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Sports Quiz Finals at KQA's 29th Anniversary (2012) - by Thejaswi Udupa and Venkatesh S

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ASKQANCE 2012Kibitz Simple

Finals

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The Bookkeepers Round 1

Written round+5 for every correct answer+5 bonus if only 1-2 teams answer

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Whose tenure as MCCpresident?

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Name him

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NBA Hall of Fame, Rhodes Scholar and Senator.

Who?

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What’s the title?

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Who is the subject?

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Name him

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Name both

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Fill in the blank with a place name

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Exchange Sheets ...

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Whose tenure as MCCpresident?

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AnswerTom Graveney

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Name him

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AnswerMark Cuban

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NBA Hall of Fame, Rhodes Scholar and Senator.

Who?

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AnswerBill Bradley

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What’s the title?

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AnswerSoccernomics

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Who is the subject?

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AnswerMoe Norman

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Name him

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AnswerSean Payton

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Name both

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AnswerSuzanne LenglenHelen Wills Moody

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Fill in the blank with a place name

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AnswerSansarpur

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ClockwiseRound 2

+10 on bounce+10/-10 on pounce

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In local language it is called a ‘gol’. The shape is symbolically anthropomorphic – a body with head, shoulders, breasts, belly, genitals (both male and female!), and knees.

In what activity that National Geographic journalist Kal Muller was the first white man to do, does one come across a ‘gol’?

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AnswerLand diving in the Pentecost Island, Vanuatu

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While more famous as a criminal (he was no. 4 on the original Public Enemies list!), he was a keen golfer and good enough to qualify for the Western Open at Olympia under the name Vincent Ghebardi (a version of his real name Vincenzo Gibaldi) – unfortunately for him, his greatest sporting achievement also led to his arrest as a sharp detective in Chicago Police noticed the name in the newspapers, made the obvious connect, and went to Olympia on Day 2 of the Open and arrested him. He was allowed to complete the game, though – and he missed the cut by 14 shots. He blamed his poor performance on the police presence.

Identify this sporting criminal.

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Answer‘Machine Gun’ Jack McGurn

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In 1997, when ESPN premiered this technology developed by a start-up named Sportvision, some reactions from sports journalists included “Is there a guy running out there with a vacuum and chalk?”, “Is it being done with laser beams?”

What technological innovation in sports broadcasting is this, that won ESPN an Emmy the following year?

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AnswerThe yellow first-and-ten line in American

football tv coverage

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Stephen Krieger was the champion since 2003. Joe Collins usurped the throne earlier this year but not without controversy. The 51 year old Joe Collins did all the engineering but got a much fitter and younger Joe Ayoob to do the actual job for him and this sent the purists aflutter.

What ‘sport’?

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AnswerPaper plane throwing

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"I was the greatest generator of income for clubs, greater than Flintoff, Botham and the rest" Peter Bowler told a meeting of the Cricket Society in 2011.

What’s the funda?

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AnswerPeter Bowler had a reputation for being a

slow and boring batsman. "Whenever I went out to bat, the stands

emptied and bars and restaurants were filled to capacity."

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When he was the captain of his Ranji team, this legendary player had instituted a practice of rewarding his players with Oakley sunglasses whenever they hit a double century or took a five-for. However on one occasion he gave a pair of these coveted glasses to a player who had taken only a four-for, because it was only his second Ranji game, and he had taken a crucial hat-trick that triggered a batting collapse.

Name the captain and the bowler.

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AnswerVirender SehwagParwinder Awana

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“I thought they had hurt their hand.” – Lord Burghley, 6th Marquis of Essex, 400m hurdles gold medal winner in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics

Explain the quote with reference to context.

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AnswerLord Burghley awarded the medals to

Tommie Smith, John Carlos and Peter Norman in 1968 Mexico. The statement was his response when asked about the salute.

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What is the inspiration for this anumalikal banner from F.C. Tokyo?

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Answer

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Identify this flag. Who draped this flag around herself after winning an Olympic gold?

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AnswerAboriginal flagCathy Freeman

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Identify the author of this autobiographical work. He now works as a taxi driver at Dorset.

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AnswerJimmy Glass

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Shown above is the aftermath of a 1929 event. What would a photo of the aftermath of the 1951 sporting equivalent look like?

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AnswerJake La Motta on the ropes (his final and

famous bout with Sugar Ray Robinson, dubbed the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre)

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Brazilian player Kerlon is seen in this video doing his signature move called the ‘foquinha’. What does the word mean?

