6. Who did James Milner once describe as “Its like
having a 12 year old in the dressing room. He is just
crazy!” ?
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8. Why did hundreds of thousands of people crowd
around a small basketball arena in Medellin on 3rd
July, 1994?
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9. To pay last respects to Andreas Escobar.
The basketball stadium was the largest indoor
venue available
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10. In the sport of Powerlifting (currently also in the
Paralympic program), there are three principle lifts
- squat, deadlift and what?
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14. What connects?
Rocky Marciano, Ricardo Lopez, Packey
McFarland, Jimmy Barry, Jack McAuliffe, Joe
Calzaghe, Laszlo Papp, Edwin Valero
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15. All remained unbeaten throughout
their professional careers
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16. What is the renowned sports journalist Richard
Moore’s book titled “The Dirtiest Race in History”
about?
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17. The 100m final at Seoul 1988
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18. When Stan Cullis, captaining England in a war-time
international against Wales at Wembley, reacted to
the news that the Welsh planned to double-mark X by
instructing his side to spread the play as often as they
could to Y on the left, he was roundly condemned,
despite the fact that England went on to win 8-3.
"The newspapers gave me a right rollicking," Cullis
said, "and asked how I'd dared treat X like that. They
insisted the spectators had gone to watch him, not
me, and demanded that I be forced to give up the
captaincy.“
X and Y?
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19. X = Sir Stanley Matthews
Y = Dennis Compton
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20. In Game 6 of the NBA Finals at the Delta Center,
the team led the series 3-2, but trailed the game
86-85 with 10 seconds left.
X started to dribble right, then crossed over to his
left. He then released a shot that won the game in
the dying seconds.
This moment has often been described as “The
perfect way to go out” (Though this completely
discounts events which took place years later)
X?
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22. The first clubs started being formed in 1922 in
Santa Monica, California
Given the outdoor nature of nudism/naturism this
outdoor version of the sport was naturally
adopted by them and became very popular among
nudists
Name the sport (be specific)
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24. By what familiar-in-India name is the roundrobin tournament in Pakistan played by the top
three placed teams from the Patron's Trophy and
the finalists from the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy called?
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28. Since 2001, people from only 2 countries have won
the Ladies Singles Title at the All England
Championship - one is (not surprisingly) China.
Which is the other?
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30. The Sports Federation (for Amateurs) was formed
in 1928, and the International ________
Federation was formed in 1946.
The sport was played at the 1936 Summer
Olympics in Berlin. During the next several
decades, it flourished and evolved in the
Scandinavian countries. The sport re-emerged
onto the world stage for the 1972 Summer
Olympics in Munich.
Which sport?
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32. A world number 2 at his sport, he vowed "One day
X will be slightly off his game and I will get him."
That day took a long time in coming, but did finally
come through in 1986. Who is he and who is X?
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33. Ross Norman
X = Jehangir Khan
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34. In London 2012, at an event more famous in this
part of the world for its venue than the actual
event itself – saw action on the opening day of the
Olympics
The final saw an unexpected victor – with Michelle
Frangilli winning it for Italy – with literally the last
action of the event.
What event? And What venue?
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36. Khanty-Mansiysk is home to HC Yugra of
the Kontinental Hockey League.
The city was the venue of
the 2003 and 2011 Biathlon World Championships
What high-profile sporting tournament will it host
in 2014?
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37. The Candidates tournament
to determine challenger for Magnus Carlsen’s
world title
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38. Jonatahan _______, the goaltender of the Los
Angeles Kings recently (against the NY Rangers)
made a rookie mistake to let in one of the softest
goals ever conceded in the NHL leading to
headlines like:
________, What was he thinking?
Not so ______ thinking
Just fill up and tell me his last name
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40. Connect
~ May 10, 1970 , the winning goal of Bobby Orr in the
playoff game, when he scored one of the most
famous goals in hockey history and one that gave
Boston its first Stanley Cup since 1941.
~ 1935 Masters Tournament, Gene
Sarazen's albatross on the fifteenth hole which
helped propel him into a 36-hole playoff with Craig
Wood.
~ Oct. 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson’s home run off Dodgers
pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds to give the
Giants the National League pennant.
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41. All known as “Shot Heard around the
World”
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42. What game is played with a yellow ball made of
wool, on a court of fixed dimensions (12 by 24
metres) divided by a net?
