Sport Prelim Answers

***1) Often referred to by locals as "The G" it
was famously dubbed "The G Spot" by

Madonna when she performed at the venue
during her "Girlie Show Tour" in 1993.On the
30th of January 2009, it was named as one
of the 7 wonders of the sporting world.
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Game Theory-Sport Quiz Prelims
The MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground)

2)
Dietmar Hopp is an entrepreneur. He was one of the
founders of SAP AG in 1972 with 4 other
former IBM employees.
Hopp is also notable as the chief financial backer of the
German football club X. When Hopp, who had played in the
club's youth setup, acquired control in 1990, they were
playing in the eighth level of German football. Today, they
are doing rather well in the Bundesliga.
Id the team

***3)
X is naturally right-handed, but became a left-handed
batsman at a young age so that he could use his brother's
equipment.
He was dubbed ‘Lord Snooty’ by The Wisden Cricketer,
which went on to remark: "At the crease it was sometimes
uncertain whether his partner was a batsman or a bat-man
being dispatched to take his discarded sweater to the
pavilion or carry his kit bag. But mutiny was afoot among the
lower orders. In one match X, after reaching his fifty, raised
his bat to the home balcony, only to find it deserted."
Identify X.
Sourav Ganguly
4)
Though a decent enough goalkeeper in his day having won 8
caps for Scotland in the 70’s, ______ is best known today for
giving his name to the writer ______ , a veterinary surgeon
from Yorkshire whose real name was Alfred Wight. Wight
needed a pen-name to comply with professional rules banning
medical practitioners and vets from advertising and chose
______’s name after seeing him play exceptionally well for
Birmingham City in a televised match against Manchester
United.
His books were adapted into two films and a long running BBC
television program called All Creatures Great and Small.

JAMES HERRIOT

5) In 1936 a German newspaper carried a
banner headline: “The Olympic complex now
has a magic show too” Whom were they
referring to?

Dhyan Chand ‘The Magician’

***6)
1992 Olympics - The Dream Team
1994 World Championships - Dream Team II
1996 Olympics - Dream Team III
1998 World Championships - The Dirty Dozen
2008 Olympics - ?

The Redeem Team

7)
This particular player had an exceptional test
record for his country, but a rather lackluster
one in ODIs.
Numerologists blamed it on his sporting a
number on his one day shirt. Due to
continuous pressure from his family and
friends, he now sports a blank one day shirt
with no number on it. And his fortunes in the
shorter version have indeed turned around
since.
Who? Under the Peepal Tree 2009
Virender
8)
He started out as a player for the Dynamo ice
hockey team during his early years and
managed to win a USSR ice hockey cup in
1953 alongwith being third in the USSR
hockey championship.
However his claim to fame lies in the world of

football where he won acclaim playing in the
same position. Id please
Lev Yashin – ‘The Black Spider’

***9)
Kenny Dalglish was well known for his eye for talent when
he was a manager. After having won the premier league
title with Blackburn Rovers in the 1994-95 season he was
looking to strengthen his squad and wanted to bring in two
players from the Ligue1 club currently managed by
Laurent Blanc.
One was Christophe Dugarry, an established French
international striker and the other a relative unknown who
had, after opting to play for France over the country of his
parents just scored two goals on debut.
The deal was at a fairly advanced stage when Blackburn’s
owner Jack Walker pulled the plug on it and noted
intelligently, “Why do we need _____ when we have Tim
Sherwood ?”..
Who was that BlackburnGame
Rovers reject
Theory-Sport ?
Quiz Prelims
Zinedine Zidane

10)
What was special about the game
played between the Phoenix Suns
and the Denver Nuggets on
October 11, 2008 at the Indian
Wells Tennis Garden?