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AnswerSeal

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This all-rounder played ten Test matches over a span of seven years, and his team won every one of them – leaving him with the enviable record of being the only cricketer with over ten matches in his career AND a 100% win-record. He was seen in the 2011 Cricket World Cup as a coach.

Who?

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AnswerEldine Baptiste

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Manhattan, 1926 – 2 million people turn up for the biggest ticker-tape parade until then held in honour of  “a 19-year-old New Yorker with a slick crawl and a winning grin”  who had set a record that would hold for the next 24 years. Who was the achiever?

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AnswerGertrude Ederle

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AnswerDaley ThompsonIron Maiden

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The ‘Snow Leopard Award’ was a Soviet mountaineering award, that the former Soviet states continue to award to this date. For what achievement is this award given?

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AnswerFor climbing all the 5 7000m+ peaks in the

former Soviet Union

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In 2002, double Olympic gold-medallist Jerry Heidenreich committed suicide at the age of 52. Who commented thus on his death – “There is always somebody that makes somebody great, and Jerry Heidenreich was the reason I was great.”

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AnswerMark Spitz – Heidenreich was his chief rival

at the ‘72 Olympics

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A French verb that describes what the cue stick does to the cue ball, what is such a shot in cue sports called?

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AnswerMassé

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His obituary in the 1916 edition of the Wisden almanac deals fully with his cricketing career including how he topped the bowling averages for Rugby in 1907 with 19 wickets at 14.05 each. It notes almost as a side note that “he gained a reputation as a poet.”

Whose obituary?

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AnswerRupert Brooke

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AnticlockwiseRound 3

+10 on bounce+10/-10 on pounce

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Connect

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AnswerJoshua Waitzkin – chess prodigy and now

author, on whom the film Searching for Bobby Fischer (released in the UK as Innocent Moves) was based.

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Who is the author of thisforerunner to Wisden?On March 15, 1877, his surname became a part of which enduring trivia question?

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Answer(Fred) LillywhiteHe is a cousin of James Lillywhite, the first

English test captain

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The man in the picture is a 3-time Olympic gold medalist, winner of the Val Barker Trophy in 1972, and hailed as the “the most famous person from his country after its <political leader>”

One of his most enduring quotes is, "What is a million dollars worth compared to the love of 8 million of my countrymen?"

Who, which country and what is the context for the quote?

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AnswerTeofilo Stevenson, the boxer from CubaThe quote was made in 1974, when the

American boxing promoters Bob Arum and Don King tried, separately, to entice him away from Cuba to fight Muhammad Ali.

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Independent India’s first finalist in anathletics event at the 1948 Olympics, hewas a clear medal prospect in his event

He had won the National title earlier in the year with a record performance thatstood for 20 years, and set the best mark in the world that year

Bad weather and inexperience cost himin the finals as he retired with an injury

He was the first Director of SAI from 1984-88.

Who and which event?

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AnswerHenri RebelloTriple Jump

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One possible explanation for this sporting term is that it comes from the old English word for hinder, with the root word meaning ‘to slow’

Another is that it may come from the French word meaning ‘net’

Today, the meaning has expanded to cover situations even beyond those involving just the net

What sporting term?

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AnswerThe call of “let” in tennis

Fillet in French is “net”

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Called Gold Bats, this team plays two annual cricketing fixtures, apart from other matches

One is at Dulwich College, against the Dulwich Dusters, a team made up of college masters

The other has been happening, since 2001, at West Wycombe against a society of literary fans. This match is always played using the rules of cricket from 1895

Who are the Gold Bats? Who are their opponents in the West Wycombe match?

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AnswerGold Bats are the team representing the PG

Wodehouse Society (Dulwich College was his alma mater)

The opponents are the Sherlock Holmes society (“It is always 1895”)

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The winners of this tournament get three trophies – two rolling and one permanent:The actual trophy named after the civil servant who

started itThe location where it was startedThe President’s Cup, which is given as a permanent

trophy

Name the trophies (no part points)

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AnswerDurand CupShimla Cup

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Prior to 1938, there was an accepted theory that the game been introduced by a “Colonel _________” of the Royal Artillery.

A British Army officer (with a famous namesake) staked his own claim to having founded the game in 1875, when he was a 20-year old, after his regiment moved from Shimla to Jabalpur.

This was published in The Field, and was apparently provoked by another claim in the same magazine, that the game had been invented at “The Shop”, a term used to describe the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich.