The game was played as early as 1856 by the royal
family in Tanjore.
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44. In 2010, Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre became
the first white European to achieve this (although
Poland's Marian Woronin had unofficially done
this in 1984).
In 2011, Zimbabwean Ngonidzashe Makusha
became the 76th man to do this, yet only the
fourth man not of West African descent.
No one from Asia or East and North Africa has
officially achieved this feat
What feat?
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45. 100m in less than 10 seconds
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46. Who holds the record for the maximum number of
runs at one edition of the U19 cricket world cup –
505 runs from 7 matches in 2004?
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48. The first time the term used today as the name of
a sport was used was when an announcer used it
to introduce Kathryn Curtis’s show called "The
Modern Mermaids," for the World Exhibition in
Chicago in 1933.
What sport?
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50. In which group of sport’s rule would you find tight
regulations for usage of hunter bits, bridles, crops,
spurs, and martingales ?
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52. What two-word term is common to
a baseball win credited to a single pitcher that throws a
complete game of at least nine innings without
allowing any opponent to reach first base
a 300-point score in bowling
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54. The stadium was built in 1933 as a gift for Delhi
from the Maharaja of Bhavnagar, it was originally
multipurpose stadium and named the Irwin
Amphitheatre.
It was renamed National Stadium before the 1951
Asian Games. What was added to the name in
2002?
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56. A great deal of strategy and teamwork goes into
choosing the ideal path and placement for each
situation, and the skills of the sportsmen
determine how close to the desired result they will
achieve.
This gives which sport its rather grandiose
nickname of "Chess On Ice“?
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58. In 1989, a man named Yuri befriended a man
named Alexandr in a city which will be very
significant in sports in 2014
Alexandr’s son was a sportsman and he gifted
Yuri’s daughter a piece of equipment used for this
sport.
Name Alexandr’s son and Yuri’s daughter – both
former World No.1’s in the same sport.
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59. Maria Sharapova and Yevgeny
Kafelnikov
The city is Sochi (Host of Winter Olympics 2014)
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60. This person started his F1 career in 1973 at the
Monaco Grand Prix with Hesketh racing.
He then won a world championship with McLaren
and then faded away – ending his career in 1979
with Wolf racing.
He would die in 1993 of a heart attack at the age
of just 45
Who?
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62. He was a centre back for his national team. His
brother, Mervyn, who also played for the national
team, believed that he could have also made it
internationally as a fine defender at club level.
Thankfully, he stuck with his primary skill. Who is
he?
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65. Format
Four Rounds
~ One written round (5 questions)
~ Two passing rounds (2 x 18 questions)
~ One theme round (6 questions)
Democratic Differential
~ Each team has ONE opportunity to make any question in the passing
rounds a written differential scoring question with scoring of (16-n)
points
~ In event of Differential scoring vs. Pounce – the differential scoring
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66. Round 1
~ Written Round
~ There are 5 questions for 5 points each
~ Sportspersons posing with their world records
~ Identify the sportsperson(s) in each case – 5pts
75. After finishing 4th in the 1970 Commonwealth Games and
running the fastest season time in 1971, he won Gold
the 1972 Summer Olympics setting a world record time of
47.82 seconds. He missed the 1976 Olympics and a much
awaited show down with American rival Edwin Moses
due to a boycott by his country.
Due to the political situation in his country, he fled to a
neighbour where he was put into a refugee camp. From
there, he was freed by his shoe-manufacturer Puma and
lived in Germany working for Puma for 3–4 years before
returning to his home country and becoming a coach.
Name this legend – the first medallist from his country
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77. John Akii Bua
of Uganda
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78. This transaction was undertaken as the seller wanted to
reduce loans and to finance some entertainment interests
The buyers clearly got the better deal. In the next three
years, they got so much success (largely attributed to this
deal) that they could afford to build their now iconic
stadium, and their fortunes just took off there. The sellers
were famously starved of success for decades later.
Which transaction ?
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80. Babe Ruth’s trade from Boston Red Sox to
New York Yankees
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81. Alan Wells was a Scottish athlete who won Gold in
1980 Moscow.
He was asked whether he wanted to dedicate his
medal to X who had died 2 years previously. He,
instead, chose to dedicate it to Y who had died 35
years previously.
