Quizotic 2012 Sports Open Finals

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• 42 questions in all
• 18 clockwise followed by a written differential round
and then the remaining 18 counter clockwise
• Pounce/Buzz open for the first and last 10 questions
of the quiz (+10/-5)

X Y Miramontes is a Spanish former footballer and manager. He played as a
midfielder for Deportivo de La Coruña, CD España Industrial,CF
Barcelona, Internazionale, Sampdoria and Spain. He is regarded as one of
Spain's greatest players; as a player he was noted for his elegant, graceful
style of play. Nicknamed El Arquitecto (The Architect) he was noted for his
perceptive passing and explosive shot and in 1960 he became the first
Spanish-born player to be voted European Footballer of the Year. In 1964 he
helped Spain win the European Championship. He originally achieved
prominence as a creative inside forward for the great FC Barcelona team of
the 1950s before he joined Inter where he reached his prime as deep lying
playmaker for the legendary Grande Inter team of the 1960s. He retired as a
player in 1973, after three seasons at Sampdoria.
X Y subsequently began a career as a coach and has
managed Internazionale on three separate occasions, the last two on a
caretaker basis. He has also coached both Spain U21s and the
senior Spain team. He was in charge of the latter for 27 games and led them
to the second round of the 1990 World Cup. He has also coached several
Italian and Spanish club sides (Sampdoria, Deportivo La Coruna etc.). He is
currently a scout for Inter.
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What feat did Rahul Dravid achieve in
this innings?

became the first player to score
hundreds in all Test-playing countries

Oscar Lucero Moya Antonio was a young revolutionary organizer of the
underground struggle in the East and Havana , Cuba . It was within hours of
the Triumph of the Revolution , on January 1st of 1959 when he finally
managed to reach the cell labelled with the number 6, where he was viciously
murdered in the old building of the Bureau for the Repression of Communist
Activities (BRAC ) in Havana . On one wall was found written with bloody
letters:"May 18, 1958 Oscar still alive.“
With Frank Pais Garcia , Pepito Tey and other revolutionaries, he joined the
Revolutionary Action East membership.
In the 26th of July Movement, revolutionaries in the country were handed the
tasks to resume the struggle for freedom and Oscar Lucero was incorporated
into the actions of the Movement on the plain.
After the unsuccessful attempt of the founding of the Second Front in the
northwestern East, he was appointed to reorganize and coordinate the fight
in Holguin Provincial Library "Alex Urquiola“.
Among the tasks executed in the capital were the attempted bombing at a
bus stop of Route 70 and participation in the spectacular Operation X , on
the 23 February of 1958 , in which he led a team of nine members including
his wife.
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A certain sporting Club was forced to close in 1878 after five
years of life, due to a number of factors:
The lack of new blood into the club
The rise in popularity of polo in the area
The departure from the city of a British army regiment

As a consequence, the club withdrew their remaining funds from
the bank and had a silver trophy produced from 270 melted-
down silver rupee coins. The value of these coins was £60.
The trophy is an exquisite piece of craftsmanship, approximately
18 inches (45 cm) high, the body is finely engraved with three
king cobras forming the handles. The domed lid is surmounted
by an elephant which is, it is said, copied from the Viceroy's own
stock. The inscription on the Cup's wooden base
reads: ____________

The rivalry between the cities of A and B dates back to
industrial times. B, being the closest port from A – a
major manufacturing hub – levied heavy trading taxes
much to the consternation of traders from A.
Ultimately, an audacious project was undertaken to
build a canal so as to by-pass B and transport goods
directly to and fro A. The completion of this in 1894
resulted in job losses at B’s port.
This event is commemorated by the presence of ‘X’ not
only in the City A’s Council’s crest but also in that of two
of its biggest sporting organizations.