Name the officer and the sport

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AnswerNeville Francis Fitzgerald ChamberlainSnooker

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This was the first permanent park circuit in England; an estate made into a racing circuit in 1931

Became a WWII PoW camp, and more recently, was in the reckoning in 2010 to become the venue of the British Grand Prix, but it could not muster the finances

It has hosted a Grand Prix 5 times so far and the winners are:1935 - Richard "Mad Jack" Shuttleworth1936 - Hans Rüesch1937 - Bernd Rosemeyer 1938 - Tazio Nuvolari

Name the circuit, better known to music lovers as the venue for numerous music festivals, including the Download Festival. Also, who was the next and last winner of the Grand Prix, in what is regarded as his best wet weather race?

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AnswerDonington ParkAyrton Senna in 1993

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The award given to the Best Pitcher every year in the American Major League Baseball is called the __ Young Award, named after the MLB pitcher Denton ‘__’ Young

Young got his nickname during his minor league tryouts, when the scouts were impressed at the impact his fastball created on the fences on the grandstand; the fences were literally torn to shreds and that’s how he got his nickname, which stuck on

What was his nickname?

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AnswerCy Young, after Cyclone - the fences looked

like a cyclone had hit them

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Sergei Bubka won 6 consecutive IAAF World Championships, an Olympics gold and broke the world record for men's pole vaulting 35 times.

He did this by deliberately increasing the height only by a centimetre or so each time, even though he could have gone higher.

Why did he increase the height only in small increments?

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AnswerBecause of the large prize money on offer

from event promoters for breaking world records

He would not attempt another record jump until the next opportunity to collect a prize!

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Rajeev Bagga reached the main stage of the 1990 All England Open Badminton Championships earning a special distinction in the process

He was National Singles Champion in 1991-92, Arjuna Awardee in 1991 and doubles champion in 1997.

Among his main achievements is winning 14 ‘Olympic’ gold medals across games from 1989 to 2005

In 2005, much after he retired, a Hindi film released that seemed to be mirroring his life, but with the protagonist playing a different sport

What was his unique distinction?

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AnswerCompletely deaf athlete (the Olympic games

is the Deaflympics)The film in reference is Iqbal, where Shreyas

Talpade is deaf-mute

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The FIDE Chess World rankings started in 1971Since then, seven people have been ranked #1. Of

this, only two people have been World #1, but not the undisputed world champions

Name them

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AnswerVeselin Topalov (who lost in the unification

match) and Magnus Carlsen (the current world #1)

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The guy on the right, George Morgan, achieved it last year. He is strictly speaking the answer to the question that you are constantly reminded of, around this time (June/July) every year.

The common answer given though, is the person whose name is blanked out in the fashion label below.

Explain

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AnswerGeorge Morgan is the last Briton to win at

Wimbledon – he won the boy’s singles doubles in 2011!

What matters to the media, of course, is the last men’s singles champion, Fred Perry, who has an eponymous fashion brand

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The Eastern Carolina League was a minor league baseball affiliation which operated in the Eastern part of North Carolina.

The most famous player of this league in 1909 and 1910 received meager pay when he played for teams in this league during his college vacations

However, this fact had a much larger implication for him a few years later, post the 1912 Olympics

Who and what happened?

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AnswerJim Thorpe was considered a “pro” and

stripped of his 1912 Olympic gold medals

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Tollygunge Club in Kolkata has one of India's foremost 18-hole golf courses.

It was originally an Indigo Plantation laid out in 1781 by the Johnson family, pioneers of the plantation industry in India.

Sir William Cruikshank established the club as an equestrian sports facility in the year 1895 to "promote all manner of sports".

What purpose did it serve (a South Indian connection) from 1799 to 1895?

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AnswerResidence of the exiled descendents of Tipu

Sultan

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What innovative feature to decide matches, possibly inspired by ice hockey and Major League Soccer, was introduced in the Indian Premier Hockey League in 2007?

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AnswerOne-on-one penalty shootouts with a player

dribbling from the 25-yard line

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Two defensive formations. The one on the left has five defensive backs and the one on the right has six.

What are they respectively called? (no part points!)

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AnswerNickel and Dime

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List-itRound 4

+5 for every right answer listed.

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There have been 6 batsmen who have hit a century in international T20 games. Name them.

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The listRichard LeviChris GayleBrendon McCullumTillekaratne DilshanSuresh RainaMahela Jayawardene

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