The Art of Quizzing by Sun BoB

0Rule 0: “If there’s a deadweight in your team, make him the quizmaster”

Prelims

0Teams of 3 or less.

0 30 Questions

0 33 Points

1

0Officially known as the “Estádio Jornalista de MárioFilho”.

0How do we popularly know this sporting venue?

2

0Basketball, while popular, has never really created the sameawe and passion as football, in Colombia. However, in 1994, inthe laidback little suburb of Medellin, nearly 130,000 peopleattended a hugely publicised event at the University Collegeof Medellin Basketball Arena.

0What occasion might this have been?

3

0X was the World No.2 at his sport and commented,

"One day, Y will be off his game for about 5 minutes, and then I will get him."

It took a very long wait, but, the day arrived in 1986 when X (still the No.2) defeated Y.

0X, Y? (Part points)

4

0Markedly different from its counterparts in other parts of the world, when this sporting equipment is manufactured in East/South-east Asia, an additional block of cork is added at the top of the handle and a thin layer of cork is added at the back.

0What and why?

5

0This rivalry came to a head at the 2009 GP race at Catalunya, when the two racers went at each other, more so out of an off-track animosity than an actual desire for victory.

0The last 3 laps are generally reckoned as the finest piece of GP racing in history, with the favourite being overtaken by his rival. He regained the lead on the first corner of the last lap, only for the rival to outsmart him at the last corner of the race and earn a win.

0Who are these two fine men, who have been reunited in 2014-15 season?

6

0Frenchmen Thierry Vigneron, Phillipe Houvion and PierreQuinon, along with Poland's Wladislaw Kozcakiewicz andUSSR's Vladimir Polyakov kept transferring this World Recordamongst themselves for over a decade. This continued untilMay 26th, 1984, after which this game of passing the bucksuddenly came to an abrupt end.

0What happened and what record are we talking about?

7

0Vishal Ladwa, 24, is a student of Manchester University. In 2006, hemanaged to form a riff-raff team for a sport that had never beenparticularly heard of in England. He pressurised the Board ofUniversities to grant it the status of a "Sport", and soon a number ofuniversities in England created their own teams and coachingsetups. His ambassadorial role in introducing a new sport to aforeign country as led to the British Media dubbing him the “X of<sport>”.

0Give sport.

8

0Billy Conn vs. Joe Louis (1941) is widely considered among the finest boxing games in the pre-Ali era. Conn, a lightweight who was challenging Louis' HW title said he wouldn't put on any weight before the match, and instead would adopt an "X and Y" strategy.

0In response, Louis famously said, ___ ___ X, ___ ___ ______ Y." The quote became so famous it's still used by modern boxers in pre-match trash-talks. Later in his biography Louis would say, "Conn was like a mosquito. He'd sting and move, sting and move."

9

0The word has been added as a verb in the Swedish Dictionary officially since 2013. Used colloquially to refer to any "outrageous action exhibiting immense talent and confidence", it is officially listed as…

0"X (verb.): From French, to establish a dominant presence within and outside one's workplace, usually in sports.“

0What’s the word?

10

0The Boxing Day test is an annual celebration of sorts in Australia and South Africa. Along similar lines, in Indian city 'X', thirteen tests (between 1960-88) were hosted on the occasion of 'Y', consequently termed the "Y Tests".

0 It is generally considered that these 4-5 days see the best climate in the city, and usually all schools and offices are closed, thus, increased spectator attendance manifold. There has been recent talk of reviving the pot-boilers that are the "Y Tests".

0Give X and Y

11

0The Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year is voted for by a specialist group of journalists who cover adventure/alternative sports. Who won the award for the year 2013?

Kolstylz Alert!

12

0X, a former Wisden Player of the Year, now deceased, remains the only Indian-born cricketer to receive the Sitara-E-Imtiaz, Pakistan's third highest civilian honour.

0Id X.

Kolstylz Alert!

13

0Born in a Marathi Brahmin family, X, the son of a poet, grew up playing cricket at Shivaji Park, a location where numerous great cricketers of the past had learnt their trade.

0He studied in Shardashram Vidyamandir, where he earned a reputation as a prodigy and was coached by the renowned Ramakant Achrekar throughout his school-days. He announced his retirement from all forms of the game on Oct 16th, 2013.

0Yaarapa Ivanu?

14

0The name of this small city is derived from the tag

"The Town on the banks of River Tone."