Only NBA game to be
played outdoors

11)
The Wall Street Journal revoked it’s sponsorship of
the Dubai Tennis Championships 2009 explaining
that, "The Wall Street Journal's editorial philosophy is
free markets and free people, and this action runs
counter to the Journal's editorial direction."
The tennis channel decided not to televise the event
and the WTA said it would review all future
tournaments in Dubai.
Defending men’s champion Andy Roddick pulled out
of the event saying, “I really didn't agree with what
went on over there“.
Why all the fuss ? Under the Peepal Tree 2009
Israeli Player Shahar Peer was denied a visa by
the UAE

***12) Country wise representation in which
body in Cricket ?
COUNTRY No of Representatives
Australia 3
Pakistan 2
West Indies 2
England 1
New Zealand 1
Sri Lanka 1
South Africa 1
Elite Panel of ICC Umpires

13)
The 240-member House of Representatives of the
Philippines, on August 7, 2008, issued a Resolution,
which recognized _______ as “a people’s champ” - “for
his achievements and in appreciation of the honor and
inspiration he has been bringing ... to the Filipino
people.”
He became his country’s flag bearer at the 2008
Olympics by special request of the president. Who ?

Manny ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao

14)
The following is an excerpt from a biography of X
called ‘Touch play’ :
“Frost, whom he had beaten in the semis, sounded

confident about his friend’s chances. The Dane had
a flight to catch the night of the final, but he told X he
wouldn’t go, he’d be sitting in the first row and
cheering for him. “This is your big chance,” he said.
X was touched.”
Id X.

15)
When this bowler grabbed 18 wickets in two Test
matches in 2004, there was an explosion in demand for
mugs bearing the inscription: “X, King of Spain".
Warwickshire commissioned the mugs to commemorate
their new favorite son, they had in fact requested the
words: “X, King of ________".
Commentator Henry Blofeld though preferred calling
him a "Wheelie Bin" because of his trundling run-up.
Id X.

Ashley Giles

16)
In 1902 what was started by Henry Desgrange
to promote L'Auto after an idea from a its
journalist, Géo Lefèvre?
The idea apparently was a huge success
boosting the sales of the daily from 25,000 to
65,000.

17)
The word X is derived from the Gaelic word 'tigh' meaning house.
Players used to make X’s from piles of sand. At beginning of the 20th
Century, players began trying to create re-usable X’s, using cork,
paper or rubber. The earliest known portable X was invented by two
Scots in 1889, and was a small rubber slab resting flat on the ground,
with three vertical rubber prongs or a hollow rubber tube.
What is X ?

TEE

18)
2002 U2
2003 Shania Twain, No Doubt, and Sting
2004 Spirit of Houston, ______ ________, ______

_________, Outkast, P. Diddy, Kid Rock, and Nelly
2005 Paul McCartney
2006 The Rolling Stones
2007 Prince
2008 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
2009 Bruce Springsteen &

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Tree 2009 Band
Justin Timberlake, Janet Jackson
19)
A’s father was a spectator at The Democratic
Republic of Congo’s greatest sporting event of the
20th century. Ironically, A bears a close resemblance
to one of it’s participants B.
A’s cousin C is a footballer who was in the news
fairly recently for having quit his club under fairly
unpleasant circumstances. Apparently, trouble began
to brew when his manager D confused his name with
a disorder defined medically as “difficulty initiating
or maintaining sleep” .
D is the archetype of the Journeyman manager. The list of
teams he has managed previously include the national
teams of India and Nepal, both of whom he managed for
short spells in the 1980’s. His spell at his current club
began rather acrimoniously when he launched a venom
filled outburst at journalists during a press conference, in
which he reportedly swore 52 times.
E caused a storm in February of this year by referring to a

sportsperson, allegedly A as a ‘golliwog’. The comment
was considered by the BBC as "wholly unacceptable" and
E was sacked from BBC's ‘The One Show’.

A) Jo Wilfrid Tsonga
B) Muhammad Ali
C) Charles (Insomnia) N’Zogbia
D) Joe Kinnear
E) Carol Thatcher

20)

21)

***22) Who is
missing ?

Yuki Bhambri
23) What is being spoken
about ?

Obama on Alex Rodriguez’s admission to using
performance enhancing drugs

24)

Clint Dempsey


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2003 Shania Twain, No Doubt, and Sting

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2005 Paul McCartney

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