Name X and Y
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83. Eric Liddel and Harold Abrahams
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84. Billy Collins engaged in a 1983 bout with Luis Resto, who
stepped into the ring knowing that his trainer, Panama
Lewis had broken a critical rule of boxing safety. In what
was a horrific moment for sport and more importantly
sportsmanship, the act of cheating cost Collins his vision
in both eyes
What exactly did Lewis do?
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86. Removed padding from his gloves to make
his punches more damaging
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87. When 14 year old Prithwi Shah scored a remarkable 546 in
the Harris Shield earlier this year, he broke the record of
another Rizwi Springfield boy who is the nephew of a
Ranji legend.
Name this lad, and his uncle.
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90. This is the most
complete skull of
an Homo
heidelbergensis ever
found. It was found in
1992 in Sierra
de Atapuerca
This skull is universally
known by a nickname
that was given to it
thanks to whose
achievements ?
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92. Miguel Indurain
who won the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia in 1992
It was nicknamed
“Miguelon”
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93. X: Roman Sebrle was the first person to break this
milestone and Ashton Eaton was the second (he also
currently holds the world record)
Y: The first person to break this milestone still holds the
world record (set in 1988). Two others have since broken
this milestone (but not the WR) – namely Larissa Nikitina
and Carolina Kluft
Name both milestones
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95. X - 9000 pts in Decathlon
Y - 7000 pts in Heptathlon
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96. After the 2002 Austrian Grand Prix, the Ferrari F1 team
was fined 1 million USD for violating Article 170 of the
Formula One Sporting Regulations.
What is this article about? / What did Ferrari do?
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98. The article deals with “Podium behaviour”
Ferrari ordered Barrichello to slow down and let Michael
Schumacher win – at the ceremony Michael Schumacher
asked Barrichello to take the top spot on the podium and
handed him the trophy
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99. Following the dissolution of East Germany, Stasi files
were found to show that the secret police had
worked hard to keep her from defecting by giving her
cars, accommodations, and permitted travel.
In December 1998, when she posed nude
for Playboy magazine, the issue in which these photos
were published was the second ever sold-out issue of
the magazine. (The first sold-out issue was the
inaugural one including photos of Marilyn Monroe.)
Her six consecutive European Championships are still
a record.
Who?
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102. What less violent (and much less dramatic) variant
of a popular term was used by Curt Gowdy (and
became famous as one of his idiosyncrasies in
commentary) in 1971 when the AFC divisional
championship game between the Kansas City
Chiefs and Miami Dolphins went into overtime?
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105. A Rule in singles match play in Golf was abolished
in 1952
This rule allowed players to “play defence” against
their opponent and was often disparagingly
referred to as the Stymie Rule
What did this rule prohibit?
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107. A person wasn't allowed to move his or her
ball on the green even if it was directly in an
opponent's path.
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108. Classification parameters for what?
Tube shape defined by length to width ratio
Square: <1:1
Round: 1-2:1
Almond: >2:1
Tube speed defined by angle of peel line
Fast: 30°
Medium: 45°
Slow: 60°
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111. In tennis, due to most faults such as net, foot,
outside the service area etc. – the point is
awarded to the receiver.
What is the only occasion of a fault in which the
point is awarded to the server?
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113. On a service, the receiver is required to allow the ball to
bounce before attempting to hit it.
If the receiver's racket or body touches a
legally-delivered ball before it bounces, the
point is immediately awarded to the server
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114. Connect the main football stadiums used by the
Libyan National team ( in Tripoli and in Benghazi),
the Algerian football team ( Algiers and Annaba) .
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116. All Named after dates
June 11 Stadium - Tripoli
28 March Stadium - Benghazi
Stade 5 Juillet 1962 - Algiers (Independence day of
Algeria)
Stade 19 Mai 1956 - Annaba
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117. Give one word :
Which was used by Stevan Riley to represent “ the
historically white-European colonial and imperialist
power structure which has oppressed Blacks and other
people of colour.”
Which was used by Alphonso de Braganza “because in
a metaphoric way it means a fight against the evil, the
odds and the obstacles”
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119. The usage of the word “Babylon”
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120. Eric Bedser became a spinner literally at the toss of a coin.
He was a good batsman as well and was picked in the
Surrey team as a useful all-rounder.
To what did Steven Lynch attribute the fact that he never
got the double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in a season?
