sports quiz finals

1. FiNalS !! Yo!!

2. For (i=1)

4. ID

5. Mark Spitz

6. Why was this flag used and when? (all answers will fetch points only)

7. Unified Team of Germany Used for the 1956,1960 and 1964 (and 1968-but teams were different though flag was same)

10. But the fact remained that he did not need to be ordered out of the car by the team. This truly was a driver's decision, after the team's initial attempts to force their third driver Luigi Musso, out of the picture championship-wise, to hand his car to Fangio, had been met with a straightforward 'GTFO' from the Italian driver.

14. He coaches Delhi Giants in the Indian Cricket League. His son played in the ICL for the Ahmedabad Rockets. He has taken maximum wickets in Ranji Trophy matches amongst seamers. An able bat, he has over 10k runs in first class cricket. He is also remembered for bowling the first ball of the World Cups.

15. Madan Lal

18. Mike Hendrick

19. Roger Binny

20. Craig McDermott

21. WasimAkram

22. Anil Kumble

23. Geoff Allot/ShaneWarne

24. ChamindaVaas

26. She has not been at the biggies for six long years but X, 33, has just walked into the Indian tennis team for the Commonwealth Games. X, former World No. 139, has not lost any of her charm. She believes that she still has the power and the guile to upset even a top player on her best day.

27. NirupamaVaidyanathan

28. What significant achievement has this player achieved. Practically the only reason famous outside his own country.

29. Md Essa. First Pakistani player to be offered a contract by an Indian football team

30. At the final whistle of the 1988 FA Cup Final, BBC TV commentator John Motson said the line: "The Crazy Gang have beaten the Culture Club!". The crazy gang was then a nickname for Wimbledon that became widely popular hence. What was the Culture Club?

31. Liverpool

34. This F1 car came to be affectionately refered to as the ____ _____.

35. Bar ZIPPER

36. In 1991, X wrote his second autobiography, A View from Above. There, the lifelong bachelor claimed he had sex with 20,000 women. For this to be true, he would have had to have had sex with 1.37 women per day from the age of 15 up until the year of the autobiography's publishing, a rate of over nine women a week. As his lawyer Seymour "Sy" Goldberg put it: "Some people collect stamps, X collected women."

37. Wilt Chamberlain

38. For (i=2)

42. X is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic origin, played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. The game, played primarily in Ireland, has prehistoric origins and is thought to be the world's fastest field team sport in terms of game play. It shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, number of players, and much terminology.

43. Hurling

44. According to legends, Coroebus, a cook from the city of Elis was the first ___________

45. Olympic Champion

47. Nielsen TV Ratings with and without Jordan

49. Which show are they campaigning on?

50. WWE (Smackdown!)

51. Which country has had the maximum number of foreign born captains in Tests?

52. England

53. More famous for his sporting exploits, X also played a heroic role in the 1993 Bombay Riots, where he sheltered a Muslim family. He shielded victims with his body, saying "first you have to hit me" to the rioters. ID X

54. Sunil Gavaskar

55. ID both. (no part points)

56. Rinus Michels and Johan Cyruff

57. In 1985, Everton qualified to play the European Super Cup against Juventus. However the match did not take place. Why?

58. Heysel Tragedy in 1985 saw all English teams being banned from European competitions

59. In 2006, an image of him being the unfortunate victim of backlash was splashed across the papers as the world discussed something completely unconnected to him. Put funda. ID him for bonus points.

60. Zidane’s earlier headbutt victim JochenCopia

61. What?? The movie vastly exaggerated the physical sizes of these men(two professionals and one amateur)

62. Harry Vardon, Ouimet and Ted Ray

63. Put Funda

64. Warne Murali trophy

66. "The man who taught us the way football should be played" - Pelé

67. "I grew up in an era when he was a god to those of us who aspired to play the game. He was a true gentleman and we shall never see his like again" - Brian Clough

69. For (i=3)

71. Which trophy??

72. PichichiTrophy

73. In the late 19th century gentlemen were discouraged from playing golf or other sports. Not to be stopped by the Church on such matters, men started using something else in order to play golf as they could not carry their golf kits with them. What??

74. Golf Sticks

75. X later wrote in his blog: "People, this is the greatest moment of my life. If you ask me, it should be accepted and we should move on. I’ve accepted defeat, and there’s nothing wrong with losing to the greatest ______ there has ever been". Yet, even after this statement, X has claimed that he won. A year after the race, Omega acknowledged that X had touched first, but not forcefully enough.

76. X = Cavic.Talking about his loss to Phelps at the 2008 Beijing Olympics (in the Butterfly)

77. ______ ______, Miami, Monte-Carlo, Rome, Madrid, Canada, Cincinatti, Shanghai Paris.

78. Indiana Wells

79. Takeichi Nishi (Baron Nishi) was the gold medalist with his horse Uranus in the equestrian show jumping individual event. Nishi's gold medal is Japan's only gold medal in the equestrian event to this day. Nishi would later die in 1945 as an officer stationed in the defense of the island X. A film was made later about the same island that became very very popular.

80. Letters from Iwo Jima

81. This person was the reason a FIFA world Cup final started half an hour late. Put funda

82. Rene Van De KerKoff - - plaster

85. The __________________(also known True Spirit of Sportsmanship medal) is a special medal given by the International Olympic Committee to those athletes who demonstrate the spirit of sportsmanship in Olympic events. According to the Olympic Museum, "it is one of the noblest honours that can be bestowed upon an Olympic athlete.

