1. Presents
BALL PARK FIGURES ANSWERS
THE SPENT (SPorts and ENTertainment) QUIZ
16 July 2011
QM: Varun and Arif

2. Rules
• Teams of 3 – all 3 from the same section
• There will be a written prelims followed by
interactive finals
• Top 6 teams qualify for the finals based on
performance in prelims with a cap of a maximum
of 2 teams per section in the finals
• No negative marks for incorrect answer
• There are a few tie-breaker (starred) questions.
Please encircle the question no in your sheet to
indicate the same!
• Please write your names and Section legibly
• Also mention your contact number(s)

3. 12
• As the Princess of Alwar she could have led a
cushy life. Instead she chose to go through the
grind and spent long hours working on her
fitness. She always travelled with the rest of
the team even if that meant travelling on an
unreserved ticket for tournaments! She was
National Champion in her discipline 16 years
on the trot, a feat that is unmatched across
any sport in India. Who are we talking about?

4. • Bhuvaneshwari Kumari (Squash)

5. *13
• An eight time national champion, he won the
Austrian International in 1983 and 1984 and the
1982 Commonwealth Games, Men's singles title.
Many considered him to be better than the man
whom he displaced, an icon considered to be the
pioneer of that sport in India. This prodigy was
however murdered on July 28, 1988 in Lucknow
as he came out of the K. D. Singh Babu Stadium
after a practice session. After his death, a
badminton tournament was constituted in his
memory which has now become an international
scale event. His murder case had many high-
profile state politicians as suspects and
represented one of the most high profile
investigations then.

6. • Syed Modi

7. 14
• Gundappa Viswanath, Gary Sobers, Kapil Dev,
Alan Knott etc. constituted a long list of
illustrious cricketers whom Sunny Gavaskar
idolised in his book "Idols". However, there
were two cricketers who never got to play test
cricket who made it to that list. Of one he said
he had sleepless nights fathoming how he
would face upto him the next day. Name the
two cricketers.

8. • Rajinder Goel, Padmalkar Shivalkar

9. 15
• He was the first Indian to ply his trade in
professional leagues abroad. However, he died
in a car accident at the peak of his prowess in
Italy on November 30, 1987. In 2000, Malayala
Manorama, one of India's largest circulated
newspapers, honoured him as the best
sportsman of Kerala of the 20th century.
Wikipedia says, "He is considered to one of
the ten best ----players of all time"

10. • Jimmy George

11. 16
• Dennis Lillee himself said -------- was the best
player of pace bowling,even better than Viv
Richards and Bishen Bedi said he was the best
player of spin bowling,even better than
Gundappa Vishwanath.He was known to be
asthmatic and scored a century on test debut
against South Africa.

12. • Praveen Amre

13. 17. Identify the individuals/event

14. • Tommie Smith, John Carlos- 1968 Mexico
Olympics, Black salute

15. 18
• Criticizing the government's rigid state-run
sports system in 2008, ......... opted out of the
state system and set up her own training
team. Under the deal .... was able to choose
their own coaches and decide which matches
to play. ........... also received a much greater
share of their winnings as a result and .......'s
success in recent times has kickstarted a
massive debate on the efficacy of the entire
system in that country

16. • Li Na

17. 19.What is significant about this match?

18. • First time Duckworth-Lewis was used in an
international cricket match

19. 20
• “Grass is for the cows,” said X , while deciding
to give the Wimbledon a miss in 1982 and go
holidaying instead. However, he was a
Wimbledon Junior Champion and twice a
Wimbledon finalist and was considered a very
fine player on grass.

20. • Ivan Lendl

21. 21
• “Today, I scored a goal but the goalkeeper saved it”
Considered to be the greatest save of the century. Identify
the goalkeeper and the unfortunate striker

22. • Gordon Banks, Pele

23. *22
• A former first-class cricketer and an
international hockey player, he was also a
Member of Parliament from 1983-1993.
Considered the pioneer of coaching in his
sport he recently turned down an opportunity
to coach India and has since gone on to coach
a leading international women's team with
great success. He has written three books:
"The Coach – Managing for Success", "Staying
at the Top" and "Shakespeare the Coach"

24. • Rick Charlesworth