Sports Quiz

This Sports Quiz was held in February 2022 and set by Achintya and Sarthak as part of our weekly sessions. The set was meticulously compiled and hosted by the QMs.
Quintessence is the Quizzing Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. The society has been active for 10 years and has been actively holding Intra quiz sessions and quizzes for both school and college students in the circuit.

1. a quiz b y sarthak and achintya SPORTS QUIZ february 25 | 12 pm seminar room

2. OUR MENTOR U D I T

3. There are a total of 21 questions (12+9) +20/-10 for pounce +5 for brownie points +10/0 for bounce Standard pounce rules apply Pounce window would be open for 45 seconds Pounce would be followed by 30 seconds of bounce ReFrAiN FrOm UsInG SeArCh EnGiNeS :) . RULES

4. TEAMS TEAM 2 TEAM 1 Yajush Vaibhav Rishabh Shreya 01 Aishani Nitesh Ayush Rajat TEAM 3 Mihir Ambika Zubair Sweta TEA M 4 We won’t reach here 02 03 04

5. “This is a quote. Words full of wisdom that someone important said and can make the reader get inspired” — SOMEONE FAMOUS

6. Q1 A continental treble (in football) is achieved by a club when it wins its League, its Domestic Cup Competition, and the Continental Cup (usually the UEFA Champions League). The last team to complete this rare set were Bayern Munich in 2020. However, only one player has managed the unique feat of winning the treble two seasons in a row, with two different teams. Identify the player, and the clubs he won the treble with. Brownie points for guessing the seasons/years.

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8. a nswer - samuel eto’o clubs - barcelona (08/09) & inter milan (09/10)

9. Q2 X is a professional MMA. He is a former UFC featherweight and double lightweight champion . X set up a world record for winning a championship bout in mere 13 seconds. X was reportedly the highest paid athlete by Forbes in 2021, with a reported income of $180 million. X is also the biggest pay per view draw in MMA history, having five out of six highest PPV events His UFC 229 bout with a fellow russian fighter Y drew 2.4 million PPV, highest ever for an MMA event. The fight ended with Y defeating X, followed by a fight carried outside the octagon ID X and Y

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11. X -Conor mcgregor Y- khabib nurmagomedov

12. Q3 The following poster belongs to a standalone event from summer olympics of 1900, Paris Those summer olympics, are infamous for their ill managed affairs and poorly conducted sporting events like races on uneven grass tracks and swimming events conducted in Seine river It is said that the only existing record of this game is not the official scorecard, but the scorecard maintained by a member of the winning team — the national team of France associating with the sport’s international body only in 1998 . The history of this particular standalone event would have fallen into oblivion had it not been for this player’s forethought What sporting event is being talked about and why was it special? Brownie points for ID the two national teams

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15. only cricket match ever played in olympics, b etween france and great britain

16. Q4 C O N N E C T Some of the most prolific athletes in their discipline, connected by off field events

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18. f amous players indulged in adultery or extra-marital affairs or cheated on their partners

19. Q5 X is a competition started in the happiest country in the world. In this sport, we need a pair of man and woman (husband and wife preferred) to run across a track filled with special obstructions. The sport, not very famous, has quite an interesting reward to it too, related to a physical attribute of the wife. Legend goes about the basis of the sport but none is codified. A 2015 Bollywood Rom-Com set in 1995 represented this sport with a different name which was also the title of the movie. Identify X Brownie points for ID reward/ attribute

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21. Wife carrying competition originated in finland (1997) The winner is rewarded with beer, equivalent to weight of their partner on back

22. Q6 John Isner played Nicolas Mahut in the first round of Men’s Singles event of Wimbledon Championships in 2010. Both players broke numerous Wimbledon and tennis records in this very game which included each of them having over ____, a trait Isner was well known for owing to his height. However, the game is remembered for a much more significant reason. ID the reason Brownie points for FITB

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24. Longest tennis match played in history lasting 11 hours and 5 minutes spread over 3 days FITB- over 100 aces by each player

25. Q7 Considered as the greatest sporting event of the century , the match supposedly had a viewership of 1 billion. Hype around the match was such that promoter of the event managed to convince 2 of the cynical African dictators to help make this event a reality. One of these was Muammar Gaddafi, who helped arrange the purse money of $5 million. Another dictator involved allowed for the match to take place in his country . Name the sporting event whose original poster is given below, contested between legendary individuals nicknamed big george and the greatest Brownie points for ID the host country

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28. Fought between muhammad ali and george foreman; titled- Rumble in the jungle Host- DR of Congo

29. Q8 La Catedral was a ‘personal’ prison built by the richest drug dealer in history. It had multiple guests and celebrities visiting it while the owner cum prisoner served his term there. In 1991, he hosted a guest, unarguably the best of his sport at that time, after he recently lead his country to a world cup triumph in 1986 with the famous hand of god . Another player X — of the same country and the same middle name as the drug dealer, and same sport as the guest—, part of the 1994 national team endured mob lynching the same year amidst failing the high expectations and bets put forth by various illegitimate groups on the national team ID X and the event that led to his death

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31. X-Andres ‘escobar’ of columbia, was killed by gallon brothers, after he scored an own goal in the 1994 FIFA world cup

32. Q9 X is a retired German track and field athlete. He is the only athlete to cross the Centenary mark in his respective sport, a feat which stood as the world record at the time. In 1986, new implementations to the sport meant that the records had to be restarted, with X’s feat being classified as an “eternal world record”. In 2017, X was hired to train Y, but was sacked in 2021 reportedly due to dissent remarks made against his employers, despite Y’s outstanding performances at the Commonwealth & Asian Games , as well as the Olympics . ID X and Y.

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34. X - Uwe Hohn Y - Neeraj Chopra

35. Q10 The X-Miller medal is an award for man of the series given in the Ashes series, contested between Australia & England. It is named after the surnames of two great cricketers, X and Keith Miller. X was a remarkable sportsman, with over 100 first class centuries to his name. Y, often hailed as one of the greatest all-rounders of the game and the greatest English cricketer of all time , also played professional football for a couple of seasons before retiring. Despite being routinely dismissed by X as an “overrated player”, Y was crowned Cricketer of the Year by Wisden in 1978, and went on to receive a Knighthood for his services to the game ID X and Y

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37. X - Denis Compton Y - Sir Ian Botham

38. Q11 X and Y have shared a storied rivalry, considered by many to be the greatest in tennis history. Entering the Z, the two had combined to win the previous 14 out of 16 Grand Slams. Z was the third consecutive year in which the two had met, with X winning not only the last two, but also the last five editions of said competition. Z is often regarded as the greatest match of tennis ever played. ID X, Y & Z.

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40. X - Roger Federer Y - Rafael Nadal Z - 2008 Wimbledon Men’s Singles Finals

41. Q12 X was an american grandmaster and the eleventh world chess champion. A chess prodigy, he won the 1958 U.S. Championship for the first time, and again, with a perfect record in 1964. Following a failed agreement with FIDE, he refused to defend his title. Subsequently X disappeared from the public eye though occasional reports of erratic behavior emerged. A movie released in 1993, “ searching for X ” depicting a young prodigy considered to be the next X . The movie is based on a book written by the prodigy’s father and follows the early life of next X. Later in life, he quit the sport and professionally sought martial arts. ID the next X

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43. X is bobby fischer and the next X is josh/joshua waitzkin

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