3. Q1
X, in England was an industrial (metal) city in the late 1870s. So the people’s
working times reflected. People worked from Monday to Friday, with
weekends off, so butchers, bakers opened half days on Saturdays and half
days on Wednesdays as the days of operation. This worked out well so the
people could get together on one of these days to socialize. Meetings and
sports also happened on these days. It lead to the formation of sport club,
which eventually branched as cricket and football. Though the cricket club has
been disbanded, the football club still exists.
This is the origin of a rather bizarre name for the club. Which historic club?
6. Q2
On 4th of January 2016, in a match between Australia and West Indies, fans
paid tribute to a legend who had passed away the previous year. Exactly 501
fans turned up wearing grey wigs and a mix of cream, bone, off-white, white,
ivory and beige jackets. There were exactly 501 participants because "It's the
sum of his Test cap number (190), the 63 Tests he played and the 248 wickets
he took”, why now because, “This is the first one at his home ground since he
passed away so we wanted to make this the best we could in terms of
honouring him”
Who were they honouring?
9. Q3
Back in 1981, X took a handful of lawyers and real estate agents to lunch, and
even held a shooting contest between them and a few players for $500.
Michael Spilger knocked down nine of 10, following which he was offered a
double or nothing.
Spilger knocked down this shot also, but was told afterward that the $1,000
offer was no longer on the table. Instead, the prize was a trip to Puerto Rico,
for which Spilger would have to pay airfare, food and transportation.
Spilger threatened to sue after X offered season tickets, a trip to Las Vegas or
a donation to his favourite charity instead.
Spilger finally sued X for the money and was paid it.
ID X.
12. Q4
Seven minutes into the second half of their 2008–09 Heineken Cup quarter-
final against Leinster, Harlequins fly-half Nick Evans suffered a thigh injury and
was replaced by Chris Malone. However, Malone tore his hamstring 20
minutes later, and was replaced by wing Tom Williams, leaving full-back Mike
Brown as the best available kicking option. With eight minutes to play and the
score at 6–5 to Leinster, Brown had the chance to give Harlequins the lead
from a penalty, but he pushed his kick wide. Williams himself then came off
with a certain injury, allowing Evans to return to the field despite having been
substituted earlier.
An investigation was launched onto the circumstances surrounding Evans’
return to the field, and later the scandal was revealed. Tom Williams was
banned for a year with others getting bans as well and Harlequins being
chucked out.
What rule did they manipulate and what did they do wrong? Give name of the
scandal.
14. ANSWER
A player can be substituted back onto the field only in the case
of a blood injury.
Tom Williams used fake blood capsules to spit blood from his
mouth.
Bloodgate scandal.
15. Q5
X gave a rather bizarre apology for his usage of ___. In a scathing critique of
his apology, Professor Holly Weeks wrote in the Harvard Business Review,
‘How Not To Apologize’. He states that “It was a self-protective string of
explaining, backpatting, and minimizing — with a small, wan apology tucked
in.”
“Yes, he did apologize for embarrassing teammates, fans, and organizations —
but is embarrassment what he should have been apologizing for?” “Instead of
admitting, he defend himself in that he didn’t take ‘this’ (You-Know-What) to
get an edge, but to recover from injury”
The article finishes off as “X wanted his credibility back. But with this apology,
many of us are not going to give it to him.”
Who is X and what was he apologizing about?
18. Q6
X is an American professional baseball pitcher with a unique skill. When X was
matched against a professional batter with a similar unique skill, they came
across an impasse, which could not be solved without the creation of a new
rule, called the X rule, which came into effect in 2008.
ID X, and the reason for the impasse?
20. ANSWER
X - Pat Venditte
The batter (Ralph Henriquez) and pitcher were both
ambidextrous and thus they both kept attempting to switch
sides to gain an advantage.
21. Q7
X was a star of Indian athletics in the 1960s and the 1970s. Being 6’7”, he
dominated the Indian hammer and discus throws for several years. He became
a Double gold medallist in discus throwing in the 1966 and 1970 Asian Games
holding the Asian Games record of 56.76 metres. He was a silver medallist in
the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston and in the 1974 Asian Games in
Tehran. He contested the 2013 Delhi Legislative elections on an Aam Aadmi
Party ticket, but lost. Identify X and his claim to fame.
