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TRIVIA TRIVIA

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Trvia Trivia

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Q. Konnect

Q. what is happening?

Q. id

Straight Drive

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Cricket

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1.His name is Bill Brown. what is his claim to fame?

connect

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Straight Drive

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1. Name the painting.

Answers !!

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1. Dunlop
2. Stanford Bunny.
3. Mallika Sarabhai
4. Teddy Bear collector
5. Avon

Straight Drive

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Dry dose

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These questions are from Mr. Nabajyoti Bharali !

Q1:Name the first Assamese Movie which was released in two Indian Regional Languages?

Q2:In Assamese literature who is known as “Haiborabhoypuria”?

Q3:An Assamese great patriot pronounced “Par Kara Raghu nath Sansara Sagar” before the time of his hang, who was he ?

Q4:"It's an incarnation of one of the Hindu gods taking a flesh form. Here, what that means is that the human technology in the future is capable of injecting a human's intelligence into a remotely located body, a biological body” What is being explained in the quote?

Q5:What one word is common to –
• A large pharmaceutical company based out of Gujarat
• A Sports Utility Vehicle from Pontiac
• A file structure type that stores metadata

Q6:Founders of this company when decided to adopt the present name, they found to their dismay that a hotel chain had already trademarked. Luckily, they were able to buy the rights to that name. Which company?

Dry Dose

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Q1.X was founded in July 2007 by Mark Pincus, Michael Luxton, Eric
Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, and Steve Schoettler.
They received USD $29 million in venture finance from several firms,
led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in July 2008, at which time
they appointed former Electronic Arts Chief Creative Officer Bing
Gordon to the board. According to their website, as of December 2009,
they had 60 million unique daily active users. The company name X
comes from an English bulldog once owned by Mark Pincus.Thats why They
use a bulldog as their symbol. identify X.

# Zynga

Q2.which well known fictional chracter is produced by the Japanese
company Sanrio,, was first designed by Yuko Shimizu.and is a staple
of the kawaii segment of Japanese popular culture?

# Hello kitty

Q3.X.was originally developed in the UK by Imperial Chemical
Industries as ICI 35868. Clinical trials followed in 1977, using a
form solubilised in cremophor EL. However, due to anaphylactic
reactions to cremophor, this formulation was withdrawn from the market
and subsequently reformulated as an emulsion of a soya oil/X mixture
in water. The emulsified formulation was relaunched in 1986 by ICI
(now AstraZeneca) under the brand name Diprivan (abbreviated version
of diisopropyl intravenous anesthetic). Identify X.

# propofol

Q4.In 1948 Bernard Silver, a graduate student at Drexel Institute of
Technology in Philadelphia, USA overheard the president of the local
food chain, Food Fair, asking one of the deans to research a system to
automatically read product information during checkout. Silver told
his friend Norman Joseph Woodland about the request, and they started
working on a variety of systems. Their first working system used
ultraviolet ink, but this proved to fade and was fairly expensive.
what was the result?

# barcode

Q5. Her autobiography is " 20 Hrs, 4o minutes " . identify.

# Amelia Erhert !

Photo Find

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Q.He was a German confectioner. what is his contribution to the world of food and beverage ?

Photo Find

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Q.What is his claim to fame ??

photo Find

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Q.who is this young guy?

QUIZ NEWS

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All Guwahati inter school prizemoney quiz
(up to class 12)
Organizer: Noonmati Coaching Centre
Date: 17th July
Time: 10 AM
Quiz master: Dipankar Koushik
Contact: +91-98643-23499

PHOTO FIND

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Q.Identify the logo

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Q.Identify the Rock band.

PHOTO FIND

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Q.which song inspired from this photograph?

PHOTO FIND

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Q.He nicknamed himself as "the ghetto kid",who??

Straight Drive

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Q.His shirt says that his name is " Mirando".How do we better know him?

PHOTO FIND

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Q.Name it.

