Antaragni 2013 Sports Quiz Finals

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Transcript of Antaragni 2013 Sports Quiz Finals

Round 1: A couple of Olympic themed List it’s Round 2: Infinite Pounce I Round 3: Short Visual Connect Round 4: Infinite Pounce II Round 5: Long Visual Connect I Round 6: Long Visual Connect I Round 7: Infinite Pounce III

There are 2 Olympic themed “List it’s” +5 for every right answer A bonus of +10 in case you get all answers

right. A bonus of +30 in case you get all answers

right in both the “List it’s” Total points on offer: 165

1. 1900 France2. 1908 Great Britain3. 1936 Germany4. 1956 USSR5. 1960 USSR6. 1972 USSR7. 1976 USSR8. 1980 USSR 9. 1988 USSR10. 1992 Unified Team11. 2008 China

1. Archie Hahn (1904)2. Ralph Craig (1912)3. Percy Williams (1928)4. Eddie Tolan (1932)5. Jesse Owens (1936)6. Bobby Joe Morrow

(1956)7. Valeriy Borzov (1972)8. Carl Lewis (1984)9. Usain Bolt (2012)10. Usain Bolt (2008)

11. Fanny Blankers-Koen(1948)

12. Marjorie Jackson (1952)

13. Betty Cuthbert (1956)14. Wilma Rudolph (1960)15. Renate Stecher (1972) 16. Florence Griffith-

Joyner (1988).

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India Connect- He held the 400m WR, wrongly credited to MilkhaSingh in Bhaag MilkhaBhaag.

Romario was dropped from the 1998 World Cup squad, the official story was that he was injured, but coach Zagallo later confessed the coaching staff had feared Romario’s selfish attitude would ruin the team atmosphere. Romario was initially reduced to tears, but his sorrow quickly made way for anger. He blamed Zagallo and his assistant Zico (“a natural born loser”) and ‘retaliated’ by having the restroom doors of a nightclub he owned in Rio painted overwith hardly flattering depictions of the two men he held responsible.

In 1935, he toured New Zealand with the Indian hockey team and in the very next year, he was chosen for the Berlin Olympics and the cricket team to tour England. He picked cricket over hockey and although he played only 1 test for India, he is remembered greatly for having bowled the first delivery in the history of the Ranji Trophy.

The lady in the picture is Megan Rapinoe. She helped the United States to a gold medal in the 2012 Olympic Games. She started all six games and scored the game-winning goal vs. Colombia.

Her performance in the semifinals vs. Canada stood out though & she became the first player, male or female, to do something at the Olympic Games.

Contrary to popular assumption, she did lose two matches early on in her squash career. But she then embarked on an amazing unbeaten run that lasted from 1962 until her retirement, aged 40, in 1981. That period included 16 successive victories in the British Open, the premier squash tournament at the time and effectively the world championship.

She was so pre-eminent that it was rare for her even to lose a game, and in the 1968 British Open final she thrashed her unfortunate fellow Australian Bev Johnson 9-0 9-0 9-0.

The only man to have played for three entirely different countries is ____________ - a Barcelona star throughout the '50s - who won six caps for Czechoslovakia, three for his native Hungary, and 19 for Spain.

The only man however to represent three (technically) different countries in the World Cup finals is the man in the pic(right), who played for Yugoslavia in 1998, Serbia & Montenegro in 2006, and Serbia in 2010.

In 1985, when Boris Becker won his first men's singles title at the age of 17 years 227 days. The winner of the boys' singles that year, Leo Lavalle, was about four months older. Becker's triumph created several records: he was the youngest-ever winner, the first unseeded one, and the first German to win the title.

This also happened on the ladies' side in 1996: 16-year-old Martina Hingis took the women's singles, while Amelie Mauresmo, 17, won the junior girls' event.

On a humid afternoon on July 28, 1920 Mohun Bagan was scheduled to play with Jorabagan in a Coochbehar Cup tie. Jorabagan took the field minus their star halfback Sailesh Bose, dropped for some unknown reason. Their Vice-President Suresh Chandra Chaudhuri pleaded for Bose's inclusion with the club authorities but it fell on deaf ears. What happened as a result of this?