0In ODI cricket, only twice has a certain feat ever been achieved, both instances involving one common person.

0The first instance was in this city, and the second in Hyderabad.

0Which city is this? Who is the common link?

15

0Prince Amir Shafipur is a boxing promoter from the UAE. His recent venture called Golden Cage Promotions seeks to bring together the top boxers/MMA/kick-boxers for tournaments held across the world - Holland, Morocco, Monaco, Vegas etc.He recently claimed that he had the perfect formula to bring the two best fighters in the world for a match, saying he would produce the first "Billion Dollar Match" in the history of the sport.

0As it turns out, this may soon be a possibility if one is to believe Prince Amir and even one of the fighters in question.

0Name the two fine Gents he has in mind.

16

0X was one of English cricket’s legendary masochists. He was known for negotiating uneven pitches and short pitched bowling by just allowing the ball to hit his back, chest and sides rather fend to a fielder.

0A running joke in the English pubs was, “You know its summer when you hear the sound of X on leather.” His autobiography is aptly titled, “I Don't Bruise Easily.”

0This man still holds a 65 year old record for being the youngest debutant in English cricket and is often considered the finest captain in his Yorkshire’s fabled history.

0Who be X?

17

0Duke Kahanamoku was a 5-time Olympic medallist in Swimming.Between 1912 and 1920 Olympics he started conducting swimmingcamps to encourage marine swimming among young children. Afriend of his used the platform to start his own coaching classes in anassociated sport. Over time, Kahanamoku noticed that his friend'sclasses were gaining more attendance than his own, and heconsequently used his celebrity to promote this sport. Today,Kahanamoku's legacy is established as the pioneering exponent in thissport.

0Which sport?

18

0The former captain of the Inter-University Water Polo Team,representing St. AndrewsUniversity.

0Who is he?

19

0He played collegiate football for 3 years, andby all accounts was a fairly decent player -racking up 10 goals and 22 assists.

0He also represented the US National Team inthe Pan-American Games in 1983, finishing asthe joint-second highest goal-scorer.

0Who be he?

20

0The Chinese women's team has lost in the TT World Championships only twice - 1991 and 2010.

0 In 2010, Singapore became the first country to beat them.

0Who did China lose to 1991?

21

0 Mobutu Sese Seko assumed power of the second largest country in Africa in 1965. He rose topower on the back of military-backed coup and stayed that way till his death in 1997. During thisperiod he is reported to have killed, either directly, by repression or by negligence a reported 3.8million citizens, rebels, aid-workers, refugees etc. He has also done a lot of other things which thisslide cannot accommodate. In other words, he was your stereotypical 20th C. African dictator.

0 He has, however, immortalised his legacy in sports by doing something that no one else was ready to - about 9 years or so after he came power. In his own words, this was "cheaper than war, and sent a stronger message of strength."

0What did he do?

22

0 Football at the Olympics has, like in all other spheres of the sport, has been dominated by the European and South American nations. The deadlock was broken only in 1968 when Japan won the Bronze, and most recently in 2012 when South Korea took the same medal.

0However, X was the first country to blaze the trail, by becoming the first Asian country to reach the semi-finals, in 1956 (where they lost 0-3 to Bulgaria). Their star player was highly-rated Y, who became the first Asian to score a hat-trick at the Olympics and eventually finished as joint top-scorer.

0X, Y?

23

0 Shown here is a picture of theGenie Army. They comprisefriends, relatives and well-wishersof person X, and travel world overand make it a point to be presentat every game played by X.

0X?

24

0X lost to Harald Schmid on Aug 26, 1977. Following this, the next racehe lost was to Danny Harris on June 24, 1987, exactly 9 years, 9months and 9 days later. In the interim period, X won a record 122continuous races, which included 1 Olympic Gold, 2 WorldChampionship Golds, 2 World Records and multiple World Cup titles.

0He is also a pioneer in suggesting new ways to perform drug-tests, andregularly championed causes for ensuring sports remained drug-free.He was voted in 2000 (and still remains) the Honorary President of theLaureus WS Academy, an organisation that seeks to foster and helpathletes and sportspersons worldwide.

0Id X.

25

0The surprise semi-finalists in the 2003 World Cup wereKenya, who along the way defeated higher ranked teamssuch as Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, while also receiving a veryhelpful walkover from New Zealand, who refused to tour thecountry because of the ongoing violence.