Answers of AVIAN WORLD

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1. Dodo
2. Kookaburra
3. Lyre bird
4. Flamingo
5. European Magpie
6. Kiwi
7. Arunachal Macaque

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AVIAN WORLD

1. The Dutch called it the Walghvogel (“wallow bird” or “loathsome bird”) in reference to its taste. Name the bird?

2. As per Marion Sinclair’s nursery poem, which bird “sits in the old gum tree?”

3. This ground-dwelling Australian bird is most notable for its superb ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from the environment. Which one? (See photo)

4. The pink or reddish colour of few species comes from carotenoid proteins in their diet of animal and plant plankton. Those whose sole diet is blue-green algae are darker in color. Which bird?

5. Which bird has a well known tendency to “steal” shiny objects?

6. Great Spotted Kiwi or Roroa, Little Spotted Kiwi Rowi, also known as the Okarito Brown Tokoeka. Stewart Island Tokoeka Northern Fiordland Tokoeka, Haast Tokoeka and North Island Brown are types of?

7. Its species name comes from Munzala (“monkey of the deep forest”) as was called by the Dirang Monpa tribe. It was unknown to scientists until 2004. Which bird?

Answers will be post after 1 week !!!!

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1. Who was recently appointed as the new chairman of the ISRO?
2. In 1896, he wrote ‘Niruddesher Kahini’, the first major work in Bangla science fiction and therefore, is regarded as the first science fiction writer in Bengali. Who?
3. It was originally intended to be called 'Aces'. The present name was taken from James Joyce’s' 'Finnegan’s Wake'. Which elementary particle?
4. Niel Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed on the Sea of Tranquillity. Who, in fiction, landed on the Hipparchus crater?
5. Switzerland observes its national science day on May 26, in honour of which person, who visited the country in May 2005?
6. The ‘Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay’ is commonly known by what name?
7. It was first observed in China in 240 BC, and subsequent appearances were recorded by Babylonian, Persian, and other Mesopotamian texts. Its last appearance was in 1986. What are we talking about?
8. Frederich Kekule witnessed a snake seizing its own tail in a dream, which was primarily an ancient symbol called Ouroboros. He claimed that this helped him discover the shape of the molecule of an organic chemical compound. Which one?
*9. Which collection of scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci was bought by Bill Gates at an auction for US$30.8 million and was named after Thomas coke, who purchased it in 1717?
10. The Kármán line, named after Theodore von Kármán, is the internationally designated boundary between?
11. Which element got its name from the Greek word for ‘inactive’?
*12. Which phrase, also the title of a 2004 movie, encapsulates the more technical notion of 'sensitive dependence on initial conditions' in Chaos theory?
13. He took up drawing at one time and enjoyed some success under the pseudonym "Ofey", culminating in an exhibition dedicated to his work. He learned to play drums in a samba style in Brazil, and participated in a samba school. Who?
14. In ‘A Brief History of Time’, Stephen Hawking notes that an editor warned him that for every equation in the book the readership would be halved, hence it includes only one equation. Which is it?
15. This word originated from the Czech play R.U.R by Karel Čapek, in which it means "hard work". Name the word.
*16. Transposons (jumping genes) are sequences of DNA that can move around to different positions within the genome of a single cell, a process called transposition. Name the American scientist who got the Nobel Prize for discovering transposons.
17. This tree was named after the Countess of _________, the wife of a viceroy of Peru, who, in 1638, was introduced by natives to the medicinal properties of the bark. Name it.
*18. This sage was the grandson of Vasishtha, the son of Shakti-muni, and the father of Vyasa. He wrote ‘Vrikshayurveda’, one of the earliest texts on botany and Brihat ________ Horasastra, which is considered a foundational text of astrology. Name him.
19. Who is the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India?
*20. The Americans celebrate this on March 14, Europeans on July 22, and the Chinese, on December 21. The first of such kind of a celebration was held at the San Francisco Exploratorium in 1988. The founder, Larry Shaw is nicknamed ‘The Prince of _____’. What day/celebration?
21. There was a popular saying about this inventor: “God made all Men, __________ _______ made them equal.” Fill in the blanks.
22. Which physicist wrote the Mr. Tompkins series of books, Thirty Years That Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory and One, Two, Three...Infinity?
23. What begins with these words: “I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath and agreement”?
24. Name the South African surgeon who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant in 1967.
25. Name the hormone produced in the human body in emergency situations, which prepares the body for immediate action by increasing the heart rate, dilating the blood vessels and air passages.