Olympic sports for only one gender
• Rhythmic Gymnastics, Synchronized swimming
and Softball (now dropped) only for women
• Boxing, Ski-jumping and Nordic Combined for
men only

Lord John Douglas (picture) was a Scottish nobleman known for, inter alia, his
outspoken atheism.
In March 1895, he was arrested and sued for criminal libel by Oscar Wilde, whom he
had publicly accused of "posing [as a] somdomite" (sic). Libel charges could be
brought as homosexuality was a crime. He made the allegation because he was
angered by Wilde's apparent ongoing homosexual relationship with his son, Lord
Alfred Douglas.
His lawyers portrayed Wilde as a vicious older man who seduced innocent young boys
into a life of degenerate homosexuality. Wilde dropped the libel case when Douglas’
lawyers informed the court that they intended to call several male prostitutes as
witnesses to testify that they had had sex with Wilde. According to the Libel Act 1843,
proving the truth of the accusation and a public interest in its exposure was a defence
against a libel charge, and Wilde's lawyers concluded that the prostitutes' testimony
was likely to do that.
Douglas won a counterclaim against Wilde for the considerable expenses he had
incurred on lawyers and private detectives in organising his defence. Wilde was left
bankrupt; his assets were seized and sold at auction to pay the claim. Douglas then
sent the evidence collected by his detectives to Scotland Yard, which resulted in
charges of sodomy and "gross indecency" against Wilde, who was convicted of gross
indecency under the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 and sentenced to two
years' hard labour. His reputation destroyed, Wilde went into exile in France and died
at the Hotel d'Alsace in Paris.

It is because of something that a certain John
Graham Chambers did in 1865 and gained
relevance 2 years later that he, Lord John
Douglas, endorsed publicly and hence finds a
mention in this sports quiz. What?

Marquess of Queensberry Rules

This code of rules superseded the Revised London Prize Ring rules (1853), which had
themselves replaced the original London Prize Ring rules (1743) of Jack Broughton.

A good light weight

Identify. Also what triggered this?

X is renowned for making the first solo ascent of Mount Everest without
supplemental oxygen .
In 1986, he became the first to complete all
fourteen eight-thousanders (peaks over 8,000 metres above sea level). He has
crossed Antarctica on skis, together with fellow explorer Arved Fuchs. He has
written over 60 books about his experiences, a quarter of which have been
translated. He was featured in the 1984 film The Dark Glow of the
Mountains by Werner Herzog.
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• In 1970, South Korea dropped its plan to do so due
to national security crisis, however the main reason
was due to financial crisis. Japan was asked too, but
declined due to Expo '70 in Osaka.
• Pakistan, in1975, announced that it was dropping its
plan to do so in 1978 due to financial crisis
and political issues.

Bangkok hosting the Asian Games

First included in the 1968 Olympics, this event
was mixed, i.e. open to both men and women.
Zhang Shan was the only woman to win a medal
in this mixed event from 1968 to 1992. Zhang
was not able to defend her title as the event was
controversially open only to men in 1996. In
2000 a women's Olympic competition was
added.

Differential
• 6 Questions
• 2n+5
(n=no. of teams that don’t answer)

Son of a plumber, A was named after B as his
Catholic football fanatic parents were big fans of
his.
B, also known as ‘The King’, scored 30 goals in
55 matches that he played for Scotland and
remains their top goalscorer alongside C, who
did so in 102 matches.
An extra ‘n’ was added to B’s name by his
parents as otherwise it would have sounded too
similar to a girl’s name in his country.

When X retired in 2005, he held the topspot in a certain
all-time list but since has been overtaken by Y.
In the 1994 eastern conference final against the Knicks,
in which 25 of his 39 points that night were scored in
the last quarter gave his team a 93-86 victory at the
Madison Square Garden, thus earning the sobriquet
‘Knick-killer’. Much of the blame for this has been given
to Z, who was sitting courtside and kept taunting him
throughout the 4th quarter, to which X responded by
making shot after shot. X also gave a choke sign to Z.
The headline of the New York Daily News the next day
sarcastically said, “Thanks a lot Z”.
In 1995, X scored a stunning 8 points in 8.9 seconds
against Knicks to lead his team to a 107-105 victory.
Y acted in Z’s ‘He got game’ in 1998.

Famous for his scoring prowess, physical strength, and
career longevity, Gordie Howe is the only player to
have competed in the NHL in five (1940s through
1980s) different decades. A four-time Stanley
Cup champion with the Red Wings, he won six Hart
Trophies as the league's most valuable player and
six Art Ross Trophies as the leading scorer. He was the
inaugural recipient of the NHL Lifetime Achievement
Award in 2008.
Howe was also referred to during his career as
Power, Mr. Everything, Mr. All-Star, The Most, The
Great Gordie, The King of Hockey, The Legend, The
Man, No. 9, and "Mr. Elbows" (for his tough physical
play). His name and nickname, "Mr. Hockey," as well as
his wife's nickname as "Mrs. Hockey," are
registered trademarks.