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122. He hardly bowled at Surrey as they had two
other spinners - whose names happened to
be Jim Laker and Tony Lock
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123. Give me the surname of these brothers who won gold
and bronze in London and also currently hold World rank
1 and 2 in their sport. Also name the sport.
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126. When this is manufactured in East Asia often it has
the added feature of a block of cork on top of the
handle, as well as a thin layer of cork on the back
for increased grip and comfort.
What are we talking about and why the need for
this feature?
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128. Table Tennis racquets
Penhold styles are popular among players
originating from East Asian regions and the
cork makes it more comfortable
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129. Round 3
~ Written Theme Round (Not exhaustive)
~ There are 6 questions for 5 points each
~ Theme scoring changes with every question
and is mentioned on the slide
130. +30 / -10
This guy is a British professional boxer who fought in
the heavyweight division. Having initially been denied the
opportunity to fight for Ireland at the Olympic Games, he
is now permitted to represent both England and Ireland,
after tracing his family lineage to relatives in Belfast.
Who?
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131. +25 / -10
Which Jamaican born English footballer left Watford to
join Liverpool in 1987?
He was a part of an attacking line up that included Peter
Beardsley, Ray Houghton, Ian Rush and John Aldridge
which is often rated as one of the strongest in Liverpool's
history.
After retirement he tried his hand at coaching with stints
at Celtic, Jamaica and Tranmere Rovers all of which
ended in failure. He is now a sports pundit.
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132. +20 /-10
This guy was born in Nimes in 1992 and made a splash at
the 2012 London Olympics with 3 medals – gold in 200m
freestyle, gold in the 4 x 100 m relay and silver in the 4 x
200m relay.
Name him.
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133. +15 / -5
This Stevenage resident was quite the sportsman in
school. He played cricket and football (Ashley Young was
his team mate in the school team)
His true calling was in another sport – which quite
amazingly – he was seriously taking part in since the age
of 5. He would form a rivalry with a German at the age of
12 and learnt to ride a unicycle just because this rival
could ride one. As fate would have it, the German is now
his teammate.
Name this person.
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134. +10 / -5
This person won 5 Grand Slam singles titles, 9 Grand Slam
doubles titles (including a calendar doubles Grand Slam)
and all this before being forced to retire due to ligament
trouble at the age of 22.
Name this person, who spent 209 weeks as World No 1 in
a short but very eventful career.
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135. +5
This person made his ODI debut in 2004 with tremendous
expectations and played 11 matches for India scoring only
151 runs. He played for Bengal in the Ranji trophy and
scored over 6000 runs in 117 games.
He signed on for the Kolkata Tigers (in the ICL) and was
subsequently one of the 71 players granted amnesty by
the BCCI and welcomed back to the official fold.
He retired from cricket in 2012.
Who are we talking about?
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137. Theme:
Sportspersons named after other Sportspersons
1. Tyson Fury (named after Mike Tyson)
2. John Barnes (named after John Charles)
3. Yannick Agnel (named after Yannick Noah)
4. Lewis Hamilton (named after Carl Lewis)
5. Martina Hingis (named after Martina Navratilova)
6. Rohan Jai Vishwa Gavaskar (named after Rohan Kanhai, ML
Jaisimha and Gundappa Vishwanath)
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139. Who ? About what?
“It was as he was to deliver the fourth ball of his
second over that somebody opened a window in the
pavilion. There were no sight screen at that time
and my 100 per cent concentration wasn’t on that
delivery. I saw it just inches away before it hit me.
But it isn’t true that I ducked.”
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144. The Lithuanian Team of the 1992 Barcelona
Olympics
The documentary is called “The Other Dream Team”
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145. Mario Kempes was the talisman of the Argentine team
that won the 1978 world cup.
In addition to this he won 2 consecutive pichichis during
his time at Valencia where he was known to be dangerous
in attack and at the same time more than capable to
control the game with style
What two somewhat contradictory nicknames (in context
of another sport) was he given during his time at
Valencia?
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147. El Toro and El Matador
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148. Baron Pierre de Coubertin saw a display of these games
at the Paris Exhibition of 1889
What he saw is often said to have influenced him while
he was planning the revival of the Olympic Games
What annually held games, celebrating the culture of a
region and including sporting as well as artistic events like
singing, dancing etc did Coubertin see?