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photo find

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Q.1: who is this world famous man?

Photo Find

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Q.who is this famous man?

Ans: che Guevera

Q.what did he do in cricket for the 1st time?

Ans: He is Graham Yallop; who was the 1st cricketer to wear a helmet.

Photo Find

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1.who is he? Ans:GV Mavalankar, 1st speaker of Lok Sabha.

2.His name is Dipak Mohoni. which term he had coind? Ans: Sensex
3.Name this video game.

Ans: EverQuest

4.Identify the palace.

Ans: Ujjayanta Palace

Photo Find

2009-10-05T05:19:00.000-07:00

1.what is it??
Ans: Spinig Jenny

2.what is her contribution to the world of science?

Ans: she is dolly Parton. the 1st cloned sheep "Dolly" is named after her.

2009-10-02T01:41:00.000-07:00

Q.Name this company !!!

Q.Name this company from the logo

Answers: Indian Place

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1. McLeodganj, Sir David McLeod, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab. It was McLeod who suggested that Lord Dalhousie be honoured with the Dalhousie town in his name

2. Gwalior. Suraj Sen founded Gwalior and named it after the hermit saint Gwalipa

3. Kalan means big and Khurd means small. Historically, this happened when towns or villages were either divided for administrative purpose or as population outgrew, a new set of people moved to an adjacent area and formed newer settlement

4. Nanded after Nandi Tat (banks) of the river Godavari. Nandi, the bull is the mount or vehicle of Lord Shiva,

5. Jabalpur. According to the first theory, the trading community in Jabalpur had links with the Middle East and the name came from Jabal meaning hills. As per the second one, the name has been taken from the saint Jabali,

6. Palampur.,

7. Hyderabad.

8. Dehradun.,
9. Halflong

NEW SET--Indian Plzce

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1. Dalhousie was named after Lord Dalhousie, by a Lieutenant Governor of Punjab. Incidentally the same Lieutenant Governor also has a town in Kangra valley in his name. Name the town.

2. Which town is named after a hermit who cured a Rajput Chieftain, Suraj Sen from a deadly disease?
3. Many towns and villages in North India have the same name with a differentiating suffix — Kalan and Khurd. For example Kosi Kalan and Kosi Khurd in UP. What is the origin of the two terms?

4. Which town in Western India is believed to be named after the vehicle of Lord Shiva?

5. There are two theories on the origin of name of a town surrounded by hills. One school suggests it comes from the Arabic word for hills. The other says its named after an ancient saint. Name this town in central India.

6. Which tea town takes its name from a local term meaning ‘lots of water’?

7. Which city was called Bhagyanagar after Bhagamathi, a Hindu girl who married the Sultan?

8. Which town is named after the settlement of Ram Rai, Guru of Udasi Sikhs?

9. Which hill station in Assam means ‘white ants hillock’ in the tribal Jaintia language?

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Answers

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Freedom Fighter: Udham Singh
Actress: Gisseli Monteiro

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Q.Identify this freedom fighter.

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Q.Identify this bollywood actress.

Sample Picture

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who is this famous assamese person??

Television series & more......

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TV Series
1. The coffee shop in the popular TV series Friends has inspired a real life coffee chain with outlets across Asia, America, Australia, Africa and Europe. Name the coffee shop.

2. Kelly Clarkson was the first and Ruben Studdard was the second what?

3. Which series is called Gran Hermano in Argentina and Spain, Loft Story in Canada and HaAh HaGadol in Israel. What is it called in India?

4. Desperate Housewives is set in a quiet neighbourhood of Wisteria Lane in a fictional town in the Eagle State. Name the town.

5. Michael Scofield deliberately gets into a jail to rescue his brother who has framed plot of which fast paced TV series?

6. Sarah Michelle Gellar played the eponymous role in all the 144 episodes of which TV series?7. How did the TV serial drama West Wing gets its name?

8. Which television character is a palaeontologist at the New York Museum of Prehistoric History?

9. ‘No soup for you’, ‘Not that there’s anything wrong with that’, ‘Master of your domain’ are all popular catch phrases coined and first heard on a popular American TV series. Which one?