________ ____ is a term used in several contact sports to describe a pass that subjects the recipient to heavy contact, usually unavoidable, from an opposing player. The term is applied to passes between team-mates in several sports including rugby, and football, it is now also widely used metaphorically.

A metaphorical usage: “when Steve Waugh...handed over the captaincy to Ricky Ponting, he sent down one of sport's great _______ _____”, which highlighted the difficulty of Ricky’s task.

There have been very few prominent players who have done this: the most recent one is the Russian Evgenia Koulikovskaya, who won some middle-ranking women's tournaments between 1995 and 2002. Luke Jensen, the American doubles specialist who won the French Open with his brother Murphy in 1993, was able to do it too. But probably the most successful exponent of this was the American Beverly Baker (later Mrs Fleitz), who reached the Wimbledon final in 1955, losing to Louise Brough. Earlier that year she and Darlene Hard won the women's doubles title at Roland Garros.

Greg LeMond won the Tour de France in 1990 without winning a stage that year, while Oscar Pereiro did likewise in 2006 (he inherited victory when the origjnal winner, Floyd Landis, was disqualified). Both of them did win stages in other Tours. But the 1956 winner, France's Roger Walkowiak, is unique: he never won a stage at any point in his Tour de France career.

In her senior year, this hall of famer scored 105 points in a game against Norte Vista High School. Consequently, she won an Olympic gold medal and is currently the head coach and General Manager of the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury.

You get multiple attempts at the connect Its an exhaustive cricket connect with 5

entries in it. Points on offer: 30

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“It is thought that it was first observed in the Middle Ages. It found renewed popularity in the 19th Century, when the lords and ladies of England presented gifts to their servants in appreciation of the work they had done.”

Herman Weingartner (Germany, 1896), George Eyser (USA, 1904), Konrad Frey (Germany, 1936), Viktor Chukarin and MariyaHorokhovska (USSR, 1952), Agnes Keleti(Hungary, 1956), Larisa Latynina (USSR, 1956), and Aleksandr Ditiatin (USSR, 1980) did manage to do it. The sole non-gymnast to do it was the Belgian archer Hubert van Innis, in 1920.

Jacques Anquetil did it first, and it has been achieved since only by Felice Gimondi, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Alberto Contador.

Esko Eckhardt, the sailor from Helsinki is the only Finn to win the Finn - the yachting class. He did so in the 1980 Moscow Games

This particular claim to fame is shared, only by Tadeusz Slusarski and WladislawKozakiewicz - who, in the 1976 and 1980 Olympics respectively, became the only Poles to win the pole vault.

It’s an exhaustive list of these 13 players- Craig Forrest (Ipswich Town), Peter Schmeichel(Manchester United), Hans Segers (Wimbledon) and Jan Stejskal (Queen's Park Rangers) - while the nine outfield players were Eric Cantona(Leeds United), Gunnar Halle (Oldham Athletic), John Jensen (Arsenal), Andrei Kanchelskis(Manchester United), Anders Limpar (Arsenal), Roland Nilsson (Sheffield Wednesday), Ronny Rosenthal (Liverpool), Michel Vonk (Manchester City) and Robert Warzycha (Everton). What precisely?

This Super Bowl winner is usually credited for having forced teams to adopt "zone defense", in which the opponents spread out and keep to a set area rather than following their opposite number, and also “bump and run”, when the defender tries to stop the attacker by almost any means. All this, because of a specific trait of his!

Although Irish runner Bob Tisdall won the race, American Glenn Hardin was credited with the world record in the 400 metreshurdles at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. How/Why did this happen?

Both Hardin and the Irish winner Bob Tisdallbroke the old world record - but Tisdall had knocked over one of the hurdles, which invalidated his time under the peculiar rules in force at the time, although he kept the gold medal. So Hardin ended up with the silver - but a world record.

