Galaxy'15 Sports Sports quiz

Galaxy 2015 Sports
Quiz
-PRANJAL AGRAWAL

Rules
 Round 1- 32 Questions
 Infinite Bounce
 Infinite Pounce (+10/-10)

1. Who?
Frequently mentioned as the most superstitious cricketer of all time,
he feared treading on white lines. He’d also obsessively lower all of the
toilet seats in the team changing rooms before he went out to bat and
most famously, began taping his bat to the ceiling above his locker
when a similar prank by team-mates had preceded a century by him.

2. Which team?
Its name can be attributed to the fact that it is sponsored by a
coalition of state-owned companies from the country. It was founded
in 2007, but gained worldwide recognition in 2009 due to a widely
publicized return. Which team?

3. Who?
His arrival at Waterford was announced following the club’s 2-1 defeat
to Limerick City on 11 January 1976. The game itself had been a drab
affair and fans’ spirits were only lifted with the incredulous news that a
former World Cup winner would soon be playing in Ireland. The first
question on many peoples’ lips was understandably, how much?

4. X and Y?
There were rumors that Y had run up major gambling debts to the
mafia, so he may have bet against himself in the fight and then lost on
purpose to make back what he owed. Also, footage of X’s jab shows
that it barely connected. What followed is one of the most iconic
images in sports history.

X-Mohammad Ali, Y-Sonny Liston

5. Who?
He was a one-club man, representing the same club during his entire
professional career, which spanned 15 years. He is probably most
famous for scoring a memorable long distance goal in the 1996–97
UEFA Champions League final. That goal is to date the fastest goal in a
final of the competition, finding the net after just 16 seconds on the
field as a substitute.

6. Who?
 2004 Athens Olympics – Gold, Silver
 2000 Sydney Olympics – Gold (2)
 1996 Atlanta Olympics – Gold, Silver
 1992 Barcelona Olympics – Gold, Silver
 1988 Seoul Olympics – Gold (2), Silver
 1984 Los Angeles Olympics- Boycott
 1980 Moscow Olympics – Gold

7. Whose flag is this? Why did it gain
infamy in 2000?

Cathy Freeman in 2000 Olympics
waved the Aboriginal flag along
with the Australian flag

8. What change?
What change was made in 1450 to make the game of chess faster
and more enjoyable? The change was so revolutionary that the French
called the new game “ésches de la dame enrage.”

Queen allowed to move any number of
places. Early, it was allowed to move
just one step.

9. Name/ How do we know him
better?
In 2011, he was found guilty of punching another
man at a children's football game.
The court was told that he had previous convictions
for public order offences, assault and a caution for
common assault. he court heard that he, of
Kynaston Avenue, Thornton Heath, south London,
held a grudge against Cooper because his son, 13,
was dropped from the under-8s side.

Matthew Simmons, the Crystal
Palace fan kicked by Eric Cantona

10. X and Y?
Telegraph’s Mick Cleary on the comparisons between X and Y-
Of course you can argue that X is the more complete player. He can
defend. He can kick. He can chase. And, boy, can he score. He is a
fabulous talent. No doubt about that. But Y was something else
entirely. And who knows just how prolific he would have been if he had
not been struck down by that horrible kidney illness at a comparatively
early stage in his career.

11. Rules of which sport?
 Women Fighters Only. No Exceptions.
 Fights have a five minute time limit and are won via pinfall, surrender, or referee
stoppage. If a fight ends at the time limit with no winner, a winner is declared by a
three-judge committee.
 Punching, leg drops, clotheslines, submission holds, and other moves are allowed as
long as a ____ is used to execute the attack.
 Preventing an opponents' ____ strike by holding her ____ results in a warning from the
referee. Judges may choose to include these warnings as part of their judging criteria
if a fight goes the distance.
 No eye-gouging, biting, scratching, hair pulling, or low blows.
 No rude, lewd, or suggestive behavior.
 Loading a ____ with a foreign object such as a brick is strictly forbidden.

12. The event and the drink. Part
points
The glass features the 140 past
winners of the event and this year's
official 141 Logo. Each year, almost
120,000 servings of this drink are
served over the two-day period of
the event.

13.
Guardian article dated Sep 15, 2014-
“There will be more than one historic decision made in Scotland on
Thursday. X, like every other place in the nation, will be in the grip of a
referendum vote that has split opinion. Yet as the sun sets on the
famous links, another saga dogged by controversy may finally be
resolved.”
Frequently considered to be the home of the sport, which iconic
venue am I talking about? What was the controversy?

Women being allowed at St.
Andrews Gold Club

The route shown in the
figure gained prominence
in 1981 and 1982. Which
city is this present in? What
does the map show?
14.