10. Candace Bushnell has authored several novels including Lipstick Jungle, Four Blondes, Trading Up. Name her most famous book which has been turned into an even more famous TV series.
Anything Goes
1. After the death of Jesse Owens in 1980, a city named a street in his honour. Which city?

2. Which late world figure’s ancestral home was Althorp house in Northamptonshire?

3. Martial art legend and actor Bruce Lee had died during shooting of a movie. Which movie?

4. Which trading house was started in 1894 as a joint venture between Tata Sons and Volkart Brothers?

5. The umpires offer “this” to the batsmen at the crease which when accepted, the play for the day comes to a close. What is “this”?

6. Galapagos Islands known for its unique wildlife is part of which country?

7. He was the captain of Johan Cruyff’s dream team that won Barcelona’s first European Cup in 1992. He was the captain of the Spanish football team that won the gold medal in the Barcelona Olympics in the same year. In 2009, he has spellbound the football pundits by his magic touch. Can you name him?

8. What is Yellow Cake?
ANSWERS

TV Series
1. Central Perk. The base line of the Coffee Chain is ‘Where friends meet’
2. American Idol
3. Big Boss. All versions of Big Brother
4. Fairview
5. Prison Break
6. She played the role of Buffy Summers in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer
7. West Wing is set in West Wing of the White House, which house the Oval office and offices of other senior presidential staff. West Wing TV series captures the life and times of fictional US President Josiah Bartlet
8. Ross Geller of Friends
9. Seinfeld
10. Sex and the city
Anything Goes
1. Berlin
2. Diana, Princess of Wales
3. King of Death
4. Voltas
5. Light
6. Ecuador
7. Pep Guardiola, the current manager of FC Barcelona8. Uranium Oxide

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Sample Picture

Q. Identify this assamese person.

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Q1: What is Australian woman cricketer Belinda Clarke’s record in ODI ?
Ans: One & only player to score a double hundred in ODI.
Q2:When Sahid Afridi broke the record of Sanath Jayasurya of the fastest
century in ODI , who delivered the 37th record making ball?
Ans: Sanath Jayasurya himself.
Q3:In the world of Hockey ,who are known as “ Charlie’s Angels”?
Ans:The Australian woman’s Hockey team coached by Rick Chalesworth.
Q4: Which grand Slam tennis winner was nicknamed “ Little Mo”?
Ans: Maureen Connoly
Q5:Which English football club has a dinosaur mascot called “
Gunnersaurus”?
Ans: Arsenal
Q6:What is a “ Chicane” in Formula-1?
Ans:A sharp S bend that reduces speed by forcing drivers to drive through in
a single line.
Q7: What was founded as the Imperial Cricket in 1909 by representatives
from England, Australia and South Africa?
Ans: ICC

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WORLD QUIZ LEAGUE

1. Famously mentioned in a 1982 song by The Clash, what name is given to the walled citadel of many North African cities and towns, specifically the one in Algiers?

2. Mensa’s second president, who is the only architect to have a family of molecules named after him?

3. Along with the Philippines, which is the only predominantly Roman Catholic country in Asia?

4. According to Islamic tradition, the Quran, the holy book of Islam, was revealed to Muhammad by which archangel?

5. What replaces white wine to transform the cocktail Kir into a Kir Royal?

6. Traditionally, if a Jewish man earned his living as a “Mohel”, what “sacred” act would he be performing as part of his work?

7. She has modelled for Victoria’s Secret; what is the Czech supermodel Karolina Kurková lacking that almost all of the rest of us have?

8. Receiving a flurry of Academy Award nominations in 2009, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is based on a short story by which acclaimed author?

9. In 1994, who founded the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation to videotape and preserve testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses?

10. Which island nation’s name derives from the Spanish for “Ancient and Bearded”?

11. What is the northernmost capital of all the world’s independent nations?

12. The name of which battle, fought in 490 BC between the Persian army of Darius I and the Greek army lead by Miltiades, became a word in most languages of the world?

13. Which Dutch company, established in 1602, was regarded as the first multinational company in the world and was the first company to issue stock?

14. Which is the only predominantly Muslim city to have been the host of an Olympic Games?

15. Faster than trot but slower than the gallop, what do we call the three-beat gait of a horse, with speed varying between 16-27 km/h?

