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Prelims with Answers

QMs: Thejaswi Udupa and Venkatesh S

*1. While many people believe his doctorate
was honorary, it was not. He earned it after
four and a half years of work under Dr.
David M Kopp for his thesis titled 'The
Duality of Humor and Seriousness in
Leadership Styles.' Who?

Answer
 Dr. Shaquille O’Neal

2. Identify the man in the picture, a 1976 Olympic Gold winner.

Answer
 Bruce Jenner, who won the gold medal for
decathlon in the Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics

3. What is the
subject of this
critically
acclaimed book?

Answer
 Football hooliganism

4. In 1959 Alan Sillitoe (one of the Angry Young Men)
wrote a story about Colin, a poor Nottingham teenager
from a dismal home in a blue-collar area, who has bleak
prospects in life and few interests beyond petty crime
who turns to a particular sport for succour.

In 1962, the story was adapted to film starring Sir Tom
Courtenay in the lead role. The story has influenced
many songs as well, most notably the one you hear here.

Name the common title shared by the story, film, and
song.

[AUDIO REMOVED: song by Iron Maiden]

Answer
 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

*5. A common practical joke played by
this cricketer the first time he meets
someone is to deliberately say something
completely incomprehensible that the
other person would mistake for his
accent, and bursting into loud
rambunctious laughter after the few
seconds of uncomfortable silence that
follows.

Who?

6. This foul-mouthed perfectionist claimed to
have played first team football for the legendary
Scottish club Rangers F.C., but there is no proof
and Rangers historians insist that he was nothing
more than a young lad who tried out with the
team but failed to make the cut because of a
weak knee.

Who?

7. On the same lines as the 4-minute mile,
what time limit is now being touted as the
holy grail for the sport of marathon?

8. Identify the two people playing basketball in
this home video.
[VIDEO REMOVED]

Answer
 John Lennon
 Miles Davis

9. Exhaustive list. Thankfully short. What?

• Francisco Lazaro (Portugal),
Marathon (1912, Stockholm)
• Nicolae Berechet (Romania), Boxing
(1936, Berlin)
• Knut Jensen (Denmark), Cycling
(1960, Rome)

Answer
 People who died in competition at the Olympics

*10. He helped Hitler win the vote for the
Berlin Olympics. To return the favour,
Hitler gave his construction company the
contract to build the German Embassy in
USA. This was the first of the many
controversies he was involved in over a
four-decade period. Who?

12. This statue in
Carpi, Italy shows
this athlete in a
much better light
than what we are
used to seeing him
in photographs.
Who?

13. In field hockey and soccer, it is
‘goalkeeper’ – what is the equivalent
in ice hockey and lacrosse?

14. Identify this athlete
taking part in the archery
event at the Stoke
Mandeville Games.

*15. What 4-lettered sporting
term was originally spelt
‘hockey’?

Answer
 Oche (the throwing line in darts)

16. What significant rule change
did IAAF make in the sport of
high jump in 1936?

Answer
 That athletes did not have to clear the bar leg-first.

17. For what specific reason
did the USA boycott the 1980
Moscow Olympics?

Answer
 USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan

18.
In 2010 MCC established new Honours Boards for
both batting and bowling. The entries as on date
are:
Year Batsman Runs
1912 C Kelleway 102
W Bardsley 164

Year Bowler Runs
2010 S.R. Watson 5-40
M.J. North 6-55

What are these honours boards commemorating?

Answer
 Honours Boards for achievements in neutral tests
at Lord’s (Aus vs SA and Aus vs Pak)

19.
This person’s connection to India goes beyond
inbound flights or plans to set up budget hotels.
His father was Goan, studied at La Martiniere
school in Kolkata, played cricket and football at
Mohun Bagan and hung out at "Calcutta
Sporting Club" with Vece Paes.
An accountant by training, he is today the
principal owner of multiple sporting teams,
apart from the ASEAN Basketball League.
Who?

Answer
• Tony Fernandes, who also owns stake in the QPR
and the Caterham F1 teams

*20.
Five athletes from India made it to the finals of
the athletics events in the 1984 Los Angeles
Olympics. Two were Chand Ram and Vandana
Rao.

Name the other three who all hail from the same
state (no part points)

Answer
 PT Usha, Shiny Abraham and MD Valsamma –
the 4*400 women’s relay race team along with
Vandana Rao

21.
Two golfers were among the winners of the Laureus
Awards 2012 for achievements in 2011
In the “Breakthrough” category was a 23-year old
who won a major tournament last year with a
record score.
In the “Comeback” category was a 42-year old who
won a major tournament after 20 years of being on
the circuit.
Name both

Answer
• Rory McIlroy
• Darren Clarke

When the whistle blows and the floodlights glow
Then the X fans will put on a show
When the stands vibrate and the rafters ring
We'll be doing the bouncy, and you'll hear us sing
I am a blue nose, loyal and true
I'm proud to wear the red white and blue
Strong as a rock with standards high
I am a teddy bear till the day I die
Now the greatest game is on new year’s day
When the boys in the hoops come along to play
But we'll send them homeward shedding their tears
As they hear this chorus ringing in their ears
22. Fan Song of which football club? “the boys in the
hoops” are their rivals – name them as well

Answer
• Glasgow Rangers
• Celtic F.C.

