxing glove as a ball and a broomstick as a bat. Which game ?
Softball
16
He was killed in a crash while leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Pix, the
most recent Grand Prix driver to die at the wheel of a Formula One car.
As track officials examined the wreckage of his racing car they found a furled
Austrian flag. Why the flag was inside his car ?
A victory flag that he was going to raise in honour of Austrian
Roland Ratzenberger, who had died on that track the day before.
17
Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Colin Croft and Joel Garner,
18
Name the only Indian wicket keeper having a Test wicket as a bowler ?
His first test bowling figure was 0.1-0-0-0
Syed Kirmani
He bowled Pakistani opener Azeem Hafiz in the Second innings of the
Third Test match against Pakistan at Nagpur (1983)
19
Shaun Marsh and Manny Ramirez
20
He played cricket and was coached by cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi. After
being rejected by a number of American universities, he attended Sydenham
College. While at the college he played on the school's rugby team and
competed at the Western India Championships, winning a silver medal in
boxing. He is also a former member of India's international rugby team. Who ?
Rahul Bose !!!
Get up and fight, sucker!
21
Sonny Liston
The photographer Neil Leifer with Ali
22
What is common to Deepak Shodhan, Lala Amarnath, Hanumant Singh,
Abbas Ali Baig, Surinder Amarnath and Pravin Amre?
Centuries on debut, never scored another century in their careers.
23
Name this fastest Indian (100m in 10.3s)
P. Anil Kumar (Kerala)
24
Garry Kasparov
Vladimir Kramnik
Veselin Topalov
Viswanathan Anand
The only 4 players who have ever exceeded a FIDE rating of 2800
25
Jahangir Khan (right) and Jansher Khan of Pakistan
26
From the age of 5 to 15, she trained as a gymnast in her hometown of
Volgograd. She ultimately left the sport because she was considered too
tall (1.74m) to be competitive.
Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbaeva (Russia)
26 world records (14 outdoor and 12 indoor)
27
Grand Slam "boxed set"
Doris Hart
Margaret Court
Martina Navratilova
28
Arnulfo Quimare and ultra-runner Scott Jurek in Mexico's Copper Canyons.
Tarahumara tribe
The best long-distance runners in the world.
29a
30 marks
Ridley Jacobs and Mark Waugh
29b
Whose autobiography is “Out of my comfort zone”
20 marks
29c
15 marks
Shavir Tarapore
29d
10 marks
Dr. Pushpa Dravid
30a
20 marks
30b
I was named after the American Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. I costarred with Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine in the 1981 film
‘Escape to Victory’. I am best known by my nickname which I got
because of my mispronunciation of one of my favorite players.
15 marks
30c
I closed my sporting career with an exhibition match between New York
Cosmos and Santos. I played first half for Cosmos and second half for
Santos. My autobiography is titled MyLife and the beautiful game.
10 marks
Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pele)
31a
When he was 16, he began working in a Bata shoe factory in Zlin. One day, the
factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including him,
and ordered to run in a race. He protested that he his weak and not fit to run.
Coach sent him for a physical examination, and the doctor said that he was
perfectly well. So he had to run, and when he got started, he wanted to win. But
only came in second out of 100. That’s how he started !
30 marks
31b
His wife Dana (born the same day as her husband) was an outstanding
athlete in her own right in the javelin throw. She won the gold medal in the
1952 Summer Olympics and the silver medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
At Olympic victory press conference, he claimed that he had inspired her, for
that she replied "Really? Okay, go inspire some other girl and see if she
throws a javelin fifty meters !!"
20 marks
31c
He decided at the last minute to compete in the marathon for the first time
in his life. His strategy for the marathon was simple: he raced alongside
Jim Peters, the British world-record holder. After a punishing first fifteen
kilometers in which Peters knew he had overtaxed himself, he asked the
Englishman what he thought of the race thus far. The astonished Peters
told him that the pace was too slow, at which point he simply accelerated.
Peters never finished. He ran an Olympic record race.
15 marks
31d
He won gold in the 5 km and 10 km runs in 1952
Helsinki Olympics before winning the Marathon gold.
He famously said “If you want to win something, run the
100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a
marathon.” Name the ‘Czech Locomotive’ !
10 marks
Emil Zatopek
32a
30 marks
32b
At the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, she became the first woman ever to share
an Olympic podium with men. She is also the first woman in equestrianism to win
an Olympic medal. (She won silver medals at the 1952 and 1956 Summer
Olympics in dressage.)
25 marks
32c
In 1944, at the age of 23, she was paralyzed by polio. She gradually
regained use of most of her muscles, although she remained
paralyzed below the knees. Name the Danish equestrian athlete.
20 marks
Lis Hartel (1921 –2009)