16. It had never won a gold medal in it is Olympic history until… Which country won not one but two gold, on consecutive days, in the tennis at the Athens Olympics in 2004?

17. Which specific animal is known for performing a ‘waggle dance’ or a ‘round dance’ to indicate the distance and direction of food?

18. The castle of Dürnstein near Vienna, held which famous prisoner from December 1192 to early 1193?

19. He announced his retirement in April 2009. During his career he won 10 world titles in six different weight classes, and an Olympic title. Which boxer is a co-owner of the MLS soccer Houston Dynamo through his company Golden Boy Promotions?

20. Which historic leader was the founder of the Persian Empire’s Achaemenid dynasty and is remembered for his lasting legacy to the Jewish religion through his Edict of Restoration?

ANSWERS

1. Casbah

2. Richard Buckminster Fuller (molecules being Fullerenes or Buckyballs)

3. East Timor

4. Jibril

5. Champagne

6. Circumcision

7. Belly button or navel

8. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

9. Steven Spielberg

10. Antigua and Barbuda

11. Reykjavik, Iceland

12. Marathon

13. Dutch East India Company

14. Sarajevo

15. Canter

16. Chile

17. Bees

18. Richard Lionheart

19. Oscar de La Hoya

20. Cyrus the great

Fundamental

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Theory of Relatives

1. Shirley McLaine is known for her roles in movies such as Madame Sousatzka and Terms of Endearment. Her brother is known for pathbreaking roles such as Bonnie and Clyde. Name him.

2. Vijeta Pandit of Love Story fame has three famous siblings. The most well known is Sulakshana Pandit. Name her brothers.

3. Arun Shourie and Deepak Shourie have a famous media personality sister. Name her.

4. Advertising personalities Piyush and Prasoon Pandey have a sister in the entertainment world. Name her.

5. Judy Garland is most remembered for her roles in The Wizard of Oz. Name her famous daughter

.6. Pandit Jasraj married Madhura, the daughter of legendary filmmaker V. Shantaram. They have two children — the daughter is Durga Jasraj. Name their music director son

.7. Emilio Estevez is an actor and director known for films such as The Mighty Duck, Maximum Overdrive. Name his actor father known who stars in the TV series West Wing.

8. John Bradson assumed the surname of Bradson to avoid being identified with his famous father. Name his father.
Anything Goes

1. This novel had its origins as a series of tales that were published in The National Era (1851-52) and later was published in the form of a book. This novel went on to become the first to sell a million copies. Which one? (Dipankar Koushik, Guwahati)

2. Which castle bought by Queen Victoria in 1852 from James Farquharson, is now summer retreat of the British Royal family? (Shovan Karmakar, Kolkata)

3. Fidelio was which composer’s only opera? (Rajib Roy, Burdwan)

4. How do we know the Vishnu Industries and Chemical Corporation? (Parvinder Bhatia, Jamshedpur)

5. This film was banned in many states of the US. It was financed by the mafia and it was believed that they sent bagmen to every theatre showing the film to collect their take. The main actress herself later denounced the film claiming that while filming, “There was a gun to my head”. Name the film. (U. Narasimha Murthy, Secunderabad)

6. Who is the only person in the history of United States to occupy the White House without having been elected by the people as either Vice President or President? (Sushil Kr. Poddar, Kolkata)

7. For winning his third Champion’s League and reaching the 1994 World Cup Final, he became the first defender to win World Soccer magazine’s annual ‘World player of the Year’ in 1994. He spent his entire career in only club. In that time, he was a winning member of seven Italian Series A championships, five UEFA Champions League Cups, five UEFA Super Cups and one FIFA World Club Cup. Identify this legend. (Srabanti Ghoshal, Kalyani)
ANSWERS

Theory of Relatives1. Warren Beatty2. Jatin-Lalit. Jatin Pandit and Lalit Pandit3. Nalini Singh4. Ila Arun5. Liza Minnelli6. Martin Sheen (real name Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez). His brother is Charlie Sheen (real name Carlos Irwin Estévez)7. Don Bradman
Anything Goes1. Uncle’s Tom Cabin by H.B. Stowe2. Balmoral Castle3. Beethoven4. VICCO Industries5. Deep Throat6. Gerald Ford. He took charge from Watergate tainted Nixon who was forced to resign7. Paolo Maldini of Italy and A.C. Milan

Game, Set, Match

1. In Golf, the year 1986 is remembered for the Norman Slam because of something unique achieved by Greg Norman in that year. It is actually called _____ Slam. Fill in the blank and why it is so called?

