KICK-OFF (Prelims)By: Team MinD PalacE (The Quizzing Club LDCE)

The Sports Quiz

L.D.COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGAHMEDABAD

This quiz is made by Srikant Nair, Abhishek Parmar and Preetha Vijayan from team MinD PalacE.

From 3 QMs; One is die-hard fan of FC Barcelona ( Abhishek), one is huge fan of Liverpool FC ( Srikant)& another one is a GIRL( Preetha). LOL!!!!

Rules

This round contains 20 questions +1 for every correct answer No part points & no negative

markings Question no. 5, 10, 15 & 20 are star

marked (*) questions In case of tie; * questions will be

considered as tie breakers Final decision will be of QM

So here we go…

Collect the sheets…

Answers follows…

1. Id Her.

This Indian athlete is making the Headlines once again. She is currentlyWorld no.2 in her sport and going towards achieving the numero Uno Status in her sport. She recently wonSilver at the 10-metre air pistol event at the ISSF world cup.

Heena Sidhu

2. FITB.

_________________ Sergey Karjakin Vladimir Kramnik Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Dmitry Andreikin Levon Aronian Peter Svidler Veselin Topalov

Vishwanathan Anand

3. What is his claim to fame or what is his best show at a Grand Slam?

He was banned in December 2005, he was once again banned, this time after it was revealed that he had tested positive for the use of the cardiac stimulant: etilefrine. The suspension was for 8 years, the longest in tennis history at that time.

He lost the French Open final in 2005 to Rafael Nadal.

4. Who inspired this?

Jerry West

5*. Id X.

X was sued by 4500 of it’s former players, stating that X should compensate for huge amount of concussions and brain diseases that the players suffered from. Finally, the players won the settlement and X has to pay 765 million over a period of 20 years.

NFL

6. Id the sports personality.

This teen sensation has appeared in an episode of pretty little liars in march 2013. she has 4 Olympic gold , 6 world championship gold in her bag already. She also won a very prestigious award recently.

Missy Franklin

7. Who won the silver?

UAE won only one gold medal in the 2004 summer Olympic games in Athens. Ahmed Al Maktoum won that gold.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

8. Name the trophy.

BBC Sports Personality of the Year

9. What has been blacked out here?

Squash

10*. Put Fundae.

Battle of SEXES

11. Whose autobiography is this?

Chong Wei Lee

12. FITB.

This term, used particularly in association of football, is named after a type of horse-race which still run at Epsom Downs Racecourse in England. From 1840s, this term has been used as a noun in English to denote any kind of sporting contest. The type of horse-race was in turn named after Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of _____, who inaugurated the race in 1780.

Id the term.

Derby

13. What has been blacked out?

Poland

14. Id X.

X was asked by Rahul Gandhi if he was interested to contest elections. "A couple of weeks ago I had met Rahul Gandhi in a Mall in Delhi and he asked me if I was interested in fighting the upcoming elections. He told me that more and more youngsters need to join politics from all walks of life. He inspired me to take up the challenge. I have just met him an hour ago and he confirmed my candidature”. So now X is a candidate of Phulpur which interestingly, is the same constituency from which India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru got elected.

Mohammad Kaif

15*. Which trophy did India win?

NatWest Trophy

16. Immediate reaction to what incident?

Liu Xiang withdrew from the Olympic 110 meter hurdles. He walked off the track after a false start by another runner in his first-round heat, leaving the crowd at the Beijing National Stadium in stunned silence, confusion, and tears.

17. Connect. (Non exhaustive list)

Sponsors of HIL teams

18. Id X.

X is the first person from the LGBT community to win a gold medal in boxing in Olympics. X also dashed Indian hopes for a gold medal in boxing. X has also been awarded the Member of the Most Excellent Order of British Empire (MBE).

Nicola Adams

19. Which tournament?

Recently India was among four countries that tabled an official bid for to host the tournament (for 2017) along with South Africa, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. India edged past the rest, to win the right to host the first major tournament on the nation's soil. As per the bid, eight cities - New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Margao, Kochi, Pune and Guwahati - are in line to be the venues of the tournament. Being the hosts, India will automatically qualify as one of the participating nation in the tournament, and after their unfortunate absence in 1950 tournament held in Brazil even after been invited, this will be their first appearance.

U-17 FIFA WORLD CUP

20*. What was introduced? In 1983, Pakistan had tour of India. The

2nd ODI was going at Jaipur and India won over Pakistan by 4 wickets with 32 balls remaining. Although this is not having any impact on historical moment of the sport but there was something added first time in this match that had changed the analyzing system of bowlers.

What was introduced to the sport and still in it?

Wide & No-Balls are debited to analyze the bowler.

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