Boxing themed Long Visual Connect Exhaustive list of 8 Points on offer: 40

The first former Olympic champion to win the world professional heavyweight title was Floyd Patterson, the middleweight gold medallistat Helsinki in 1952, who added the pro crown in 1956. Muhammad Ali (then still known as Cassius Clay) won light-heavyweight gold in Rome in 1960, and claimed the world heavyweight title for the first time in 1964. That year Joe Frazier won the Olympic heavyweight title, and he was followed in 1968 by George Foreman. At Montreal in 1976 Michael Spinks won the middleweight gold and his brother Leon the light-heavyweight one - both went on to win versions of the world heavyweight title. Ray Mercer, the 1988 Olympic heavyweight gold medalist, became the WBO heavyweight champion in 1991, beating Francesco Damiani - the 1984 super-heavyweight silver medalist - to win the title. And after the super-heavyweight division was added to the Olympic programme in 1984, Lennox Lewis (who beat Riddick Bowe in the 1988 final) and WladimirKlitschko (1996) both won the Olympic title before going on to greater things at professional level.

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1999 French Open Mahesh Bhupathi 1999 Wimbledon Mahesh Bhupathi 2001 French Open Mahesh Bhupathi 2006 US Open Martin Damm 2009 French Open Lukas Dlouhy 2009 US Open Lukas Dlouhy 2012 Aus Open Radek Stepanek 2013 US Open Radek Stepanek

1999 Wimbledon Lisa Raymond 2003 Aus Open Martina Navratilova 2003 Wimbledon Martina Navratilova 2008 US Open Cara Black 2010 Aus Open Cara Black 2010 Wimbledon Cara Black

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“____________, whose ninth life ended on November 5, 1964, was a well-known cricket-watcher and spent 12 of his years doing the same. He preferred a close-up view of the proceedings and he could often be seen on the field of play when the crowds were biggest. He frequently appeared on the television screen. Mr SC Griffith, secretary of MCC, said of him: `He had great character and loved publicity’”

There were a couple of near-misses: Shivnarine Chanderpaul played in 1994 but was dropped for this game, while Nasser Hussain, who played in 2004, was on the tour in 1994 but didn't play in the Tests. Among several mediamen and spectators who will have seen both, Angus Fraser played in 1994 -he took 2 for 121 - but had a slightly less exhausting time of it this time, in the press-box writing for The Independent.

Paavo Nurmi, the great Finnish long-distance runner, won nine gold medals (and three silvers) at the Olympics in the 1920s. Nurmi had hoped to compete again at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, but he was branded a professional - for allegedly receiving too much in expenses for a meeting in Germany - and banned. He was therefore ineligible to compete in further Games.

But the winner’s list shows ‘Paavo Nurmi’ did indeed win two further golds, at Berlin in 1936. How did that happen?

This is Marla Runyan, an american athlete who finished 8th in 1500m at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Given the USA’s prowess in track & field, this definitely wouldn’t have been an achievement. However she went on to be one of the most celebrated athletes to have emerged out of the country over the past decade.

• In July 1973, Yogi Berra's Mets trailed the Chicago Cubs by 9½ games in the National League East. The Mets rallied to win the division title on the final day of the season

The track underwent a major redesign between the 1990 and 1991 races, transforming the ultra-fast track (where in its last years, every corner was taken in no lower than 4th or 5th gear (depending on the transmission of the car) except for the Bridge chicane, which was usually taken in 2nd gear) into a more technical track. The reshaped track's first F1 race was perhaps the most memorable of in the decade, with a home driver coming home first in front of his home crowd on the revamped track.

Before he had any children, he wrote a book entitled “Bring Up Genius!”, and sought a wife to help him carry out his experiment. He found one in Klara, a schoolteacher, who lived in Ukraine. He married her in the USSR and then continued with his “experiments”

He was the technical advisor on the 1961 film The Hustler, starring Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason and Piper Laurie. His job was to teach Newman how to walk, talk, and shoot like a real pool hustler. He also had a cameo role as himself, acting as a stakes holder during the first match-up of the film.