0They were ably coached by a former international cricketer,who stepped down shortly after this dream run.

0What does he do these days?

26

0The definition of the word X, according to Wikipedia, "comes from a dish ofelongated fish meatballs, said to resemble an endoscope.

0The phrase "glisser une X" ("to slide the X"), with a gesture evoking fisting, issimilar to the English insults "up yours" or "up your ass", while also indicatinghow far up the orifice the perpetrator intends to impale you.

0Each year, the "Golden X", or the "X d'Or" is given in a ceremony parodying the Academy Awards, and is generally given to the person who shows the best anti-establishment views.

0Y was nominated for the award this year.

0Who is Y and who are Y's most recent employers?

27

0 When X used Y for the first time in 2000-01, the following theories werepostulated:

1. That Y helps with X’s shooting

2. That X was too superstitious to take it off

3. X used to be a Crip (an African-American gang in the

USA) and that no gang tattoos are allowed in his sport

0 However, X actually used Y for his bursitis and it has caught on ever since. Y’suse today by various people has been explained by the theory that Y acts as aplacebo and prevents future injuries.

0 X and Y please.

28Id the football clubs from their original logos

28

29

0This video is from an ODI match involving India and England, dated Oct 23, 2011. Why is Billy putting on such a fine show?

<Video Removed>

30

0A peg is an approximate measure in liquor-volume, usually used todefine anywhere between 30-40ml of whiskey. The "X" was a slightvariation designed by the then reigning monarch of the eponymousregion.

0The story goes that he did this to get the visiting Irishmen so drunk that they would lose to his locally trained team in a "friendly" game of Polo.

0X?

Answers

1

0Officially known as the “Estádio Jornalista de MárioFilho”.

0How do we popularly know this sporting venue?

0The Maracana

2

0Basketball, while popular, has never really created the sameawe and passion as football, in Colombia. However, in 1994, inthe laidback little suburb of Medellin, nearly 130,000 peopleattended a hugely publicised event at the University Collegeof Medellin Basketball Arena.

0What occasion might this have been?

0The funeral service ofAndres Escobar.

3

0X was the World No.2 at his sport and commented,

"One day, Y will be off his game for about 5 minutes, and then I will get him."

It took a very long wait, but, the day arrived in 1986 when X (still the No.2) defeated Y.

0X, Y? (Part points)

0X = Ross Norman • Y= Jehangir Khan

4

0Markedly different from its counterparts in other parts of the world, when this sporting equipment is manufactured in East/South-east Asia, an additional block of cork is added at the top of the handle and a thin layer of cork is added at the back.

0What and why?

0TT racquets

0 Players from these regions tend to use the Pen-Hold.

5

0This rivalry came to a head at the 2009 GP race at Catalunya, when the two racers went at each other, more so out of an off-track animosity than an actual desire for victory.

0The last 3 laps are generally reckoned as the finest piece of GP racing in history, with the favourite being overtaken by his rival. He regained the lead on the first corner of the last lap, only for the rival to outsmart him at the last corner of the race and earn a win.

0Who are these two fine men, who have been reunited in 2014-15 season?

0 Jorge Lorenzo

0Valentino Rossi

6

0Frenchmen Thierry Vigneron, Phillipe Houvion and PierreQuinon, along with Poland's Wladislaw Kozcakiewicz andUSSR's Vladimir Polyakov kept transferring this World Recordamongst themselves for over a decade. This continued untilMay 26th, 1984, after which this game of passing the bucksuddenly came to an abrupt end.

0What happened and what record are we talking about?

0Sergei Bubka broke the pole-vaulting record and held it for the entirety of his career.

0 [Note: Since broken by Renaud Lavillenie on Feb 15, 2014]

7

0Vishal Ladwa, 24, is a student of Manchester University. In 2006, hemanaged to form a riff-raff team for a sport that had never beenparticularly heard of in England. He pressurised the Board ofUniversities to grant it the status of a "Sport", and soon a number ofuniversities in England created their own teams and coachingsetups. His ambassadorial role in introducing a new sport to aforeign country as led to the British Media dubbing him the “X of<sport>”.

0Give sport.

0Kabbadi.

0 Ladwa is known as the “David Beckham of Kabbadi”.

8

0Billy Conn vs. Joe Louis (1941) is widely considered among the finest boxing games in the pre-Ali era. Conn, a lightweight who was challenging Louis' HW title said he wouldn't put on any weight before the match, and instead would adopt an "X and Y" strategy.