2. He once alleged that nepotism among officials prevented him from getting his due chance in the international arena. He appealed to the Maharaja of Patiala. Fortunately the Maharaja loved sports and helped him. Who was this sportsman?

3. She had participated in the Olympics for Switzerland but without any success. Her last Olympics as a contestant was the 2004 Athens Olympic. She has co-authored a book along with Heinz Reinkemeier and Mark Eckhardt. Apart from all these, what is her claim to fame?

4. This athlete secured two gold and two silver medal in the World Railway meet at Olomog, in Czech Republic and was adjudged as the ‘Best Railway Athlete’. It was the first time in the history of Indian Railways that an Indian athlete achieved this honour. Name the person?

5. Connect — Joe Frazier ’71, Ken Norton ’73, Leon Spinks ’78, Larry Holmes’ 80, Trevor Berbick ’81.

6. This guy got into a number of accidents in his career, but survived all of them. Ironically he died in a car crash 11 years after he retired. Who is he?

7. He was a multiple gold medal winning Olympian. Regarded as the pioneer of surfing, he was also associated with beach volleyball. Who is he?

8. In 1961, Bob Bishop, hunting for talent in Belfast, chanced on a 15-year-old who had just been rejected by local club Glentoran FC for being “too small and light”. Captivated by his skill, Bishop hurriedly sent a telegram to the manager of the club he was working for saying, “I think I’ve found you a genius”. Who was that ‘genius’?

9. He was the first American to win the Tour de France. A few months later his brother-in-law accidentally shot him while hunting. He became the first cyclist to be named Sports Illustrated magazine’s “Sportsman of the Year”. Who is he?

10. One had to be of a passably good standard to play for St. Stephen’s. But I was still without question the 10th, and sometimes the 11th most valuable player on my side. The real stars included Arun Lal and Kirti Azad, both of whom later played for India; and Praveen Oberoi and Rajinder Amarnath, both had captained Indian Schoolboys before coming to college. My claim to fame is in a completely different field. Who am I?

11. Two forms of the game, Association and Golf, have rules that are agreed internationally and are played in many countries around the world. More unusual variations of the game include Mondo, Extreme, and Bicycle. Unlike most sports, men and women compete and are ranked together in this sport. Which sport?

12. This gentleman is the most famous sportsman in his family. His father was a boxer and was nicknamed “The Fighting Barber of Hanley”. His son played Davis cup tennis in 1971 for England and became the Wimbledon Boy’s Champion in 1962. Who is this gentleman?

13. He represented the Gwalior Army in hockey along with Roop Singh, was the billiards champion of Madhya Pradesh and also a polo player. He is the only Indian to have figured in Wally Hammond’s ‘Dream World XI’ alongside the likes of Bradmen. Who is he?

14. He played for Portsmouth and later went on to make a career with Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur. The last match he played for England was the 6-3 thrashing they got at the hands of Hungary in 1953. But his career graph turned upside after he retired. Who is he?

15. He is the only Asian sportsman in his field ever to be named among the 10 best captains in the world by the English FA in 1953. During his 19 years club career, he reportedly earned only Rs19. Who is he?
ANSWERS

1. Saturday Slam. A Saturday Slam is achieved when a player is in the lead at the end of Saturday at all the four majors. Greg Norman did it in 19862. K D Jadhav3. Gabriela Buhlmann, coach of Abhinav Bindra4. P.T. Usha5. They are the only boxers to have defeated Md. Ali in his professional career6. Guiseppe (Nino) Farina7. Duke Kahanamoku8. George Best9. Greg Lemond10. Ramchandra Guha11. Crocquet12. Sir Stanley Mathews13. B.B. Nimbalkar14. Sir Alf Ramsay15. Sailen Manna