86. Pierre de Coubertin Medal

87. X is a reference to the year 1954 when the West German national team won the World Cup in revolutionary boots with exchangeable studs. It was decided to mark this occasion exactly 50 years after the event in 2004. To rival this a competitor came up with Y.

88. X – F50 Y- T90

89. X bought Second Division Y. from chairman Jimmy Hill in the summer of 1997. His initial, ambitious long-term aim was that Y would become a FA Premier League side within five years. Y stormed to the Second Division title in 1999. In 2001, Y took the First Division. This meant that X had achieved his objective of Y being a Premiership club a year ahead of schedule. In 2009, Y had finished 7th in the Premier League, making them eligible to play in the newly-formed Europa League

90. X = Mohamed Al FayedY = Fulham FC

91. ___ ______ hit 491 home runs and batted .340 in 2,130 consecutive games. But in his final years he was unable to tie his own shoes.

92. Lou Gerhig

93. Probably saddened by his own condition, which Olympic champion while talking about the Black Power salute said – ‘The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers – weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there's money inside. There's where the power lies.’

94. Jesse Owens

95. How was this match-up marketed? Team 1: David Ferrer, Feliciano Lopez, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Santi Cazorla, Sergio Ramos, Fabio Cannavaro, Alberto Contador, Dani Sordo, Alvaro Bautista, Freddy Kanoute, Fernando Alonso Team 2: Carlos Moya, Jorge Lorenzo, Carlos Sastre, Pedro de la Rosa, Novak Djokovic, Sergio Garcia (golfer), Carlos Sainz, Sete Gibernau, Raul, Marcos Senna, Samuel Eto’o Identify the event (named after two players) that took place at Madrid’s Sports Palace consisting of a game of football with two 15-minute halves, a tennis match as well as a go-kart race.

96. Iker v/s Rafa

97. ID the track.

98. Monza

99. Identify?

100. Sergio Canales

101. For (i=4)

102. ID X and Y "X and Y go about their business in different ways. Y carries his own bag but has someone pick up his balls. X has someone carry his bag but picks up his own balls. Y's driver only drops him off at tournaments; X's driver helps him win tournaments. And Y often hits more shots in a single round than X needs in a week. Such disparities make comparing the two champions difficult."Identify the two friends X and Y.

103. X- Tiger Woods Y- Roger Federer

108. In November 2007, Simpson began dating Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo. The relationship was controversial among some Dallas Cowboys fans, as she was blamed when Romo had poor football performances. Some of the Cowboy's fans gave her the nickname "X Romo" likening her to X Y, who was also similarly blamed by fans blame for "ruining" her partner. Identify XY.

109. X= YokoY= Ono

110. These were happier times. Better known for... ?

111. Getting into an on-field brawl that had both red-carded, bringing Newcastle to 8 men.Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer.

112. A right-hand batter and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler, ________ played 10 Test matches for India . Behind his limited Test appearances, he dominated Indian domestic cricket - his batting average of 71.64 is the second highest first class average in history, behind only that of Don Bradman. His Ranji Trophy average at 98.75 is even more Bradmanesque. ID him

113. Vijay Merchant

114. After signing on with Ferrari to drive for the last two races of the 1977 season and for the 1978 season, who remarked : ‘If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.’

115. Gilles Villeneuve

116. The game's ending was so unexpected that UEFA President Lennart Johansson had left his seat in the stands before the qualiser to make his way down to the pitch in order to present the trophy, already decorated. When emerging from the tunnel at the final whistle, he was stunned. "I can't believe it," he later said, "The winners are crying and the losers are dancing." Which match?

117. Man Utd vs Bayern Munich 1999 Champions League final

118. Dock Ellis talking about his no-hitter.What's so special about it? "I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was psyched. I had a feeling of euphoria. The ball was small sometimes, the ball was large sometimes, sometimes I saw the catcher, sometimes I didn't. Sometimes I tried to stare the hitter down and throw while I was looking at him. I chewed my gum until it turned to powder. They say I had about three to four fielding chances. I remember diving out of the way of a ball I thought was a line drive. I jumped, but the ball wasn't hit hard and never reached me."

119. He was under the influence of LSD.

120. Connect with a football club/ Name the Structure and from which sportsperson’s quite quote does it get its name

121. Manchester City

122. Max Mosley, a man not particularly known for a sense of decency in recent years, chose to attend X's funeral instead of Y's emotional, and very public, mourning in Brazil. "I went to his funeral because everyone went to Y's," Mosley explained years later, "I thought it was important that somebody went to his." And that, you can't really argue with. ID X and Y

123. Roland Ratzenberger Senna

125. X is a 2003 documentary film, directed by Johan Kramer, about a football match between Bhutan and Montserrat, the then-lowest ranked teams in the FIFA World Rankings. The game was played in the Changlimithang Stadium, Thimphu, Bhutan. Put Funda

126. The Other Final – played on the day of the 2002 WC Final

127. This unique feat has been achieved thrice by Indians in all forms of cricket. Pradeep Sunderam and Premangsu Chatterjee achieved this against Vidharbha and Assam respectively. Who is the third Indian to achieve this ‘special’ feat?

128. Anil Kumble