0In response, Louis famously said, ___ ___ X, ___ ___ ______ Y." The quote became so famous it's still used by modern boxers in pre-match trash-talks. Later in his biography Louis would say, "Conn was like a mosquito. He'd sting and move, sting and move."

0 “He can run, but he can’t hide”

0 (Part points for “Run and Hide”)

9

0The word has been added as a verb in the Swedish Dictionary officially since 2013. Used colloquially to refer to any "outrageous action exhibiting immense talent and confidence", it is officially listed as…

0"X (verb.): From French, to establish a dominant presence within and outside one's workplace, usually in sports."

0X = Zlatan

10

0The Boxing Day test is an annual celebration of sorts in Australia and South Africa. Along similar lines, in Indian city 'X', thirteen tests (between 1960-88) were hosted on the occasion of 'Y', consequently termed the "Y Tests".

0 It is generally considered that these 4-5 days see the best climate in the city, and usually all schools and offices are closed, thus, increased spectator attendance manifold. There has been recent talk of reviving the pot-boilers that are the "Y Tests".

0Give X and Y

0Pongal Tests, in Chennai.

11

0The Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year is voted for by a specialist group of journalists who cover adventure/alternative sports. Who won the award for the year 2013?

Kolstylz Alert!

0 Felix Baumgartner

12

0X, a former Wisden Player of the Year, now deceased, remainsthe only Indian-born cricketer to receive the Sitara-E-Imtiaz,Pakistan's third highest civilian honour.

0Id X.

Kolstylz Alert!

13

0Born in a Marathi Brahmin family, X, the son of a poet, grew up playing cricket at Shivaji Park, a location where numerous great cricketers of the past had learnt their trade.

0He studied in Shardashram Vidyamandir, where he earned a reputation as a prodigy and was coached by the renowned Ramakant Achrekar throughout his school-days. He announced his retirement from all forms of the game on Oct 16th, 2013.

0Yaarapa Ivanu?

0Ajit Agarkar

140The name of this small city is derived from the tag

"The Town on the banks of River Tone."

0In ODI cricket, only twice has a certain feat ever been achieved, both instances involving one common person.

0The first instance was in this city, and the second in Hyderabad.

0Which city is this? Who is the common link?

0Rahul Dravid, Taunton.

0 300+ partnerships in ODI cricket

15

0Prince Amir Shafipur is a boxing promoter from the UAE. His recent venture called Golden Cage Promotions seeks to bring together the top boxers/MMA/kick-boxers for tournaments held across the world - Holland, Morocco, Monaco, Vegas etc.He recently claimed that he had the perfect formula to bring the two best fighters in the world for a match, saying he would produce the first "Billion Dollar Match" in the history of the sport.

0As it turns out, this may soon be a possibility if one is to believe Prince Amir and even one of the fighters in question.

0Name the two fine Gents he has in mind.

0 Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquaio.

16

0X was one of English cricket’s legendary masochists. He was known for negotiating uneven pitches and short pitched bowling by just allowing the ball to hit his back, chest and sides rather fend to a fielder.

0A running joke in the English pubs was, “You know its summer when you hear the sound of X on leather.” His autobiography is aptly titled, “I Don't Bruise Easily.”

0This man still holds a 65 year old record for being the youngest debutant in English cricket and is often considered the finest captain in his Yorkshire’s fabled history.

0Who be X?

0 Brian Close

17

0Duke Kahanamoku was a 5-time Olympic medallist in Swimming.Between 1912 and 1920 Olympics he started conducting swimmingcamps to encourage marine swimming among young children. Afriend of his used the platform to start his own coaching classes in anassociated sport. Over time, Kahanamoku noticed that his friend'sclasses were gaining more attendance than his own, and heconsequently used his celebrity to promote this sport. Today,Kahanamoku's legacy is established as the pioneering exponent in thissport.

0Which sport?

0 Surfing

18

0The former captain of the Inter-University Water Polo Team,representing St. AndrewsUniversity.

0Who is he?

0The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William

19

0He played collegiate football for 3 years, andby all accounts was a fairly decent player -racking up 10 goals and 22 assists.

0He also represented the US National Team inthe Pan-American Games in 1983, finishing asthe joint-second highest goal-scorer.

0Who be he?

0 Jon Stewart

20

0The Chinese women's team has lost in the TT World Championships only twice - 1991 and 2010.