25. Q8
In the mid-1800s, the most widely-used X were known as gutties, which were
first created by Robert Adams Paterson using molded tree sap.
When the players inevitably dinged up these Xs, they found that the damaged
ones had more consistent flights than the new, undamaged Xs.
After that discovery, X makers began etching raised protrusions into them. In
the early 1900s, another inventor found that a different design in X performed
far better than raised protrusions. In 1905, an English manufacturer named
William Taylor registered a patent for this new design of X. Before long, all Xs
would have this design that would be more or less recognizable today.
30. 1
In 1962, when the X were fairly new to the NFL and desperate to put together
a winning roster, team management made a groundbreaking move: they
contacted computer giant IBM for help. X wanted to improve on football’s old-
style scouting methods in order to find the best players available, so IBM sent
a brilliant young Indian mathematician A. Salam Qureishi to write a computer
program that would sort through hundreds of athletes and statistics to quan-
tify what makes a great football player. Scouts and coaches provided him with
a variety of characteristics and criteria. Though other teams initially doubted
the new methods, a record-breaking string of playoff appearances by X proved
them wrong: X have since become one of the world’s most successful sports
franchises.
Once X started using Qureishi’s system, they began to find athletes from tiny
schools who previously would have gone undiscovered. They even used the
program to draft players from _______ tournaments notable discovery being
Cornell Green, who went on to play 13 seasons for the team.
33. 2
Justin Zormelo founder of BestBall analytics is one of the hottest trainers
these days because of his creative use of stats. One of his earliest clients
starting in the 2010-2011 season was his friend X. He practically lived and
trained with X for two complete seasons. By the next season, Zormelo had
helped X improve not only in the quirky stats Zormelo had devised (image) but
also in the NBA’s traditional measures. X became only the seventh player in
NBA history to shoot 40 percent from the three-point range, 50 percent from
the field and 90 percent from the free throw line for the season.
ID X
37. 3
X ,the reigning champion at the time, after losing game 2 of a 6 game series to Y
was asked by a reporter if there was any form of human intervention in the
game.
X goes on to make a hostile statement " It reminds me of the famous goal that
Maradona scored in 86, he said it was hand of god"
To which Y replied " Maybe he should come to grips with the fact that ____ can
do a lot of things that he didn't think was possible."
Id X and Y.
40. 4
X clearly the PGA Tour’s geekiest golfer known to engage in science,
technology and analytics to constantly improve his game. By winning the U.S.
Amateur and NCAA titles in the same year, X joined an elite group of four
other golfers to accomplish the feat. That group includes Phil Mickelson, Jack
Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods. What really makes him stand out is his swing- the
single plane golf swing- an idea so radical that no one uses it on the PGA tour.
The idea behind the shot is simple, the angle of the golf club in relation to the
ground(70 deg) never changes, the club goes up and comes down in the same
path. This shot came from “The Golfing Machine”, a 1982 book that
enlightened him to understand the geometry of the golf swing and how it can
work most efficiently or inefficiently with his physics-major backed
explanations for everything he does — calculating angles of friction and slope
for each putt.
But to make this robotic shot a success he came up with an unusual
requirement of sorts without which he struggled to repeat his swing. What is
this specific requirement?
43. 5 This was maybe the first case in history of an actionable sports strategy derived
from next-level data collection. It took him a few decades of preaching, and
more than 2,200 matches analysed, but X’s recommended playing style was
adopted to instant success by Wimbledon F.C. in the 1980s, and then reached
the highest echelons of English soccer, becoming England’s official footballing
policy. English football would begin to be characterized by this, and in some
cases mocked as well, with a few teams still sticking to this play.
But it didn’t work quite in their favor as they flamed out at Euro 1992 and even
failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup. Turns out he had made a mistake in
his analysis of the data. X’s mistake was to fixate on the percentage of goals
generated by passing sequences of various lengths. He did not consider the
level of teams, i.e. a world cup game and a league three game were given the
same weight. His style worked well only with rookie teams to increase score
percentage as seen with Wimbledon F.C. However for well established teams
like England, which play against similarly well established tactically astute
sides, this failed terribly. His misinterpretation was deemed “horrifying to
English football” What was X’s findings, and his recommendation?
46. 6
The appointment of the 42-year-old, who also holds the world record for the
longest _______ at 51.33m, raised eyebrows and was mocked by TV pundit
Andy Gray.