Never hesitating to resort to fists, Howe fought so
often in his rookie season that coach Jack Adams told
him, "I know you can fight. Now can you show me you
can play hockey?”
This propensity of his led to the coining of the ‘Gordie
Howe Hat-trick’. What is it?

• Laszlo Papp
• Teofilo Stevenson
• Felix Savon
• Three Olympic boxing golds

• A – Dennis Bergkamp
• B – Denis Law
• C – Kenny Dalglish

• X – Reggie Miller
• Y – Ray Allen
• Z – Spike Lee

• Scoring a goal
• Providing an assist
• Getting into a fight

• Bob Mathias and Daley Thompson
• Only athletes ever in the history to retain their
Decathlon Olympic gold.

Tendulkar ended the day on 192, and Kambli was ten runs behind. Ramakant Achrekar,
their stern coach, explained to Tendulkar that the team should declare first thing in
the morning. The next day, with Achrekar far from the ground, Tendulkar put on his
pads and Kambli followed suit. They weren't done with St Xavier's yet. Everyone in the
tent - which doubled up as a dressing-room - had heard the coach's words, but
Tendulkar was a megastar. The players just kept quiet. X, all of 13 years old and
padded up since the fall of the first wicket, wondered if he'd ever get to bat. He had
spent a day warming up, going for net practice to remain focussed, returning to see
the two still batting, repeating this several times. But the two took advantage of
Achrekar's absence and kept on batting. Other matches stopped as players wandered
over to watch the show.
At lunch, selectively acting on Achrekar's instructions from the previous day, Tendulkar
rang him up from Khao Galli and informed him the score was seven hundred and
something, and that Vinod was on 349. He wisely kept his own score to himself, and
instead told Achrekar that Kambli wanted to reach his 350. Almost innocently, he
passed the phone to the horrified Kambli. The innings was declared immediately.
Tendulkar was on 326, and the stand was worth 664 runs. No one knew, at least for a
while, that a new record had been written.
St Xavier's came out looking as if they had been through a war. Of all the bowlers they
could possibly be harassed by, Kambli, who took six wickets, did them in. Tendulkar
bowled a few overs, and made haste for the other end of Azad Maidan with X the next
day, where the two played another match.

__________ is a census village in Jalandhar district in
the Indian state of Punjab. This village is around 300 years old.
Five families at that time came to this village and descendants of
them are called 'Kullar/Kular'(Jatsikh). It holds the distinction of
having produced the largest number of Olympians from India
and hence is known as the "Mecca of Indian Hockey". In the
1968 Olympics, an astonishing 7 players from _______
represented their respective countries; 5 from India and 2 from
Kenya.
Comparisons have often been drawn with El Chota - the village
that has given seven players to the Ecuadorean national football
team over the years.

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Representing India:
1. Col Gurmit Singh Kular 1932
2. Udham Singh Kular 1952, '56, '60, '64
3. Gurdev Singh Kular 1956
4. Dashan Singh Kular 1964
5. Balbir Singh Kular 1964, 68
6. Col. Balbir Singh Kular 1968
7. Jagjit Singh Kular 1964, 68
8. Tarsem Singh Kular 1968
9. Ajit Pal Singh Kular 1968, '72, '76

Representing Kenya
1. Late Hardian Singh Kular 1968, '72
2.. Hardev Singh Kular 1956, 1960
3.. Jagjit Singh Kular 1968
4.. Harvinder Singh Kular 1988

Representing Canada
1. Bindi Singh Kular 2000

Arjuna Awardees
1. Udham Singh Kular 1965
2. Jagjit Singh Kular 1967
3. Col Balbir Singh Kular 1968
4. Ajit Pal Singh Kular 1970
5. Balbir Singh Kular 2001

• This is Sergi Bruguera i Torner, a former tennis
player from Spain.
• He won consecutive men's singles titles at
the French Open in 1993 and 1994.
• Connect him with the 2 pictures on the next
slide.