15. Exhaustive list. Of what?
Year Visiting Team Home Team Attendance
2007 New York Giants Miami Dolphins 81,176
2008 San Diego Chargers New Orleans Saints 83,226
2009 New England Patriots Tampa Bay Buccaneers 84,254
2010 Denver Broncos San Francisco 49ers 83,941
2011 Chicago Bears Tampa Bay Buccaneers 76,981
2012 New England Patriots St. Louis Rams 84,004
2013 Pittsburgh Steelers Minnesota Vikings 83,518
2013 San Francisco 49ers Jacksonville Jaguars 83,559
2014 Dallas Cowboys Jacksonville Jaguars 83,436
2014 Detroit Lions Atlanta Falcons 83,532
2014 Miami Dolphins Oakland Raiders
83,603

16. Award for Best player of the
year in a particular sport. X? Which
sport? Year Winner
1998 Alysson Annan
1999 Natascha Keller
2000 Alysson Annan
2001 X
2002 Cecilia Rognoni
2003 Mijntje Donners
2004 X
2005 X
2006 Minke Booij
2007 X
2008 X
2009 X and Naomi van As
2010 X
2011 Maartje Paumen
2012 Maartje Paumen
2013 X
2014 Ellen Hoog

Wome’s Hocket, Luciana Aymar

17.
Chaudhary Abdul Jalil was born in Daska, Punjab on October 8, 1949.
He used to work in Abu Dhabi before gaining popularity in the ’90s and
2000s. How do we know him better?

18.
Writer Eric Schlakman and a couple of his buddies have created a
web extension dubbed “X Web Skin." Once installed in any web
browser of your choice, the application swaps out all “X" mentions on
the Internet, and in its place replaces them with words like "Citizens“.
"We just wish they were losing their name as easily as they've been
losing games.” The ultimate goal is not to earn money off the
campaign, but to force change for what the writer says is "the most
egregious" team name in professional sports. Which team?

19.
He contracted polio as a young boy. For a short while, he was in a
wheelchair, and it was feared that he might become paralysed for life.
However, he overcame his illness through a strict exercise regime. He
specialised in now defunct events, X and Y. His 8 Olympic gold medals
in individual events (i.e. non-relay) are second only to Michael Phelps's
11. Who (5 points)? X and Y (5 points)?

Ray Ewry, Standing High Jump and
Tsanding Long Jump

20.
The Green Monster is a popular nickname for the thirty-seven foot, two-
inch (11.33 m) high left field wall at this stadium. The moniker was born
when advertisements were scraped off the highest outfield wall and
painted green to match the rest of the stadium. Stadiums in this sport
have often featured high fences hiding the field from external viewers,
particularly behind open areas of the outfield. In which stadium is the
Green Monster located?

Fenway Park, Boston Red Sox’s
Home Stadium

21.
Not everyone loved X’s influence. Some sniffy officials were hostile to
the change that she ushered in, which they equated to turning
gymnastics from a discipline on a par with ballet to some kind of vulgar
circus show. Eleven months after the event, the move was banned,
allegedly for safety reasons. X threatened to retire from the sport.
"Gymnasts are not guaranteed against injury," she said indignantly. "In
effect I am asked to revise my views on gymnastics without being
given any choice in the matter. Gymnastics is about expression.“
Name X or the move.

22.
Rohullah Nikpai is the first person from his
country to win an Olympic medal. Which
country?

23.
Although her nickname was given by her mother, she reveled in telling
people that it was down to her fierce reputation on the baseball field.
Known for her exploits in multiple sports, including track and field,
basketball, and golf, who is this American lady?

24.
Before the Olympics, X turned down the role of Y, who had won gold
medals in precisely the four events X was contesting in, in a TV movie,
and the chance to play a detective in a mooted new series. "I'm willing
to wait for the so-called big bucks," he said. "If I do a TV series I want to
be the star.“ X and Y?

25.
The name comes from an invented Dutch surname that was
popularized by an 1809 Washington Irving satire. The name evolved
into a term for an imagined Dutch aristocracy in the city, who smoked
long pipes and wore short pants. The term continued to evolve and
became commonly used as a generic term for people in the area.
What name?

26.
Which country are all the active Yokozunas in Sumo Wrestling from?

27.
He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame, in 2001. In
1989, WBC President José Sulaimán, gave him an award for ‘Best
amateur and professional boxer of all time’ and granted him honorary
champion status of the World Boxing Council. He became the first man
in history to win three successive gold medals at the Olympics in
Boxing, something that only Felix Savon and Teofilo Stevenson have
succeeded in doing after him. Who?

28.
Plot of a 1991 movie called Sau Crore directed by Dev Anand
“After her husband Raj (Raman Kapoor) is murdered, Kamlesh (Fatima
Sheikh) receives a shock and doesn't speak for days. The cause of this
is that she indeed witnessed her husband's murder. But who did murder
Raj? Was it really the politician Somnath (Naseeruddin Shah) who fell in
love with Kamlesh and wanted to marry her? Was it a plot created by
Somnath's rival candidate Mohanbhai (Anupham Kher) to win the
elections? Or was it Kamlesh herself who wanted to leave Raj and run
off with Somnath? It's up to CBI Inspector Kumar (Dev Anand) to find
out.”
What real life story is the movie based on?

30. Pictures of ruins of a few
Olympic sites in the city. Which
city?

31.
This is a tradition that started with the NHL’s New York Islanders in the
early 1980s. Islanders of the 1980s would "play four games in five nights
in the first round and it was just something that kind of happened."The
1980 Islanders included two Swedish players (Stefan Persson and
Anders Kallur), so it is possible that they were influenced by their
compatriot’s superstition. Since then, many teams and their fans have
continued this tradition for the duration of the playoffs. What tradition?

32.
Although one would think the name is an an oxymoron, this sport did
feature in the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Olympics and was won by Tracie
Ruiz-Conforto, Carolyn Waldo, and Kristen Babb-Sprague respectively.
Which sport?

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