"I know it is totally the weirdest job in the world," Gronnemark, who thinks he
is the world's first _______ specialist, told BBC Sport.
Gronnemark estimates there are 40-50 ________ in a game and in Saturday's
2-1 win, X had 54 - their role and importance, he says, are "underestimated"
unlike other set-pieces.
"If you are expecting professional footballers to be world-class ________
without coaching then you are pretty optimistic," he continues. "Generally the
standard is quite poor.
"A focus on ________ can save the life of small clubs, as a technique to
survive."
Who is Gronnemark? And ID X.
49. 7
Shown here is a tweet by X which surfaced the internet in 2017 when his long term plan had
finally started taking shape and showing its results. Unfortunately X was sacked by his team
much before he could witness this first hand. This tweet was intended as a response to the
sacking and in appreciation of the tactical approach that X stood behind for several years. X
dubbed it ___ _______ , and told everyone to put their trust in it. In the tweet he links a
Sports illustrated article which talks about a team Y which also adopted a similar tactical
approach that X had been preaching for all these years. In the article SI breaks down one of
their old articles with a bold cover line: YOUR 2017 WORLD SERIES CHAMPS featuring the
sorry Y who at the time , in the year 2014, were the worst team in the league.
Since the start of the 2011 season, Y had lost nearly twice as many games, 358, as they had
won, 187. Worse, they were run by executives who were still viewed as know-it-all baseball
outsiders—like the G.M., former management consultant Jeff Luhnow, and the so-called
Director of Decision Sciences, the former NASA engineer Sig Mejdal.
“When you’re in 2017, you don’t really care that much about whether you lost 98 or 107 in
2012,” Luhnow said back then. “You care about how close we are to winning a championship
in 2017.”
Id X, Y and FITB/ put funda on the common strategy.
52. ANSWER
X- Sam Hinkie of 76ers
Y- Astros
Blank- the process / tanking to win the title several years down
the line.
53. 8
Analytics in _______ has been slowly adopted by teams due to the
counterintuitive nature of the statistics: that giving up control of the final shot
is actually better. Gerry Geurts and Kevin Palmer are both considered the
foremost authorities on _______ analytics. They currently advise 20 teams,
including the gold-medal winning Swedish women's team and the United
States' men's gold medal winners from the 2018 Olympic Games in
Pyeongchang, South Korea. Sweden's victory was solidified in the fourth and
fifth ends, stealing a point in each despite not having the final throw. Before
turning to analytics in 2016, the Swedish women's _______ team, led by Anna
Hasselborg, were ranked 22nd in the world.
Id the sport.
56. 9
Fudbalski klub Bežanija is a football club based in New Belgrade, Serbia. They
play in the sixth tier of Serbian football and are struggling in real life after
being relegated because of financial issues.
To help them out Andrej Pavlović, a 22-year-old from Belgrade, Serbia sent FK
Bežanija a list of his virtual achievements and was hired as their data analyst
considering his achievements were very impressive.
Put funda.
61. With a ball three-quarters the size of a baseball and harder than a golf ball moving at upwards of
300 km/h, A is the fastest moving ball game in the world. Incidentally, A shares a common
etymology with B, the main body of participants in a race in another sport (B is also the name of
an exercise equipment company).
The most prestigious race of this sport has been "won" the most number of times by C. C's first
name was the main equipment used in a medieval sport D. This sport has been discontinued today
(because of the obvious violence) in favour of sports involving the other main component of this
sport. This component is featured in the logo of E's racing team. F is E's most successful champion.
If you take F's last name in its literal sense, then that official place will most definitely be taken by
G in the upcoming Olympics for long-distance running (especially after its product was worn
during H's recent record-breaking performance).
Treating G as an actual person, J, a drink, would be completely useless to her considering she
already has what is promised by J, as depicted in I's motorcycle division logo. Changing only the
first letter of I with what is probably a pirate's favourite letter would give the sportsperson K,
nicknamed L. The word "L" is also part a famous/infamous Bollywood movie which had a rather
cheesy catchphrase which the brash hero would yell at thugs, heck it might just be a phrase you
might scream at me after reading through this wall of text. What's the good phrase?