Twenty years after the unforgettable incidence in Barcelona, septuagenarian Jim
Redmond has been selected to carry the Olympic flame during the torch relay for the
London Games.
Redmond is one of the British Olympic Association's nominated torchbearers for the
8,000-mile nationwide relay that starts in May and culminates with the lighting of the
cauldron during the opening ceremony at the Olympic Stadium on 27 July.
His moment of fame came during the 400m semi-finals, when the whole of the 65.000
crowd cheered for him as he crossed the finishing line. Though it must be noted that
he fails to find a mention in the Olympic record book.

Alain Robidoux is a Canadian snooker player; he played on the
World Snooker tour from 1988 to 2005 and continues to play in
events in Canada. Robidoux's best ranking event performance
was reaching the final of the German Open in 1996 when he
lost 7–9 to X. In the first round of the 1996 World
Championship, Robidoux was beaten 3–10 X again, who played
some shots, including a number of them in series, in a rather
peculiar manner. This behaviour, described by one commentator
as X "taking the mick", annoyed Robidoux, who believed that X
was mocking him. The matter came to a crux in the eleventh
frame, with a peeved Robidoux, at this point 2–8 down,
declining to concede the frame as is usual by custom, instead
continuing to play for snookers despite a 43-point deficit with
only the pink and black on the table. Robidoux refused to shake
X’s hand at the end of the match. The latter responded that he
played better in that peculiar fashion the former could normally.
X later satisfied the World Professional Billiards and Snooker
Association that he could play to a professional standard in the
same manner, by playing the former
World Billiards Champion Rex Williams for three frames and
winning every frame. WPBSA disciplinary charges were dropped
as a result.

Ronnie O’Sullivan
Playing left-handed
• After winning the 1998 Irish Masters 9–3 against Ken
Doherty, he was stripped of his title and disqualified after
a drug test found cannabis in his system. The title then
went to Doherty.
• He met his girlfriend, Jo Langley, at Narcotics
Anonymous.
• O'Sullivan was present at the China
Open, in Beijing, where he lost 4–5 to Marco Fu in the
first round. However, at the press conference, which
followed the match, O'Sullivan was heard making some
lewd remarks inviting a member of the press to
perform fellatio on him, then laughing with the World
Snooker media spokesman. O'Sullivan also joked about
the size and girth of his penis, before simulating a sexual
act on his microphone. In June 2008, the World
Professional Billiards and Snooker Association punished
O'Sullivan for his behaviour by docking the appearance
money and world ranking points that he had earned from

X is a form of training to improve one’s
posture, shot/swing and footwork.
The ball/shuttlecock is imagined and
the player practices his technique by
swinging or moving his
bat/racquet/club/cue in thin air as if
the ball/shuttlecock were there. Oft-
repeated by them players on them
TVs, what is this X?

Karoly Takacs rose to prominence as a shooter in the latter half of 1930s while serving
as a sergeant in the Hungarian Army.
The next two Olympics but, in 1940 and 1944, were cancelled because of the world
war. In 1948, Takacs qualified for the Hungarian Olympic team in the rapid-fire pistol
event. He was 38 years old. Before the competition, the favourite, world champion and
world record holder, Carlos Enrique Díaz Saenz Valiente, asked Takacs why he was in
London. Takacs replied, "I'm here to learn."
Takacs won the gold medal and beat the world record by ten points. During the medal
ceremony, Valiente, who finished second, turned to Takacs and said, "You have learned
enough." Four years later in Helsinki, Takács successfully defended his Olympic title to
become the first repeat winner of the rapid-fire pistol event.

In 1938, while serving in the army, a defective grenade exploded
in his right hand - his pistol hand - and shattered it completely,
rendering him an arm less.
After spending a month in the hospital, Takacs secretly taught
himself to shoot with his left hand.

Whose bibliography and what’s
missing?

• How to play Cricket (1934)
• Farewell to Cricket (1950)
• _______________ (1958)

After having qualified in medicine from Nottingham University, X
trained and worked in Accident and Emergency (A&E) and
Surgery in Scotland and Australia. where X studied with the
Australasian College of Sports Physicians. X then returned to UK
to do an MSc in Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) at Queen
Mary University in London. The MSc thesis was carried out at
West Ham United Football Club. After the completion of masters
X worked in the Public Health department at Islington PCT in
north London. X was also involved in weekly Sports &
Orthopaedic Clinics at Whittington Hospital and the Olympic
Medical Institute. X then was appointed nationally to the UK
Sports and Exercise Medicine Specialist training programme. X
worked with the UK athletes in build up to the 2008 Summer
Olympics and also with the women football team. X then joined
_______ in February 2009.

