Q. Identify her.

Nadia Comaneci.

Q. Who is the person in this picture?

Significance of this picture?

(image on next slide)

Jerry West.

Inspiration for the NBA logo.

Q. Which team has won the most World

Series Championships till date, with 40?

New York Yankees

Q. Stamp commemorating?

Q. __________ bowling is a cricketing slang

used to describe mediocre bowling.

This term is derived from the fact that a

batsman can help himself to as many

runs as he likes, akin to a self-service

_________.

Cafeteria bowling

Q. A death rattle, known clinically

as terminal respiratory secretions or

simply terminal secretions, is a sound

often produced by someone who is near

death when fluids such

as saliva and bronchial secretions

accumulate in the throat and upper

chest.

In cricketing parlance, where would we

hear this?

The sound a batsman hears when he

gets bowled out.

Q. Just give me the sport.

Squash

Q. FITB :

__________ are made of vulcanized

rubber. A standard ___________ is 1 inch

thick, 3 inches diameter, and weighs

between 5.5 to 6 ounces. They are often

marked with team or league logos on

one or both sides. They are frozen before

the game to reduce bouncing during

play.

Ice Hockey Pucks

Q. Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-

Baker was a British politician, diplomat,

academic, an outstanding amateur

athlete, and renowned campaigner for

disarmament.

What unique distinction does he hold?

Philip Noel-Baker is the only person to win

both a Nobel and an Olympic medal.

Q. Wilt Chamberlain was a 7 foot 1 in

basketball player, who played for the

Philadelphia Warriors. On March 2, 1962

he created a record that till day has

never been replicated in professional

basketball.

Question is simple – what was the

record he created?

He scored 100 points in a single basketball

game. No player since has managed to

touch the triple digit mark.

Q. Who was Brian Lara playing for when he

scored 501*?

Warwickshire

Q. This is a Google doodle

commemorating Sochi Winter Olympics.

Why was this doodle seen as mocking

Russia?

The colours used were the same as the gay

pride flag.

Q. Esther Mary Vergeer is a retired Dutch

player, who ended her career on a

record 470 matches winning streak. Her

list of achievements include 42 Grand

Slam tournaments, 22 year end

Championships and the record of being

number 1 in her sport from 1999 to her

retirement in 2013.

What sport did she play?

Wheelchair Tennis

Q. Google doodle in whose honour?

Ethiopian marathon runner, Abebe Bikila.

He was the first athlete in history to win

the Olympic marathon twice.

He was also the first sub-Saharan African

to win an Olympic gold medal.

Q. Switzerland has participated in every

Summer Olympics – except when it

boycotted the 1956 Olympics.

What was the reason for the boycott?

Switzerland was protesting the Soviet

Union’s occupation of Hungary.

Q. "The American team was offended, and

it wasn't right. It was the cold war.

Americans, out of their own natural pride

and love of country, didn't want to lose

and admit loss. They didn't want to lose

in anything, especially basketball" – Ivan

Edeshko.

What historic event is Ivan Edeshko

talking about?

USA v USSR, basketball final, 1972

Q. Stamp commemorating?

Q. On Sunday 18 July 1976, the second

day of the Montreal Games, a 14-year-

old gymnast called Nadia Comaneci

made her first appearance. Her routine

on the uneven bars that day was

flawless, and the judges agreed. After

much deliberation and discussion, the

judges awarded her a 1.00

Why so?

The official time keeper for the event,

Omega, was told by International

Olympics Committee before the event

that a perfect 10.00 score was impossible

and to keep only 3 digit scoreboards.

Q. #golf

Scoring even : par

Scoring one under par : birdie

Scoring two under par : eagle

Scoring three under par : _________

Scoring four under par : __________

Scoring three under par : Albatross

Scoring four under par : Condor

Q. _______ cricket is an informal game derived from cricket. There is only one batsman, and their objective is to not be dismissed by the other participants - who are fielders, or a bowler if they have possession of the ball -for as long as possible.