63. ANSWER
A – Pelota
B – Peloton
C - Lance Armstrong
D – Jousting
E – Ferrari
F - Michael Schumacher
G – Nike
H - Eliud Kipchoge
I – Honda
J - Ronda Rousey
L – Rowdy
Rowdy Rathore 'Don't angry me'
77. Q1
The publicity-shy tycoon and his business have been widely criticised for the conditions at
Shirebrook – known locally as “the gulag” – where up to 5,000 staff clock in each day. It is
hard to discern why the place is so maligned when you first arrive, but slowly the reason
emerges.
They can occasionally be harangued by name via tannoy if they don’t move quickly enough –
“please speed up with your order as soon as possible”, the speaker system barks – while
“crimes” against the company – called “strikes” and including “errors”, “excessive/long toilet
breaks”, “time wasting”, “excessive chatting”, “horseplay”, “wearing branded goods” and
“using a mobile phone in the warehouse” – are punished. Six strikes in six months and you’re
out.
This tycoon also owns a sports franchise, whose stadium was renamed to the company
mentioned above.
ID the team and tycoon.
78. Q2
A fresh crisis of grave proportions has engulfed ___ with the Association of
___ Commentators refusing to drop references to X, especially the beloved
phrase ‘X _______’, during commentary in next year’s edition despite X pulling
out as title sponsors of the cash rich tournament.
Association president ___ ______ contends that he and his fellow
commentators are far too conditioned in their ways and it is unfair and
downright unfeasible to expect them to change their commentary style for
reasons as trivial as X ending its sponsorship contract with BCCI.
ID X and the phrase
79. Q3
In its sophomore year as a sponsor of the ___ -contest , X introduced the first significant
change to the competition since its inception in 1986 - with the addition of the "X Zone." As a
brand committed to championing the power of doing.
X Zone enhancements include:
• X Branded Green Ball:
• Point Value: Each made shot from the " X Zone" is worth more points than any other shot,
increasing the maximum points earnings from 34 to 40 each round.
• Time: a 10-second time increase applied to each round, making the total round times 1:10
ID the company and the contest.
80. Q4
A strange cartoon was posted on the ______ Twitter account on May 25,
2018, features X dreaming of himself holding the trophy and riding a bottle of
______.
The strange cartoon stems from a rather funny comment X made after X’s
team to qualified for the final.
After the match, a presenter asked if he would be settling down with a glass of
Italian red wine after the game.
X responded: “I might stretch myself to a glass of ______”.
FITB and ID X
81. Q5
In 2018, X and Y are encouraging people to help save the planet this Earth Day
by simply turning off the faucet.
"While I retired two years ago, water is still very much a big part of my life and
is a big part of all our lives," X said. "This Earth Day, I want to encourage all of
us to help do our part in preserving water because every drop does count. Join
us by simply turning off the faucet while ________ your _____ .It's a small
step that we can all do together to make a huge difference and a big impact
on the world.."
ID X and Y.
82. Q6
X is able to focus because he lives simply, which includes how he cooks and eats. In an
attempt to shrink the shoe size of his ecological footprint, X sticks to a vegetarian diet that
mostly eschews dairy, with the exception of the odd mac and cheese. The top criterion is that
food be light. Fruit and nuts are good, as are simple sandwiches like nut butter on bread.
“_______ days begin with a large breakfast, heavy on carbohydrates, followed by a day of
________ and nonstop snacking”. X said. “_______ is definitely very much strength to weight
ratio. At the same time I’ve never dieted or restricted calories. You’re just sort of mindful
about not getting plump. ” he added.
X’s passion for the environment extends beyond his personal food choices. He recently
invested in Y. He invested alongside 13 other athletes – including Shaquille O’Neal and Kyrie
Irving – who believe that plant-based living is the future.
Id the company and the athlete
84. ANSWER
Newcastle, Mike Ashley
DLF,DLF Maximum
Mountain dew, 3-point contest
James Milner, Ribena
Micheal Phelps and Colgate
Alex Honnold, Beyond Meat
87. Q1
X is a court game invented in the northern provinces of Italy during the 16th
century. This is played at a professional level in Italy, where there are two
varieties: the first taking place in a specialised sports venue with a lateral wall
which permits the ball to rebound, the second kind being played in an open
field without a lateral wall. There are 5 players on a side, each of them
carrying in their hands a X. A rubber ball larger than a tennis ball is used. X
shares its name with something else connected to the world of Motorsports.