0 In 2010, Singapore became the first country to beat them.

0Who did China lose to 1991?

0 Unified Korea Team

21

0 Mobutu Sese Seko assumed power of the second largest country in Africa in 1965. He rose topower on the back of military-backed coup and stayed that way till his death in 1997. During thisperiod he is reported to have killed, either directly, by repression or by negligence a reported 3.8million citizens, rebels, aid-workers, refugees etc. He has also done a lot of other things which thisslide cannot accommodate. In other words, he was your stereotypical 20th C. African dictator.

0 He has, however, immortalised his legacy in sports by doing something that no one else was ready to - about 9 years or so after he came power. In his own words, this was "cheaper than war, and sent a stronger message of strength."

0What did he do?

0He sponsored and hosted the Rumble in the Jungle/Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman

22

0 Football at the Olympics has, like in all other spheres of the sport, has been dominated by the European and South American nations. The deadlock was broken only in 1968 when Japan won the Bronze, and most recently in 2012 when South Korea took the same medal.

0However, X was the first country to blaze the trail, by becoming the first Asian country to reach the semi-finals, in 1956 (where they lost 0-3 to Bulgaria). Their star player was highly-rated Y, who became the first Asian to score a hat-trick at the Olympics and eventually finished as joint top-scorer.

0X, Y?

0 India, Neville D’Souza

23

0 Shown here is a picture of the Genie Army. They comprise friends, relatives and well-wishers of person X, and travel world over and make it a point to be present at every game played by X.

0X?

0 Eugenie Bouchard

240X lost to Harald Schmid on Aug 26, 1977. Following this, the next race

he lost was to Danny Harris on June 24, 1987, exactly 9 years, 9months and 9 days later. In the interim period, X won a record 122continuous races, which included 1 Olympic Gold, 2 WorldChampionship Golds, 2 World Records and multiple World Cup titles.

0He is also a pioneer in suggesting new ways to perform drug-tests, andregularly championed causes for ensuring sports remained drug-free.He was voted in 2000 (and still remains) the Honorary President of theLaureus WS Academy, an organisation that seeks to foster and helpathletes and sportspersons worldwide.

0 Id X.

0 Edwin Moses

250The surprise semi-finalists in the 2003 World Cup were

Kenya, who along the way defeated higher ranked teams such as Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, while also receiving a very helpful walkover from New Zealand, who refused to tour the country because of the ongoing violence.

0They were ably coached by a former international cricketer,who stepped down shortly after this dream run.

0What does he do these days?

0BCCI National Selection Committee Chairman, Sandip Patil.

26

0The definition of the word X, according to Wikipedia, "comes from a dish ofelongated fish meatballs, said to resemble an endoscope.

0The phrase "glisser une X" ("to slide the X"), with a gesture evoking fisting, issimilar to the English insults "up yours" or "up your ass", while also indicatinghow far up the orifice the perpetrator intends to impale you.

0Each year, the "Golden X", or the "X d'Or" is given in a ceremony parodying the Academy Awards, and is generally given to the person who shows the best anti-establishment views.

0Y was nominated for the award this year.

0Who is Y and who are Y's most recent employers?

0 X = Quenelle, Y = Nicolas Anelka (Last employed by Mumbai City FC)

270 When X used Y for the first time in 2000-01, the following theories were

postulated:

1. That Y helps with X’s shooting

2. That X was too superstitious to take it off

3. X used to be a Crip (an African-American gang in the

USA) and that no gang tattoos are allowed in his sport

0 However, X actually used Y for his bursitis and it has caught on ever since. Y’suse today by various people has been explained by the theory that Y acts as aplacebo and prevents future injuries.

0 X and Y please.

X – Allen Iverson

Y – Basketball Sleeve

28Id the football clubs from their original logos

28

Celtic FC, Mohun Bagan

Arsenal, Barcelona

29

0This video is from an ODI match involving India and England, dated Oct 23, 2011. Why is Billy putting on such a fine show?

<Video Removed>

0All Blacks/New Zealand had just won the Rugby World Cup that same day!

0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxYn8wMVsXU

30

0A peg is an approximate measure in liquor-volume, usually used todefine anywhere between 30-40ml of whiskey. The "X" was a slightvariation designed by the then reigning monarch of the eponymousregion.

0The story goes that he did this to get the visiting Irishmen so drunk that they would lose to his locally trained team in a "friendly" game of Polo.

0X?