23.
Air Marshal Nur Khan, as the head of the PCB
helped organise the 1987 Cricket World Cup in
India & Pakistan.
However, he is better remembered for his stint
as head of the Pakistan Hockey Federation.
What was his enduring legacy to hockey,
which took shape in 1978?

Answer
• Champions’ Trophy Hockey Tournament

24. Evolving from tennis, table tennis took off in
1900, and at this juncture, Jaques and Son were
just one of several manufacturers producing
versions of Ping Pong / TT.
Which well known brand/company got a patent
for TT under the trade name of ‘Whiff Whaff’?

Rev. Frank Marshall: “Oh, fie,
go away naughty boy, I don't
play with boys who can’t
afford to take a holiday for
____ any day they like!”
Miller: "Yes, that’s just you to a
T; you’d make it so that no lad
whose father wasn’t a
millionaire could play at all in
a really good team. For my
part I see no reason why the
men who make the money
shouldn’t have a share in the
spending of it."
*25. An 1890s cartoon lampooning what eventual split?

Answer
• The split between Rugby Union and Rugby League
(amateurs and pros)

26.
In 1983, who became the only player to win a
boy’s Grand Slam?
He is also the only player ever to win both ATP
Player of the Year (1990, 1991) and ATP Doubles
Team of the Year (1986).

Who? What achievement? (2 points)

27.
“Modern Pentathlon Gets a Little Less Penta”
– was a headline from the New York Times in
November 2008, because of a rule change /
combination change in the event, somewhat
mirroring another event in the Winter Olympics.

What was the change?

Answer
• Shooting and running combined into a single event,
like the biathlon in Winter Olympics where cross-
country skiing and rifle shooting is one single event

28.

1. _______________, Hungary

2. Yifan Hou, China

3. Anna Muzychuk, Slovenia

4. ________________, India

5. Xue Zhao, China

World Top 5 list in a sport. Fill in both the blanks

Answer
• Judith Polgar
• Koneru Humpy

29.
At the age of 48, representing Slovenia she
missed qualifying for the 2008 Summer
Olympics by 0.28 seconds. This would have been
her record 8th Olympics appearance.
She already holds the record for the maximum
appearances (7) by any woman track & field
athlete, winning 3 silver and 6 bronze medals,
while representing another country.
Who?

30*.
An artist’s
impression of a plane
crash at the hill of
Superga that killed
almost all the team
members of the
leading Serie A club
at the time, which
had been the last to
win the title before
WW II.
Which club?

31.
The Grewal Sports Association sponsors and
runs a hockey academy for schoolboys, apart
from promoting various other sports.

What did the doyen of the group, Inder Singh
Grewal start in 1933 that continues to this day, at
a location 15 kms south of Ludhiana? Name the
event and the location

Answer
• Kila Raipur Rural Olympics

32.
In the recent Anand-Gelfand match, if the rapid
games had not been able to produce a result, the
next tiebreak would have been two blitz games.
If these had also been tied, a method would have
been employed where White would have been
given 5 minutes and Black 4 minutes. If the game
was drawn, then the player of the Black pieces
would be declared champion.
What 10-letter word, signifying that it was the
ultimate end game describes this?

33.
This is the Adidas
Silverstream, the official ball
of the Euro 2000. The title
and design of this ball were
dedicated to the rivers of
the host countries, to which
they owe their prosperity.
The locals nicknamed these
waterways “silver streams”
due to the way their
surfaces sparkle brightly in
the early morning sun.
Who were the co-hosts?

Answer
• Belgium
• Holland / The Netherlands

34.
“It was a wish on my part to do something as a
tribute to the memory of my great father. I thought
if he was first in something then I should also be
first in something related to cricket. The chance
came to me when I was asked to do the cricket
commentary for a match in Indore”
The lady making this quote was captain of the
Madhya Pradesh women’s team in the 1970s and
later became the world’s first woman cricket
commentator when she broadcast the MCC vs
Bombay match at Indore in 1977.
Name her / her father

Answer
• Chandra Nayudu, daughter of CK Nayudu

*35.
Only these two sportspeople in India have won
the ‘triple’ of the Arjuna, Khel Ratna and
Dronacharya Awards. Name both

Answer
• Cdr. Homi Motivala
• Pullela Gopichand

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