ID X and its connection to Motorsports.
90. Q2
The men’s 100 metre butterfly event at the 2016 Rio Olympics was one of
the more memorable events for Joseph Schooling, who became Singapore’s
first Olympic Gold medallist. Leading from the start, Schooling defeated the
field of experienced sprinters, including all-time medal leader and his
personal hero Phelps, to establish a new Olympic record of 50.39 seconds,
beating Phelps’ own time by 0.19 seconds. However, there was one more
historic event which took place after his victory, leading to a certain
emptiness. Which event is talked about here?
92. ANSWER
There was no bronze medallist, as there was a 3-way tie for the
silver.
93. Q3
Dexamethasone relieves inflammation in various parts of the body. It is used
specifically to decrease swelling (oedema), associated with tumours of the
spine and brain, and to treat eye inflammation and to treat or prevent allergic
reactions.
X tested positive for the above mentioned drug, during the world
championship in August 2015. X was initially given a 2 year ban, but the
organization mentioned that X not intended to cheat but had been
"negligent".
They said the degree of negligence was "rather light" and X had not realised
he had ingested the substance contained in the casings of gelatin capsules and
so the organization reduced his ban to 8 months.
X’s silver medal he won at the 2014’s World Championships had also been
rescinded.
ID X.
96. Q4
X was “gregarious and boisterous”, Y was the quiet and solemn former Navy
man. And they clashed several times over the years. As the story goes, X
concocted a story where Y failed to give him an autograph after the game. X
repeated this story and later admitted he made it up to motivate himself
against Y.
X was certainly his own character. And surely he had plenty of other beefs
worth examining. But this one with Y explains both what made X an intense,
ferocious player and also explains why X could never get out of his own way in
creating unnecessary conflict.
99. Q5
An innovative Suit was designed to reduce the debilitating physical effects of
space flight has been trialled for the first time on the International Space
Station by a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut. The spacesuit was worn
by Denmark's first astronaut Andreas Mogensen during his 10-day mission in
2015. It was designed by Dr. James Waldie at Melbourne Institute.
The idea of a this type of spacesuit first came to Dr Waldie during the Sydney
Olympics, when he was witnessed X win a gold medal.
When in space, astronauts also lose up to 2 per cent bone mass a month,
mainly around weight-bearing parts of the body such as the legs, torso and
hips. The suit has a vertical stretch that gradually increases from the
shoulders to the feet, mimicking the load humans experience on Earth. Dr
Waldie said. "This suit tricks the body into thinking you have stayed on Earth
and therefore it stays healthy."
What was the inspiration of the suit?
102. Q6
Gabriel Barbosa, the striker of Flamengo FC, traditionally wears the No. 9 shirt.
However, to fight a taboo, he wore a different number for a certain game this
month.
The reason for this particular taboo in Brazil arises because of a certain betting
game. Jogo do bicho, or the Animal Game is an illegal gambling game in Brazil.
In this game, each number corresponds to an animal and one of the numbers
represents a deer, translated into Brazilian with "veado", slang for ______.
The taboo in Brazil is so profound that almost every athlete in Brazil avoids it,
and only 1 person from the 600 players in Brazilian football league even “has
it”.
What is the number that Gabriel wore, a number that has become very
popular due to certain events in the past few weeks, (this event is also one of
the reasons why Gabriel chose to wear the number at that time)
What is the taboo?
105. Q7
Desiré Wilson has been recognised as the most accomplished female racing driver
in the world. Competing in a male dominated sport, she faced lack of
sponsorship throughout her career.
In 1980, she became the only woman to win a Formula One race of any kind when
she won at Brands Hatch in the short-lived British Aurora F1 Championship in
1980. As a result of this achievement, she has a grandstand at Brands Hatch
named after her. Following her attempts in Formula One, Wilson participated in
other disciplines including CART and sports car racing.
Give the title of her biography, which is a pun on her name.
108. Q8
The Superior vena-cava collects de-oxygenated blood to the heart aided by
heart suction. This vein carries blood from left to right across the body. The
blood flow in the body is in a certain direction which is synonymous to a
certain regulation in a sport. This certain regulation ensures the centrifugal
force aids the suction, giving a certain advantage. This is the reason why this
sport is conducted in a certain way. Give the custom.