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151. What term commonly used in gymnastics as a
synonym for ‘flip’ comes from the Latin for ‘jump’
?
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154. Yuriy Georgiyevich Sedykh is a two time Olympic Gold
Medallist in this sport. He set the world record at
the 1986 European championships in Stuttgart. This
record still stands and is one of the oldest still valid world
records
Only two others in the history of the sport have achieved
the milestone since namely Ivan Tikhon and Sergei
Litvinov
Which sport are we talking of?
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156. Hammer Throw
Only three people have ever thrown more than 86m
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157. Edith Bosch said she had acted out of disappointment and
disbelief when the incident unfolded in
the Olympic Stadium.
She later told Dutch television station NOS TV: "I had seen
the man walking around earlier and said to people around
me that he was a peculiar bloke.
"Then he ____________ and in my emotion I hit him on
the back with the flat of my hand.
Why did Edith Bosch hit the man?
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164. Guernsey FC had an unusually busy fixture list in
April 2013 - playing 17 matches in the month.
Which famous footballer, originally from Guernsey
but who moved to the mainland later, made a
comeback for Guernsey, 11 years after his
retirement in order to help the team cope up with
the large number of fixtures?
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167. In 2009, at Catalunya, one of the biggest racing rivalries of
our times exploded with two teammates fighting each
other more out of an out-pouring of off-track rivalry /
hatred than out of an actual desire to win the race.
The last 3 laps are often rated as the some of the best
racing ever seen – with the home favourite being overtaken
by his great rival and team mate . The lead was exchanged
for a short period before the rival snatched it back. The
home favourite pulled off a brilliant manoeuver on the first
corner of the last lap – but the rival pulled an even more
brilliant and audacious manoeuvre on the last corner of the
last lap to win the race.
Name the two who have recently been reunited.
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173. In July 2013, 80,645 flowers — yellow marigolds
and black, pink and grey petunias - were used to
make what announcement in a spectacular
fashion?
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175. Borussia Dortmund’s unveiling of their
home jersey for the 2013-14 season
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176. Manu Tuilagi (from the famous Tuilagi siblings of Samoa)
plays rugby for the England and Ireland Lions
Earlier this year, he did something that caused former
England hooker Brian Moore to say “People are saying
they are offended. Are they really offended, or is it more a
case of Tuilagi being an absolute prat again and taking the
attention away from his team-mates?”
The other person involved played it down and said “it was
just a bit of fun”
What did Tuillagi do?
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178. Bunny ears on David Cameron!
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179. This guy, who revolutionised a sport in the 1950s, took up
swimming in 1990 (!) after the original sport was too
much for his joints.
He died at the age of 75 when he had a heart attack half
way through a 500m swimming race.
In short, total badass. Name him.
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182. On August 14, 2008 at the Beijing Olympics, he
controversially came in second to Phelps by 1/100
of a second in the final- Many sport journals
released a photograph which shows him touching
the wall, while Phelps is still a short distance
away. Ultimately, the official time keeper Omega
said that he was the first to touch the touchpad,
but that "Phelps did it more forcefully". Therefore,
his finish was registered first.
Who?
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185. There have only been 14 instances of this feat in all
first-class cricket
Of these, 2 people have done this twice :
One is Mike Procter, for Gloucestershire in 1972 and
1979.
The other is also the only person to have achieved this
in tests
Name this international test cricketer who
normally comes in to bat at No.8 for his national
side.
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188. He won his gold medal in the heavyweight (90–
100 kg; 198–220 lb.) weight class despite his injury,
defeating the Iranian Abbas Jadidi by officials'
decision after the competitors wrestled to an eight
minute, one-one draw. The bout saw Jadidi earn a
point after two minutes and 46 seconds by turning
him, and he earning a point of his own with
a takedown after three minutes and eleven seconds.
The officials' decision was protested by Jadidi. He
dedicated the victory to Schultz's honour (his
murdered coach’s honour)
Who?
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191. CNN reports on which friendship?
You'd think they would be sick of the sight of each other.
But from the ashes of their encounter match in 2010 an
enduring "bromance" has blossomed.
One says: "He actually is a really good friend of mine. We
keep in touch all the time so we developed a friendship
from that match.“
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The Sports Quiz - Mood Indigo 2013
Aditya Gadre