It seems likely that as the game is a lesser version on regular cricket that the name is intended to mock both the game and the ______ - just as a “______ cut" in the sport of cricket is a poorly executed cut shot which almost gets a batsman out.

French Cricket

Q. What was a two-wood golf club

popularly known as earlier?

Brassey, because they had brass soles.

Q. Gender verification tests in the Olympics

became mandatory from the1968

Olympics, because of fears that men

would participate in women events and

have an unfair advantage.

Gender verification tests are mandatory

for every athlete. An exception occurred

in the 1976 Summer Olympics, when a

member of the British equestrian team

was excused from the test. Who was the

person/why were they excused?

Princess Anne of the UK, who was

competing as a member of the UK

equestrian team. As the daughter of

Queen Elizabeth II, such a test was seen

as inappropriate

Q. A ______________ quarterback is

someone who passes too much

judgement/criticism, with the benefit of

hindsight. _______________ refers to the

games played or broadcast on Sunday,

with criticisms levelled by commentators

the following week.

Monday Morning quarterback

Q. The ’63 Navy-American Army college

football game ended with Army

Quarterback, Rollie Stichweh’s

touchdown in the fourth quarter of

their 21-15 loss. This touchdown was

remarkable for the announcer Lindsey

Nelson stating to the television

viewers, “Ladies and gentlemen, Army

did not score again!”.

What led him to say so?

It was the first instance of instant replay

being shown on a televised game.

Q. The decisive third game of a three game playoff for the National League pennant was played on October 3, 1951 between New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers. It was the first game to be televised across America and was heard by thousands of Americans working in Korea and Japan.

NY Giants outfield Bobby Thomson hit a double run off Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca to win the game, and subsequently the pennant.

What famous epithet is his game winning shot known by?

Shot heard around the world

Q. The Legend of the _________ is a sports tradition during Detroit Red Wings home playoff games where _________ are thrown onto the ice surface. The ___________, having ____, symbolized the number of playoff wins necessary for the Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup. The practice started April 15, 1952, when Pete and Jerry Cusimano, brothers and storeowners in Detroit's Eastern Market, hurled an ________ into the rink of The Old Red Barn. The team swept the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens en route to winning the championship, as well as winning two of the next three championships.

Legend of the Octopus.

An octopus has eight arms - the number of

matches they needed to win.

Q. The ____________ is a name for a football game on 9 August 1942 in Kiev between the local team FC Start — former professional footballers from Dynamo Kyiv and Lokomotyv Kyiv — and Flakelf, a team of German air defense artillery.

The importance of the game lay in the Soviet propaganda that promoted the unshakable will of Soviet players who sacrificed their lives facing an ultimate adversity. According to the Soviet version some players of the "Start" team after winning the match 5-3 were shot by the SS because their victory humiliated the Germans.

The Death Match

Q. New Zealand’s Ross Norman had been

in pursuit of this for a long time, only to

fail time and time again. He never gave

up though, vowing that one day

____________ would be off his game and

he would get him. The day finally came

in World Open in Toulouse 1986.

What am I talking about?

Jahangir Khan’s unbeaten 555 game

streak.

Q. “When you look at what he did; he broke three world records and tied another in a matter of one hour,” says Richard C. Crepeau, professor of sport history at the University of Central Florida. “There is even some dispute, because people think he actually broke rather than tied the fourth. So four world records essentially, one tied and three broken, in an hour–not one week, not one day, but one hour. That has to be the greatest hour in the history of track and field and maybe even one of the greatest hours in the history of sports.”

What is Crepeau talking about?

Jesse Owens’ record-shattering

performance in the spring of 1935

Q. This is Sergey Bubka’s statue in Ukraine.

Any guesses on the height?

6.15m – most height covered by him in a

single jump.

Q. This is the Sports Illustrated cover

for March 3, 1980. What game is this

referencing?

When USA beat USSR at Ice Hockey in the

1980 Winter Olympics.

Also known as the ‘Miracle on Ice’ game.