Eva Carneiro

Non Professional Interests
A competitive Latin and Flamenco dancer, Eva’s areas of interest are dance and
football injuries. She is fluent in Spanish and unwinds by learning Portuguese.

At the age of ten, X broke his arm after falling from a tree. Because of this
injury he had a jerky bowling action, which some considered suspicious. He
bowled off-cutters more than conventional off breaks.
He took 35 wickets at the average of 10 in the tour of Pakistan in 1954-55. In
the first five years of his career he played only four Tests in which he took ten
wickets. He was already thirty five and on the verge of retirement when he
enjoyed his one great success against Australia at Kanpur in 1959-60 in a
match that is now remembered as X’s test.
He took 14 for 124, which were the best bowling figures by an Indian bowler
at that time. It remained so for nearly thirty years before it was bettered
another one-Test wonder, Narendra Hirwani.
The Kanpur Test stayed as the lone bright spot in his career. He played two
more Tests in the series for five wickets. These were his last Test matches. He
played two more years of first class cricket and ended up with 140 wickets for
Gujarat in the Ranji Trophy. He and Vijay Hazare were the first cricketers to be
honoured with the Padma Shri.

When in 1929, X entered the Carlsbad, Viennese master Albert
Becker ridiculed this entry by proposing that any player whom X
defeated in tournament play should be granted membership into
the X Club. In the same tournament, Becker himself became the
first member of the "club". In addition to Becker, the “X Club"
eventually included Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Abraham
Baratz, Eero Böök, Edgard Colle, Max Euwe, Harry Golombek, Mir
Sultan Khan, Frederic Lazard, Jacques Mieses,Philip Stuart
Milner-Barry, Karel Opočenský, Brian Reilly, Samuel
Reshevsky, Friedrich Sämisch, Lajos Steiner, George Alan
Thomas, William Winter, and Frederick Yates.
Identify this British-Czech player.

In an era when other co-athletes had none of it, he decided on the contrary.
When asked why he initially did so he stated “...because a coach in college
said I couldn't..." X said he originally did so out of rebellion against the
clean-cut look imposed on him in college. “It took a long time to do so,” he
said. It took four months, but X was proud of it, he decided that it was a
"good-luck piece.“
He was also quoted as saying, "When I went to the Olympics, I had every
intention of getting rid off it, but I realized I was getting so many comments
about it—and everybody was talking about it—that I decided to keep it. I had
some fun with a Russian coach who asked me if it slowed me down. I said
‘No, as a matter of fact, it makes me faster.’ He's translating as fast as he can
for the other coaches, and the following year every Russian male athlete had
one."
According to a Sports Illustrated article, on February 14, 1988, after talking
about getting rid off it for a year, he finally did. "He looked great with it, don't
get me wrong," explained his wife Suzy, "but he looks so handsome without
it."

In 1887, Lord Kelvin asked how space could be partitioned into cells of equal
volume with the least area of surface between them, i.e., what was the most
efficient bubble foam? This problem has since been referred to as the Kelvin
problem.
He proposed a foam, based on the bitruncated cubic honeycomb, which is
called the Kelvin structure. This is the convex uniform honeycomb formed by
the truncated octahedron, which is a 14-sided space-
filling polyhedron (a tetradecahedron), with 6 square faces and 8 hexagonal
faces. To conform to Plateau's laws governing the structures of foams, the
hexagonal faces of Kelvin's variant are slightly curved.
The Kelvin conjecture is that this structure solves the Kelvin problem: that
the foam of the bitruncated cubic honeycomb is the most efficient foam. The
Kelvin conjecture was widely believed and no counter-example was known for
more than 100 years, until it was disproved by the discovery of the Weaire–
Phelan structure - a complex 3-dimensional structure representing an
idealised foam of equal-sized bubbles.

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truncated octahedron

Weaire–Phelan structure

The stadium was the venue for association football in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
It is the official home stadium of its country’s national football team and Club América.
With a capacity of 105,064, it is the largest stadium in Latin America, fifth largest in
the world and the largest football-specific stadium in the world.
Two plaques are placed outside the stadium commemorating two events that took
place here 16 years apart from each other.
Give the colloquial term for both.

• Goal of the century
• Game of the century

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